Pune Warriors v Mumbai Indians - IPL 5 - Mumbai secure an unpredictable win - Live Score and Update
Mumbai Indians 120/9 (20/20 ov) v Pune Warriors 119/6 (20.0/20 ov) - Mumbai Indians won by 1 run
Thursday witnessed perhaps this season’s most tenacious encounter between Mumbai Indians and Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 Sahara Stadium, Pune.
The contest was a combination of harsh tides and calm seas as when one team imposed its superiority, the other was sure to bounce back.
The skipper of the triumphant side, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453 in his post-match speech said, “The pitch was slow, low and it was difficult to play your strokes. We did not expect the pitch to play this way, bowlers would love to bowl here. Our bowlers did a great job. You got to be active and move fielders around in such situations, I can get a job as a traffic policeman with my kind of hand movement.”
Pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540, from Mumbai took home the Player of the Match award by knocking out two Pune wickets and containing runs when the bowling side was defending a meagre tally of 120.
After this disastrous show, experts believe it is time for Pune Warriors' skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746 to hang his boots once and for all and let Pune be led by a fresher mind.
Earlier, after getting off to a sensational start, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 lost their way and failed to post a stinging total on the board, leaving little hope for them to avoid an imminent defeat.
However, Pune, who should have chased down the required target in a jiffy, were equally disappointing in the batting department as they kept losing wickets at almost regular interval.
Opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JD-Ryder-c1679 was unimpressive yet again as he failed to play a big innings and departed after scoring just nine runs.
However, the turning point was surely the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 (14) and Ganguly (16) because had the two stayed on the wicket and played a mature innings, the total was easy enough to be chased down.
However, with the main batsmen already back in the pavilion before half of the job was done, Mumbai had every chance to humiliate the home side and that is exactly what eventually happened as the low scoring match ended in a thriller when Pune fell just one runs short of victory and even the unbeaten innings of 42 runs by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mithun-Manhas-c76414 was not enough to take the side across the finish line.
With this loss, Warriors are still at eighth place in the competition after playing eleven games, while Mumbai managed to consolidate their third spot on the points table.
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