Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils - IPL 5 - Match Recap
RCB 157/8 (20/20 ov) v Delhi Daredevils 137/7 (20.0/20 ov) - Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 20 runs
In the fifth match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Royal Challengers Bangalore opened their campaign with a win by 20 runs against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils in front of home crowd at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India.
RCB were put into bat after they lost the toss, but responded well as they managed to post a respectable tally of 157 runs on the board and later defended the total to deny Delhi Daredevils their second win in the series.
RCB openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/CA-Pujara-c1209 crafted an opening stand of 37 runs, before Pujara became the first causality of the day as he departed after playing a short innings of 11 runs off 12 deliveries.
Daredevils then struck once more when they decommissioned McDonald, who was playing so well and was looking dangerous, but faltered after hammering a blitz of an innings by posting 30 runs off just 19 deliveries.
The departure of the opener brought the scoring rate down, which was racing away during the time he was clobbering the bowlers.
With 56 runs on the board, the man for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SS-Tiwary-c2565, who lost his way after scoring just a run.
With four wickets down and only 59 runs on the board, RCB were sailing in troubled waters, however, they still had ace batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-de-Villiers-c887 on the crease and with him around, RCB still had a chance to climb back in the game.
While the South African kept building the momentum for a big knock, he was provided some support from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mayank-Agarwal-c1937, who bolstered an innings of 16 runs.
It was the resilient knock of 64 runs by de Villiers that saved the day for RCB, as the batsman stayed unbeaten at the end of the innings to help his side amass 157 runs on the board.
Requiring 158 runs to win the match, Delhi had the firepower in their batting line-up to chase down the target, however, RCB steadfast and created enough problems for Delhi in order to restrict them on 137 runs.
Earlier, on beginning their run chase, Delhi lost their first wicket on a tally of 13 when skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739, who has been struggling with form for the last year found his way back to pavilion without scoring a run.
The demise of the skipper, forced http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Naman-Ojha-c2057 to craft a potent partnership, but with 55 runs on the board the partnership came to an end on the wicket of Ojha, which fell after the batsman had scored an innings of 33 runs.
Later, unable to cope with the pressure of the bowling the side was up against, Delhi ultimately fell short of the required target.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Allan-Robert-Border-c43726 de Villiers was named as the Player of the Match.
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