The IPL3 is over and it was a fantastic season for Chennai super kings and also for Mumbai Indians to some extent .so, this article is specially focus on the Mumbai Indians defeat in final. I was very keen right from the first day for the IPL matches and obviously favoring Mumbai Indians. This team really done well throughout the 3rd IPL and placed itself in finals . But at the final day they were not able to repeat the best performance and lost to super kings. Top on the table and beating every team ,,,it was really a deserving team to have the finals, but there were some mistakes done in final and these let them to down. So, I want to analyze the reasons behind their defeat .
Actually, the day started with bad start when they were not able to win the toss, so we won’t treat it as reason but bad luck for them.
1) Slow start and not good opener with Sachin. We have seen throughout the IPL that sachin as a opener was fantastic and highest scorer with 618 runs in 14 matches and good opening starter. But on the other side no other opner performed well through out the IPL. Mumbai Indians were not able to come up with the right opening partner for Sachin TendulkarFirstly sanith Jayasuriya and then shakher dhawan. Both were not able to give consistence performance and that’s why MI were not able to recognize whom to play in finals and al last s Dhaman got the chance and did the same and lost his wicket very early.
2) Batting order: in the batting order ,MI was not able to make good strategy regarding batting order. Harbhajan singh up to the order before Tiwary and Rayudu and pollard . these all done well throughout the IPL . k pollard who is good hitter and performed exceptional well as a hitter and MI had realized his presence at the finisher but in final pollard role was considered by the management and sent him very late in the batting order when MI required and he came when there were nothing to do but he hit some shots but impossible for MI to win from there . They should move him up in place of Harbhajan and the result would be different.
3) Fielding: it was totally unacceptable from a team who is in finals and dropped two easy catches of Suresh Raina who made all the difference in the end - Suresh Raina, first by the Dilahara-Nayar combination and then by Zaheer Khan .one when he was at 9 and other a think 24 and after that Chennai rocked and within 4 overs they scored 59 and from there they took the match . I think in whole match these two catches were decided the match for Chennai super kings.
Well done Mumbai Indians, Congrats to Sachin for showing a brave front by playing the finals inspite of five stitches to his right hand webbing and winning the player of the tournament..........
Thanks readers and give ur comments also,,,,,,,,,
