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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.

Full Scorecard

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

Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-3

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

Power Play
Power Play 1 Overs: 1-2

West Indies has a bilateral series with England starting from 6th May onwards including two tests and three ODIs. However, if reports are to believed then there was a dispute between the players and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as this England tour conflicted with the IPL matches. And the main concern of the players were that they were not consulted before fixing this England series suddenly following the withdrawal of Sri Lanka whose players wanted to play in the IPL instead. And now few of the West Indies players have decided to play in the IPL T20 season 2 although they will not boycott the England series completely. West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo will miss both the tests of the England series and will play in the IPL T20 season 2 instead. He was ruled out of the test series as his ankle is still not good for tests. But he has decided to play in the IPL as he believes he is fit enough for T20 cricket. He said that everybody knows the importance of test cricket but his health is not fit for test cricket. Other West Indies players like Chris Gayle and Fidel Edwards will also be playing in IPL 2 but they are set to arrive in England before the first test. However, WICB has kept 17 players in the squad to England as a precautionary measure.

Dwayne Bravo plays for IPL team Mumbai Indians, Edwards plays for Deccan Chargers and Chris Gayle for Kolkata Knight Riders. Hope that from the next year, cricket boards around the world arrange the fixtures in such a way that it does not clash with the IPL.