Rajasthan Royals gift Shane Warne perfect farewell by crushing Mumbai Indians – 2nd innings
Rajasthan Royals (RR) gave their skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians (MI) in match-66 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) played at Wankhede Stadium.
MI lost the match by ten wickets and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Robert-Watson-c89688 was adjourned man of the match for his all-round performance.
MI batted first and posted a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Paul-Thorpe-c60622 133 runs on the board. MI bowlers were mere spectators in this match as Royals chased down the total in 13.1 overs with all wickets intact. Watson was a one man wrecking machine as he drilled 89 runs off 47 balls. Rahul
Dravid gave him full support by putting in 43 runs of 32 deliveries.
Requiring a mere 6.7 runs an over to win, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals started aggressively. Watson was on song from the first ball that he faced, fisting it away for a boundary. Munaf Patel’s opening over cost him eight runs.
India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 clobbered Harbhajan for two mighty sixes, one over long on and the other over mid-wicket.
The first couple of overs allowed the batsmen to dictate the terms of the match. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 was determined to give his mentor, Warne, a win in his final match.
MI skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Separamadu-Lasith-Malinga-c89197, in hopes of providing him with a breakthrough but it back fired as rampant Watson thumped 15 runs off his overs.
At the end of fielding restrictions, Royals were 52, with the Aussie all-rounder as the major share holder, scoring 45 of those runs. Warne’s men were well on course for an easy victory as the required run rate was below six with fourteen overs still to
play.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dhawal-Kulkarni-c1367 for two runs. It took him 30 deliveries to reach his half-century.
Dravid, who was the silent partner until then, also opened up a little bit after the 10th over. He smashed four boundaries in span of two overs, as the Royals edged closer to a victory. Dravid hit the winning runs as he dispatched a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 delivery
from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Edward-Charles-Franklin-c65626 over deep mid-wicket for a four.
The win did not do the Royals’s IPL campaign any good as they had already been knocked out but MI have to win the next game if they want to be sure of a place in play-offs.
Tags: