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Deccan Chargers beat Sahara Pune Warriors by 6 wickets at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai. DC captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and put PW to bat. Pune Warriors kept on losing wickets regularly and ended up at 136/9 in 20 overs. Amit Mishra, Pragyan Ojha and Daniel Christian took 2 wickets each for the Deccan Chargers. In reply, almost Deccan Chargers batsmen contributed in 20s and 30s as DC reached 138/4 in 19.2 overs. Rahul Sharma took 2 wickets for Sahara Pune Warriors. Amit Mishra was awarded the Man of the Match for his 2 wickets for 26 runs in 4 overs.

Mumbai Indians faced yet another upset as Deccan Chargers defeated them by 10 runs at their home ground Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and decided to bat. DC kept on losing wickets as they managed to score only 135/6 in 20 overs. Dhawal Kulkarni took 3 wickets for MI. In reply, none of the Mumbai Indians batsmen except skipper Sachin Tendulkar (37 runs off 42 balls) could stay for long at the crease as they kept on losing wickets and ended up with only 125/8 in 20 overs. Anand Rajan took 3 wickets while Ishant Sharma took 2 wickets for DC. Amit Mishra was awarded the Man of the Match for his crucial last-minute knock of 18 runs off 6 balls and his bowling spell of 1 wicket off 18 runs from 4 overs.

Paul Valthaty rose to national prominence from streets of oblivion when he hit a blazing century at Mohali a couple of days ago. But nobody imagined that he would not only shine in the next match itself but also proved himself as an all rounder too as he took 4 wickets for 29 runs and scored 75 runs off 45 balls as Kings XI Punjab demolished Deccan Chargers by 8 wickets with more than 2 overs remaining. Kings XI Punjab captain Adam Gilchrist won the toss at his former home ground Hyderabad and put Deccan Chargers to bat. Shikhar Dhawan (45 runs off 36 balls), Kumar Sangakkara (35 runs off 28 balls) and Daniel Christian (30 runs off 14 balls) contributed as Deccan Chargers scored 165/8 in 20 overs. Ryan McLaren also scalped 2 wickets with Valthaty taking 4. Kings XI Punjab in reply went off to a flyer and the first wicket partnership between Adam Gilchrist (61 runs off 46 balls) and Paul Valthaty (75 runs off 47 balls) of 136 runs in just 14 overs already took the game away from Deccan Chargers. Abhishek Nayar hit a few blows as Kings XI Punjab reached 166/2 in 17.4 overs. Amit Mishra took both the wickets for Chargers but it was too late for any competition. Paul Valthaty was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant knock.

Paul Valthaty

In Match 50 of IPL T20 season 2, Virender Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat. With the help of a brilliant 79 off 55 balls by AB de Villiers, Delhi Daredevils scored 150/3 in 20 overs. All the Rajasthan Royals batsmen struggled and they lost regular intervals and could only score 136/9 in 20 overs. AB de Villiers was awarded the Man of the Match of his brilliant innings.

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Delhi Daredevils

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c & b Munaf Patel 8 8 1 0 100
Virender Sehwag (C) lbw b Munaf Patel 2 8 0 0 25
AB de Villiers not out 79 55 8 1 143.64
Tillakaratne Dilshan b Johan Botha 33 41 1 0 80.49
Dinesh Karthik (W) not out 23 11 1 1 209.09
Mithun Manhas
Farveez Maharoof
Amit Mishra
Avishkar Salvi
Dirk Nannes
Ashish Nehra
Extras: b – 0, w – 1, nb – 3, lb – 1 5
Total: (150 for 3 wickets in 20.0 overs) 150 Run Rate: 7.5

Fall of Wickets1-12 (Gautam Gambhir, 2.1), 2-15 (Virender Sehwag, 2.5), 3-102 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 16.4)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Munaf Patel 4 0 39 2 3 0 9.75
Amit Singh 3 0 23 0 0 0 7.67
Siddharth Trivedi 1 0 9 0 0 0 9
Johan Botha 4 0 23 1 0 1 5.75
Shane Warne 4 0 28 0 0 0 7
Ravindra Jadeja 2 0 13 0 0 0 6.5
Abhishek Raut 1 0 10 0 0 0 10
Yusuf Pathan 1 0 4 0 0 0 4

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Rajasthan Royals

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney c Dirk Nannes b Ashish Nehra 6 10 1 0 60
Graeme Smith c Avishkar Salvi b Dirk Nannes 0 4 0 0 0
Naman Ojha (W) c Virender Sehwag b Avishkar Salvi 9 17 1 0 52.94
Johan Botha c Virender Sehwag b Farveez Maharoof 37 31 3 0 119.35
Ravindra Jadeja c Dinesh Karthik b Avishkar Salvi 24 18 3 0 133.33
Yusuf Pathan c Dinesh Karthik b Farveez Maharoof 1 5 0 0 20
Abhishek Raut b Amit Mishra 11 13 0 0 84.62
Shane Warne (C) st Dinesh Karthik b Amit Mishra 6 3 0 1 200
Amit Singh st Dinesh Karthik b Amit Mishra 0 1 0 0 0
Siddharth Trivedi not out 6 10 0 0 60
Munaf Patel not out 23 10 5 0 230
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 2, lb – 6 13
Total: (136 for 9 wickets in 20.0 overs) 136 Run Rate: 6.8

Fall of Wickets1-7 (Graeme Smith, 1.5), 2-8 (Rob Quiney, 2.2), 3-24 (Naman Ojha, 6.2), 4-79 (Ravindra Jadeja, 12.1), 5-82 (Yusuf Pathan, 13.2), 6-98 (Johan Botha, 15.5), 7-99 (Abhishek Raut, 16.1), 8-99 (Amit Singh, 16.2), 9-107 (Shane Warne, 17)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ashish Nehra 3 0 8 1 0 1 2.67
Dirk Nannes 4 0 33 1 0 3 8.25
Avishkar Salvi 4 0 19 2 0 1 4.75
Farveez Maharoof 4 0 27 2 0 0 6.75
Amit Mishra 4 0 33 3 2 0 8.25
Tillakaratne Dilshan 1 0 10 0 0 0 10

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