MI wins breakout vs. base battle: Rohit-Rickelton scripts Mumbai’s top IPL chase

Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickton

New Delhi: Rohit Sharma Scored 84 points after returning from injury Ryan Rickton 83 for mumbai indians The Super Giants defeated Lucknow Supergiants by six wickets in the IPL 2026 match in Mumbai on Monday.The two openers scored 143 runs for the first wicket, their third century stand in the IPL, and launched the chase. After LSG scored 228 for five, Mumbai Indians chased down 229 and ended up at 229 for four in 18.4 overs.earlier, Nicholas Pullan After the game slowed down in the midfield, LSG scored 63 points on 21 goals. He took advantage of MI’s loose bowling.Rohit missed five games due to a hamstring injury he sustained against Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 12. He hit seven sixes and six fours in his 44-ball innings, while Rickton continued his fine form.Rickton was dismissed by Mohsin Khan after hitting two sixes in the 11th over. Rohit looked on course to hit a hundred but was short-legged by Manimaran Siddharth in the 14th over, who ended with 47 for 2.Tilak Varma scored 11 and stand-in captain Suryakumar Yadav added 12 before being out again near the boundary. Naman Dhir remained not out in the 23rd over and Will Jacks remained unbeaten in the 10th over as MI completed the chase.Mumbai Indians scored around 50 runs in the first five overs before Rohit attacked in the sixth over, smashing Avesh Khan for 21 with a mix of fours and sixes.IPL chasing top goals

The previous highest target chased by MI was 221 against KKR earlier this season at the same venue.Rickton also scored freely, starting with Mohsing’s six, and bowled with pace and spin.For LSG, Pooran’s 63 off 20 balls helped them score 228 for 5. He hit eight sixes and a four. Mitchell Marsh scored 44 runs off 25 balls.Jasprit Bumrah conceded 45 runs and 3 overs. Corbin Bosch, 2 for 20 from the field, slowed LSG down in the middle of the game when they looked ready to go past 240 points.Bumrah conceded 21 runs in the fourth over, Marsh hitting his boundary. In the powerplay, Pooran hit Will Jacks with three sixes and then hit two sixes and a four off AM Ghazanfar in the sixth over. LSG scored 90 runs in six overs, the joint second-highest powerplay score by a visiting team against MI at this stadium.Pooran failed to score a fifty in his last 17 innings, but with the help of Deepak Chahar, he reached his half-century in 16 innings with six runs. He and Marsh added 94 runs for the second wicket in 35 balls. After eight rounds, LSG scored 123 points and took the initiative.Bose then eliminated Pooran and Marsh in the same round. In 12 rounds, LSG dropped from 123 points in 1 game to 160 points in 4 games. It could have been 160 for 5, but when Himmat Singh fell behind, Bumrah went beyond. Himmat scored 40 not out and shared 68 runs with Aiden Markram who scored 31 runs.