IPL3 Final - Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Superkings (26th April 2010)

Result: Chennai Super Kings won IPL3 by 22 runs

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. Quick 57 from Raina (dropped twice) and
contributions from other batsman, CSK put a fighting total of 168 in front of MI to chase. MI started the innings slowly and picked after 10 overs but constant loss of wickets created pressure with increasing NRR in every over. Pollard played from fiery shots towards end but it was too late for Mumbai Indians to win the match. They were restricted into 146. CSK won the IPL trophy for 1st time.

Suresh Raina won the Man of the Match Award and also the maximum six award. Sachin Tendulkar is the DLF Golden Player of IPL 3. Pragyan Ojha collected the Purple Cap while Sachin Tendulkar collected the Orange Cap.

Dhoni collected the Kingfisher fairplay award. S Tiwary got the U-23 success of the tournament award. Andrew Symonds got the 'Karbol Kamaal catches' award for the whole of IPL 3.


Numbers that mattered, IPL 2010 Final

618 Runs scored by Sachin Tendulkar in the tournament - the maximum by any batsman in a single edition of IPL. Shaun Marsh had aggregated 616 runs in 2008.

168 Chennai Super King’s total was the highest total in an IPL final.

100 Runs scored by Chennai Super Kings batsmen in last eight overs.

57 Raina’s innings was the highest by a batsman in an IPL final. Yusuf Pathan had made 56 for Rajasthan Royals against Chennai at this same venue in 2008. Interestingly, Raina had also top-scored for CSK with 43 in the 2008 final against Rajasthan Royals.

33 Runs scored by Mumbai Indians in the Powerplay - the least they scored in this IPL. This was also the lowest Powerplay score in an IPL final.

26 Number of sixes hit by Murali Vijay in the tournament – second most in this IPL after Robin Uthappa (27).

5 Number of times R Ashwin bowled the first over of opposition innings in this IPL. He conceded only 12 runs (RpO 2.40) while capturing one wicket.

3 Ashwin’s first over was a maiden, which made him the third bowler to bowl a maiden in an IPL final after Mkhaya Ntini (2008) and Ryan Harris (2009).

1st Semifinal - Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (21st April 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 35 runs and entered to Final of DLF IPL3

As the semifinal venues were shifted from Bengaluru to Navi Mumbai after the blast, so the 1st semifinal between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore played at DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai. Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first but Tendulkar fell early. Again some quick wickets send the MI team to back-foot till 15th over of the match. Tiwary and Rayudu played a valuable partnership to build the innings. Finally, the blast from Pollard towards end helped them to score 184/5 in 20 overs. Chasing the target, RCB lost wickets in regular intervals. Again a fine spell of bowling from Pollard and good wicket keeping by Rayudu, helped them restrict the RCB 149/9 in 20 overs. With the win Mumbai Indians entered to the IPL final for the first time and qualified for the Champions League T20 tournament.

Kieron Pollard wss the MoM for his all-round effort, Kamaal catch award went to JP Duminy
and the Maximum sixes award to 'Saurabh Tiwary'.


Numbers that mattered, Semi-Final 1

179.56 Kieron Pollard’s strike-rate in the tournament – highest for any batsman with 100 or more runs.

77  Runs scored by Mumbai Indians in last 5 overs, which equals the best performance by a side in this IPL. Interestingly it was Royal Challengers Bangalore, who made 77 against Deccan Chargers at Bengaluru on April 8.

17  out of 33 wickets taken by Lasith Malinga in IPL have been BOWLED !!!

16  Number of sixes conceded by Jacques Kallis and R Vinay Kumar in this IPL. These two now share the dubious distinction of conceding most sixes in this IPL, alongwith Delhi’s Amit Mishra.

8  Number of matches Mumbai Indians have won while defending a target out of 11 games.

2  Kieron Pollard is the second player to score 30+ runs and take 3 wickets in an IPL semi-final. Only other player to do this is Rajasthan’s Shane Watson who made 52 and took 3-10 against Chennai in 2008.

1  Mumbai’s win provided the first instance of a “home” win in seven encounters between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore. On all other six occasions the “away” team won the match.

1  Sachin Tendulkar made his first single-digit score in this IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians (19th April 2010)

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 9 wkts

At last a consolation win for KKR. Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. They have rested top 6 players including Sachin and Pollard from playing eleven for semifinal match and able to 133/8 in 20 over. Tiwary was the top scorer with 46. KKR chased the target losing only one wicket in 18 over. Ganguly scored 42 and Macllum was not out with 57. With this match the IPL3 league matches are over.

Murali Kartik was the Man of the Match, ourav Ganguly got the Kamaal catch award and Maximum sixes award.