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Though they couldn't bat, couldn't field and conceded byes generously, MI finished with the biggest prize at franchise-level Twenty20
Nitin Sundar
October 10, 2011
By the end of the Champions League, the Mumbai Indians post-match press conferences at the MA Chidambaram became as predictable as Groundhog Day. Harbhajan Singh would field questions on how his side had managed yet another unlikely win, overcoming their latest top-order funk and club-class fielding display. Lasith Malinga - Man of the Match against Chennai Super Kings and Somerset, and Player of the Tournament after the final - would sit aloof by Harbhajan's side, fiddling with his mobile phone, his bronze curls and all-pervasive tattoos saying more than he could ever convey in words.
One tattoo on Malinga's forearm spoke louder than all his other elements of bling. "Destiny says it all", it proclaimed sagely. Harbhajan might have curtailed his long, rambling explanations, and just pointed at it.
There was little of the Indian campaign in Mumbai who suggested they could go through. They came into the tournament with the lowest settlement IPL side without their captain, icon and the best drummer, and several other players of choice. Their stand-in skipper went through his worst season at the highest level and has faced his own exclusion from the Indian mid-term of the tournament.
It is called the ridiculous side without choosing a Mumbai ites, and very few Indians, and to convince the organizers to change the rules to provide them with an injury to the disability. It also embarrassed when one of the injured players are also sharp enough to hit a match-winning 191-a week after being declared unfit for the brigade of Mumbai. In addition to becoming a public-relations disaster in the fifth foreign player has not contributed to the field, with Andrew Symonds in the tournament without much enduring of which contained the end of the bat to hold. In a tournament in which three centuries were affected, and four batsmen made more than 200 tracks, the longer term buyer MI-123.
The Kings could have super moves, but somehow blurs MS Dhoni a simple closed which would have closed the game on a day he made four dismissals. T & T have been beaten, but Daren Ganga was convinced some of its area was extended to a No. 11 batsman with two to defend the last ball before Denesh Ramdin somehow missed an escape that has kept the majority of the young children to remove.
Two wins and one rain to put Mumbai Indians unexpected pole position, before they caught up with them bad cricket in the fourth against New South Wales. Just when it seemed they would be at the table style points, beat T & T in the Cobras to let the passage of Michigan in the semifinals with ease. It seemed that one of the scripts that the city is famous for.
MI marginally raised their game in the semifinals and finals, but Fielding remained apologetic, Ambati Rayudu and is part-time wicket-keeping appalling. With 22 runs to defend in two overs against Somerset, Harbhajan threw the ball to James Franklin, who is not a final choice even for the first overs of New Zealand. And it worked. MI is batting stammers a lot to the final, as they fell to 105-4 in the 14th only 139 all out. RCB had played in the bag when Tillakaratne Dilshan run of 38-0 in four overs, but almost inevitably MI found the way out again.
Even if luck has followed throughout, Harbhajan made his captaincy bit attractive and bowling attack. Pollard had little impact on bat and ball, but he stayed on the electric field. Aiden Blizzard and Franklin, also contributed, but the true heroes of Mumbai Indians was their unsung. At various stages of the tournament, traveled Yuzvendra Chahal, Sarule Kanwar, Suryakumar Yadav, Abu Nechim and R Sathish their match. Malinga, just does everything else.
Imbalance between bat and ball Twenty20s largely based on the fact that the shooter has only four moves in shape. Not seem to affect Malinga, who was the stumps is a pair of cross every time he ran, and regularly produced howitzers masquerading York. He took the gaps of Mumbai completely out of the equation: and his ten victims, eight were swept away and two LBW. He also did a little 'joke to relieve the pain of MI: he clouted plus six, and finished higher batting average and strike rate than anyone else on his team.
And so it was that even though they could not bat, can not field, and gave generously to bye, I must finish a higher level Twenty20 franchise. Their Twenty20 triumph contrast to traditional logic, has become a form of hitters, and where games are won or lost Fielding trying to participate in both departments. How do you explain this? Perhaps Malinga tattoo was right. Destiny said it all.
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