The MI vs CSK IPL T20 finals was nothing short of a disaster for the Mumbai Indians. CSK (168/5 off 20 overs (Raina 57*(35)) vs MI 146/9 (Sachin 48(45))

The MI vs CSK IPL finals started off well for the Mumbai Indians

In the MI vs CSK IPL T20 cricket finals, the Chennai Superkings IPL cricket team started off slowly against the Mumbai Indians bowling with Hayden struggling for form and preferring to defend against Harbhajan rather than seeing his jeering celebration. Vijay provided some fireworks for CSK, but the Mumbai Indians had effectively pegged the Chennai Superkings cricket team with some consistent bowling

With the MI vs CSK cricket finals score showing CSK at 67/3 off 11 overs, the Mumbai Indians were well on their way to winning their maiden IPL cricket trophy

In the MI vs CSK cricket finals, dropped catches changed the course of the match

The Mumbai Indians just refused to catch the fielding drills conducted by Suresh Raina. Raina offered not one but two dollies to Fernando and Zaheer and an absence of calling ensured that both catches were not taken

The MI vs CSK IPL cricket finals match saw such ridiculous fielding by the Mumbai Indians that must have had Jonty Rhodes squirming in his seat

Raina slammed 57 runs for the Chennai Superkings and the Mumbai Indians were left to chase 168 runs off 20 overs

Needing to score 168 runs off 20 overs, the MI vs CSK cricket match seemed to be heading for an exciting finish, but unfortunately, Shikhar Dhawan, the Mumbai Indians opener froze in his first IPL finals

By conceding a maiden to Ashwin in the first over of the Mumbai Indians innings, the Mumbai Indians lost their momentum significantly and then struggled henceforth against some accurate Chennai bowling in the MI vs CSK IPL cricket finals

Two Mumbai Indians strategies failed miserably as the MI vs CSK IPL finals petered to an easy victory for the Chennai Superkings

Sending Abhishek Nayar one down and Harbhajan Singh two down in the MI vs CSK IPL finals were strategies that could have worked on a different day, but failed badly.

Nayar struggled to find his bearings and slowed down the run rate against the Chennai Superkings and Harbhajan had no answers to some good spin bowling by Chennai

Pollard provided some fireworks at the end of the MI vs CSK IPL cricket finals, but it was already too late for the Mumbai Indians

Kieron Pollard slammed some huge hits for the Mumbai Indians in the last few overs against Bollinger, the key Chennai Superkings bowler, but it was too little and too late for the Mumbai Indians as the Chennai Superkings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni soon lifted the IPL trophy

Mumbai Indians 141/9(Sachin Tendulkar 45) lost to Chennai Superkings 165/3 off 20 overs

The Mumbai Indians bowlers did a good job of keeping the Chennai Superkings down to just 165 runs in the IPL-3 T20 league cricket match

Harbhajan Singh and Pollard of the Mumbai Indians bowled an impeccable line to keep the Chennai Superkings down to just 165 runs off 20 overs

Opening for the Chennai Superkings vs the Mumbai Indians IPL-3 cricket team, Mathew Hayden plays Harbhajan Singh gingerly almost with kid gloves as if Harbhajan is tossing dynamites at him rather than innocuous off spinners. Obviously, Hayden,the Chennai Superkings opener, seems to fear ace Mumbai Indians spinner Harbhajan Singh’s victory run so much that he would rather pat Harbhajan’s balls back to him or tap them to cover, rather than see Harbhajan running around in celebration

The Chennai Superkings managed to notch up a score of 165 runs against the Mumbai Indians after some mild hitting by Dhoni and Badrinath. It did seem at the half way stage that the Mumbai Indians would notch up an easy win against the Chennai Superkings

Sachin Tendulkar and Shikhar Dhawan of the Mumbai Indians provided their customary good start against the Chennai Superkings in the IPL-3 T20 cricket match

Shikhar Dhawan has been an able opening partner for Sachin Tendulkar and soon the Mumbai Indians were off to their customary good start against the Chennai Superkings. The Mumbai Indians were 46/0 after just 6 overs against the Chennai Superkings as the Chennai bowlers were awed by Sachin Tendulkar ’s batting as usual

