Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians (11th April 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 37 runs

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field first. Tendulkar played another master innings with Duminy and Pollard to score 174/5 in 20 overs. Royal lost wickets early while chasing the target. Run outs became crucial for them and tidy bowling from MI bowlers restricted them into 137, resulting first defeat for RR in their home ground. Mummbai Indians is the first team to qualify for semifinals in IPL3.

Sachin Tendulkar was the Man of the Match for scoring 89 off just 59 balls that included 10 fours and 2 sixes also won the maximum sixes award. Kamaal catch award went to JP Duminy.


Numbers that mattered, Match 45

1 Rajasthan Royals suffered their first defeat at Jaipur in 9 matches.

4 Number of man of the match awards won by Sachin Tendulkar in this IPL edition – most by any batsman. He was earlier level with Jacques Kallis with three awards.

19 Run-outs suffered by Rajasthan Royals in this edition – most for any side.

89 Tendulkar’s score is his highest in Twenty20 cricket.

512 Sachin Tendulkar’s run-aggregate at the end of this match – highest for any batsman in this edition. Tendulkar went ahead of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Jacques Kallis’ tally of 501 runs.

1064 Sachin Tendulkar’s run-aggregate in all IPL matches – fourth highest by any batsman after Adam Gilchrist, Suresh Raina and Matthew Hayden.