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Bangalore Royal Challengers blew away all Mumbai Indians chances of making it to the IPL 4 final as they defeated then by 43 runs to enter the finals of IPL season 4. Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar won the toss and put RCB to bat. But Chris Gayle pulverized the Mumbai Indians bowling attack as he scored 89 runs off 47 balls and was well supported by Mayank Agarwal (41 runs off 31 balls) as Bangalore scored a massive total of 185/4 in 20 overs. Munaf Patel took 2 wickets for the Mumbai Indians. In reply, Mumbai Indians kept on losing wickets cheaply with only Sachin Tendulkar (40 runs off 24 balls) giving some some resistance as they ended up with only 142/8 in 20 overs. RCB skipper Daniel Vettori took 3 wickets for RCB while S Aravind and J Syed Mohammad contributed with 2 each. Chris Gayle was awarded the Man of the Match yet again for his massive innings of 89 runs off 47 balls and his miserly bowling spell of only 11 runs from 3 overs.

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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Delhi Daredevil’s first match and the third match of IPL T20 season 2 was against Kings XI Punjab and it was expected to a very competitive and high scoring match. Both the teams have some great hitters and even both the captains Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh are regarded as two huge hitters of the cricket ball. But the match was heavily delayed as rain decided to play spoilsport. The match had to be reduced to 12 overs after several rain disruptions. Then Kings XI Punjab side were attacking from the very beginning and with brisk contributions from Karan Goel (38 off 21 balls), Ravi Bopara (22 off 16 balls) and Yuvraj Singh (16 off 11 balls) then managed to reach 104/7 in their 12 overs although their last few overs were not great. Sehwag (38 off 16 balls) and Gambhir (15 off 13 balls) came as the openers of the Delhi team and they started playing their natural game hitting boundaries and sixes. It was then that rain decided to play spoilsport once the target was revised to 54 in six overs. Sehwag continued with his hitting and the Daredevils completed the target within 4.5 overs. Daniel Vettori was declared Man of the Match due to his spell of 3/15.

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Mohali
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Ravi Bopara lbw b Daniel Vettori 22 16 0 2 137.5
Karan Goel c Daniel Vettori b Yo Mahesh 38 21 3 3 180.95
Yuvraj Singh (C) run out (Dinesh Karthik) 16 11 0 2 145.45
Kumar Sangakkara (W) c Dirk Nannes b Daniel Vettori 8 11 1 0 72.73
Mahela Jayawardena c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Daniel Vettori 6 6 1 0 100
Irfan Pathan c Tillakaratne Dilshan b Avishkar Salvi 6 7 0 0 85.71
Piyush Chawla run out (Manoj Tiwary) 0 0 0 0
Taruwar Kohli not out 0 0 0 0
Vikramjeet Malik
VRV Singh
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 4 8
Total: (104 for 7 wickets in 12.0 overs) 104 Run Rate: 8.67

Fall of Wickets1-67 (Karan Goel, 6), 2-67 (Ravi Bopara, 6.1), 3-77 (Kumar Sangakkara, 8.4), 4-98 (Yuvraj Singh, 10.3), 5-98 (Mahela Jayawardena, 10.5), 6-98 (Piyush Chawla, 11), 7-104 (Irfan Pathan, 12)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dirk Nannes 3 0 24 0 0 3 8
Avishkar Salvi 2 0 17 1 0 0 8.5
Pradeep Sangwan 2 0 19 0 0 0 9.5
Yo Mahesh 2 0 25 1 0 1 12.5
Daniel Vettori 3 0 15 3 0 0 5

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Delhi
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir not out 15 13 2 0 115.38
Virender Sehwag (C) not out 38 16 4 3 237.5
Dinesh Karthik (W)
AB de Villiers
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Manoj Tiwary
Avishkar Salvi
Daniel Vettori
Pradeep Sangwan
Yo Mahesh
Dirk Nannes
Extras: b – 1, w – 3, nb – 0, lb – 1 5
Total: (58 for 0 wickets in 4.5 overs) 58 Run Rate: 12

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Irfan Pathan 1 0 9 0 0 1 9
Yusuf Abdulla 1 0 19 0 0 1 19
Vikramjeet Malik 1 0 11 0 0 0 11
VRV Singh 1 0 5 0 0 0 5
Piyush Chawla 0.5 0 12 0 0 1 14.4

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