Kochi Tuskers Kerala won a thriller against the mighty Mumbai Indians to pick up their first IPL victory on Friday at the Wankhede Stadium. Sachin’s century went in vain as Kochi defeated his team by 8 wickets with six balls remaining.
Answering the 182 for 2-carnage by the Mumbai Indians, Mahela came out with definite plans promoting himself as an opener. This worked well for Kochi as Mahela and McCullum opening wicket stand amassed 128 runs in 13.5 overs slamming all the Mumbai bowlers, especially Lasith Malinga and Kieron Pollard.
But Malinga had his revenge by bowling out the Kochi skipper Mahela Jayawardene with an inswinging yorker and Brendon McCullum with a fuller in his come back spell.
Mahela cracked 56 from 36 balls and McCullum slammed 81 runs from 60 balls.
McCullum hit three fours and Jayawardene one in a Slingshot over forcing Sachin to withdrew him from the attack early into the match. Pollard also took good beating as the Kochi batsmen allowed none of the bowlers to find their rhythm.
Mahela’s all the decisions worked today, he promoted Ravindra Jadeja ahead of experienced Brad Hodge and the youngster hammered a 11-ball 25 and also fired Ali Murtaza for two sixes to win the match in style for the Kochi.
Earlier, he won the toss and sent the Mumbai Indians to bat, which raised some eyebrows as Sachin Tendulkar and Ambati Rayudu slammed the Kochi Tuskers’ bowlers to power Mumbai Indians to 182.
Mumbai Indians lost their opener Davy Jacobs for 12 runs after Raiphi Gomez delivery rattled the South African’s stumps.
Vinay Kumar then came close to the fame of taking the Little Master’s wicket when a stunner from him skidded on to the MI skipper’s pads. But the lbw was wrongly denied by the umpire as the replays later showed that the ball was on course to hit the stumps.
Luck did not come Kochi’s way as Sachin and Ambati were given more lives. Kochi missed a run-out chance and a catch that could have ended the 116-run second wicket partnership way too early.
Kochi came into the game with three changes, replacing Muttiah Muralitharan, S.Sreesanth and V.V.S. Laxman with Thisara Perera, Ramesh Powar and Kedar Jadhav.
Mumbai Indians also made one change by resting James Frankling and including Andrew Symonds.
Teams:
Kochi Tuskers Kerela:
Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Brendon McCullum, Kedar Jadhav, Parthiv Patel, Brad Hodge, Ravindra Jadeja, Thisara Perera, Raiphi Gomez, R Vinay Kumar, R P Singh, Romesh Powar.
Mumbai Indians:
Sachin Tendulkar (capt), Davy Jacobs, Ambati Rayudu, Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Andrew Symonds, Rajagopal Sathish, Harbhajan Singh, Ali Murtaza, Munaf Patel, Lasith Malinga.
But Malinga had his revenge by bowling out the Kochi skipper Mahela Jayawardene with an inswinging yorker and Brendon McCullum with a fuller in his come back spell.
Mahela cracked 56 from 36 balls and McCullum slammed 81 runs from 60 balls.
McCullum hit three fours and Jayawardene one in a Slingshot over forcing Sachin to withdrew him from the attack early into the match. Pollard also took good beating as the Kochi batsmen allowed none of the bowlers to find their rhythm.
Mahela’s all the decisions worked today, he promoted Ravindra Jadeja ahead of experienced Brad Hodge and the youngster hammered a 11-ball 25 and also fired Ali Murtaza for two sixes to win the match in style for the Kochi.
Earlier, he won the toss and sent the Mumbai Indians to bat, which raised some eyebrows as Sachin Tendulkar and Ambati Rayudu slammed the Kochi Tuskers’ bowlers to power Mumbai Indians to 182.Sachin cracked a 66 ball ton with 12 fours and three sixes after Ambati sacrificed his wicket in the fourth ball of the final over. Ambati slammed to 53 in 33 balls with the help of three fours and four sixes.
Mumbai Indians lost their opener Davy Jacobs for 12 runs after Raiphi Gomez delivery rattled the South African’s stumps.
Vinay Kumar then came close to the fame of taking the Little Master’s wicket when a stunner from him skidded on to the MI skipper’s pads. But the lbw was wrongly denied by the umpire as the replays later showed that the ball was on course to hit the stumps.
Luck did not come Kochi’s way as Sachin and Ambati were given more lives. Kochi missed a run-out chance and a catch that could have ended the 116-run second wicket partnership way too early.
Kochi came into the game with three changes, replacing Muttiah Muralitharan, S.Sreesanth and V.V.S. Laxman with Thisara Perera, Ramesh Powar and Kedar Jadhav.
Mumbai Indians also made one change by resting James Frankling and including Andrew Symonds.
Teams:
Kochi Tuskers Kerela:
Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Brendon McCullum, Kedar Jadhav, Parthiv Patel, Brad Hodge, Ravindra Jadeja, Thisara Perera, Raiphi Gomez, R Vinay Kumar, R P Singh, Romesh Powar.
Mumbai Indians:
Sachin Tendulkar (capt), Davy Jacobs, Ambati Rayudu, Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Andrew Symonds, Rajagopal Sathish, Harbhajan Singh, Ali Murtaza, Munaf Patel, Lasith Malinga.
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