A Brilliant cameo by Saurabh Tiwary and Kieron Pollard inspired Mumbai Indians to a healthy total of 180/7 in their quota of 20 overs. Tiwary started his innings in a careful manner but hit top gear in 16th over when he hit Aaron O'Brien for 25 runs in his last over.
Tiwary hit four massive sixes and a boundary in his knock of 44 form 25 deliveries.
Windies all-rounder Pollard was in a destructive mode from the word go as he destroyed the opposition bowling attack all over the park in his swashbuckling innings of 36 from 21 balls before he was caught on the bowling of Daniel Christian.
Earlier after winning the toss and batting first, Mumbai Indians got off to the worst possible start against Redbacks when they lost opener Shikhar Dhawan in the second over. Dhawan (2 off 7) was caught behind on the bowling of Gary Putland.
Captain Sachin Tendulkar soon followed his fellow opener as he was clean bowled by Aaron O'Brien for 20 from 17 balls trying to go for the full monty.
Mumbai Indians were pushed back further after South African batsmen JP Duminy (3 off 6) was caught and bowled by Aaron O'Brien. Mumbai Indians were struggling at 47/3 after 7.3 overs after Duminy's wicket.
Middle order batsman Ambati Rayudu looked promising ever since he strode into the middle but his inning couldn't mature into anything big after he was brilliantly caught by Daniel Harris in the deep of the bowling of Cullen Bailey for 38 from 32 deliveries.
However, unperturbed by the dismissal Tiwary blasted Bailey over long-off for a flat six, while newman Kieron Pollard also followed suit with another maximum.
Pollard and Dwayne Bravo then carried the innings forward adding 33 runs off 18 balls to take MI across the 150-mark.
Dwayne Bravo finished the Mumbai Indians innings in style with 22 from 12 balls. Mumbai Indians smashed 121 runs from the last ten overs.
For Redbacks Aaron O'Brien was pick of the bowlers with 2/49. Gary Putland, Cullen Bailey, Shaun Tait took one scalp each.
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