1st Test Day 2 BAN V PAK

Pakistan 227 for 1 (Hafeez 137*, Azhar 65*) trail Bangladesh 332 (Mominul 80, Imrul 51, Wahab 3-55, Yasir 3-86) by 105 runs

Coming into the Test series, Mohammad Hafeez had only scored 34 runs in four innings on the tour. He had only bowled in two of those innings after his action had been cleared by the ICC, but had gone wicketless. On the second day in Khulna, however, Hafeez was at the centerstage of a revival not only his own, but of Pakistan.

Hafeez had found drift and good control with his newly-remodelled action to pick up a wicket on the first day. On the second day, however, his dismissal of a fluent Soumya Sarkar triggered a Bangladesh collapse that saw the home side lose their last five wickets for 27 runs to be bowled out 20 minutes into the second session. Hafeez, introduced after 19 overs, induced a false shot in his second, breaking a 62-run partnership between Sarkar and Mushfiqur Rahim that had helped the home side ease past the 300-run mark. The rest succumbed in no time and Bangladesh were stalled to an underwhelming 332.

Hafeez's other telling contribution, however, was to come later. Making most of the excellent batting conditions, Hafeez led Pakistan's response with his eighth Test century. He may have had a tough last few months, but Hafeez's Test form picked up from where he had left it. With his third century in three Tests, he joined an illustrious group - Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar, Shoaib Mohammad, Mohammad Yousuf (twice) and Younis Khan - of Pakistan batsmen.

Throughout his innings, Hafeez profited off anything bowled short of length. He greeted Mohammad Shahid, the right-arm seamer, to Test cricket with a back-foot punch through cover in the bowler's first over and picked up boundaries off the spinners in a similar manner. If there was a lesson to be learnt from the initial part of Hafeez's innings, it was to avoid bowling on his pads.

Bangladesh's bowlers, however, regularly fed Hafeez with what he wanted. All Hafeez had to do was to sit back in the crease and work it around to the leg side. Nine of Hafeez's 12 fours were hit in the region between midwicket and backward square leg. His two sixes, both of Shakib, were pulled over midwicket as well. Surprisingly, only towards the end did Bangladesh think of providing cover in the deep.

The other feature of Hafeez's innings was his rotation of strike. After reaching his fifty with a six, Hafeez only once hit a four before he got into the nineties, and yet maintained a healthy strike rate. However, it took him only two balls to jump from 93 to his century as he whipped consecutive boundaries off Rubel Hossain.

Hafeez's effortless innings allowed his partners to bat comfortably around him. The new opening pair - Pakistan's sixth in last six Tests - of Hafeez and 19-year-old Sami Aslam made smooth progress to bring up the half-century of the partnership in the 12th over. Aslam was dismissed soon after for a 36-ball 20, a review urged by Bangladesh showing he had gloved a turning delivery from Taijul Islam to be caught by Mushfiqur down the leg side.

Azhar survived a couple of scares - he was twice dropped by Mushfiqur, the second chance off Shahid injuring the wicketkeeper's right hand and forcing him to leave the field - and was unbeaten on 65 after a 177-run unbeaten association with Hafeez. By the end of the day, Pakistan were trailing by 105 runs with nine wickets in hand.

The Bangladesh batsmen were guilty of throwing their wickets away. Sarkar, who had scored 33 off 55 balls, top-edged an intended hit down the ground off Hafeez towards cover. Asad Shafiq ran in from cover and completed a diving catch at wide mid-off. Eight balls later, Mushfiqur lobbed an easy catch to cover on 32 as he pushed at a short and turning delivery from Yasir Shah. Yasir added the wicket of Taijul in his next over to make it four wickets in the first session for Pakistan, before Wahab cleaned up the tail immediately after lunch.

Pakistan had made a perfect start to the day. Zulfiqar Babar got rid of Shakib in the fourth over of the morning. The batsman charged down the pitch to a flighted delivery but only managed a fine inside edge which was smartly snapped up by a diving Shafiq at leg-slip. Shakib had added only six runs to his overnight score of 19.

The only time Pakistan were made to wait in the day was during the Mushfiqur-Sarkar stand. While Mushfiqur soaked up pressure, Sarkar added urgency. Playing his first Test innings, Sarkar showed over-eagerness at the start; his first shot was an aerial drive that landed short of mid-off and he was lucky that that a mistimed slog off Zulfiqar beat the mid-on fielder. But once his nerves settled, Sarkar had no trouble rotating the strike.

Using his reach, Sarkar laced an elegant cover drive off Zulfiqar to hit his first Test boundary off his 34th delivery. He went on to hit three more fours through the same area. Zulfiqar leaked runs towards the end of his spell, with the second boundary in his ninth over bringing the 50 of the partnership between Mushfiqur and Sarkar. However, once Hafeez ended the stand, there was no looking back for Pakistan.

IPL 2015 Match 29

Match abandoned RCB v Rajasthan Royals 

Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle were gone inside three overs, AB de Villiers was run out before the death, and rain washed out play after the first innings, yet the Chinnaswamy Stadium was dazzled by a 17-year-old's 45 not out from 21, as Royal Challengers Bangalore sped to 200 for 7. Playing his second IPL innings, Sarfaraz Khan clubbed six fours and a six to ensure the hosts did not suffer for conceding two run outs in the middle overs, taking a particular liking to the bowling of Pravin Tambe - a man 26 years his senior.

Sarfaraz began his charge with an upper cut four off James Faulkner in the 16th over, before finding the boundary off successive Shane Watson balls the following over. It was his taking apart of Tambe in the 18th over, though, which made 200 possible for Royal Challengers. Sarfaraz swept Tambe powerfully first ball, then advanced to launch the bowler over his head for six. An inside-out four would come three balls later. The 18 runs from that over pushed the score to 175 for 6, after which David Weise and Harshal Patel helped add the finishing touches.

Rajasthan Royals had began brightly enough, when the recalled Tim Southee had Gayle caught at midwicket in the first over, then had Kohli nicking behind in the third. De Villiers was not compelled to caution by a scoreline of 19 for 2 however, and he struck James Faulkner for three successive fours in the fifth over. He and Mandeep Singh put on a 74-run stand, the highlight of which was de Villiers' wallop over the deep-midwicket fence off Stuart Binny. That shot brought up his fifty off 41 balls, but a mix up with Dinesh Karthik cost him his wicket in the 13th over.

