Malinga Was Key Player For Mumbai The Entire CL T20 : Harbhajan

The total they put on board didn’t seem like a winning one but Mumbai Indians captain Harbhajan Singh said gamechanger Lasith Malinga proved to be the key as his depleted team lifted the Champions League Twenty20 trophy by beating the more fancied Royal Challengers Bangalore here.

Electing to bat first, Mumbai made just 139 in their 20 overs and it looked the match was out of their hands against an aggressive RCB line-up.

But Malinga (2/23) and Harbhajan himself (3/20) shone with the ball to eke out a 31-run triumph for Mumbai.

“Obviously, I was a little disappointed with the way we lost momentum in the middle overs, I still feel we could’ve got 160 on this wicket. We were 20 runs short. The wicket played like yesterday and we played a few bad shots and a couple of run outs didn’t help and we put ourselves in a very difficult situation,” Harbhajan told reporters in the post-match press conference.

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