Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (20th March 2010)

Result: Bangalore Royal Challengers won by 7 wkts

Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. After soft dismissal of Jayasuriya early, Sachin and Tiwary steady the innings. But a fine over from Vinay Kumar in middle changed the game. Pollard and Zahir tried to contribute towards the end completing 20 overs for 151 runs. RCB started the chase with another fine innings from Kallis and quick shots of Manish Pandey. Though they lost few towards the end but won the game in last over.

Jacques Kallis is the Man of the Match for his unbeaten match winning knock of 66, Rahul Dravid gets the Kamaal catch award. Manish Pandey gets the award for the maximum sixes.

Numbers that mattered, Match 15

1 Mumbai Indians suffered their first loss in IPL 2010.

3 R Vinay Kumar became the second bowler to take three wickets in a single over after fellow teammate Praveen Kumar (who claimed a hat-trick), when he dismissed Ambati Rayudu, Sachin Tendulkar and Dwayne Bravo off the first, third and sixth ball of his third over.

3 Manish Pandey and Jacques Kallis added 50 runs for the first wicket for the third consecutive time in IPL 2010

23 Zaheer Khan’s score is the highest by any number 10 batsman in the IPL. He bettered Murali Kartik’s 21 for Kolkata Knight Riders against Chennai Super Kings in 2009.

47 The partnership of 47 runs between Rajagopal Sathish and Kieron Pollard is the highest for the seventh wicket in IPL 2010.

264 Runs scored by Jacques Kallis in IPL 2010 without being dismissed even once!