Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians - IPL5 - Live Cricket Scores and Update
Deccan Chargers 138/9 (20/20 ov) v Mumbai Indians 142/5 (20/20) - Mumbai Indians won by 5 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
On Monday, April 09, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 Indians gave a grand performance and roared his side to a five-wicket victory against hosts Deccan Chargers in the ninth match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) – season five, at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
After their defeat in the last match, Mumbai required to come out victorious in today’s encounter, but this was made possible only by the intense innings of 73 runs by the hard-hitting Sharma, who ripped apart the bowling attack of the Chargers without a hint of remorse.
Needing 139 runs to win in 20 overs, Mumbai got http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Richard-Levi-c2315 for three.
With both openers back in the pavilion, it was time for Sharma to take charge alongside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ambati-Rayudu-c1007. Both batsmen steered the side to a tally of 58, before Rayudu after belting 19 runs off 24 deliveries perished, leaving Sharma to tackle the bowling attack.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754 was the next man to walk in the middle and he proved handy with his explosive batting.
With both Sharma and Pollard launching fireworks with the bat, Mumbai were heading towards victory and Deccan needed to break the partnership in order to prevent that from happening.
With 95 runs on the board, Mumbai struck once more by sending home, Pollard, who mastered an innings of 24 runs off 18 deliveries.
Nonetheless, Sharma was not in a mood to falter as he stead fast and belted his team across the finish line as Mumbai scored 142 runs. The batsman was later, named as the Player of the Match for his insurmountable performance.
Earlier, Deccan Chargers after winning the toss chose to bat as they wanted to post maximum runs on the board to give Mumbai a run for their money.
After an impressive performance from the upper-order batting line-up, the side suffered a batting collapse in the lower-order which restricted them from amassing a massive tally on the board as they could muster only 138 runs.
From Deccan, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MM-Patel-c1987, was the pick of the bowlers with four wickets in his bag.
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