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Deccan Chargers lifted themselves from near the basement of the IPL table to fourth place with an important win over fellow strugglers Delhi Daredevils on a slow-and-low track at Feroz Shah Kotla. Their stand-out performers were not the marquee names but unsung opener Sunny Sohal and medium-pacer Harmeet Singh, playing his first match of the season.
Sohal also didn't play a typical brute-force Twenty20 innings. His 62 was sprinkled with dabs to third man and clever glides past fine leg, besides some textbook drives.At 103 for 1 after 11 overs, even 200 was within Deccan's sights.
The Delhi innings was a stop-start affair, with bursts of big scoring sandwiching prolonged quiet spells. David Warner and Venugopal Rao muscled 30 runs off two overs to get to 71 for 3 after nine and revive Delhi hopes, but the return of Dale Steyn and the introduction of Amit Mishra choked the runs.
On a track providing turn, and where shot-making was becoming difficult, Venugopal fell to a superbly judged, leaping overhead catch by Christian at long-off, and Warner's less-than-fluent innings ended with a slog to deep midwicket in the 15th over. Delhi's slender hopes now rested on Irfan Pathan and James Hopes but neither could get going and despite Yogesh Nagar's cameo, Deccan coasted to victory.
Result :
Deccan Chargers won by 16 runs
Scorecard :
Deccan Chargers innings
- DECCAN CHARGERS: 168/4 (20) RR: 8.401st Innings
- Batting RB4s6sS/R
- Sunny Sohalc Aaron Finch b Shahbaz Nadeem 624181151.22
- Shikhar Dhawanb Irfan Pathan 8520160.00
- Kumar Sangakkarac Aaron Finch b Ashok Dinda 493581140.00
- Cameron Whitenot out 312521124.00
- Daniel Christianb James Hopes 8110072.73
- Bharat Chiplinot out 5300166.67
- Dwaraka Ravi Teja -----
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- Extras (b 1, lb 2, w 2, nb 0)5
Total Score: - 168/4(20 Over)RR:8.4
Fall of Wickets: 1-14 (Shikhar Dhawan, 1.3 Over) 2-106 (Kumar Sangakkara, 12 Over)
3-129 (Sunny Sohal, 14.4 Over) 4-156 (Daniel Christian, 18.4 Over)BowlingOMRWNBWDEcoAshok Dinda40331008.25Irfan Pathan40281017Morne Morkel40310017.75James Hopes40361009Shahbaz Nadeem30241008Yogesh Nagar101300013
- DELHI DAREDEVILS: 152/7 (20) RR: 7.602nd Innings
- Batting RB4s6sS/R
- 514851106.25
- 12730171.43
- 240050.00
- 01000.00
- 21233091.30
- 590055.56
- 171401121.43
- 231112209.09
- 8301266.67
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- Extras (b 6, lb 1, w 6, nb 0)13
- Total Score:
152/7(20 Over)RR:7.6 Fall of Wickets: 1-28 (Virender Sehwag, 3.5 Over) 2-33 (Naman Ojha, 5 Over)
3-38 (Aaron Finch, 5.5 Over) 4-90(Venugopal Rao, 12.3 Over) 5-99 (David Warner, 14.2 Over) 6-112 (Irfan Pathan, 16.1 Over) 7-144 (Yogesh Nagar, 19.3 Over)BowlingOMRWNBWDEcoDale Steyn40240016Daniel Christian40382009.5Harmeet Bansal40272016.75Pragyan Ojha30211007Amit Mishra40281007Shikhar Dhawan1071007
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