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Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians, IPL, Bangalore
Deflated Mumbai look to avenge defeat
Nagraj Gollapudi
May 27, 2008
Match facts
Wednesday, May 28Start time 16.00 (local), 10.30 (GMT)
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The Big Picture
A probable high-stakes contest has been nipped in the bud with the Chennai Super Kings edging out the Mumbai Indians in the semi-final race. The only remaining interest in the clash is whether a crestfallen Mumbai can avenge their home defeat against the Bangalore Royal Challengers, or if Rahul Dravid's team, who have won two on the trot, can bow out in high spirits after a turbulent campaign.After squandering a winning position against the Rajasthan Royals through some shoddy fielding, Mumbai will have to prevent similar mistakes to avoid ending the tournament like they began: with four defeats.
Bangalore had swallowed the bitter pill long back and have recouped well to post two impressive wins, even though their batting is still unable to find any fluency. Luckily their bowlers have found some semblance of form, with Anil Kumble bowling a tight spell in the victory against Chennai and R Vinay Kumar sending back the Deccan Chargers' top order cheaply in the battle between the two bottom-placed sides.
Tournament position
Bangalore Royal Challengers: P13 W4 L9 NRR -1.161Mumbai Indians: P13 W6 L7 NRR +0.531
Form (last five matches, most recent first)
Bangalore Royal Challengers: WWLLLMumbai Indians: LLLWW
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Team news
Unless there are injuries, Dravid could retain the winning combination from the previous game against Deccan.
Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable): 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Rahul Dravid (capt), 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Cameron White, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Shreevats Goswami (wk), 8 B Akhil, 9 Anil Kumble, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 R Vinay Kumar
Mumbai might want to get back medium-pacer Dhawal Kulkarni for Manish Pandey, the middle-order batsman. Andre Nel could be the other change, coming in for Sri Lankan Dilhara Fernando, who choked in the final over against Rajasthan.
Mumbai Indians (probable): 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Dwayne Smith, 5 Shaun Pollock, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 8 Dhawal Kulkarni, 9 Rohan Raje, 10 Andre Nel, 11 Ashish Nehra
Stats and trivia
Quotes
"We just have to focus on our game."Lalchand Rajput accepts Mumbai's fate ahead of their final game
"Because of the short format, it is tough to come back from mistakes. We made some mistakes in our earlier games and we could not come back."
R Vinay Kumar indicates Bangalore have learned from their defeats
Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at Cricinfo
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