Match 45:

Mumbai Indians Vs Pune Warriors India

Pune who is already in a losing streak, if they didn’t put a brake at this juncture, playoff’s will be out of reach even before they could think. Mumbai need this win to put back themselves strong in the top4.

Ganguly spun the coin, but Bhajji won it to bat first,  once again Franklin & Sachin gave a 50 runs partnership between them. Once they had to depart, Mumbai found themselves a way to dig themselves in a deep hole, as they were 93/7 in 16 overs. Late swings by Malinga by Bat this time, ensured Mumbai got 120 runs on board.

Pune Warriors had 2 points written all over it to for taking, Uthappa wasted the opportunity, and followed his fellow opener Ryder with a poor shot. Clarke was quite unlucky to have a poor decision going against his wish. Smith who was the saviour until was also departed to a Ojha’s spin. Task was cut out in the hands of Skipper Ganguly & Mithun Manhas who were the last recognised batting pair to take them home in front of their home crowd. A big failure from Ganguly which meant 16 runs from 24 balls without rotating strike to Manhas created more pressure in one end, With Malinga bowling at the death, you can’t ask more, he too departed leaving the rest to finish match, which other almost came close were they fell short by just 1 runs. Malinga’s death bowling got him the Man of the match.

JUST 1 RUN… Dada one single out off 11 dot balls game could have been Pune’s…

Mumbai Indians won the game by 1 run…

Standings as on DAY 29:

Interesting facts as on Day 29:

-          Ashok Dinda bowled the 15^th Maiden of this season.

-          This is the 16^th game for this season which went for the last over.

-          Both Sachin & Franklin opened the innings for Mumbai on three occasions and on all of those they were able to get a 50 runs partnership between them.

-          Second time this season has got a 1 run victory, previous one was between Delhi & Rajasthan, were Delhi scampered by 1 run.

-          120 runs is the lowest score defended for this season, they bettered KXIP’s 135 runs defended against KKR.

-          120 runs defended was the 3^rd lowest in IPL, 116 runs by CSK & 119 by KXIP are the other two.

-          Harbhajan Single picked up his second Golden duck for this season.

 At the end of DAY 29:

No. of Catches dropped for the day – 1

Total no. of Boundaries – 1070

Total no. of Sixes – 415

Longest Six – Chris Gayle – 111 & 106 Meters followed by Kieron Pollard – 105 Meters.

Most no. of Fours – A.Rahane (60) followed by V.Shewag (51)

Most no. of Sixes –Chris Gayle (29) followed by K.Pietersen (20)

Orange Cap –A.Rahane (458) followed by V.Shewag (445)

Purple Cap – Morne Morkel (19) followed by L.Malinga (17)

~rams~

Its Day 12 in IPL…

Beautiful day of low scoring thrillers.

Match 19:

RCB Vs KKR

Its two teams down under in action. As expected its a very close and an exciting game.

Bredon McCulum won the toss and decided to bat first, and it didnt work for him esp, he was out in the very first ball of the match. Its Chris Gayle and Van der merwe, who bought KKR to a total of 192 in 20 overs. and its Anil Kumble who bowled exceptionally well, 4-0-16-2

Chasing 140 to win with 7 runs per over. Bangalore came back from the Uthappa’s Opening effect, this time goswami placed a fine knock and hope he retains the position. Opening partnership of 69 was the first for bangalore 5o and above partnership of this season.

then kept thmeselves at tha hunt, even though wickets fell at the other end. But boucher holds the nerves and scored needed 10 runs of the very last over. May be i shud say, chris gayle was a bad choice to bowl out the last over. 

Finally bangalore wins their second match. Hope things go good for them…

Match 20:

MI vs KXIP

If u say last one was a close game and a low scoring thriller. then how to name it…. pls help me…

Fabulous game went till the wire and pendulum was swinging in both ways for every over.

KXIP started off bit slow i shud say, lost goel early in the innings then bopara and finally skipper yuvi before the break, which ensured , they made just 50 runs in their first 10 overs,  really i shud say it didnt click well for punjab guys. pitch was pretty slow and ball stops a bit before coming into the bat, so batsman ended scooping the ball in the air many a times. No partnerships and anyone to with hold the innings with Kumar sangakarra, who had a lone vigil in the crease till the end, making an unbeaten 45 runs. and bowlers for Mumbai did really well esp: slinger malinga claimed the figures of 4-0-12-2, and rest others also chipped in.

Just needing 120 runs to win, evry1 felt, its a sitter for them with the subliminal form of Sanath and sachin from the last match, it all just counted in times, but no mumbaikar wud have beleived the score after 4.1 overs, its 12/3 and both sanath and sachin back to dressing room.  the start which KXIP wud dreamt off.. and they lost the track all of a sudden bravo played a poor shot to get himself out, Abishek nayar sticked a bit with JP duminy to steer ship back to position,  but no one cud say, that someone gained advantage at any point, it was swinging again and again. Finally its all abt 2 inchs shot for JP duminy taking mumbai to a home of victory, Abdulla bowled a very good last over, just conceding 8 runs and claiming the wicket of JP duminy. in the nail bitting match its KXIP who won by 3 runs in the end.

Whaaaaaaatttttttttaaaaaaaa Match………

Standings as on Day 12:

Still there is no change in the top position, Deccans run high and followed by Delhi. but its not looking so good for SRK and his team. (started cost cutting i guess, check out news papers….)

Interesting facts on Day 12:

- Malinga is the leading wicket taker and he is the only player who has the record of bowling all full quto of his 4 overs and keeping his economy below 6. His stunning figues are 3/15 , 3/19, 3/11 and 2/12. which add up to 57 runs in 16 overs and gaining 11 wickets.

- KXIP defended the lowest ever total of IPL season against MI.

- Its ninth time a batsman is out after strategic time out, this time the unlucky guy is Jayawardene.

- MI scored 47/4 in the first 10 overs, which is also the lowest ever score made in first 10 overs.

- Beleive it or not Team topping in the total no of booundaries scored is Royal challengers bangalore with 77 Boundries (in 6 games) of the season till now, and followed by CSk with 55 fours.

- MN van Wyk of KKR took four catches against RBC which becomes the best performance by a KKR wicket keeper.

- In the  match KKR and RCB, five players  shared the award for the most sixes. (Hodge and Saha from KKR, Kohli, boucher and van de merwe from RCB)

-  Least boundary hit by a team in full 20 overs is KXIP, against MI, they got just four 4s and 2 sixes.

Hell lot of fatcs…. Hmm… i am enjoying it… Hope to update everyday as i do…. see u 2maro with CSK and RR clasing for the points table battle.

~rams~