Chennai: Mumbai Indians clinched their fifth win in a row here on Friday. They beat Chennai Super Kings by six wickets to keep their play-off hopes alive. Hardik Pandya smashed 21 off 8 balls in the 19th over to turn the tide.
CSK XI: D Smith, B McCullum, S Raina, F du Plessis, R Jadeja, MS Dhoni, D Bravo, P Negi, R Ashwin, M Sharma, A Nehra
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 8, 2015MI 159/4 (19.2)
CSK 158/4 (20)
MI XI: L Simmons, P Patel, RG Sharma, A Rayudu, K Pollard, H Pandya, H Singh, J Suchitch, V Kumar, M McClenaghan, M de Lange
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 8, 2015Mumbai Indians
Parthiv Patel looks classy, pulls Ashish Nehra for a boundary.
DROPPED! Negi drops Parthiv off Nehra.
MAGICAL! Parthiv timing the ball well, another boundary to the southpaw.
FLICKED! Simmons punishes Nehra for four runs, MI look steady to chase it down.
Mumbai consolidating, riding on the openers. Simmons has moved to 38, Parthiv on 44. They need 74 more runs off 60 balls.
WICKET! Ashwin gets Parthiv (45), McCullum takes the catch at deep.
WICKET! Ashwin on a roll, Simmons (38) out for 38, easy catch for Smith.
WICKET! Brilliant piece of fielding by Dwayne Bravo, direct hit. Kieron Pollard (1) falls short of ground.
Mumbai gradually losing the plot, making life difficult for themselves. Rohit Sharma batting on 6, Rayudu on 3.
DROPPED! Rohit dropped by Faf. Did he drop the match?
Rayudu going for the target now, two sixes off Nehra's over.
WICKET! Rohit Sharma goes for the big one, mistimes and Raina catches him off Bravo.
Three huge sixes by Hardik Pandya. He is turning it around. Pawan Negi receives the treatment. This is a surprise for Chennai Super Kings.
Chennai Super Kings
Mitchell McClenaghan with the new ball. Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum out in the middle.
Good start by Mumbai, three runs off the first over.
Mumbai brought in Marchant de Lange in place of Lasith Malinga. He starts the second over.
Five runs off de Lange's over. Mumbai keeping things tight.
SIX! First one from McCullum.
FOUR! The Kiwi doesn't like to deal in singles.
OOPS! Jagadeesha Suchith introduced into the attack and he almost struck first ball but Harbhajan Singh drops Dwayne Smith.
WICKET! R Vinay Kumar, after conceding three boundaries off McCullum (23), dismisses the Kiwi. Hardik Pandya takes the catch.
WICKET! Second catch for Pandya, Suchith sends Raina (10) back.
WICKET! Third catch fro Pandya, Harbhajan sends Smith (27) back.
Dhoni cutting lose, down the wicket and SIX!
In the meanwhile, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar met Dhoni before the start of the match. Even Jonty Rhodes - who recently gave birth to a baby girl - was seen sweating it out.
(Photo: BCCI)
Jonty Rhodes says even now he has the safest pair of hands because he hasn’t dropped his two-week old baby from his lap.
WICKET! McClenaghan strikes, Faf (17) has to go, Simmons takes the catch. An absolute stunner.
Simmons keeps plucking them out of thin air #CSKvsMI #IPL https://t.co/0gEmnT3ERi
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 8, 2015SIX! Negi (23 not out off 10 till now) at his best, takes on McClenaghan.
Dhoni remains unbeaten on 39 off 32, Negi run out on 36 (17)
