Mumbai Indians v Kolkata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Knight-c71599 Riders - Match Recap
In another do or die match at the Wankhede Stadium, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 crowd witnessed a thrilling game which was won by the home side, against the flamboyant Kolkata Knight Riders.
After giving some phenomenal performances, luck finally ran out for the Shahrukh http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 owned Knight Riders, as they failed to defend a formidable total of 147 runs against the mighty Mumbai Indians.
After winning the toss, the Mumbai skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sachin-Ramesh-Tendulkar-c87800, chose to field, giving Gautam Gambhir’s Knight Riders an opportunity to post a total on the board.
However, the Knight Riders suffered an early blow when in the second over, opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar.
Wicketkeeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shreevats-Goswami-c2518, was to come in next, but before he could add a run to the tally, the skipper Gambhir lost his wicker.
Gambhir was clean bowled on a superb delivery by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453. The KKR skipper could only play a meagre innings of four runs off eight deliveries.
On the second delivery of the very next over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mayank-Goswami-c75433 was caught behind on nil after edging a delivery straight in to the hands of the Mumbai wicketkeeper. This was the worst possible opening Gautam could imagine as the KKR seemed heading towards doom.
In the 6th over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dhawal-Kulkarni-c1367.
Horror struck the KKR benches as disappointment was evident on the players’ faces.
It was then that the heroics of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shakib-Al-Hasan-c89559 (26) saved grace for KKR and helped in posting a total respectable enough to give their bowlers a fighting chance.
Coming out to bat second, the batting maestro Tendulkar knew that Kolkata had the bowling fire power to successfully defend this total, hence he focused on charging early on.
Tendulkar along with fellow opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aiden-Blizzard-c958, smacked the Kolkata bowlers with ease. The two gave an 81 run opening stand to their team which was enough for the late-order batsmen to take full advantage of.
The partnership was broken by speedster Bret Lee when Blizzard smacked a bolting delivery from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Iqbal-Abdulla-c1596 at deep point.
Blizzard played a fine innings of 51 runs which included seven boundaries and two sixes.
In the next over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Rohit-Sharma-c80557 was run out on nil which caused panic within the ranks of the Mumbai Indians. However, for as long as Sachin was on the crease, Mumbai fans knew the match wasn’t going anywhere.
In the 11th over, Kallis removed Sachin with a short-pitched delivery as the batsman gave a top edge straight at backward point, where Tiwary pouched it safely. Sachin scored 36 off 28 deliveries.
With some mild hiccups later in the innings, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Edward-Charles-Franklin-c65626 (29 not out) and Harbhajan Singh (11 not out) finally took their side beyond the required tally to book a game in the second qualifying final against Bangalore, set to take place on May 27, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 was named the man of the match for taking three wickets in four overs, conceding 27 runs.
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