http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians lift the 2013 Indian Premier League – Cricket News
On Sunday, the Mumbai Indians finally grabbed the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy by winning the finale against the favourites, Chennai Super Kings, by 23 runs at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Chennai’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754 helped this side put enough runs on the board worth fighting for. He
was also named as the Player of the Match for his heroics.
A target of 149 in 20 overs should have easily been chased by Chennai with their mighty batting line-up, however, this was not their day as most of the batsmen failed to give their opposition a tough time, with skipper Mahendra
Singh Dhoni as the only batsman who showed some character by playing an unbeaten knock of 63 runs.
After winning the toss, Mumbai Indians chose to bat first but received an early blow by losing their first wicket with only four runs on the board as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DR-Smith-c1401 perished with only four runs to his name.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aditya-Tare-c932 for nil, leaving Mumbai two down with only eight on the board.
With the openers back in the pavilion, the middle-order needed to halt the bowling onslaught. The partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309 led the side towards 16 runs before the latter became the next batsman to find
his way off the field as he was dismissed by Morkel.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ambati-Rayudu-c1007 then brought some stability in the middle as the two batsmen hammered the bowlers and took the score to 52, before the former became the next casualty, losing his wicket to Chris Morris after scoring 21
runs off 26 deliveries.
Rayudu and Pollard then crafted another important partnership as they took the score to 100 runs. This partnership was broken by Bravo, who shattered the stumps of Rayudu for 37. The bowler then ripped through the defences of the
lower-order to wrap up the Mumbai innings.
Chennai then had a terrible start to their run chase as they lost three wickets with only three runs on the board. Then the fourth wicket fell with only 35 runs on the board when Bravo was dismissed by Rishi Dhawan with 15 runs
to his name.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238 was a disappointment as he failed to open his account before losing his wicket to Harbhajan Singh.
This run chase was over for Chennai the moment they came out to bat and eventually could score only 125 runs for the loss of nine wickets in their 20 overs.
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