All this would be of no avail in the end, though. Rain began to fall in Bangalore during the innings break, and did not fully abate until 11:39pm, when the match was called off.

IPL 2015 Match 28

CSK V KKR

The Chennai Super Kings climbed to the top of the Indian Premier League with a hard-fought two-run victory over the Kolkata Knight Riders this evening.

After losing the toss and being put into bat, Chennai got off to a solid start with both Dwayne Smith (25) andBrendon McCullum (19) going at better than a run a ball in the early stages.

However, both fell before really troubling the scoreboard and the Super Kings' innings dried up in the middle-order.

Faf du Plessis's 29 runs off 29 balls was the best Chennai managed as they finished on 134/6 - their third-lowest ever total at home.

Kolkata's innings got off to the worst possible start when they lost Gautam Gambhir for a golden duck, but they recovered quickly and were motoring towards the total required in the early stages.

Robin Uthappa (39) was flying, but once his wicket fell in the sixth over, the Knight Riders went on a boundary drought and at one point failed to score a four or a six in 11 overs.

Ryan ten Doeschate's late flurry of 38 runs almost gave Kolkata victory, but it was the Super Kings who came through, with Dwayne Bravo's three late wickets ending any hope the visitors had of snatching it.

Chennai are now unbeaten in nine home games, while Kolkata remain third in the standings with seven points from seven games.

1st Test Day 1 BAN V PAK

Bangladesh 236 for 4 (Mominul 80, Imrul 51, Mahmudullah 49) v Pakistan

Pakistan had been reinforced with the addition of seniors like Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan, and this was a format the team has had considerable success over the last few months, in conditions not dissimilar to the ones they were to face in Bangladesh. Yet, half-centuries from Mominul Haque and Imrul Kayes on the opening day of the Test series extended Bangladesh's advantage over Pakistan on the current tour by another day.

Bangladesh had opted to bat on a typical first-day subcontinent pitch that did not offer any help to the seamers and only limited turn to the spinners, but the slow and tentative approach Tamim Iqbal and Imrul took in the first session lacked the confidence that has hardly left the team since the start of the World Cup. By the end of the day though, with their batsmen putting a series of good partnerships and the Pakistan fielders erring, Bangladesh had shed some of that tentativeness.

At the heart of it was Mominul, who added a fifty-plus score in a Test for the 10th consecutive time. In fact, in his 13-match career, only once he was not able to reach a half-century. Although slow from the start of his innings, Mominul was his usual solid self. He was hit on the helmet by Junaid Khan early in his innings, but guided the next ball through gully with composure. It remained his favourite area, as six off his eight boundaries came through the region.

After arriving at the stroke of lunch, Mominul added 40, 95 and 49 for the second, third and fourth wickets, to ensure Bangladesh did not let the opening stand of 52 not go to waste. However, his dismissal off the penultimate delivery - he was trapped plumb in front by Zulfiqar Babar - meant yet again he had failed to reach the three-figure mark. Of the 12 times he has crossed fifty, only four times he has gone on to make a century.

Similar was the fate of Mahmudullah, who fell one short of his half-century. He showed glimpses of the same form that has raised his reputation over the last few months, playing attractive strokes off the front foot or back, but, yet again, he failed to convert a start into a substantial score.

The highlight of Mahmudullah's 123-ball stay was his first boundary, an elegant hit through cover off Zulfiqar after he had stepped out of the crease. Not all his boundaries were convincing though; a couple slid through the cordon off the outside edge off the pacers. Another outside edge, when he was on 49, was snapped up by the diving Sarfraz Ahmed behind the stumps, the 74-over ball from Wahab Riaz reversing just enough to square him up.

Pakistan, though, were left to rue the missed opportunities. Five chances were wasted in the first two sessions. In the morning Tamim, who scored two centuries in the recent ODI series, could have been out in the 20th over had Mohammad Hafeez held a low chance at leg slip when the batsman was on 16. Yasir Shah misjudged a lofted shot from Imrul in the 18th over, and Azhar Ali did not take a sharp chance at short leg from the same batsman in the 29th over.

In the second session, left-arm spinner Babar dropped a return chance, letting Mominul off on 17. Then Younis and Hafeez allowed an outside edge from Mahmudullah's bat fly between them in the slip cordon.

The one time Pakistan were lucky was when Yasir broke the monotony of a slow morning by picking up the wicket of Tamim 11 minutes before the end of the first session, ending an obdurate opening stand. Tamim had scored 25, his best against Pakistan, when an inside edge was smartly taken by Azhar at short leg. But Pakistan were fortunate because third umpire Paul Reiffel ruled a no-ball-check from the on-field official in favour of Yasir, when the margin was so slim that the decision could have easily been made in Tamim's favour as well.

The rate of scoring that crawled at 1.53 an over in the first hour, only marginally improved to 2 in the second, as none of the batsmen showed intent consistently. Singles remained rare and the boundaries, rarer. A couple of reverse-sweeps, one each from Tamim and Imrul, made appearance in the second hour after only two fours had been hit in the first. At lunch, Imrul was on 35 off 104 deliveries.

Playing with more assurance after lunch, Imrul hit two more fours - a cover drive off Yasir and a powerful sweep off Hafeez - and reached his second Test half-century in the 41st over, off the 129th ball he faced. But he was dismissed off the next one as he popped a leading edge back at Hafeez, ending his 38-run stand with Mominul. For Hafeez, who tested the batsmen with drift and flight, it was his first wicket with his remodelled action.

IPL 2015 Match 27

Sunrisers Hyderabad claimed victory by 20 runs over Kings XI Punjab in Monday's match between two of the Indian Premier League's struggling sides.

Punjab put Hyderabad into bat and Mitchell Johnson struck in his first over, removing Shikhar Dhawan for just one run, but he couldn't take the wicket of fellow Australian David Warner, who set the pace for the Hyderabad.

Warner was gone for 58 just before the halfway mark and no-one really grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck as the Sunrisers finished on 150/6 from their 20 overs.

Ashish Reddy's unbeaten knock of 22 runs off just eight balls helped Hyderabad reach the 150-mark and it would prove a crucial score.

Kings XI's innings got off to a solid start, but once Manan Vohra was bowled by Trent Boult, they slowed up and never threatened to chase down the fairly modest target.

