Match 45 of IPL T20 season 2 was very important for both Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians as a win would almost bring them near the semis while a defeat would virtually end their hope of securing a semi-final berth. Shane Warne won the toss and decided to bat. Rob Quiney (51 off 40 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (42 off 32 balls) batted brilliantly but the rest of the batsmen could not capitalize after their departure and they ended at 145/7 in their 20 overs. Mumbai Indains did not get a good start in their first six overs as a result of a major shuffling of the batting order where domestic Indian players were sent instead of the seniors. The required run rate kept of increasing and Mumbai Indians kept on losing wickets steadily under the pressure of scoring big runs. Even some good hitting by Sachin Tendulkar (40 off 30 balls) and Abhishek Nayar (35 off 18 balls) could not save the Mumbai Indians as they lost out all wickets in 19.5 overs. It was a trilling match and the death overs were nerve-wrecking as Rajasthan Royals managed to pull out a win even when 5 runs were only required in the last over with 3 wickets left. Shane Warne was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant and crucial spell of 3 wickets for 24 runs.
Full Scorecard
Rajasthan Royals
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney b Lasith Malinga 51 40 5 2 127.5
Graeme Smith c JP Duminy b Harbhajan Singh 19 19 3 0 100
Yusuf Pathan c Lasith Malinga b Chetanya Nanda 17 14 3 0 121.43
Ravindra Jadeja c Dwayne Bravo b Sanath Jayasuriya 42 32 4 1 131.25
Siddharth Chitnis c Abhishek Nayar b Dwayne Bravo 6 8 1 0 75
Naman Ojha (W) c Ajinkya Rahane b Sanath Jayasuriya 1 4 0 0 25
Johan Botha not out 2 3 0 0 66.67
Shane Warne (C) run out (Harbhajan Singh) 0 0 0 0
Abhishek Raut
Siddharth Trivedi
Munaf Patel
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 3 7
Total: (145 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 145 Run Rate: 7.25
Fall of Wickets1-43 (Graeme Smith, 6.3), 2-65 (Yusuf Pathan, 9.5), 3-126 (Rob Quiney, 15.5), 4-141 (Siddharth Chitnis, 18.3), 5-142 (Ravindra Jadeja, 19.1), 6-144 (Naman Ojha, 19.4), 7-145 (Shane Warne, 20)
Bowling (Mumbai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dhawal Kulkarni 4 0 29 0 0 1 7.25
Lasith Malinga 4 0 28 1 0 1 7
Dwayne Bravo 3 0 30 1 0 2 10
JP Duminy 3 0 17 0 0 0 5.67
Harbhajan Singh 4 0 31 1 0 0 7.75
Chetanya Nanda 1 0 4 1 0 0 4
Sanath Jayasuriya 1 0 3 2 0 0 3
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Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
Mumbai Indians
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Dwayne Bravo c & b Munaf Patel 1 3 0 0 33.33
Yogesh Vijay Takawale (W) c Naman Ojha b Siddharth Trivedi 18 22 2 0 81.82
Ajinkya Rahane c Abhishek Raut b Shane Warne 3 7 0 0 42.86
Sanath Jayasuriya c Yusuf Pathan b Shane Warne 16 21 0 0 76.19
Sachin Tendulkar (C) lbw b Shane Warne 40 30 4 1 133.33
JP Duminy b Siddharth Trivedi 4 5 0 0 80
Abhishek Nayar run out (Naman Ojha) 35 18 4 1 194.44
Harbhajan Singh not out 7 8 0 0 87.5
Dhawal Kulkarni lbw b Munaf Patel 1 4 0 0 25
Chetanya Nanda run out (Yusuf Pathan) 0 1 0 0 0
Lasith Malinga run out (Shane Warne) 0 1 0 0 0
Extras: b – 0, w – 14, nb – 1, lb – 3 18
Total: (143 for 10 wickets in 19.5 overs) 143 Run Rate: 7.21
Fall of Wickets1-9 (Dwayne Bravo, 1.3), 2-23 (Ajinkya Rahane, 5), 3-23 (Yogesh Vijay Takawale, 5.2), 4-56 (Sanath Jayasuriya, 11.1), 5-76 (JP Duminy, 13.1), 6-103 (Sachin Tendulkar, 15.3), 7-140 (Abhishek Nayar, 18.4), 8-142 (Dhawal Kulkarni, 19.2), 9-142 (Chetanya Nanda, 19.3), 10-143 (Lasith Malinga, 19.5)
Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Yusuf Pathan 3 0 25 0 0 1 8.33
Munaf Patel 3.5 0 22 2 0 0 5.74
Siddharth Trivedi 4 0 19 2 1 0 4.75
Shane Warne 4 0 24 3 0 3 6
Johan Botha 4 0 32 0 0 2 8
Ravindra Jadeja 1 0 18 0 0 1 18
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Power Play 1 Overs: 1-6
