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Monday, May 26, 2008
Start time 20.00 (local), 14.30 (GMT)



A contest to savour: Sachin Tendulkar v Shane Warne (file photo) © Cricinfo Ltd





The Big Picture

The Mumbai Indians are in a must-win situation after two successive losses. If they win against Rajasthan Royals and follow it up with another victory in their final league game against Bangalore Royal Challengers on Wednesday, they will make the semi-finals. If they lose one of their remaining two clashes then they will have to hope that Chennai Super Kings lose their final match against Deccan Chargers.

Mumbai can blame no one but themselves for their precarious state. Their six-match winning streak - the longest in the IPL - is a distant memory already and they need to get the right combination which got them to winning ways after losses in their first four games. Sachin Tendulkar raised eyebrows when he opted for rookie spinners in last week's losses against Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils ahead of the medium-pacer Rohan Raje and wicketkeeper Yogesh Takawale, who excelled in pressure situations earlier in the tournament. Tendulkar can't afford any miscalculations against Rajasthan, proud occupants of the top spot in the points table.

Shane Warne is still smarting from the humiliation suffered in Mumbai in the first week of May where his batsmen were tied down by a charged-up Mumbai bowling. That loss ended Rajasthan's winning run at five games and now, with another chance to go for six successive triumphs, Mumbai again stand in their way.


Tournament position

Rajasthan Royals: P12, W10, L2, NRR +0.918
Mumbai Indians: P12, W6, L6, NRR +0.590


Form (last five matches, most recent first)

Rajasthan Royals: WWWWW
Mumbai Indians: LLWWW


Watch out for ...

Shane Warne v Sachin Tendulkar: Last time round this dream bout didn't happen as Tendulkar failed to recover from his groin injury. He is now back, and in good nick, and Warne, the best slow bowler in the IPL, will like to score over his old nemesis.


Sanath Jaysuriya v Sohail Tanvir: Jayasuriya has been in vintage form, disdainfully clobbering new-ball bowlers while Tanvir has been both incisive and economical and hasn't lost too many tussles with batsmen in the IPL.


Big hits: Yusuf Pathan, Shane Watson, Jayasuriya and Abhishek Nayar will keep the cheerleaders busy


Team news

After the failed experiments with spin, Mumbai are likely to replace offspinner Siddharth Chitnis, who was not even given a bowl against Delhi in the previous game, with Raje who is a good fielder as well Takawale, who had made some handy scores as Jayasuriya's partner in the absence of Tendulkar, might take over wicketkeeping duties from Pinal Shah. Dominic Thornely's all-round skills could see him picked ahead of South African fast bowler Andre Nel.

Mumbai Indians (probable): 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Dominic Thornley, 5 Dwayne Smith, 6 Shaun Pollock, 7 Abhishek Nayar, 8 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 9 Dhawal Kulkarni, 10 Rohan Raje, 11 Ashish Nehra.

Rajasthan are the only team with double-digit victories and have the liberty to try out any combination. Graeme Smith is likely to sit out after pulling a hamstring in his previous game and Shane Watson could come back after a one-game break. Warne might also pick the hard-hitting Ravindra Jadeja instead of Taruwar Kohli.

Rajasthan Royals (probable): 1 Shane Warne (capt), 2 Shane Watson, 3 Kamran Akmal (wk), 4 Swapnil Asnodkar, 5 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Mohammad Kaif, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Dinesh Salunkhe, 9 Sohail Tanvir, 10 Pankaj Singh, 11 Munaf Patel



Stats and trivia

Their 103 against Mumbai remains Rajasthan's lowest score so far in the tournament


Besides being the tournament's second highest wicket-taker, Tanvir has the best average and economy-rate among bowlers who have sent down more than 20 overs


Both the young spinners that Mumbai tried proved ineffective - Vikrant Yeligati and Chitnis both have economy-rates greater than ten.


Quotes

"We are very keen to make amends for the loss against Mumbai which was very bad."
Darren Berry, Rajasthan Royals' assistant coach is in no mood to be generous this time before the home clash against Mumbai.

Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at Cricinfo

© Cricinfo
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Sanath Jaysuriya v Sohail Tanvir: Jayasuriya has been in vintage form, disdainfully clobbering new-ball bowlers while Tanvir has been both incisive and economical and hasn't lost too many tussles with batsmen in the IPL.
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This should be pretty exciting. Remember how Tavir bowled him with a superb yorker back in September. This was only Tanvir second int'l game.
 
I hope jaya gets a yorker first up from tanno and is castled with middle stump broken in half .... LOL ... I think its gonna be a realy intresting battle between the two with jaya wanting to spank tanno out of the ground and tanno wanting to keep him quite with his full and fast yorkers.. Best of luck to tanno..
 
