Ricky Ponting, the captain of Mumbai Indians expressed his concern over the team’s top order batting failure and hinted that the team will re-look at the batting order. This reaction came after being handed over 87-run loss at the hands of Rajasthan in the last match. In the five matches played so far, the Mumbai Indians opening pair has just managed two-half century stand together and on three occasions the team lost its first wicket in the opening over. "The two guys at the top of the order haven't done the job required off them by the team," Ponting said. "We are five games into the tournament; both of us need to play better. If we want to continue winning games and if we want to be the team at the end of it that holds the trophy up, then you need everyone in the team performing more often than not. Neither of us has played as well as we would have liked. I'd expect a lot from myself from the first few games compared to what I have delivered," he added. While Ponting has scored just 52 runs from five innings, Tendulkar is marginally better managing 69 from as many games. Ponting hinted that Mumbai could make few changes in the batting order. "We will think about mixing and matching, reorder a bit. I had discussion with the coaches about making sure our guys in the middle order get a fair bit of batting early in the tournament, because guys like (Ambati) Rayudu haven't had much of batting yet."
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