Delhi Daredevils headed by Virendra Sehwag defeated the Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets in the IPL match played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on May 24th 2008. By winning this match the Delhi Daredevils keep their semi-finals hope alive.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first. The Mumbai Indians started their Innings thru their openers – Jayasuriya and Tendulkar. As usual Jayasuriya thrashed the bowling attack of the opponents and scored 66 runs off just 42 balls (6 boundaries and 5 sixers). The team’s skipper Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed for 18 runs. Robin Uthappa stood unbeaten for 46 runs. At the end of 20 overs, Mumbai Indians scored 176 runs for the fall of 8 wickets.

Chasing the target score of 177 runs, the Delhi Daredevils started batting. Sehwag was literally firing the bowling attack but ended up in scoring less runs (18 runs off 6 balls which included 3 boundaries and 1 sixer). Gambhir was dismissed for 19 runs. Dinesh Karthik stood unbeaten for 56 runs off 32 balls (4 boundaries and 3 sixers) and made sure his team wins the match. Delhi Daredevils won the match by 5 wickets and Dinesh Karthik was declared the Man of the Match.

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Cricket
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