Mumbai, April 24 -- Mumbai Indians discovered a mid-season surge after registering their fourth consecutive win on Wednesday against Sunrisers Hyderabad. By romping home in 15.4 overs on the back of Rohit Sharma's 70 (46b, 8x4,3x6), their seven-wicket win saw the five-time winners climb to third place on the points table. The reverse was true for SRH, for whom this was their fourth straight defeat leaving them languishing at the ninth place on the points table.
MI bowlers took the flight from Mumbai to Hyderabad without forgetting to carry the pace-off bowling template that saw them down the powerful batters in Orange last week. That's all it took to force SRH into submission on a dry pitch at the Uppal stadium in the crucial Powerplay.
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