Hyderabad, With the help of Rohit Sharma's (70) second consecutive half-century, Mumbai Indians defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets in the 41st match of IPL 2025 on Wednesday. This is Mumbai Indians' fourth consecutive win in the 18th season of the league, after which the team has moved from sixth to third place in the points table.

Rohit Sharma hit second consecutive half-century after 9 years

In reply to Sunrisers Hyderabad's 143 runs for eight wickets, Mumbai scored 146 runs for three wickets in 15.4 overs. Rohit Sharma hit his second consecutive half-century for Mumbai Indians. This was the first time since 2016 that Rohit has scored fifty in two consecutive matches in the IPL. Hitman played an unbeaten innings of 76 runs in the last match.

Rohit also played an innings of 70 runs against Hyderabad on Wednesday, hitting 3 sixes and 8 fours in 46 balls. Apart from this, Suryakumar Yadav scored an unbeaten 40 off 19 balls. MI won the match by scoring 146 runs for 3 wickets in 15.4 overs. Rohit played an innings of 70 runs in 46 balls with the help of eight fours and three sixes. Suryakumar Yadav scored an unbeaten 40 off 19 balls, which included five fours and two sixes.

Earlier, with the help of Heinrich Klaasen's 71 off 44 balls and Abhinav Manohar's 43 runs, Sunrisers Hyderabad recovered from a bad start and scored 143 runs for eight wickets.

Sunrisers had a very bad start and lost five wickets for just 35 runs. After this, Klaasen took charge of the innings. This South African batsman hit nine fours and two sixes in his 44-ball innings. He shared a 99-run partnership with impact substitute Abhinav. Abhinav scored 43 runs in 37 balls with two fours and three sixes.

Sunrisers, who are second from bottom in the points table, could not stand on the flat and hard wicket. The top order batsmen of Sunrisers completely disappointed. Ishan Kishan (one) decided to leave the field even though the ball did not touch his bat and go into the wicketkeeper's hands. Deepak Chahar's ball was going outside the leg side which the umpire declared wide but he raised his finger when he saw Kishan going back.

The bowler or wicketkeeper Ryan Rickelton did not even appeal. Travis Head (0) was caught by Naman Dheer at third man on Trent Boult's ball going outside the off stump. Abhishek Sharma (eight) started with a six but was caught by Vignesh Puthur on Boult's ball. Nitish Kumar Reddy caught by Mitchell Santner in the mid-on on Chahar's ball.

Sunrisers lost four wickets for 24 runs in the powerplay. After this, Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya dismissed Aniket Verma. After losing five wickets for 35 runs within nine overs, Klaasen took charge. He hit two fours and a six in the tenth over of Puthur. After this, he hit three fours to Pandya.

Klaasen did not get support from the other end. Abhinav wasted seven balls before playing a big shot. Klaasen was caught by Tilak Verma off Jasprit Bumrah while Abhinav was sent to the pavilion by Boult. This was Bumrah's 300th T20 wicket.