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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SRILANKA TOOK THE REVENGE....

For the Asia cup loss Srilanka took the revenge against India in the final of the Micromax tri-series on saturday. I can say that it was not the team Srilanka but especially Dilshan with a brilliant hundred, who was very much involved in the no-ball controversy.Winning the toss Srilanka elected to bat first in the final and build a huge total in of 299 runs in 50 overs.Dilshan scored 110 runs which was backed up by captain Sangakkara's by 71 runs.
In reply team India was all out for 223 runs with around 4 overs to spare.None of the Indian batsmen could build the partnership and they had to pay for it.Only captain Dhoni showed some resistance as it was also in vein as it lacks support from his teammates.

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DILSHAN SUGGESTED....

According to the newspaper reports in Srilanka it was Dilshan who was fielding atthe cover who shouted at Suraj Randiv to bowl a no-ball to Sehwag which denied him to score the century in the third ODI of tri-series in Srilanka on Monday.Also it was reported Sangakkara has said himself that someone prompted Randiv to bowl a no-ball which restricted Sehwag at 99 runs even though he hit a six in that ball.It was sure that such sort of actions are not suitable for pure sportsmanship.At the same time Dilshan is also the team member of Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League.

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