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Mumbai Indians became 3rd time Champion in IPL history by defeating RPS by just 1 run

Yesterday night Mumbai Indians defeated Rising Pune Supergiant in the final’s by just 1 run to grab the title for the 3rd time in history of IPL. Before this Mumbai Indians did it in 2013 and 2015.  Before this Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first and lost both the openers on the score of 8 and from there on wards MI keeps on loosing wickets at regular intervals. Thanks to crucial partnership of 50 runs for the 8th wicket between Johnsan (13) and Krunal Pandya (47) because which Mumbai able to post descent score of 129 in 20 overs.

In response RPS lost its first wicket on 7 runs but after that Rahane and Smith had 54 runs partnership for the 2nd wicket after that RPS keeps on loosing wickets regularly and managed to score 128 runs for loss of 6 wickets and falling short by just 1 run.

Orange Cap Runs Team
David Warner 641 Sunriser Hyderabad
Purple Cap Wkts Team
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 26 Sunriser Hyderabad

Mumbai India Final Score Card

Mumbai Indians innings (20 overs maximum) R B 4s 6s SR
L Simmons c & b Unadkat 3 8 0 0 37.5
P Patel† c Thakur b Unadkat 4 6 0 0 66.66
A Rayudu run out (Smith) 12 15 1 0 80
R Sharma* c Thakur b Zampa 24 22 4 0 109.1
K Pandya c Rahane b Christian 47 38 3 2 123.7
K Pollard c Tiwary b Zampa 7 3 0 1 233.3
H Pandya lbw b Christian 10 9 0 1 111.1
K Sharma run out (Christian/Thakur) 1 5 0 0 20
M Johnson not out 13 14 0 1 92.85
Extras (b 1, lb 2, w 5) 8        
Total (8 wickets; 20 overs) 129 (6.45 runs per over)

Did not bat: J Bumrah, S Malinga

Rising Pune Supergiant final Score Card

Rising Supergiants Pune innings (target:130 runs from 20 overs) R B 4s 6s SR
A Rahane c Pollard b Johnson 44 38 5 0 115.78
R Tripathi lbw b Bumrah 3 8 0 0 37.5
S Smith* c Rayudu b Johnson 51 50 2 2 102
MS Dhoni† c †Patel b Bumrah 10 13 1 0 76.92
M Tiwary c Pollard b Johnson 7 8 1 0 87.5
D Christian not out 4 2 0 0 200
Washington Sundar run out (sub [J Suchith]/†Patel) 0 1 0 0 0
Extras (b 1, lb 5, w 3) 9        
Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 128 (6.40 runs per over)

Did not bat: L Ferguson, A Zampa, S Thakur, J Unadkat

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