The IPL 3 held in 2010 was the third edition of the burgeoning cricket franchise which had already seen two successful editions. This time it was held in India and was watched by at least 200 million people across the country. It was played between 12 March and 25 April of 2010. It was also the first ever cricket tournament that was broadcast live on YouTube and the final four matches were screened in 3D across movie halls in the country.

Nagpur, Cuttack, Navi Mumbai, Dharamsala and Ahmadabad were the five new venues introduced for this edition. Hyderabad did not host any matches this time due to a state wide Telengana unrest which would be risky. The 60-game tournament also featured a third-place playoff between the losing semi-finalists as a qualifier for the Champions league and also saw the induction of ICL players.

Rules and format were the same as the previous editions with only the concept of strategic timeouts introduced this season. Each innings had two mandatory timeouts of two-and-a-half minutes each. The fielding captain must take one at the end of over six, seven, eight or nine, and the batsmen at the end of over 13, 14, 15 or 16. 11 players were sold at the player auction held on 19 January 2010 in Mumbai. This was from a list of 97 registered players, which was then shortlisted to 66. West Indian all rounder Keiron Pollard and New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond were the highest bid players in the auction who were bought for $750,000 but not before their prices went in the silent tie breaker round. Keiron Pollard was bought by MI and Shane Bond by KKR

Mumbai Indians and the Deccan charges were the top two teams in the group stage with 20 and 16 points respectively. The first match was played between KKR and the Deccan charges on 12 March which the KKR won by 11 runs. Angelo Mathews was adjudged the man of the match for his unbeaten knock of 65. Mumbai Indians (MI) posted a huge total of 212 in the 2^nd match against Rajasthan royals (RR) which they fell short of chasing by 4 runs although it was a tight match with a few tense moments. Nothing notable really happened in the next few matches until the match between KXIP and RCB where RCB managed to chase down a huge total of 203 with a help of a brilliant unbeaten knock of 85 off 55 balls by Jacques Kallis who ended up being the obvious choice for the man of the match award. MI scored the one of the highest totals of 218 in this edition against DDR which they obviously won that too by 98 runs with Sachin Tendulkar being named the Man of the match for his furious knock of 63 from 32 balls. The game between KXIP and CSK on 21 March was the closest game of this edition. KXIP put up a small total of 136 thanks to Yuvraj Singh’s 43. CSK looked well on course to scaling down the total with apparent ease but thanks to a brilliant spell by Andrew Symonds where he claimed 3 wickets they somehow managed to draw level by scoring exactly 136 with their allotted 20 overs. But KXIP prevailed over them in the super over.

RCB seemed to be the most in-form team among all the teams as they continued pulverizing all the other teams and in no small part thanks to the continued excellence of Jacques Kallis who seemed to be very much on form this season. The match between DDR and KKR on 29 March was an eventful one as the audience got to witness one of the best knocks of the tournament by David Warner who made and unbeaten 107 in just 69 balls which included 5 soaring sixes. The very next match between MI and KXIP was a close one as MI chased down a normal T20 total of 163 with only 3 balls to spare thanks to Shikhar Dhawan’s 50 off 40 balls. But Lasith Malinga of KXIP was named the Man of the Match for his fiery bowling spells where he claimed 4 wickets and gave away just 22 runs. This edition had a relatively high scoring group stage with a lot of matches where the batsmen carted around the bowlers all over the ground. Case in point being the match between CSK and RR on 3^rd April where CSK put up to bat first on a batting pitch managed to pile on a humongous total of 246 where Murali Vijay showed absolutely no mercy to the bowlers by scoring 127 runs which was one of the biggest knocks in IPL. RR tried their best but they the target proved to be too huge for them as they succumbed to 223 runs. Several big scoring matches followed with a few small matches sprinkled here and there.

The first semifinal was between MI and RCB played on 21^st April to a standout crowd. RCB lost the match by 35 runs as MI’s total of 184 proved to be too difficult to reach. Keiron Pollard was named the Man of the Match for his fiery all-round performance. Both the semifinals seemed to be tame one-sided affairs as the second semifinal between CSK and the Deccan Chargers proved to be a big bore. CSK beat the Deccan charges by 38 runs and Doug Bollinger was the player of the match for his 4 wicket haul. This time there was an additional match known as the Third place Play-off which would decide which team would end up in the third place. This proved to be another low-scoring match as RCB beat Deccan Chargers by 9 wickets the highlight being Anil kumble’s excellent bowling performance. The final between CSK and MI played on 25^th March proved to be somewhat of an anti-climax. Batting first CSK put up 168 on the board thanks to Suresh Raina’s knock of 57 for which he won the player of the match award. MI failed to chase the total successfully as their betting seemed woefully out of sorts. Sachin Tendulkar won the orange cap for scoring 618 runs from 15 matches which was the highest number of runs scored by a batsman. Pragyan Ojha won the purple cap award for claiming 21 wickets from 15 matches which was the highest by any bowler

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