Mumbai, Apr 30: It was a low-scoring game at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday night. Hosts Mumbai Indian defeated Deccan Chargers to take the Game 40 of IPL 5.
IPL 5: Results, Points Table
Here are the highlights of this game.
# Mumbai Indians took 18.1 overs to chase down 101 runs, losing five wickets
# Rohit Sharma topscored for Mumbai with 42
# Mumbai had only one six, hit by Rohit
# Dale Steyn bowled an exceptional spell of bowling, taking 2/10 in four overs
# Steyn won the Man-of-the-match award
# Steyn bowled 17 dot balls of his 24
# Steyn could have had one more wicket but Amit Mishra dropped James Franklin
# Steyn bowled Richard Levi off the first ball of Mumbai’s innings
# Only 15 fours were scored in the entire match
# Deccan hit 8 boundaries and Mumbai had seven
# Veer Pratap Singh, who dismissed Sachin Tendulkar, was not even born when the Master Blaster made his debut for India in 1989
# Veer, the right-arm fast bowler from Bengal, was born in 1992
# Harbhajan Singh won the toss and elected to field first
# Deccan Chargers were bowled out for 100 in 18.4 overs
# Deccan had only two sixes in their innings, one each by opener Shikhar Dhawan and Ashish Reddy
# Dhawan was the topscorer for Deccan with 29
# Lasith Malinga was the most successful bowler in the match with 4/16 in 3.4 overs
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