IPL 2018, MI vs DD: Three things that you might have missed

Three straight loses for Mumbai Indians to begin this edition of IPL with all three being nail-biters where the match was taken into last over and they found themselves on the wrong side of the results.

Mumbai’s loyal fans however accustomed to this kind of starts from them where they went on to win the trophy in previous seasons.

The destruction in chief for Mumbai Indians this time was Jason Roy who carried his bat chasing 196 almost scoring a century for Delhi Daredevils in his debut for the franchise.

Sportskeeda takes a look at the three unnoticed things from the match which had a considerable impact on the end result.

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#1 Mumbai's blazing Powerplay

Suryakumar Yadav and Lewis provided a blazing start for the Mumbai Indians

Promoting Suryakumar Yadav to open the batting for the first time in his IPL career worked wonders for Mumbai where he amassed 53 runs off 32 deliveries and with the help of another blazing knock from Lewis, scored 84 runs in the powerplay which is their best so far.

Both batsmen were positive right from ball one and scored at more than double digits playing proper cricket shots without slogging right through the powerplay. Runs in the powerplay over for Mumbai read: 15,10,15,12,14 & 18.

#2 Markande's struggles

It was not a good day for Markande

Despite losing first two games of this edition, Mayank Markande was one of the bright spots for Mumbai Indians which was acknowledged by Rohit Sharma on both occasions.

He was again trusted with controlling runs in the middle over but he couldn’t replicate his success and struggled with the lengths bowling short compared to previous matches.

42 runs were conceded by him at an economy rate of 14 and he couldn’t complete his quota of overs.

Krunal Pandya was summoned to compensate his overs where he did a decent job by scalping couple of wickets but was not proved to be enough to secure a win for his side.

#3 Fizz's Double drop

Rahman would want to forget his day on the field.

After almost putting up a match-winning performance in the previous matches, Mustafizur Rahman backed it up with another commendable effort with the ball, however, didn’t enjoy a good day in the field.

The Bangladeshi pacer dropped Shreyas Iyer twice in the same over bowled by Bumrah at the closing stages of the match.

It was a relatively tough chance first time where he couldn’t hold on to the catch despite putting in a dive but missed a fairly straightforward chance second time which earned a stare from the captain who was clearly not impressed with his efforts.

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