IPL-4 (22nd April): Mumbai beat Chennai by 8 runs

By Team Bellevision
Bellevision Media Network

Mumbai, 22 April 2011: The Mumbai Indians proved to be too good for the Chennai Super Kings, beating them by 8 runs at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium in match 25 of IPL-4 on Friday. Earlier, Rohit Sharma cracked a blistering 87 to help last year’s runners-up Mumbai Indians rally strongly and put up a challenging total of 164 for four. Rohit, who came to the crease at the fall of skipper Sachin Tendulkar in the fourth over, put on half century stands with Ambati Rayudu (27) and Andrew Symonds (31 not out) to help the home team recover from 13 for two at the Wankhede Stadium tonight.

 

He was finally out in the last over holing out to long on fielder Michael Hussey off Doug Bollinger. Thanks in large measure to Rohit, who hit five sixes and eight fours from 48 balls, and his partnerships of 61 with Rayudu and of 87 with Symonds, who hit two sixes and a four in 36 balls, Mumbai’s total assumed challenging proportions on a track offering some movement to the pace bowlers. Rohit’s knock came after Mumbai had lost both their openers Rajagopal Satish for a duck and in-form Tendulkar for nine.

 

For Chennai, Doug Bollinger grabbed two for 30. Albie Morkel at last found his touch with the ball and bowled a splendid four-over spell, including one maiden over, to take 1-19. Suraj Randiv got one for 31. Mumbai commenced their innings with a new partner for skipper Tendulkar, Rajagopal Satish replacing James Franklin who opened in the previous game against Pune Warriors. But the move did not click as Satish failed to get going and put pressure on his captain.

 

 

 

Facing the first over from Albie Morkel after his team was asked to take first strike, Satish failed to connect all the deliveries barring one which ended up as a near-catch to the point region and the opening over was a maiden. Tendulkar started promisingly with a superb back-foot cover-drive in the next over from left-arm Doug Bollinger who began with four wides with a short ball that bounced over Chennai captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

 

But Satish fell off the very first ball in Morkel’s second over, spooning a tame catch to short mid-wicket fielder Anirudha Srikkanth to leave the home team at eight for one. The big blow was reserved by Bollinger when he induced Tendulkar (five in eight balls) with a short ball that the champion batsman gloved in trying to pull and gave a dolly catch to slip fielder Michael Hussey to leave MI tottering at 13 for two in the fourth over.

 

Rohit Sharma, who had completed Mumbai’s victory over Pune two days ago with a six, began in splendid fashion by square driving Bollinger for two boundaries in the same over. The talented Mumbai batsman then flicked Morkel, who bowled four overs at a stretch for 20 runs and was able to extract appreciable movement off the pitch, for a four. Sharma slammed the first six of the contest by hoisting Joginder Sharma, playing in his first match of the season after replacing Shadab Jakati, over long on.

 

Mumbai, 41 for two after the power play six-over period, reached 50 in the eighth over. The introduction of R Ashwin for Morkel after the latter’s full quota got the desired result for the Super Kings by arresting the run-rate a bit. The home team’s third wicket pair completed their half century stand when Rohit square cut Suraj Randiv for another four after the Lankan offie was brought in for Joginder. After the 10th over, Mumbai were 67 for two.

 

 

 

Rayudu (27) departed in the 11th over after having added 61 runs with Rohit in 7.3 overs. Lured by Randiv, he gave the bowler the charge but was deceived by a straight ball and Dhoni made an easy stumping. He hit four fours in 29 balls. In the same over, Rohit edged the Lankan spinner for a four and then essayed a classy lofted cover-drive. Rohit later struck Randiv straight to the sight screen for his second six to bring up his 50 in 31 balls and the team’s 100 in the first ball of the 15th over.

 

At the end of the 15th over, Mumbai were 107 for 3. They added 57 runs in the last five overs. The 16th over bowled by Joginder proved very expensive for the visitors with Rohit hitting the medium pacer for two fours and Andrew Symonds, struggling to middle the ball, carted him over long on for a six. Sixteen runs came off it and the 50 of the fourth wicket stand too was raised in 29 balls.

