Well, the Rajasthan Royals are back to their Home venue after matches at the “home” in Ahmedabad. The scenes in Jaipur in IPL 1 were pure magic, when the Royals went unbeaten at their home and crushing every opponent who set foot on home turf by winning 7 in 7 ! We are the Only IPL team to do that and we have added another match to it by beating the Kings XI Punjab ! 8 in 8 ! Mumbai Indians, be scared, be really scared as you are next! First of all Mumbai is on a losing streak of 2 and will be 3 by 11 30 today!
Match Report
Punjab were on a High after chasing down 200 against an undisciplined KKR and were carrying on from where they left off, but it was Aditya Dole who turned it around as he did in the previous match against the Deccan Chargers for us! He is expensive but gets the big fish out and in this match he stopped a Rampaging Mahela and Yuvraj and that about settles the match! after the double blow, Punjab never recovered and were not able to hot a boundary leave alone clear the ropes, their batting performance in the last five was even more dismal due to the disciplined effort from our bowlers, who sealed the deal but restricting them to a way below par score of 153.
I have previously voiced my opinion about the inclusion of a certain Adam Voges into the playing XI, finally they have listened to me, but instead of dropping Lumb they choose to drop a bowler which also makes sense as Watson is proving more valuable as a bowler than Tait and Morkel combined of late! Anyhow Voges didn’t have a bowl nor a bat, but it added to the team balance and a deeper batting lineup.
Punjab bowlers were down and out by the target and Lumb cashed in big time and Ojha, who is in the top 5 run getters in this IPL continued his form with Pathan finishing off, All in all in was a perfect game which even helped our NRR a fair bit!
Mumbai are next, the key is to get Sachin out before he gets 20 and the rest will take care of itself
Mumbai “Indians”, true to their name are playing like the Indian cricket Team of the 90′s these days! If only they have won 5-6 matches till now it would have been a whole lot interesting for their semis berth! Warne vs Tendulkar, even after 12 years after his desert storm innings is one any cricket fan would not want to miss out on!
Halla Bol!
Umm, you spoke too soon Adi!
Tch, Yes Purna I did
Hopefully RR bounce back in the next match!
The fortress has a crack now – inflicted by SRT!
Lets not forget Aditya Dole had a Huge role in it as well!