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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Pollard, Starc in IPL showdown

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MUM­BAI–Sparks flew be­tween West In­dies all rounder Kieron Pol­lard and Aus­tralian pac­er Mitchell Starc as Mum­bai In­di­ans beat Roy­al Chal­lengers Ban­ga­lore by 19 runs in the In­di­an Pre­mier League here yes­ter­day.Pol­lard and Starc stared in heat­ed late in­nings scenes be­fore Mum­bai In­di­ans de­fend­ed a to­tal of 187 by re­strict­ing Ban­ga­lore to 168 for eight in 20 overs at the Wankhede Sta­di­um.Mum­bai In­di­ans achieved their to­tal by rid­ing on Ro­hit Shar­ma's 35-ball 59 and Pol­lard's handy 43 off 31 balls, while Ban­ga­lore, de­spite a knock of 38 from Chris Gayle, lost their way from 94 for one in the tenth.

Shar­ma and Pol­lard came to­geth­er at 84 for four in the tenth over and ac­cel­er­at­ed late to add 97 in the next ten for Mum­bai.Ban­ga­lore's big hit­ter Gayle and Parthiv Pa­tel re­spond­ed with an open­ing stand of 53 in five overs.But the ten­sion un­fold­ed in the 17th over when Starc fired a bounc­er at Pol­lard who just avoid­ed get­ting hit when he missed an at­tempt­ed hook.The fast bowler had a few words to say to Pol­lard who re­spond­ed by wav­ing him away.The con­fronta­tion con­tin­ued in­to the next de­liv­ery when Pol­lard pulled away just as Starc was about to de­liv­er, an­ger­ing the Aus­tralian who an­gled the ball past the Trinida­di­an crick­eter.

An in­censed Pol­lard re­act­ed by threat­en­ing to throw his bat at Starc but end­ed up throw­ing it close to him­self.Starc had the sat­is­fac­tion of run­ning Pol­lard out, but be­fore that, he teased the hope­less­ly strand­ed bats­man to come back be­fore con­temp­tu­ous­ly swat­ting the bail off.The saga con­tin­ued in the sec­ond half when Starc was greet­ed by a bounc­er from Pol­lard, who even­tu­al­ly caught him at cov­er in the next over.Pol­lard's tense scenes with Starc fol­lowed a mi­nor run-in with Gayle, when he stood out­side his crease and dared his West In­di­an coun­ter­part to run him out.

De­spite their loss, Ban­ga­lore has enough match­es to qual­i­fy for the knock­outs while Mum­bai, who re­bound­ed from a five-game los­ing streak, will want to con­tin­ue win­ning. (Cricin­fo)


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