Indian Premier League: Ishant Sharma stars as Deccan Chargers thrash Kochi Tuskers
DC 129/7 20 overs KT 74 16.3 overs
A sensational bowling performance, which was the third best in the history of Indian Premier League, gives Deccan a big win over insipid Kochi.
Indian pacer, Ishant Sharma, reminded the Indian cricket fans of his potential by tearing apart the Kochi batting line-up after his team stuttered to a low total on a challenging wicket at Kochi.
The hosts won the toss and opted to bat first, the bowlers made immediate inroads and left the Chargers tottering at 20/3 inside the first six overs of the match, the Chargers were rescued by what turned out to be a match winning partnership between Captain,
Kumar Sangakkara, and Australian all-rounder, Cameron White.
After the association was broken, Kochi wrestled back the initiative, and the rest of the batting line-up failed to do much with the bat at all and the visitors had to be content with a below par score of 129/7 in the allotted 20 overs.
For Kochi, Vinay Kumar with 3 wickets and RP Singh with 2 wickets were the star performers.
In reply the hosts were in for the shock of their lives, while Dale Steyn accounted for the main threat with the bat, Brendon McCullum, in the very first over of the innings, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ishant-Sharma-c64566 ripped apart the top order in a matter of 2 overs!
He had as many as 3 wickets in his first over, as he sent back http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brad-Hodge-c1184, to get his team off to a dream start. He accounted for two more in his next over, this time around the victims were captain of the Kochi team, Mahela
Jayawardene, and, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kedar-Jadhav-c1782, astonishingly five of the first six batsmen departed without scoring a run.
The match was over inside the first four overs of the innings as the hosts were stunned at 11/6.
They made a partial recovery from there yet they were never in the contest. They were put out of their misery in the 17th over of the innings.
Chargers won the match by 55 runs, besides Sharma http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dale-c52110 Steyn took 3 wickets.
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