Will Jacks displayed his mastery. And the pacers successfully used a cheesy pitch up entrance by taking tempo off the ball constantly.
It culminated in Mumbai Indians registering a facile four-wicket win towards Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday within the Indian Premier League 2025.
Driving on Jacks’ all-round present, the house workforce trounced the visiting aspect with 11 balls to spare to start out off a protracted weekend for Mumbaikars on a contented observe on the Wankhede Stadium.
Having struggled to depart his footprint in MI’s blues so far, Jacks got here good in each the departments to arrange the victory.
Even earlier than captain Hardik Pandya launched Jacks into the assault proper after the PowerPlay, Karn Sharma had headed again into the dressing room after injuring his hand whereas lunging ahead to catch a miscued jab off Abhishek Sharma’s blade.
Karn’s loss may nicely have tilted the tide in Sunrisers’ favour, particularly with Jasprit Bumrah having bowled two overs within the PowerPlay.
Although Abhishek and Travis Head have been subdued — having performed put collectively their slowest PowerPlay rating (46) as a pair — they weren’t going to waste any time in going after Jacks.
However Jacks began off with a seven-run over. In his subsequent, with Abhishek having succumbed to Hardik within the eighth, Jacks drew Ishan Kishan ahead, spun the ball and Ryan Rickelton whipped the bails off very quickly.
Jacks then struck the decisive blow that ensured MI didn’t should chase down a giant whole by forcing Head to gap out to long-off.
Had it not been for Aniket Verma’s blitz on the loss of life, Sunrisers would have struggled to cross the 160-run mark.
Impression Participant Rohit Sharma produced a cameo and the MI middle-order ensured it didn’t lose the plot thereafter.
Jacks got here good with the willow too. Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik continued to speed up with a mix of modern strokeplay and power-hitting earlier than Tilak Varma sealed the cope with a reverse-sweep off leggie Zeeshan Ansari.