IPL5: Rajasthan Royals vs Pune Warriors http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 – Match Recap - Chandila's hat-trick takes Royals home
Startling half-centuries struck by Ajinkya Rahane and Shane Watson were well complemented by Ajit Chandila’s hat-trick as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 India in an IPL match played at Sawai Mansingh
Stadium, Jaipur on Sunday, May 13, 2012.
Defending a competitive total of 170 for 4 set by Rajasthan batsmen, the little known http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 off-spinner, playing just his second match of the season, returned with startling figures of 4 for 13 in his quota of four overs to hand his side a comfortable victory
in front of an adoring home crowd. The Punjab offie accounted for the top four Pune batsmen, including prized scalps of Sourav Ganguly, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JD-Ryder-c1679 and Robin Uthappa.
Asked to take the new ball, Chandila removed Pune openers, Ryder and Ganguly on the final two deliveries of the first over before returning to have wicketkeeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-Uthappa-c2356 stumped on the first ball of his second over to script the first hat-trick
of the ongoing fifth edition of the Indian Premier League, and the ninth overall.
Chandila’s efforts were augmented by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SPD-Smith-c2555 top
scored for the tourists with a 31-ball 37 while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CJ-Ferguson-c1264 and Angelo Mathews both scored 23 runs. Rest of the Pune line-up fell for single digit scores.
Earlier, the Rajasthan Royals skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229 won the toss and elected to bat. Royals’ opening duo featuring skipper Dravid and red-hot Ajinkya Rahane got the team off to a steady start putting 29 runs on the board in four overs.
After Dravid’s dismissal in the fifth over, caught by Robin Uthappa behind the stumps off Ashish Nehra on 21, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 further stepped up the scoring. The Australian all-rounder notched up his 26-ball fifty in the 13th
over with a monstrous hit over midwicket for a six off Ryder. Watson’s half century was studded with four boundaries and as many sixes.
The Rahane-Watson partnership was worth 94 when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Nehra-c873 broke it having Watson bowled out on the third ball of the 15th over. The Queenslander played a herculean knock of 58 runs from just 31 balls, plundering six fours and four sixes.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746 at mid-wicket in the 19th over, shortly after the latter had reached his 40-ball fifty. Rahane was the last man to hole out. He was bowled out
by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 on the second ball of the final over as the Royals amassed 170 for 4 in their allotted quota of 20 overs.
Ajit Chandila was adjudged as the Man of the Match.
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