IPL kicked off

Now, It would be foolish to say, why did not IPL happen in India? Let’s get out of that mode and enjoy all the actions happening in the land of Protease.
Inauguration match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians set the tone of 2nd season of IPL. Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bowl. Decision of Dhoni looked right as Super Kings got rid off Jayasurya early. Shikhar Dhawan also could not do much; he also departed after scoring mere twenty runs. Dhoni’s wings were getting wickets at regular interval but I don’t think Dhoni had done enough analytical study on the technique of little master, who went on and on and returned not out as the inning of Mumbai Indians got over. Once again, Abhishek Nayar proved his skill in shorter format by hitting three big sixes in an over of Andrew Flintoff. Mumbai Indians set the target of 167 runs to win for Chennai Super Kings.
The start of Chennai Super Kings was also not up to the mark, they lost Parthiv Patel and in form Suresh Raina in the first five over of the inning. Mathew Hayden and Andrew Flintoff tried their best to build a good partnership and take the team out of danger.
As Chennai super kings were looking for easy win, Harbhajan Singh striked for Mumbai Indians; he took an easy catch of Andrew Flintoff on his own bowling. Hayden also could not handle the pressure and threw his wicket on the bowling of Jayasurya. From here, Mumbai Indians succeeded to make the pressure on Super Kings, in the result of that, they got wickets at regular interval. Super Kings managed to score only 146. Mumbai Indians won the inauguration match by 19 runs.
Sachin Tendulkar was adjudged “Man of the Match” for his brave 59 runs.