Mumbai Indians ousts Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 4 2011

Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at 11:20 am , filed under News by Culbert Monte

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Harbhajan Singh knocked Shakib Al Hasan for a six in the last over of the match as Mumbai Indians made a huge victory in the IPL 4 eliminator against Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets at the Wankhede stadium on Wednesday night, May 25, 2011.

Mumbai Indians will now play with Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday night in IPL qualifier-II match. The winner of the qualifier match will take on defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the crown fight on Saturday.

The Indian Premier League 72nd match victory was set up by the Mumbai bowlers. They have cracked the slow Wankhede track and put their team in the driver’s seat by ending Kolkata score to 147 for seven.

Mumbai seems to be coasting towards an easy victory before a spell of wickets allowed the Kolkata to stage a late fight back.

The wickets of Ambati Rayudu and Keiron Rayudu to dishonest umpiring decisions curved the tide in Kolkata’s favour before Harbhajan and James Franklin (29 runs off 25 balls) finally settled the issue in Mumbai’s favour.

Sachin Tendulkar (36 runs) and Aiden Blizzard (51 runs) got the Mumbai Indians off to a flying start before the final knock out to Brett Lee.

Towards the end vital runs form Mumbai Indians, a six and a four in the final over to give the innings the final raise.