Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 21: Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors"

Hi and Welcome to the 21st Match of IPL 2011 Season between Mumbai Indians and Pune warriors. Mumbai Indians have dominated the IPL 2011 so far and Pune warriors are looking good with couple of wins under their belt. Lets see how can new franchise Pune warriors can compete with Mumbai Indians.

Pune Warriors won the toss and choosed to bat first. Mumbai Indians bowler AN Ahmed struck twice in 4th over to give a fantastic start to Mumbai Indians. Pune Warriors coudnt come out of the early loss and sccumbed to pressure and kept loosing wickets. Uthappa played a lone hand for Pune Warriors where as others struggled to score. Pune warriors scored a below par 118 and where allout within 18 overs. For Pune warriors Uthappa scored a fluent 45 and for Mumbai Indians Munaf Patel took 3 and Mortaza, Malinga and Ahmed took 2 each.

In reply Mumbai Indians lost Franklin early. Tendulkar and Rayudu played sensible cricket and rotated the strike at will and moved towards the target. Once Tendulkar and Rayudu where gone, Pune Warriors applied pressure from both ends and dried the runs out. Rohit Sharma and A Symmonds played with cool mind and rotated strikes with ones and two. Match went till last ball and one was required of last ball. Rohit sharma blasted it into the stands to fetch the victory. Mumbai should have won long back but some nervous moments got it to the last ball of the match. For Mumbai Indians Rayudu made 37 and Tendulkar 35 and for Pune warriors thomas, waugh and sharma took a wicket a piece. Mumbai won rather unconvincingly with 7 wickets.


Man of the Match was Munaf Patel for his excellent spell of 3 for 8

Score : Mumbai Indians 124 for 3 (Rayudu 37, Tendulkar 35, SB Waugh 1/9) beat Pune Warriors 118 (Uthappa 45, Munaf 3/8, Nechim 2/13, Murtaza 2/18, Malinga 2/38) by seven wickets