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The Report by Sidharth Monga
October 9, 2011
Mumbai Indians 139 (Franklin 41, Bhatkal 3-21, Vettori 2-30) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 108 (Dilshan 27, Harbhajan 3-20, Chahal 2-9, Malinga 2-23) beat by 31 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
On a night of mediocre cricket, the Mumbai Indians kept their surprise run going to win the biggest prize, in financial terms, in non-international cricket. James Franklin was the only man to keep his head in a suicidal Mumbai innings, which helped them reach 139, but the Royal Challengers Bangalore once again choked in a final to lose despite a start of 38 for 0 in four overs. For the vanquished this was a painful repeat of their IPL final in Johannesburg where they froze while chasing 144. The victors, though, can claim they once again won the big moments: through Franklin's sober innings, through Lasith Malinga's two sixes amid a collapse, through an extra over given to Malinga that produced a wicket and through their spinners' seven overs for 29 runs and five wickets
Be that as it may, for a majority of the match the teams seemed to be in a contest for ordinary cricket. There were three run-outs, there were unsavoury slogs resulting in exposed stumps, the winning side bowled 10 out of a total of 13 wides, and MI's' keeper kept letting through byes. If Franklin's smart 41 off 29 suggested he was the only sober man in a Paris Hilton party, the Royal Challengers clearly outdid their opponents for rashness. Yes the pitch was slow and it took turn, but not enough to justify the bizarre and spectacular collapse, which featured minimal attempts to take singles with the asking-rate around seven. I do not even know he was in turn the earth for them. As Dilshan good start in the hunt, it was a necessary exception to his usual form of bowling Malinga for only two scales on top. Dilshan to 27 shots before standing, either online or through the covers, and he would have known how desperately wanted out IM window, what then seemed a last throw of the dice. As it turned out, was opened through the line of profit in the first place, losing the stump out.
Kumar Dharmasena then made a call turned potentially match. He had already received two calls IPN wrong sleeves MI, only granting a stay Harbhajan Singh when he was upright, then remove him when he was not. But his error was more consistent during the hunt, and again involved Harbhajan, who fired in quick offbreaks in his report to the first. The last ball of the over in which he admitted, just a wide, were thrown up, and Chris Gayle was a big step in. offbreak not running as expected, was struck off before, and it was excluded. The ball was a huge distance to travel, and ball tracking predicted he would hit outside the off stump. Conventional wisdom would have concluded that the drummer of favor, and even Gayle lost his temper when he saw the finger go up.
With a reliable batting order, spoiled by the actual area of Bangalore and limitations in short, to follow, had been reduced to the sole survivor of the Royal Challengers 2009 start, Virat Kohli, the rest to feed through. However, he was batting with a shot Mayank Agarwal, despite all their efforts had 14 stuck in the hole 19 before the long-off. Even when the desperate Agarwal was released, the Royal Challengers needed a manageable 73 to 57.
Kohli also felt the effects. Maybe it was the presence of Malinga eventually maybe it was just the shock of having to work hard for runs after the Bangalore pitch flat, but even he has not shown a willingness to take the game at the end of depth. In the next over, he holed to deep midwicket. Everyone knew he was there and then games.
The rest had only a vague procession of captured and stumping in practice, exactly the opposite way Franklin could not find accounted for almost 150 shots, without a shot in anger. There was little madness that surrounds him. Kanwar SARULE first ran Aiden Bliazzard first slogging around in full swing. Ambati Rayudu struggled to find singles in half, and a positive 40-run stand for launch Suryakumar Yadav concluded.
Franklin got the trend continued, hesitating to take a second run to complete the third run-out. Kieron Pollard massive front traveled as far as long-stop, and MI was in free fall after looking good for a repeat of the 160 semifinals. Although it does not seem sufficient for the moment, two six Malinga at the end turned out to be surplus.
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