 

Symonds later whacked Ashwin straight over the ropes for his second six and the Mumbai run-rate had perked up nicely with eleven more added in the 17th over and they were 135 for 3. Rohit even scored a scooped six off Bollinger in the 18th over. Sharma then went hammer and tongs against Suresh Raina by slamming the part timer for two sixes in the 19th over while the Chennai fielding too was put under pressure.

 

Match Summary

 

Indian Premier League 2011 Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, 25th match Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, April 22, 2011

Match Information Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) & Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Third Umpire: Suresh Shastri (Ind) Match Referee: Raju Mukherjee (Ind) Toss: Chennai Super Kings (Elected to field) Match Status: Mumbai Indians won by 8 runs

Batting: Chennai Super Kings Innings

Batsmen Chennai Super Kings (156/9 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Michael Hussey c K Pollard b L Malinga 41 33 6 0 124.24 Murali Vijay c R Sharma b M Patel 12 9 1 1 133.33 Suresh Raina c & b H Singh 5 4 1 0 125.00 Subramaniam Badrinath not out 71 48 7 2 147.92 MS Dhoni (c) (wk) c R Sharma b K Pollard 3 6 0 0 50.00 Srikkanth Anirudha c R Sathish b H Singh 9 9 0 1 100.00 Albie Morkel b H Singh 3 4 0 0 75.00 Ravichandran Ashwin c K Pollard b H Singh 0 2 0 0 0.00 Joginder Sharma c & b H Singh 0 1 0 0 0.00 Suraj Randiv c R Sathish b L Malinga 2 4 0 0 50.00 Doug Bollinger not out 0 1 0 0 0.00 Extras: b - 0, w - 8, nb - 1, lb - 1 10   Total:(156 for 9 in 20 overs) 156 Run Rate: 7.80

Fall Of Wickets

1/31 (Murali Vijay, 3.4 ov.), 2/38 (Suresh Raina, 4.5 ov.), 3/98 (Michael Hussey, 11.2 ov.), 4/101 (MS Dhoni, 12.2 ov.), 5/123 (Srikkanth Anirudha, 15.6 ov.), 6/136 (Albie Morkel, 17.2 ov.), 7/136 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 17.4 ov.), 8/137 (Joginder Sharma, 17.6 ov.), 9/140 (Suraj Randiv, 18.5 ov.)

Bowling: Mumbai Indians

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Munaf Patel 4 0 40 1 0 1 10.0 Lasith Malinga 4 0 20 2 0 3 5.0 Abu Nechim 2 0 19 0 0 1 9.5 Harbhajan Singh 4 0 18 5 0 1 4.5 Rohit Sharma 1 0 15 0 0 0 15.0 Kieron Pollard 4 0 30 1 1 2 7.5 Rajagopal Sathish 1 0 13 0 0 0 13.0

Batting: Mumbai Indians Innings

Batsmen Mumbai Indians (164/4 in 20 ovs) Runs Balls 4’s 6’s SR Rajagopal Sathish c S Anirudha b A Morkel 0 7 0 0 0.00 Sachin Tendulkar (c) c M Hussey b D Bollinger 5 8 1 0 62.50 Ambati Rayudu (wk) st M Dhoni b S Randiv 27 29 4 0 93.10 Rohit Sharma c M Hussey b D Bollinger 87 48 8 5 181.25 Andrew Symonds not out 31 26 1 2 119.23 Kieron Pollard not out 0 2 0 0 0.00 James Franklin             Harbhajan Singh             Abu Nechim             Lasith Malinga             Munaf Patel             Extras: b - 1, w - 12, nb - 0, lb - 1 14   Total:(164 for 4 in 20 overs) 164 Run Rate: 8.20

Fall Of Wickets

1/9 (Rajagopal Sathish, 2.1 ov.), 2/13 (Sachin Tendulkar, 3.4 ov.), 3/74 (Ambati Rayudu, 11.1 ov.), 4/161 (Rohit Sharma, 19.2 ov.)

Bowling: Chennai Super Kings

Bowler O M R W Nb Wd ER Albie Morkel 4 1 19 1 0 0 4.8 Doug Bollinger 4 0 30 2 0 2 7.5 Joginder Sharma 3 0 34 0 0 2 11.3 Ravichandran Ashwin 4 0 26 0 0 1 6.5 Suraj Randiv 3 0 31 1 0 3 10.3 Suresh Raina 2 0 22 0 0 0 11.0