IPL MAXIMUM CRICKET: Pune too hot for Mumbai as Dinda picks up four wickets and Smith hits 39

By Mail Today Reporter

Published: 01:05 BST, 7 April 2012 | Updated: 01:37 BST, 7 April 2012

Pacer Ashoke Dinda scalped four wickets as Pune Warriors pulled off an upset 28-run win over Mumbai Indians in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match in Mumbai on Friday.

After being restricted to 129, the Warriors' clinical bowling on the Wankhede strip ensured that Mumbai could only reach 101 for nine in 20 overs.

Dinda, the Warriors' new recruit, grabbed two wickets in his first over and then came back to add two more to finish with admirable figures of four for 18.

Also, spinners Murali Kartik, Marlon Samuels and Rahul Sharma choked up the Mumbai batting with the turn they got out of the pitch. Kartik got two for https://footballncrickethub.blogspot.com/2020/06/dinesh-karthik-wife-sports.html 14, including the important wicket of Dinesh Karthik when the game was wide open, while West Indian Samuels and leggie Sharma got a wicket apiece along with South African pacer Wayne Parnell.

The visitors reduced the home team to a sorry figure of five for three at the end of the second over and tightened the noose gradually to come out on top.

Missing an injured Sachin Tendulkar, there was little worth mentioning in the Mumbai innings, barring Karthik's 32 off as many balls and an identical effort from James Franklin. Both added 49 runs for the fourth wicket.

Earlier, Mumbai lost both the openers Richard Levi (0) and Ambati Rayudu (1) inside first two overs. It was not before long that Mumbai lost their third wicket when Rohit Sharma (1) was caught behind playing a horrendous shot off Dinda, leaving the home team at a precarious five for three.

The repair job was left to Karthik and Franklin, who forged a 49-run stand in 53 balls to resurrect the innings.

But Karthik was found well outside his crease in the 11th over when Kartik's delivery turned past the Mumbai player's bat for Uthappa to make a comfortable stumping.

Samuels then castled newcomer Suryakumar Yadav with a faster delivery that the batsman had no clue to and the dismissal left Mumbai at a difficult 64 for 5 in the 13th over.

Franklin was batting confidently as wickets fell at the other end.
The big-hitting West Indian Kieron Pollard (8) was completely beaten by the fast leg-break from Rahul Sharma.

With the run-rate climbing and six wickets down, the gangling Franklin went for a mighty hit on the leg-side off Dinda, lost his bat in the process, and the lofted shot was caught brilliantly by a diving Pandey at the mid-wicket.

Mumbai skipper Harbhajan Singh made a valiant 16 off 15 balls towards the end. But Dinda came back for his second spell to dismiss Harbhajan while Malinga (5) was dismissed by Parnell to effectively seal the match.

Earlier the Warriors, who had won only four games in the previous season, commenced their campaign on a poor note after being put in to bat. The Warriors lost the wickets of Manish Pandey (0), Ganguly (3) and Parnell (11), all of them to poor shots, much to the delight of the home crowd.

Only Robin Uthappa (36, 33b) and Steven Smith (39, 32b) were among the runs and also compiled the highest stand of the innings of 44 in 48 balls for the fifth wicket. Kartik came late in the order to hammer a quick-fire 14 off nine balls with a six and a four.