Delhi Daredevils vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore: James Hopes powers Challengers to 160 – IPL news
Delhi Daredevils have posted a very competitive score of 160 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in their 20 overs against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in a fixture of the Indian Premier League in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780.
Star of the show for the Daredevils was the Australian all-rounder James Hopes who struck a brilliant half-century to put his team in a powerful position.
RCB captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and opted to field first on a flat track. The sole reason to bat first on this track was the fact that the Royal Challengers like to chase. The home team was off to a flying start through their captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429
who struck 25 runs off just 18 balls before he was run out.
Hopes took control of the situation from then onwards and made sure that his team reaches a fighting total. He and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Venugopal-Rao-c2752 added quick 47 runs for the fourth wicket which helped the Daredevils reach 160 runs in their 20 overs.
Discarded Indian all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naman-Ojha-c2057 played little cameos at the end of the innings and struck a couple of massive sixes each.
The Aussie all-rounder remained the top scorer as he made 54 runs off 43 balls in which he struck 7 boundaries. Hopes is out of the Australian team for some time now and this season of the IPL presents him with an ideal opportunity to strengthen his case
for national selection.
Rao scored 24 runs off 21 balls with the help of a couple of boundaries and a towering six.
Abhimanyu Mithun picked up a couple of wickets but he was a touch expensive as he gave away 37 runs in his quota of four overs. Zaheer Khan, Daniel Vettori and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sreenath-Aravind-c2559 claimed a victim each to help their team’s cause.
Although 160 runs is a competitive total but the home team’s bowlers have a huge challenge in front of them as the Royal Challengers have a strong batting line-up. They have destructive batsmen like Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virat-Kohli-c95424 and AB de
Villiers.
However, Delhi also have an experienced bowling line-up and will challenge the RCB batsmen thoroughly.
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