HYDERABAD: A proven track file does no just right if you're now not just right on the day. Having made his level fantastically on the eve of the IPL 2019 ultimate against Chennai Super Kings, Rohit Sharma and Co. were expected to not simply merely turn up, but put in an impressive efficiency.
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And by changing their words into deeds, Mumbai Indians now not most effective received their fourth name but their one-run win over Chennai Super Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Sunday was once the second such end - they'd defeated Pune Warriors by the similar margin here in 2017.
In Chennai, Mumbai had an opposition that's weathered many a hurricane, but in now not refusing to surrender or give in, Mumbai at the moment are in a league of their very own with the skipper making it a penta - 4 titles with Mumbai and one with Deccan Chargers.
As is their wont, Chennai turned the contest into a gripping finale and Rahul Chahar nearly cost them the game when he reprieved Shane Watson with the opener going great guns on 55. The Aussie smashed two overs for 20 runs each and every off Lasith Malinga (16th) and Krunal Pandya (18th) to negate all of the just right paintings Rahul Chahar had carried out by restricting Chennai to 72 for 2 at the halfway stage - they ultimately had to rest content material with 148/7.
When Watson in the end fell with two deliveries to move for 80 (59b, 8x4, 6x4), Chennai still needed 4. His 51-run partnership with Dwayne Bravo was once now not enough to look CSK cross the line with Lasith Malinga sounding the demise knell by denying two runs off the final ball.
The beginning was once simply as exciting because the end after the Mumbai skipper had no hesitation to bat first. But if Mumbai's 149 for eight was once a start-stop affair, Chennai had now not reckoned with Mumbai's bowling arsenal that slowly tilted the scales in their favour by choking runs in the middle.
Faf du Plessis was once the preliminary aggressor, while Shane Watson took his time, but with Suresh Raina operating out of luck, Ambati Rayudu coming a cropper and skipper MS Dhoni run-out going for a 2nd on an overthrow, Mumbai cleverly wrested the initiative thru Chahar's very good returns of 1 for 14, which incorporated 13 dot balls and only one boundary.
The leggie upstaged his namesake in the opposition, who too did smartly after Quinton de Kock teed off with homosexual abandon, while the Mumbai skipper took inventory of the placement, which presented itself in the type of Deepak Chahar's 2nd over. De Kock seized on it to damage 20 runs, but Dhoni's gamble to change ends for Chahar and Shardul Thakur paid off because the latter brought on a best edge of De Kock for Dhoni and celebrated with a wild send-off that invited umpire Gould's consideration.
The skipper followed go well with, Chahar the a success bowler as Mumbai reached 45 for 2 in powerplay and failed to power the pace because the Chennai assault tightened the screws. Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan (23; 26b, 4x3) attempted to stem the rot but both of them were cleaned up by Imran Tahir.
SCORECARD
And by changing their words into deeds, Mumbai Indians now not most effective received their fourth name but their one-run win over Chennai Super Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Sunday was once the second such end - they'd defeated Pune Warriors by the similar margin here in 2017.
In Chennai, Mumbai had an opposition that's weathered many a hurricane, but in now not refusing to surrender or give in, Mumbai at the moment are in a league of their very own with the skipper making it a penta - 4 titles with Mumbai and one with Deccan Chargers.
As is their wont, Chennai turned the contest into a gripping finale and Rahul Chahar nearly cost them the game when he reprieved Shane Watson with the opener going great guns on 55. The Aussie smashed two overs for 20 runs each and every off Lasith Malinga (16th) and Krunal Pandya (18th) to negate all of the just right paintings Rahul Chahar had carried out by restricting Chennai to 72 for 2 at the halfway stage - they ultimately had to rest content material with 148/7.
When Watson in the end fell with two deliveries to move for 80 (59b, 8x4, 6x4), Chennai still needed 4. His 51-run partnership with Dwayne Bravo was once now not enough to look CSK cross the line with Lasith Malinga sounding the demise knell by denying two runs off the final ball.
The beginning was once simply as exciting because the end after the Mumbai skipper had no hesitation to bat first. But if Mumbai's 149 for eight was once a start-stop affair, Chennai had now not reckoned with Mumbai's bowling arsenal that slowly tilted the scales in their favour by choking runs in the middle.
Faf du Plessis was once the preliminary aggressor, while Shane Watson took his time, but with Suresh Raina operating out of luck, Ambati Rayudu coming a cropper and skipper MS Dhoni run-out going for a 2nd on an overthrow, Mumbai cleverly wrested the initiative thru Chahar's very good returns of 1 for 14, which incorporated 13 dot balls and only one boundary.
The leggie upstaged his namesake in the opposition, who too did smartly after Quinton de Kock teed off with homosexual abandon, while the Mumbai skipper took inventory of the placement, which presented itself in the type of Deepak Chahar's 2nd over. De Kock seized on it to damage 20 runs, but Dhoni's gamble to change ends for Chahar and Shardul Thakur paid off because the latter brought on a best edge of De Kock for Dhoni and celebrated with a wild send-off that invited umpire Gould's consideration.
The skipper followed go well with, Chahar the a success bowler as Mumbai reached 45 for 2 in powerplay and failed to power the pace because the Chennai assault tightened the screws. Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan (23; 26b, 4x3) attempted to stem the rot but both of them were cleaned up by Imran Tahir.
One-run triumph gives Mumbai Indians record fourth IPL title
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May 13, 2019
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