IPL: Mumbai Indians Out Class Dare Devils-Full Match Video

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Full Match:IPL 2010 MATCH 9 UK - DD v MI

Delhi: Mumbai Indians announced their championship credentials with a commanding 98-run win over the Delhi Daredevils. With only victory on their minds, the Mumbai franchise easily managed to outplay a side sans Gautam Gambhir.

Gambhir did start the match but his stint in the park barely lasted 10 minutes as a recurrent hamstring injury forced the Delhi captain to retire hurt after an over was bowled. Already down a batsman, Virender Sehwag and Tillakaratne Dilshan began the innings with the immense pressure of scoring at almost 11 an over. Dilshan announced his intentions with a smashing off-drive off Zaheer Khan’s opening delivery.

But very soon the spectre of gloom surrounded the Feroz Shah Kotla. Dilshan was cleaned up by Lasith Malinga in his opening spell, and after Virender Sehwag was dismissed by Dwayne Bravo for 26, there was no chance Delhi could fight back to claw an unlikely win under Gambhir’s absence.

Everything else was academic after that as de Villiers, Maharoof and Karthik perished trying to keep up with the alarming asking rate. Sanath Jayasuriya was the pick of the bowlers claiming two wickets, giving away just 17 runs in his four overs.

Earlier, after being put in to bat by Gautam Gambhir, the Mumbai Indians started like a house on fire. Sachin Tendulkar led the charge, mixing finesse with bludgeoning power like only the Little Master can do. Be it deft touches to the third man boundary, or caressed flicks to the mid wicket fence - Tendulkar did it all and more.

Even Yogesh Nagar’s acrobatic catch to dismiss Sanath Jayasuriya didn’t stop the Mumbai Indians captain from dominating the Daredevils’ bowlers. Aditya Tare’s customary cameo gave a glimpse of the youngster’s talent. Sachin was eventually dismissed after scoring 62 off 32 balls by Amit Mishra.Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu continued from where Tendulkar left off - the left handed Tiwary was particularly severe on the ineffective Daredevils bowling. The duo put up a solid partnership of 71 runs before Farveez Maharoof got rid of the eager-to-impress Rayudu.Tiwary followed suit trying to take a quick single. That allowed the West Indian pair of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard to provide the finishing touch as the Mumbai Indians ended up posting 218/7.

This dominating display helped Mumbai Indians leapfrog the Daredevils to the top of the IPL Points Table with two wins out of two. Sachin Tendulkar’s side look like a team eager to make up for lost time.

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Match Highlights :IPL 2010 MATCH 9 UK - DD v MI

Over the last couple of days, the two STs in the Mumbai Indians camp — Saurabh Tiwary being the less obvious one — have spent a lot of time together at the training sessions. If Tendulkar wasn’t feeding him with under-arm deliveries, he was explaining the mechanics of the slog-sweep to the youngster from Jharkhand.

On Wednesday, all that hard work seemed to have paid off as the two hit fiery half-centuries and stitched together a 48-run partnership for the third wicket that gave the side a flying start. And the left-handed Tiwary repeatedly executed the well-rehearsed slog sweep against the two Delhi leg-spinners — Amit Mishra and Sarabjit Ladda, who were dispatched for 44 each.

Those knocks, and some big-hitting late in the innings, took the Mumbai Indians to the edition’s highest score of 218/7, and a massive victory margin of 98 runs. The pitch itself — having carried a reputation of being slow and low — earned fit-again status in the first high-profile game at the venue since the abandoned one-dayer against Sri Lanka, as the normalcy of stroke-making returned to Ferozeshah Kotla.

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Man of the Match Innings - Sachin Tendulkar

He is machine of Runs. He is the Robot of Spectacular Shots. He is the "Heman" of Cricket who when holds his sword (the Bat) no one can stop him. Yes he is Sachin Tendulkaer.

No one reads wickets better than Sachin Tendulkar. It is once again proved in yesterday's match. He’s shown that to bowlers, fieldsmen and his devotees ( I guess almost all who watch/'heard about' cricket ) . While the talk had veered around the slowness of this track, Tendulkar had dismissed apprehensions about the track on Tuesday itself.

With the Ferozeshah Kotla theatre packed to the brim on Wednesday, the master decided for some reason, much to the Delhi Daredevils’ misery — that tonight would be the night. His mastery was evident as he played shots all around, cricketing mostly (even in this format!), and raced to his 50 off just 23 balls. It was delightful stuff, even if you were one of the Delhi faithful, grimly determined to support your own.

The only thing you could really do was sympathise with the poor Daredevils’ bowlers, who saw balls of every length fly away to the fence.