2654dThe Report by Abhishek Purohit

Pollard power too much for Rajasthan

Kieron Pollard muscled his way to his highest IPL score and propelled Mumbai Indians to the highest total of this IPL season so far

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

OA Shah
OA Shah
76(42) 5x4 - 5x6
Control %90%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull/hook on back foot
  • 26 runs
  • 3x4 - 2x6
4 1 17 5 2 13 6 28
KA Pollard
KA Pollard
64(33) 6x4 - 4x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 27 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
4 1 8 0 7 13 16 15

Best performances - Bowlers

MM Patel
MM Patel
O3.4
M0
R28
W4
Eco7.63
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
KA Pollard
KA Pollard
O4
M0
R44
W4
Eco11
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Kanishkaa Balachandran

Presentation starts: Noticed how Nita Ambani always stands in attention like she's in a school assembly?

Dravid: "We thought we had a chance. We were under the pump a little bit. Little panic among the youngsters. There are positives."

Harbhajan: "Malinga you can bring him any time. If Shah had batted three more overs the game would have finished. The dew was a problem, but when you have 197 on board, the opposition still has to keep the score moving."

Man of the Match Pollard: "The team needed that impetus. Royals played really well, but we knew 10-11 runs every over would be difficult, fantastic atmosphere. You can say that (Mumbai my second home)."

Thanks for your company today and the mails. We'll see you again tomorrow. Cheers!

End of match: Mumbai win by 27 runs but the match looked a lot closer than that. That over from Malinga was the turning point. Gave Mumbai the edge, but it was still not yet over. In a match of so many individual performances, the evening belonged to Pollard - 4 for 44 of 4.

Kevon Cooper hands over the Purple Cap to Munaf. So Mumbai are right on top with six points and Rajasthan drop to fourth.

Mahesh: "Pollard sure deals only with 6's and 4's.. In his 64, he hit four 6's, six 4's and finished with 4/44 in 4."

19.4
W
Patel to Hogg, OUT, Munaf will now take the Purple Cap! He has ten wickets overall and finishes off the game, Hogg swings across the line and hits it flat to Franklin at deep midwicket

GB Hogg c Franklin b Patel 2 (12m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 40

19.3
1
Patel to Trivedi, 1 run, backs away and places a low full toss to long-on
19.2
2
Patel to Trivedi, 2 runs, bowls it shorter and he makes room and clears extra cover
19.1
1
Patel to Hogg, 1 run, full outside off and drilled down to long-off

Munaf to finish off

END OF OVER:
19 | 1 Run | RR: 166/9 (32 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.73, RRR: 32.00)

  • Siddharth Trivedi2 (4b)
  • Brad Hogg1 (3b)
  • Lasith Malinga4-0-13-2
  • Kieron Pollard4-0-44-4
18.6
0
Malinga to Trivedi, no run, the stumps elude Malinga again, moves away to smash that but was nowhere near it
18.5
0
Malinga to Trivedi, no run, how did that miss the leg stump? Backed away, swing and a miss
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RR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st7R DravidAM Rahane
2nd0AM RahaneSP Goswami
3rd82OA ShahAM Rahane
4th45OA ShahAL Menaria
5th2J BothaAL Menaria
6th17AL MenariaKK Cooper
7th9AA ChavanAL Menaria
8th0GB HoggAA Chavan
9th1GB HoggA Singh
10th7GB HoggSK Trivedi