IPL 9 season failed to evince much interest as the local boys Mumbai Indians lost their second out of the three matches played so far. Even the home advantage is not helping our Rohit Sharma’s side to come out trumps. The situation is similar to last time and the MI is standing at 3rd place from the bottom. This is not a good show as we say Mumbai is the headquarters of our cricketing activities. When a clean hitter like Finch was at the crease, the skipper ran out of ideas and he single handedly took the side to victory. Dhawal Kulkarni failed to get a place in the Mumbai side played a pivotal role getting rid of the two top batsmen and thereby making inroads early and put the breaks. Again he was there when the seventh Gujarat Lions wicket fell at 131 and he helped Finch add valuable runs to accomplish the target. In all Mumbai Indians campaign outing in IPL is a shaky one and with a weak bowling side to back up, they stand to lose more matches in the tournament. Mumbai need to have bowlers with fair bowling action rather than depending on chuckers in the side as the main bowlers. They lose line and length and give away easy runs with unfair action. It is time to revamp Mumbai Indians for better results in the remaining part of IPL 9.
Jayanthy S. Maniam
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