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Indian T20 League 2016

Scorecard - 43rd Match, Mumbai vs Punjab at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India (13 May 2016)

Mumbai

124/9 (20) RR:6.2

Punjab won by 7 wkts

MOM: Marcus Stoinis
Punjab

127/3 (17) RR:7.47

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18.0 - Mohit Sharma to McClenaghan, FOUR, wow. This is deft. Shuffles across with his bat poked in front, allows this low full toss on off to dip and ramps it over short fine leg. The fielder there ducked for cover instead of leaping up to catch it

17.3 - Mohit Sharma to Harbhajan, FOUR, and he gets one rightaway! Gets the width and slaps a boundary wide of cover-point

16.2 - Stoinis to Krunal Pandya, FOUR, 100 up, finally! Tames an attempted yorker length delivery with an open bat and carves it over backward point. Two fielders give the chase, almost coalesce but the ball drops inside the ropes and runs away

13.1 - Stoinis to Pollard, leg byes, FOUR, was there some bat? No. Gets a yucky short of length delivery sliding down, turns around but fails to get the bat on the tickle but the pads are good enough

12.0 - Axar to Buttler, FOUR, will put it as half-deliberate. Sees the arm-ball zip in but the less venom on it allowed Buttler to slide across and eke out an outside edge on his attempted glide to third man. The ball was well wide of the lone slipper and gives him a four

0.1 - Sandeep Sharma to Rohit, FOUR, that's a lovely ball to start but alas! Gets the inswing going but fails to put the reins on it. Slides it on the pads and Rohit tickles him through a vacant fine leg

19.4 - Mohit Sharma to Harbhajan, SIX, and this time he waited a nanosecond more. Gobbles up the width not with a cut, but with a horizontal bat clobber over deep mid-wicket. Miller was there, looking to reverse cup but finds the ball swooping over him as the momentum took him over the ropes

16.0 - Axar to Pollard, SIX, measure the wood there. Measure the wood on Pollard's bat. This was mistimed and this clears the fences comfortably. A slice, can you believe? Wanted to loft over long-on, the turn gets him to slice the loft and the ball still manages to shoot over the fences by a mile

15.1 - Axar to Krunal Pandya, SIX, yes. Desperation ushers dramatics. And he's inducted it from Pollard. Swipes his bat and deposits the ball over long-on. What a hit!

15.0 - Cariappa to Pollard, SIX, ten thousand thundering typhoons. Has there even been a more carnivorous clip? Was backing away, gets a ball sliding in to cut the room and Pollard just wrists it over long-on nonchalantly

14.2 - Cariappa to Pollard, SIX, bazinga! He can bowl the offbreak and legbreak but none effective enough when Pollard swings. Brings the bat down and clobbers it over long-on. Bat speed there, you ask? 143ks

9.2 - Cariappa to Nitish Rana, SIX, wow. Cariappa has been outwitted. Looks to tease Rana by turning it away but Rana was ready. Goes with the turn away and lofts it over extra cover

8.0 - Cariappa to Nitish Rana, SIX, boomed away! Was on his front foot early, had the broom of a bat ready and sweeps it over deep mid-wicket

5.5 - Mohit Sharma to Nitish Rana, SIX, that's a poor man's followup delivery! Why on earth would you bowl it short after THAT ball? Still Mohit does and sees a swivelling pull picked up over deep backward square leg

18.3 - Sandeep Sharma to McClenaghan, out Caught by D Miller!! Sandeep Sharma sticks to a very full length outside off, McClenaghan shimmies out trying to loft it over mid-off. Too full a ball to get under it and pops it off the toe-end to Miller. McClenaghan c D Miller b Sandeep Sharma 4(4) [4s-1]

17.2 - Mohit Sharma to Southee, out Caught by Gurkeerat Singh!! Southee has been cheated on here. Fair decision, not to do with the umpire, but with the slowness of this delivery. Southee assumes it to be a simpleton but boy, it was a slowish delivery from back of the hand. Southee lofts, connects well. Could say that he had read the slower delivery too but the lack of pace off the pitch meant that the ball could only carry as far as long-off. Southee c Gurkeerat Singh b Mohit Sharma 1(3)

