This is 4th victory for MI in last 5 games. Although MI won this match quite comfortably, I feel Mumbai could have done little more good in it's batting performance. Parthiv Patel and Simmons gave excellent start to MI and the score after first 10 overs was more than 100 without a loss of single wicket. Rohit Sharma who had come two down in the previous match, pushed himself up to one down position. While Mumbai Indian's main strength is Batting, ideally Rohit Sharma should have focused to take the score to more than 200 in the second half of the innings with 10 wickets intact and good depth in the batting line-up. But no! Rohit seemed to have played a comfortable inning. If Rohit was conscious about losing his wicket, he could have sent someone else to accelerate the score, to ensure that team push for 200+ target. If that wicket falls quickly may be he could have called for another attack on KXIP, by sending someone else to hit the good shots and push up the score on the board at high run rate. This is where captaincy makes the difference.
Thanks to Virendar Sehwag's continued form of getting out quickly, and KXIP being the weakest side in the IPL 2015, MI actually never felt a pressure of losing this match. David Miller was proving to be good but could not keep it up for long. Lasith Malinga was up one notch to his form, although could not get to see much of those reverse swinging yorkers, he was quite lethal and tough in his attack.
Kieron Pollard bowled good one over. Especially when the require run rate for KXIP was about 10 per over, batsman could not hit bowl for the boundary rope and had to settled down 1s or 2s. It's tough to keep this 1.96m giant beast out of action for long!!! He wants to deliver and he is willing to do his best every time he is in-charge.
I don't understand Vinay Kumar always bowling 20th over???? It's good that he had much cushion and margin for his errors. I think MI has a good bowling mix as well, just that they should no how to use it most effectively. And certainly they should not falter and aim to perform better and better in its batting department. Such a strong batting line up they have.
Bhajji sir! aapkaa kyaa kahena. You are doing best as a senior member in the camp.
Anyways I'm MI fan, and good to see them winning.
Thanks to Virendar Sehwag's continued form of getting out quickly, and KXIP being the weakest side in the IPL 2015, MI actually never felt a pressure of losing this match. David Miller was proving to be good but could not keep it up for long. Lasith Malinga was up one notch to his form, although could not get to see much of those reverse swinging yorkers, he was quite lethal and tough in his attack.
Kieron Pollard bowled good one over. Especially when the require run rate for KXIP was about 10 per over, batsman could not hit bowl for the boundary rope and had to settled down 1s or 2s. It's tough to keep this 1.96m giant beast out of action for long!!! He wants to deliver and he is willing to do his best every time he is in-charge.
I don't understand Vinay Kumar always bowling 20th over???? It's good that he had much cushion and margin for his errors. I think MI has a good bowling mix as well, just that they should no how to use it most effectively. And certainly they should not falter and aim to perform better and better in its batting department. Such a strong batting line up they have.
Bhajji sir! aapkaa kyaa kahena. You are doing best as a senior member in the camp.
Anyways I'm MI fan, and good to see them winning.
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