Topic: IPL 2009 : Match Thread (Match 42) - MI v/s KXIP (Read 702 times)

cricket_news · « **on:** May 10, 2009, 04:00:30 PM »

Mumbai Indians beat Bangalore RC by 16 runs
10 May 2009, 2:10 pm

REUTERS - Mumbai Indians beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by 16 runs in their Indian Premier League match at St George's Park in Port Elizabeth on Sunday.

Scores: Mumbai Indians 157-2 (A. Rahane 62 not out, JP Duminy 59 not out), Bangalore Royal Challengers 141-7.

Source: Reuters: Cricket News

cricket_news · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2009, 06:00:43 AM »

Under-pressure teams look to sneak up
12 May 2009, 5:50 am

Match facts

May 12, 2009

Start time 16.30 (14.30 GMT, 20.15 IST)

Big Picture

Mumbai will wait on the fitness of Zaheer Khan, who missed the last two games. If he comes in, Dhawal Kulkarni may have to make way

© AFP

The scramble for the semi-final spots picks up pace with the Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians, ranked fifth and sixth respectively, taking on each other at Centurion. It's come down to a battle between seven teams, with Kolkata ruled out of the competition, which has entered the business end. Any slip ups here will effect their chances of qualifying.

For Mumbai, it's very essential they continue the momentum because they have a game each against Delhi and Chennai, the top two teams in the competition. They made refreshing progress with their batting in their previous game but they will have to summon up some consistency in their forthcoming games.

A victory for Punjab will push them up to No.4 but a defeat will see them slip one notch below. They too have tough opposition coming up so staying afloat will be a challenge. They still haven't figured out their strongest line-up, going by the number of changes in the batting. It's time though for the experimentation to end.

Form guide (completed matches, most recent first)

Kings XI Punjab - WLLWL

The relief was palpable in the Punjab camp after their stuttering victory against Deccan Chargers, after two successive defeats, but the composition of their top order is still a worry. In the last five games, they have tried out three different opening combinations and perhaps the only player likely to cement his position is Simon Katich. Karan Goel and Sunny Sohal have been inconsistent, while Kumar Sangakkara was also tried out, only to be pushed down. On the positive side, Mahela Jayawardene has returned to form after a very quiet start and the bowling wears a more settled look.

Mumbai Indians - WLLLW

Three successive defeats threatened to derail Mumbai's campaign but the tournament's underachievers overcame their batting woes to script a 16-run win against Royal Challengers Bangalore. They reworked their batting order, promoting Ajinkya Rahane and reinstating Sanath Jayasuriya to the top and lost only two wickets in the innings. The bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals and later strangled the runs.

Watch out for

JP Duminy: The third-highest run-getter in the IPL has scored the most half-centuries (4) in the tournament. His ability to finish off an innings in style came in handy in his team's last two victories.

Team news

Mumbai will wait on the fitness of Zaheer Khan, who missed the last two games. If he comes in, Dhawal Kulkarni may have to make way.

Mumbai Indians 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 JP Duminy, 5 Abhishek Nayar, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 9 Chetanya Nanda, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni/Zaheer Khan, 11 Lasith Malinga

Punjab may retain their winning line-up, but the one main worry is Sreesanth's inconsistency.

Kings XI Punjab (probable) 1 Sunny Sohal, 2 Simon Katich, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Wilkin Mota, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Sreesanth, 11 Ramesh Powar

Stats and trivia

Giving away extras may prove to be the Achilles heel for Punjab in the run-up to the last four. They have the dubious distinction of giving away 19 against Rajasthan in Durban, the highest in the tournament so far. They have also given away the third-highest number of freebies - 17 against Mumbai in Durban.

Mahela Jayawardene has not only been in supreme form with the bat, he needs two more catches to go level with Ab de Villiers of Delhi Daredevils for the most number of catches this season.

Punjab will be fretting over this statistic. Mumbai have the highest margin victory in terms of runs, when they thrashed Kolkata by 92 in Port Elizabeth, along with Chennai who had a similar margin of victory against Bangalore on the same ground.

Head-to-head record

In their first meeting in Durban, Yusuf Abdulla helped Punjab clinch a last-over thriller. Few would have given Punjab a chance after they managed just 119. Despite Duminy's composed fifty, Mumbai fell short by three runs. They played out a similar thriller in Mumbai last year, with Punjab winning by one run. Punjab, though won the first encounter by 66 runs.

