NEW DELHI: Delhi Daredevils defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by 10 runs in an exciting finish in the 17th match of the Indian Premier League here at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground on Wednesday.
Chasing a rather difficult target of 192, the Bangalore Royal Challengers went down fighting at 181 for five in the allotted 20 overs.
Their main scorer was Jaques Kallis, who made 54 off 44 balls with six four and one six while captain Rahul Dravid scored 38 off 30 balls with four boundaries and one six and Mark Boucher smashed unbeaten 31 off 17 balls with two fours and two sixes. He hit 19 runs in the final over bowled by rival captain Virender Sehwag.
Fast-medium bowler Glenn McGrath bowled extremely well and grabbed four wickets for 29 runs while Daniel Vettori took one wicket. McGrath was declared man-of-the-match after the match ended.
Earlier, Dravid won the toss and invited the opponents to bat first who made 191 for the loss of five wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
The architects of their total were opener Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan who added 98 runs for the second wicket.
Gautam Gambhir played an outstanding innings of 86 runs off 54 balls with eleven fours and one six and Dhawan made 50 off 33 balls with four fours and three sixes.
Jacques Kallis took 2 wickets while Dale Steyn and Zaheer Khan got one wicket each for Banglore Royal Challengers.
MOHALI: Kings XI Punjab beat Delhi Daredevils by four wickets in the first match of Indian Premier League on Sunday at Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali.
Simon Katich sealed Punjab’s win with brilliant 75 including 11 fours and a six. Yuvraj Singh was another top contributor of Kings XI Punjab innings with undefeated 40.
Muhammad Asif captured two wickets for 39 runs for Delhi. McGrath, Shoaib Malik and Mahesh took one wicket each.
Earlier, Delhi Daredevils won the toss and batting first managed a total of 158 runs. Manoj Tiwary’s battling innings of 39 were the highlight of Delhi innings. Kings XI attained the target with loss of six wickets in the final over with three deliveries remaining.
Geo Super telecast the match live from Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali.
NEW DELHI: Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh has said the incident between him and Sreesanth Shanthakumaran was over. “It is not such a big issue the way people are making it out to be,” he told television channels.
The Indian media had reported that Harbhajan had slapped the young fast bowler.
“Harbhajan came back to the dressing room and apologised to Sreesanth,” Mohali captain Yuvraj Singh told reporters.
Meanwhile, Sreesanth has said Harbhajan is like his elder brother.
Television pictures showed Sreesanth sobbing at the end of the game late on Friday after his Mohali team defeated Mumbai, which is captained by Harbhajan.
CHENNAI: Chennai Super Kings cruised to an easy victory by nine wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders in the eleventh match of the Indian Premier League on Saturday.
Chasing a moderate target of 148 runs, the Chennai Super Kings achieved it in 16.5 overs when captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni struck a six off Murali Kartik.
After losing the only wicket of Parthiv Patel (21) at the score of 66, opener Matthew Hayden and Dhoni took the score to 152 to get their team win the match by nine wickets here at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk.
Hayden made 70 off 48 balls with six fours and three sixes while Dhoni scored 43 off 27 balls with three fours and two sixes. Both remained not out.
Kolkata captain Sourav Ganguly tried seven bowlers but none of theem could take any wicket except fast-medium bowler Ajit Agarkar who claimed the only wicket of the Chennai innings.
By winning their all three matches in the IPL, the Channai Super Kings is now leading the points table with six points where as the Kolkata Knight Riders lost for the first time after winning two successive matches in the tournament.
Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first but could not bat confidently as the Chennai Super Kings with their fine bowling and superb fielding restricted Kolkata Knight Riders at 147 runs for nine wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
Their top scorer was late-order batsman Laxmi Shukla, who made 42 off 33 balls with four boundaries and one six while wicketkeeper batsman Prasanta Saha scored 27 and opener Brendon McCullum contributed 24.
Mohammad Hafeez (16), Captain Saurov Ganguly (12) and Ajit Agarkar (11) were the only other batsmen who got into double figures.
Fast-medium bowler Jacob Oram captured three wickets for 32 while pacers Palany Amarnath and Manpreet Gony took two wickets each. Renowned off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan could not get any wicket but he conceded only 12 runs in four overs.
BANGALORE: Rajasthan Royals easily defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in the 12th match of the Indian Premier League here on Saturday.
Chasing an easy target of 136 runs, the Royals completed their victory in 17.1 overs for the loss of three wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Shane Watson and Graeme Smith were the architects of the victory as they added 104 runs for the third wicket stand.
Watson remained unbeaten on 61 runs off 41 balls with eight fours and two sixes while opener Smith made 49 off 42 balls with eight fours.
From the Royal Challengers, Zaheer Khan, Sunil Joshi and Praveen Kumar took one wicket each.
Earlier, Shane Warne, captain of the Rajasthan Royals winning the toss put the Bangalore Royal Challengers into batting and restricted them at 135-8 in the allotted 20 overs.
Bangalore batsmen could not make a big score and were restricted at 135 runs for the loss of eight wickets at the.
Ross Taylor top scored with 44 runs off just 20 balls. He hit six fours and three sixes. The second top-scorer was Praveen Kumar, who made 34 off 30 balls with three sixes and two fours.
Shane Watson and Munaf Patel both claimed two wickets for 20 runs each from the Rajasthan Royals.
Geo Super telecast the match live from Bangalore.
CHENNAI: Mumbai Indians have won the toss and they have elected to field first in an encounter against Chennai Super Kings here at the Chidambaram Stadium Chepauk today.Harbhajan Singh, who is leading the Mumbai Indians in place of unfit Sachin Tendulkar, beat his rival captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni on spin of coin.Defrending his decision to bowl first, Harbhajan said that the dew would be a bigger factor for the team fielding last.Mumbai have made just the one change, bringing in the West Indian allrounder Dwayne Bravo for Dominic Thornley, who was struck by a nasty Zaheer Khan bouncer earlier.However, the Chennai Super Kings are unchanged.Teams:Chennai Super Kings: PA Patel, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, S Badrinath, SK Raina, MS Dhoni (captain,wk), JDP Oram, Joginder Sharma, P Amarnath, M Gony, M Muralitharan.Mumbai Indians: L.Ronchi (wk), ST Jayasuriya, RV Uthappa, VS Yeligati, AM Nayar, SM Pollock, MA Khote, Harbhajan Singh (captain), A Nehra, DS Kulkarni, DJ Bravo.