KKR's Woes.....

Well there you go again, SRK's KKR(Kolkata Knightriders) Losing one more match. It's become some sort of a routine for KKR to lose matches which they should have won right from the Inception of the Tournament in 2008. Yesterday night in mumbai at the Bradbourne stadium was no different. Saurav had jus called right after two wrong calls previously and decided to bat since he had gayle around. After flirting in the middle order Dada was at the top where he belonged the most. Dada had set his sights on 180 since it was a flat deck and was hopin gayle would start firing from the inset.

But the MI(Mumbai Indians) Had different plans for KKR. Their complete bowling of the innings was like applyin all plans into effect. First they stifled gayle with fast off cutters from "Slinga" Malinga and did not allow him to cut loose. While At the other end Dada knew he had to take things to control and smashed some good cuts to the fence through backward point and cover but the MI Bowlers stuck to their second plan of the night by bowling toe-crushers alias "Yorkers" and did not allow the run rate to climb to more than 8. By the time Dada Went, 70 runs were scored at a pace of a run-a-ball which wasn't ideal in a T20. Shah Arrived and desperately tried to release the tempo but those yorkers from zaheer, bravo and Mclaren were unable to score off. Not to forget malinga's & Bhajji's Change of pace which allowed the batsmen to take only a single. Nevertheless Something had to give in to score atleast some quick runs to get a total of respectability and shah did manage to crack some Boundaries which were too late and ended up with a modest total of 155. Not a Poor Total but One should have done better wid only 3 wickets falling for them.

KKR Slightly disheartened With Their batting effort took the field to defend their mediocre score they put up. One expected Bond & Ishant To Rattle MI's top order since Jayasuria was rested this game, But One Man Named "Sachin" Had another plans for tonight. KKR should have learnt a thing or two from MI's Bowlers but what followed was a riot of fours from the master blaster himself Sachin to set the chase on fire. He was very severe on Ishant and took him for a flurry of fours in his second over. poor ishant must have been thinkin what did he do to him to make him play so aggressively in his over. By the time the first powerplay was over, Mi had amassed nearly 60 without losin a wicket. Murali Karthik was introdced and got shikar dhawan to chip it straight to Dada at short mid-wicket. Dhoni's Left hand Clone "Saurabh Tiwary" walked out to the centre to join sachin and initally watchful tiwary started to play his shots and got the run rate further up.

Karthik came on for his second over of the night which he would have imagined at that time would turn out to be the most costliest miss of the match. He was Bowling to sachin and one of the balls gripped the surface, turned & Bounced took the leaning edge of sachin's bat who was trying to play it to square leg and flew to karthik who would make a mess of what would have been a "Dolly" of a return catch and blamed the sight screen light behind the keeper sayin it blinded hm and could not see the ball. You should have seen the disappointment on Dada's Face. He wasn't buying karthik's excuse to that drop catch. So these kind of setbacks were pushing KKR into more misery. Then KKR's Lone bright moment arrived in the form of Dada Himself takin one of the catches of the tournament which I really tell you would have not done that in his playing days for India.

After that Pollard had come and gone and Rajagopal Satish had entered to bat with the maestro who was still there and both of them jus finished the game with an over to spare. Sachin had stayed till the end and saw through that they won comfortably in the end. KKR inspite of havin a taste of how the MI bowlers bowled really did not even try to emulate the same or atleast try somethin diferent. It baffeled me that with a world class bowler Wasim Akram as a bowling coach they didn't even try to bowl a yorker. So KKR really have some soul searching to do now as their losing Streak of the past comes to haunt them again. On the other hand Mumbai Indians showed that with their local player talent pool they are a Force to reckon with in the games to come. So Congrats to MI And Better Luck next time for KKR.

Well That's it for KKR's Woes, and I hope the Chennai Superkings who gifted away a game at home on sunday night learn from how the Mumbai Indians Chased down a target. Well I'm signing out for today and lookin forward towards the CSK Vs RCB Clash Tonite at Chinnaswamy. Good Bye Then.......