CSK vs MI, Group A at Chennai, Sep 24 2011 - Ball by Ball Commentary

Mumbai have won, their dressing room has gone bonkers, Harbhajan Singh barely shows any emotion after bottom-edging a swipe towards midwicket that brings the match-winning single, Chepauk is dumbstruck, Chennai's prefect home record for 2011 is gone

oh dear oh dear, the scores are tied as Harbhajan Singh swings the ball behind square leg, it was short of length ball, Harbhajan whacks that for four, two balls, one run, keep your head Mumbai

length ball angling into the pads, Malinga whips it towards deep midwicket, too well to have time for the second

oh, it's a boundary, it's down to six off four balls, who'd thought this? Malinga makes a bit of room and absolutely carves the ball over backward point for four

short of length ball is swiped towards deep midwicket, just a single though

someone tell Malinga to try the straight hits, another attempted thrash to the leg side, another miss, fortunately for him the ball bounces a second time before Dhoni, making it an awkward take, Dhoni can't stop that and there are two byes to be had

finally he connects with that swing of his, not too well, a bottom-edge wide of Bollinger at short fine leg, don't think Bollinger spotted it early, that left him with more ground to cover, allowing time for the second

goes back to trying to send the ball into orbit over midwicket, once more he misses

Malinga ditches the swing-to-midwicket and decides to go back to driving straight and it pays dividends, a six over long-off, and this Chennai crowd is pretty anxious now

ooh, could have been one more wide, just within the limit the umpire deems it, it was one more familiar Malinga swing, no connection once more

another wide outside off from Albie Morkel, again Harbhajan tries to muscle it to midwicket, again he misses, what's more the batsmen scramble a run as it goes through to the keeper

full, slower ball well outside off, another swipe from Harbhajan, no contact, that's been called a wide

full and well outside off, off the bottom of the bat to the off side, Harbhajan comes on strike now

another slower one, another flail, another ball through to the keeper, this is a top over from Bollinger

short of length ball is absolutely lashed towards extra cover by Malinga, Raina is struck in the unmentionables as he tries to field that scorcher

that was a bit slower from Bollinger, 128kph, Malinga swipes at it and misses

a big swing from Malinga, gets an edge and it reaches Dhoni on the bounce

another example of why this is a batsman's game, Bollinger fires in a superb full ball, Malinga didn't know much about that, there's a thick outside edge though and the ball races past Dhoni for four

angling into leg stump, Harbhajan is cramped up, but he somehow turns the ball towards short fine for a single

Dhoni misses a stumping, Malinga is looking for his third six of the over, he gets nowhere near this outside off ball and is well out of his crease, Dhoni could have had his fifth victim in this innings, he doesn't collect, and Malinga survives