Mumbai Indians 154/9 off 20 overs (Sachin 29, Duminy 35) lost to Kings X1 Punjab (KXIP)-Duminy at fault?

One cant help but blame Duminy for the Mumbai Indians defeat vs Kings X1 Punjab IPL-3 T20 cricket match. No personal fault of Duminy, but Duminy’s presence seems to spark a collapse in the Mumbai Indians batting team in the IPL

Mumbai Indians batting collapses vs Kings X1 Punjab – the only reason for the Mumbai Indians batting failure could be Duminy’s presence

In a humourous vein, it can be argued statistically that every time Duminy plays for the Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team, the Mumbai Indians has collapsed spectacularly and left Duminy to attempt to do the rescue act

It was no different in the Mumbai Indians match vs the Kings X1 Punjab IPL-3 cricket team. Duminy was drafted in to replace an injured Dwayne Bravo, but Duminy had to don the “rescue hat” again as the Mumbai Indians tottered precariously at 95/5. Jean Paul Duminy has never been spectacular for the Mumbai Indians but his dogged approach even in a T20 cricket match got the Mumbai Indians IPL-3 cricket team to a score of 154/8 off 20 overs

Mumbai Indians realized that a score of 154 is not defendable even against the Kings X1 Punjab IPL-3 cricket team

The Kings X1 Punjab IPL-3 cricket team is definitely not one of the best cricket teams in the IPL, but a target score of 155 runs is gettable even by KXIP. Led by Barath and Jayawardene’s aggressive batting display, the KXIP IPL-3 cricket team coasted to an easy win against the Mumbai Indians IPL cricket teamSangakarra and Yuvraj later joined the fun as the Mumbai Indians lost to KXIP easily

The lesson for the Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team from this defeat vs KXIP- dont select Duminy:-)

Mumbai Indians 165/5 (Shikhar Dhawan 50) beat Punjab KXIP 164 all out (Malinga 4/26)

Lasith Malinga, the leading Mumbai Indians bowler in the IPL speared his yorkers with ease and sent four KXIP (Kings X1 Punjab) batsmen back to the pavilion. An amazing bowling display by Lasith Malinga as the hapless Kings X1 Punjab batsmen struggled to get their bearings in the IPL3 cricket match and floundered to a meagre score of 163 runs off 20 overs

Lasith Malinga was ably supported by Zaheer Khan in the Mumbai Indians bowling display against Kings X1 Punjab in the IPL3 league match

Lasith Malinga and Zaheer Khan make a potent bowling pair for the Mumbai Indians. While Lasith Malinga relies on subtle variations in pace and accurate yorkers, Zaheer Khan relies on swing to make it happen for the Mumbai Indians. In the MI vs Kings X1 Punjab IPL3 encounter, both Zaheer Khan and Malinga bowled an immaculate line to have the Punjab Kings X1 batsmen struggling

The KXIP (Kings X1 Punjab) batsmen struggled against the Mumbai Indians bowling right from the first over when Zaheer Khan sent Ravi Bopara back to pavilion. The struggle for the Kings X1 Punjab batsmen continued until they were actually all out off the last ball of their 20-over innings against the Mumbai Indians bowling attack

The Mumbai Indians batting order huffed and puffed but finally prevailed over the Kings X1 Punjab bowlers

Facing a small target, the Mumbai Indians IPL3 cricket batsmen struggled on a slow Brabourne pitch, which offered spin and bounce to the Kings X1 Punjab bowlers , notably Piyush Chawla. After Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar struggled a bit off Sangwan bowling left arm over the wicket, Piyush Chawla flight one to have Sachin Tendulkar,the proud owner of the IPL3 orange cap, caught at long on

Shikhar Dhawan, the Mumbai Indians opener, played a steady innings to move the Mumbai Indians to a resonably comfortable position vs KXIP in the IPL3 League match at the half way stage

