Sachin stars in Mumbai Indians’ win

vIndianz.com (18 Mar, 2010) — New Delhi: The Mumbai Indians crushed the Delhi Daredevils by 98 runs as captain Sachin Tendulkar blitzed a 32-ball 63 at the Ferozshan Kotla stadium on Wednesday.

mumbai-indians With Gautham Gambhir unable to bat due to a knee injury, the Delhi Daredevils were unable to reach the 219-run target set for them by the Mumbai Indians. In the end, they were only able to put 120 runs on the scoreboard for the loss of nine wickets.

Sachin’s knock, along with Saurabh Tiwary’s score of 61 runs in 37 balls, steered Mumbai Indians to a comfortable total of 218 for seven wickets.

Virender Sehwag and Tillekaratne Dilshan’s blistering start for the Daredevils with 38 runs for the first wicket did make 219 seem like a very gettable total. But once they departed for the dugout at 26 and 17 runs respectively, the Daredevils were unable to forge any more partnerships. Other batsmen such as Farveez Maharoof(28 off 18 balls) and Dinesh Karthik(16 off 6 balls) also showed promise at the crease, but ultimately they fell short of the mark.

The Mumbai Indians’ batting saw the maestro Sachin get off the mark with a four off pacer Dirk Nannes’ bowling. In the next over,he guided one of Maharoof’s slow deliveries through mid on for another four.

Maharoof was punished in the fourth over as well, with Sachin finding the boundary four times. By then, the Daredevils had realised that their strategy of fielding first had backfired. Amit Mishra dropping Sachin on 36 did not help the Daredevils as well. Howerever, the leg spinner compensated for his mistake in the 11th over by dismissing Sachin. But the Daredevils were unable to check the Mumbai Indians’ run-scoring juggernaut as

Manish Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu (34 off 21 balls) put up a 71 run partnership.

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