Watch CLT20 2nd semi final of Mumbai Indians vs Somerset live streaming free online from Chennai on 8th Oct 2011 at 14.30 GMT. Bangalore Royal Challengers already entered into final. The team who is going to win this 2nd semi final will face Bangalore in final.

Mumbai Indians vs Somerset Live Streaming

This is the less glamorous of the semi-finals by a country mile. Barring a few names, you are left with either journeymen or cricketers before or after their prime. The pitch will be slow and low. If the league games were any indication, there will be no atmosphere at the ground because the home team is not playing. Even the cheerleaders’ legs will be covered. That, though, is not the story here. The story is the odds these two sides have beaten to come so far.

Mumbai Indians haven’t exactly endeared themselves to the watching public. When faced with a spate of injuries, they played an extra overseas player as opposed to picking an unknown name from among thousands of cricketers in Mumbai, the city they claim to represent, or the tens from the Mumbai Ranji team. Moreover, one of their “injured” players has been scoring runs in Under-22 matches in Mumbai.

Loved by the public or not, it should not be forgotten that a team that struggled to put an XI on the field has made it to the semi-finals. It can also be argued MI have hardly gained form all this. Their extra overseas player, Andrew Symonds, was clearly not expecting a call-up, has not been in shape, and has yet to make any impact in the tournament. Even after the start of the tournament, they lost opener Davy Jacobs. Yet they have refused to go away. They have bowled a side out for 98, and they have chased two targets through lower-order work, mainly from Lasith Malinga, who has nearly doubled his T20 runs aggregate.

If Somerset had an advantage over MI in that they had played as a team through a long home season, they had more obstacles. Jetlagged and nursing two heartbreaks from the two limited-overs finals back home in England, they had to go through the qualifying phase, not being, of course, from one of the three countries that co-own the Champions League. Two of their big T20 players were then picked for England to play against West Indies. Yet they kept winning, once through a third-choice keeper, once through the hefty hitter who never realised his potential at international level, once through a feisty South African, once through the journeyman South African captain. Along the way they have warmed people to the tournament, not by screaming for attention ala Trinidad & Tobago two years ago, but gently nudging people to watch them.

Mumbai Indians squad
Harbhajan Singh*, AN Ahmed, AC Blizzard, YS Chahal, CRD Fernando, JEC Franklin, DJ Jacobs†, S Kanwar, SL Malinga, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, R Sathish, TL Suman, A Symonds

Somerset squad
AC Thomas*, AWR Barrow, JC Buttler, NRD Compton, AJ Dibble, GH Dockrell, GH Dockrell, L Gregory, JC Hildreth, CR Jones, M Kartik, C Kieswetter, SP Kirby, SD Snell†, AV Suppiah, PD Trego, RE van der Merwe

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