MUMBAI, India (Thu, April 12) – Kieron Pollard’s blistering knock with the bat augmented with superb bowling led Mumbai Indians (MI) to much needed victory over Rajasthan Royals (RR) yesterday night at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai in a cracking match of IPL 2012.
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| IPL 2012 (April 12) -- Kieron Pollard lifted Mumbai to top of Points Table |
Mumbai Indians piled up a huge total of 197/6 with the help of some brisk innings by thei batsmen led by Kieron Pollard, who smashed 64 off 33, supported by Ambati Rayudu 47 (32), Richard Levi 29 (22), Rohit Sharma 21 (13) and last but not the least skipper Harbhajan Singh 18* (6).
Rajasthan Royals put up a good fight powered by sensible but equally brisk innings of 76 (42) by Owais Shah, supported by Ajinkya Rahane 40 (31) and Ashok Menaria 20 (15); but fell short of 27 runs in the end. Munaf Patel and Pollard picked up 4 wickets each to rattle the batting strength of opposition.
Kieron Pollard named man of the match for his all-round performance. At the end of the match he said, “It was good, the team needed it. I am always the one to take the chance. Rajasthan gave a good fight, Shah batted really well. But we knew that 10-11 runs an over would be difficult. The atmosphere has been fantastic, we were sad that we could not win the first game. You can say that Mumbai is my second home. Cricket is my career and profession.”
Mumbai’s great victory helped them regain the top slot on the points table followed by Pune and Delhi; while Rajasthan Royals slipped to number four position. Detailed and updates points table is presented above.
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