Gutsy Mumbai fight back to reach 149

Mumbai Indians v Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL, Johannesburg

Bulletin by Shwe Wai

20 overs Mumbai Indians 149 for 4 (Jayasuriya 52, Bravo 50*, du Preez 3-32) against Royal Challengers Bangalore
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How they were out

	Dillon du Preez started with a dream over

Royal Challengers Bangalore pulled a rabbit out of the hat by picking little-known South African allrounder Dillon du Preez, who ripped through the Mumbai Indians top order with his medium-pacers. However, a resilient Mumbai showed why they are among the favourites for the title; Sanath Jaysuriya started the recovery before Dwayne Bravo and Abhishek Nayar slammed 48 runs off the last three overs to lift their side to a competitive total.

du Preez started off with that rarest of beasts in Twenty20s - the double-wicket maiden, and it included the scalp of Sachin Tendulkar. Handed the ball in the fourth over there were a quiet couple of balls before he induced an outside edge off Tendulkar to the safe hands of Rahul Dravid at slip, to spark wild celebrations. The hint of away movement in the next delivery had Ajinkya Rahane giving catching practice to slip. JP Duminy, already a regular at firefighting in his short IPL career, walked in on the hat-trick delivery and shouldered arms which rapped his pads, but was saved by the height.

The Boys' Own story continued for du Preez in his next over, with his first poor delivery also fetching him a wicket; Duminy went for an ill-advised pull to a long hop angling away from him, only under-edging it to the wicketkeeper. du Preez's figures were a scarcely believable 1.2-1-0-3, and Mumbai were gasping at 23 for 3.

They would have been in a bigger hole still had Roelof van der Merwe spotted a mishit from Jayasuriya early while fielding at midwicket in the fifth over. Jayasuriya capitalised on the reprieve, and began reviving Mumbai with a steady partnership with Bravo. After a watchful beginning - he was on 11 off 20 at one stage - he broke free in the eighth over, muscling a fractionally short ball over mid-on's head, and then hammering the next delivery into the crowd behind midwicket. There were also the Jayasuriya trademarks, powerful slaps over point and some nimble running between the wickets. Despite all that, Mumbai reached the strategic time-out at a unsatisfactory 53 for 3