Delhi Daredevils stand tall after defeating Deccan Chargers by 4 wickets: IPL-4 News
In yet another exciting episode of Indian Premier League this year, Delhi Daredevils (DD) defeated Deccan Chargers (DC) by four wickets with six balls remaining. DD won the toss and elected to field first. Deccan Chargers could not kick off to a brilliant
start as they lost their first opener with just 19 runs on the board. It was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aavishkar-Salvi-c885.
The first wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ajit-Agarkar-c972 for 29
runs. His innings included 5 boundaries.
Sangakkara and JP Duminy progressed the DC innings forward from there on. They complemented each other well to put up another 29 runs on the board. Sangakkara was eventually sent back to the pavilion by James Hopes for 44 runs whose knock included eight
boundaries. This left DC at 87 for 3 in 11.6 overs.
Daniel Christian replaced Sangakkara and kept the momentum going for DD. The partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JP-Duminy-c1742 and Daniel Christian anchored the DC's innings. They played some wonderful shots around the park and kept things under control. The duo added together
a total of 71 runs to take the total to 158 runs by the 18th over until Duminy was dismissed after scoring 55 runs. His innings had the ingredients of 2 boundaries and 4 maximums.
Bharat Chipli was dismissed for 1 run on the bowling of Agarkar. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ishan-Malhotra-c64561 remained not out for 27 runs and 7 runs respectively to close the innings for DC at complete total of 175 runs with the loss of just 5 wickets in complete
20 overs.
In reply, DD was off to a disastrous start as it lost its first wicket without even putting up a single run on the board. It was the key wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naman-Ojha-c2057 also could not contribute much
to the DD innings after putting up 7 runs under his belt. His wicket went to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ishant-Sharma-c64566.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Venugopal-Rao-c2752 was also dismissed by Sharma for only 3 runs.
This forced DD at 25 for 3 in 5.4 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Travis-Birt-c2707 disappeared after scoring only 4 runs while Sehwag was on full attack from the other end.
Irfan Pathan came and spent some time on the crease for his 12 runs while destructive Sehwag had gone ballistic on the opposition. He completed his century and took the game away from DC. He was finally dismissed after he had scored a total of 119 remarkable
runs, which should be considered nothing less than a miraculous innings. He was caught by Sangakkara on the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn.
When the score on the board reached 168 runs, the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils by aiding their
side to reach a final total of 179 runs in 19 overs with the loss of 6 wickets. Hopes remained unbeaten on 17 runs while Yogesh Nagar remained not out for 7 runs.
This marked a huge victory for DD chasing a good total courtesy some ruthless batting performance of VIrender Sehwag. He was announced the Man of the Match for his match-winning innings of 119 runs.
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