16.5 - Stoinis to Pollard, out Bowled!! You know what, the middle order is evolving in reverse gear. "You miss, I hit" now applies to them too. Does to Pollard here certainly. Stoinis aims for the top of off-stump with this cutter, Pollard shimmies out with readymade room, swings but fails to connect. Stoinis is on a hat-trick! Pollard b Stoinis 27(20) [6s-3]

16.4 - Stoinis to Krunal Pandya, out Caught by Axar!! That's perfectly placed to deep mid-wicket. Cutter halfway down, Pandya had to manufacture his own wattage there and fails. Swivels around to pull, top-edges it and now has to walk back. Had the room, had swivelled early but a ramp towards third man might have earned him a longer stay at the crease. Krunal Pandya c Axar b Stoinis 19(12) [4s-1 6s-1]

13.3 - Stoinis to Buttler, out Caught by Gurkeerat Singh!! One...two...three! Gurkeerat Singh Mann takes it finally and sports a big smile. And this was a very sharp delivery from Stoinis - follows a backing away Buttler with a full ball, the batsman still goes for the lofted drive but was too cramped for room to usher in the power. Mistimed to long-off where Gurkeerat lets the catch pop out the first time, recovers to catch it again but sees himself going over the long-off fence. Then come the acrobatics - throws it in the air as he steps out and hops back in to re-re-repouch it. Buttler c Gurkeerat Singh b Stoinis 9(10) [4s-1]

10.4 - Stoinis to Nitish Rana, out Caught by W Saha!! That's a lovely catch from Saha! Rana looks to punish a full ball with a flogging drive, is defeated by the bounce and ekes out an outside edge that travels back at ultrasonic speed. Saha spots it, was left-footed and rubbers his torso with a dive to pouch it. Nitish Rana c W Saha b Stoinis 25(28) [6s-3]

8.5 - Axar to Rohit, out Bowled!! That's ugly! Axar fires this one on off, gets it to hold a touch as Rohit looks for the cross-batted swipe. Is early into it and the ball slides on to peg the off-stump back! Big wicket will be an understatement. How will MUM's middle order fare tonight? Rohit b Axar 15(24) [4s-1]

2.5 - Sandeep Sharma to Rayudu, out Bowled!! Blow me down! Who said Sandeep needs a slip? Gets this vicious inswinger going, Rayudu looks for a caressing drive through covers and leaves a gap large enough for the ball to sneak through. The middle stump's on the ground.. Rayudu b Sandeep Sharma 0(3)

2.0 - Mohit Sharma to Chand, out Caught by Gurkeerat Singh!! That's a tame, tame way to go and he gets a duck on his comeback. Having teased him with a back of a length delivery last ball, Sharma keeps it shortish in length. The ball jags away again, Chand looks to fetch it with a whip over mid-on. But the ball gets high on him, cuts away more than he anticipated and he ends up chipping it uppishly to the fielder he wanted to clear. Chand c Gurkeerat Singh b Mohit Sharma 0(4)

17.0 - Southee to Gurkeerat Singh, FOUR, let's get this done! Enough of those slips and shortlegs, lofts this fullish delivery over the bowler's head. The ball crosses the long-on fence in no time. Vijay is congratulated by McClenaghan as the players walk out. This win spices things up. Oh, T20 League!

15.3 - McClenaghan to W Saha, FOUR, short ball and Saha pulls it, was not in complete control but will fetch a four to the fine leg fence

15.0 - Bumrah to W Saha, FOUR, what a good shot to bring up his fifty. Moves to the leg-side and then lofts it over extra cover. The bottom hand came off his bat while executing the shot, but that does not matter, it was timed really well

13.2 - Krunal Pandya to Vijay, FOUR, Pandya was forced to bowl it short, that is what Vijay wanted. Rocked back and then pulled it through mid-wicket, the ball raced along the turf

13.0 - Harbhajan to W Saha, FOUR, this has been swept well, very well. Gets it away from short fine and just in the gap to beat a dive from the deep backward sqaure leg fielder as well

