Mumbai Indians team which won the Champions League in New Delhi on Sunday.Sachin Tendulkar ended his limited-overs career with a glittering trophy in hand as Mumbai Indians defeated Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs in the final to claim its second Champions League T20 crown, at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Sunday night.After Chennai Super Kings’s feat in 2010, Mumbai became the second team to win the IPL and CLT20 titles in the same year. Harbhajan Singh turned out to be the hero for the Mumbai Indians in the final of the Champions League 2013 by picking up four wickets against the Rajasthan Royals in a winning cause on Sunday.
MI askaed to bat first and has given a taget of 203 to RR. Three well-placed boundaries from the masters bat cheered up the packed stadium. He observed and stroke to Shane Watson"s ball to fine leg and cover for consecutive fours before having his off-stump being uprooted spectacularly in the next delivery. opener Dwayne Smith took the responsibility of setting the platform of MI punishing the lose deliveries and showing respect to the good ones.Rohit Sharma struck three fours and two huge sixes in his 14-ball 33. Glenn Maxwell provided further fillip to the Mumbai innings with 37 from just 14 balls.
The early loss of Kushal Perera, the replacement for an injured Brad Hodge, had no impact on Rajasthan’s progress.Sanju Viswanadh had has done his part well making the Mumbai camp worried with some destructive batting. The youngster maintained his composure and rode his fabulous timing to blast the Mumbai bowlers all over the ground, for four fours and an equal number of sixes in his quickfire 60. Pragyan Ojha broke the second-wicket stand in the 12th over. A little later, Harbhajan came up with a three-wicket burst — Rahane (65), Stuart Binny (10) and Cooper (4) — in the 17th over to effectively end the contest.
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