Mustafizur suffers in Sunrisers defeat

Bangladesh seamer Mustafizur Rahman failed to make his Indian Premier League comeback a memorable one after proving extremely costly in Sunrisers Hyderabad's four-wicket defeat against Mumbai Indians last night.

The 20-year-old left-armer, who was named the best emerging player last year after taking 23 wickets for the champions, played his first match of the season yesterday, just a day after flying from Bangladesh to Mumbai. And the seamer clearly lacked the rhythm and control which had made him such a sought-after commodity in the richest twenty20 franchise league last year.

Mustafizur went for 19 runs in his first over -- his most expensive by far in the IPL -- before finishing with figure of none for 34 in 2 4 overs as the home side romped to the victory target of 159 with eight balls to spare.

Batting first, Sunrisers were given a rollicking start by David Warner (49) and Shikhar Dhawan (48). But Jaspreet Bumrah and Harbhajan Singh stemmed the run flow, sharing five wickets between them as the run-scoring stalled midway through.

On a wicket ideal for batting, 158 never seemed a threatening total as Mumbai, riding on quick-fire knocks from Parthiv Patel (39), Nitish Rana (45) and Krunal Pandya (37), raced through to the target to inflict the first defeat in three matches on the champions.

SCORES IN BRIEF:

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: 158 for 8 in 20 overs (Warner 49, Dhawan 48; Bumrah 3-24, Harbhajan 2-23)

MUMBAI INDIANS: 159 for 6 in 18.4 overs (Patel 39, Rana 45, Pandya 37; Rashid 1-19, Bhuvaneshwar 3-21)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by four wickets.