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Match 45 of IPL T20 season 2 was very important for both Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians as a win would almost bring them near the semis while a defeat would virtually end their hope of securing a semi-final berth. Shane Warne won the toss and decided to bat. Rob Quiney (51 off 40 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (42 off 32 balls) batted brilliantly but the rest of the batsmen could not capitalize after their departure and they ended at 145/7 in their 20 overs. Mumbai Indains did not get a good start in their first six overs as a result of a major shuffling of the batting order where domestic Indian players were sent instead of the seniors. The required run rate kept of increasing and Mumbai Indians kept on losing wickets steadily under the pressure of scoring big runs. Even some good hitting by Sachin Tendulkar (40 off 30 balls) and Abhishek Nayar (35 off 18 balls) could not save the Mumbai Indians as they lost out all wickets in 19.5 overs. It was a trilling match and the death overs were nerve-wrecking as Rajasthan Royals managed to pull out a win even when 5 runs were only required in the last over with 3 wickets left. Shane Warne was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant and crucial spell of 3 wickets for 24 runs.

Full Scorecard

Rajasthan Royals

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney b Lasith Malinga 51 40 5 2 127.5
Graeme Smith c JP Duminy b Harbhajan Singh 19 19 3 0 100
Yusuf Pathan c Lasith Malinga b Chetanya Nanda 17 14 3 0 121.43
Ravindra Jadeja c Dwayne Bravo b Sanath Jayasuriya 42 32 4 1 131.25
Siddharth Chitnis c Abhishek Nayar b Dwayne Bravo 6 8 1 0 75
Naman Ojha (W) c Ajinkya Rahane b Sanath Jayasuriya 1 4 0 0 25
Johan Botha not out 2 3 0 0 66.67
Shane Warne (C) run out (Harbhajan Singh) 0 0 0 0
Abhishek Raut
Siddharth Trivedi
Munaf Patel
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 3 7
Total: (145 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 145 Run Rate: 7.25

Fall of Wickets1-43 (Graeme Smith, 6.3), 2-65 (Yusuf Pathan, 9.5), 3-126 (Rob Quiney, 15.5), 4-141 (Siddharth Chitnis, 18.3), 5-142 (Ravindra Jadeja, 19.1), 6-144 (Naman Ojha, 19.4), 7-145 (Shane Warne, 20)

Bowling (Mumbai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dhawal Kulkarni 4 0 29 0 0 1 7.25
Lasith Malinga 4 0 28 1 0 1 7
Dwayne Bravo 3 0 30 1 0 2 10
JP Duminy 3 0 17 0 0 0 5.67
Harbhajan Singh 4 0 31 1 0 0 7.75
Chetanya Nanda 1 0 4 1 0 0 4
Sanath Jayasuriya 1 0 3 2 0 0 3

Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6

Mumbai Indians

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Dwayne Bravo c & b Munaf Patel 1 3 0 0 33.33
Yogesh Vijay Takawale (W) c Naman Ojha b Siddharth Trivedi 18 22 2 0 81.82
Ajinkya Rahane c Abhishek Raut b Shane Warne 3 7 0 0 42.86
Sanath Jayasuriya c Yusuf Pathan b Shane Warne 16 21 0 0 76.19
Sachin Tendulkar (C) lbw b Shane Warne 40 30 4 1 133.33
JP Duminy b Siddharth Trivedi 4 5 0 0 80
Abhishek Nayar run out (Naman Ojha) 35 18 4 1 194.44
Harbhajan Singh not out 7 8 0 0 87.5
Dhawal Kulkarni lbw b Munaf Patel 1 4 0 0 25
Chetanya Nanda run out (Yusuf Pathan) 0 1 0 0 0
Lasith Malinga run out (Shane Warne) 0 1 0 0 0
Extras: b – 0, w – 14, nb – 1, lb – 3 18
Total: (143 for 10 wickets in 19.5 overs) 143 Run Rate: 7.21

Fall of Wickets1-9 (Dwayne Bravo, 1.3), 2-23 (Ajinkya Rahane, 5), 3-23 (Yogesh Vijay Takawale, 5.2), 4-56 (Sanath Jayasuriya, 11.1), 5-76 (JP Duminy, 13.1), 6-103 (Sachin Tendulkar, 15.3), 7-140 (Abhishek Nayar, 18.4), 8-142 (Dhawal Kulkarni, 19.2), 9-142 (Chetanya Nanda, 19.3), 10-143 (Lasith Malinga, 19.5)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Yusuf Pathan 3 0 25 0 0 1 8.33
Munaf Patel 3.5 0 22 2 0 0 5.74
Siddharth Trivedi 4 0 19 2 1 0 4.75
Shane Warne 4 0 24 3 0 3 6
Johan Botha 4 0 32 0 0 2 8
Ravindra Jadeja 1 0 18 0 0 1 18

Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6

Rajasthan Royals had a warm up match against Cape Cobras today named “Clash of the Champions” . Cape Cobras are the South African domestic T20 champions and Rajasthan Royals were the winners of IPL season 1 and so it was marketed as the clash of the the winners. The match started interestingly with Cape Cobras winning the toss and deciding to bat. The Rajasthan Royals team was mainly filled with the Indian domestic players of Rajasthan Royals. The Indian pacers of Rajasthan Royals started out well with Amit Singh, Trivedi and Kamran Khan. Kamran Khan was more prominent of the lot although he bowled only a single over giving only one run and taking a wicket. His pace was good and he was also extracting good swing from the wicket. The Cobras struggled against the Indian pacers and were 65/5 after 11.5 overs. But then their batsmen started hitting well and the Cobras ended at a respectable score of 142/8 in their allotted 20 overs.

The Rajasthan Royals batsmen were quite impressive initially with Victorian batsman Rob Quiney (34 off 22 balls) hitting the Cobras for fours and sixes. But then the rest of the Royals batsmen got out cheaply with some very good bowling and fielding performance by the Cobras. Shane Warne (21 off 19 balls) tried to save the innings but it was too late. At last they got all out in 19 overs for 115 runs and the Cobras won the match by 27 runs.

However, the positives of the game for Rajasthan Royals was that their international players looked in good from with Quiney, Warne and Henderson looking good. The other good thing was the Indian bowlers in RR squad bowled some good spells too especially Kamran Khan and Amit Singh.

The Rajasthan Royals squad are looking a good unit though they do not look as powerful as the other squads and I doubt if they would be able to retain their title this year. Let us hope that the Rajasthan Royals squad performs well when they play their full side in the IPL T20 season 2.