3129dThe Report by Arun Venugopal

All-round Mumbai continue to surge

Mumbai Indians alternated between brilliance and brain-freeze, and despite inexplicably fiddling with their batting order again, trumped Delhi Daredevils by five wickets and three balls to spare

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh
57(44) 7x4 - 2x6
Control %81%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 18 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
8 2 3 13 13 8 1 9
AT Rayudu
AT Rayudu
49(40) 4x4 - 1x6
Control %87%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 17 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
6 0 1 6 5 12 12 7

Best performances - Bowlers

Harbhajan Singh
O4
M1
R11
W2
Eco2.75
RHB
OFFLEG
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
NM Coulter-Nile
NM Coulter-Nile
O4
M1
R30
W2
Eco7.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

That is that, fellas. Many thanks for tuning in. We will be looking forward to your company tomorrow as well. Until then, this is Deivarayan Muthu slithering into the darkness.

Harbhajan Singh, Man of the Match: Especially in the Wankhede you have to slow it up. I am just trying to use my experience and take the chances whatever I can do to the best of my ability. Yuvraj and me have been playing since Under-12 days. I was looking to drag him into a big drive. I need to score a few more runs to count myself as a allrounder. I played a bad shot and I should have given myself some ten balls. I was playing too many shots. Next time, I will do better.

Rohit Sharma: Actually, we kept it very simple and we wanted to concentrate on the process. We want to take every game at a time. We just want to concentrate on what we can do to win the game. Eventually, getting the two points was important. To be honest, it [thundershowers] is quite unusual at this time of the year. I had a piece of paper to see where we stood at that point. We lost four wickets upfront and we had a very good partnership and Polly finished it in the end. Harbhajan was turning the ball to the left-handed batsman and that was the plan. To give away only 11 runs and take two wickets was magical. We should keep moving forward.

JP Duminy: The ball was not that wet. We picked early wickets but they set the game up for Pollard. We did not hit the yorkers as well as we would have liked. There is still four games to go. We have to keep our heads up and keep focussing on the next game. I thought Yuvraj played well and that's a big positive for us. There is still a long way to go. 170-175 would have been par but to take it to the last over with that score was a good effort."

12:25am: Pollard pumps his first and so does Rayudu. Rohit Sharma is pumped in the Mumbai dug out and the Wankhede crowd roars. Good camaraderie as the players exchange handshakes.

Mumbai's chase wobbled either side of the rain break and were behind the Duckworth-Lewis par score but Rayudu combined well with Rohit in a measured 60-run stand setting it up for Pollard, who struck some lusty blows to push the hosts into the top half of the table.

Maulik: "Very well composed innings from Ambati.. !! "

chandujonty: "MI 4th win in a row.jumps to 4 place in the points table.Just like the last season."

Raj: "Everyone talking about Pollard winning it for them, but in that last wicket partnership, Rayadu scored equal amount of runs at a faster pace than Pollard!!! Nice setup earlier and a flourish at the end by Ambati...

Mithun Chakrav: "MI was on bottom of table after their 5 matches, but after 10 matches, they are 4th in table. MI peaking at right time. Hope they make into play off"

19.3
1
Imran Tahir to Pollard, 1 run, Fourth win on the trot for Mumbai Indians.They continue their surge and jump to No.4. Shortish googly, spins in, dabbed behind point with soft hands after backing away
19.2
6
Imran Tahir to Pollard, SIX, Pollard has nailed this! Absolutely nailed this. Pushed through on the leg stump, swung flat and hard over long-on. Beats Coulter-Nile in the deep

chandujonty: "That's 250 runs for Pollard in this IPL.just 2nd MI batsmen after Rohit 343 runs."

19.1
1
Imran Tahir to Rayudu, 1 run, length on middle, nips down the track and swipes to deep midwickey

And it has boiled down to 8 off the last over. Tahir will bowl the final over.

END OF OVER:
19 | 14 Runs | MI: 145/5 (8 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.63, RRR: 8.00)

  • Kieron Pollard19 (12b)
  • Ambati Rayudu48 (39b)
  • Nathan Coulter-Nile4-1-30-2
  • Angelo Mathews4-0-33-1
18.6
2
Coulter-Nile to Pollard, 2 runs, length on the leg stump as Pollard makes some room and swats it wide of deep square leg. They push for two and get it. Coulter-Nile vents his frustration out and smashes the stumps at his end

Zaheer wants fine leg to come in. JPD says no.

Round the stumps.

18.5
1
Coulter-Nile to Rayudu, 1 run, fullish and on off, he backs away and carves it in the air, the lands lands in front of sweeper cover
18.4
4
Coulter-Nile to Rayudu, FOUR, shot! Pitched up and width on offer as well. Rayudu takes full of it as he deliberately slices it through backward point

Failed Promotion

11

Harbhajan Singh's average when batting in the top-7 int he IPL (36 inns), the lowest for any top-7 batsman (min. 25 inns)

Thrifty

16

Dot balls bowled by Harbhajan Singh today, the second-most this IPL after Mitchell Johnson (17 v Mumbai)

Up up and away

201

Number of sixes hit by Yuvraj Singh in T20 cricket. He is the third Indian and 12th player overall to hit 200+ sixes.

The 2000 Club

22

Number of batsmen who have scored 2000+ runs in the IPL - Yuvraj Singh is the 22nd.

Rare Promotion

1

Previous instance where Kedar Jadhav has batted at No. 4 or higher for Delhi in the IPL. He batted at No. 4 against Punjab in 2014.

Failing up Top

4

Scores of 0 or 1 for Mayank Agarwal this IPL. 4 other openers have suffered this fate in an IPL season - Bisla, Sehwag, Gambhir and Gibbs.