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Deccan Chargers beat Mumbai Indians by 12 runs

DURBAN - Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha's three-wicket burst triggered a turnaround as Deccan Chargers romped to their third straight win with a 12-run victory over Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League match here Saturday.

Deccan have won more than they did whole season last year. They bounced back well even after losing all their momentum in the middle and late overs. They bowled well, and won the game practically with just three bowlers - Edwards, RP, and Ojha.

Singh to Harbhajan Singh, OUT. RP got his wicket. It was a full toss, and Harbhajan's bat twirled in his hands as he gave it all his power.

Mumbai Indians require another 15 runs with3 wickets and3 balls remaining. Edwards to Bravo, OUT. Of course, itwas a big wicket. Bravo was caught in the crease.

Mumbai Indians require another 25 runs with 5 wickets and 11 balls remaining

Edwards to Nayar, OUT. Edwards went round the wicket. It was almost a yorker, just outside off, Nayar went for the big hit, and got a thin edge through to Gilchrist.

Ojha to Duminy, OUT. Ojha has struck thrice in three overs, with a fulltoss this time, Duminy stepped down, and lofted it over the leg-side field.Smith ran fast to surprise everybody. Of course it was superb catch.

Ojha to Dhawan, OUT. It was smart bowling again, this one was slower than the earlier ones, Dhawan looked to slog it, and missed it completely, the off stump was out.

Ojha to Tendulkar, OUT. Tendulkar stepped out, made room to go over extra, and he ended up hitting it straight to Gibbs at extra cover. And once again, a wicket fell immediately after the time-out.

Tendulkar and Duminy boost Mumbai to 84/1 Mumbai have scored 84 for 1, exactly half of what Deccan scored. Mumbai Indians require another 85 runs with 9 wickets and 60 balls remaining

Singh to Jayasuriya, OUT, RP's golden arm worked well. Frustrated by slow start, and he tried to pull a delivery that was not short enough. It ended in great loss.

RP Singh, who has formed a superb opening combination with Edwards, is in high spirits

Sachin and Sanath in. They have the momentum with them.

Mumbai had taken a few wickets and made a good comeback. At one time Deccan looked good for 200.

Harbhajan fooled RP, he looked for a big shot again, stepped out, Harbhajan tossed it up again, RP was clearly early into the shot, and ended up lobbing it to cover.

Khan to Gibbs OUT, oh what an error, Mumbai are right back, Gibbs had stepped out to york himself, and played it towards long-off. It wasn't hit powerfully, so he thought there could be a two here, and he turned around instinctively, but Bravo was incredibly quick to get to the ball, and Venu sent Gibbs back. All too late. In fact, Venu had come down half-way, and then changed his mind.

Bravo to Laxman, OUT, a golden duck for Laxman. Not his game this, to make room and hit 'ugly' shots. Laxman was always backing away there, Bravo slipped in the bouncer, Laxman, not in position to play the shot and top-edges it towards deep square leg.

Bravo to Sharma, OUT, this was superb field placement, it was a nice shot, looking to hit the length ball over extra cover, and hedid that, but the sweeper cover was straighter, and the ball went straight down Dhawan's throat.

Jayasuriya got Smith out. Smith went for the trademark slog-sweep, and missed, and Jaya was accurate enough to hit.

Bravowent round the wicket to Gilchrist andhefell after fiery start.

Teams:

Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (captain/wicketkeeper), Herschelle Gibbs, V.V.S. Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Y. Venugopal Rao, Dwayne Smith, Harmeet Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ravi Teja and Fidel Edwards.

Mumbai Indians: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Sanath Jayasuriya, Shikhar Dhawan, Jean Paul Duminy, Dwayne Bravo, Abhishek Nayar, Pinal Shah (wicketkeeper), Harbhajan Singh, Zakeer Khan, Lasith Malinga and Dhawal Kulkarni.