Sachin Tendulkar asks Mumbai Indians to maintain consistency – IPL news
Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar has asked his teammates not to be over-confident after they thrashed Royal Challengers Bangalore convincingly by 9 wickets on Tuesday.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians continued their winning run in the Indian Premier League as it was their second consecutive triumph in the ongoing 2011 season.
Enormously delighted over his side’s successive wins in the competition, Tendulkar, who termed the victory as just the beginning, pushed his team to continue with the good work in the upcoming matches.
“We have had a good beginning and we have to maintain the consistency as there is still a long way to go,” Tendulkar said.
Chasing Challengers’ total of 140, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ambati-Rayudu-c1007 and Tendulkar put together an unbeaten partnership of 110 runs, which eventually steered the Indians to victory. Rayudu scored a fantastic unbeaten knock of 63 runs while the captain also chipped in with a
responsible innings of 55 runs. The star batsman praised Rayudu for his aggressive half-century, regarding his innings as ‘special stuff.’
Describing the strategy Mumbai Indians adopted against the Bangalore-based outfit, Tendulkar explained that the team had a plan of restricting opposition to 140. The master blaster showed his gladness that the team played according to the plan.
“When we started to bowl, we had hoped the target to be a maximum of 140. Malinga again provided us a great start. We also fielded well and it was another superb team effort. The idea was to bowl as straight as possible and we did just that,” the maestro
added.
The highest run scorer in both Test and One Day International cricket, Tendulkar has also been the most successful Mumbai Indians batsman. He has scored 1,170 runs in 35 IPL games so far.
The Mumbai-based side has already beaten the Virender Sehwag-led http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils by 8 wickets in their previous game and with two consecutive victories in the competition, the Indians are now leading the points table.
Tendulkar and company are scheduled to lock their horns with Kochi Tuskers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kerala-c803 at their home ground, Wankhede Stadium on Friday.
With a star studded line-up, the Mumbai Indians are being considered as one of the favourites of the Twenty20 competition.
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