Mumbai Inidans stuns the listless Bangalore Royal Challengers....

       As far as Twenty-20 matches are concerned 7.00 run rate is a below par target one.Once again it made clear that Bangalore has a weak point in their batting and this led to their loss against Mumbai Indiansby 9 wickets.In Mumbai Indians' innings when Sachin Tendulkar became the controller while Ambati Raydu took enforcer role and both of them led the Mumbai to a comfortable win over Bangalore Royal Challengers in their home ground.Most interesting thing in Mumbai's chase is that they never shown even a hint hesitation in their chase as both of them played flawless innings.

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Sachin Tendulkar and Ambati Raydu celebrates Mumbai Indians' win

 

 

 

 

        But in comparison,Bangalore had a completely different approach as they were pondered to 19 for 2.Even though Dilshan could a score a half century he was only his shadow.A Bde Villiers also scored some interesting 38 runs but was misjudged to Pollard.This gave chance for Saurabh Tiwary to free his arms and also was able to put Malinga and Harbhajan to the boundaries.Dilshan woke up only in the 20-th over to hit Mallinga a six and posted a fighting total (as expected but it never to be) of 140 runs.But as Sachin and Raydu played some magnificent and unbeaten 110 partnership whipped away the target from the screen....

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MUMBAI INDIANS PARALYZED BEFORE THE LIONS....

In the opening match of the CLT T-20 tournament in South Africa,the experienced Mumbai Indians were defeated by the young Highveld Lions by 9 runs.Tossing the coin to his choice Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar elected fielding first.The Highveld Lions build a fighting total of 186 runs in just 20 overs.Their young opener Jonathan Vandiar (71 of 53 balls) and the experience Neil Mckenzie(56 of 35 balls) helped the Lions to reach 186.The Mumbai Indians bowling was upto average and their sloppy fielding added extra bonus to the Lions. Even though Malinga was able to pick three wickets of Lions , he was not able to control their run flow.

In the second half Mumbai Indians made a good start as their openers Sachin Tendulkar and Shikar Dhawan, scored at above 7 runs per over.After Dhawan who scored 34 runs and made a partnership of about 73 runs with Sachin Tendulkar who just escaped from the very first ball he faced of Ethan O'Reilly.But sachin Tendulkar 69 runs from 42 balls smoothly brought Mumbai Indians to their target.But a very good spell from Burger dismissed Sachin and also the danger man Keiron Pollard with a pinpoint yorker. Then the game was fully under the control of Highveld Lions.
Yesterdays match once again poped up the fact that experience and past performance will never be a criteria to the T-20 matches.Hope for more interesting matches in the tournament....

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AB HOGA ASLI MUQABLA....

Now the champion teams of different nation will fight against each other to find who is the real champion among them. Today, 10 september, the all awaited champions league, CLT-20 begins. In the opening match, Sachin Tendulkar's Mumbai Indians will take on the South African team Highweld Lions in Johannesberg. The match will commence at 9pm Indian time.At 9pm the match will be telecasting live in ESPN and STAR SPORTS channel.So be ready there to watch the ASLI MUQABLA....:JKprdgidxiproject w

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