11.3 - Southee to W Saha, FOUR, this will do for sure. This was a back of a length and Saha picked it up over deep mid-wicket, one bounce over the ropes. They have to take on the pacers and they are doing so. Smart cricket from the Punjab duo

10.0 - Krunal Pandya to Vijay, FOUR, oh! All of a sudden, Vijay decides to clear his front leg and then thumps it over the bowler's head. We need these, otherwise this has been a diazepam dose

6.2 - Harbhajan to Vijay, byes, FOUR, what was that. Looped and turned in, beat the batsman and then the keeper, missed everything and raced to the fine leg fence

4.2 - Krunal Pandya to W Saha, FOUR, short ball and Saha is not missing out, went back and pulled it over mid-wicket. One bounce over the ropes there

3.3 - McClenaghan to Vijay, FOUR, give him a dollar for that. Majestic this was. Could have been timed better but as long as it goes to the fence it should not hurt anyone. Touch short and angled across Vijay, he waited and caressed it through the covers with ease

3.2 - McClenaghan to Vijay, FOUR, now where did this come from? Short ball and Vijay was ready for it, the fine leg was inside the ring and Vijay helped the pull over him

3.0 - Southee to W Saha, FOUR, commentators curse work the other way as well. This time Saha finds the gap past mid-off, he deserved that, the world is not so cruel, a well-timed off drive on a length delivery should go for fours

1.3 - McClenaghan to Vijay, FOUR, this time the bounce decided to help Vijay, there was a bit of width on offer, enough that was. Vijay rocked back and cut it past backward point with ease. Well played indeed, some timing

13.1 - Krunal Pandya to Vijay, SIX, surprise, surprise! Vijay clears his front leg and then flogs it over deep mid-wicket, had a lot of mass behind it

12.2 - Harbhajan to W Saha, SIX, what did I tell you? He is not afraid, used his feet and then chipped it, did not try to hit it hard, timed it so well that it cleared the long-off fence with ease

15.5 - McClenaghan to Maxwell, out Caught by Pollard!! Wow Maxwell! Why did you come to bat? If you did not want to bat, you could have denied the offer to hit the winning shot. Jokes apart! Length ball on the stumps, Maxwell wants to go over the fielder at mid-on, hits it off the toe end of the bat to Pollard for an easy one at mid-on. Maxwell c Pollard b McClenaghan 0(1)

15.4 - McClenaghan to W Saha, out Bowled!! Too late to even celebrate. Saha has done his job, slower short ball and Saha wants to pull it, gets an inside edge that crashes on the stumps. Time-out. Ah! This mandatory time-out thing! Delays the inevitable. W Saha b McClenaghan 56(40) [4s-6 6s-1]

1.0 - Southee to Amla, out Lbw!! Amla goes for a duck. What a blow for Punjab. Was it a bit high? The umpire does not think so. Southee went wide of the crease and angled it into Amla, who went back to play it but missed the line, was rapped just above the knee roll. The Mumbai fielders went up in appeal and the umpire did not disappoint them. The start which Mumbai needed, Southee has given them. Amla lbw b Southee 0(5)

15.1 - McClenaghan to Vijay, 2 runs, shortish ball that was angled across Vijay, he dabbed in front of point and set off. An overthrow at the bowler's end, allowed an extra run. In fact, McClenaghan appealed for a run-out, but since the stumps were broken by a direct hit, it was too tedious to uproot the stump and catch Saha short. Green light flashes on screen

13.5 - Krunal Pandya to W Saha, 2 runs, this is Virat-Dhoni like, Saha uses his feet and then chips it to the right of the bowler, towards long-on. Before Pollard could come in, Saha was back with two in the bag

10.4 - Harbhajan to W Saha, 1 run, what an awful throw, Rohit was the fielder, Saha nudged to mid-wicket and sent off. Vijay was that quick, a good throw and Vijay would have been gone for sure

8.4 - Harbhajan to Vijay, 2 runs, Vijay clips it with the turn, was not away from the fielder at leg-slip, rolled away towards fine leg