Aniket Verma's quick thinking got SRH quick runs
Mumbai Indians’ captain Hardik Pandya endured a frustrating evening in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad at multiple times during their bowling innings.
Pandya, who had some pain in his ankle which was heavily bandaged, had to also grimace at multiple missed catches and goofy overthrows during the innings as well bowling a no-ball on a wicket-taking delivery.
Aniket lofted a full-length ball in the slot to mid-off as Deepak Chahar ran in from the cover region and missed the catch. However, he didn’t pick up the ball despite the tame effort as Jacks ran in from the long-off boundary and hurled it to the striker’s end.
As soon as Aniket spotted the error, he hurried his captain to run back for a second and completed it without any hassle. Jacks’ throw to keeper Ryan Rickleton was very wide which hampered the South African from effecting a run-out.
If one could guess by reading Pandya’s lips, the all-rounder was probably hollering, “How? How? How?” to his team mates.
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Pandya was furious as the gaffe happened on the edge of the circle and Cummins was well short of the crease at the non-striker’s end which could’ve earned MI a valuable wicket and saved one run.
SRH endured an underwhelming outing with the bat after mowing down a mammoth 246 in their previous outing. Opener Travis Head managed to score 28 runs from 29 balls while his partner Abhishek Sharma top scored with 40 off 28 balls.
The pair added 59 runs in 7.3 overs and also included a number of reprieves in the first over itself with Abhishek slashing past the slip fielder and the ball falling short of the fielder at point in the same over.
Hardik had more frustration in the 10th over when he got Head caught cleanly at deep mid-wicket but had overstepped by a good margin.
