Tendulkar's return brings stability to the top order: Shaun Pollock - Cricket News Update
Mumbai Indians' coach, Shaun Pollock, said on Tuesday that the return of Master Blaster http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar has brought stability to their top-order batting.
Speaking to the media reporters on the eve of Mumbai’s crucial match against Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 batsman will play a great
knock in the return-leg fixture.
"No doubt Sachin brings with him a wealth of experience,” said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shaun-Maclean-Pollock-c89847 at the pre-match press conference in Mohali on Tuesday evening.
“He brings stability at the top. It's his birthday today and hopefully, we can expect a great knock from him tomorrow," he added further.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820’s seven outings so far this season with a finger injury he had sustained during the tournament's curtain raiser, earlier this month. In the IPLV opener against
defending champions Chennai Super Kings, Tendulkar was hit on right-hand by a rising delivery off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils.
In the absence of Tendulkar, the MI selectors tried out http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Richard-Levi-c2315, but both of them failed to impress.
The veteran batsman, who relinquished Mumbai Indians’ captaincy ahead of the fifth season, made a comeback to the side in Mumbai’s previous game against the same Punjab outfit, at home. Tendulkar scored 23 runs during the six-wicket loss to KXIP.
The 38-year-old former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 all-rounder said that history of Twenty20 cricket shows that the top four batsmen in any line-up take the onus of batting.
Mumbai Indians' bowling has also failed to click in the last couple of games. Their spearhead pacer, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540, is out of the contest with back spasms and Pollock said that the side missed his services in the previous match.
Pollock also expressed confidence in an out of form http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453, who has so far claimed only one wicket this season.
"He (Harbhajan) is a good bowler and his time will come. I am sure he will come into his own," said the South African.
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