Match – semi finals – 1 of IPL 2010, 21 April 2010, 16:00 local time
Venue – DY Patil Stadium Mumbai
Toss – Mumbai Indians won the toss
Playing Teams – Royal Challengers Bangalore VS Mumbai Indians
Winning Team – Mumbai Indians won by mere 35 runs

In the first semi finals of twenty 20, IPL3, 2010, a match between Royal Challengers Bangalore VS Mumbai Indians was organized at DY Patil Stadium Mumbai. Mumbai Indians won the toss and went for initial batting .The nations and favouring fans eye were set to Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh for Mumbai Indians victory.

But eventually luck couldn’t favour Sachin and he was kicked out of the boundaries by Royal Challengers Bangalore when the team scores were just 9.Mumbai Indians seemed to be in a big trouble of affairs and discovered his second opener, Shikhar Dhawan. Within a couple of seconds he too vanished from the pitch; another player of Mumbai Indians was thrown away by master blasters of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Mumbai Indians were unable to stand to his feet’s and took a second sustain by his players. Nayar, Rayadu, JP, Duminy, K Pollard and Saurabh Tiwary finally made to achieve 184/5 in 20 overs. Among them K Pollard was declared as man of the match.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, glancing to whole of the match have already set for their strategies to win and chased for 185 runs to win. Royal Challengers Bangalore entered R Dravid and J Kallis as their openers. Harbhajan Singh got the wicket of Kevin Pietersen (19 runs) and thus reduced Royal Challengers to 47/2 in 6.2 overs. Concluding to the match Royal Challengers Bangalore was defeated by Mumbai Indians by 35 runs.

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Now Royal Challengers Bangalore will play with the loosing team of second semi finals of IPL 2010, Chennai Super Kings granting to MS Dhoni and Deccan Chargers to A Gilchrist.

Mumbai Indians Team

S Tendulkar (Captain), D Bravo, S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team

A Kumble (Captain),, B Akhil, KP Appanna, RV Uthappa, MV Boucher, R Dravid, SP Goswami, JH Kallis, V Kohli, R Vinay Kumar, B Kumar, P Kumar, A Mithun, EJG Morgan, MK Pandey, KP Pietersen, SPD Smith, S Sriram, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, D du Preez, RE van der Merwe, CL White.