Game 1: Chennai v Mumbai, Cape Town, April 18

Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians

Noice.

Where is the Essex v Direby thread FFS!!!!!?

I shall only tolerate this IPL'ness as long as someone sends a dodgy link my way at some point.

Or renames the thread Flintoff v Pietersen

DOG STOPS PLAY

theres a dog on the pitch they cant get rid of, and im not talking about hayden.

no morkel for chennai

mumbai 40/1 off 6.1 overs

So, any linkages?

im watching on setanta but link sent via pm

Cheers Ash, and here comes the 'lets rake as much cash as we can out of these suckas' break...

Nayar just plundered Flintoff. Massively under-rated player.

3 sixers off that over. flintoff is one of the hardest to geta way usually

166-7...about par. good innings from tendulkar and nayar. gony bowled quite well.

Ends at 166 with a Tendulkar 50. Nice.

Go Mumbai.

Bombay look home.

Nice little innings from Hayden but Chennai's batting line up is light on.

mumbai easy win in the end. harbys spell and nayars cameo did it for em

From what I could see Fred's batting still looks a bit shot to pieces...

he was just starting to look comfortable when sachin bought on harby and jayasuriya. we all know flintoff cant bat against spin

My trump player, Duminy, let me down with only 9 runs

HTF did SRT get MOTM? Nayar's innings was the difference.

i thought malinga should have gotten it. his was the stand-out individual performance in the match

as for the game itself it had two crucial turning points. nayar's innings and the bhajji-jaya combo with the wickets of flintoff and hayden and a drop in the run rate

i think srt is going to bat like this for the rest of the tourney. keep one end up and play off the new ball while the others have a license to hit