Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors – Indian Premier League – 3rd Match Recap
Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 129/9 (20/20 ov) v Mumbai Indians 101/9 (20.0/20 ov) - Pune Warriors won by 28 runs
On Friday, April 06, Pune Warriors under the captaincy of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820.
On the other hand, this was Mumbai’s first loss after winning their opening match against defending champions Chennai Super Kings.
After winning the toss, Mumbai Indians chose to field first as they wanted to intimidate Pune’s batting line-up.
Playing in front of home crowd, the team made early inroads as they grabbed their first wicket without letting the batting side register a run on the board as Pune opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Manish-Pandey-c74183, departed without scoring on the penultimate delivery of the first over.
The batsman had his stumps obliterated by Mumbai’s ace strike bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540 and with one wicket down without a run on the board, Pune were put under pressure early on.
With just 15 runs on the board, tragedy struck the batting side as they lost the services of their skipper, who departed after scoring just three runs off six deliveries.
With Ganguly back in the pavilion, Pune were caught in deep trouble and heading towards a complete meltdown.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WD-Parnell-c2787, who had come in at number-three was then the next to walk off the field as he faltered after playing an innings of 11 runs off 14 deliveries. At the time of his fall, Pune had managed to post 27 runs.
With the top three batsmen back in the pavilion, Mumbai almost had their way with Pune, and it was now up to middle-order batsmen http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CJ-Ferguson-c1264 to forge some sort of resurgence.
However, just when things seemed heading in the right direction for Pune, they lost the wicket of Ferguson, who perished after scoring an innings of 12 runs.
Uthappa, was then joined by 22-year-old, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SPD-Smith-c2555, and together the batsmen hammered a comeback in the game.
Finally with 91 runs on the board, Mumbai managed to break the partnership as they dismissed Uthappa, who fell after clobbering a knock of 36 runs off 33 deliveries.
The wicket of Uthappa triggered another batting collapse as wickets started falling like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Berg-c1457.
Nonetheless, with all the wreckage of fallen batsmen around him, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598 crafted a remarkable innings of 39 runs off 32 deliveries to help his side amass a teasing total of 129 runs on the board.
Mumbai with their strong batting line-up seemed less intimidated by the total needed to win the match, but had no idea what was waiting for them as Pune pulled off a remarkable win by incinerating the batting line-up on a tally of 101 runs, allowing only three batsmen from Mumbai to score in double figures while the rest just were not up to speed.
Smith was named as the Player of the Match while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashok-Dinda-c1098 was the best bowler from them with four wickets to his name.
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