Raise of Mumbai Indians & Fall of Deccan Chargers ….

Today again Mumbai Indians registered one more win and Deccan Chargers one more loss. Mumbai Indians defeated Deccan Chargers by 25 runs. Batting first Mumbai Indian made 178/7 in 20 overs thanks to again some good batting by Sanat and Abhijit Nayar. However Deccan chargers lost some early wickets and mid innings effort by Venugopal Rao could not help Deccan Chargers clinch the match.

Mumbai Indian’s efforts are appreciable and team deserves a great applause. With 6 back to back wins, they are now the strong contenders of the tournament, They started very badly,lost 4 matches in a row. Then followed harbahjan saga, failure of Sanat Jaysuriya and injury of Sachin. With all these odds they regrouped again first under the captaincy of Shaun Pollack and then Sachin. Sanat regained his form and then just exploded. The team has all the chances of going in to semi finals now.

I have no word to say anything about Deccan Chargers. See the individual performance of the team members. Adam Gilchrist, Symonds, Rohit Sharma, Venu Gopal Rao are all top run getters in this tournament,but till now the team is able to win only 2 matches. Unlike Bangalore, which is always called test team, Deccan Chargers have all T20 specialists.Their combination is just not able to work and give results. When their batsmen perform, bowlers fail and vice verse. The team now atleast have to  win few of the remaining matches to gain some respect in the points table.

Critically yours

Kiran