Boult was the game's leading wicket-taker with three dismissals, while Wriddhiman Saha's knock of 42 was the best Punjab managed, finishing their 20 overs on 130/9.

Hyderabad move up to fifth in the standings with six points from seven games.

IPL 2015 Matches 25 + 26

KKR A-A RR

No play was possible at Eden Gardens after a heavy afternoon shower left the ground water-logged. Points were shared between the two teams, lifting Rajasthan Royals past Chennai Super Kings to the top of the points table. Kolkata Knight Riders remained third on the table with seven points.


DD V RCB

Mitchell Starc and Chris Gayle stole the show as Royal Challengers Bangalore eased to a 10-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League.

A disastrous batting performance from Delhi started with Starc trapping Shreyas Iyer lbw in the first over, and the Australian seamer would be on top form throughout the innings to return figures of 3-20 from his four overs.

There was little resistance from the Daredevils, with only Kedar Jadhav (33) passing 30 as they slipped to 95 all out in 18.2 overs.

Although the signs at the halfway suggested that Bangalore were on course for a comfortable win, it was not clear quite how it easy it would be until Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli attacked from the first over.

Gayle struck four sixes on his way to an unbeaten, while Kohli was 35 not out when Bangalore reached their target in the 11th over.

2nd Test Day 5 WI 299 & 307 v ENG 464 & 143/1

James Anderson inspired England to a nine-wicket win over West Indies on the final day of the second Test.

Anderson took three wickets, two catches and ran out Jason Holder with a direct hit as the home side slipped from an overnight 202-2 to 307 all out.

That left England 143 to win, reached with an unbeaten 81 from Gary Ballance and Alastair Cook's 59 not out.

Victory in Grenada, a first Test win overseas since 2012, gives England a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

The unlikely circumstances of the victory - with England needing to take eight wickets on a docile pitch quickly enough for a run chase to be possible - are not the only reason for Cook's side to be delighted.

It comes on the back of a disastrous World Cup campaign, the threat of "enquiries" from incoming England and Wales Cricket chairman Colin Graves if they do not succeed in the Caribbean, and after the make-up of their attack for this match came under fire.

But there are still issues to be addressed for the final Test in Barbados, not least the position of Jonathan Trott at the top of the order.

After making a first-innings half-century, Trott fell for his second duck since returning to the side in the first Test. In a three-ball stay, he survived an lbw review before chopping Shannon Gabriel on to his stumps.

That was the only low point of an England day that was dominated by Anderson's brilliance with the ball and in the field.

As the home side resumed 37 ahead, the tourists were relying on the second new ball to create opportunities and Anderson, a week on from becoming England's leading wicket-taker in Test cricket, provided the catalyst through an exhibition of aggressive swing bowling.

Fourth-day centurion Kraigg Brathwaite could only fend a vicious short ball to gully before Shivnarine Chanderpaul was superbly caught by a diving Cook at first slip after Ian Bell parried the initial chance.

And, when Marlon Samuels failed to withdraw his bat from an away-swinger, Anderson had 3-1 with the new ball in overall figures of 4-43.

As pressure on West Indies increased, Anderson was barely out of the game, first holding a loose drive from Jermaine Blackwood at mid-off from the bowling of Chris Jordan, then doing the same at mid-on to dismiss Kemar Roach off Moeen Ali.

In between was perhaps the most spectacular of the lot, a direct hit of the non-striker's end from mid-off to defeat Holder's lazy attempt to return to his ground.

Home captain Denesh Ramdin briefly halted England's charge, but missed a Moeen full toss to be lbw, with Gabriel pinned two balls later to complete a much-improved display by the England off-spinner.

Though Trott went in the second over, England's chase was never in doubt as Cook and Balance shared an unbroken stand of 142.

Cook scored almost exclusively square of the wicket to notch his fifth half-century in eight Test knocks, looking much more fluent than his first-innings 76.

Ballance accelerated towards victory, finding the boundary through 360 degrees and becoming the third-fastest England batsman to 1,000 Test runs.

He was dropped on 15 at slip from Samuels' off-spin, but, even by then, West Indies were beaten.

IPL 2015 Matches 23 + 24

SRH V MI

Mumbai Indians have claimed a 20-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League after Lasith Malinga tore through the middle order.

Mumbai batted first, and made a strong start to their innings, with Lendl Simmons hitting a half century at the top of the order, but Parthiv Patel added just 17 before being dismissed.

Rohit Sharma (24) and Kieron Pollard (33) steadied the ship in the middle of the order, but Bhuvneshwar Kumarmade sure that the Indians were limited in the final overs, with Harbhajan Singh and Vinay Kumar out for ducks.

Kumar was the pick of the bowler for Hyderabad, finishing with 3-26 as well as taking two catches to limit their opponents to 157 off their 20 overs.

Sunrisers were dealt a blow early in their reply though as Malinga restricted David Warner to nine runs, sending him back to the pavilion in the fifth over.

Shikhar Dhawan could not quite reach his 50, while Ravi Bopara fell for 23, leaving the visitors needing 31 over the final two overs.

Malinga struck again in the penultimate over, having Gade Vihari caught before skittling Praveenkumar Singhjust two deliveries later.

Malinga ended any hopes Hyderabad had of a late charge when he claimed his third wicket of the over off the next ball, sending Dale Steyn packing for a first-ball duck, leaving them needing 27 off the final over, but they fell short.

CSK V KXIP

Chennai Super Kings produced a dominant performance to reach the top of the Indian Premier League table with a 97-run victory over Kings XI Punjab.

A 50-run opening stand ensured Chennai made a solid start before Dwayne Smith departed for 26, but Suresh Rainacontinued his side's good work alongside Brendon McCullum.

It was McCullum who stole the show with 66 from 44 balls, while MS Dhoni (41*) and Ravindra Jadeja (18*) enjoyed a fine partnership to take their side to 192-3 from 20 overs.

Kings XI made a poor start to their reply when Virender Sehwag (1) was caught by Francois du Plessis off the bowling of Ishwar Pandey in the opening over.

Losing wickets at regular intervals proved to be key as Shaun Marsh (10), George Bailey (1) and David Miller (3) all failed with the bat.

Indian spinners Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin shared five wickets to prevent Kings XI from gaining momentum, and they could only creep to a disappointing 95-9 from 20 overs as they slipped to the bottom of the table.

