Mumbai Indians vs. Bangalore Royal Challengers: Indians restrict Challengers to 140 – IPL news
Royal Challengers Bangalore have made a competitive total of 140 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the first innings against Mumbai Indians in an important fixture of the Indian Premier League.
The Royal Challengers would be disappointed with their effort as they lost just four wickets but never got enough momentum in their innings needed to post a bigger total on the board.
Sachin Tendulkar won the toss for the Indians and opted to bowl first on a flat track. Mumbai have a strong batting line-up and that is why they feel comfortable chasing.
Tendulkar’s decision to invite the Royal Challengers to bat first turned out to be a good one as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mayank-Agarwal-c1937 was dismissed off the very first ball of the innings.
Tillakaratne Dilshan played a very different innings, completely opposite to his aggressive nature. Dilshan and the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 accumulated 91 runs for the third wicket but they failed to up the run rate at any point in the
game. As a result, the Royal Challengers managed only 140 runs in their allotted 20 overs.
The Sri Lankan flamboyant opener remained the top scorer for Bangalore as he scored 59 runs off 52 balls with the help of 4 boundaries and a couple of massive hits out of the park. De Villiers on the other hand made 38 runs off 36 balls in which he struck
3 fours and a 1 six.
Lasith Malinga and Kieron Pollard picked up a couple of wickets each for the Indians. Munaf Patel, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ali-Murtaza-c997 and Harbhajan Singh could not pick up any wicket but all of them bowled economically to help their team’s cause.
Mumbai have a very strong batting line-up and they should be able to chase down the total without much of a trouble.
However, the Royal Challengers have some brilliant bowlers in their line-up in the shape of Zaheer Khan, Dirk Nannes and their captain Daniel Vettori but they have a huge task of dismantling http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820.
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