Source: India news from Cricinfo

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2009, 09:34:26 AM »

BIG match. Go Mumbai!

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2009, 09:58:00 AM »

I am sure Punjab will win this...after all Mumbai too is looking down the barrel along with Naan's team.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2009, 10:16:14 AM »

I agree KXIP are favourites because of their awesome batting strength. With the average scores in the tournament now going up and more batting friendly wickets, that is a clear edge against our inconsistent batting line up. We have the edge on the bowling front, especially if Zak is back, but with Lee back in the fray that has narrowed down a bit.

We need a bit of luck going our way.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:24:24 PM »

Ok. So, BRC manages to stay alive in the competition. Can MI do the same? This match is HUGE for us.

12th_Man · « **Reply #6 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:32:41 PM »

Punjab to set the target. 175 is my prediction

Kings XI Punjab team
S Sohal, SM Katich, Yuvraj Singh, KC Sangakkara, IK Pathan, LA Pomersbach, B Lee, PP Chawla, K Goel, WA Mota, S Sreesanth

Mumbai Indians team
SR Tendulkar, ST Jayasuriya, JP Duminy, AM Nayar, DJ Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, AM Rahane, RR Raje, YV Takawale, DS Kulkarni, SL Malinga

12th_Man · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:34:47 PM »

Why would Punjab not play Mahela Jayawardene is a crucial game for them ?

12th_Man · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:45:48 PM »

Quote from: 12th_Man on May 12, 2009, 02:34:47 PM

Why would Punjab not play Mahela Jayawardene is a crucial game for them ?

16.35 It has been confirmed that Jayawardene is out of this game because of a hamstring injury he picked up in he previous match.

12th_Man · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:49:05 PM »

Malinga should be banned for this kind of action.
He has his trademark ball that can only be produced by his side arm action. the ball is released from wide side of the crease .

poondu · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:59:44 PM »

Takavale goal keeping for Mumbai today

poondu · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:03:43 PM »

IP - What an idiot? that was funny..

ruchir · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:04:07 PM »

The silly season of IPL has officially started.

gouravk · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:05:39 PM »

amazing start ! first that free hit and now this run out !

poondu · « **Reply #14 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:15:03 PM »

STUPID run out. Sohal was looking good..

gouravk · « **Reply #15 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:16:16 PM »

this game is exhilarating. silly combined with gorgeous.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #16 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:24:47 PM »

What a mini monster this Sohal is - good we got him out

gouravk · « **Reply #17 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:24:53 PM »

harbhajan bowling beautifully. kxip may regret dropping powar but even yuvi might be a handful on this later on.

poondu · « **Reply #18 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:29:59 PM »

bhajji cleans up sanga. Mumbai on top here

ruchir · « **Reply #19 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:30:15 PM »

Sanga goes..... 8 in 19 balls..... HS waves him off.

poondu · « **Reply #20 on:** May 12, 2009, 03:47:18 PM »

6 down, Yuvi gone . Mumbai going to win this easily..

ruchir · « **Reply #21 on:** May 12, 2009, 04:15:21 PM »

CI mis-representation --

15.6 Duminy to Lee, no run, another appeal for lbw as Lee is struck on the pad, he was on the backfoot but was hit in front of leg and the turn would have taken the ball down leg, good call from the umpire

----

Saw this live. CI commentator is either blind or watching a different game. Hawkeye showed the ball hitting middle stump

WicketView · « **Reply #22 on:** May 12, 2009, 04:17:04 PM »

The punjabi bowling to the 'punjabi'.

ramshorns · « **Reply #23 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:03:51 PM »

SRT in now.

Bravo doing good.

kingcool1432 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:10:11 PM »

SS gives away 20% of the target in 5% of the time

gouravk · « **Reply #25 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:14:31 PM »

to be fair hardly any of SSs balls were bad balls. its just some extraordinary batting from a supremely talented player

ramshorns · « **Reply #26 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:17:50 PM »

I missed that over from SS where he got hit for 20 runs.

Need to watch replay later!!!

WicketView · « **Reply #27 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:22:03 PM »

Will Yuvi risk bowling him again?

