Monday, May 5, 2008

Team effort helps Mumbai Indians script 29-run Upset win over Delhi's Daredevils.

Led astutely by Shaun Pollock,the Mumbai side made 4 changes,all of which worked,got their basics right and turned in an amazing display in the field with local lad Yogesh Takawale at the centre of it.Takawale with his keeping made bad throws look good,he was also standung up to Pollock and Bravo which meant the batsmen couldn't give the bowlers the charge.Takawale playing his first match gave the early momentum with a 46 run opening stand with Sanath Jayasurya at over nine an over.When Pollock came to bat the team slipped from 102 for 2 to 112 for 6 and struggling to get any momentum,but he showed his immense ball striking ability when carted Mohd.Asif for 3 sixes in the last over which cost 22 runs.He also took 2 wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs.The accurate bowling and good fielding Mumbai Indians bowled out Daredevils in 18.5 overs.Nehra,Kulkarni and Pollock were the main wicket takers bowlers.

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S.Tanvir toys with Chennai,claims six.

With every IPL match,Shane Warne's team Jaipur seem to be getting better.That they are strong Semi-Final contenders became more apparent on Sunday when seamer Sohail Tanvir took six wickets for 14 runs as team Jaipur defeated Dhoni's team Chennai by eight wickets at Sawai ManSingh Stadium.The match tyrned out to be one sided affair as chennai opted to bae were skitted out for partly109 runs in 19 overs.S.Raina and A.Morkel were the main scorers with 27 and 42 runs.Jaipur raced to the target with 34 balls to spare,withG.Smith and S.Asondkar putting on 78 runs for the first wicket.

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