Story Indian Premier League[C07]-Mumbai vs Bangalore - Who won??

[SciD]

Well cant decide as both teams are not full off star power.

 

[surendar]

Well cant decide as both teams are not full off star power.

Still, Mumbai seem to be favorites since they have great big hitters and class spinners Lets see..

 

[freddiw]

my bad thought i had given team ages age

sorry shan and others

 

[iloveireland]

DAMN WE LOST!! (been away a while)

 

[Highlander999]

Congrats on SOTM btw

 

[shantanu_rooney]

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Sachin Tendulkar the Mumbai skipper had won the toss and decided to bat first on a real good batting pitch .

Mumbai Indians : Chris Gayle , Sachin Tendulkar(c) , Scott Styris , Shahid Afridi , Marlon Samuels , Owais Shah , Mark Boucher(wk) , Daniel vettori , James Anderson , Sreesanth , Muttaih Muralitharan

Bangalore Royal Challnegers : Herschelle Gibbs , Stephen Fleming , Rahul Dravid(c) , Jacques Kallis , Mahela jayawardena , Ian Bell , Dinesh Karthik(wk) , Harbhajan Singh , Stuart Clark , Nathan Bracken , Matthew Hoggard .

The Mumbai Indians started the game on a high , Gayle attacked the bowlers and scored a lot of the run in the powerplay overs . While Tendulkar just took the singles here and there . Mumbai Indians scored 72 runs of the first 8 overs . Gayle scored his first half century of the tournament before he was bowled by Harbhajan Singh . Sachin soon was bowled by Bracken and Mumbai were 81/2 . Styris was run out for 0 and Mumbai has lost 3 top batsmen for 97 . Afridi didnt last long as he was bowled by Bhajji while going for a slog sweep . Bhajji soon got the wicket of Samuels as he was tricked by the doosra . Kallis and Jayawardena were handy 5th and 6th as the two wrap the last 5 wickets by giving 36 runs . Kallis got wickets of Shah for 29 , Vettori for 11 and Sreesanth for 0 while Jayawardena got wickets of Boucher for 8 and Anderson for 11 . At the end Mumbai must be dissapointed by just 174 runs on the board after they had a great start . They didnt make enough of the start . Bangalore bowlers were discipline as they gave just 1 extra .

175 in T20 cricket is not at all difficult . Gibbs got to a great start but was run out and departed for 21 . Fleming and Dravid tried to put a partnership and stabilize the innings but Fleming was caught by Gayle at cover and Anderson got his first wicket . Rahul Dravid showed was he is called the wall as he stayed at the crease when the wickets were falling on the othersie . Kallis was caught by skipper Tendulkar at third man of Vettori , Jayawardena was bowled by Vettori of the first ball and Bell was caught by Samuels again giving Vettori his third . By that time Dravid had completed his half century and was getting closer to a hundred but he was run out when he tried to go for a quick single and Bangalore were 141/6 . But after that Harbhajan Singh and Dinesh Karthik played with cool head and rotated the strike very well . Harbhajan played some shots which helped the Royal Challengers too score some quick runs and the 34 runs partnership helped Bangalore win their first match of the season quite easily .Bangalore won by 4 wickets .

Harbhajan Singh was given the Man of the Match for his allround performance .
H.Singh - 3pts
R.Dravid - 2pts
C.Gayle - 1pt

 

[m_vaughan]

Comfortable win for the RCs there. Muttiah was spanked by the looks of it, while Jimmy and Vettori bowled well for the Indians.

 

[formula1man]

important knock there by Dravid

 

[saladguy]

That was a good win for BRC!

 

[Cricketman]

KKD :cool:

Good win for B'lore.

 

[shravi]

YES! Great win for Bangalore! Suck on that, doubters!

 

[SciD]

YES! Great win for Bangalore! Suck on that, doubters!

We will see you.

 

[surendar]

That Dravid innings was completely a different one from his real IPL display Tough game for Mumbai.. Keep up the good works

 

[Cricketman]

Dravid batted beautifully in the IPL.

 

[Highlander999]

Gibbs was obviusly confused and thought it was a 50 over game Great knock by Dravid so pretty unrealistic

Good work mate