Eight exquisite highlights of CLT20 2013

Harbhajan’s 3-wicket over in the final of CLT20 2013

Talk about big match players and players who perform when the chips are down, Harbhajan yet again proved to be one. Rahane and Binny were looking at home and their task ahead wasn’t daunting as such. Prior to the over, there was a discussion involving Pollard, Rohit and Harbhajan on who should be bowling and from whatever I could make out, Bhajji was adamant in wanting to bowl that over.

The first ball of the over might not have gone according to plan but it did the job nonetheless. Rahane chipped a low full toss straight to the man in the deep mid-wicket boundary and brought MI back into the game. Prior to Binny’s dismissal, Bhajji disguised his ‘doosra’ beautifully and beat the bat on a couple of occasions and a false short looked imminent. The follow-up delivery was a doosra again and a missed heave from Binny across the line demolished his leg stump and Harbhajan’s decision of wanting to bowl the over was vindicated. Even though he bowled a poor delivery on the penultimate ball of his spell, Bhajji came back to pick a wicket on the final ball of his spell thanks to good glove work from Dinesh Karthick which got Kevon Cooper and tilted the game well in favor of Mumbai Indians.

In the context of the game and the tournament, without a shadow of doubt this 3-wicket over of Bhajji was sensational and slots his performance into 7^th in the list of eight exquisite highlights of CLT20.