subject: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Scores and Highlights: Mumbai Won [print this page] Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Scores and Highlights: Mumbai Won
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils IPL 4 2011 score and highlights are as follows: DD 95/10 (17.4 overs) and MI 99/2 (16.5 overs). Mumbai Indians have started their season four of IPL with a win over powerful Delhi Daredevils by 8 wickets and 19 balls remaining.
Virender Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat first, Delhi Daredevils have changed their outfit and looking pretty new for IPL 4. Virender Sehwag and David Warner have opened the innings for Delhi and Warner (1) could not defend the in-swinging yorkers of Malinga and went back to pavilion in the second over of the game. Unmukt Chand (0) is new to international circuit showed his inexperience facing Malinga and thrown away his wicket.Sehwag (19) went for unnecessary run out and Sachin hit the wickets directly.
Naman Ojha (29) and Venugopal Rao (26) provided some stability to the innings by adding 42 runs for fifth wicket. All the batsmen looked so uncomfortable facing the lethal yorkers from Malinga, five of the Delhi batsmen were dismissed without scoring.
Lasith Malinga, one could nothing about this man. He was complaining by the end of World Cup the wet ball is difficult to hold and bowl in his zone. Malinga was the Man of Mumbai as he picked up five wickets and dictated terms for MI in their opening match. Harbhajan Singh picked up two wickets and Ali Mortaza settled with one wicket.
Delhi Daredevils scorecard: David Warner (1), Virender Sehwag (19), Unmukt Chand (0), Aaron Finch (0), Naman Ojha (29), Venugopal Rao (26), Irfan Pathan (0), R van der Merwe (8)*, Morne Morkel (0), Umesh Yadav (0), Ashok Dinda (0).
Mumbai Indians last time runners showed their dominance from right start in Indian Premier League season 4. India's master Sachin Tendulkar and David Jacobs opened the innings for Mumbai. Jacobs (1) timber was disturbed in the second of the match by Morne Morkel. Ambati Rayudu joined Sachin at the crease and tried to finish the things, but Rayudu (14) was dismissed in the form of run out. Rohit Sharma (27) other promising young blood of India and experienced Sachin (46) remained not out and finished the win of Mumbai.
Delhi bowing attack, the bowlers nothing to defend on these batsmen friendly pitches with such a fast out fields and lesser boundary line. Morne Morkel was the only bowler to pick up a wicket for Delhi.
Lasith Malinga from Mumbai Indians with the first five wicket haul of IPL 4 2011 was adjudged as Player of the Match.
