The main interest in the first session today was whether Sehwag would complete his third 300 and continue towards Lara’s record. After adding 9 runs, Sehwag was dismissed by Muralidharan - he later remarked that he was happy with 293!!! All hopes of the crowd went down immediately. Murali must have thought that this was his lucky day and would have harbored thoughts of a big haul of wickets ...
What a match? What a man?This is probably the best innings one has seen in the last few decades in response to a score of nearly 400.The Indians took the remaining two wickets of the Lankans in the morning and the scorecard read 393. Enter the Indian openers. The Lankans thought that they had a good chance to take control of the match. Sehwag and Vijay had other ideas. What happened next cannot be...
The second in a series of team previews for the 2010 Indian Premier League, in reverse order of how the teams finished in 2009.The Mumbai Indians have promised much but delivered little in the IPL thus far, failing to make the playoffs in either of the first two editions.Despite their failings they were the most-watched team in IPL 1 and are still one of the most popular sides, due in no small par...
Now that KKR’s campaign is over (I’m leading the Interblogactic IPL Battle table, btw), I can finally concentrate on the team I really support - the Mumbai Indians. They have been the standout team this season, leading the table from the start and not losing grip. This has been mainly due to the the players they acquired pre-season and their backing of the Indian players. Dhawan has be...
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