Jaipur, April 11: A captain’s innings of 89 off just 59 balls by Sachin Tendulkar helped Mumbai Indians to put up a respectable total of 174/5 in their game against Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here tonight.
Sachin, who was let-off by Aditya Dole when he was at 45, played the lone hand for the Mumbai side, especially at the end by scoring 20 runs in the last over by Siddharth Trivedi.
For Royals, Shane Watson took three wickets while Trivedi and Dole contributed with a wicket each.
Earlier, after two fours by Tendulkar in the first over bowled by Pathan, Watson brought Royals back in the game with two quick wickets. First he got Sanath Jayasuriya (1 off 2 balls) out in the cover then he got rid of Ambati Rayudu (o off 3 deliveries) with an aggressive bouncer.
Jayasurya, who replaced Ryan Mclaren in this game, could not pick the slow delivery by Watson and gave a simple catch to Abhishek Jhunjhunwala while Rayudu, who was intimidated by Watson in the previous delivery, was unable to control a short ball and caught behind the wicket.
Sourabh Tiwary started off well, hitting two straight boundaries off Aditya Dole but was outsmarted by Watson, who got him with a well thought of bouncer at fine leg.
Sachin tried to run neck to neck with his nemesis Warne and hit three delectable boundaries – two over covers and a square cut – off the leg spinner. But he could not get the required support from JP Duminy, who was playing his second game of the competition, got out after getting his eye in. The South African all-rounder contributed with 31 off 32 balls. Kieron Pollard (25 off 13 balls) hit some lusty blows towards the end of Mumbai’s innings.
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