Shikhar Dhawan scored a comfortable 50 runs off 40 balls for the Mumbai Indians vs the KXIP bowlers. In particular, Shikhar Dhawan hit some awesome square cuts off KXIP opening bowler Brett Lee’s bowling to the cover boundary

The Mumbai Indians were 82/2 off the first 10 overs, a comfortable position to overhaul the KXIP(Kings X1 Punjab) target of 163, thanks to Shikhar Dhawan and some reasonably good batting by Pollard

Just when the Mumbai Indians started losing wickets to some good KXIP bowling by Bopara and Piyush Chawla, SS Tiwari and Sathish came to the party

Sathish is an excellent find by the Mumbai Indians in IPL3. For the second time in the IPL3 Twenty20 cricket tournament, Sathish has rescued the Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team and has got the tag of a “good finisher”. With the Mumbai Indians needing six runs to win off the last over vs KXIP, Sathish, the new Mumbai Indians star, ran like a hare and played Brett Lee with a lot of comfort in the last over to take the Mumbai Indians home

SS Tiwari is another stalwart for the MI cricket team in IPL3 2010, and he belted a couple of enormous sixes to take MI home against KXIP

The Mumbai Indians prevailed over KXIP in the IPL3 2010 league match, thanks to some classy bowling by Lasith Malinga

Lasith Malinga ’s amazing sling arm yorkers and Sathish ’s finishing ability under pressure were the key factors that resulted in the Mumbai Indians win over the hapless KXIP IPL3 cricket team

Dwayne Bravo helps Mumbai IPL T20 cricket team find a new “opener” in win over Kings X1 Punjab

Scores: Kings X1 Punjab 119/9 off 20 overs. Mumbai Indians 120/2 off 16.2 overs. Bravo 79, Sachin Tendulkar 41Dwayne Bravo and Sachin Tendulkar make the target of 120 set by the Punjab Kings X1 T20 IPL2 cricket team seem ridiculously easy as the Mumbai Indians cricket team strolls past the meagre target

Dwayne Bravo ’s belligerant innings in the T20 IPL2 cricket match vs Punjab Kings X1 suggests that Bravo may be the opening batsman the Mumbai Indians were looking for

One of the problems for the Mumbai Indians IPL2 T20 cricket team has been the overdependence on Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya at the top of the Mumbai Indians batting order. But, if Dwayne Bravo can develop into a successful opening batsman, the Mumbai Indians can Sachin and possibly even Jayasuriya to shore up the middle order which loses confidence once Sachin and Jayasuriya fail

Dwayne Bravo should really be in England playing for the West Indies cricket team but the Mumbai Indians are lucky to have him in South Africa for IPL T20

For reasons unknown, Dwayne Bravo is unfit to play for the West Indies cricket team in England but is fit to play competitive cricket for the Mumbai Indians. The Mumbai Indians are not complaining however, as this classy allrounder may win more matches for the Mumbai IPL team in the T20 IPL2 cricket tournament

Bravo hitting “Appam” Sreesanth for 21 runs in one over was the highlight of the Mumbai Indians run chase

Dwayne Bravo hit the overrated Sreesanth for 21 runs including some huge sixes as the Mumbai Indains made a mockery of the target set by the Kings X1 Punjab

Dwayne Bravo ’s bowling has also been good, but he has been underbowled in Mumbai Indians T20 IPL2

Underbowling Dwayne Bravo has been one of the key strategy mistakes by the Mumbai Indians T20 cricket team in IPL2 2009. Dwayne Bravo may not appear as sensational as Lasith Malinga, but Bravo has not been taken to the cleaners by any batsman in IPL2 2009

Bravo has hardly completed his spell of four overs in any T20 cricket match for the Mumbai Indians and the Mumbai Indians will hopefully realize this and ensure that Bravo gets his full quota of overs

