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Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians, IPL 2011, Bangalore

All-round Mumbai coast past Bangalore

The Bulletin by Sriram Veera

April 12, 2011

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Mumbai Indians 143 for 1 (Tendulkar 51*, Rayudu 62*) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 140 for 4 (Dilshan 59*, Pollard 2-25, Malinga 2-32) by five wickets
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Sachin Tendulkar whips with power off the back foot, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians, IPL 2011, Bangalore, April 12, 2011

Sachin Tendulkar ended unbeaten for the second time in two innings © AFP

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Match Meter

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Lasith Malinga set the tone by knocking out Mayank Agarwal with an outswinging yorker first ball

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Kieron Pollard induced Virat Kohli to top-edge his swat flick in the fifth over and Bangalore were wobbling at 19 for 2

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Davy Jacobs whip lashed Zaheer Khan over midwicket for a six in the third over, in which he looted 15 runs

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Abhimanyu Mithun leaked 17 runs in the 8th over as Tendulkar and Rayudu hit three boundaries

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Honours even

Sachin Tendulkar, the controller, and Ambati Rayudu, the enforcer, made short work of the below-par target set by Bangalore to give Mumbai their second successive win of the tournament. However, it was with the bat that Bangalore lost the game tonight. It was a strange innings as Bangalore were in consolidation mode for most of the time after they slipped to 19 for 2 and then meandered away to 140.

There was no such hesitation shown by Mumbai in the chase. Every time Bangalore tried a new bowler, Tendulkar and Rayudu lashed out. When Abhimanyu Mithun was introduced in the sixth over, Tendulkar showcased his gorgeous straight drive, and Rayudu swatted a bouncer before creaming him through wide mid-off. When Tillakaratne Dilshan came on in the tenth over, Tendulkar deployed the slog sweep and the conventional sweep to collect more boundaries. When Asad Pathan was brought in the 12th over, Rayudu crash-pulled the first delivery to midwicket and when Virat Kohli returned for a second spell, in the 13th over, Tendulkar smote him to the straight boundary.

Mumbai's batsmen reserved their best for Zaheer Khan, whose awful night mirrored Bangalore's in many ways. Davy Jacobs flat-batted the fourth ball of the chase for a stunning six over long-on, and sandwiched fours through the covers and long-off with a lovely whipped six in Zaheer's next over. When Zaheer returned for a second spell, Rayudu cut him to the point boundary, slammed a full toss to midwicket and lofted him through long-on.

In comparison, Bangalore's approach was completely lacking in intent. Tillakaratne Dilshan hit a half-century but it felt like an imposter was wearing his jersey. AB de Villiers made 38 but never looked like he would hurt the opposition. "It's a difficult track to bat; there is spongy bounce and AB (de Villiers) and I thought 140 would be a good score," Dilshan said at the end of the innings. He couldn't have been more wrong, at least tonight.

The ball didn't appear to stop on the batsmen, there wasn't any alarming turn but they struggled to get going. Mumbai's night was set up by Lasith Malinga with a brute of a first ball. It was full, it was pacy and it curved away devilishly late, past a stunned Mayank Agarwal and knocked out off stump. Next, Malinga pinged Virat Kohli on the boot with another screaming yorker, but it was not given out. Kohli fell soon after, top-edging his trademark on-side heave to the keeper. It was the beginning of the crawl.

Dilshan tried to punch his way out of trouble but rarely found the timing or the gaps. de Villiers also played within himself and the pair started concentrating on singles. de Villiers fell in the 17th over, top-edging a slog against Pollard and that paved the way for Saurabh Tiwary to free his arms. He flat-batted Malinga over extra cover and heaved Harbhajan Singh to cow corner. Dilshan woke up in the last over to slap Malinga for six over midwicket as Mumbai finished on a mini-high but the target proved grossly insufficient.

Innings	Dot balls	4s	6s	Powerplay	Last 5 overs	NB/Wides

Bangalore	52	12	3	24/2	49/2	0/4
Mumbai	42	18	2	40/1	27/0 (15.1-18.3)	1/1

Sriram Veera is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo

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