Lasith Malinga is expected to win matches with the ball, he does the job with the bat this time. Those two straight sixes off Jakati gave Mumbai hope, there was some senseless swinging after that, but Mumbai will be willing to forgive that as he ends with 37* off 18. The partnership with Harbhajan was 53 off 4.3 overs, it needed something special to beat Chennai at home - Malinga and Harbhajan provided that. Hang on for the presentation.
Rohit Verma writes in: "Finally, the CEO of CSK team can sit easily during the matches as he thought that whenever he was sitting in a chennai match in chennai his team was loosing the match, so, he kept standing in all the matches in chennai till today's match."
Tyler: "Oh dear, what has that Eng tour done to our MS Dhoni ? He is now lossing these close matches even at his fortress chepauk !!!"
Pranav: "Dhoni must be really wondering where his MIDAS touch has disappeared"
Presentation ceremony: Harbhajan: "In my mind I was just thinking, give the strike to Malinga. Chennai got runs on the board, it was a difficult task for is, Malinga played the innings of his life."
Dhoni blames himself for the missed stumping, saying that cost Chennai the catch, says he is to blame several times. He says Chennai should have taken the pace off the ball when Malinga got going. "Hopefully in the coming games, we won't repeat the mistakes we did today."
Lasith Malinga is the Man of the Match.
Rahul writes in: "A team dominated 95% of the match, only to lose it in the last 2 overs. Only in a T20 can something so ridiculous happen. Malingaaaaaaaa, you beauty!"
Mull over whether that is a good thing or bad. I'm signing off, see you tomorrow at 4pm for Warriors v Redbacks.
11 needed off the final over.
END OF OVER:19 | 14 Runs | MI: 148/7 (12 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.78, RRR: 12.00)
- Lasith Malinga32 (16b)
- Harbhajan Singh13 (17b)
- Albie Morkel3-0-32-1
- Doug Bollinger3-0-26-0
END OF OVER:18 | 6 Runs | MI: 134/7 (26 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 7.44, RRR: 13.00)
- Harbhajan Singh13 (17b)
- Lasith Malinga23 (10b)
- Doug Bollinger3-0-26-0
- Shadab Jakati4-0-36-0
END OF OVER:17 | 15 Runs | MI: 128/7 (32 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 7.52, RRR: 10.66)
- Lasith Malinga18 (6b)
- Harbhajan Singh12 (15b)
- Shadab Jakati4-0-36-0
- Albie Morkel2-0-20-1