Rising Pune Supergiant skipper Steve Smith lavished praise on Ben Stokes and Jaydev Unadkat for keeping their cool and bowling the team to a close win over Mumbai Indians here on Monday night.
Pune ended MI's six-match winning streak with a three-run win.
"I thought we scrapped really well in the end. Stoksy in the second half was excellent, Unadkat got us over the line," Smith said at the presentation ceremony.
"The dew was not too bad. We thought it would be worse, we held together, and the wicket played the same for the 40 overs. It was not a traditional Wankhede wicket.
"160 was probably around par, and tonight we were able to take wickets in the middle and keep the pressure on. Unadkat went wide of the crease and bowled a hard length."
MI captain Rohit Sharma cracked his second half century of the IPl season but could not prevent his team fromsuffering a nail-biting defeat at the Wankhede Stadium.