Tag IPL-2012

All the 8 matches in IPL season 5 so far were non thrillers and even today's clash between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers was going the boring way untill Dale Steyn bowled his heart out, touching over 150kmph, taking a wicket maiden, and raising more than a hope for home team but Rohit Sharma stood calm and smashed a six off the last ball to steer visitors home..

Opposite to preferred way so far this edition, both captains wanted to bat first today but only one was going to get lucky with the toss. Kumar Sangakkara, flying in from Sri Lanka less than 24 hours ago, thumped Harbhajan Singh who'd won all five tosses as captain of Mumbai Indians, and elected to bat.

Shikhar Dhawan lost his opening partner Parthiv Patel early and even Bharat Chipli didn't last long but left hander found his sublime touch, smashing four sixes to give hosts a rocket start before Lasith Malinga showed him the way to dug out. Daniel Christian was promoted up the order but he couldn't accelerate well enough, leaving too much to do for Cameron White. Munaf Patel got four cheap wickets to restrict Deccan to 138 from 20 overs.

Mumbai were off to utterly slow start, thanks to some testing new ball bowling from Dale Steyn. Rohit Sharma stayed calm, added 48 with Ambati Rayudu but asking rate was fast blowing out of proportions. Kieron Pollard's triple sixes provided the much needed acceleration but once again Dale Steyn bowled his two overs cheaply, leaving 18 runs to get from the last over.

James Franklin hit a four and a single off first two balls while Sharma collected held his nerve to hit a six off last ball to win the game.

Deccan Chargers innings (elected to bat)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Parthiv Patel	c Sharma b Patel	1	5	0	0
Shikhar Dhawan	c Pollard b Malinga	41	24	2	4
Bharat Chipli	c Malinga b Patel	1	6	0	0
Daniel Christian	c Pollard Patel	39	36	1	2
Kumar Sangakkara	b Patel	14	19	1	0
Cameron White	not out	30	22	1	2
Dwarka Ravi Teja	b Malinga	4	2	1	0
Amit Mishra	c Patel b Malinga	0	2	0	0
Dale Steyn	b Pollard	2	2	0	0
Ankit Chavan	c Rayudu b Pollard	1	2	0	0
Anand Rajan
Extra :	5 (bye=1, wides=4)
Total :	138 runs in 20 overs for 9 wicket. RR = ( 6.90 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-7 (Patel, 1.4 ov), 2-9 (Chipli, 3.1 ov), 3-46 (Dhawan, 6.6 ov), 4-82 (Sangakkara, 12.3 ov), 5-123 (Christian, 17.6 ov), 6-127 (Ravi Teja, 18.2 ov), 7-127 (Mishra, 18.4 ov), 8-136 (Steyn, 19.3 ov), 9-138 (Ankit, 19.6 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Harbhajan Singh	4	0	18	0
Munaf Patel	4	0	20	4
Lasith Malinga	4	0	27	3
Pragyan Ojha	4	0	39	0	1 wide
Kieron Pollard	4	0	33	2	2 wides

Mumbai Indians innings (target = 139 runs from 20 overs)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Tirumalasetti Suman	c & b Steyn	5	9	1	0
Richard Levi	b Steyn	3	9	0	0
Rohit Sharma	not out	73	50	4	5
Ambati Rayudu	c Dhawan b Mishra	19	24	1	0
Kieron Pollard	c Dhawan b Christian	24	18	0	3
Dinesh Karthik	b Steyn	7	6	1	0
James Franklin	not out	7	4	1	0
Harbhajan Singh
Lasith Malinga
Munaf Patel
Pragyan Ojha
Extra :	4 (byes=2, lbyes=2)
Total :	142 runs in 20 overs for 5 wicket. RR = ( 7.10 ).
Fall of wickets : 1-7 (Suman, 1.5 ov), 2-10 (Levi, 3.6 ov), 3-58 (Rayudu, 11.2 ov), 4-95 (Pollard, 16.2 ov), 5-120 (Karthik, 18.5 ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Ankit Sharma	4	0	18	0
Dale Steyn	4	1	12	3
Daniel Christian	4	0	49	1
Anand Rajan	2	0	9	0
Amit Mishra	4	0	31	1
Cameron White	2	0	19	0