MI 194/7 (20.0 Ovs)
DD 195/3 (20.0 Ovs)
Delhi Daredevils won by 7 wkts
So it's three straight loses for Mumbai to begin the season. Don't get carried away though. MI have the knack of bouncing back strongly from tough situations. It's a double-header day, so it's time for all of us to move to the Eden Gardens for the battle between the Knight Riders and Sunrisers. See you there!
Jason Roy - Player of the Match: It was a good knock . We came together and showed what we are capable off. We brought them back nicely and restricted them to a chaseable total. It is a great place to bat and great place to play cricket. New ball skids on nicely and my intention was to play strong attacking shots. Just a little bit of nerves in the final overs, I made it harder than I should have. I am spending a lot of time playing spin in the nets and trying a way to score runs against spin.
Gautam Gambhir: I thought that it was a serious win. It was a tremendous effort from the bowlers to drag them back to 195. At one time we were thinking they might get 230. The way bowlers bowled, a lot of credit goes to them. We knew under lights the ball will come better onto the bat better. Rahul Tewatia was brilliant. The last 5 overs we were tremendous, both Shami and Dan Christian were terrific. The mood in the dressing at the innings break was good as we expected the opposition to get 230 but restricted them around 190. Guys were pumped up as they knew 180-190 is chaseable on this ground. Roy showed everyone that he is a class player specially in this format. (On playing next match at Eden) We got to try and take it as any other game. I will try not to be emotional.
Rohit: Disappointing not to finish the (three) games. We had a good score on the board today. We could have bowled smarter and used the slower ball better, but credit to Jason Roy for the way he batted. We got off to a great start with the bat, but didn't capitalize towards the end. There is room for improvement in the fielding department. The catches we dropped could have gone either way. We certainly have the guys to pull things back. We never wanted to lose games like this because we all know it's critical to win these games. We need to regroup, come out and do better. We have definitely played good cricket in the last 3 games, hopefully we can learn from the negatives and come back stronger against RCB.
Gautam Gambhir: I thought that it was a serious win. It was a tremendous effort from the bowlers to drag them back to 195. At one time we were thinking they might get 230. The way bowlers bowled, a lot of credit goes to them. We knew under lights the ball will come better onto the bat better. Rahul Tewatia was brilliant. The last 5 overs we were tremendous, both Shami and Dan Christian were terrific. The mood in the dressing at the innings break was good as we expected the opposition to get 230 but restricted them around 190. Guys were pumped up as they knew 180-190 is chaseable on this ground. Roy showed everyone that he is a class player specially in this format. (On playing next match at Eden) We got to try and take it as any other game. I will try not to be emotional.
Rohit: Disappointing not to finish the (three) games. We had a good score on the board today. We could have bowled smarter and used the slower ball better, but credit to Jason Roy for the way he batted. We got off to a great start with the bat, but didn't capitalize towards the end. There is room for improvement in the fielding department. The catches we dropped could have gone either way. We certainly have the guys to pull things back. We never wanted to lose games like this because we all know it's critical to win these games. We need to regroup, come out and do better. We have definitely played good cricket in the last 3 games, hopefully we can learn from the negatives and come back stronger against RCB.
That was a chaotic final over. 11 needed, the first two yield 10 runs and just as you thought MI were out of it, Fizz bowls a hat-trick of dots and almost makes the team believe that they can push this to the Super Over! Phew! But hey, that was some tremendous batting from Roy and Co. To be honest, DD won the game when they took 5 wickets for 21 runs towards the end of MI's batting effort. The hosts looked set to cross 215-220, but they struggled when the bowlers took pace off the ball. DD needed a good start in the chase and Roy got them off to a flier. Pant looked determined coming in at No. 3 and combined well with Roy. Although DD lost a couple of quick wickets, Roy and Iyer took the side home.
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