After Shikhar Dhawan ’s wicket, the Mumbai Indians slowed down a bit, but it was really the Chennai heat and not the Chennai Superkings that had the final say

The Chennai heat sapped the Mumbai Indians’ captain Sachin Tendulkar ’s energy and Sachin had to leave the field at a crucial period against the Chennai Superkings IPL-3 cricket team

Sachin Tendulkar did fail the Chennai heat or the “Dean Jones” test, albeit at the age of 37, as the hot and humid weather in Chennai meant that Sachin was dehydrated and couldnt continue. This was a crucial period of play, as the Mumbai Indians were just starting to accelerate, chasing a smallish Chennai Superkings score

The Mumbai Indians have been pampered by a dominant Sachin Tendulkar in earlier IPL-3 cricket matches and the Chennai Superkings took advantage of that

The Mumbai Indians are so used to a splendid start and finish by Sachin that they appeared shocked by Sachin Tendulkar ’s exit from the crease. Soon enough, the Mumbai Indians had lost seven wickets against the Chennai Superkings bowlers and Sachin Tendulkar had to limp back to the crease despite suffering from dehydration

Sachin Tendulkar was too tired to have an impact on the Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Superkings game any longer and the Mumbai Indians folded up meekly despite Harbhajan Singh ’s late surge

And the winner of the Mumbai Indians vs the Chennai Superkings cricket match is .. the Chennai weather!

Sachin ’s Mumbai Indians 182/5 off 19 overs(Sachin 75, Shikhar Dhawan 56) beat Dhoni ’s 181/2 off 20 overs(Raina 83*, Badrinath 55*)

Sachin Tendulkar ’s Mumbai Indians had to face a tall Chennai SuperKings target, thanks to Suresh Raina, Dhoni’s blue eyed boy

Sachin Tendulkar spared a few words of encouragement for Suresh Raina’s performance in the Mumbai Indians IPL3 T20 cricket match vs Chennai Kings. Sachin Tendulkar had to acknowledge Suresh Raina’s swashbuckling innings of 83 off just 56 balls, with some enormous sixes.

The best part about Suresh Raina ’s innings for the Chennai Superkings was his handling of the short ball. The Mumbai Indians bowlers obviously attacked Suresh Raina with the short ball, knowing his perceived weakness, but Raina managed to play some aggressive pulls and hooks to the boundary

The Mumbai Indians had an aggressive Shikhar Dhawan in addition to Sachin Tendulkar at the start of the innings against the Chennai Superkings

Sachin Tendulkar had made a tough call in the Mumbai Indians team selection by dropping an out-of-form Sanath Jayasuriya from the IPL team. However, Shikhar Dhawan has more than compensated for Jayasuriya ’s lack of form by hitting some aggressive knocks at the top of the order for the Mumbai Indians.

In the Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Superkings IPL3 cricket match, Shikhar Dhawan launched a blistering attack on the Chennai SuperKings bowlers and was to a smashing fifty in almost no time. Joginder, the Chennai SuperKings medium pacer bore the brunt of the Shikhar Dhawan brutuality being smacked for 17 runs in one over

Sachin Tendulkar, the Mumbai Indians captain (and the best batsman in the world) paced his innings beautifully and
absolutely toyed with the Chennai SuperKings bowlers

Mahendra Singh Dhoni , the Chennai SuperKings (and India) captain, said it best by saying that Sachin Tendulkar’s batting was a training session for the bowlers and batsmen of both the Mumbai Indians and the Chennai Superkings cricket team. Sachin Tendulkar seemed to not only know exactly where the fielders were but also who the fielders were. Sachin Tendulkar got the Mumbai Indians cricket team really close to the Chennai Superkings target by stealing singles and twos and placing the ball in the right areas for boundaries.

