Match Details
Match: 37 T20, IPL3
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date: April 6, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm

The table toppers, Mumbai Indians will take on rusty Chennai Super Kings in the 37th match of DLF Indian Premier League 2010 today at Chepauk. Mumbai Indians who have already booked a place in semi’s have played superb cricket so far. Sachin Tendulkar has led from the front and thus Mumbai have won 7 out of the 8 matches played so far. On the other hand, Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings have won just 4 out of 9 matches and would thus be looking forward to this match to get the momentum. CSK needs to win this match and get back to winning track and thus make sure the road to semi’s is some what easy for them. But with the kind of form Mumbai Indians are in, CSK might need to show the best of their ability.

Team compositions
Mumbai Indians Team
SR Tendulkar (Captain), 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.

Chennai Super Kings Team
MS Dhoni (Captain), R Ashwin, SK Raina, M Vijay, HK Badani, ML Hayden, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, L Balaji, DE Bollinger, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, MEK Hussey, SB Jakati, AB Karthik, JM Kemp, JA Morkel, M Muralitharan, M Ntini, PA Patel, NLTC Perera, T Thushara, S Tyagi,

Match: 33rd T20
Venue: Mumbai | Date: April 3, 2010
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 63 runs

Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first in the 33rd match of DLF IPL 2010. Sachin Tendulkar and Shikhar Dhawan gave them a perfect start and scored 53 runs for the first wicket partnership. But Mumbai Indians lost three quick wickets and from 53/1 they were 62/3 in 9 overs. Saurabh Tiwary and A Rayudu then got into a good partnership and took the score past 100. A Rayudu played a superb knock and got on to score 55 off just 29 balls. Pollard’s 21 off just 10 balls gave the final acceleration to Mumbai Indians and they managed to score 178/5 in 20 overs.

Deccan Chargers were desperate to win and were chasing a target of 179. They opened the batting with two of the most explosive batsmen – Gilchrist and Gibbs. Deccan Chargers lost the first wicket at 30 in form of Gibbs and soon they lost priced wicket of Laxman and Gilchrist and were reduced to 40/3 in 6.1 overs. The required run rate was getting high and this pressure was clearly seen on the middle order. The middle order collapsed due to some clever bowling by Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers were 83/6 in 12.3 overs. Mumbai Indians needed just 4 more wickets to win one more match and show the supremacy in points table where as Deccan Chargers needed 96 more to win in 51 balls. But they could manage to score just 115/10 and thus lost the match by63 runs.

Match Highlights

* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 5.5 overs (38 balls), Extras 4
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.3 overs (84 balls), Extras 5
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 18.3 overs (114 balls), Extras 6
* AT Rayudu: 50 off 28 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
* Total: Mumbai Indians – 178/5 in 20.0 overs (AT Rayudu 55)

* Deccan Chargers: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (45 balls), Extras 0
* Deccan Chargers: 100 runs in 15.2 overs (95 balls), Extras 5

Match 33 Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers Scorecard

Match: 27th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: March 30, 2010
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to field
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 4 wickets

After wining the toss, Mumbai Indians invited Kings XI Punjab to bat. Kings XI Punjab were playing withhout Sangakkara. Shaun Marsh replaced him for todays match. Kings XI Punjab lost wickets at regular interval and could not get any partnership. S Marsh was the lone warrior from Kings XI Punjab who continued to score 57 in his first match. It was due to his innings and last over hitting by Piyush Chawla that Kings XI Punjab were able to post a total of 163/10 in 20 overs.

Chasing the total of 164 to win and reign supreme, Mumbai Indians got to a flying start with both Sachin and Shikar Dhawan scoring 42 runs for first wicket partnership. Sachin though got out soon but he still managed to become the leading batsmen in IPL and thus get the orange cap. At the end of 10 overs, Mumbai Indians were well placed at 82/2 and were in total control of the game. But then Kings XI came back strongly and took few quick wickets. This put some pressure and the game became more interesting with both sides having equal opportunity to win. Mumbai Indians needed 31 to win in last 3 overs and had 5 wickets in hand. Kings XI Punjab bowlers couldn’t restrict as Tiwary played off some good shots and took the team on verge of victory. Finally Mumbai Indians won the match by 4 wickets and Kings XI nightmare in IPL 2010 continued…

Match 27 Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab Match Scorecard

Match: 27th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: March 30, 2010

Today in the 27th match of DLF IPL 2010, IPL points table toppers, Mumbai Indians will take on the table’s bottom ranked team i.e. Kings XI Punjab. This match seems to be a one sided match seeing the excellent current form of Mumbai Indians and poor form of Kings XI Punjab. Kings XI Punjab have won just one game so far and that too in a superover where as Mumbai Indians have played like a team and have attained the top spot so far in points table.

Today Kings XI Punjab would be playing without captain Sangakkara as he was given a ban of one match due to the team’s repeated failure to maintain the over-rate in the IPL. In his absence, Mahela Jayawardene is supposed to be the stand in captain today and fans of Kings XI Punjab do hope that the bad luck of team will end today with Mahela Jayawardene as the captain.

Team compositions
Mumbai Indians
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

Kings XI Punjab
Mahela Jayawardene (Captian), Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.

Match: 25th T20, IPL3
Venue: Mumbai
Date: March 28, 2010
Toss: Deccan Chargers elected to field.
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 41 runs

Deccan Chargers invited Mumbai Indians to bat first today in the 25th match of DLF Indian Premier League 2010. Though Mumbai Indians lost the opener S Dhawan when the team score was just 24 but Sachin Tendulkar once again showed his class and kept on to score 55runs. Mumbai Indians middle order fumbled and wickets kept falling regularly and at one stage it looked that they wont be able to score more than 130. But then Harbhajan Singh came to bat and threw his bat on almost everthing. He scored 49 off just 18 balls with 8 fours and 2 sixes. It was the cameo from Turbanator which took the team to a decent total of 172/7 in 20 overs.

Chasing the target of 173, Deccan Chargers got the worst possible start as they lost Adam Gilchrist in the very first over by Harbhajan leaving Deccan Chargers at 0/1. This was such a jolt that Deccan Chargers could never came back. They kept loosing wickets and were reduced to 50/4 in 6 overs. Run rate was increasing and no partnership was building up, only Rohit Sharma stood tall for some time but he could not find any support from other batsmen and finally they were all out for 131. Thus Mumbai Indians won the match by 41 runs, thanks to superb performance of Harbhajan Singh both with bat and bowl

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