Mumbai vs Rajasthan Royals (13th March 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 4 runs

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and elected to bat first and scored 212/ 6, their highest total ever in the IPL. After an initial quick fire by Jayasuriya and Sachin, Rayudu & Saurabh Tiwari rallied the innings and  scored their maiden IPL fifty supported by the contribution from Tare & Mclaren.

What an innings from Yusuf Pathan !!! The second Indian to score a fastest century in IPL (100 in 37 balls, 9 fours and 8 sixes). But Malinga again done the work for the Mumbai Indians. Few run outs and good bowling last couple of overs helped MI to beat Rajasthan Royals in 4 runs. Really a high adrenaline T20 match to watch.

Naman Ojha gets the 'Catch of the match' award. Yusuf Pathan is the Man of the match for his blistering innings also gets the maximum sixers award.


Numbers that mattered, Match  2
 

• 139 Runs scored by Rajasthan batsmen in last 10 overs – second best effort by any side in the tournament. Chennai Super Kings hold the record with 152 (for the loss of 2 wickets) against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali in 2008. 

• 107 Runs added by Yusuf Pathan and Paras Dogra – highest fifth wicket partnership in the IPL. The pair bettered the previous record stand of 95 achieved on two occasions. 

• 84 Runs scored by Yusuf Pathan in boundaries alone (9 fours and 8 sixes) in his innings of 100. 

• 37 Number of balls taken by Yusuf Pathan to reach his hundred – fastest hundred in the IPL and second fastest in all Twenty20 matches. 

• 5 Number of times both sides have scored 200 in a match in the IPL. Rajasthan Royals have now been involved in three of such instances. 

• 3 Harbhajan Singh became third batsman to get retired hurt in the IPL, after Mumbai Indians’ DJ Thornely (v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede in 2008) and Kings XI Punjab’s Kumar Sangakkara (v Kolkata Knight Riders at Mohali in 2008). Sangakkara did return to resume his innings, but Thornely did not like Harbhajan. 

• 1 Yusuf Pathan became first batsman in IPL history to score a hundred at # 5.  
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