Tanni needs atleast 2 wickets today. Good luck to him and I hope they don't rest him.
YK might get a chance today???
 
This will be a good test for Tanvir, opening the bowling against Sachin and Jaya!!
 
Sachin doesnt know the name of his wicketkeeper :)))

When Ravi asked him about changes to the side he said we've changed the wicketkeeper and then named the other people who were changed
 
Not tannos day 2day seems like ... But hopfuly he'll come back at the end and take a few wickets.
 
98 for 3 Mumbai.

Mr hairstyle Uthappa out stumped by Kamran off the bowling of Warne.
 
I think Tanvir is the best ODI bowler for Pakistan ahead of Gul and Akhtar i must say.
 
Tanvir in lead again

16.4 Sohail Tanvir to Pollock, OUT, Pollock's gone first ball! Tanvir pitches the ball on a good length around off stump from round the wicket and seams the ball away from the right-hander after angling it into him, Pollock fends at the ball off the back foot and edges it to Akmal who dives to his right to hold the catch
SM Pollock c Kamran Akmal b Sohail Tanvir 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

16.3 Sohail Tanvir to Nayar, OUT, he's given him lbw! Tanvir bowls the slower ball from over the wicket, angling into the left-hander, Nayar tries to pull the ball while getting down on one knee, he misses and gets hit on the back foot, that's plumb unless there was an inside edge, Hariharan answers a vociferous appeal with the finger
AM Nayar lbw b Sohail Tanvir 25 (18b 3x4 0x6) SR: 138.88
 
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great bowling from Tanvir once again.
 
jackal786 said:
I think Tanvir is the best ODI bowler for Pakistan ahead of Gul and Akhtar i must say.
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Not better than Gul imo. But this IPL stint will do a world of good to his confidence and would definitely translate into 'the stage' for this unorthodox bowler.
 
I think it takes atleast 3 or 4 overs to pick Tanvir's action for a new player. By that time in a T20 game it would be all over.
 
Wow.... what a bowler:
16.4 Sohail Tanvir to Pollock, OUT, Pollock's gone first ball! Tanvir pitches the ball on a good length around off stump from round the wicket and seams the ball away from the right-hander after angling it into him, Pollock fends at the ball off the back foot and edges it to Akmal who dives to his right to hold the catch
SM Pollock c wicketkeeperKamran Akmal b Sohail Tanvir 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
16.3 Sohail Tanvir to Nayar, OUT, he's given him lbw! Tanvir bowls the slower ball from over the wicket, angling into the left-hander, Nayar tries to pull the ball while getting down on one knee, he misses and gets hit on the back foot, that's plumb unless there was an inside edge, Hariharan answers a vociferous appeal with the finger
AM Nayar lbw b Sohail Tanvir 25 (18b 3x4 0x6) SR: 138.88
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The WagonWheel said:
Not better than Gul imo. But this IPL stint will do a world of good to his confidence and would definitely translate into 'the stage' for this unorthodox bowler.
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In terms of Varieyt Tanvir is a pretty handy bowler. He bowls over the wicket, round the wicket, slower one, bouncer, sliding across, bringing the bacll back in, slow yorker, fast yorker, slow bouncer.. he is a handful when he gets it right. To go with all those things he got an awkward action to pick up.
 
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But i think he has really blossomed under Warne.. Before this i never rated him.
 
In ODIs it's Akhtar then Gul then Rana then Tanvir is coming up the list fast
 
Tanvir has bowled the fastest ball of the day so far at 136.9 kph but his average is only 126.7 kph
 
Rana? Akhtar.. won't last more than 4 or 5 overs. He can have awful day or brilliant day unpredictable. Between Tanvir and Gul i would definitely pick Tanvir.
 
Just that Tanvir is not handed enough responsibility by Sohaib malik like Warne does.
 
jackal786 said:
Rana? Akhtar.. won't last more than 4 or 5 overs. He can have awful day or brilliant day unpredictable. Between Tanvir and Gul i would definitely pick Tanvir.
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Rana is very under rated, he's been struggling with injuries since 2006 but he keeps himself fit. Once this ICL rubbish is over he may make a come back
 
He isnt 90 plus mph, but is he half improving and learning quickly.

Yes he sprays it around at times and cant control the swing, but he's a constant threat with the ball.
 
jackal786 said:
I think Tanvir is the best ODI bowler for Pakistan ahead of Gul and Akhtar i must say.
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I thought IPL was 20/20 :p
 
Saj said:
Yes he sprays it around at times and cant control the swing, but he's a constant threat with the ball.
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Reminds me of a more controlled Shabbir.

Shabbir used to bowl a wide, a wide, a wicket, a dot ball, a wide, a wicket, a no ball, a wicket, a boundary :)))
 
lollol said:
I thought IPL was 20/20 :p
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well.. you got me there. Yes T20. My guess is batsmen are really struggling to pick up his quick arm action. He has a reasonably fast stride ala Akram.
But in one dayers you get 10 overs to take a look at a bowler. I would think Malinga could have been effective.
 
