After having a dream run for the whole season, Mumbai Indians have hit rough weathers just when they needed one more victory to make it to the semi finals. They have still four matches to go, so not much of a worry for them, but then whoever believes that cricket has lot to do with momenturm, would not like what he saw last night. The MI slumped to their second successive defeat as they struggled against a brilliant spell by Piyush Chawla (3-24), ably supported by Irfan Pathan (3-29). Mumbai could manage only 154 for 9 as Love Ablish, playing his 1st match, wrecked them in the 29th over, only conceding a couple of runs and claiming a couple of wickets. Added to that, another wicket fell in the over as a runout.
Piyush Chawla bowled in the right areas with subtle variations, claiming the most consistent Tendulkar (29), a dangerous looking Rayudu (33) and Saurav Tiwary (4). His spell broke the back of the Mumbai batting line up, who could never recover from the triple blow. It was only JP Duminy's 35 that helped them cross the 150 mark.
KXIP came out to bat with nothing to lose, as they had already been out of the race, and batted quite freely. Opening with Mahela (31) has proved to be a very good move for them as he along with Barath (35) provided a flying start to their innings and Kumara Sangakkara took it from there with a brilliant 56 off 42 balls. It was a relatively easier victoy for the KXIP.
At the presentations, though Sachin said that there in nothing to worry, deep down, he would like to that one victory at the earliest and breathe easy.
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