Indian Premier League 2016 - 1st Match
(Mumbai Indians vs Rising Pune Supergiants at Mumbai)
Seamers, Rahane lift Supergiants to winning start
| MI | vs | RPS |
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| 121/8 (20) | 126/1 (14.4) | |
| RPS won by 9 wickets | ||
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| Photo © BCCI |
Rising Pune Supergiants made a sweet start to their life in the IPL, their seamers waylaying Mumbai Indians' top order to set up a breezy nine-wicket win over the defending champions. Chasing 122, they got there with 32 balls to spare, Ajinkya Rahane steering them home with a fluent unbeaten 66 off 42 balls.
The pitch had lost most of its early bite when Supergiants batted, and Rahane quickly got into the groove with a pair of straight-driven fours off Mitchell McClenaghan, in the first and third overs of the innings. Any residual chasing nerves Supergiants may have had dissipated in McClenaghan's third over - the fifth of the innings - when both Rahane and Faf du Plessis picked up sixes off mis-hits; they probably would not have carried all the way on a bigger ground.
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| Photo © BCCI |
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