Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Match1 MIvsKKR

Match Details- 

  •  Venue- Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

  •  Toss- KKR won the toss and choose to Bat first!

  •   Result- KKR won the match by 41 Runs!

  •   Man Of The Match- Jacques Kallis (KKR)



      MATCH RECAP

                

      The IPL-7 got underway with the match between two former champions of IPL Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders. Gautam Gambhir won the toss and choose to bat first on the grass covered pitch. Zaheer Khan started well with the new ball, bowling in the right areas. Gambhir who was clearly struggling against Zak, was done by full length delivery of Malinga! Manish Pandey started his innings positively. He always tried to hit boundaries every now and then. But that wasn't happening, courtesy of some tight bowling by Bhajji and Ojha the spin-duo of Mumbai. After 13 overs, KKR were 86/1 with Kallis and Manish both playing a steady run-a-ball inning, with strike-rates around 100-105. Kallis was dropped by Malinga in 14th over (Pollard's first)! Which turned the game on its head. Kallis then attacked Ojha in 15th over of the inning, which accounted for 20 runs. Both completed their half-centuries. But were dismissed within the course of 2 overs. Malinga removed both of then, in between Zak deceived Uthappa. Suryakumar Yadav the former MI player, played some innovative shots in the last over bowled by Corey Anderson. KKR managed to score 53 runs in last 5 overs. Final score 163/5 was a decent total considering the slow nature of the pitch.
                           
        KKR  bowlers started well with the ball. Vinay Kumar went for 15 in his 2 overs but from other end, tall Morne Morkel gave only 2 runs in his 2 overs. That was enough to put pressure on MI openers, and Narine did the rest by bowling his magic delivery to get the big wicket of Michael Hussey! Aditya Tare was looking set but he also departed trying to hit Shakib out of the ground, gave away simple skier catch back to the bowler. Rayudu on the other hand, was looking in great nick from outset. He was trying to hit boundaries. But when Morkel came in again,  "Back of the Length" bowling created problems for Rayudu. With required rate creeping up till 15, Rohit cut loose in 16th over (last over of Morkel)! Just after hitting a colossal six, he got out the next ball trying to get a boundary once again. Next over Narine got rid of set Rayudu. Pollard had very little time to get in with his partner Corey Anderson not reading Piyush Chawla and Narine at all. They lost the match there. Narine finished with 4 wickets to his name. And KKR won the match comprehensively by 41 runs!




    My Views:-



     After Gambhir failed early, on the little bit tricky wicket, Kallis, the senior-most player did the smart thing by consolidating and blocking one end! Still he didn’t play much dot balls, he kept the strike rotating. He let Manish Pandey to play his natural game. Kallis’ strike rate wasn’t impressive by the T20 standards at the end of  14th over when he was dropped. But he knew that it wasn’t going to be easy for the new batsmen to come in and start hitting from the first ball. And hence he took the responsibility on himself to score the runs quickly and when he got out his strike rate was 150+. That’s what experience can do for you. One mustn’t forget Manish’s inning as well, his approach was brilliant.
            For Mumbai 160 odd runs was a chase-able target. They wanted Michael Hussey to play the same way how Kallis played. But the difference was Morkel’s pace and bounce. Hussey was stuck at one end, unable to rotate the strike. Narine did the rest of the job, I still think it was Morkel’s wicket, his brilliant spell put pressure on Hussey, making him play a wrong stroke against Narine’s “wrong one.” Rayudu and Rohit batted well together, trying to form a partnership, but the scoreboard i.e the required run-rate pressure did them both, inducing false strokes. Narine was good as usual with his magic deliveries. And he was well supported by all the other bowlers.
               


    I believe the turning point of this match was Morne Morkel’s 2 overs upfront! He hit the perfect area and exploited the bounce perfectly. MI played lots of dot balls in the first 4 overs and that cost the match!


     




       


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