Mumbai Indians defeated
Chennai Super Kings by 60 runs at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Winning the
toss, they chose to bat first and in their allotted overs, they scored 139 runs
for the loss of five wickets. In reply, Chennai Super Kings could manage to
score just 79 runs losing all wickets in 15.2 overs. With this victory, Mumbai
breaks Chennai’s seven match winning streak.
Pragyan Ojha and Mitchell
Johnson took three wickets apiece while Lasith Malinga grabbed two wickets for
just six runs. Other two wickets were shared by Harbhajan Singh and IPL
debutant Pawan Suyal.
Chennai’s 79 all out is
perhaps the lowest
total posted by any team this IPL season. It was their heaviest loss in the
IPL in terms of runs. The previous lowest total was Daredevils’ 80 all out
against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
However, things could have
been worst if Kieron Pollard had not dropped Chennai opener Michael Hussey (22)
thrice in three successive balls in the first over of the innings bowled by
Mitchell Johnson.
Defeating Chennai, Mumbai Indians
maintained their unbeaten run at home this season.
However, Chennai Super
Kings is still at the top of the point table with 18 points from 12 matches. Mumbai
Indians has jumped to third place with 14 points from 11 games.
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