Mumbai Indians hammered Pune Warriors by 41 runs in the first Indian Premier League match on Saturday (April 14, 2013) at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting opened the batting with much flourish, taking Mumbai past fifty inside seven overs at the Wankhede Stadium against Pune Warriors India. (BCCI image)
After scoring 44 runs from 29 balls, Sachin was dismissed by Aaron Finch, caught by Mitchell Marsh, who took a tumbling take at the long on fence. (BCCI image)
Dinesh Karthik continued his good form with the bat, becoming the first batsman to go past 200 runs in this year's edition so far. He fell for 41 and missed out on yet another half century. (BCCI image)
Rohit Sharma registered his 16th IPL half-century. On Saturday (April 13, 2013), Rohit hammered 3 fours and 5 huge sixes to help his side reach a more than challenging total. (BCCI image)
Mitchell Johnson gave Mumbai Indians are tremendous start with the bowl as he clean bowled Aaron Finch and Robin Uthappa in his first two overs. (BCCI image)
After hammering two sixes and a four in a 16-ball 24-run knock, Yuvraj Singh flat batted a short of length ball from Keiron Pollard, down towards deep mid wicket fieldsman Rishi Dhawan. (BCCI image)
Mitchell Marsh did well to score two sixes and two fours to keep Pune in the hunt theoretically, but he always was short of a attacking partner from the other end. (BCCI image)
Rishi Dhawan took a superb catch at the long off boundary to get rid of Mitchell Marsh and mark a successful day at the office for the Mumbai Indians. (BCCI image)
Mumbai Indians bowlers came up with an all-round effort on Saturday, packed with containing bowling and aggressive fielding. Mumbai scored their third win of the tournament and are again in the reckoning. (BCCI image)
