Thursday, May 26, 2011

IPL 4: Mumbai Indians beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 wicketsIPL 4: Mumbai Indians beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 wickets

Harbhajan Singh has hit the winning six for the Mumbai Indians, and roared, and all but thrust his boot towards the Knight Riders’ dugout.  It was his way of telling everyone the kind of frustration, his team has endured to this day and how they came out fighting.

Mumbai Indians should have won the competition easily. However, they made it more difficult for themselves, barely able to reach the modest goal of 148 only in the last over to Wankhede on Wednesday.

The Eliminator IPL has gone way down to the wire, even if, at some point, I was cruising at 81 for no loss in 7.5 overs. After losing the decisive Aiden Blizzard 51 (30 balls, 7 x 4, 2 × 6), have lost three wickets guide to land in a familiar location.

But James Franklin are not gathered around for 29 (25 balls, 2 × 4) to star in the act of saving the team. In the end, the Knights cleared and Mumbai Indians squeezed their way into the second qualifying tournament to be played in Chennai, Bangalore Royal Challengers against on Friday. The winner of this clash will face Chennai Super Kings in the grand final on Saturday.

The competition has become even closer due to a combination of bad joke, bad umpiring and some serious sledding. E 'provided the last-over finish.

Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided it would be better to hunt. However, when the Knight Riders started, the Wankhede not seem so bad to beat the first team. The ball came to bat well, the weather cooled and Ryan ten Doeschate, the best batsman of the day, showed everyone the road.

However, suicide was the approach the Kolkata top-tier issues that made it difficult for them early on. Lasith Malinga compensated for what he had lost the previous match in Mumbai Indians' against Kolkata Knight Riders. On Wednesday night, has sparked all the firepower to come back once again with astonishing figures of 19 runs from four overs and one wicket. However, it was the way Munaf Patel, Harbhajan Singh and Dhawal Kulkarni, supported Malinga who made the Mumbai Indians attack is particularly dangerous.

Patel took three wickets in his four overs, particularly sending back the dangerous Jacques Kallis in the early stages of the innings with a brilliant catch at mid-off Tendulkar. The next over saw Harbhajan roar as loud as possible, castling Gambhir, as the batsman attempted a slog sweep clumsy.

Kulkarni has done his bit 'too much, eliminating Manoj Tiwary - the second highest scorer for Knight Rider this season - and that was when the visitors got in serious trouble. However, nothing of what they have done collectively could match the Knights were ready to throw away their doors. If it were not for the perseverance Doeschate, they might not have reached the 100 mark.

Doeschate and Malinga has the respect it deserved, but Pollard and Kulkarni suffered at the hands of the batter. The Netherlands has become the highlight of the evening for his line also for the way she has handled Harbhajan, who had come into his own.

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