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Mumbai Indians defeated Sahara Pune Warriors by 7 wickets in a closely fought low scoring match. Pune captain Yuvraj won the toss and decided to bat. But Pune Warriors were bundled out by the Mumbai bowlers as they could manage only 188 all out in 17.2 overs. Robin Uthappa was the highest scorer for Pune Warriors with 45 runs off 37 balls while Munaf Patel (3 wickets for 8 runs), Abu Nechim Ahmed (2 wickets for 13 runs), Ali Murtaza (2 wickets for 18 runs) and Lasith Malinga (2 wickets for 28 runs) were the main wicket takers fro the Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians made a slow and steady chase in reply and scored the winning runs off the last ball of the innings as Rohit Sharma hit Murali Kartik for a six to reach 124/3. Sachin Tendulkar (35 runs off 39 balls) and Ambati Rayudu (37 runs off 40 balls) were the highest scorers for Mumbai. Munaf Patel was awarded the Man of the Match for his 3 wickets and economical bowling.

Delhi Daredevils won their first match of IPL Season 4 as they defeated Sahara Pune Warriors by 3 wickets in a closely contested high scoring match. Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag won the toss and put Sahara Pune Warriors to bat. Jessie Ryder scored a blazing 60 runs of merely 27 balls and Yuvraj Singh played a brilliant innings of 66 runs off 32 balls as Pune Warriors reached a mammoth total of 187/5 in their 20 overs. Ashok Dinda and Shahbaz Nadeem took two wickets each for the Delhi Daredevils. In reply, Delhi Daredevils went off to a flyer as David Warner (46 runs off 28 balls) and Virender Sehwag (37 runs off 23 balls) scored 75 runs in just 7 overs. After the opening partnership, they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals mainly due to a brilliant bowling spell by Yuvraj Singh (4 wickets for 29 runs) but they managed to reach 190/7 in 19.2 overs mainly due to some last minute efforts by Venugopal Rao (31 runs off 20 balls), Aaron Finch (25 runs off 12 balls) and James Hopes (13 runs off 4 balls). Pune skipper Yuvraj Singh was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant all round performance though he had to be on the losing side.

Yuvraj Singh captain Sahara Pune Warriors to a 7 wicket win over his former IPL team Kings XI Punjab at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. King XI Punjab captain Adam Gilchrist won the toss and decided to bat first. But they were decimated by the Pune bowling and Ryan McLaren (51 runs off 43 balls) was their successful batsman as they scored 112/8 in 20 overs. Shrikant Wagh and Alfonso Thomas took 3 wickets and 2 wickets respectively for the Pune Warriors. Pune Warriors in return lost Graeme Smith off the first ball but then Jesse Ryder (31 off 17 balls), Mithun Manhas (35 off 32 balls), Robin Uthappa (22 off 14 balls) and Yuvraj Singh (21 off 15 balls) guided the debutant franchisee to victory in just 13.1 overs. Shrikant Wagh was adjudged the Man of the Match for his brilliant bowling performance.

In Match 49 of IPL 2, Adam Gilchrist won the toss and put Kngs XI Punjab to bat. The Kings XI Punjab batsmen struggled with the bat and they could only score 134/7 in 20 overs with the help of an useful 56 runs off 43 balls by Kumar Sangakkara. Deccan Chargers lost wickets at regular intervals when they came to bat and although the match turned into a thriller once again in the last over but Rohit Sharma (42 off 26 balls) could not script the victory as Deccan Chargers lost by merely 1 run. The best moment of the match was when Yuvraj Singh took his second hat-trick of IPL 2. Yuvraj Singh was awarded the Man of the Match for his hat-trick and his 20 runs off 18 balls.

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Kings XI Punjab

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Sunny Sohal c Rohit Sharma b RP Singh 9 12 0 1 75
Simon Katich c Pragyan Ojha b Andrew Symonds 11 10 2 0 110
Luke Pomersbach run out (Herschelle Gibbs) 1 2 0 0 50
Yuvraj Singh (C) b Venugopal Rao 20 18 2 1 111.11
Kumar Sangakkara (W) c Ryan Harris b RP Singh 56 43 4 1 130.23
Wilkin Mota c Ryan Harris b Tirumalsetti Suman 12 19 0 0 63.16
Irfan Pathan c Herschelle Gibbs b RP Singh 17 11 2 0 154.55
Brett Lee not out 0 5 0 0 0
Piyush Chawla not out 1 1 0 0 100
Ramesh Powar
Sreesanth
Extras: b – 1, w – 5, nb – 1, lb – 0 7
Total: (134 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 134 Run Rate: 6.7

Fall of Wickets1-12 (Sunny Sohal, 2), 2-15 (Luke Pomersbach, 2.5), 3-26 (Simon Katich, 4.2), 4-52 (Yuvraj Singh, 8.5), 5-105 (Wilkin Mota, 16.1), 6-122 (Kumar Sangakkara, 18), 7-131 (Irfan Pathan, 19.3)

Bowling (Hyderabad)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ryan Harris 4 0 31 0 0 2 7.75
RP Singh 4 0 26 3 0 2 6.5
Andrew Symonds 2 0 10 1 0 1 5
Rohit Sharma 2 0 23 0 0 0 11.5
Tirumalsetti Suman 4 0 23 1 0 0 5.75
Venugopal Rao 2 0 8 1 0 0 4
Pragyan Ojha 2 0 12 0 0 0 6

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Deccan Chargers

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W) st Kumar Sangakkara b Ramesh Powar 23 13 4 1 176.92
Herschelle Gibbs c Piyush Chawla b Yuvraj Singh 26 37 3 0 70.27
Tirumalsetti Suman b Ramesh Powar 0 1 0 0 0
Andrew Symonds st Kumar Sangakkara b Yuvraj Singh 25 25 1 0 100
Rohit Sharma b Irfan Pathan 42 26 3 3 161.54
Venugopal Rao b Yuvraj Singh 0 1 0 0 0
Dwaraka Ravi Teja run out (Kumar Sangakkara) 10 15 1 0 66.67
Ryan Harris not out 2 2 0 0 100
RP Singh c & b Irfan Pathan 0 2 0 0 0
Jaskaran Singh not out 0 0 0 0
Pragyan Ojha
Extras: b – 1, w – 2, nb – 2, lb – 0 5
Total: (133 for 8 wickets in 20.0 overs) 133 Run Rate: 6.65

Fall of Wickets1-34 (Adam Gilchrist, 4.2), 2-34 (Tirumalsetti Suman, 4.3), 3-73 (Herschelle Gibbs, 12), 4-79 (Andrew Symonds, 13.1), 5-79 (Venugopal Rao, 13.2), 6-110 (Dwaraka Ravi Teja, 18.2), 7-131 (Rohit Sharma, 19.3), 8-131 (RP Singh, 19.5)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Brett Lee 4 0 31 0 2 0 7.75
Irfan Pathan 3 0 29 2 0 1 9.67
Sreesanth 2 0 10 0 0 0 5
Ramesh Powar 2 0 11 2 0 1 5.5
Piyush Chawla 4 0 20 0 0 0 5
Yuvraj Singh 4 0 13 3 0 0 3.25
Wilkin Mota 1 0 18 0 0 0 18

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