Riding on Rohit Sharma's breezy half-century Mumbai Indians pulled off a
last-ball win over Deccan Chargers with five wickets to spare in their
IPL-V match at the ACA-VDCA stadium here on Monday night.
Deccan Chargers did well to protect a total of 138 for nine, with its bowlers pushing the match to the wire.
Eighteen were needed off the last over bowled by Daniel Christian and
Rohit struck two huge sixes to ensure victory for Mumbai Indians.
Steyn, who returned the best figures for DC, sent back the openers T.
Suman and Richard Levi with the score reading just 10. Ambati Rayudu was
not allowed much leeway while Kieron Pollard, who promised an early end
to the match, was held well by Shikhar Dhawan off Christian.
Earlier, Munaf Patel, with a four-wicket haul, Lasith Malinga and Harbhajan Singh stifled the Deccan Chargers.
Electing to bat, Chargers struggled. Munaf Patel got rid of Parthiv
Patel and Bharat Chipli while Malinga cut short the flight of Dhawan,
who was in good touch till Pollard came up with an excellent catch
holding on to a leading edge.
Before this extraordinary effort from Pollard, Dhawan had slammed a six
off Munaf over mid-wicket, sent Malinga into the stands and clobbered
Pragyan Ojha for two sixes and a four. The Chargers needed their skipper
Kumar Sangakkara to come good and he too seemed to get into the mood
flicking Pollard to the fine-leg fence. However, his end came amidst
controversy with the umpires initially refusing to refer the decision to
the third umpire.
In the 13th over of the Chargers' innings, Munaf bowled Sangakkara but
the umpires J.D. Colete and Anil Choudhury believing that the ball had
deflected off the 'keeper's pad declared him not out.
And they refused to consult the third umpire when Munaf and Harbhajan
insisted. Finally the third umpire Dharmasena declared that Sangakkara
was bowled. Christian kept the score moving with some big hits and
Cameron White pushed the score along in the late overs with an unbeaten
30.
Scoreboard
Deccan Chargers: Parthiv c Rohit b Munaf 1 (5b), S. Dhawan c
Pollard b Malinga 41 (24b, 2x4, 4x6), B. Chipli c Malinga b Munaf 1
(6b), D. Christian c Pollard b Munaf 39 (36b, 1x4, 2x6), K. Sangakkara b
Munaf 14 (19b, 1x4), C. White (not out) 30 (22b, 1x4, 2x6), D.B. Ravi
Teja b Malinga 4 (2b, 1x4), A. Mishra c Munaf b Malinga 0 (2b), D. Steyn
b Pollard 2 (2b), Ankit c Rayudu b Pollard 1 (2b); Extras (b-1, w-4):
5; Total (for nine wkts, in 20 overs): 138.
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Parthiv), 2-9 (Chipli), 3-46 (Dhawan), 4-82
(Sangakkara), 5-123 (Christian), 6-127 (Ravi Teja), 7-127 (Mishra),
8-136 (Steyn), 9-138 (Ankit).
Mumbai Indians bowling: Harbhajan 4-0-18-0, Munaf 4-0-20-4, Malinga 4-0-27-3, P. Ojha 4-0-39-0, Pollard 4-0-33-2.
Mumbai Indians: T. Suman c & b Steyn 5 (9b, 1x4), R. Levi b
Steyn 3 (9b), R. Sharma (not out) 73 (50b, 4x4, 5x6); A. Rayudu c Dhawan
b Mishra 19 (24b, 1x4), K. Pollard c Dhawan b Christian 24 (18b, 3x6),
D. Karthik b Steyn 7 (6b, 1x4), J. Franklin (not out) 7 (4b, 1x4);
Extras (b-2, lb-2): 4; Total (for 5 wkts; in 20 overs): 142.
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Suman), 2-10 (Levi), 3-58 (Rayudu), 4-95 (Pollard), 5-120 (Karthik).
Deccan Chargers Bowling: Ankit 4-0-18-0, Steyn 4-1-12-3, Christian 4-0-49-1, Rajan 2-0-9-0, Mishra 4-0-31-1, White 2-0-19-0.
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