Mumbai Indians subdue Deccan Chargers by five wickets - Cricket News Roundup – Part 1 – April 10, 2012
On Monday, in the ninth match of the current season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Mumbai Indians embarrassed Deccan Chargers after winning the fixture by five wickets at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
Chargers while batting first, hammered a sensible tally of 138 runs, with opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Christian-c1308 smashing resilient knocks of 41 and 39.
However, they were in for a surprise as player of the match, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309, fancied a stupendous knock of 73 runs to lead his side to a clinical win.
With two wins in three matches, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians are now at third place in the points table.
In the first Test against West Indies, Australia on Monday, trail by 201 runs with five wickets in hand at stumps on the third day at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.
After being hammered for 449 runs, Australia’s captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 from gaining an upper hand on day-three.
At stumps, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Wade-c1933 on 19 as the side posted 248 runs.
England team director http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 and believes he is the best man to lead England in the longest format of the game.
Rubbishing the cruel treatment by the press towards Strauss, who failed to impress as a player in recent months, when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and then faced defeat in the first Test against Sri Lanka, Flower said, “Of course we were aware of what was happening around us in the press, we're aware of that. But he's a strong man and is obviously a very confident and secure bloke and he's been focusing on scoring runs and leading the team well.”
Later, the coach praised his side for ending the winters on a high, after they came back from a position where they could have lost their number-one status in Test cricket had they lost the second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
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