Match 5 IPL 2013 – Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Saturday Apr 6
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result – Mumbai Indians won by 9 runs

In the most eagerly awaited match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. Mumbai got off to the worst possible start as they lost master blaster for a duck in the very first over soon followed by captain Ricky Ponting. Dinesh Karthik showed some home but wickets kept falling at regular intervals. Thanks to some good hitting by K Pollard (57runs off 38 balls 4×4, 5×6) and 21 ball 21 from Harbhajan Singh that Mumbai could post a total of 148/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing 149 to win, CSK lost Murali Vijay in the second over soon followed by Suresh Raina. Wickets kept falling at regular intervals and despite getting starts, none of the top 5 batsmen could go past the score of 20. Chennai were reduced t0 66/5 in 12.1 overs still needing 83 to win. MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja then played some good shots and just when the duo was starting to look dangerous, Ravindra Jadeja was bowled by Patel. All hopes for a win were on the shoulders of captain cool, Dhoni and he did played a superb cameo of 51 off 26 balls (5×4, 3×6). CSK needed 12 off last over but the wicket of Dhoni on the very first ball of the 20th over dashed their hopes and finally Mumbai were able to win the match by 9 runs.

Match 5 IPL 2013 – Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match 5 IPL 2013 – Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Saturday Apr 6
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Today will be the most exciting match of IPL as two super favorites Chennai and Mumbai will fight against each other at the MA Chidambaram Stadium at 8pm. Chennai Super Kings who are two times winners of IPL will be hoping to start this year’s campaign on a winning note. On the other hand Mumbai Indians who had lost their first match against RCB will be looking for their first win today.

History also supports Mumbai Indians as they are the only ones to have more wins against CSK in IPL. Mumbai has won 6 matches out of 11 where as CSK has won 5.

Chennai Super Kings Team IPL 2013
MS Dhoni (c)(wk), Anirudha Srikkanth, B Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ronit More, Suresh Raina, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, R Karthikeyan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati,Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, Akila Dananjaya, Ben Laughlin, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Albie Morkel, Dirk Nannes, Christopher Morris

Mumbai Indians Team IPL 2013
Abu Nechim Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rishi Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dhawal Kulkarni, Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Akshar Patel, Munaf Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Jalaj Saxena, Rohit Sharma, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav , Ricky Ponting (c), Aiden Blizzard, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Franklin, Philip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith

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Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Thu Apr 4, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Mumbai elected to field
Result – Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 2 runs

Today in the second match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indiansby 2 runs in thrilling match played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Chasing 159 to win, Mumbai opened with Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar. It was a delight to watch two of the best batsmen in world cricket at center together and the duo did not disappointed the crowd as they put on 52 runs for the first wicket stand. Sachin Tendulkar was run out by Unadkat soon followed by Ricky Ponting’s wicket leaving Mumbai at 62/2 in 9.5 overs. Mumbai needed 51 off last 4 overs and the match was evenly poised but some superb hitting by Dinesh Karthik in the 17th over tilted the game in Mumbai’s favor as just 27 runs were needed of last 3 overs. Needing 10 to win in the final over, the match took a complete U turn as Mumbai Indians lost Kartik and Ambati Rayudu on successive balls leaving them at 149/5 and still needing 9 off 3 balls. Pollard could manage to score just 5 off the last two balls and thus RCB defeated MI by 2 runs in a thrilling IPL match.

Earlier Chris Gayle single handily helped RCB post a total of 156/5 in 20 overs. RCB who were asked to bat first by Mumbai lost Tillakaratne Dilshan for a duck. Captain Virat Kohli then fell after scoring just 24. After Kohli’s wicket, three quick wickets pegged RCB back as they were reduced to 80/5 in 12.4 overs. But Gayle storm unleashed and he smashed 92 runs off just 58 balls which included 11 fours and 5 sixes. It was his efforts which helped RCB post a decent total of 158/5 in 20 overs.

Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Thu Apr 4, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Its Gayle vs Sachin today as Mumbai Indians will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in their opening match of the sixth season of Pepsi IPL 2013. Both star studded teams will be looking to open their account with an emphatic win today at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

It will be a huge test for young RCB captain Virat Kohli to take on experienced Mumbai Indian captain Ricky Ponting. Kohli who had a brilliant last season will be hoping to lead from front and will be wishing that Gayle Storm strikes this year too.

Mumbai Indians Team IPL 2013
Abu Nechim Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rishi Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dhawal Kulkarni, Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Akshar Patel, Munaf Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Jalaj Saxena, Rohit Sharma, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav , Ricky Ponting (c), Aiden Blizzard, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Franklin, Philip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team IPL 2013
Virat Kohli (c), Mayank Agarwal, K P Appanna, S Aravind, Arun Karthik, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Karun Nair, Pankaj Singh, Prasanth Parameswaran, Harshal Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sandeep Warrier, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sunny Sohal, Syed Mohammad, Saurabh Tiwary, Jaidev Unadkat, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Vijay Zol, Sheldon Jackson , Daniel Christian, Christopher Barnwell, AB De Villiers (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Moises Henriques, Andrew McDonald, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Daniel Vettori

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Following are the Mumbai Indians Players for IPL 6

Captain: Ricky Ponting
Coach: John Geoffrey Wright

Overseas Players
1. Ricky Ponting (c)
2. Aiden Blizzard
3. Nathan Coulter-Nile
4. James Franklin
5. Philip Hughes
6. Mitchell Johnson
7. Lasith Malinga
8. Glenn Maxwell
9. Jacob Oram
10. Kieron Pollard
11. Dwayne Smith