STATS HIGHLIGHT
Follow UsVengeance is served after four years. In the 2018 IPL, Delhi, who were at the bottom of the table, knocked out Mumbai by winning their last encounter. In 2022, Mumbai did the same to Delhi and helped Royal Challengers Bangalore to qualify for the play-offs this season.
The destructive David
The biggest regret for Mumbai this season would be dropping Tim David. Following failures in his first two matches, he was dropped and Mumbai struggled to find a finisher as Kieron Pollard strived to do the job.
However, since his return to the playing XI, David was at his usual destructive self, to be precise, brutally destructive. In this edition, David has a strike rate of 216.3 after scoring 180+ runs, the best among batters who have scored 150+ runs. This isn’t just the best this season. Among batters who have scored 150+ runs in a season of IPL, no batter has scored at a higher strike rate than David in 2022.
To add more, in this innings, David struck at a strike rate of 309.1, which is the second best for a Mumbai batter in an innings of 30+ in the IPL. Kieron Pollard against the same team, scored an unbeaten 45 off 13 balls at a strike rate of 346.1 in 2010.
Rohit’s torrid season
A season of misery for Rohit Sharma, has come to an end with some agonizing numbers. This is also one of the reasons why Mumbai have suffered the wooden spoon this season.
Throughout the season, Rohit has scored only 268 runs at an average of 19.1 and a strike rate of 120.2. In a season of IPL, this is the lowest average and the least runs scored by Rohit. In 14 innings this season, Rohit has six single digit scores, four scores between 10-30 and four scores between 31-49. Hence, making this season his first without a 50+ score.
Tilak raising his stakes in debut season
In a season of disasters for Mumbai, Tilak Varma has been one those players who has ended up on the flipside. The left-handed batsman from Hyderabad has certainly been the find of the season.
With 397 runs to his name in 14 innings, Tilak is the second highest run scorer for Mumbai, behind Ishan Kishan (418). In debut IPL season for Mumbai, only Sanath Jayasuriya in the inaugural edition in 2008 had scored more runs (514).
Bumrah following the footsteps of Malinga
Training together and growing alongside one of the best white-ball bowlers Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah has stepped into his predecessor’s shoes and has certainly become one of the modern greats.
In this edition, Bumrah with 15 wickets ended up as the highest wicket-taker for Mumbai. Overall, in the IPL, for seven consecutive seasons, starting from 2016, Bumrah has bagged 15 or more wickets in each of the seasons. By virtue of it, he became the first Indian bowler to achieve this feat in seven seasons. Overall, only Malinga has picked up 15 or more wickets in more seasons (8).
Mumbai’s season to forget
The five-time champions of the IPL, Mumbai, ended their nightmare season on a high. But, it has been one season to forget. After losing their first eight matches, when other teams were fighting for a spot in the play-offs, Mumbai were struggling to not end up as the table footers.
Eventually, that didn’t happen. With 10 losses in 14 matches and a net run rate of -0.506, Mumbai ended up at the bottom of the table for the first time in their IPL journey. Previously, in 2009, Mumbai finished their campaign with five wins and 11 points (one no-result) and were seventh (penultimate), their lowest then. Post that 2009 season, Mumbai never finished lower than fifth in the table until this season.
Two captains without a 50+ score
It’s not only Rohit, his counterpart from this match, Rishabh Pant also has endured a season without a 50+ score. However, Pant has scored 72 runs more than Rohit. In Pant’s case, it was about the conversion of his starts. In this season, Pant had six scores between 30-49, but none were converted to a big one.
In a season of IPL, this is only the second time in which two captains have scored 200+ runs and haven’t registered a half-century. In 2014, Shikhar Dhawan (215) for Sunrisers Hyderabad and George Bailey (257) for Punjab Kings, suffered this fate.
