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New Delhi: Virender Sehwag blasted an unbeaten 95 while Mahela Jayawardene cracked 59 as Delhi raced away to a nine-wicket victory over Mumbai, securing their first points of the season.
Sehwag reached his fifty in 31 balls with the help of 6 boundaries and 2 sixes and along with Jayawardene put up a quick-fire 151 run partnership for the opening wicket.
Jayawardene on the other hand completed his half century in 34 balls with 7 boundaries and a lone six to his credit.
Jayawardene and Sehwag seemed to show no mercy towards the Mumbai bowlers as they demolished the attack by smashing boundaries to all parts of the stadium.
Earlier, a scintillating stand between Rohit Sharma and Sachin Tendulkar proved to hot for Delhi to handle as Mumbai set a 162-run target.
Tendulkar and Sharma put up a firm 96-run stand for the third wicket to take control on the innings after Mumbai lost opener Dwayne Smith and Dinesh Karthik cheaply.
Rohit reached the 50-run mark in 31 balls with the help of 5 boundaries and 2 sixes and along with Tendulkar helped revive Mumbai's innings after they suffered early losses.
However, Tendulkar (54), who reached his half century with the help of a six, soon fell after he was caught by David Warner at extra cover off the bowling of Umesh Yadav.
Rohit continued his blistering innings by smashing the Delhi bowlers to all parts of the ground before being dismissed for 73 runs when he caught by Andre Russell off Yadav's bowling.
Sharma hit 5 boundaries and 5 sixes in his remarkable innings that also had a 31-run partnership at the fag end with Keiron Pollard (19*).
While Roelof van-der Morwe struck for the Daredevils to dismiss Smith (8) by getting him caught at mid-off by Yadav, Karthik (2) was the unfortunate victim of a run out.
Earlier, Mumbai Indians skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and decided to bat.
Mumbai Indians have three changes Dwayne Smith for Mitchell Johnson, Munaf Patel for Pragyan Ojha, Jasprit Bumrah for Rishi Dhawan.
Delhi also have three changes Jeevan Mendis have a bit of a sting in his finger, Roelof comes in, Andre Russell in for Morne Morkel, Venugopal Rao for Manpreet Juneja.
Teams
Delhi Daredevils: David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Venugopal Rao, Kedar Jadhav (wk), Roelof van der Merwe, Irfan Pathan, Andre Russell, Ajit Agarkar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav
Mumbai Indian: Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting (captain), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Smith, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel
Brief scores
Mumbai Indians 161 for 4 (Sharma 73, Tendulkar 54)
Delhi Daredevils 165 for 1 (Sehwag 95*, Jayawardene 59)
Result Delhi Daredevils won by 9 wickets
Points Delhi Daredevils 2, Mumbai Indians 0
MOM Virendra Sehwag (Delhi Daredevils)
