 Tendulkar's run-out turning point: Yuvraj
21st May 2008 23:01 IST
Agencies
Victorious Punjab Kings XI skipper Yuvraj Singh said Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar's run out was the turning point in the nail-biting IPL match which the visitors won by just one run at the Wankhede Stadium.
"While Sachin Tendulkar was at crease I thought he would stay till end. After he got out the momentum shifted in our favour," Yuvraj said in Mumbai today.
Tendulkar, who top scored with 65, was run out on the last ball of the 17th over when the home team were well poised for their seventh successive win at 159/3.
Speaking about his dramatic run-out effort off the last ball to send back the home team's number eleven batsman Vikrant Yeligati, Yuvraj said that he had decided if the ball came to him to rush to the stumps instead of taking a potshot at the wicket.
"I knew that if any of the circle fielders had got the ball, they would have thrown at the stumps. But it came to me and I had planned that I would run with it to the stumps," he said.
Despite the victory, Yuvraj felt that his team's bowling and fielding fell short of expectations.
"We dropped a couple of catches and the match could have gone either way but luck was on our side," he said, adding that the 17 runs given away in the last over was "not good", except for leg-spinner Piyush Chawla.
"Chawla bowled well and anytime in tight situations whenever I give him the ball he does the job," Yuvraj said.
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