Mumbai comeback catches out Warner

Mumbai's IPL title win was a final-ball thriller that featured heavy Australian involvement on the field – and off it thanks to David Warner's social media faux pas.

The final between the Steve Smith captained Rising Pune Supergiant and Mumbai Indians was being played in Hyderabad, the home venue of the Sunrisers franchise that Warner skippers.

So it was no surprise Warner found the time to watch the match from London, where he is in camp with Australia's one-day side ahead of the Champions Trophy tournament.

Warner's Sunrisers Hyderabad were ousted in the playoffs at the first hurdle, beaten by the Kolkata Knight Riders in a rain-affected match.

The Australian had been careful not to pick any favourites after exiting the tournament, but that approach went out the window midway through the final's first innings.

As Mumbai slipped to 7-79, an embarrassingly low mark for the two-time champions, Warner tweeted "All but over I think for Mumbai".

It may have echoed the thoughts of many watching on, but Warner with his 1.4m followers on the platform had the largest audience of anyone to vocalise it.

Unfortunately for Warner, his tweet also coincided with a revival of sorts by Mumbai, as Krunal Pandya and Mitchell Johnson put on a quick-fire 50-run partnership.

Warner's foretelling started to look more like an accurate prediction as Steve Smith's late-innings acceleration seemingly had Pune on course for victory, and the Australian captain's audacious and rare switch-hit for a much-needed six had his fellow Aussie on the tweet again.

Ultimately, it came down to the final over, with Smith, Mitchell Johnson and Dan Christian the Australians in play.

Defending a slender lead of 10 in the final over, Johnson proved ice-cool under immense pressure. Although the first ball was heaved away to the leg-side fence, Johnson struck back to have Manoj Tiwary caught on the fence, then the vital breakthrough to remove Smith.

Johnson continued with one of the finest final overs ever seen in a Twenty20 match, particularly given the status of the match and the A$3.1m prize on offer.

As Johnson restricted to Christian to just twos off the final balls and Mumbai secured the title with a one-run win, Warner was quick to pay tribute and admit he got the prediction horribly wrong.

But none of that of course stopped the vast Mumbai supporters army from reminding Warner of his earlier prediction. Even the neutrals climbed in – including fellow Australian and rival IPL captain Glenn Maxwell, who led the Kings XI Punjab this year.

Both the watching Aussies were quick to lead the plaudits for their compatriots involved in the match.

And Pune's second-placed finish in the IPL ended a long and idle four months in India for Usman Khawaja. The Queensland state captain was omitted from the Test team for Australia's series against India, then kept sidelined throughout the IPL with Pune. Fortunately for Khawaja he has not lost his sense of humour, tweeting a cheeky picture of Adam Sandler's character from The Waterboy movie in reference to his 12th man duties.

But the Australians had nothing on how Jos Buttler celebrated from afar. The England international played 10 games with Mumbai this season before returning home for international duty. Inexplicably, he appeared to have been watching the final overs fresh from the shower, clothed only in a towel. And while happy to share his celebrations on social media, he at least made a key alteration to the viewable areas on screen.