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Delhi Daredevils has been winning all its games in IPL till now while Bangalore Royal Challengers were losing most of their games. And there was not any difference this time too. Kevin Pietersen won the toss and decided to bat. The Bangalore Royal Challengers again lost frequent wickets and with contribution from Kevin Pietersen (37 off 25 balls), Mark Boucher (36 off 28 balls) and Ross Taylor (31 off 34 balls) they reached 149/7 in 20 overs. Delhi had a steady run chase although there were a few hiccups in between with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir out cheaply. With an excellent innings from Tillakaratne Dilshan (67 off 47 balls), Delhi Daredevils reached their target of 150 losing only 4 wickets in 19.2 overs. Tillakaratne Dilshan was awarded the Man of the Match for his excellent innings.

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Bangalore Royal Challengers

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Jacques Kallis b Dirk Nannes 0 1 0 0 0
Robin Uthappa c Pradeep Sangwan b Ashish Nehra 3 4 0 0 75
Kevin Pietersen (C) b Daniel Vettori 37 25 2 2 148
Ross Taylor lbw b Amit Mishra 31 34 3 0 91.18
Virat Kohli c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Ashish Nehra 22 24 1 0 91.67
Mark Boucher (W) c Amit Mishra b Pradeep Sangwan 36 28 2 2 128.57
Balachandra Akhil * not out 8 4 0 1 200
Vinay Kumar run out (AB de Villiers) 0 0 0 0
Pankaj Singh not out 1 1 0 0 100
Anil Kumble
Kotarangada Appanna
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 1, lb – 5 11
Total: (149 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 149 Run Rate: 7.45

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Jacques Kallis, 0.1), 2-10 (Robin Uthappa, 1.2), 3-72 (Kevin Pietersen, 9.3), 4-78 (Ross Taylor, 11), 5-139 (Mark Boucher, 19), 6-139 (Virat Kohli, 19.1), 7-145 (Vinay Kumar, 19.3)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dirk Nannes 4 0 24 1 0 1 6
Ashish Nehra 4 0 34 2 1 1 8.5
Pradeep Sangwan 4 0 32 1 0 1 8
Amit Mishra 4 0 19 1 0 2 4.75
Daniel Vettori 4 0 35 1 0 0 8.75

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Delhi Daredevils

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c Mark Boucher b Pankaj Singh 16 19 1 0 84.21
Virender Sehwag (C) c Kevin Pietersen b Pankaj Singh 7 5 0 1 140
Tillakaratne Dilshan not out 67 47 5 2 142.55
AB de Villiers b Kotarangada Appanna 21 23 0 0 91.3
Dinesh Karthik (W) c Jacques Kallis b Balachandra Akhil 12 9 1 1 133.33
Mithun Manhas not out 23 13 4 0 176.92
Amit Mishra
Daniel Vettori
Dirk Nannes
Pradeep Sangwan
Ashish Nehra
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 0 4
Total: (150 for 4 wickets in 19.2 overs) 150 Run Rate: 7.76

Fall of Wickets1-11 (Virender Sehwag, 1.4), 2-42 (Gautam Gambhir, 5.4), 3-84 (AB de Villiers, 13.1), 4-106 (Dinesh Karthik, 15.4)

Bowling (Bangalore)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Vinay Kumar 3.2 0 28 0 0 0 8.4
Pankaj Singh 4 0 31 2 0 1 7.75
Jacques Kallis 3 0 37 0 0 3 12.33
Anil Kumble 4 0 22 0 0 0 5.5
Kotarangada Appanna 4 0 24 1 0 0 6
Balachandra Akhil 1 0 8 1 0 0 8

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