2nd Test Day 4 WI 299 & 202/2 v ENG 464

Kraigg Brathwaite made a composed century as West Indies had much the better of the fourth day of the second Test against England in Grenada.

His 101 not out took the home side to 202-2, a lead of 37.

Earlier, England moved their overnight 373-6 to 464 all out, with Joe Root ending unbeaten on 182.

On a pitch that remains lifeless, a draw seems the most likely result, lengthening England's wait for a first overseas win since 2012.

If a positive result on the final day is possible, then it is England who are more likely to earn it.

However, the lack of opportunities created in the turgid afternoon and evening sessions suggest that Alastair Cook's men will find it hard to take the seven wickets required quickly enough for a run-chase to be undertaken.

They will at least have the opportunity to bowl with a new ball and will hope to find the swing movement that made James Anderson dangerous before lunch, when Devon Smith failed to withdraw his bat from an outswinger and deflected the ball on to his stumps.

Thereafter, Brathwaite and Darren Bravo made England toil on a surface showing little pace or bounce and only slow turn.

They shared 142 for the second wicket, with Brathwaite overcoming some early uncertainty outside off stump to cut repeatedly and the more assured Bravo occasionally unfurling flamboyant drives.

In the face of West Indian patience, England's seamers stuck to their task, with Stuart Broad almost having Brathwaite glove to slip, while the otherwise disappointing off-spin of Moeen Ali saw Bravo flash past gully and and Brathwaite nearly lob to mid-wicket.

In the end, mid-way through the evening session, England's perseverance with a plan of hanging the ball outside off stump paid off as Bravo edged through to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.

Brathwaite remained, joined by Marlon Samuels, who received no obvious response to the saluting send-off he gave Ben Stokes on the third evening.

The right-handed opener was the recipient of a failed lbw review from the bowling of Chris Jordan, then completed his fourth Test century with another cut off Anderson.

That sealed an ideal day for West Indies, who chipped through the England batting in the morning session with plenty of help from the tourists.

The impressive leg-spin of Devendra Bishoo had Buttler stumped by some distance and Broad caught from a gloved sweep, either side of Jordan being run-out in a mix-up with Root.

That was the only mistake of an imperious Root knock, the 24-year-old becoming the second-youngest England player to reach 2,000 Test runs and only the ninth man to make four scores in excess of 150 before the age of 25.

Cutting the seamers and looking to hit straight or slog-sweep against Bishoo, he farmed the strike when partnered with last-man Anderson to add 33 for the 10th wicket.

He looked primed for a second Test double hundred, but was denied when Anderson was run-out in dozy fashion, failing to ground his bat, perhaps not expecting Jason Holder to gather a return from high above his head.

In frustration, Root hit the ground with his bat and threw his helmet, while the visitors were left short of a lead that would pressure West Indies.

Ultimately, though, it is wickets, rather than runs, that are the problem for England.

IPL 2015 Match 22

Royal Challengers Bangalore have stunned Indian Premier League leaders Rajasthan Royals by securing a nine-wicket victory in Ahmedabad.

Rajasthan, who were overwhelming favourites to beat their bottom-placed opponents, struggled for runs, with Steve Smith top-scoring with 31 off 28 balls.

Openers Ajinkya Rahane and Shane Watson hit just 18 and 26 runs respectively, while Mitchell Starc impressed on the field with three wickets to his name.

In reply, big-hitter Chris Gayle teamed up with Virat Kohli, and while the former hit 20 off 17 deliveries before getting dismissed by Watson, the latter ramped up the runs.

Kohli and AB de Villiers put on a stunning partnership as they reached their 131-run target with unbeaten knocks of 62 and 47 respectively.

Royal Challengers won the game with 23 balls remaining.

2nd Test Day 3 WI 299 v ENG 373/6

A sparkling hundred from Joe Root put England in position to push for victory in the second Test against West Indies.

Root hit 118 not out, his sixth Test century, as the tourists reached 373-6 in their first innings, leading West Indies by 74 with two days to go.

The Yorkshireman was well supported by Gary Ballance (77), who passed 50 for the eighth time in 10 Tests.

Captain Alastair Cook (76) was denied a first Test hundred since May 2013 while fellow opener Jonathan Trott made 59.

Long time coming
The 125-run stand between Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott was England's first century partnership for the first wicket in 40 innings. The last one came at Dunedin in March 2013, between Cook and Nick Compton.

    But the day belonged to Root, who continued his extraordinary run since he was dropped for the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney in January 2014.

The 24-year-old is now averaging 103.7 since his recall to the side and has passed 50 in each of his last six innings equalling the England record.

On a slowish pitch, he batted with a fluency that proved beyond any of the other England batsmen, reaching his ton off just 125 balls.

"Joe was probably a bit frustrated watching Alastair and I cloth it everywhere and not hit boundaries," said Trott. "He came in and showed the guys how.

"I don't think cricket is ever easy but he certainly makes it look relatively easy. He's mature beyond his years and a fine player to have in the dressing room."

Earlier in the day, the under-pressure Cook and Trott put on 125 for the first wicket, with 34-year-old Trott reaching his first half-century since his international recall before edging spinner Devendra Bishoo to slip.

Cook looked set for his 26th Test century but dragged the ball on to his stumps off pace bowler Shannon Gabriel. However, the captain has now passed 50 in four of his last seven innings.

Most innings without a century by an England opener
Mike Brearley: 41 (Jun 1976 - Jul 1981)
Alastair Cook: 34 (Jul 2013 - Apr 2015)
Tom Hayward: 33 (Dec 1901 - Jun 1909)
Mark Butcher: 30 (Nov 1998 - Oct 2003)

"Alastair and I were really pleased to put on a good start but I'm sure both of us are disappointed we couldn't go on and make a bigger score," added Trott.

"You don't spend all those hours in the nets to get fifties, you go there to get match defining hundreds.

"But we get on pretty well, we've got a good understanding in the middle and it was nice to get back in the groove."

Ian Bell departed in almost identical fashion to Cook, but Ballance continued his outstanding start to his Test career with a patient innings that saw him take advantage of the flagging West Indies bowlers.

The hosts fought back well in the evening session, claiming three quick wickets - with Ballance missing a loopy delivery, Moeen Ali farcically run out without scoring and Ben Stokes caught at deep mid-wicket for eight.

