DLF IPL Season 5 - Match 9
Mumbai Indians Vs Deccan Chargers
Kumar Sangakkara's arrival strengthened the team, as they took on the mighty Mumbai Indians in a crucial match. Deccan Chargers won the toss and chose to bat first. Chargers opened the innings with Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan. Patel went in a hurry scoring just 1 run and Bharat Cipli followed his heroics getting out for a solitary run. Dhawan and Daniel Christian steadied the innings scoring 41 and 39 respectively. Sangakkara could score only 14 runs, though much was expected from him. Craig White scored 30 runs. Chargers posted 138/9 in 20 overs setting an easy target of 139 runs to the Mumbai Indians. Munaf Patel was impressive taking 4/20. Malinga was deadly as usual capturing 3/27 and Pollard took 2/33.
Mumbai Indians started badly unable to face the fearsome Dale Steyn who took the wickets of openers T.Suman and Richard Levi stunning the Mumbai Indians, who struggled at 2/10 after 4 overs. Rohit Sharma took his time to build a strong innings with some support from Rayudu and Pollard. What looked like an easy target for Mumbai Indians proved to be an uphill task as the tight bowling from Steyn and Ankit Sharma didn't allow Mumbai Indians to step up the run rate. Few fours and sixes here and there could not allow them to feel comfortable as there were too many dot balls. The match reached an interesting climax after a fantastic penultimate over from Dale Steyn. Mumbai Indians needed 18 runs from the last over. Rohit reserved his strokes for the last over as he hit two huge sixes one of them off the last ball when Mumbai Indians needed 3 to win from 1 ball. Mumbai Indians won by 5 wickets. Steyn was deadly taking 3/12 from 4 overs.
Last ball finish has always been full of tension and this match is no different. Mumbai managed to win the match off the last ball but it should have been huge heartbreak for the Deccan Chargers who are searching for the elusive victory in this Season.
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