Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians (28th March 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 41 runs

Deccan Chargers elected to field after winning the toss. MI started their innings carefully but lost their wickets in regular intervals. Sachin scored had earned 55 but it was looking they can score 150 maximum. But late fireworks by Harbhajan Singh (49 from 18 balls) helped MI to put a decent toatl of 172/7 in front of DC to chase. DC lost the wicket of Gilchrist in first over by Harbhajan Singh. Rohit Sharma top scored 45 for DC while they bundled out for 131 in 20 overs losing the match by 41 runs.

Harbhajan Singh was declared as Man of the Match for his cameo innings of 49 and 3 wickets while bowling.


Numbers that mattered, Match 25

272.22 Harbhajan’s strike-rate during his innings against DC – the second highest strike-rate in IPL 2010 in an innings of 25 or more. Only Adam Gilchrist, who made 33 runs off 12 balls against Kings XI Punjab on March 19, with a strike-rate of 275.00, is above Harbhajan.

72 The runs scored by Mumbai Indians in the last five overs – most by any side in IPL 2010. Kolkata Knight Riders had made 70 against Royal Challengers Bangalore on March 16.

53 Runs added by Ryan McLaren and Harbhajan Singh for the eight wicket. McLaren’s contribution was only 2! This was the highest eighth wicket partnership in all IPL games, beating the 48-run partnership between Irfan Pathan and Bipul Sharma for Kings XI Punjab against Deccan Chargers at Cuttack on March 19.

49 Runs scored by Harbhajan off just 18 balls – the highest by any batsman at number 9 in IPL. The previous best was Romesh Powar’s unbeaten 28 for Kings XI Punjab against Chennai Super Kings at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium in 2008. Harbhajan’s scoring pattern in the innings - 1, 1, 6, 4, 1, 4, 6, 0, 4, 4, 1, 0, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 0 [15 scoring shots, 2 sixes, 8 fours, 5 singles].

4 Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score four fifties in IPL 2010. He was earlier level with Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Jacques Kallis with three half-centuries.

1 Tendulkar became first batsman in IPL history to score fifties in three consecutive matches.

2 Harbhajan became only the second player in IPL 2010 to perform the all-round feat of scoring 25 runs and capturing three wickets in the same match after Deccan Chargers’ Andrew Symonds. Symonds had scored 35 and taken 3-21 against Delhi Daredevils at Cuttack on March 21.