Kings XI get the better of Mumbai, win by one run

IN VAIN: Sachin Tendulkar scored 64 runs off 46 balls but his team lost the match.

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The Mumbai run chase started as a flier with Jayasuriya taking full advantage of a wayward Irfan Pathan and smashing him for two sixes and a four in his opening over which yielded 24 runs.

S Sreesanth was prone to bowling wide balls at the other end and 36 was raised in only 20 balls when the Kerala-born pacer trapped Jayasuriya with a slower ball.

Tendulkar, looking sedate when Jayasuriya was at the crease, and one-down Smith, playing his first game after joining the team two days ago, added 45 runs with the West Indian all-rounder starting off the block in style with two fours and a pulled six off Sreesanth.

Tendulkar, content to play the anchoring role, also opened out but lost his partner Smith who was run out backing up too far to an attempted single.

Nayar, promoted ahead of Uthappa, did his bit as he struck two sixes and a four in his 18-ball 27 before holing out to Tanmay Srivastava when slog-sweeping leg break bowler Piyush Chawla.

Earlier, in-form Australian Shaun Marsh made the most of an early escape to compile a superb 81 besides putting on a century stand with compatriot Luke Pomersbach to help Kings XI pile up a competitive score.

Marsh - dropped by Uthappa at gully off Pollock when on 6 - struck seven fours and four sixes in his 56-ball half century, his fifth in seven games. He also added 133 runs for the second wicket in only 86 balls with fellow left-hander Pomersbach (79 not out) to lift the visitors from 1 for 1 to a very competitive score.

The visitors, with 14 points under their belt going into their 11th match, lost an early wicket of James Hopes who poked his bat at a fine outswinger from Pollock off the first ball he faced and nicked to stumper Pinal Shah.

But thereafter Marsh, who started slowly but then accelerated, stole the show with some classical batting driving, cutting and pulling to completely dominate the rest of the bowling once Pollock, after yet another stand-out bowling stint was off the attack after a spell of one for 14 in three overs.

Initially Marsh was overshadowed by his countryman Pomersbach during their second wicket partnership worth 133 in 86 balls that helped Punjab XI recover from a shaky start.