Mumbai Indians prevailed overwhelmingly over Sunrisers Hyderabad, but in order to advance, they needed Royal Challengers Bangalore to lose later that night.
Despite the fact that it appeared for a time that it would be the other way around, Sunday night turned out to be a memorable one for the Mumbai Indians and not for the Royal Challengers
Bangalore. In the first match of the day, MI defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets to move up to fourth place.
However, RCB would have surpassed them if they had won their match against the Gujarat Titans later in the day.
The match went on, and RCB hero Virat Kohli scored a century for the second time in a row this season, despite the fact that it appeared at first that the rain in Bengaluru might hurt their chances.
In the end, RCB scored a startling 197/5. Anyway GT, who completed the top of the table and have been basically the best group this season.
Wound up pursuing that objective down with six wickets and five balls in excess with Shubman Gill himself scoring his second sequential hundred years of the time.
MI finished fourth and RCB remained in sixth place as a result of the defeat.
On their Twitter handle, MI uploaded a video of the players, staff, and their families celebrating GT’s victory.
Gill had scored a six to get them over the line and reached his century in the process. Prior, MI raced to 201/2 in 18 overs, chasing a target of 201 runs, thanks to Cameron Green’s unbeaten 100 runs off 47 balls.
Meanwhile, captain Rohit Sharma scored 56 runs off 37 deliveries for a significant century. For SRH’s bowling division, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mayank Dagar took a wicket each.
Initially, SRH scored 200/5 in 20 overs thanks to Mayank Agarwal and Vivrant Sharma’s excellent batting.
Mayank scored 83 runs off 46 deliveries, while Vibrant scored 69 runs off 47. Akash Madhwal was in a hot bowling structure for MI and took four wickets.
In the Eliminator on May 24 at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, MI will now face Lucknow Super Giants.
In the meantime, on May 23, the Gujarat Titans take on the Chennai Super Kings in the first Qualifier. The MA Chidambaram Stadium will also host this game.