India, May 21 -- Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya came running onto the field to congratulate Suryakumar Yadav for his outstanding knock that could potentially take Mumbai Indians to the IPL 2025 playoffs. Suryakumar reserved his best innings for the 18th season when a spot in the playoffs was on the line. India's T20I captain brought his A game to the table by smashing an unbeaten 73 off 43 balls on a Wankhede pitch that stopped and turned to help MI post an "above-par" total of 180 for five against Delhi Capitals.

After Suryakumar hit two sixes and as many fours in the last over bowled by Dushmantha Chameera to give MI's innings a grand finish, Hardik came charging onto the pitch to hug Surya and give him a few hard pats on the bac...