Dinda picks four wickets as Pune crush Mumbai

Ashok Dinda picked up four wickets as Pune Warriors crushed Mumbai Indians by 29 runs in the third match of IPL-5 here on Friday.

Chasing 130 runs to win, Mumbai Indians scored 100/9 in 20 overs. James Franklin (32) and Dinesh Karthik (32) top-scored for the Mumbai team.

Mumbai off to a horrendous start losing three wickets for five runs by the end of the second over.

Barring James Franklin (32) and Dinesh Karthik (32) none of the Mumbai players impressed with the bat.

Dinda, the Warriors' new recruit from Bengal, grabbed two wickets in his first over and then came back to add two more to finish with admirable figures of four for 18.
   
The spinners – Murali Kartik, Marlon Samuels and Rahul Sharma – choked up the Mumbai batting with the turn they got out of the pitch.
   
Murali Karthik got two for 14, including the important wicket of Karthik when the game was wide open, while West Indian Samuels and leggie Sharma got a wicket apiece along with South African pacer Wayne Parnell.

Earlier, put in to bat by Mumbai Indian, Pune too had an identical start losing three wickets at the score of 27 by the fifth over. But the 44-run partnership between Robin Uthappa (36) and Steven Smith (39) for the fifth wicket helped the Warriors to reach 129/9.
 

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Squad:

Mumbai Indians:
Harbhajan Singh (Capt), Richard Levi, Suryakumar Yadav, Ambati Rayadu, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Kieron Pollard, James Franklin, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha

Pune Warriors:

Sourav Ganguly (Capt), Robin Uthappa, Callum Ferguson, Marlon Samuels, Manish Pandey, Steven Smith, B Kumar, Rahul Sharma, Wayne Parnell, Murli Kartik, Ashok Dinda