What might have been going in Dilhara Fernando's mind when he came to ball against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. In the last match against Rajasthan Royals (RR) , Dilhara last over not only cost Mumbai Indians (MI) the match, but also knocked out his team's chances of making to the semi finals of the inaugural IPL. But in the very first over he showed his character and gave RCB a double blow including getting the wicket of Birthday boy and dangerous Pakistani Batsmen Misbah Ul Haq. RCB never really recovered from this blow and ended up scoring just 122 runs in 18 overs. Fernando ended with his best figures of 4/18, his best ever in T20 format.
A target of 123 in 18 overs never looked difficult with the batting line up of MI which includes Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasurya, Robin Utthapa. And the way Sachin and Sanath started the innings, at one point it seemed that MI would cruise to a 10 wicket victory. Sanath was at his best sending the RCB players on a leather hunt. Well not really as he hit four huge sixes and four dashing boundaries leaving the RCB players standing on their spot. However he got after scoring his 50 but Sachin and local lad Robin Utthapa ensured that MI cruise to victory.
Well the match was an inconsequential one as both the teams were already out of reckoning for semis, but match for pride for the skippers of both teams-Sachin(MI) and Rahul Dravid (RCB) who wanted to end their IPL campaign on a winning note.
Dravid couldn't but later he admitted that he has learnt a lot from this tournament and that he is here to stay despite his team finishing second from bottom this year.
But undoubtedly this match belonged to Dilhara who despite being the culprit just two days ago, proved his mattle to give MI a deserving victory.
A target of 123 in 18 overs never looked difficult with the batting line up of MI which includes Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasurya, Robin Utthapa. And the way Sachin and Sanath started the innings, at one point it seemed that MI would cruise to a 10 wicket victory. Sanath was at his best sending the RCB players on a leather hunt. Well not really as he hit four huge sixes and four dashing boundaries leaving the RCB players standing on their spot. However he got after scoring his 50 but Sachin and local lad Robin Utthapa ensured that MI cruise to victory.
Well the match was an inconsequential one as both the teams were already out of reckoning for semis, but match for pride for the skippers of both teams-Sachin(MI) and Rahul Dravid (RCB) who wanted to end their IPL campaign on a winning note.
Dravid couldn't but later he admitted that he has learnt a lot from this tournament and that he is here to stay despite his team finishing second from bottom this year.
But undoubtedly this match belonged to Dilhara who despite being the culprit just two days ago, proved his mattle to give MI a deserving victory.
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