This MS Dhoni led team have outperformed the defending champions in every department of the game. Since the start of the match they looked agile on the field, very good start from both the bowlers and the batsmen. Four of their bowlers have took wicket on the very first ball of the spell and a very commanding opening stand of 78 runs between Rahane and Duplessis and later on backed up by Kevin Pietersen. Rahane went on to register his 18th IPL fifty in just 32 balls. Mumbai Indians were no where near to the competitiveness of the Supergiants. It was a bit surprise to see Rohit Sharma’s decision to bat first after winning the toss considering what happened during the WT20 recently where the scores of 200 plus were not good enough to defend. They were hoping for a good start from Rohit and Simmons but it didn’t happen, Once they lost half of their side under the score of fifty rest of the batmen have played the catching part, although Harbhajan provided some momentum in the slog overs using long handle with a quickfire 45 off just 30 balls with 7 Fours and a Six. With the score of just 121 Mumbai Indians were hoping for some early breakthroughs but the bowlers didn’t stepped up as they would have liked. Finally Rising Pune Supergiants registered their first victory in their very first IPL match. Mumbai Indians think tank need to ponder their strategy because they are the one team which have the ability to bounce back as they did in the last season.
Posted by: Athar