Bairstow show

Sunrisers' dropped Wriddhiman Saha and promoted Bairstow to the top of the order. It nearly proved right as he laid into the New Zealanders, Boult and

Mumbai claw back

Rohit went to Bumrah to close the powerplay out. He nearly got Bairstow out with a slower ball, but a two-run over meant the Sunrisers still had work to do.

Unfortunately, though, Bairstow’s back foot slipped onto the base of his wicket as he looked to ramp Krunal Pandya, making him the fifth Sunrisers victim out of 13 hit-wicket dismissals in the IPL.

Chahar, coming off a star hand in Mumbai's win in the last match, then turned the screw in. Manish Pandey, for a change, eschewed his anchor game, but with no luck as he hit straight to long-off for a seven-ball two. Then Warner went off for the fateful single with the ball hit straight to point.

Rohit smartly snuck in two Pollard overs to exploit the slowness of the surface and provide insurance should either Boult or Milne not be able to bowl out. From the end of the fifth over to the end of the 14th, only one boundary came for the Sunrisers, that too off a top edge.

The pressure was too much for an inexperienced middle order, and Virat Singh and Abhishek holed out in Chahar's last over.

Shankar efforts in vain

With 47 required in five overs and the fifth bowler's quota done, Rohit still went to Krunal to avoid bowling Milne at the end. Shankar hit two big sixes to keep the Sunrisers breathing, but Bumrah's mix of slower balls and yorkers on the slow pitch raised the asking rate high enough for Boult to take advantage of the batters who had no option but to hit out at him.