Match: 9th T20, IPL 3
Venue: Delhi | Date: March 17, 2010
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to field
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 98 runs
Mumbai Indian Innings
Mumbai Indians were invited to bat first after they lost the toss. But the opening pair made sure that they got a flying start. Mumbai Indians scored 38 runs (3.4overs) before the first wicket fell in form of Sanath Jayasuriya. Aditya and Tendulkar steadied the innings but the real star for Mumbai Indian were Sachin(63 runs, 32balls,4*11, 6*0 SR-196.88) and Saurabh Tiwary(61 runs, 37balls,4*4, 6*3 SR-164.86). Both these batsmen scored 50’s at a fast pace and helped the team score a huge score. A Rayudu also chipped in with useful contribution and helped the team score 218-7 (20 overs)

Delhi Daredevils Innings
Delhi Daredevils had to chase a huge total of 219 and thus they changed the opening pair. Dilshan along with Sehwag opened the innings and started scoring freely right from the first over. Both these gave a flying start to Delhi Daredevils and scored 38 runs when Dilshan was bowled by Malinga. Sehwag and AB Villiers took the team past 50 but then came a twice blow as Sehwag and Villiers both went back to pavilion in the 7th over leaving Delhi Daredevils 58/3 in 7 overs. Karthik and Farveez Maharoof then joined at the center and the responsibility was on there shoulders, but both got out cheaply and from then wickets started to fell like pile of cards. One after the other, from 58/3 Delhi Daredevils went down to 120/9.Thus suffering the first loss in this third edition of IPL.

Match 9 IPL 2010 – Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 9
Date:- 17 March 2010 Wednesday
Time – 20:00 ( 8 pm)
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Delhi Daredevils will take on Mumbai Indians today in the 9th match of DLF – Indian Premier League to be played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Delhi Daredevils are all charged up due to the emphatic wins in the last 2 matches and would be roaring to take on Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai Indians are boosted with the addition of two West Indies players and will go all out to stop the winning horse of Delhi Daredevils.

Team compositions
Delhi Daredevils squad
G Gambhir*, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MC Henriques, KM Jadhav, KD Karthik†, AB McDonald, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, DP Nannes, A Nehra, WD Parnell, S Ranjan, AM Salvi, PJ Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, V Sehwag, DA Warner, U Yadav

Mumbai Indians squad
SR Tendulkar*, DJ Bravo, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, CRD Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, ST Jayasuriya, Z Khan, DS Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, SL Malinga, AG Murtaza, GR Napier, AM Nayar, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, R Sathish, KS Sahabuddin, R Shukla, AP Tare†, SS Tiwary

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first in the 6th match of DLF IPL 2010. Delhi Daredevils bowlers made the most of their decision and restricted Rajasthan Royals to 141/6 in 20 overs.

Rajasthan Royals big gun Yusuf Pathan failed today and was out on a duck but a brilliant innings from Abhishek Jhunjhunwala (53 not out) made it possible for them to score 141

Rajasthan Royals lost wickets at regular interval and none of the top order batsmen could face the warth of Delhi Daredevils bowlers. Dirk Nannes struck in his very first over dismissing Swapnil Asnodkar and from there on the fall of wickets started. Rajasthan Royals got some respite with a 60-run fifth wicket partnership between Paras Dogra (29) and Jhunjhunwala.

Now its upto the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals to restrict Delhi Daredevils and save themself from a second defeat.

Click here to see scorecard of match – 6

Rajasthan Royals take on Delhi Daredevils today in the match number 6 of DLF IPL season 3. Delhi Daredevils are riding high on the win where as Rajasthan Royals need to pull the socks up if they wish to give a scare to Gambhir’s Delhi Daredevils. Rajasthan Royals squad looks somewhat deleted as they don’t have Shane Watson and Ravinder Jadega this time. They are depending largely on Yusuf Pathan but even Shane Warne knows cricket is a team game and can not be played individually.

But fans of Rajasthan Royals are sure that they will be back with a bang and would justify the slogan – “HALLA BOL”

Match Details
Match Number – 6
Date:- Monday 15 March 2010
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – SMS – Ahmedabad

Team Compostion
Rajasthan Royals
SK Warne, SA Asnodkar, GC Smith, DR Martyn, MJ Lumb, FY Fazal, AA Jhunjhunwala, AG Paunikar, SA Quadri, AS Raut, NV Ojha, AD Mascarenhas, YK Pathan, S Narwal, SB Wagh, P Dogra, Kamran Khan, M Morkel, MM Patel, Amit Singh, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, A Uniyal, AP Dole

Delhi Daredevils
Gautam Gambhir, Mithun Manhas, David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Paul Collingwood, Kedar Jadhav, Joginder Singh, Andrew McDonald, Rajat Bhatia, Farveez Maharoof, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Moises Henriques, Shashi Ranjan, AB de Villiers, Dinesh Karthik, Africa Wayne Parnell, Pradeep Sangwan, Aavishkar Salvi, Dirk Nannes, Daniel Vettori, Ashish Nehra, Amit Mishra, Sarabjit Ladda, Sarandeep Singh, Umesh Yadav.

Playing eleven will be announced before the match.

Match: 3rd IPL -2010 Match
Venue: Mohali
Date: March 13, 2010
Toss: Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first.

Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 5 wickets

Kings XI Punjab Innings
Kings XI got off to a good start, scoring 50 runs in 7.2 overs. Kings XI completed 100 runs in 12.6 overs. RS Bopara scored 56 runs off 48 balls with 7 boundaries and one sixer. I Pathan scored 21. K Sangakkara made 17 runs. Dirk Nannes and F Maharoof took two wickets each.

Sreesanth’s 15, which he made with the help of two 4s, powered the Kings XI team to cross the 140-run mark.

Kings XI set a target of 143 for Delhi Daredevils.

Delhi Daredevils Innings
Delhi Daredevils lost early wickets. The score was 47/3 after 8 overs. After 10 overs score was 61 for a loss of 3 wickets. Gautam Gambhir completed his 50 off 40 balls with 7 boundaries and went on to score 72 with a strike rate of 133.3. Karthik scored 20 runs. Sreesanth took two wickets. After the end of 15th over the score was 105/4. DD required 4 runs in the last over with six wickets remaining. Gautam Gambhir was caught out in last over.

Delhi Daredevils won the match in the final over with 5 wickets remaining.