It was a Day/Night Twenty20 match, which decided the winner of 2020 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), an annual Twenty20 tournament in India.
[2] In July 2020, after the International Cricket Council (ICC) postponed the 2020 edition of the Men's T20 World Cup, the BCCI requested to host the tournament in the United Arab Emirates from 26 September to 8 November 2020.
[6] Source:[7] The Mumbai Indians were ranked first in the league table, though their season started with a loss to the Chennai Super Kings.
[8] After losing two of their first three games, Mumbai won five consecutive matches, before their run was ended by a loss against the Kings XI Punjab.
The Sunrisers Hyderabad won against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Eliminator to set up a match against Delhi to decide the second finalist.
Kagiso Rabada had Delhi's best bowling figures with 4/29 and received the Purple Cap (for the tournament leading wicket taker) at the end of the match.
The Mumbai Indians' fast bowler Trent Boult was named the Player of the Match for his decisive spell of three wickets for 30 runs.
Pant was dismissed for 56 off the bowling of Australian right-arm fast bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile and caught by Hardik Pandya.
[22][2] Chasing a target of 157, the Mumbai Indians innings got off to a healthy start with a partnership of 45 runs in four overs between the captain Rohit Sharma and left-handed batsman Quinton de Kock, before De Kock was out, caught behind by wicket keeper Rishabh Pant off the bowling of right-arm medium-pace bowler Marcus Stoinis.
The rest of the team did not have any significant hold-ups in chasing down the target, led by Sharma, who scored 68 off 51 balls, before he was caught out by substitute fielder Lalit Yadav off the bowling of South African right-arm fast bowler Anrich Nortje.