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Yusuf Pathan saved the match for the Rajasthan Royals once again as he hit a blazing 62 off 30 balls with six 6s guiding them to victory. Virender Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat. Most of the Delhi Daredevils batsmen failed yet again and Delhi could only score 143/7 in their 20 overs by virtue of a 50 by AB De Villiers off 40 balls. Shane Warne, Munaf Patel and Dimitri Mascarenhas took 2 wickets each for the Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan Royals also kept on loosing frequent wickets as they came to bat though Graeme Smith (44 off 46 balls) was consistent on one end. The Royals were struggling at 64/5 after 11 overs when Shane Warne got out but Yusuf Pathan came to the rescue once again and his powerful hitting helped the Rajasthan Royals reach the target in 18.3 overs. Amit Mishra performed well for the Delhi Daredevils with his bowling spell of 3 wickets for 34 runs. Yusuf Pathan was awarded the Man of the Match for his blazing 62 off 30 balls and the maximum sixes award for this six 6s in the match.

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Delhi
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c Shane Warne b Dimitri Mascarenhas 8 6 1 0 133.33
Virender Sehwag (C) c Kamran Khan b Dimitri Mascarenhas 16 11 2 1 145.45
AB de Villiers lbw b Shane Warne 50 40 5 1 125
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Swapnil Asnodkar b Munaf Patel 7 10 1 0 70
Dinesh Karthik (W) c & b Shane Warne 4 5 0 0 80
Daniel Vettori b Munaf Patel 29 28 3 0 103.57
Mithun Manhas not out 23 16 2 1 143.75
Amit Mishra b Kamran Khan 0 4 0 0 0
Pradeep Sangwan * not out 1 1 0 0 100
Ashish Nehra
Dirk Nannes
Extras: b – 0, w – 1, nb – 1, lb – 3 5
Total: (143 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 143 Run Rate: 7.15

Fall of Wickets1-20 (Gautam Gambhir, 2.3), 2-25 (Virender Sehwag, 3), 3-38 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5.5), 4-49 (Dinesh Karthik, 7.2), 5-105 (AB de Villiers, 15.2), 6-135 (Daniel Vettori, 18.3), 7-142 (Amit Mishra, 19.5)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 28 2 0 0 7
Kamran Khan 4 0 35 1 0 1 8.75
Munaf Patel 4 0 14 2 1 0 3.5
Shane Warne 4 0 32 2 0 0 8
Ravindra Jadeja 2 0 17 0 0 0 8.5
Yusuf Pathan 2 0 14 0 0 0 7

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Jaipur
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney lbw b Ashish Nehra 4 9 1 0 44.44
Graeme Smith not out 44 46 5 0 95.65
Swapnil Asnodkar run out (Amit Mishra) 11 8 1 1 137.5
Paul Valthaty c Daniel Vettori b Amit Mishra 1 5 0 0 20
Ravindra Jadeja c Pradeep Sangwan b Amit Mishra 16 13 1 0 123.08
Shane Warne (C) st Dinesh Karthik b Amit Mishra 0 2 0 0 0
Yusuf Pathan not out 62 30 3 6 206.67
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Mahesh Rawat (W)
Munaf Patel
Kamran Khan
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 1, lb – 3 9
Total: (147 for 5 wickets in 18.3 overs) 147 Run Rate: 7.95

Fall of Wickets1-20 (Rob Quiney, 3.3), 2-31 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 4.5), 3-34 (Paul Valthaty, 6.4), 4-63 (Ravindra Jadeja, 10.3), 5-64 (Shane Warne, 11)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dirk Nannes 3.3 0 23 0 0 2 6.57
Ashish Nehra 4 0 23 1 0 1 5.75
Pradeep Sangwan 4 0 28 0 0 2 7
Amit Mishra 4 0 34 3 1 0 8.5
Tillakaratne Dilshan 1 0 4 0 0 0 4
Daniel Vettori 2 0 32 0 0 0 16

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Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings are both probable winners of IPL T20 season 2 and so this match was expected to be a cracker. Virender Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat. Both Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir went out cheaply and it seemed Delhi was not in its usual song today. But then AB de Villiers (105 off 54 balls) hit the first century of IPL 2 and Tillakaratne Dilshan hit 50 off 27 balls to guide Delhi to the highest score of IPL T20 season 2 till now. Delhi Daredevils scored 189/5 in 20 overs giving a seemingly impossible to total to chase of 190 runs. Balaji shone with the ball with 3/19 in his 4 overs. But Chennai Super Kings bounced back very well and with brilliant innings from Matthew Hayden (57 off 27 balls) and Suresh Raina (41 off 27 balls) the match became very competitive. However, they lost too many wickets and they finished at 180/9 in their 20 overs. Pradeep Sangwan and Danniel Vettori shone with the ball with 3/28 and 2/29 respectively. AB De Villiers was awarded the Man of the Match for his blistering century.

