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Mumbai: Partho Mitra

There will be long debates across the coffee houses in Kolkata and the Barista’s in Mumbai on whether it was great bowling, or over confidence or a bad pitch which led to the miserable defeat of Knight Riders with the lowest total ever scored in 20Twenty Cricket. And this comes after a dream run of three straight wins.

This is not only the quickest win in this IPL. To make things even better for the Mumbai Indians, this is also a World Record for the fastest Twenty20 win ever!

Mumbai climb up to the 4th spot in the points table now, they topple Kolkata and leave behind Delhi too with one game less and better net run-rate!

This is Mumbai’s fifth straight win in this tournament, they equal with Kolkata and Delhi in the points table now but occupies the forth position due to their run-rate. While Kolkata gets displaced to the 6th position just ahead of Deccan Chargers and Bangalore Royal Challengers.

Inspite of Sachin getting out for zero, Jayasuriya continued his flamboyance from where he left in the last match. Earlier Shaun Pollock plucked the vital wickets of David Hussey, Hafeez and Salman Butt and the Knight Riders managed a total of just 67 losing all their wickets. Mumbai Indians - the ‘men in blue’ met the target in just 5.3 overs won by 8 wickets with Shaun grabbing the Man of the Match.

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Delhi : Lokesh Aggarwal

After losing four successive games, Delhi Daredevils fianally defeated Deccan Chargers by 12 runs yesterday - their fifth victory out of 10 games played. Amit Mishra claimed the second hat-trick of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Thursday night to guide Delhi Daredevils to a thrilling 12-run win over Deccan Chargers.Earlier Laxmipati Balaji of Channei Super Kings claimed the first hatrick in IPL.

Mishra picked up five for 17 and became the third bowler after Sohail Tanvir (6/14) and Lakshmipathy Balaji (5/24) to claim five wickets or more in an IPL innings.

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 Editorial: Mohit Goyal

Indian Premier League Match Preview

Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders at Mumbai

Both the teams are on a high at the moment and would like to keep the momentum going. Kolkata would like to win to plant their foot firmly for top four while Mumbai would like to enter into contention big time.

Men at the Helm

Ganguly has been a total inspiration in the last few matches while Sachin’s first game was a cake walk. It would be exciting to see the two maestros planning in opposite directions.

We have the bat

Mumbai have slight edge in batting because they have more batsmen in form. Their batting has got a big boost with Tendulkar returning. Kolkata need Ganguly or Hussey to lay a long innings.

We have the ball

Kolkata have the slightest of edges in this department owing to the greater star power in the line up. Otherwise bowlers on both sides have been quite impressive.

Patrolling Party

Kolkata weren’t considered much of a fielding unit but they have been simply suerb in last few matches. Mumbai too have fielded pretty well up till now.

High on betting meter

Mumbai are sitting pretty and high on the betting meter courtesy Pollock, Jayasuriya, Uthappa and the return of Tendulkar. Mumbai give 8 on 13 while Kolkata a 6 on 5.

Who gets the tick?

Mumbai have had too many things in their minds on and off the field. With the return of Sachin, its this teams turn to strike gold.

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New Zealand Captain Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Ross Taylor and Kyle Mills arrive at this 2 Test series with England after a spell in the Indian Premier League. The Twenty20 tournament in front of 100,000 crowds with cheerleaders and blaring music will be a far cry from the austere and serene surroundings at Lord’s.

There is a difference in the in venues and formats, but there are rumblings that the New Zealanders already in England – playing warm-up matches ahead of the first Test – are unhappy that the ‘big five’ have been allowed to miss the early preparations.

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The IPL final earlier scheduled to be held at the Wankhade Stadium on the 1st of June, 2008 will now be held at the D Y Patil Stadium at Navi Mumbai. Not only the Stadium has better capacity than Wankhade but also provides better amneties for the Video Crew who needs much space for their entire range of equipments to be laid out.

The Mumbai Cricket Association managing committee met today under the chairmanship of Sharad Pawar and it was decided to hold the final at the Nerul stadium.

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