To me, Sachin Tendulkar ’s best shot of the day for the Mumbai Indians was an inside out shot to deep long off for four. Not many would have noticed, but just that over, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Chennai Superkings captain had brought the long off inside the ring- trust Sachin Tendulkar to know exactly where the fielders in the opposing team are

Pollard, the new star of the Mumbai Indians cricket demonstrated his talent well against the Chennai Superkings IPL3 cricket team

In a brief stay,Pollard showed his batting prowess by slamming 20 runs in almost no time, including a “flicked” six off Muralitharan which was one the highlights of the T20 cricket match

Sachin Tendulkar, the captain of the Mumbai Indians cricket team, said in a post match press conference, that Pollard was still new to the IPL and was getting used to the local conditions- no doubt Pollard will be one of the stars of the Mumbai Indians in the future

In summary, it was a wonderful batting display by Sachin Tendulkar in the Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Superkings IPL3 league cricket match

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Duminy and Nayar play cautious cricket as Mumbai Indians lose vs Chennai SuperKings and are out of IPL2 T20 2009

Scores Mumbai Indians 147/4 , Chennai SuperKings 150/3 Sachin Tendulkar and Duminy were going great guns and the Mumbai Indians had almost a perfect start against Chennai Superkings IPL2 T20 cricket team at 70/2 off 10 overs. A score of at least 170 runs for the Mumbai Indians vs Chennai SuperKings seemed very achievable

However, after Sachin’s wicket in the 11th over, Duminy and Abhishek Nayar put down the shutters and the Mumbai Indians could score only 147 runs

The Mumbai Indians cricket team, especially Nayar and Duminy should have believed in themselves a lot more and trusted the lower order

Cautious cricket is not ideal for IPL T20 cricket matches and Duminy and Nayar were culpable of too much caution, as the Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team scored at least 20 runs short of the required target against the Chennai Superkings IPL2 cricket team

Duminy, Nayar and Sachin were guilty of abundant caution and lack of trust in the rest of the Mumbai Indians batting and this probably was the key reason the Mumbai Indians lost to Chennai Superkings and also failed to qualify for the semi finals of IPL2

The Mumbai Indians think tank failed to emulate Shane Warne who constantly inspires the younger and less experienced players in the IPL2 T20 cricket team. Often in this T20 IPL2 cricket tournament, Nayar and Duminy shared long partnerships and always seemed to look for the average score and preferred to err on the side of caution

Duminy and Abhishek Nayar failed to realize that T20 cricket,especially in the IPL, calls for trust in the younger Indian cricket players and often throwing caution to the winds

The Mumbai Indians lost to the Chennai Superkings and now find themselves out of the IPL2 T20 cricket tournament- I would pin the blame on Duminy and Nayar

Sachin Tendulkar played a classy cricket innings of 59 runs off 49 balls as the Mumbai Indians cricket team smashed the Chennai Superkings. Playing on a bouncy , seaming track, Sachin Tendulkar quickly guaged the state of the pitch quickly and decided that heroics are not the order of the day

Even after the loss of Sanath Jayasurya, Sachin Tendulkar decided that it was better to play a conservative innings for the Mumbai Indians IPL 2 cricket team by IPL standards, and play out the Chennai seam bowlers

Sachin Tendulkar ’s innings of 59 runs was in line with Shaun Pollock ’s strategy for Sachin ’s role in IPL 2009

It appears that Shaun Pollock ’s strategy for the Mumbai Indians is to have Sachin Tendulkar hold up one end with singles and have players like Sanath Jayasurya and Abhishek Nayar spike the opposition with boundaries from the other end

For the first Mumbai Indians IPL 2 2009 cricket match, this strategy worked brilliantly, as the other Mumbai batsmen, notably Abhishek Nayar were able to score freely since the Mumbai IPL had wickets in hand

As Sachin Tendulkar demonstrated, even IPL T20 cricket needs some thinking and loads of experience

Any form of cricket needs a cool head on one’s shoulders, and Sachin Tendulkar ably demonstrated that in the T20 Mumbai Indians cricket match. With his experience,Sachin Tendulkar was able to judge the pitch quickly and decide that a score of 120-150 runs was a winning total on the seaming track

Sachin Tendulkar is of course the best cricketer in the world, whether it is T20 cricket, test cricket or one day international cricket