Match: 47th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4 pm
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 39 runs
Today at Brabourne stadium, home ground of Mumbai Indians, Mumbai Indians elected to bat first. They changed the opening combination today and opened with C Madan and S Tendulkar. They got a decent start and scored 41 for the first wicket. Madan was the first to get out after scoring 15 off 19 balls. Soon Sachin also got out for 30 and the team score was 65/2 in 9.3 overs. Run rate was dipping and at one stage it looked they could only manage 150. Ryadu and Tiwary also got a good start but could not convert it into big score. After 17 overs, Mumbai Indians were 133/4. Then came K Pollard who changed the whole equation of the match. He blasted every ball out of the park and scored 45 off just 13 balls. It was his cameo which took Mumbai to a score of 183/4 in 20 overs. The last over yielded 25 runs and Gambhir and his boys were seen really tensed as this is a must win match for Delhi.
Delhi Daredevils opened the batting with Warner and Sehwag and the duo started off extremely well. They scored at a very good run rate but this did not lasted for long as Warner was out when the team score was 39 in 3.4 overs. Then Gambhir and Sehwag scored runs with ease and just when they partnership was looking dangerous, Harbhajan Singh striked and got Gambhir’s wicket leaving Delhi at 72/2 in 6.4 overs. In the very next over, Delhi got a huge blow as Sehwag was run out leaving them at 75/3 in 7.3 overs. This fall of wicket triggered the wicket flow and Delh Daredevils suddenly collapsed like a deck of cards. They were struggling at 94/6 in 12 overs. In last 5 overs Delhi needed 76 to win and had just 4 wickets in hand. The match was over and also the place in semi’s became more difficult for them. In the end they could manage to score 144/7 in 20 oversand thus lost the match by 39 runs.
Match Kwypoints
* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 18.3 overs, Extras 10
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 183/4 in 20.0 overs
* Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 4.4 overs, Extras 3
* Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 7
