full-toss, flicked away and it goes straight to deep mid-wicket and they get only a couple of runs, Mumbai Indians have won by a solitary run.
MI vs Warriors, 45th match at Pune, IPL, May 03 2012 - Ball by Ball Commentary
A low-scoring thriller and that sends Pune to a fourth successive loss, and Mumbai to their second win in a row and consolidates their third spot on the table.
It wasn't a difficult total to chase down, but Mumbai Indians bowled well and the loss of regular wickets pegged Pune back. Questions will be asked off that Ganguly innings obviously, but hats off to the way Mithun Manhas batted. Harbhajan and Malinga got a couple of wickets each.
Here are a couple of feedbacks, Sandeep: "That's what I like about Munaf. There is something to cheer about always."
Bhargav is one of the many who says, "Time for Ganguly to leave the captaincy to Clarke and retire from Cricket altogether. Clarke would be wondering: what have I done to take ruins from everyone? 121 needed off 20 overs and you can't lead from the front and win it?"
To be fair, this was a slow pitch and most batsmen struggled here.
Dinesh Karthik accepts, it was a two-paced wicket and scoring was always going to be difficult.
Sourav Ganguly: Yes, we should have got to 120, was not an easy wicket, the ball did not come on to the bat. We lost a few wickets early, when I got out was the turning point of the game.
Harbhajan Singh: As he mentioned, the pitch was slow, low and it was difficult to play your strokes. We did not expect the pitch to play this way, bowlers would love to bowl here. Our bowlers did a great job. You got to be active and move fielders around in such situations, I can get a job as a traffic policeman with my kind of hand movement.
Lasith Malinga wins the man of the match: I am used to pressure, whatever I do during the training session, I try to apply it on the field. I know my field and I bowl accordingly.
That is it from me too then, I will be back tomorrow with the game between the Chennai Super Kings and Deccan Chargers. Hope you had a good time following the commentary!
Some discussion here, on expected lines. Munaf still has a smile on his face. Long-off is in place. Now, mid-off is up in the circle. No, the mid-off goes back.
shot, shot, shot, four, inside out, through wide long-off and that brings the equation down to four from one. Slower one too and played really well.
cut away, slower one outside the off stump, and it goes on the bounce to deep point. Only a single. Two boundaries needed here.
pitched up yet again from Munaf and BK drives it through the covers for a single
pitched up and drilled to long-off, but only for a single
slow as slow can get from a pace bowler, and that was wide outside the off-stump, Manhas however had gone too close to it and still called a wide.
goes down the pitch, wanted to cut it away, misses and that makes the equation tougher.
The last over of the innings. If I were a TV commentator I would have said all results are possible here. But I am not. Munaf Patel will bowl this one.
yorker, as a typical yorker should be, and that is dug out well by Manhas, single to point. 12 needed off six.
down the leg side, slower, flicked away and it spoons up, but well short of the short fine-leg, a single for Kumar.
well bowled, surprised the batsman with the lack of pace and shortening of length, it kept low too, to be fair to the batsman, missed by him
yorker length, into the block-hole and Kumar is able to get some bat on it, whipped away to the leg side and they are off for a couple of runs. Crucial.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is at eight. He bowled well in his spell, can he bat too?
gone, out, caught! Outside the off-stump, tries to cut it away, hits the bottom of the bat and it loops it up for the point fielder to take a simple catch. Two dots here.
pitched full, outside the off-stump and he tries to go for the cut, fails to get any bat on it, and not called a wide.
16 off 12 with Malinga to bowl
down the track and smashed back, the bowler does not get a hand to it and for at least the second time this tournament, Asad Rauf is on the ground!
pitched up, reverse sweep attempted, but goes to the fielder at short fine-leg
down the leg side and he attempts a sweep, misses and its a wide
cut away, from outside the leg-stump, this man loves to play this stroke and I am speaking of the biggest understatement of the evening.
on his pads, down the leg side, pitched right up to the bat, and tapped it away to the leg side for a single
down the leg-side, shorter, tries to paddle it and goes straight to the fielder at short fine-leg, Tendulkar fields there.
edged and four! Manhas is playing those cuts rather well, and although this one was an outside edge, it goes in the gap, slips and four!
That was a bit of a mixed bag from Malinga, a four, couple of wides and a wicket. 27 from three overs is still achievable.
Over 20 • PWI 119/6
MI won by 1 run