Stokes' ongoing battle with Marlon Samuels again reared its head, the Jamaican standing and saluting Stokes as he stalked towards the pavilion.

But England hold the upper hand and will look to build a sizeable lead when they bat tomorrow, before attempting to do what they could not in the first Test in Antigua, and bowl West Indies out for a second time.

IPL 2015 Match 21

Delhi Daredevils 190 for 4 (Iyer 83, Duminy 78*) beat Mumbai Indians 153 for 9 (Rohit 30, Rayudu 30, Tahir 3-22) by 37 runs

Fifties from Shreyas Iyer and JP Duminy, and their 154-run partnership - the highest in the IPL this season - propelled Delhi Daredevils to a 37-run win over Mumbai Indians, breaking their streak of nine successive losses at the Feroz Shah Kotla

Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma had opted to bowl after winning the toss, to have the comfort of knowing what to chase. His bowlers, however, were systematically taken apart by Duminy and Iyer and the pressure of a 191 chase, combined with electric fielding by Daredevils, left them well short of the target.

Rohit's decision to bowl first found immediate vindication when Mitchell McClenaghan dismissed opener Mayank Agarwal for 1. Their joy was short-lived, however, as Iyer opened up to take a four and a six either side of the wicket, off successive balls in McClenaghan's next over. Jasprit Bumrah was greeted at the crease with successive sixes by JP Duminy over backward square leg and it was only the introduction of Harbhajan Singh within the Powerplay that managed to stem the glut of boundaries.

Harbhajan and Malinga managed to keep the pair quiet for a couple of overs but once they were pulled out of the attack, the proceedings turned fairly one-sided.

At the halfway mark, Daredevils were 65 for 1. By the time the 15th over ended, they had sped to 137 for 1. Bumrah, Pollard, McClenaghan were all taken for runs and even Harbhajan's tidy figures were wiped out by an 18-run over in which Iyer hit the offspinner for two sixes. Iyer fed off poor lines from the Mumbai bowlers but his edges also carried to the boundary. By the time Bumrah came back into the attack, Iyer was so well set, he he squeezed a yorker for a boundary to bring up his fifty. It had taken him only 37 deliveries to reach his second T20 fifty, with six fours and two sixes and he would hit another three sixes before walking across his stumps to a Malinga yorker.

Duminy's fifty took one ball less but the batsman had two different gears. After the initial burst, he turned the strike over to Iyer before getting stuck into Kieron Pollard in the 12th over. Their partnership had stretched to 154 - the second highest for Daredevils for any wicket in the IPL - before Iyer fell but Duminy carried on, ensuring Daredevils promising attack had enough to bowl at.

Duminy led by example in the field, too - a sliding save left him wincing in pain but he came on to bowl in the fourth over and a few overs later, held on to a skier to end an opening partnership between Lendl Simmons and Parthiv Patel that appeared to settling at the crease. Mumbai had opted for an unchanged XI, the batting order was the same that had racked up 209 against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Against Daredevils' consistent bowling, and their sharp fielding - Shahbaz Nadeem and Imran Tahir held on to difficult chances - the chase stalled. When Tahir took three wickets in his third over - the 17th of the match - Mumbai looked on track to being bowled out for the first time in this IPL, but Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga managed to thwart that particular outcome.

2nd Test Day 2 WI 299 v ENG 74/0

England seized the advantage in the second Test against West Indies after a rain-affected second day that saw them dismiss the hosts for 299, then reach 74-0 by stumps in Grenada.

Stuart Broad (4-61) was instrumental as the hosts slipped from 188-5 overnight, despite a Marlon Samuels century.

Last pair Devendra Bishoo and Shannon Gabriel put on 52 to frustrate England.

But under-pressure openers Alastair Cook (37) and Jonathan Trott (32) then safely negotiated the evening session.

Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott
"Tomorrow it is help yourself and I think England will bat all day. England could be smart get around a lead of 80 and then try and bowl them out because you know their players will play a few shots. However, Cook does not like to take risks. Perhaps if England want to win they have to try something different."

Cook in particular batted well and overtook Alec Stewart as England's second-highest all-time Test run-scorer during his innings.

He will now have his sights set on reaching his first international century since May 2013.

England's chances of forcing a first away Test win since 2012 will depend on building a big first-innings lead after more time was lost to Grenada's capricious weather.

However, they will be buoyed by the resurgent form of Broad and Cook, among the most frequently criticised members of England's side over the past 12 months.

England's highest Test run-scorers
Graham Gooch (1975-95)	8900 runs (118 matches)
Alastair Cook (2006-15)	8484 runs (111 matches)
Alec Stewart (1990-2003)	8463 runs (133 matches)
David Gower (1978-92)	8231 runs (117 matches)
Kevin Pietersen (2005-14)	8181 runs (104 matches)

Fast bowler Broad, bowling a slightly fuller length than previously in this series and finding a hint of movement off the pitch, ran through the West Indies lower order after lunch in an impressive spell.

After James Anderson removed Marlon Samuels following the Jamaican's completion of his seventh Test century, Broad - operating at over 90mph at times - accounted for Denesh Ramdin, Jason Holder and Kemar Roach to leave West Indies struggling at 247-9.

Though Bishoo and Gabriel frustrated England with a dashing partnership that featured some sublime strokeplay, a resolute stand from Cook and Trott soon made the West Indies total look sub-par.

IPL matches 19 + 20

Sunrisers Hyderabad 176 for 4 (Warner 91, Dhawan 54, Morkel 2-31) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 101 for 4 in 12 overs (Uthappa 34) by 16 runs (D/L method)

Sunrisers Hyderabad overcame a limp finish to their innings, a Duckworth-Lewis readjustment, wet outfield, dropped catches, and fumbles in the field to successfully defend 117 in 12 overs. For the first 8.4 overs of the chase, 80 runs came during which the game was headed towards Kolkata Knight Riders, but a back-of-the-hand slower ball from Ravi Bopara and then three exceptional and yorker-filled overs from the Kumars of the badlands of Meerut made sure Knight Riders couldn't score 37 off the last three overs.

It was all going wrong for Sunrisers: David Warner found little support to his 55-ball 91 with the rest failing to even double the score in 10 balls more, Duckworth-Lewis wasn't exceptionally kind to them, the conditions were wet ruling the spinners out, three catches were missed in the first four overs, and Andre Russell and Manish Pandey were threatening to turn this into a stroll. Russell was 19 off 9, Pandey 20 off 14, to go with Robin Uthappa's 34 off 21, but then Russell went for a big hit off Bopara.

