Men in Blue - Mumbai Indians March into final!!!!!!!!

21 st Apr was crucial day for all mumbaikars as Mumbai was about to play their first IPL semi final on home ground. every one were excited and every mumbikar wanted to be in the ground . One of my friend spend 5 hours of struggle to get ticket to watch match and he must be happy that mumbai won comfortably against RCB and his effort paid off..

Even i was thousand  miles away from Mumbai , eagerly waiting for contest to begin. I put on my MI jersey and thanks to one of staff member in my residence for helping to get match live on TV in college's TV lonuge. Later i was  joined by my friends and other MI supporters ( They are cheenai fans and cheering for MI to be in final... nice gesture). Match began well with Sachin striking 2 fours in Del Styen Over but got out in the same over. Only 2 overs for Master blaster and very rare failure for him in this edition of IPL where he is leading run scorer and orange cap holder. big set back for mumbai and again doubts were raised weather mumbai can post good score and can win with no contribution from master. next 90 min or so gave one part of answer as mumbai posted 184 in their 20 overs. Find of the tournament Saurbah tiwary and Ambati Ryaadu controlling the inning mid way through and MI's biggest buyer i this year IPL Keron Pollard scored typical power ,hard hitting 13 ball 33 which gave mumbai challenging score after being down at 77-4 at one stage.

RCB had tough task on their hand. They began well but as malinga was on he troubled openers and finally got the wicket of Kallis. They kept on scoring at good rate but by the time 10th over was over , RCB lost too many wickets. Loosing Utthapa and dravid in same over was big set back for RCB and after that they were never in the game. Keron Pollard took 3 wickets in the inning , on run out and gave allround performance for Mumbai Indians  and MI won the match comfortably and marched into first ever final of IPL in three attempts.

We all were happy and cheering for MI win and chennai supporters who were cheering MI were little worried as MI showed strong performance in semis. Overall , it was good day, enjoyed the match watching at college's  TV lounge and left the TV lounge with big smile...... but one concern about Master as he had 5 stitches to right fingers.

Hope to see him on the ground on 25 the Apr 2010 !!!!!!!!!!!