flatter delivery and he can only drill it down the ground to long-off and that will be all! What a fight
CSK vs MI, Group B at Johannesburg, Oct 20 2012 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RESULT
Group B (D/N), Johannesburg, October 20, 2012, Champions League Twenty20
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end of over 2012 runs • 2 wickets
MI: 167/7CRR: 8.35
Mitchell Johnson0 (1b)
Lasith Malinga0 (0b)
Ravindra Jadeja 4-0-47-2
Ben Hilfenhaus 4-1-14-2
Presentation:
Harbhajan: "We bowled well after the first ten overs. Treat to watch Pollard and Karthik. Great fight shown. A kind of pitch you can hit shots off good length balls. Proud of the boys. Whenever we play CSK it's always a good game."
Dhoni: "It was important to guide Jadeja. Matches like these really groom a cricketer. Hilfenhaus was right on the money. We took the gamble of giving the later overs to the spinners. We could have got another 15 runs. 170 plus two runs makes a difference."
Hilfenhaus is the Man of the Match: "After watching the way their seamers finished off the innings it gave us an idea of where to bowl. Variable bounce tonight. It's quite hard to defend on this ground."
That's it from us here. The cricket continues tomorrow. Thanks for the mails and your company. Cheers!
9pm: There was only pride to play for, but both teams gave us quite a humdinger. Dinesh Karthik refused to believe Mumbai were done and dusted after a sluggish start. In the process he exposed weaknesses in Chennai's bowling. Ashwin and Jadeja leaked 91 runs between them.
By the way, where was the rain that was supposed to show up?
Aks: "Ashwin should get the man of the match here.. He leaked enough runs, to make everyone know how important his last ball six was!"
19.6
•
Jadeja to Johnson, no run
Malinga walks in. Nothing at stake for these teams but they're fighting tooth and nail
19.5
W
Jadeja to Harbhajan, OUT
well taken by Saha! Jadeja floated that down the leg side and Harbhajan swiveled and aimed for the long leg boundary, it was flat and hard and Saha did really well to keep calm and cup the ball over his head
Harbhajan Singh c Saha b Jadeja 6 (6b 1x4 0x6 13m) SR: 100
19.4
4
Jadeja to Harbhajan, FOUR runs
that rocketed off the bat! Full and wide outside off and he made room and smashed that wide of extra cover
19.3
2
Jadeja to Harbhajan, 2 runs
flat delivery and chipped down to deep midwicket, only a couple though
Dhoni has a cha with Jadeja. Johnson walks in. The umpires are checking to see if the batsmen crossed during the dismissal. Harbhajan it is on strike
Stunning work by Raina under pressure
19.2
W
Jadeja to Pollard, OUT
Raina takes a stunner at long-on and he seems to be in pain! Pollard makes room and thumps it flat down the ground and Raina manages to time his dive well and takes it inches from the ground, Raina dives and covers his eyes, something must have gone in and he's been given out after studying replays
Kieron Pollard c Raina b Jadeja 31 (17b 1x4 3x6 35m) SR: 182.35
Pollard making his team look silly for promoting Rayudu above him
19.1
6
Jadeja to Pollard, SIX runs
what a way to begin the final over! Flatter delivery outside off and he gets on his knee and whams it flat over long-off
Jadeja to defend the 19 needed off the last over!
end of over 198 runs • 1 wicket
MI: 155/5CRR: 8.15 • RRR: 19.00
Harbhajan Singh0 (3b)
Kieron Pollard25 (15b 1x4 2x6)
Ben Hilfenhaus 4-1-14-2
Ravichandran Ashwin 3-0-44-0
18.6
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Hilfenhaus to Harbhajan, no run
slashes and misses again,the captain fails to get bat on ball
18.5
•
Hilfenhaus to Harbhajan, no run
close to being called a wide! Makes room and he tries to slash a wide one and he looks at the umpire for a signal
18.4
•
Hilfenhaus to Harbhajan, no run
Harbhajan makes room, slashes and misses
Breathtaking knock from Karthik there
18.3
W
Hilfenhaus to Karthik, OUT
that's a freak dismissal! Oh well Karthik cannot go all the way, it was the slower ball from Hilfenhaus and Karthik was on his knee to slog that away, the leg cutter hit his pad and rolled back towards the stumps
Dinesh Karthik b Hilfenhaus 74 (45b 4x4 6x6 64m) SR: 164.44
18.2
6
Hilfenhaus to Karthik, SIX runs
siphons six more! Pitched up on the off stump and he lofts it high and clears wide long-on
18.1
2
Hilfenhaus to Karthik, 2 runs
outside off and he lofts high over extra cover and Vijay slides and mops up
24 off that over and MI need 27 off the last two! Not over yet. Here's Hilfenhaus
end of over 1824 runs
MI: 147/4CRR: 8.16 • RRR: 13.50
Kieron Pollard25 (15b 1x4 2x6)
Dinesh Karthik66 (42b 4x4 5x6)
Ravichandran Ashwin 3-0-44-0
Doug Bollinger 4-0-26-0
17.6
4
Ashwin to Pollard, FOUR runs
Ashwin bowls it short and wide outside off and Pollard swings and bashes it down the ground, long-on dives in vain
17.5
6
Ashwin to Pollard, SIX runs
Ashwin makes the mistake of dragging it back short and Pollard stays at the crease and hammers a flat six over deep midwicket
17.4
6
Ashwin to Pollard, SIX runs
bang! Tossed up and Pollard takes a few paces forward and clobbers it over long-on
17.3
1
Ashwin to Karthik, 1 run
makes room and steers it to the off side for a single
17.2
6
Ashwin to Karthik, SIX runs
he's slogging them away! Gets on his knee and he slogs and it's high in the air and over fine leg
17.1
1
Ashwin to Pollard, 1 run
plays the reverse sweep and Dhoni runs backward and nearly pulls off the catch, lobs off his glove
end of over 1710 runs
MI: 123/4CRR: 7.23 • RRR: 17.00
Kieron Pollard8 (11b)
Dinesh Karthik59 (40b 4x4 4x6)
Doug Bollinger 4-0-26-0
Ravichandran Ashwin 2-0-20-0
16.6
1
Bollinger to Pollard, 1 run
full and wide outside off and lofted down to long-off, drops short of the fielder
16.6
1w
Bollinger to Pollard, 1 wide
sprays that far too wide outside the off stump, can't chase those
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