Hardik Pandya laughs it off when told Mumbai Indians can still make it to IPL 2024 Playoffs

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1 min read 07 May 2024, 12:14 PM IST

Mumbai Indians won by 7 wickets against Sunrisers Hyderabad, but reaching the playoffs with 8 points is challenging. Skipper Hardik Pandya erstwhile asked astir his team's chances of making it to IPL 2024 Playoffs said helium is concentrating connected playing bully cricket.

Mumbai Indians' skipper Hardik Pandya celebrates aft taking the wicket of Sunrisers Hyderabad's Marco Jansen (not pictured) during the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket lucifer betwixt Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad astatine the Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai connected May 6, 2024. (Photo by Punit PARANJPE / AFP) / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE -- (AFP)

Mumbai Indians got backmost to winning ways with a 7-wicket triumph implicit Sunrisers Hyderabad astatine the Wankhede Stadium. Despite the win, MI's chances of making the play-offs are slim arsenic they person conscionable 8 points to their sanction and adjacent a triumph successful their past 2 league games would spot them decorativeness connected 12 points. However, MI skipper Hardik Pandya wasn't disquieted astir his team's chances of making the play-offs, saying his absorption was connected playing bully cricket.

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Replying to a question by commentator Sanjay Manjrekar connected Mumai Indians' anticipation of making it to the IPL 2024 Playoffs, Pandya said, "I don't cognize which mathematical concern we're talking about, but astatine the aforesaid time, you privation to absorption connected playing bully cricket,"

Pandya the went connected to praise Surya Kumar Yadav for his ‘unbelievable’ sound of 102 (51) that helped clinch the crippled successful his side's favour. He said, "SKY was unbelievable. More than him getting runs, him putting truthful overmuch unit connected bowlers that adjacent different batters get escaped balls. He breaks you. He's evolved. Lucky to person him successful my team. Hope to person galore much specified innings,"

Can Mumbai Indians marque it to IPL 2024 Playoffs?

Mumbai Indians person a theoretical accidental of making the play-offs if they triumph their adjacent 2 matches, which would springiness them 12 points. However, MI volition past request a fig of different results to spell their mode to unafraid a spot successful the qualifying round.

Notably, anterior to the instauration of Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants successful 2022, teams routinely qualified for the playoff stages with 12 oregon 14 points. Since then, however, the contention for the apical 4 spots has intensified and teams with arsenic galore arsenic 16 points aren't assured of a playoff spot.

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Published: 07 May 2024, 12:07 PM IST