Gilly bowls an innocuous off spinner and he gets a wicket first-ball! Harbhajan slogs one-handed, goes straight down Gurkeerat's throat at long-on, Gilly does the Gangnam! Rather the half Gangnam, charges off, leaps, you should have seen him celebrate!
Kings XI vs MI, 69th match at Dharamsala, IPL, May 18 2013 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Presentation:
Rohit: "We didn't start off well. I thought it was chaseable. We kept losing wickets. Very difficult to come back. Plan was to see off the first 4-5 overs. I would like to congratulate him. We need to regroup. We got to leave the negatives out."
Gilchrist: "Harbhajan took my wicket many many times so I just wanted to mimic the reaction. Really well received by this fab crowd. 8 wins and 8 losses, that sums up our cricket the last three years. It will be interesting to see how careers go over the next few years. Happy to watch now and be entertained. Wonderful memories with Kings XI."
Azhar Mahmood is the Man of the Match: "I knew I was at 196 wickets in the last game. No.3 is a good number to bat on. I used the slower balls a lot. This Man of the Match is for my daughters. Quite fortunate to play under Gilchrist."
That's it from here. There will be another inspection in Bangalore at 8.10pm. That's if it doesn't rain between now and then. It's 7.55 as I write. Thanks for your company. Cheers!
End of match: Dhawal Kulkarni will not bat so it's victory to Kings XI. What a fitting moment for Gilchrist to depart. At least he had some fun in a dead rubber. He shares a laugh with the Mumbai players. He will take Harbhajan's case forever you reckon.
Gilchrist does a lap around the ground. It's not Kings XI's main home ground - it's Mohali, but the crowd loves him nevertheless. The whole team joins him.
Looks like the rain has delayed the toss in Bangalore. The rain has stopped but the groundstaff are in for a lot of work. That's not going to get underway too soon.
Aby Siby Kalappurayil: "So that means, Adam Gilchrist would end up his twenty20 career with 100% strike rate... Unbelievable"
Stay with us for the presentation. The host broadcasters are still discussing the dead rubber that was just completed, without a word on the status in Bangalore. Somebody send them a nudge, rather, a shove.
The last over a mere formality. Believe it or not Gilchrist is bowling! Praveen Kumar to keep wicket. Not kidding
pushes a yorker down to long-off
another good yorker, outside the off stump and he fails to dig it out
that's a good slower ball, swings and misses it
that was the slower one and he chips it towards mid-on
The rain has picked up in Bangalore so the toss will certainly be delayed
the off stump is flattened! This was a inswinging yorker, tough to dig those out, Coulter-Nile jams his bat on the pitch and the off stump is down, that's his 200th wicket in T20
slower delivery and he swivels and pulls to the on side
a bit too late in the day, this was a length ball on middle and leg and he swivels and clubs it over deep midwicket
fullish in length outside off and he pushes it to extra cover
Guessit: "Pollard's dismissal proves 2 things. Law of Averages; and Fate has a sense of humor (3 in 3 huh?)"
another slower ball and he mistimes the pull to mid-on
slower delivery outside off and he chops it to the off side
swings it on the pads and he works it to midwicket
slower delivery outside off and he plays and misses
good length outside off and pushed to mid-off
azhar: "nice to see pollard involving in missing hatrick catches and also other way round... being caught out in 3 straight deliveries...only man do experience such a thing i guess"
good inswinging yorker but was that missing leg? Dhawan once again shuffled across to the off stump to slog that away, it was on the base of the pads and it looked like going down leg with the angle
stays back and he punches it to the off side
good slower ball, goes right across to the off stump and attempts a slog but misses
Dhawan tries an AB de Villiers special, goes right across to the off stump and tries to slog him, misses it completely
Time Out.
It's Sandeep Sharma (1) because there happens to be another player by the same name
he's legally caught this time! A hat-trick of catches, this time Sandeep fires a full delivery on middle and leg, Pollard whips it over the on side, travels flat and down to long-on, Miller jogs back and he's in front of the rope
Over 20 • MI 133/10