Mumbai Indians won their second match last night after loosing back to back five matches. The Mumbai Indians paltan won the match by 8 wickets beating Chennai Super Kings for the second time.
The match was held at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune. Before the match started, the skipper of Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat first.
Chennai Super Kings gave the target of 169 runs to Mumbai Indians after playing a stunning first innings.
In the first innings, Ambatti Rayudu and Suresh Raina gave stunning performances and stretched the scores to 169 runs. Ambatti Rayudu gave another thrilling performance and scored 46 runs in 35 balls, hitting 2 fours and 4 sixes before he was sent back to pavilion by Krunal Pandya’s stunning deliver which ended up as a catch in the hands of Ben Cuttling.
On the other hand, Suresh Raina scored 75 runs in 45 balls and stole all the limelight by his performance. He smashed 6 fours and 4 sixes.
In the second innings, hit-man, Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten at the score of 56 runs in 33 balls,remained unbeaten at the score of 56 runs in 33 balls.
Apart from him, the Suryakumar Yadav scored 44 runs in 34 balls, Evin Lewis who scored 47 runs in 43 balls and Hardik Pandya scored 13 runs in 8 balls.
Mumbai Indians won the match by 8 wickets. It was a great and much needed win for the team.
After the match, the skipper of the MI team, Rohit Sharma who was also given the Man of the match title said:
“Very much alive. Wanted this win desperately. In desperation, we didn’t want to take decision that won’t go well. Wanted to stay calm. We’ve played good cricket. But that finishing touch wasn’t happening. Today we batted well, bowled well, fielded well.
If I look back at it, except the Sunrisers game where we batted poorly. Rest of the game we put on 190-plus. It was just about going in with calm heads. This game will give confidence going forward. That was very critical (the bowlers’ comeback).
For me as a captain it was important to understand what will be the right combination. We still have a positive atmosphere going forward. Tough leaving out Pollard. He’s done so many good things for us. He took it upon him.
Going forward, don’t want to dismiss him completely. He’ll still be our match winner. Not dismissing any players going forward. Will be surprises going forward as well. It was the match situation (promotion to No.3).
Wanted to get that right-left combination going. They’ve got an off-spinner, left-arm spinner and leg-spinner so we wanted to keep them guessing.”
The skipper of Chennai Super Kings, MS Dhoni said :
“I think it is important to realize what went wrong. And in the league stage, you will lose. A lot of times we have seen individuals winning it for us. This was one game where we were short by 10-15 runs. Mumbai Indians bowled really well in the middle overs.
The wicket had some balls coming on to you very quickly. Playing the cross batted shots was not easy. Choice of deliveries can improve from our bowlers. Overall, we would have liked to add 20-25 runs more. A loss makes you humble.
It tests the other batsmen and bowlers. Also, if you keep winning you don’t know what area you need to work on. It was a good game for us. We have won quite a few games. We now have time to analyze what needs to be done.
Overall, it was a tight game and ended in the last over. You should not lose in the 14th or the 15th over, because that will affect the run-rate.”
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