You can't have one of the best bowlers in world bowling one over up until the 13th over: Steve Smith

The SRH vs MI clash witnessed a flurry of records being broken during the match as hosts went on to post a mammoth total of 277 runs on the board. Though Mumbai gave quite a fight to Pat Cummins and his men, they fell short of 31 runs

Speaking exclusively to Star Sports on Cricket Live, Australian cricketer Steve Smith spoke on the multiple records broken during SRH vs MI, he said "It's hard to fathom what we've just seen. The ball was flying everywhere—a record 523 runs for the day in total, sixes galore, 38 sixes in total—the ball was just going all over the place. It was an incredible game. Both teams played exceptionally well, and Mumbai fell just short at the end.”

Steve Smith also spoke about the performance of Klaasen and the other batters in the SRH line-up, he said "Yeah, he just backed it up again. From ball one, he came out and played with such freedom and hit the ball again in the middle like he has been. He's an incredible player. Some of the shots we saw were outrageous, and you can't do it, I suppose, without the platform that was laid, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma up top. Travis getting the fastest fifty and then getting beaten for the fastest 50 for Hyderabad inside 5 minutes, and then the partnership he had with Markram, his South African teammate at the other end, was just incredible. Yeah, 277 you need a lot to go right to get that, and Mumbai was well on their way throughout that innings.”

Brian Lara highlighted the standout knocks of the day, he said "There were so many, 4 guys making fifties in under 25 deliveries. It was just very special. Abhishek Sharma is one of my favourite young batters, and him coming in there performing, I wouldn't say out of position, opening or batting 3 is almost the same thing, but today was very special. He can hit it, he's not a big muscular guy, but when he hits the ball it stays hit. I think his was a special knock today, standing out amongst all those international players that have been playing regular games. For a young man, this innings was special.”

Smith expressed his surprise at some of the tactics employed by Mumbai Indians during the match "I was perplexed with some of their bowling changes in the first innings for Mumbai. Bumrah bowled in the 4th over he went for 5 and then we didn't see him again till the 13th over when they were on a 173. All the damage had been done, you needed your best bowler to be coming back and take some wickets in that period and I think they missed a trick there bringing him back only in the 13th over.”

Smith also spoke about the tactics employed by Hardik Pandya in the game, "When the ball is going around like that, you've just got to bring your best bowler back earlier than you would have liked. It's just about adapting on the go and I'd have almost bowled Bumrah out by the 15th, 16th over, try to get some wickets, if he gets wickets, you slow the rate down anyway. If the guy is batting at the end, doesn't matter who is bowling, we saw that really with Bumrah in the last two overs and he still got smacked with the bat at the back end. So if he came back earlier and had taken some risks, things would have been really different and they got 277 and they could have been reduced to 240 and might have chased those down, so I was just perplexed that he bowled only 1 over up until the 13th over.”

He concluded "It was an incredibly difficult wicket, we've seen the most runs ever in a T20 game, so you've got to give some credit to the batters as well. I think he got a few things wrong, and that was the main one for me. I mean you can't have one of the best bowlers in the world bowling 1 over."