Poor game plan. Seems like he wanted to bounce the batsmen out and bowled like trash.
 
Sohail said he played a lot of tape ball cricket

the Indian commentator said 'Table cricket' they must have some big tables in Pakistan
 
Didnt knew tanveer was that fast :p
 

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Mercenary said:
His fastest that I've seen was 144 kph during the IPL
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wow thats fast .. I hope he keeps improving his speed and bowling each game.. Wonderful player!
 
Pak_mystery said:
wow thats fast .. I hope he keeps improving his speed and bowling each game.. Wonderful player!
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It was a freak delivery. on average he's a 128-132 kph bowler
 
Pak_mystery said:
wow thats fast .. I hope he keeps improving his speed and bowling each game.. Wonderful player!
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What is the necessity of him bowling fast? He is getting wickets not because of speed but because of Variety. If he consistently bowls at 150 kph he will be clubbed all over. Speed without variety is totally useless.
 
jackal786 said:
Just that Tanvir is not handed enough responsibility by Sohaib malik like Warne does.
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Well he was given the new ball by Malik in the last series, what more responsibility can you give him, remember he is still developing, made his debut just over 6 months ago.
 
jackal786 said:
What is the necessity of him bowling fast? He is getting wickets not because of speed but because of Variety. If he consistently bowls at 150 kph he will be clubbed all over. Speed without variety is totally useless.
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i want him to break the stumps in half with those deadly yorkers ;)
 
jackal786 said:
What is the necessity of him bowling fast? He is getting wickets not because of speed but because of Variety. If he consistently bowls at 150 kph he will be clubbed all over. Speed without variety is totally useless.
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Because it can be a vital asset in other forms of cricket, but agree with the rest of your post.
 
Pak_mystery said:
i want him to break the stumps in half with those deadly yorkers ;)
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I think with this action i don't think he can achieve great speed. As we can see it is not easy action.
 
dblock said:
Because it can be a vital asset in other forms of cricket, but agree with the rest of your post.
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To be honest 150 kph is not even a potent delivery these days. Australians consistenly reached 150 kph against India in recent series. They were hardly effective in most of the matches. It was the medium pacer Stuart Clark who troubled more in the first match. Lee troubled. But mostly because of his impeccable line and length. Unless you can clock over 160 kph i don't think you can trouble batsmen a lot with pure speed. I doubt anyone can do that currently including Akhtar.
 
Pakistan players have the worst running between the wickets technique? It is really insulting to cricket.
 
Schoolboy stuff from Akmal as he jumped in the air instead of grounding his bat using the slide method.

Run out !
 
Akmal deserved to be given out that time, on an earlier run he ran away from the ball taking the longer route rather than running between the ball and the stumps.
 
jackal786 said:
I think with this action i don't think he can achieve great speed. As we can see it is not easy action.
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yep a difficult action it is ... He might hurt his shoulder if he tries too hard to gain that speed..but i think once in a while he must try to ball fast it could be a weapon as batsman are used to his medium fasters ...
 
jackal786 said:
I think with this action i don't think he can achieve great speed. As we can see it is not easy action.
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yep a difficult action it is ... He might hurt his shoulder if he tries too hard to gain that speed..but i think once in a while he must try to ball fast in order to surprise the batsman it could be a weapon as batsman are used to his medium fasters ...
 
I hope he gets a good beating for that. I'd drop him if I was Warne.
 
jackal786 said:
Pakistan players have the worst running between the wickets technique? It is really insulting to cricket.
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now thatz rude...what would u say if I'll call the indian bowlers an insult to cricket?
 
Kami looked to be just in but want that a stupid runout??

lose mumbai lose!! :p
 
3.1 Nehra to Asnodkar, OUT, Akmal's run out! A good length delivery angles into the right-hander, Asnodkar opens the face of the bat and runs the ball towards backward point, he calls for the single and Akmal responds, Manish Pandey picks up cleanly and throws down the stumps at the batsman's end, Akmal is worried about the ball hitting him and jumps as he enters his crease, as a result his bat was in the air although it was over the line, that is shocking bit of running and Akmal has paid for it

Kamran Akmal run out 18 (16b 4x4 0x6) SR: 112.50
 
SwEeT CaNdY said:
now thatz rude...what would u say if I'll call the indian bowlers an insult to cricket?
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Ability is different than following basic running between wickets technique.
 
Fernando drops a sitter.

Some of the fielding in the IPL has been bordering on comical. My favourite comedy fielder is Ojha from Deccan.
 
Fernando does a Tanvir and gets a wicket staright after, Pathan gone!

C'mon Rajasthan!
 
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