Shikhawar Dhawan’s half-century and breezy 31 by Saurabh Tiwary clubbed with aggressive bowling performance by Lasith Malinga who took 4 wickets to fetch fourth straight 4 wicket victory against Kings XI Punjab who stays at the bottom of the table.
Harbhajan Singh shone both with the bat and ball to give Mumbai Indians a convincing 41 runs victory over Deccan Chargers and thus staying top of the table in IPL’s third edition.
Kings XI Punjab held their nerve till the end to post their first one in IPL 3 against Chennai Super Kings in a low scoring match. Kings XI have taken the match to super over and even beaten Super Kings which fancied chances till the end.
Matthew Hayden was on his real color with the new beast on the town mongoose bat to hit a brutal 93 to beat Delhi Dare Devils inpsite of Sehwag blistering. Chennai Super Kings minus Dhoni under the captaincy of young Suresh Raina has beaten up Delhi Dare Devils by five wickets.
Royal Challengers Bangalore has given a clinical performance to swept low beat Rajasthan Royals as the former beaten the latter by 10 wickets with the half of the overs still to spare. Jacques Kallis and Manish Pandey came out good with the bat while Praveen Kumar took first hatrick of the IPL 3.
Sachin Tendulkar run feast continues in T20 format too as he plundered Delhi Dare Devils bowlers to score quick-fire 62 off 32 balls with eleven boundaries, which guided Mumbai to record their second straight win in the IPL 3 tournament.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni captain of Chennai Super Kings has been ruled out of action for 10 days following by an elbow injury caused by Shane Bond’s delivery. After an inspiring performance against Kolkata especially after 3 wickets down, missing him CSR looks half a side.
Virendra Sehwag blistering innings guided Delhi Dare Devils to beat Rajasthan by six wickets in Ahmedabad and by that Devils have recorded their second victory in the IPL 3. Former IPL champions have recorded second straight loss on the run.
Defending champions of IPL 2 Deccan Chargers have shown a spirited performance against Chennai Super Kings to beat them by 31 runs thanks to the swash-buckling innings by skipper Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds. Canny and experienced candidate left arm pacer Chaminda Vaas made an early in-root in to the Super Kings top order.
