Mumbai Indians thrashed Delhi Daredevils by 98 Runs

One of the most consistent and favourite team of the tournament in IPL season3 receive a heavy defeat of 98 runs by the hands of Mumbai Indians in a high scoring clash. Chasing the target of 219 runs for victory Delhi Dardevils never got going and bowled out for 120 runs in the 17^th over.

Man of the Match Sachin Tendulkar innings of 63 runs of just 32 balls proved too much for Delhi Daredevils as Mumbai compiled a huge score of 218/7 in their 20 overs with the help of some useful contribution from two of the youngster Saurav Tiwary (61 runs of 37 balls) and A. Rayudu (34 runs of 21 balls).

Gambhir’s decision to opt for fielding backfired as Tendulkar gave Mumbai a great start. He smashed 11 fours in his stay and never looked in any sort of trouble. At half way stage Mumbai raced to 110/2. Once Tendulkar got out the two youngsters Tiwary and Rayudu once again showed the maturity and talent they got by putting another crucial  quick-fire 71 runs partnership of just 41 deliveries to put Mumbai Indians on right track to get beyond 200 run mark.

Delhi Daredevils were already handicapped by the loss of the Captain Gautam Gambhir to a hamstring pull early in the match so it was up to the middle order and Virendra Sehwag to anchor a big chase. Likes of Sehwag (26 runs of 16 balls) and Dilshan (17 runs of 12 balls) also feel the heat of mammoth total as they performed really way below par the expectation.

Once Sehwag dismissed, it was always going to be difficult for Delhi to score more than 12 runs per over. Mumbai Indians who included two West Indians (Pollard and Bravo) for this game into the squad performed exceptionally well with the ball. Both bowlers keep varying the pace to fox the Delhi batsman and get the required run rate upto 14 runs per over.

In the end Delhi batsmen have no other choice to go all guns blazing and in the process they just mnage to score 120/9 in 16.3 overs with Gambhir didn’t came out to bat because of mastring injury.

Sachin tendulkar was declared Player of the Match for his blistering knock of 63 runs of just 32 balls which includes eleven fours.

Match Summary (Mumbai Indians won by 98 Runs)

Mumbai Indians– 218/7 in 20 Overs

S.R.Tendulkar- 63                             S.Tiwary–61

F.Mehroof- 4-0-50-2                          A.Mishra– 4-0-44-2

Delhi Daredevils – 120/10 in 16.3 Overs

V.Sehwag- 26                                     F.Mehroof– 28

D.Bravo- 2-0-11-2                              S.Jayasurya– 4-0-17-2

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