After a good start to the tournament, Mumbai Indians have lost their steam in the business stages of the tournament. As a desperate measure to change their fortunes, tinkered with what is arguably their biggest strength – Sachin and Sanath opening the innings. With Sanath not playing, Sachin brought himself down the order promoting Ronchi and Duminy to open the innings. With both openers not disturbing the scorers Mumbai were on the back foot straightaway and except for Bravo no one really made an impact. The writing was on the wall once Mumbai put up such a mediocre score against a strong Delhi batting line up.
But Mumbai still made a match of it with some very tight bowling from Dhaval Kulkarni and JP Duminy too. Just as they were pushing the match to the edge and with spinners doing well, Sachin took a gamble of bowling himself for an over and went away for 19 runs. It was all over then. AB has been making fast strides to move from just being a good batsman to a great batsman since the beginning of this season in Australia and his fine display in IPL so far is further proof of that. Since the beginning Delhi has looked the best team in the competition and after 35 matches, they are still the team to beat.
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