By Sheriff Michaels
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| Rain puts Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire under tremendous pressure in CLT2012 |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (TheSportsNEXT) October 19, 2012: Rain played spoilsport for the second evening on the trot at the Champions League Twenty20 2012 on Thursday.
Due to inclement weather, an important Group B match between Mumbai Indians and Yorkshire was abandoned and both teams secured two important points from it.
Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale won the toss and asked Mumbai Indians to bat first.
Mumbai Indians lost Sachin Tendulkar (7 from 10 – 1 four) early in the innings but West Indian hard-hitting batsman Dwayne Smith (37 from 26 – 4 sixes) put on exhibition his ferocious lofty hits and together with Rohit Sharma (25 from 23 – 1 four, 1 six) added 36 runs for the second wicket.
However just when Mumbai Indians looked settled to score a big total they lost Dwayen Smith and Rohit Sharma in the space of three overs to put themselves under pressure.
Dinesh Karthik (12 from 8 – 2 fours) and Ambati Rayudu (15 from 10 – 2 fours) also failed to deliver goods and it looked all but over for the Mumbai Indians before skipper Harbhajan Singh and another West Indian basher Kieron Pollard (37 not out from 20 – 3 fours, 2 sixes) used the long handle to a great effect to score some quick runs.
However, the innings was stopped after 17.5 overs by heavy rain when the Mumbai Indians had scored 156 for six and were looking all set to score in excess of 180 runs.
Yorkshire bowling was pretty average and other than Sam Patterson (3-0-12-0) all the other bowlers were mustered by West Indian duo in the Mumbai Indians. Adil Rashid gave 42 runs for his two wickets while Azeem Rafiq also captured two wickets for 36 runs from his four overs.
After getting two points from this game, the Mumbai Indians now are third in the table with two points as a better net-run-rate keep them a place in front of the Yorkshire. Chennai Super Kings are yet to win a game and are languishing at the last place in Group B.
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