3rd Place Play-off - Challengers Bangalore vs Deccan Chargers (24th April 2010)

Result: Bangalore Royal Challengers won by 9 wkts

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first, but very much poor show by the batsman let down the team again. The total team was all out for 83 in 19th over of the match. Anirudh Singh scored 40 while Venugopal Rao scored 24 and rest all performed miserably. Chasing the lowest target to win RCB completed the task in 14th over just losing wicket of Kallis and qualified for the Champions League T20.

Anil Kumble was the Man of the Match for his figures of 4/16, Jacques Kallis got the best catch award and Kevin Pietersen won the maximum sixes award.

Numbers that mattered, 3rd Place Play-off

1 The side batting second won a match for the first time at DY Patil out of five games played this year.

3 Number of times Anil Kumble has taken four wickets in a match- first bowler to do so in IPL history.

5.19 The combined scoring rate of two teams is the second worst in all IPL matches. In the Rajasthan Royals – Kolkata Knight Riders match at Durban in 2009 the two teams scored at a run-rate of 5.14.

9 Number of Deccan batsmen, who failed to go beyond 5!

43 Deccan’s score at the end of 10th over in successive matches. The only difference was number of wickets lost by them. Against Chennai they were three down and in this match they had lost five.

69 Number of dot balls in Deccan innings – maximum by any side in this IPL.  Rajasthan Royals too had 67 dots against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Bengaluru on March 18, 2010.

82 Deccan’s total – lowest by any team in this IPL. Rajasthan Royals were dismissed for 92 also against Royal Challengers at Bangalore on March 18. This was also Deccan’s lowest total in all IPL games, obliterating the 100 they made against Chennai in 2009.

1700 The six that Pietersen hit to win the match was the six # 1700 in all IPL games.

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.

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians (17th April 2010)

Result: Mumbai Indians won by 57 runs

Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to field first. Two small blasts outside the stadium before start of the game delayed the match. MI started slow initially and Sachin fell for 19 but Mclaren (40) and Rayudu (46) built the innings. Spectacular shots by Pollard and another fine knock by Duminy helped them to put a toal of 191/4 in 20 overs. Chasing the target RCB lost wickets in regular intervals and lost the match by 57 runs. Kohli was the top scorer of 37. As MI has alread entered to semis, the win at here must have taken RCB to semis. Now they have to wait for result of other matches for the final confirmation.

Ryan McLaren was declared as the Man of the Match.

Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (14th April 2010)

Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wkts

Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and elected to bat first. But the top order failed again due to tidy bowling from RCB and scored 130/6 in 20 overs. RCB lost the wicket of Kallis early but a fine knock of 62 from Kevin Pietersen helped them to win the match, a step closer towards the semis berth.

Kevin Pietersen was the Man of the Match also won the Kamaal catch award and the maximum sixes award.


Numbers that mattered, Match 49

2 Rajasthan Royals have now suffered defeats in back-to-back games at Jaipur, after 8 consecutive wins.

7 Number of bowlers to bowl a maiden-over in this IPL. Pankaj Singh joined the selected band of Chaminda Vaas (2 maidens), Doug Bollinger, Harbhajhan Singh, Albie Morkel, Shadab Jakati and Zaheer Khan.

8 Yusuf Pathan became eighth batsman to aggregate 1,000 runs in IPL matches.

20 Number of run-outs conceded by Rajasthan – most by any side in this IPL.

25 Number of sixes hit by Robin Uthappa in the match- most by any batsman in this IPL. Uthappa moved ahead of Rajasthan’s Yusuf Pathan (24).

58 Runs added by Adam Voges and Abhishek Raut for the unbroken seventh wicket partnership – highest in this IPL.