14th September, Raipur: Mumbai Indians comfortably beat Southern Express by 9 wickets.Chasing down a total of 162, Mumbai openers Hussey and Simmons scored a match winning opening partnership of 139 runs to ensure an easy victory for their team. Lendl Simmons was adjudged as the man of the match for his brilliant innings of 76*.
Quotes
Lendl Simmons (Man of the match) : It was a good innings, ball wasn't coming on to the bat early on, but became easy as it progressed. Batting with Hussey is good, he makes it easy for me. Yeah love playing for Mumbai, great environment to be in.
Kieron Pollard : Yeah a much better performance, though disappointed with the way we bowled and fielded, if we come against a big side they are going to kill us. We gave away too many runs, we could have restricted them to 120-130 and chased it down quickly. We need to improve in fielding. Both the openers played superbly. But there is lot of scope for an improvement.
Jehan Mubarak: They batted well. It was doing a bit. They stayed and ensured they finished well. We didn't do well with the bat in the first game and a poor first half today. Hoping to do well in the next game. It was a very short tournament and tough to prepare. Of course we missed Lasith.
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