Mumbai stay alive with big win
Mumbai Indians kept their qualifying chances alive with a much improved performance in two departments - batting and bowling - to surpass Southern Express' score of 161 with 22 balls to spare
Mumbai Indians kept their qualifying chances alive with a much improved performance in two departments - batting and bowling - to surpass Southern Express' score of 161 with 22 balls to spare
Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Andrew Fidel Fernando
That's about it from us tonight. All teams are still in contention for the main draw, so join us for the final two matches on Tuesday. See you then.
Man of the match is Llendl Simmons: I did a bit of grafting up top while the ball was nipping around. We needed to get a good start and me and Huss did that today.
Pollard: Much better performance tonight. We need to improve our fielders, If we field like that against better teams, they're going to kill us. We made it hard for ourselves by giving them 160. It could have easily been 120. Congratulations to Simmons who got some runs, but there's a lot of room for improvements.
shams: "Mumbai win means all teams are still in contention to qualify with Northern highest possibility and southern lowest possibility"
Michael Hussey: You've got to cash in on the good days. I really enjoyed my partnership with Simmons. It was a bit frustrating at the start when the ball was nipping around. Once the ball gets a bit wet it skids on a bit more. Knights have played some excellent cricket, so hopefully our next match is a good one.
Jehan Mubarak: They batted really well. They played the percentages really well when the ball was doing a bit. The ball got wet with the dew and it came on for their big hitters. We had a poor first half with the bat today. Hopefully we can rectify that tomorrow. Not having Lasith is a big loss to us. The fast bowlers bowled pretty well. Hopefully we'll take something away from this. We've not played our best brand of cricket. Next game is a day game, so hopefully dew will be less of an issue for the spinners.
Mumbai stay well in the hunt for a main-draw spot. Southern Express are sent to the brink of elimination. Express just didn't have the penetration to put pressure on Mumbai. The spinners weren't getting much rip. The seamers bowled ok first up, but didn't make any breakthroughs. Superb batting from Michael Hussey as well.
Michael Hussey has said he has clicked with Lendl Simmons at the top of the order for Mumbai Indians, and considers theirs to be a "good partnership"
Mumbai Indians kept their qualifying chances alive with a much improved performance in two departments - batting and bowling - to surpass Southern Express' score of 161 with 22 balls to spare
Plays of the Day from the CLT20 qualifier between Mumbai Indians and Southern Express in Raipur