IPL5: Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab – Match Recap
Ambati Rayudu and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium, Mohali on Wednesday,
April 25, 2012.
Chasing a respectable total of 168, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla for three sixes and two fours in the 19th over, which went for 27.
Peterson struck two fours and a six off Chawla before rotating the strike with a single. Rayudu plundered two lofty sixes off the final two deliveries of Chawla’s penultimate over to leave the side needing five runs from the final over.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Mahmood-c1116 to finish off the match with four wickets and one ball to spare.
Earlier Kings XI Punjab’s stand-in captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJ-Hussey-c1380, won the toss and opted to bat first. But the KXIP top order failed to back Hussey’s decision to bat as the hosts could post only 79 runs on the board from 13 overs, at the cost of three wickets. Mandeep
Singh became the first scalp of the day after he nicked http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CJ-McKay-c1265. The wicketkeeper batsman faced
22 balls to score 17 runs.
Once http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lawson-Miller-c53037 took the responsibility and upped the score. The belligerent duo
shared an 89-run fourth-wicket partnership, which came in only 43 balls. In the last 30 balls, Punjab added 68 runs with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Miller-c76318 scoring 34 runs in just 17 deliveries to take the side to a competitive total of 168 for 3. Hussey returned unbeaten on a 40-ball
68, laced with four lofty sixes and an equal number of fours.
Harbhajan Singh and Munaf Patel proved costly, as did overseas pace bowler Kieron Pollard, all conceding runs at economy rates of over nine.
In reply, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 and James Franklin provided the Mumbai Indians a solid start with a half century opening stand, before Franklin holed out in the eighth over, having edged Azhar Mahmood to Saini. Mahmood struck back the next over to remove Tendulkar,
leaving the tourists 59 for 2. The sedate opening stand was followed by two quick wickets of Dinesh Karthik and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ambati-Rayudu-c1007 and
Robin Peterson kept their nerves and plundered 34 runs off the final two overs to snatch victory for Mumbai Indians.
Parvinder Awana claimed three wickets while Azhar Mahmood returned with 2 for 23 in a spell of 3.5 overs.
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