It was a slower ball bowled out of the back of the hand, hit the bottom of the bat, and went straight to Dale Steyn at long-on. Steyn had seen two catches go down in his first two overs, but made no mistake here. Still with seven wickets in hand, wet conditions, and 38 required off 19 you would have backed the chasing side.

Not, however, when Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Praveen Kumar are bowling to Indian batsmen. These two skilled but military medium quicks, who play first-class cricket for Uttar Pradesh, have got better of every batsman on the Indian circuit. For the next 15 balls they put on a workshop on how to defend when conditions are against you. They did nothing fancy, but went about executing the most difficult bowling skill in limited-overs cricket: the yorker. They erred on a few conditions, but never on the short side.

Pandey and Yusuf Pathan, with due respect to their IPL records, are not the best when the bowling is of a certain quality. That certain quality was reached here. Both the batsmen were stifled and frustrated, but couldn't do much. Bhuvneshwar bowled the 10th over. The batsmen did managed to convert a couple of yorkers into low full tosses, but they had no room to swing their arms at. One of the six balls was a yorker outside off, and it beat the outside edge of Yusuf, who was camping back. Five runs later, Bhuvneshwar handed over the baton to the wilier and more experienced Praveen.

Praveen had earlier bowled an over in which he came from a six and a four off the first two balls with four yorkers that went for one run and a wicket. He continued doing that with the wet ball. There were two fumbles in the over that converted ones into twos, Praveen let that frustration show on his face but not on the ball. The first four were near perfect, they went for five, and with 27 required off eight he slipped in a slower legcutter to make it 27 off seven. A low full toss and a misfield followed, but Knight Riders still needed 25 to win off the last over.

Bhuvneshwar refused to budge off the plan. Pandey hit the first ball, a low full toss, straight to deep midwicket, and Yusuf found extra cover on the full next ball. Incredibly, in the space of 14 balls, the Kumars had turned what looked like a stroll for Knight Riders into sixes required off each ball. New batsman Suryakumar Yadav could get only a single off the third ball thus ending the game, and in the end Knight Riders barely went past Warner's 91.

While the support cast chipped in with the ball, the batting was largely dominated by Warner. On a slow pitch, with the ball turning, Warner batted a level above the others. He used a switch hit, some bullying, and some crisp hitting to get the better of spinners. Shikhar Dhawan at the other end struggled to time the ball, but he provided Warner support going at a run a ball. When Warner fell, though, for 91 out of the 130 scored when he was in the middle, Sunrisers needed Dhawan to step it up from his run-a-ball innings until then.

Dhawan couldn't, nor could the other batsmen that followed, which meant only 46 came off the last 34 balls. That pales in comparison of 20 off the last three overs, which is what the Kumars reduced Knight Riders to.

The Chennai Super Kings have strengthened their second place in the Indian Premier League by overcoming Royal Challengers Bangalore by 27 runs in the 20th match of this year's tournament.

Bangalore won the toss and chose to field, soon removing Chennai danger-man Brendon McCullum for just four runs.

However, partnerships of 54 and 58 from Dwayne Smith and Suresh Raina and Raina and MS Dhonirespectively saw the Super Kings cruise towards a decent total.

They finished on 181-8 from their 20 overs, with Faf du Plessis hitting a quickfire unbeaten 33 off 18 balls to help the visitors past the 180-run mark.

In reply, the hosts started steadily with openers Manvinder Bisla (17) and Rilee Roussouw (14), but they both fell in the fourth over as Ashish Nehra took two of his game-high four wickets.

Virat Kohli (51) tried his best to rescue Bangalore's innings, but he failed to make a decent partnership with anyone else in the middle order as the Royal Challengers finished on 154-8.

Chennai have now won four of their five games, while Bangalore remain bottom of the standings with just one win from four games.

2nd Test Day 1 WI 188/5 v ENG

England edged a rain-hit yet fiery day one of the second Test in Grenada as the West Indies struggled to 188-5 by the close - but a defiant Marlon Samuels frustrated the tourists late on.

Having failed to force victory in Antigua, the English bowling attack set about their task with purpose and James Anderson, Chris Jordan (2), Stuart Broad and Ben Stokes all contributed wickets with only Samuels (94no) able to stem the tide with the bat.


Rain delayed the start of play by 105 minutes but when the action finally got underway, England began quickly as opening seamer Anderson removed Kraigg Braithwaite in his second over of the day.


Having bowled out-swingers for the entirety of his initial over, Anderson produced an exquisite in-swinger that moved from well outside off to clatter the top of leg stump and extend his lead as England's leading Test wicket-taker of all time.

Braithwaite's fellow opener, Devon Smith, was next to go for 15 in slightly bizarre circumstances.


Smith appeared to edge Jordan through to Jos Buttler and was promptly given out but seemed reluctant to walk. Replays showed his bat had made contact with pitch rather than ball but the batsman opted not to use a review and England, rightly or wrongly, had their man.


Having resumed on 36-2, Darren Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul departed in the afternoon session - both to poor shots - as England cemented the initiative.


Trinidadian Bravo had just sent a juicy Broad half-volley hurtling to the extra cover boundary when he went tentatively at a relatively-wide off-cutter from the seamer, providing captain Alastair Cook with a regulation catch at first slip.


There was a moment of concern for England early in the afternoon when all-rounder Stokes caught his knee in the turf and received treatment but, after appearing to struggle for the half-hour that followed, he was soon moving freely enough to bowl.


With his first ball of the Test, the Durham man earned his first wicket of the series. Chanderpaul was the man sent back in uncharacteristic circumstances as the veteran half-volleyed a wide delivery straight into the grateful grasp of the Moeen Ali at point.


The recalled Ali had been turning the ball promisingly with his off-spin and was agonisingly close to snaring a wicket of his own in the 41st over - Samuels offering little as a shot and England reviewing Bruce Oxenford's 'not out' decision only to find the ball clipping the top of leg and staying with the initial on-field call.


Samuels and Jermaine Blackwood set about trying to resurrect the innings after tea and the first semblance of frustration for England was compounded in the 46th over of the day when Cook put down a fairly straightforward chance to dismiss the Samuels off the bowling of Jordan.


