Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians - IPL5 - 1st Innings - Live Cricket Scores and Update
Deccan Chargers 138/9 (20/20 ov) - Deccan Chargers won the toss
On Monday, April, 09, 2012, in the ninth fixture of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), Deccan Chargers amassed a decent tally of 138 runs while batting against Mumbai Indians at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
With Chargers just warming up in the tournament and Mumbai having played two games already, both teams carry a win each in the tournament.
While the Chargers had the advantage of playing on home ground, Mumbai came in the match once again without the services of their ace batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, who is still suffering from a finger injury which made him sit out the previous match.
After winning the toss, Deccan chose to bat first as they wanted to take full advantage of the moisture in the air later in the match while bowling, as the last match showed that the ball was just doing enough in the air to cause problems for the batsmen.
However, the plan backfired as they lost two of their main batsmen with only nine runs on the board, as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MM-Patel-c1987.
The demise of two early wickets did not run havoc in the ranks of Deccan as opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820.
It was the remarkable performance by the duo that helped their side sail out of troubled waters otherwise Mumbai were in for a treat on wrapping up Deccan innings on a meagre total.
Finally with 46 runs on the board, the partnership was broken by Mumbai’s strike bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SL-Malinga-c2540 when Dhawan, after clobbering an impressive innings of 41 runs found his way back to the pavilion.
This brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 on the crease, who got his stumps rattled after clobbering an innings of 14.
Later with 123 runs on the board, Christian was dismissed after hammering an innings of 39 runs; however, he had done the damage and prevented his side from faltering on a small total.
In the end, it was the unbeaten innings of 30 runs by Cameron White that helped his sided post a stinging total on the board.
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