With the newly laid pitch at Kotla, the Daredevils decided to gamble and took a safer approach by not taking up batting first. 

Mumbai Indians latched on to the opportunity, in what turned out to be a belter of a track, by posting the highest total so far of 218 runs. 

The Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir’s injury had already struck the Delhi team, which was led by Dinesh Karthik. 

Sachin Tendulkar, opening for the Mumbai teams went on to score 63 in just 32 balls, along with young Saurabh Tiwary, who posted 61 runs of 37 balls. 

Ambati Rayudu too made a quickfire 34, while the million dollar purchase for the Mumbai Indians, Keiron Pollard, could only make 10 runs. 

In reply though the Delhi team started with confidence, once the first wicket fell at 38, the required run rate climbed steadily and the pressure increased on the batsmen who lost their wickets in quick succession. 

The highlight of the Mumbai Indians bowling was Malinga uprooting the stumps of Dilshan with a quickie. What a sight! 

Bravo took the most important wicket of Sehwag and ended with two wickets in his kitty. 

Wicket-keeper, Tare, too pitched in with a quick-reflex stumping of danger man Dinesh Karthik, who failed to connect Harbhajan. 

The chasers finally were all out for 120, giving the Mumbai Indians a victory of 98 runs, the highest so far this year. 

Sachin was adjudged as Man of the Match. 

The Mumbai team would be now playing in their home turf against the Bangalore boys on Saturday, March 20^th. Match starts at local time 8pm.     

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