New Delhi Over the last couple of days, the two STs in the Mumbai Indians camp — Saurabh Tiwary being the less obvious one — have spent a lot of time together at the training sessions. If Tendulkar wasn’t feeding him with under-arm deliveries, he was explaining the mechanics of the slog-sweep to the youngster from Jharkhand.
On Wednesday, all that hard work seemed to have paid off as the two hit fiery half-centuries and stitched together a 48-run partnership for the third wicket that gave the side a flying start. And the left-handed Tiwary repeatedly executed the well-rehearsed slog sweep against the two Delhi leg-spinners — Amit Mishra and Sarabjit Ladda, who were dispatched for 44 each.
Those knocks, and some big-hitting late in the innings, took the Mumbai Indians to the edition’s highest score of 218/7, and a massive victory margin of 98 runs. The pitch itself — having carried a reputation of being slow and low — earned fit-again status in the first high-profile game at the venue since the abandoned one-dayer against Sri Lanka, as the normalcy of stroke-making returned to Ferozeshah Kotla.
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