Victorious Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Rahul Dravid paid tribute to man-of-the-match Mark Boucher after the South African’s unbeaten knock inspired victory at the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Dravid admitted it was vital his team recovered from the setback of losing to Kolkata Knight Riders in their first match on Friday.

“What a cricketer he is, so cool under pressure,” Dravid said on Setanta Sports 2. “His partnership with Kallis was absolute gold. It just shows what a difference a bit of experience can make. “These guys have been in this position 50 or 60 times in games for their countries. You wouldn’t want anyone else there.

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Eden Garden, one of the best cricket grounds of the world had a really miserable day on Sunday 20. From bad pitch to blackout due to light failure, many problems were encountered during the match. As soon as the match started nearly every one including the umpires and commentators were not happy with the pitch. It was a dusty pitch and was not suitable for T20 format. Laxman and Ganguly were hit with ball due to uneven bounce. This was not all, when the climax of the match was approaching, suddenly the ground was engulfed in darkness due to a failure of stadium lights. The problem began when Kolkata Knight Riders were on 89 for 5 in 16.2 overs, still needing 22 runs from 22 balls to win the match. In this process a total of 31 min were lost but it was decided that the match would be completed without Duckworth Lewis rule. The blame game started and CAB president Prasun Mukherjee held the CESC responsible, saying the light partially went off due to a grid failure at the power supply company’s BBD Bag sub-station.

The billion dollar Indian Premier League DLF – IPL officials are in a mood to make it even larger than one has expected. Currently they are in negotiations with English cricket officials. Earlier news were that DLF – IPL final could be staged in Dubai but the stadium is unlikely to be ready in time, so the Indian organizers are in talks with the England and Wales Cricket Board to see if its possible to get the Mecca Of Cricket for the mega event.

“Not so fast, not so fast!” seems to be the reply from the ECB, some of whose senior representatives are currently in India scratching their heads. The main problem is time. The Indians want a week to stage the tournament, but in England’s congested summer, that is hard to find.

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The 5th match of the Indian Premier League was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. Chasing the target of 166 Royal Challengers Bangalore got to a good start. Dravid and Chanderpaul made 37 runs for the first wicket before Chanderpaul was out. Rahul Dravid was the next one to get out and the team score was 68/2 in 8.5 overs.Ross Taylor was the next to go without bothering Mumbai Indians much. Virat Kohli played a short cameo of 23 runs of 14 balls and was out due to a irresponsible shot. At the end of 13.3 overs Royal Challengers Bangalore were 106/4 with and still needed 60 more runs to win the match. Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher started to play responsibly and played some excellent shots to take the team victory.The partnership of these two was of 55 runs which proved to be enough for the victory. The winning runs were scored by Balachandra Akhil in the last over of the game.

Man Of The Match –  Mark Boucher

Batting Scorecard For Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bowling Scorecard Of Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

In the 5th match of IPL, Mumbai Indians were against Bangalore Royal Challengers at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar missed the match due to injury and Harbhajan Singh was the captain for them. He won the toss and decided to bat first. The start was not as Mumbai Indians wished to had and they lost the first wicket at team score of 9. Sanath Jayasuriya was the key player and he made 26 before he was run out by Zaheer Khan. Dominic Thornley was retired hurt and then the whole responsibilty was on the shoulders of Robin Uthappa and Pinal Shah who took the score to 97/3 . Pinal Shah was caught by Kohli of Akhil. Soon after Robin Uthappa was stumped by Boucher of Akhil at a personal score of 48. The team score was 125/4 at the end of 16.5 overs

Shaun Pollock came to center and from the very first ball he smashed the bowl to all corners of the ground. Abhishek Nayar played some useful shots before perishing for 20 runs of 14 balls.Zaheer Khan bowled Pollock of the last ball and Mumbai Indians were limited to 165 runs in 20 overs.

Batting Scorecard For Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bowling Scorecard Of Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers