There is a famous saying - 'When times are bad, even sitting on an elephant, a dog bites.' Same is the situation of five-time IPL champion Mumbai Indians. The team is going through such a bad phase in IPL 2026 that even the team's best batsman Suryakumar Yadav is not scoring runs. Sometimes due to bad luck and sometimes due to tremendous fielding, Suryakumar has been out. Whereas against Gujarat Titans, he had to face the fastest ball, which blew away his stumps.

When on the evening of Monday 20th April at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad Mumbai Indians Had to bat first. When Mumbai's batsmen took the field, it was expected that their batting unit would give a strong performance. Considering the kind of performance Mumbai has had this season, the team needed this. But once the action started, the story was completely different.

MI batsmen scared of Rabada's speed

Fans who were expecting fast batting from Mumbai batsmen got to see the stormy fast bowling of Kagiso Rabada. The South African pacer, who has been bowling well this season, showed his ability to achieve consistent pace and bounce after a long time, for which the Mumbai batsmen had no answer. Rabada took the first 3 wickets of Mumbai and all three were the result of fast pace.

Quinton de Kock
Surya Kumar Yadav

Kagiso Rabada with a fine piece of new-ball bowling

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First of all he gave out LBW to the debuting young opener Danish Malewar. This ball came at a speed of 147.6 kilometers per hour (KMPH). Then he caught Quinton de Kock on his own ball. This ball came to de Kock at a speed of 149.7 KMPH, which also had a lot of bounce. But the real game happened with Mumbai vice-captain Suryakumar Yadav, to whom Rabada bowled the fastest ball of his spell.

Suryakumar bowled on the fastest ball

Surya, who came to bowl the last over of the powerplay, showed his attitude by hitting a six on the first ball of Rabada's over and a four on the second. Both these balls were between the speed of 145 to 148 KMPH. The third ball came at a speed of 152, on which Surya avoided being bowled and took one run. Then he came on strike again on the fifth ball of the over and this time no one could save him. Rabada bowled the fastest ball of 152.1 kilometers per hour, which came inside after hitting the pitch. Surya was defeated by the speed and seam movement and his two stumps were uprooted and fell on the ground.