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Delhi
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c MS Dhoni b Lakshmipathy Balaji 0 1 0 0 0
Virender Sehwag (C) c Albie Morkel b Manpreet Gony 6 9 1 0 66.67
AB de Villiers * not out 105 54 5 6 194.44
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Suresh Raina b Albie Morkel 50 27 7 2 185.19
Dinesh Karthik (W) c Andrew Flintoff b Lakshmipathy Balaji 18 16 2 0 112.5
Manoj Tiwary c Andrew Flintoff b Lakshmipathy Balaji 9 13 1 0 69.23
Daniel Vettori not out 0 0 0 0
Dirk Nannes
Avishkar Salvi
Pradeep Sangwan
Ashish Nehra
Extras: b – 0, w – 1, nb – 0, lb – 0 1
Total: (189 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 189 Run Rate: 9.45

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Gautam Gambhir, 0.1), 2-8 (Virender Sehwag, 2), 3-76 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 8.3), 4-114 (Dinesh Karthik, 14), 5-188 (Manoj Tiwary, 19.5)

Bowling (Chennai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Lakshmipathy Balaji 4 0 19 3 0 1 4.75
Manpreet Gony 4 0 45 1 0 0 11.25
Albie Morkel 4 0 41 1 0 0 10.25
Andrew Flintoff 4 0 50 0 0 0 12.5
Joginder Sharma 1 0 8 0 0 0 8
Muttiah Muralidaran 3 0 26 0 0 0 8.67

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Chennai
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Parthiv Patel c AB de Villiers b Pradeep Sangwan 16 15 2 0 106.67
Matthew Hayden c Dirk Nannes b Pradeep Sangwan 57 27 5 3 211.11
Suresh Raina c AB de Villiers b Pradeep Sangwan 41 27 5 1 151.85
MS Dhoni (C) (W) c Dinesh Karthik b Daniel Vettori 5 7 0 0 71.43
Andrew Flintoff c sub b Ashish Nehra 16 17 1 0 94.12
Albie Morkel not out 13 14 1 0 92.86
Subramaniam Badrinath c sub b Daniel Vettori 7 8 0 0 87.5
Manpreet Gony run out (Virender Sehwag) 6 2 0 1 300
Joginder Sharma run out (sub) 4 3 0 0 133.33
Lakshmipathy Balaji run out (Pradeep Sangwan) 0 0 0 0
Muttiah Muralidaran not out 0 1 0 0 0
Extras: b – 0, w – 8, nb – 1, lb – 6 15
Total: (180 for 9 wickets in 20.0 overs) 180 Run Rate: 9

Fall of Wickets1-57 (Parthiv Patel, 5.2), 2-90 (Matthew Hayden, 8), 3-108 (MS Dhoni, 10.3), 4-139 (Suresh Raina, 14.1), 5-156 (Andrew Flintoff, 16), 6-168 (Subramaniam Badrinath, 18.3), 7-175 (Manpreet Gony, 19), 8-179 (Joginder Sharma, 19.3), 9-179 (Lakshmipathy Balaji, 19.4)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dirk Nannes 4 0 32 0 0 0 8
Ashish Nehra 4 0 33 1 0 1 8.25
Avishkar Salvi 3 0 41 0 0 1 13.67
Pradeep Sangwan 4 0 28 3 1 2 7
Daniel Vettori 4 0 29 2 0 0 7.25
Manoj Tiwary 1 0 11 0 0 0 11

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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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My dad would be proud. I am in bed by 10 pm, set the alarm for 6 am, have a sandwich ready in the fridge and actually have a plan for the next day (well… at least half of it). I’m gonna wake up at 6 and run to stand under the shower to keep myself from nodding off. Brush them pearlies, race to my room and jump into my boxers while microwaving the sandwich. And then plop on the couch, fire up my laptop and take my first bite with the first ball.

And then, an odd but familiar feeling whispers from my bladder. Arrrggghhh!

I Pee Later!
It’s the IPL!

Who’d have thought a league of motley crews would generate so much excitement and so much moolah? When it first started, I was quite bemused by it all. Hit and Giggle and all that, I was flabbergasted as to which team to follow. I could just pick the team from my city, but dearie, that is not so easy when you are like me – an Indian. There are a lot of identities to an Indian – I’m an almost Telugu feller living in Bangalore, born in Madras having spent most of my childhood in Orissa and Maharasthra. I love Delhi femmes, Bengali rossogollas and Punjabi music. One Fresh Identity Crisis to-go please?

So, I just winged it in Season 1 cheering for all the Indian guys playing irrespective of the team. Officially, I opted for Bangalore Royal Challengers, Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings. But, I just couldn’t help but jump with joy when Sehwag smashed Symonds all over. And when Sehwag demanded the Hyderabad crowd to applaud his fifty, I was filled with the most eclectic mix of emotions – the short-circuit of incredulity, a whisper of indignation, the glow of wonder, an affirming warmth of pride, the goosebumps of patriotism, a gush of primal excitement and the soothing balm of unparalleled unity. I was sold.

One of my teams made it to the finals and with it solidified my choice for Season 2 somewhat. It was a fitting finale to a great new avatar of my favourite sport.

And now here it is – IPL Season 2. I still support BRC, CSK and DC. It is true hell when they face each other. But, I have begun to enjoy the team rivalries and all the joshing that comes with it. I have already committed blasphemy, brought out my inner regionalist and revved up my factory of under-the-belt potshots.

So, to sport a cliche, Cricket sure unites us all. But, boy does the IPL make a mockery of that unity.

OK, gotta pee now.