Lasith Malinga bowled an incredible spell of fast bowling castling two batsmen with his trademark swinging yorkers. Malinga was ably supported by Zaheer Khan and Sanath Jayasuriya as the Mumbai Indians restricted the Kings X1 Punjab team to just 119 runs, made possible by a steady innings by Sangakkara

Another Mumbai Indians defeat after the failure of Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar

The Mumbai Indians IPL T20 cricket team seems to be dependent on their batting heavyweights,Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar and become defeatist as soon as the team loses these openers. No doubt, Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya are great batsmen,but the Mumbai Indians cricket team batsmen need to start believing in their own talent and not seem to give up as soon as Sachin Tendulkar and Jayasuriya depart to the pavilion

Chasing 120 to win off 20 overs, Duminy seemed to mistime the chase against the Kings X1 Punjab bowlers for the Mumbai Indians IPL T20 cricket team

The Mumbai Indians were just 4 runs for the loss of the prized wickets of Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar,when Duminy came in. Duminy played a stellar innings ,no doubt, and held the innings together, but he seemed to lack confidence in the rest of the Mumbai Indians batting line up as he focused on preserving his wicket and scored the slowest fifty of the IPL 2 T20 cricket tournament

With pinch-hitters like Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan yet to bat, Jean Paul Duminy should have scored a little faster rather than just relying on singles. After chasing just 120 off 20 overs, the Mumbai Indians soon required 30 runs to get off the last 3 overs, and finally 12 runs off the last over,which is a really tough ask

In fairness to Duminy, if his slog over mid wicket had crossed the boundary rather than falling a yard short, the Mumbai Indians would have won the T20 IPL cricket match vs the Kings X1 Punjab cricket team

With this loss to the Punjab Kings 11,the Mumbai Indians have now lost two IPL T20 cricket matches and are at a key inflection point

The Mumbai Indians need to step up their IPL2 T20 campaign.No doubt the Mumbai Indians cannot win every T20 cricket match they play, but they need to have the confidence in themselves to at least win at least the close encounters

Sachin Tendulkar,Sanath Jayasuriya and Lasith Malinga were in ominous touch against the hapless Kolkata KnightRiders IPL team a couple of days back and now take on the Punjab Kings X1 IPL cricket team

The Punjab Kings X1 vs Mumbai Indians IPL T20 cricket match is a great opportunity for Sachin Tendulkar and Jayasuriya to further stamp their authority on IPL2

The Punjab Kings X1 IPL2 T20 cricket team has a significantly weaker bowling than last year. The absence of Brett Lee is significant and Sachin and Jayasuriya will look to help the Mumbai Indians thrash the weaker bowling of the Punjab Kings 11

We are all also looking forward to another blistering spell by Lasith Malinga in the Mumbai Indians Vs Punjab Kings X1 IPL2 cricket match

Malinga ’s swinging yorkers are the highlight of IPL2 and this Mumbai Indians Vs Punjab Kings X1 IPL2 cricket match will hopefully see some more toe crushing yorkers from Lasith Malinga,the Sri Lankan fast bowler

Jean Paul Duminy, the latest recruit from South Africa, for the Mumbai Indians could use the weak Punjab Kings X1 bowling to get to peak form

JP Duminy has scored some runs but he definitely is not yet in peak form in IPL2 as the Mumbai Indians still continue to rely on the opening pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya to give them a big score. JP Duminy could play himself into peak form in the IPL2 T20 cricket match vs the Punjab Kings X1

Yuvraj is of course the player to watch in the Punjab Kings X1 cricket team and the threat to another Mumbai Indians IPL2 T20 win

Yuvraj Singh is a classy player and he had scored six sixes in an over on the same ground and the Mumbai Indians will be wary of this fantastic Punjab Kings X1 player.

A fascinating contest of two Punjabis is in store in the Mumbai Indians Vs Punjab Kings X1 IPL2 T20 cricket match- Harbhajan Singh Vs Yuvraj Singh. Harbhajan Singh has been in great form during IPL season 2, and he will look to winning the exciting battle against Yuvraj