Trapped in front! All over. Stunning collapse this. Low dipping full delivery and Munaf goes for the sweep. He misses and the umpire doesn't. The finger shoots up to the sky. Game over.
Kings XI vs MI, 54th match at Mohali, IPL, May 10 2011 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Gilchrist smiles. Zinta laughs. PK of course never laughs. He just marches across.
Kushb: "Jayasuriya was partially correct.. it was one-sided match in favor of Kings XI Punjab.."
Please wait for the quotes.
Tendulkar: "It was one of the best tracks we have played on but it didn't just go our way. It was one of those days. We lost those wickets; there was a decision to make whether to continue at that run-rate or slow up. . there was a choice to be made up. We continued to be positive; it doesn't matter that wickets fell but ... "
Gilchrist: "It's a great turn around. Catches were dropped but otherwise it was good performance. It;s a funny world. it can change like this. We have got the foot in that door and hopefully it will keep open. We are back alive. I thought we were 15-20 runs short after the start ; fortunately Dinesh Karthik and couple of guys closed it."
Man of the match is Bhargav Bhatt: Preity Zinta to translate: "I just bowled my normal bowling and avoid repeating the mistakes from the previous games. It's like a dream to play with Gilchrist. I want to learn a lot from him. We will try 100% to reach the final four. We will just focus on our role and what we have to do."
Good bye and good luck.
Oh dear. yet another tame dismissal. He leaned forward to scoop it back to the bowler. Take it. Catch it. here it is.
leans forward to defend to the off side
Stop the press and all that. They have caught a catch. Whoa! Pollard lifts this high. Very high. Shaun gets under it at long-on. The ball takes an eternity to come down. Shaun waits. The ball arrives and he gets his palms upwards towards the sky. Is it a good move? Will the ball pop out? Shouldn't he hold it the other way? Nope what he does works. The Australian way of taking it has done the trick.
slips down the leg side for a wide
dropped again! This time from Ryan Harris. What a clanger. As Fred Trueman would have said, "What's going OFF out there?!" Pollard pulls and Ryan settles under it at deep midwicket and palms it up and over.
pushed away for a single
Dropped by Mandeep at deep midwicket Pollard pulls this short delivery to deep midwicket and Mandeep just stood there, perhaps thinking the ball would reach him. In the end, he realises he had to get forward. Move Mandeep Move! he eventually rushes forward and lunges out but the ball dies on him and he can't get the palms under it
from round the stumps, short in length, outside off, steered down to third man
gets back to drag-pull it to deep midwicket
Crunchy! The bowler moves to round the stumps now and lands it full on a length around off and middle. Pollard leans forward to cream it, punch it sweetly, over his partner
backs away and punches the length delivery uppishly but just short of mid-off
length delivery outside off, punched through covers
Very nice again! From the bowler this time. Harbhajan went down the track but Bhargav slowed up the pace further. Not quicker but he slowed it up. Harbhajan couldn't adjust to it and ended up swiping across the line. Clatter.
Very nice! What a sweet shot. He sashayed down the track and lifted it almost nonchalantly and the ball landed on the sight screen
skips down the track again but ends up mistiming the drive to covers
moves down the track and ends up lunging to push it to the off
short in length on the middle, swatted past square-leg
Fab shot! he pressed back and punched the short of length delivery through covers. Sweet.
Over 13 • MI 87/10