Today’s Match Details – Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard
Match -12th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 11, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Toss – Rajasthan Royals elected to field
Result – Mumbai Indians won by 27 runs

Today in the 12th match of DLF IPL 2012, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field first against Mumbai Indians. Sachin Tendulkar again missed the match due to finger injury, R Levi and T Suman opened the innings for MI and the duo scored 28 in 3.3 overs for the first wicket partnership. R Levi and Rohit Sharma then smashed bowlers to all corners and just when the partnership was getting dangerous for Royals, Hodge bowled Rohit Sharma when the team score was 59. Soon Levi was also bowled by Hodge and MI were 68/3 in 8.2 overs. A Rayudu and K Pollard then took the charge and scored runs with ease. Both of them hammered Rajasthan bowlers, Pollard was particularly severe on them as he scored 64 runs off 33 balls (6×4 4×6) before getting out. A Rayudu 47 not out off 32 balls (1×4 3×6) took from where Pollard left and he along with Harbhajan Singh (18 not out off 6 balls (1×4 2×6) propelled MI score to 197/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing 198 to win, Royals lost two quick wickets i.e. R Dravid and S Goswami in the second over of the innings when the team score was just 7. At 7/2, they needed a solid partnership and A Rahane and Owais Shah played sensible cricket and took the team score to 89 before A Rahane got out after scoring 40 off 31 balls (4×4 2×6). Needing another 108 runs to win in 52 balls, Owais Shah stepped the peddle as he smashed MI bowlers to all corners of the ground. But once again it was Lasith Malinga who came to the rescue of MI as he bowled Owais Shah (76runs off 42 balls, 5×4, 5×6) and got the wicket of J Botha in the same over. RR were struggling at 136/5 in 14.4 overs and needed 62 runs in 32 balls. Though A Menaria and K Cooper hit few boundaries to match the required rate but it was out of their reach and finally Royals tasted their first defeat in IPL 2012 as they were bundled for 170 in 19.4 overs.

Match 12 IPL 2012 Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard