Mumbai Indians beat Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs in the final of Champions League T20 at Ferozeshah Kotla, Delhi on 6th Oct. Mumbai just out played Royals in the final. Yes there were moments for Royals but they failed to capitalize these moments.
On the toss, Royal's after winning it, chosen to bowl first. The decision by Royals was bit obvious because they prefer to chase the target rather than batting first and set target for opponents and they did the same in many occasions.
Mumbai were slow to start and their score after first six overs was 46/1. Only wicket they lost in the power-plays was Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulkar's wicket. he scored 15 off 13 balls. Mumbai Indian was really started off from 13th over in which they scored 16 runs and before that their score were 82/2.
In the last 8 overs they had scored 120 runs with help of Glenn Maxwell's later Breakneck batting . He scored 37 in just 14 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes at SR of 264.28. Along with Maxwell's innings there were knocks of Dwayne Smith (44) and Rohit Sharma (33) which given that freedom for Maxwell to go on full monty. Mumbai had scored 202/6 which wasn't the easy goal for Royal's to acheive.
In bowling for Royals only Pravin Tambe managed to take couple of wickets at an impressive econ of 4.75. Except Tambe, every bowler gave away runs at a Econ of more than 10. Faulknar, Shukla and Cooper picked up an wicket each.
Rajasthan Royal started brilliantly and there was a intent in their batting. At one point they were way ahead of Mumbai when Ajinkya Rahane and Sanju Samson playing for second wicket. They both together put on 109 on board before Samson was caught by Harbhajan Singh. Samson had scored 60 0ff 33 balls at a SR of 181.81.
After that partnership, there was nothing for royals in this match. Wastson (8), Binny(10), Cooper(4), Rahul Dravid (01) were failed to utilize their position at that time in the match.
Mumbai spinners proven to be their strong men in bowling department. Harbhajan's 3 wickets in one over changed the complete scenario of the game towards Mumbai. Harbhajan scalped 4 Royal's wickets at an Econ of 8.00. Pragyan Ojha, who picked up 1 wicket at an Econ of 6.06. A medium fast bowler, Kieron Pollard also picked up 3 wickets.
Man of the Tournament - Dwayne Smith (223)
Man of the Match - Harbhajan Singh (4/32)
Golden Bat - Ajinkya Rahane (288 runs)
Golden Wicket - Pravin Tambe (12 wickets)
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On the toss, Royal's after winning it, chosen to bowl first. The decision by Royals was bit obvious because they prefer to chase the target rather than batting first and set target for opponents and they did the same in many occasions.Mumbai were slow to start and their score after first six overs was 46/1. Only wicket they lost in the power-plays was Master Blaster, Sachin Tendulkar's wicket. he scored 15 off 13 balls. Mumbai Indian was really started off from 13th over in which they scored 16 runs and before that their score were 82/2.
In the last 8 overs they had scored 120 runs with help of Glenn Maxwell's later Breakneck batting . He scored 37 in just 14 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes at SR of 264.28. Along with Maxwell's innings there were knocks of Dwayne Smith (44) and Rohit Sharma (33) which given that freedom for Maxwell to go on full monty. Mumbai had scored 202/6 which wasn't the easy goal for Royal's to acheive.
In bowling for Royals only Pravin Tambe managed to take couple of wickets at an impressive econ of 4.75. Except Tambe, every bowler gave away runs at a Econ of more than 10. Faulknar, Shukla and Cooper picked up an wicket each.
Rajasthan Royal started brilliantly and there was a intent in their batting. At one point they were way ahead of Mumbai when Ajinkya Rahane and Sanju Samson playing for second wicket. They both together put on 109 on board before Samson was caught by Harbhajan Singh. Samson had scored 60 0ff 33 balls at a SR of 181.81.
After that partnership, there was nothing for royals in this match. Wastson (8), Binny(10), Cooper(4), Rahul Dravid (01) were failed to utilize their position at that time in the match.
Mumbai spinners proven to be their strong men in bowling department. Harbhajan's 3 wickets in one over changed the complete scenario of the game towards Mumbai. Harbhajan scalped 4 Royal's wickets at an Econ of 8.00. Pragyan Ojha, who picked up 1 wicket at an Econ of 6.06. A medium fast bowler, Kieron Pollard also picked up 3 wickets.
Man of the Tournament - Dwayne Smith (223)
Man of the Match - Harbhajan Singh (4/32)
Golden Bat - Ajinkya Rahane (288 runs)
Golden Wicket - Pravin Tambe (12 wickets)
2013 © classvsCricket (CvC)
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