Mumbai win thriller despite Dhoni’s brilliance

CHENNAI, Apr 6:
With a better display on the field  in spite of the brilliance of the rival captain M S Dhoni ( 51, 26 bls,five fours,three sixes) Mumbai Indians bearded favourites Chennai Super Kings lions in the latter’s den  winning by inin runs in the IPL 6 cricket championship here tonight Dhoni ran out of partners before he fell himself  as the Super Kings could make 139 losing nine wickets,  in 20 overs chasing a seemingly easy 149 target set by Mumba who batted pathetically first.
Off spinner Harbhajan Singh(2-35), medium pacer Munaf  Patel (3-29) did the star turn with the ball for Mumbai,  who registered their first win after the loss to Bangalore.  It was a bad start to the new IPL season by Super Kings.
The Mumbai Indians took the field with a small score to defend against the Super Kings mighty bowling line up. But the Super Kings who opened with Aussie Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay, the local star, began a seemigly easy chase on an ominous note. Off the last ball of the first over, Vijay playing a pre determined flick off pacer Munaf Patel, got himself castled .  He scored five off eight balls as the Super Kings were 10-1.
Suresh Raina, one of the key scorers for theSuper Kings  joined HUssey, the onuson them to make it easy for the team. They pushed the score to 30 for one off the first four overs But Raina fell to bat-pad catch off left armer Mitchell Johnson. His 10 off seven balls he faced was inadequate and turned the heat on the Super Kings who were 30-2 off 4.3 overs,  who now needd 119 runs off 15.2 overs remaining.
The Super Kings suffered a set back 12 runs later when  Mike Hussey, the left hander played across attempting to  sweep, offie Harbhajan Sngh. His innings of 20 off 23 balls  had three hits to the fence. Eight overs gone, the Super kings were 4 for 3.105 runs behind their victory target  of 149. But they still had depth in their batting as another local talent S Badrinath jining Bravo at the wicket. (UNI)

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