Mumbai Indians score an easy win over Rajasthan Royals : In a match played at the D Y Patil Stadium, the hosts Mumbai Indians registered a convincing win over the Rajasthan Royals.
Put into bat first, the Royals tonight found themselves out of touch as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals against some good display of bowling from the Mumbai Indians.
Graeme Smith and Swapnil Asnodkar opened the innings for the Rajasthan Royals. Smith left early, edging a delivery from Pollock to the wicket-keeper when he was on 5. Next to go was Yusuf Pathan, scoring a solitary run and allowing his stumps being uprooted by an unplayable delivery from Nehra.
Asnodkar on the other end lived dangerously but made a valuable contribution to the team's tally scoring 39 off 36 balls, he faced. He, incidentally, was the highest scorer for the Royals.
Shane Watson got along well with Asnodkar in a partnership, which at one moment spelled trouble for the Indians. It was a smart piece of bowling by Bravo that came to the rescue for the Indians, when Watson attempted a cross-batted shot only to find his timber shattered. Watson made 33 off 20, with the team score reading 74/3 in 8.5 overs.
It was an end to the resistance from Rajasthan as the bowling attack from the Mumbai Indians, there after, dominated the proceedings. They bundled out the Royals for 103/10 in 16.2 overs. Ashish Nehra was the hero for the Mumbai team, finishing with the figures of 3/13 in 3 overs.
The chase from the Mumbai Indians was initiated by a solid start given by their openers. Sanath Jayasuriya and Yogesh Takawale put up an opening stand of 41 in 7.1 overs, before Jayasuriya departed scoring 18 runs. Takawale made 27 off 32 deliveries and was bowled by Shane Warne.
An unbeaten partnership between Robin Utthappa, scoring 34 off 21 and Abhishekh nayar making 12 from 13 balls, saw the Mumbai Indians past the target to finish with 104/3 in 15.1 overs. The Mumbai Indians thus wrapped up their third victory by a margin of 7 wickets.
Ashish Nehra was judged Man of the Match for his spell of 3-0-13-3.
Mumbai climbed up to the fifth spot, while Rajasthan Royals slipped to the second position in the points table.
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