Rayudu helps Mumbai Indians to beat Kings XI Punjab!!

@ram_cv (16513)
India
April 25, 2012 10:28am CST
A 27 run penultimate over from Piyush Chawla helped Mumbai Indians to an improbable win over Kings XI Punjab. Needing 32 runs of the last two overs, Robin Peterson and Rayudu went berserk against a hapless Piyush Chawla plundering 27 runs from his 19th over. With this win, Mumbai Indians join the clutch of teams with 8 points on the table. Cheers! Ram
5 responses
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
25 Apr 12
Hi Ram, I wonder why Piyush Chawla, an International player bowled like that. Could not he change the line and length of his bowling so that ht were not hammered like anything. I say Chawla is the culprit of the loss of the RR to MI. I never thought that Mumbai Indians would be able to make it to a win and my moral sopport was for Rajasthan Royals. History repeats. Pune Warriors lost a match with Ashish Nehra in the last over to RCB the other day. The same thing happened today . If Piyush Chawla had not bowled that over and not conceded that much run RR would surely win the game.
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• India
25 Apr 12
Absolutely amazing batting by him, and a useful cameo by Peterson ensured win for MI, against a King's XI team that played very well indeed, until the last 3 overs. The last 2 sixes of Piyush Chawla really changed it in Mi's favour!
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
27 Apr 12
Poor Piyush. Hopefully he can come back from this hammering. Cheers! Ram
@msdivkar (23359)
• India
25 Apr 12
Requiring 32 from last 2 overs, Mumbai Indians' victory looked most improbable although Sharma and Rayadu had brought them to a striking distance of the victory but 27 runs of the penultimate over, helped by 2 fours and a six of the first three balls by Petersen and a six by Rayadu of the last ball, made it all easy for M.I.. Penultimate over of the match is the most important one and should be entrusted to a reliable bowler. I feel Piyush Chawla is not the Ideal bowler for that over. I think this season in I.P.L. batsmen have overpowered the bowlers and snatched some extraordinary wins from the jaws of defeat. T20 is therefore so very popular with the masses.
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@ram_cv (16513)
• India
27 Apr 12
I think generally Piyush is a decent bowler. But bowling a leg spinner in the last two overs is really dangerous as if they lose their line, they go for a plenty. So I agree it was not a great move to give him the 19th over. Cheers! Ram
@rajeev075 (1961)
• India
25 Apr 12
It not only rayudu who did to win for mumbain petersion as well as rohit also contributed to it. 19th overs was real trun of match in concern with result. Mumbai beat Punjab by 4 wickets with an impressive last show from the duo Peterson and Rayudu who scored 27 of the 19th over in Mubai's innings when 32 required runs to win from 12 balls to make an easy task of 5 runs from 6 balls. Before this it was Rohit sharam who smash a good half century from 30 balls to esnure a good postion to Mumbai, which was later shifted by Parvinder Awana with his wickets. But things didn't go in favour of punjab who were struglling to get off the Mubai batsmen inspite of getting 6 wickets. Peterson scored 15 runs off four balls in the 19th over and Ambati Rayudu smacked two sixes to cost Kings XI 27 runs. Punjab posted thier highest total this season with Hussey and Miller score at blast to score 168/3 on the tabel. KXIP score 88 runs off the last seven overs of their innings. Hussey shows a great character to pose punjab to a great score to defend for. Poor bowling from Munaf as well as harbhazan while franklin did well in the middele. It was great game no doubt! Bowlers are getting trashed as did in other matches how will bowlers going to defend a total that is a big question?????
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@ram_cv (16513)
• India
27 Apr 12
Yes, you are right. Peterson and Rohit were equally responsible for setting up this win for the Mumbai Indians. Cheers! Ram
@arunr175 (1678)
• India
25 Apr 12
Robin Peterson started the 19th over with 2 4's and a six and then Rayudu ended with 2 6's secured the much wanted win for Mumbai Indian. Now Mumbai Indians maintain this form and win few more matches, they could secure a position in top 4. Every match in IPL is getting interested as top 4 is getting fluctuated with every match ...
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
25 Apr 12
Of course, given the number of teams on 6 points, this is still a very open IPL and any of the teams can still make the top 4 except for of course Deccan Chargers. Cheers! Ram