With the pair gathering momentum, travelling fans were again left thinking what might have been when Blackwood smashed uppishly down the ground via the thumb of bowler Broad to bring up the 50 partnership - but the union was broken in the very next over.


Blackwood, who had showed glimpses of finding an attacking rhythm in his 58-ball 26, was the man to go as Jordan trapped him playing across the line in front of his stumps. Umpire Steve Davis' 'not out' verdict was successfully reviewed by England and the West Indies were 129-5.


At the other end, Samuels - one of the world's leading ODI players - was playing with increasing abandon and the atmosphere emanating from England's bowlers and fielders became hostile with his free-swinging bringing about boundaries and near-misses in equal measure.


Broad was particularly vocal in his criticism of one of Samuels' less elegant attempts at hitting a six and there was more confrontation in the following over when a fired-up Stokes made his feelings known in the wake of a pair of boundaries off the edge.


Samuels - no shrinking violet himself, as was proved during a famous altercation with Shane Warne in an IPL fixture in January 2013 - was refusing to back down in action or word and umpire Davis was in to cool the situation as the situation threatened to boil over.


Home captain Denesh Ramdin provided steady support for Samuels but contributed just four runs to their 50 partnership as day one ended with bad light with the West Indies arguably in the ascendancy and England's bowling attack showing signs of tiring.

IPL Matches 17 + 18

Rajasthan Royals 191/6 (20/20 ov)

Kings XI Punjab 191/6 (20/20 ov)

                   

Match tied (Kings XI Punjab won the one-over eliminator)

The man with the most runs for Kings XI Punjab had been on the bench for their first four games of the season. Brought in because regular captain George Bailey had a shoulder injury, Shaun Marsh played two crucial innings to give Kings XI their second win.
 
He first made 64 off 40, the highest score in a chase of 192, as Kings XI leveled the scores with Axar Patel's last-ball four. Marsh then watched David Miller depart off the first ball of the Super Over and went on to hit Chris Morris for three successive fours. Rajasthan Royals lost both their wickets halfway into Mitchell Johnson's over, which ended their five-match winning streak. Shane Watson was bowled first ball by a yorker, and James Faulkner, pondering a bye, was run out by Wriddhiman Saha.


The chase had been slipping away from Kings XI. They were reduced to 59 for 3 in the ninth over when Glenn Maxwell top-edged a slog off legspinner Rahul Tewatia. But Marsh and Miller kept their side alive as they put on 58 off 35. While Miller took his time to get going, Marsh kept the runs coming in his usual flowing manner, timing boundaries both sides of the wicket and straight down the ground.



Still, the asking-rate continued to climb steadily, and after Marsh top-edged a slog off Pravin Tambe, Kings XI needed 72 off the last five overs. Saha arrived and played a vital hand, swinging and pulling four fours in the eight balls he lasted.
 

Miller had found his range just before Marsh departed, and was now effortlessly launching sixes over deep midwicket. When he eventually failed to clear the off side boundary and fell for 54 off 30, 25 were required off 12.
 

Johnson and Axar brought it down to 14 from the final over, and ran four twos and a single off the first five balls from James Faulkner. Axar sliced the last one to the deep point rope to take it to the Super Over.


That they would be part of such a tight finish would not have been remotely on the Royals' players minds after the total they put up. Asked to bat by stand-in Kings XI captain Virender Sehwag, Ajinkya Rahane and Watson came within five runs of making it successive century opening partnerships.
 
Rahane was troubled initially by the swing the Kings XI bowlers generated, but he responded with some stinging shots through the covers. Watson took his time and was on 14 off 23 at one stage. He suddenly sprung into action, hitting his next six deliveries for four fours and two sixes to end on 45 off 35.


Steven Smith and Faulkner managed a run between them but Royals' young Indian batsmen contributed swift cameos. Stuart Binny ended the innings with a four and a six off Anureet Singh but Marsh's twin innings would overcome them.




Kolkata Knight Riders 147 for 4 (Gambhir 60, Yusuf 40*) beat Delhi Daredevils 146 for 8 (Umesh 2-18, Chawla 2-27) by six wickets


Kolkata Knight Riders' bowlers set up their third win in four games, restricting Delhi Daredevils to 146 for 8. Gautam Gambhir then made his third half-century in four innings to consign the hosts to their ninth successive defeat at Feroz Shah Kotla.
 
Neither captain was sure at the toss about how the pitch, dry and grassy, would behave. Both wanted to chase; Gambhir won the toss. The ball seemed to come on decently, especially at the start, although Duminy felt the pitch deteriorated as the game progressed.
 

The Daredevils batsmen fell to poor strokes, and many of them came just when a partnership was starting to build. Opener Shreyas Iyer played some superb shots off the back foot but having motored to 31 off 24, was bowled after missing a slog at Piyush Chawla. That ended a third-wicket partnership of 36 with Manoj Tiwary.



Tiwary and Yuvraj Singh added 37 for the fourth wicket, the highest partnership of the game for Daredevils, but on 32, the Bengal batsman dragged a wide one from Morne Morkel straight to midwicket in the 14th over.



Daredevils dealt themselves another blow in the next over when Yuvraj strolled out after missing a sweep off Chawla and was stumped for 21 off 19.
 

Angelo Mathews helped Daredevils take 43 off the last five overs, including 20 off Sunil Narine in the 19th. The offspinner had bowled a couple of tight overs before but was repeatedly slogged over midwicket at the death by Mathews and Kedar Jadhav. Umesh Yadav did not let Daredevils go past 150, giving away just three in the final over.
 

Gambhir and Robin Uthappa were in control of the chase when Domnic Joseph removed the latter and Manish Pandey in fifth over, both batsmen trying to force boundaries but failing to clear the fielders.
 

Suryakumar Yadav clubbed a few boundaries to add 48 with Gambhir, but it was the Knight Riders captain who piloted the chase. Putting away loose deliveries off his pads and finding gaps through the off side, Gambhir put Knight Riders on course. He is a difficult batsman to stop when he is able to dab singles behind point at will, which is what he did tonight.
 

Gambhir's fourth-wicket stand of 65 with Yusuf Pathan sealed it for Knight Riders. Yusuf did not look too comfortable at the start, but he lashed out at short balls, and stayed unbeaten on 40 off 26.

