RR vs MI, 23rd match at Jaipur, IPL, Apr 17 2013 - Ball by Ball Commentary

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Ricky Ponting: Fair to say we were outplayed in all three departments. The pitch looked very good but it held up a little when we batted, full credit to RR for the way they batted. We need to address a few areas of our game that we need to talk about. I don't think the conditions were too bad, we needed to adapt quicker. The way they bowled a lot of slower balls, took the pace off it, they did well. It's better to lose these games early in the tournament than later.

Rahul Dravid: It was brilliant, couldn't have asked for better. Wanted our A game to come out, I think our A+ game came out. We discussed it during our meeting to get Yagnik out and try to unsettle the spinners. Demoting myself wasn't a big deal, had we lost a wicket early I would have come out to bat. We believe we are a good side and can beat teams, but it's early days in the tournament. Gives a lot of confidence.

Ajinkya Rahane, man of the match: Again I wanted to bat till the last over. We all know that Mumbai is a big team and we did a good job. That's my natural game, even last year I was doing the same thing and will love to continue doing that. Watson's a crucial player, Yagnik and Hodge did their job very well too.

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revanth: "nayi soach should go to Dravid for demoting him self and going for all over attack MI !!" You hit it on the bulls eye!

Shahed: "How not to play T20 - Mumbai's lesson today. Surprisingly, they still have a +ve NRR after the game." Their wins against Delhi and Pune were huge too.

...and as always a last word on the man everyone loves so much. DISHANT: "Now it's clear who is the university and who is the gold medallist :) Yeah, Sir Jadeja is still the universe."

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Bowled out for 92. No, this wasn't a track like the one on display in the first game today at Pune. It was on the slower side but not slow enough to merit such a performance especially after Rajasthan had scored 179/3 in their 20 overs. Rahane's half-century received some criticism for being slow but in the hindsight it was an innings worth praising, he batted throughout the 20 overs and allowed the other batsmen to get going at the other end.

Then Faulkner came on and grabbed three wickets, while Chandila and Binny got a couple of them apiece. Mumbai's top-scorer was Dinesh Karthik yet again but he scored only 30. Rayadu made 27, Johnson 11 and the rest went back quicker than they came in to bat.

Incidentally this is Mumbai's biggest loss in terms of runs in IPL history.

I quite like this suggestion, Arvind S: "Wish IPL had bonus point for such a dominant performance from 1 side . That would add more spice to the race for play-offs!!"

Himanshu: "why every one is blaming pondulkar..they have gone fifty partnership 2 times in 5 game... i dont think its bad!!!! its 20-20 n they will prove themself surely."