Match: 14th T20, IPL3
Date: 20 March 2010
Toss: Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first.
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Result : Royal Challengers Won By 7 Wickets

Mumbai Indians Innings
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first, though they kept losing wickets at regular interval but Tendulkar, Saurabh Tiwary, R Satish, K Pollard chipped in with small yet useful innings. At one stage it looked they would not reach 150 run mark but a cameo from Zaheer Khan helped them score 151/9 in 20 overs. The collapse of middle order helped Royal Challengers restrict them to a low total thus helped them stop the winning path of Mumbai Indians

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
After restricting Mumbai Indians for 151, it was the turn of batsmen to guide them to victory. Royal Challengers Bangalore got off to a flying start and scored 85/1 in 9.5 overs. Manish Pandey and Jacques Kallis again shattered the opponent bowling attack and took control of the match. Though in middle orders, it looked that Mumbai Indians have some chance as the match was taken to last over. But Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen kept the cool and finally won the match by 7 wickets. Jacques Kallis was given man of the match due to his excellent performance. Once again it was Kallis who stole the show and helped the RCB win a match.

This was the first loss of Mumbai Indians where as now it looks that Royal Challengers Bangalore are on a winning streak as today they have defeated the most formidable side of IPL 3.

Match 14 – IPL 2010 Mumbai Indians Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 14
Date:- March 20, 2010 Saturday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Mumbai Indians are riding high on the points tally and would like to continue the current form till the end of this season of Indian Premier League where as Royal Challengers Bangalore have shown some phenomenal cricket and would like to end the running streak of Mumbai Indians.

Today at Brabourne stadium, two giants of Indian cricket – Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble will will fight for retaining the momentum of win. Royal Challengers Bangalore will try to end Mumbai Indians’ unbeaten run but this herculean task needs some real good performance and thus we can expect a cracker of a match today at Mumbai.

Team Compostion
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar

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

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

March 13, 2010 : Today the 2nd match of DLF – IPL – 2010 between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals was played at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bat first. Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar opened the batting for Mumbai Indians and gave them a flying start. But later they lost three quick wickets but some solid performances from the middle order gave them a good score. Mumbai Indians scored 212 for 6 in 20 overs.

Chasing the total of 213 to win, Rajasthan Royals lost wickets at regular interval. But Yusuf Pathan played a brilliant knock and scored a century of just 37 balls. Despite a brilliant knock Rajasthan Royals, lost the match in the final over by just 4 runs.

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