IPL 2015 Matches 15 + 16

Rajasthan Royals 157 for 2 (Rahane 76*, Watson 73) beat Chennai Super Kings 156 for 4 (Bravo 62*, Smith 40) by eight wickets


Shane Watson and Ajinkya Rahane made light work of Chennai Super Kings' 156 for 4, each hitting sparkling seventies in a breezy 144-run stand. The eight-wicket victory also embedded Rajasthan Royals at the top of the table. They have five wins out of five this season, and have now comfortably beaten the only other team that had been undefeated until today.


This despite Watson having lost the toss on a sweltering Ahmedabad afternoon. Having assumed the captaincy in his first match this season, his bowlers delivered him four wickets and an excellent economy rate in the first 10 overs. Dwayne Bravo slammed a 36-ball 62 to help the visitors recover, but even though he and MS Dhoni could not be parted, Dhoni's stuttering 37-ball 31 weighed down the partnership. Their eventual score seemed at least 15 runs too short.


Watson was brutish and bullying at the top of Royals' chase, and Rahane light and flowing. Rahane's first boundaries were gorgeous drives down the ground, and right through his unbeaten 76 off 55, he never seemed to over-hit a ball. The languid six over midwicket off Mohit Sharma was a particular highlight. He was rarely troubled by the Super Kings bowling all evening, and found singles and twos into the outfield with ease.


His opening partner was less pretty, but no less effective. Watson repeatedly backed away towards leg to blast balls through the offside, and when the spinners came on, used that powerful slog sweep with abandon. He reached fifty off 34 balls by clobbering Bravo over long on, then hit two more fours. He was bowled with 13 runs to get, but effectively, the match was already won.


In his first five overs as captain in this IPL season, Watson was like a man clicking through his revolver in search of the loaded chambers. He opened the bowling with the left-arm spin of Ankit Sharma, switched to the seam of Chris Morris next, brought in Pravin Tambe the following over, then went to Deepak Hooda and James Faulkner for the fourth and fifth overs respectively. Only the wicket of Brendon McCullum fell in those five varied overs, but in them, Royals had set the tone.
 
Morris had Suresh Raina caught behind with an angled delivery that bounced higher than the batsman expected in the sixth over, and by the end of the Powerplay, Super Kings had been kept to 39 for 2.


The wickets kept falling, partly because Super Kings were attempting to lift the pace of the innings. Ankit had Faf du Plessis caught nicely by Morris at the long off fence for one. A few overs later, James Faulkner pegged back the middle stump of Dwayne Smith, as the batsman attempted to swing across the line.


When Bravo and Dhoni were joined at 65 for 4 in the 10th over, the pair were forced to rein in their aggression for several overs, while the innings was girded up again. Bravo cracked two successive square boundaries - one on either side of the wicket - off Watson in the 12th over, but both batsmen were more reserved against spin to begin with. The pitch didn't offer substantial turn off the straight, but Tambe was typically miserly in his first three overs. Morris and Faulkner bowled tightly throughout the innings as well.


Though Bravo began to launch the late-overs assault around the 16th over, Dhoni remained oddly inert. His timing had visibly been poor early in his innings, but even in the death overs, where he ordinarily comes into his own, he continued to mishit balls, collecting singles when he wanted sixes.


Bravo smoked two fours and a six over cow corner off Tambe's 18th over to draw near his fifty, which he completed in 29 balls. But with Dhoni so out of touch, Super Kings could only trot in those final overs. As they did not lose a wicket, their lower-order hitters went unused.




Mumbai Indians 209 for 7 (Simmons 59, Chand 58, Rohit 42) beat v Royal Challengers Bangalore 191 for 7 (Wiese 46, de Villiers 41, Harbhajan 3-27) by 18 runs


Faced with the prospect of their fifth successive defeat in the IPL 2015, Mumbai Indians' top order, particularly Lendl Simmons, Unmukt Chand and Rohit Sharma, pulled together to help set up a 18-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bangalore.
 
A total of 209 did eventually prove to be a match-winning one but Mumbai Indians' defence underlined yet again how heavily dependent they are on Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga. The offspinner choked Royal Challengers' start with tight overs and the wickets of Chris Gayle, Manvinder Bisla and Rilee Rossouw. When a sensational cameo from AB de Villiers and David Wiese's clean-hitting threatened to take the game away, Lasith Malinga turned up with his accurate yorkers to ensure Mumbai snapped their losing streak.
 
The adage of well begun half done seemed to bear some truth for Mumbai Indians. They lost the toss and were put in to bat but Lendl Simmons and Parthiv Patel finally stitched together the start the side had missed in its previous four defeats. The West Indies batsman took the lead, particularly against Varun Aaron, whom he struck for three fours in his second over.
 
Royal Challengers opted to open their innings with Iqbal Abdulla's left-arm spin and that was one of only three overs in which they did not concede a boundary. Simmons' aggression allowed Unmukt Chand to play his shots and the pair were almost equal contributors in their rapid 77-run stand.


And then came Rohit Sharma's parry - 15 deliveries, 42 runs, three fours and four sixes. One of those sixes was a stunning demonstration of his timing- a flick played with the batsman on one knee had enough on it to sail over deep midwicket. Rohit and Chand accumulated 63 runs in only 25 deliveries and despite a flurry of wickets at the end - Wiese took three in the 19th over - Mumbai Indians were helped across the 200-run mark by two sixes from debutant Baroda allrounder Hardik Pandya.


Royal Challengers have chased down a 200-plus target three times at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in the past. Add the short boundaries, Mumbai Indians' struggling attack and their own line-up of powerful hitters and that target could be considered a par one.


Instead, they found they could barely get the scoreboard moving along at the start. Chris Gayle was given a reprieve on the second ball of the chase and another one in the eighth over but all he could make of it was 10 off 24 deliveries.
 
Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik flickered briefly at the crease before an almost surreal innings from AB de Villiers posed the first real challenge to Mumbai Indians. He seemed oblivious to the match situation and the wickets falling around him, smacking bowlers down the ground, over the slip region and sending one delivery to the roof of the stadium.
 
De Villiers' wicket brought Mumbai momentary relief, which soon turned into a little worry as Wiese and Iqbal Abdulla - among the four changes effected by Royal Challengers - began to play with the freedom of those with little to lose. Wiese punished Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell McClenaghan for any errors in length - between them the two bowlers finished with 2 for 82 - before Malinga held the charge at bay.