Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, Final - Live Cricket Score, Commentary
Series: Indian Premier League 2019 Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad Date & Time: May 12, 07:30 PM LOCAL
Malinga 1-49(4 ov)
19.6
Malinga to SN Thakur, out Lbw!! Slower off-cutter, and things don't dip in the slot any better. 2013. 2015. 2017. 2019, you don't mess with Arithmetic progressions and you don't mess with these mathematical Mumbai Indians. Thakur - poor old Thakur - sent ahead of his usual position - walks across his stumps, freezes bang in front of middle looking to flick it across the line. But again, it's the finals, he chokes, misses and is trapped plumb, bang in front of middle. Oh Malinga, you really couldn't have redeemed yourself any better. SN Thakur lbw b Malinga 2(2)
19.5
Malinga to SN Thakur, 2 runs, juicy full toss on the legs. Thakur swings across the line, gets it off the thick inside half and runs behind square. Wow, the drama refuses to die down. Who's killing it here!?
19.4
Malinga to Watson, out Watson Run Out!! 1 run completed. Wide yorker. Squeezed away to deep point. But suddenly, for some weird reason Watson then doesn't want the second. Yes. No. Yes. No. And the half-hearted I0$ without proper consent ends up with him falling short, clearly short. The throw's f;at, which Quinton collects from well behind the stumps and under-arms it onto the stumps. Watson run out (Krunal Pandya/de Kock) 80(59) [4s-8 6s-4]
19.3
Malinga to Watson, 2 runs, 141.6kph, low full toss dipping into leg-stump. Watson clears out his front leg, exposes his stumps, crouches low and whips it into mid-wicket .. then the legs, running legs
19.2
Malinga to Jadeja, 1 run, low full toss. Jadeja walks down, strokes it straight back to Malinga, who misfields and then can't even get the under-hand direct hit right. CSK sneak through, now to 7 runs | 4 balls
19.1
Malinga to Watson, 1 run, to long-on, 142kph, full, close to the blockhole. Watson drills it down to long-on. 8 runs | 5 balls
15.6
Malinga to Watson, 1 run, yorker, finally, five balls late though. And squeezed out into point to keep his strike .. 20 off this one
15.5
Malinga to Watson, FOUR, it's on loop. 15.3, 15.4 and 15.5, each one predictable perfectly -- all pace dealt out outside off, lots of width too and this time Watson picks out deep extra cover with I0$ usual muscular slash
15.4
Malinga to Watson, FOUR, oh, better. Malinga - with more pace - and with more in the slot. Wide, outside off, Watson moves away, sits down on a knee and carves it away into third man, almost all the way too
15.3
Malinga to Watson, FOUR, 138.8kph. Keeps dishing out pace, keeps it wide outside off and Watson's edge will do just as well. There may have been a short third man, but the slice is such that it's very fine
15.2
Malinga to Dwayne Bravo, 1 run, a fuller yorker, toe-end but decent bottom-hand in powering it to long-on
15.1
Malinga to Dwayne Bravo, SIX, 138.6kph, misses his yorker and worse - he's got reverse swing on it as well - but it's bang in the slot and Bravo also makes it worse by getting deep in the crease as he whips it uppishly, high and over deep mid-wicket. Hardik doesn't help himself either at the boundary, running in at first, and then having to go back .. watches in the nd
5.6
Malinga to Watson, no run, turns this to midwicket
5.5
Malinga to Watson, FOUR, finds the gap between backward point and short third man. These are mostly off-cutters from Malinga, which explains why third man is up. But this one has enough width on it, so Watson can manufacture the pace with his hands as he cuts
5.5
Malinga to Watson, wide, brisk bouncer from Malinga, but just a little too high. Watson took it on as he looked to hook it away, only to find the ball climb sharply and fly past the top-edge
5.4
Malinga to Watson, SIX, drifts on leg-stump with this off-cutter and is swept into the stands. Watson, having picked up the line in a flash, got into a brilliant position there before swinging it over backward square
5.3
Malinga to Watson, no run, short of length delivery just outside off, Watson waits on the off-cutter and cuts to backward point
5.2
Malinga to Watson, FOUR, wasn't in control, Watson. Overpitched outside off, he went so hard on the drive that the poise was lost and his bat-face opened up - slicing it uppishly past backward point
5.1
Malinga to Watson, no run, short of length, an off-pace delivery from Malinga making it difficult for Watson to beat short third man with his dab
2.6
Malinga to du Plessis, 5 runs, and more reckless running, but this time they'll benefit from overthrows. Dabbed in front of the keeper, they risk a tight single with du Plessis having to dive at the non-striker's end. But that risk fetches them handsome rewards with de Kock's throw finding no back-up
2.5
Malinga to Watson, 1 run, terrible call for a single. Punches this slower ball straight to cover and takes off for the non-striker's end, completely forgetful of his agility. Would've been gone had Ishan Kishan's throw been on target
2.4
Malinga to Watson, no run, some spongy bounce off the off-cutter, which foils Watson attempted cut. It was too close to his body anyway
2.3
Malinga to Watson, no run, goes to the slower off-cutter, sliding through towards the top of off. Watson chops it to backward point
2.2
Malinga to Watson, no run, short of length around the waist, Watson insipidly nudges it beside the pitch
2.1
Malinga to du Plessis, 1 run, short of length outside off, punched through to sweeper cover
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