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Hyderabad: An impressive all-round performance powered the Mumbai Indians to a 37 run win in their IPL match against Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad.
Comprehensive win for Mumbai Indians on their captain's birthday. Both sides were 70 for 4 in the 10th over. Mumbai had Rohit Sharma and Andrew Symonds, Deccan did not. That was the difference. And yeah, all the innumerable direct hits that Mumbai scored, leading to three run outs. Mumbai open up a four-point lead over second-placed Kolkata Knight Riders.
Once again, Lasith Malinga has the unbelievable figures of 4-0-9-3. He gets to 100 Twenty20 wickets as well, only the sixth bowler to do so.
Before that Lasith Malinga was in action - bowling and fielding. First he clean bowled Shikhar Dhawan and then got a direct hit to run out Cameron White.
The first wicket to fall for the Chargers was opener Sunny Sohal when he was run out by a brilliant fielding by Kieron Pollard.
Earlier, Rohit Sharma and Andrew Symonds scripted a fantastic recovery with a record fifth wicket partnership as title contenders Mumbai Indians scored 172 for four in 20 overs against Deccan Chargers.
Rohit (56 not out, 34 balls, 5x4, 3x6) and Symonds (44 not out, 33 balls, 4x4, 1x6) added 102 runs off only 65 balls for the unbroken fifth wicket after MI were tottering at 70 for four at the start of the 10th over. Incidentally, the duo played together for Chargers during the first three editions.
The duo thrashed Dale Steyn and Dan Christian for 16 and 24 runs respectively to score 40 off the last two overs. Christian went for 48 runs from his four wicketless overs.
Davy Jacobs (32, 20 balls, 5x4, 1x6) who was back in the squad opened with 'Birthday Boy' Sachin Tendulkar. It was Jacobs who started the initial onslaught as MI scored 47 runs in the first five overs before he was caught by Pragyan Ojha off Ishant Sharma's bowling.
All eyes were on birthday boy Tendulkar who turned 38 on Sunday. Tendulkar got the 'Orange Cap' back from Paul Valthaty and is now the highest run-getter in the ongoing IPL.
Cheered by daugher Sarah and son Arjun who were seen waving MI flags from stands, the legend hit a few crisp boundaries and again looked like making a substancial contribution.
But to their utter disappointment, the maestro scored only 28(24 balls, 4x4) before he was holed out in the deep by Steyn off Amit Mishra's bowling.
Tendulkar charged out but failed to get to the pitch of a flighted delivery from Mishra as Steyn took a well judged catch at long-on.
Tendulkar's dismissal triggered a collapse as MI from 70 for one slumped to 70 for four within a space of six deliveries.
Ambati Rayudu (7) who has had a good tournament so far played an ugly sweep shot off Mishra two balls later. Shikhar Dhawan stationed at deep square leg timed his jump to perfection send Rayudu back in the hut.
Kieron Pollard who has hardly batted in the tournament was promoted up the order but he tried a delicate paddle shot off Pragyan Ojha's bowling and the ball lobbed up for skipper Sangakkara to take a simple catch.
Rohit and Symonds then started a repair job. They were cautious for a couple of overs before they started playing their strokes. Symonds' first boundary was swatted shot off Christian over mid-off. Rohit also played some classy shots as they added 50 runs off only 45 deliveries.
Brief scores
Mumbai Indians 172 for 4 (Rohit 56*, Symonds 44*, Mishra 2-14)
Deccan Chargers 135 for 8 (Sangakkara 34, Malinga 3-9)
Results Mumbai Indians won by 37 runs
Points Mumbai Indians 2, Deccan Chargers 0
MOM Lasith Malinga (Mumbai Indians)
