Mumbai Indians Beat Pune Warriors
posted on May 4, 2012 @ 9:46AM
Mumbai Indians dished out a superlative bowling performance to eke out a one run win over Pune Warriors in a nail-biting Indian Premier League match here on Thursday.Set to defend a modest 120 for nine, Mumbai bowlers rose to the occasion to restrict Pune to 119 for six in their 20 overs, thereby winning by just a run.
Skipper Harbhajan Singh led from the front picking up two wickets for just 18 runs, while Lasith Malinga (2/25) was as usual at his lethal best towards the death. Munaf Patel and Pragyan Ojha also did their bit ending up with identical figures of one for 24.
Mithun Manhas scored an unbeaten 42 off 34 balls to keep Pune in the hunt but in the end it was not enough. Earlier, asked to bowl, Pune produced a clinical bowling and fielding display to restrict Mumbai to a paltry score at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium. Sachin Tendulkar top-scored for Mumbai a 35-ball 34 and together with James Franklin (25) added 50 runs for the opening stand, which was the only highlight of the visitors’ innings.