Delhi Daredevils and Deccan Chargers were both sitting near the top of the points tally before the 43rd Match of IPL T20 season 2 and the match was seen by many as a fight for an almost guaranteed semi-final berth. Adam Gilchrist won the toss and put Delhi Daredevils to bat. Delhi Daredevils did not look very comfortable against the Deccan Chargers bowlers but Dinesh Karthik (44 off 23 balls), AB de Villiers (44 off 36 balls) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (37 off 18 balls) played blazing knocks to guide Delhi Daredevils to 172/7 in 20 overs. Deccan Chargers started the run chase in style as Adam Gilchrist blazed to 64 runs in 33 balls. Even after he got out Andrew Symonds (41 off 22 balls) attacked the bowling and Deccan Chargers were looking at a comfortable position with just 25 runs needed off 20 balls with 7 wickets in hand. But then wickets fell in quick succession and all of a sudden Deccan Chargers were bowled out for 161 runs in 19.4 overs. Rajat Bhatia and Pradeep Sangwan were the star bowlers for the Delhi Daredevils with bowling figures of 4/15 and 3/18 respectively. Rajat Bhatia was awarded the Man of the Match for taking the crucial 4 wickets which helped Delhi Daredevils turn the match around in their favour.
Full Scorecard
Delhi Daredevils
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c Venugopal Rao b Pragyan Ojha 19 25 0 1 76
David Warner c Venugopal Rao b Chaminda Vaas 4 6 0 0 66.67
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Dwaraka Ravi Teja b Andrew Symonds 37 18 7 1 205.56
AB de Villiers c Dwaraka Ravi Teja b Dwayne Smith 44 36 4 1 122.22
Virender Sehwag (C) c Andrew Symonds b Chaminda Vaas 11 10 1 0 110
Dinesh Karthik (W) not out 44 23 4 3 191.3
Rajat Bhatia c Shoaib Ahmed b Pragyan Ojha 0 1 0 0 0
Amit Mishra run out (Adam Gilchrist) 2 3 0 0 66.67
Pradeep Sangwan not out 0 0 0 0
Ashish Nehra
Dirk Nannes
Extras: b – 0, w – 9, nb – 2, lb – 1 12
Total: (173 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 173 Run Rate: 8.65
Fall of Wickets1-7 (David Warner, 1.3), 2-57 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 6.2), 3-80 (Gautam Gambhir, 9.5), 4-103 (Virender Sehwag, 13.5), 5-130 (AB de Villiers, 17), 6-131 (Rajat Bhatia, 17.2), 7-150 (Amit Mishra, 19.1)
Bowling (Hyderabad)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
RP Singh 4 0 26 0 0 1 6.5
Chaminda Vaas 4 0 52 2 2 1 13
Andrew Symonds 3 0 19 1 0 1 6.33
Shoaib Ahmed 1 0 24 0 0 0 24
Pragyan Ojha 4 0 26 2 0 1 6.5
Dwayne Smith 4 0 25 1 0 0 6.25
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Deccan Chargers
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Tirumalsetti Suman c Ashish Nehra b Pradeep Sangwan 3 7 0 0 42.86
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W) b Pradeep Sangwan 64 33 5 5 193.94
Rohit Sharma c David Warner b Pradeep Sangwan 6 7 1 0 85.71
Dwaraka Ravi Teja c Rajat Bhatia b Dirk Nannes 27 34 3 0 79.41
Andrew Symonds b Rajat Bhatia 41 22 3 2 186.36
Dwayne Smith b Rajat Bhatia 1 2 0 0 50
Venugopal Rao c Dinesh Karthik b Ashish Nehra 1 3 0 0 33.33
Chaminda Vaas not out 10 6 1 0 166.67
RP Singh run out (Ashish Nehra) 0 1 0 0 0
Pragyan Ojha b Rajat Bhatia 0 2 0 0 0
Shoaib Ahmed c AB de Villiers b Rajat Bhatia 0 1 0 0 0
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 0, lb – 3 8
Total: (161 for 10 wickets in 19.4 overs) 161 Run Rate: 8.19
Fall of Wickets1-33 (Tirumalsetti Suman, 2.5), 2-40 (Rohit Sharma, 4.2), 3-86 (Adam Gilchrist, 10.5), 4-149 (Dwaraka Ravi Teja, 17), 5-150 (Andrew Symonds, 17.2), 6-151 (Dwayne Smith, 17.4), 7-155 (Venugopal Rao, 18.3), 8-155 (RP Singh, 18.4), 9-161 (Pragyan Ojha, 19.3), 10-161 (Shoaib Ahmed, 19.4)
Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ashish Nehra 4 0 47 1 0 1 11.75
Dirk Nannes 4 0 31 1 0 1 7.75
Pradeep Sangwan 4 1 18 3 0 3 4.5
Tillakaratne Dilshan 2 0 8 0 0 0 4
Rajat Bhatia 2.4 0 15 4 0 0 5.62
Amit Mishra 3 0 39 0 0 0 13
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