De Villiers’ finish one of the best I’ve ever seen: Kohli – Cricket News Update
The Royal Challengers’ stand-in skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887, after the latter’s stunning 47 off 17 led his team to a 5-wicket victory against the Deccan Chargers on May 6 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
“We wanted to win it badly, they bowled well in the middle overs, but when you have http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Robert-Border-c43726, anything is possible,” said Kohli. “That's one of the best finishes I have seen.”
Chasing 182, the Challengers had a promising start with the 91-run opening stand between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Mishra-c871 in the 14th over – Kohli
(9) and Asad Pathan (4) respectively – left the Challengers faltering at 106 for 3.
The star of the Challengers’ victory was Proteas batsman de Villiers, who stepped up to the challenge of 39 required from the last 18 balls, and delivered a deadly performance in the 18th over, hitting fellow South African http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DW-Steyn-c1409 for 23 runs,
including 2 sixes and 2 fours.
This brought the target down to 16 off 12 deliveries, and three more boundaries by de Villiers, coupled with a single and a four by Syed Mohammad, enabled the home team to turn the game around in their favour, reaching 185 with 7 balls remaining. The knock
marked another brilliant showing by de Villiers, who has contributed scores such as 33, 52, and an unbeaten 64 and 59 to his team’s performances.
“Hopefully we can continue this momentum and make it to the play-offs,” said Kohli, expressing optimism regarding his team’s ability to make it to the next stage of the tournament.
The Challengers’ recent win propelled them to the number 5th spot on the points table, overtaking the Kings XI http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals.
The Chargers, however, remain at the bottom of the table, with their skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779 crediting de Villiers for his batting performance, while ruing his own team’s ineffective bowling display.
“We made a good score, but we did not get the yorkers in. We needed to bowl good balls and make it difficult for AB, who batted unbelievably well,” observed Sangakkara.
“All you can do is trust your bowlers to do the work for you. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 has had a great tournament, unfortunately he had a bad over Sunday.”
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