IPL 2017: MI vs RPS, 5 things that went wrong for Mumbai Indians

#2 Failure to deal with Stokes’ final over

Ben Stokes finally came good for Pune

With the skipper Rohit Sharma batting beautifully and Hardik Pandya at the crease, MI looked like cruising to a victory. They needed 24 runs from the last two overs and with the kind of form the team has been in, it looked like a walk in the park for them.

Ben Stokes had the responsibility to bowl the penultimate over and the Englishman delivered a wonderful one. He gave away just seven runs and didn’t concede a single boundary. Six singles were scored off the six legitimate deliveries with one going for a wide.

He bowled the yorkers with dead accuracy and didn’t allow the batsmen to get under the ball. The Englishman’s over proved to be the turning point as 17 runs were left to be defended off the final over.