Teamwork accelerating the momentum of Mumbai Indians in IPL: Kieron Pollard
The Mumbai Indians’ hard-hitter, Kieron Pollard claimed that their victory against Kings XI Punjab in the 40th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on 2 May, 2011, was a result of teamwork.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indian skipper, Sachin Tendulkar, is performing consistently in this IPL season. He provided his team with a winning start fueled by his 51 off 45 balls after winning the toss at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ambati-Rayudu-c1007 also contributed 51 runs from 37 balls. On the bowling side, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga and Munaf Patel dismissed two Kings’ players each.
The Mumbai team scored 159 in 20 overs. The strong Mumbai attack with the likes of Malinga and Patel restricted http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 to 136 for 8 wickets in 20 overs.
While talking to media Pollard said, "To be honest, I have been fantastic, we are not watching Sachin but we are all the other guys, their scores have been fantastic. It's a team effort, you know, not every day you get an opportunity to do something at this twenty-20 cricket, it just shows our hard intense sources... particularly you actually carry opportunity.”
"So, it's just me trying to keep my focus and continue doing my work and whenever the opportunity arises try to capitalise on it," added Pollard.
The Mumbai Indians are considered as the favourites of this IPL edition.
The Kings XI skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918, stated, "We had our chances in the game that we have played. Particularly today our bowlers did a good job to restrict them to that total. We fell only 20 short. So, it was pretty close.”
Gilchrist also claimed that his team is not working well on the field in last two games.
The 23-year old the Caribbean player, Pollard, has played 96 domestic Twenty20 matches and scored 1690 runs. With the ball, he has 92 wickets to his name.
Pollard has played 22 IPL matches and dismissed 20 players at an average of 22.85.
In his last IPL match, against the Kings XI Punjab, Pollard contributed with 20 off 11 and took one wicket as well.
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