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Mumbai Indians 178 for 5 (Franklin 45*, Tendulkar 38, Bhatia 3-22) hit Kolkata Knight Riders 175 for 7 (Kallis 59, Yusuf 36, Tiwary 35) by five wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders had their Champions League first appearance all but book when they begin the last over with 21 to protect. Three edge boundaries off L Balaji and two miss yorkers later, James Franklin and Ambati Rayudu had see Mumbai Indians to a highly improbable win, breach their three-match losing streak. The win set up a replicate clash between the two teams in the eliminator, an equal of a quarter-final.
In all the disorder of the last over, which astonished the full house at Eden Gardens, Chennai Super Kings emerge the biggest gainers. Had Kolkata won the game, which they should have in spite of all those edges, Chennai would have ended third, and would have had to win two games in order to make the final? Now they need win only one of the two.
Mumbai gained too: they wanted to end the chase off in 5.1 overs to make it to the top two, but by thrashing Kolkata they could have ensure a psychological benefit in their eliminator. For the best part of their 19 overs of batting, Mumbai scarcely look like a team that could do so. Iqbal Abdulla uninvolved T Suman in the second over, the pinch-hitter Harbhajan Singh manage 30 off 29, and Rajat Bhatia's leg-rollers broke the batting order's back with three wickets in three overs.
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