Playing Chennai is always good, says Harbhajan Singh – Cricket News Update
Mumbai Indians skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453 on Saturday hailed his players' performance against Chennai Super Kings in a Group B Champions League T20 encounter here in Cape Town, despite losing the thriller by six runs.
After being put into bat, MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings got off to a blistering start, reaching 86 without loss in 8 overs. But http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540 led Mumbai attack did well in the second half of Chennai’s innings to restrict the 2010 CLT20 champs to 173 for 8 at the end of their stipulated twenty overs.
In reply, the defending champions started the chase in a shaky style, losing openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 to 167 for 7 in their quota of 20 overs.
Despite losing the match, Bhajji said he was proud of his players for putting up such a good fight in the dead-rubber.
“Proud of the boys. Whenever we play CSK it's always a good game,” said the Mumbai Indians skipper at the post-match presentation ceremony after the narrow six-run defeat at the hands of Super Kings.
“We bowled well after the first ten overs...Treat to watch Pollard and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kommu-Karthik-c71642. Great fight shown,” the right-arm off-spinner added further.
Bhajji’s CSK counterpart, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, reckoned his side was 15 odd runs short of a par total, but was happy with the way his bowlers defended it.
“It’s important to guide Jadeja. Matches like these really groom a cricketer. Hilfenhaus was right on the money. We took the gamble of giving the later overs to the spinners,” said the Ranchi wicketkeeper batsman, who scored valuable 35 runs off just 19 balls. “We could have got another 15 runs. 170 plus two runs makes difference,” he added further.
Chennai’s Australian import, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BW-Hilfenhaus-c1204 was named as the Man of the Match for his impressive figures of two for 14 in 4 overs.
“After watching the way their seamers finished off the innings it gave us an idea of where to bowl. Variable bounce tonight. It's quite hard to defend on this ground,” said the Aussie paceman after the match.
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