Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai and registered their ninth win of this season and with this season they are set to finish at top of the points table.
Earlier Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl first. Trent Boult gave them a perfect start by dismissing Shikhar Dhawan for a duck and Prithvi Shaw in the next over and after these two early wickets Delhi didn't recover and kept losing wickets.
Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant played 20 odd runs knock but they too couldn't handle the top-class bowling of Bumrah and other Mumbai bowlers and they finished on 110/9 in 20 overs. For Mumbai Trent Boult and Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets each.
In reply, Quinton de Kock and Ishan Kishan gave a solid start of 68 runs. Quinton de Kock got out off Nortje bowling but Kishan continued to play big shots and his 72* runs knock took Mumbai home in the 15th over.
All the major stats and facts from the 51st match between Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians in Dubai :
1 - This is Mumbai Indians' first win at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai in IPL.
MI at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai in IPL -
Lost vs RCB, 2014
Lost vs CSK, 2014
Lost vs SRH, 2014
Lost vs RCB, 2020
Lost vs KXIP, 2020
Won vs DC, 2020
9 - Wickets win is the biggest win for Mumbai Indians against Delhi Capitals in terms of wickets in IPL. The previous biggest was by 8 wickets at Delhi back in 2011.
9 - Shikhar Dhawan bagged his 9th duck of IPL career and it is his 3rd duck in this IPL season.
23 - Jasprit Bumrah has taken 23 wickets in this IPL season so far - the most wickets for him in a single IPL season.
Most wickets for Jasprit Bumrah in an IPL season -
23* in 2020
20 in 2017
19 in 2019
17 in 2018
150 - This was the 150th IPL match of R Ashwin's career. He has taken 134 wickets in 150 IPL matches.
2000 - Rishabh Pant when on 11, completed 2000 runs in the Indian Premier League. All his runs have come for Delhi Capitals.
Most runs for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
2174 - Virender Sehwag
2095 - Shreyas Iyer
2010 - Rishabh Pant
1435 - David Warner
1332 - Shikhar Dhawan
