Consistency key to Mumbai Indians success in this year’s IPL, finds new study
The paper tried to figure out what differentiated Mumbai Indians and CSK, who came into the season as defending champions and runners-up respectively.
The paper tried to figure out what differentiated Mumbai Indians and CSK, who came into the season as defending champions and runners-up respectively.
Steve Smith, representing the Rajasthan Royals, scored just 311 runs in 14 games, with the help of three half-centuries as his team finished bottom of the points table.
These tests were conducted specifically for the entire IPL contingent that had arrived from the UAE on November 14 and then went into quarantine.
Chennai Super Kings, three-time IPL champions, failed to make it to the playoffs for the first time and ended at the seventh spot in the group stage.
Mumbai Indians became the most successful IPL franchise on Tuesday when they won their fifth title in the 13-year history of the T20 league.
The win helped Rajasthan Royals to the fifth spot on the table, from the seventh spot, while KXIP, despite being at the receiving end, remain at the fourth.
In what was a nail-biting match, Ruturaj Gaikwad's scintillating 53-ball 72 and Ravindra Jadeja's unbeaten 31 in 11 balls helped CSK in beating KKR.
The win took CSK's points tally to 10. However, it will be impossible for the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team to qualify for the knockout of IPL 2020.
Three-time champions CSK sit bottom of the points table and have failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in the 13-year history of IPL.
Chasing the total, it was not as smooth a ride as Mumbai would have hoped. But Suryakumar Yadav's boisterous show with the bat had no answer from RCB.