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #28 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:24:33 PM »

Quote from: gouravk on May 12, 2009, 05:14:31 PM

to be fair hardly any of SSs balls were bad balls. its just some extraordinary batting from a supremely talented player

sad days...............now even a Bravo becomes a supremely 'talented' player!

The Bravo of the confounded West Indies team..............which, like KKR are now masters of losing matches!

kingcool1432 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:30:07 PM »

Lee to Tendulkar, FOUR, whoah, Chinese cut (or French cut) for four, that was very close to offstump, Tendulkar was looking for a booming off-drive there

Chinese? French? Who comes up with these names

gouravk · « **Reply #30 on:** May 12, 2009, 05:34:39 PM »

Quote from: Blwe_torch on May 12, 2009, 05:24:33 PM

Quote from: gouravk on May 12, 2009, 05:14:31 PM
to be fair hardly any of SSs balls were bad balls. its just some extraordinary batting from a supremely talented player

sad days...............now even a Bravo becomes a supremely 'talented' player!
The Bravo of the confounded West Indies team..............which, like KKR are now masters of losing matches!

oh so you have departed back to your off-the rockers world

RicePlateReddy · « **Reply #31 on:** May 12, 2009, 06:21:10 PM »

Mumbai showed some stupidity in the last few overs. There was no doubt they would win and so they should have scored briskly to finish it off. NRR could matter hugely at the end, and why miss out (back of the envelope calculation indicates a 0.1 incremental NRR was possible).

gouravk · « **Reply #32 on:** May 12, 2009, 07:07:10 PM »

look at the rankings today.

1. dd
2. csk
3. dc
4. mi
5. rr
6. brc
7. kxip
8. kkr

the rankings i had predicted at the start of the tournament were

1. csk
2. dd
3. rr
4. mi
5. dc
6. brc
7. kkr
8. kxip

pretty cool dont you think ?
basically i predicted mi, brc right, dd and csk in the right spots modulo swap, same case with kxp and kkr and also with rr and dc (except that rr and dc were 2 spots away)

i know... i know .. i am pretty good

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #33 on:** May 13, 2009, 04:10:53 AM »

Quote from: ruchir on May 12, 2009, 04:15:21 PM

CI mis-representation --

15.6 Duminy to Lee, no run, another appeal for lbw as Lee is struck on the pad, he was on the backfoot but was hit in front of leg and the turn would have taken the ball down leg, good call from the umpire

----

Saw this live. CI commentator is either blind or watching a different game. Hawkeye showed the ball hitting middle stump

Yup this was plumb

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #34 on:** May 13, 2009, 04:13:32 AM »

Quote from: gouravk on May 12, 2009, 07:07:10 PM

look at the rankings today.

1. dd
2. csk
3. dc
4. mi
5. rr
6. brc
7. kxip
8. kkr

the rankings i had predicted at the start of the tournament were

1. csk
2. dd
3. rr
4. mi
5. dc
6. brc
7. kkr
8. kxip

pretty cool dont you think ?
basically i predicted mi, brc right, dd and csk in the right spots modulo swap, same case with kxp and kkr and also with rr and dc (except that rr and dc were 2 spots away)

i know... i know .. i am pretty good

Abey khatam nahi hua ...DC has a game in hand. Before the MI - KXIP match, we were in 7th place. So, lets wait and see.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #35 on:** May 13, 2009, 04:16:18 AM »

Once again our bolwers won us the game. I mean Bravo was brilliant and SRT played a good hand ...but they had all the time to get their eye in and wait for the weaker bowlers. It would have been interesting had we been chasing 140/150+

Meanwhile Hayden's comments on Sreesanth appear to be ringing truer with each game.

Blwe_torch · « **Reply #36 on:** May 13, 2009, 07:00:59 AM »

Quote from: keep-it-cool on May 13, 2009, 04:16:18 AM

Once again our bolwers won us the game. I mean Bravo was brilliant and SRT played a good hand ...but they had all the time to get their eye in and wait for the weaker bowlers. It would have been interesting had we been chasing 140/150+

Meanwhile Hayden's comments on Sreesanth appear to be ringing truer with each game.

Yeah, the Fathers of the Brisbane church are eagerly waiting for Hayden to arrive and transcend into eternal Saint-hood.

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