Rarely will you see the dismissal of a batsman being greeted by so much enthusiasm. The Chennai crowd knew very well that the next player in after M Vijay was dismissed would be 'Thala' Mahendra Singh Dhoni. And as the Jharkhand man has walked into the centre in similar circumstances several times before, the crowd could not have been faulted for expecting another miracle from their skipper, who walked out to bat with the score reading 65-4 after 12.1 overs.

However, the sluggish pitch and the plethora of spinners in the Mumbai Indians's ranks, for once, did not allow Dhoni, who stitched 66 runs for the fifth wicket with Ambati Rayudu, a free run.