IPL 2025 Although Mumbai Indians have one of the lowest winning percentages overall since 2023, they’ve been the best team at winning home matches during this time. They’ve won 58.8% of their games at Wankhede Stadium, which is the highest among all teams. Only CSK (57.8%) and GT (55.5%) also have more wins than losses at home during this period. While many teams are still trying to understand how their home pitches work, IPL 2025 MI already seem to have figured it out. In the 2023-24 season, their success at home came mainly from strong batting. But this time, they’ve built a strong bowling unit that could match what their batters did in the past two years.
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IPL 2025 MI Beat SRH on the Same Pitch That Helped Them Before
IPL 2025 Their recent match against SRH was on Pitch #6 – the same surface where MI bowled out KKR for just 116 runs earlier this season. It was also the pitch where KKR defended a total of 169 runs against MI last year – the only time a team successfully defended a score under 200 at Wankhede since 2023. Since SRH rely heavily on attacking shots, MI chose to use the same tricky pitch again and were lucky to win the toss, allowing them to bowl first before dew affected the conditions.
IPL 2025 MI’s fast bowlers mostly avoided the good length area and instead went either full or short. About 64% of their deliveries were in those two zones. When they did bowl on a good length, they often used slower balls. Trent Boult focused on full deliveries, while Jasprit Bumrah mixed slower balls with yorkers. Hardik Pandya bowled short balls until his final over, where he missed his yorkers and conceded 22 runs.
After the match, Hardik explained their strategy: “In the first few overs, we noticed some deliveries were sticking on the pitch, so we realized that slower balls could work well. Once we understood that, we stuck to the plan and smartly bowled our yorkers.”
Mumbai Indians – Seamers by Length
- Full: 43 balls, 66 runs, 2 wickets, 9.21 economy
- Good + Back of length: 35 balls, 47 runs, 0 wickets, 8.06 economy
- Short: 19 balls, 19 runs, 1 wicket, 6.00 economy
Sunrisers Hyderabad – Seamers by Length
- Full: 17 balls, 16 runs, 3 wickets, 5.65 economy
- Good + Back of length: 48 balls, 68 runs, 2 wickets, 8.50 economy
- Short: 19 balls, 35 runs, 1 wicket, 11.05 economy
In total, IPL 2025 MI bowlers delivered 30 off-pace balls that gave away just 36 runs for 1 wicket. The pitch grip early in the game, along with MI’s variation in lengths, made SRH’s batters struggle with timing. Three of their top four batters had a strike rate below 100, and Klaasen only managed to strike above 100 after facing 24 balls.
Also, IPL 2025 SRH batters scored just 20 runs from the first 15 full tosses they received, showing how much they struggled with timing throughout the innings.
In contrast to MI’s 64% of balls bowled full or short, SRH seamers only managed 42% in those areas. Their slower balls didn’t work as well either, giving away 60 runs from 33 balls, though they took 3 wickets.
This loss was SRH’s seventh defeat in their last eight away games, putting their season in serious danger. Meanwhile, IPL 2025 MI seem to be bouncing back after a slow start and, more importantly, they’ve cracked the formula for winning at home.