Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 4: Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians"

Hello and welcome to the 4th Match of IPL 2011 Season between Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians. First match for the giants of IPL in terms of players popularity. It is expected to be an excited game. Let see how the teams battled it out.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and opted to bat first. DA Warner and Virender Sehwag opened the batting for Delhi Daredevils, to every ones surprise Sachin tendulkar opened the bowling for Mumbai Indians with Harbhajan Singh. Delhi Daredevils lost their first wicket in second over when DA Warner was yorked by Malinga. Delhi Daredevils within no time lost 3 quick wickets and were looking to loose more wickets when NV Ojha and Y Venugopal Rao played cautiously to add another 42 runs to the total. Once NV Ojha was Out to AG Mortaza Delhi Daredevils kept loosing wickets and in no time they were allout for 95 in less than 18 overs. For Delhi Dare Devils NV Ojha scored 29 and Y Venugopal rao scored 26, for Mumbai Indians Malinga took 5 wickets and Harbhajan took 2 wickets respectively.

In reply Mumbai Indians opened with DJ Jacobs and Sachin Tendulkar. Mumbai Indians lost DJ Jacobs in the very second over when M Morkel bowled DJ Jacobs for 1. Sachin Tendulkar and AT Rayudu added another 30 runs in 5 overs to Mumbai Indians total, when AT Rayudu was runout by an outstanding work from Van der Merwe. Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma made sure that there are no more casualities and took Mumbai indians home with more than 3 overs to spare. For Mumbai Indians Tendulkar scored 46* and Rohit Sharma scored 27*, for Delhi Daredevils M Morkel took the only wicket.

Man of the Match was SL Malinga for his five leg smashing yorking wickets
Score : Mumbai Indians 99 for 2 (Sachin Tendulkar 46*,Rohit Sharma 27*, M Morkel 1/29) beat Delhi Daredevils 95 (NV Ojha 29, Y Venugopal Rao 26, SL Malinga 5/13, Harbhajan Singh 2/14) by eight wickets