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: 26th T20, IPL3
Venue: Delhi
Date: March 29, 2010
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to bat
Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 40 runs

Delhi Daredevils after winning the toss elected to bat first at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi. Kolkata opened the bowling with Chris Gayle, which was a suprise move. Sehwag and Warner opened the innings for Delhi Daredevils. Sehwag scored two boundaries off Gayle and then Gayle took the revenge by getting the priced wicket of Sehwag. The gamble played off for KKR and the dangerous man was out for 8. Gambhir who was back from an injury also could not do much and got out for just 1. Karthik also failed and got out for a duck. But the star was David Warner. He smashed an unbeaten century, he was at his devastating best scoring 107 off just 69 balls.

Paul Collingwood playing in place of AB de Villiers also showed his class and scored a fifty. Both Warner and Collingwood helped Delhi Daredevils score a decent total of 177/4 in 20 overs.

Chasing 178 to win, Kolkata Knight Riders got to the worst possible start loosing three quick wickets. Mandeep Singh and Manoj Tiwary got out for duck leaving Kolkata Knight Riders 21/3 in 4.2 overs. Gayle did showed some hope to Kolkata Knight Riders team but was eventually out after scoring 30runs. David Hussey and Angela Mathews then got in a partnership but the required rate was rising at a very fast pace and reached 13.95 in the 14th over. Kolkata Knight Riders batsmen succumbed to the increasing run rate pressure and could manage only 137/9 in 20 overs and thus Delhi Daredevils won by 40 runs.

Match 26 Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Match: 26th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: March 29, 2010

Delhi Daredevils will take on Dada’s Kolkata Knight Riders today at Feroz Shah Kotla at 8pm IST. Kolkata Knight Riders are riding high with an emphatic win over Kings XI Punjab where as Delhi Daredevils are struggling to find the winning streak. Though they started off really well in this season but are now looking inconsistent due to injury concerns. The batting order is not doing well for them and thus Delhi Daredevils are now ranked 6th in the points table despite winning the last match against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

On the other hand, Kolkata Knight Riders have also been shaky so far but both teams had won the last match respectively and it must have done wonders to the confidence of both teams. So we hope for a superb match today.

Team compositions
Kolkata Knight Riders
SC Ganguly (captain), CH Gayle, AD Mathews, G Vignesh, LR Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, BJ Hodge, CR Pathak, CA Pujara, OA Shah, MK Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, BB McCullum, WP Saha, AB Agarkar, VR Aaron, AB Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.

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

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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