Semi cemented for the IPL Devils

Posted on May 14, 2009
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Adam Gilchrist blazed his way to a 33-ball 64 but Deccan Chargers choked after looking set for victory against Delhi Daredevils on May 13 2009 at Kingsmead,Durban

Adam Gilchrist blazed his way to a 33-ball 64 but Deccan Chargers choked after looking set for victory against Delhi Daredevils on May 13 2009 at Kingsmead,Durban

The 43rd match between IPL Delhi and IPL Hyderabad was completely a dramatic game from the starting till the end of the match.The IPL Hyderabad won the toss and they elected to field.Although IPL Delhi was losing wickets at regular intervals they took quick runs.

Dilshan,De Villiers and Dinesh Karthik took 37(18),44(36) and 44*(23) runs respectively which helped IPL Delhi to reach very good competitive total of 173 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.

IPL Hyderabad’s ground fielding was quite good but they dropped the precious catches of Dilshan by Rohith Sharma,A B De Villiers by Ravi Teja and Virender Sehwag by Andrew Symonds.

In response to this IPL Hyderabad had a superb start in which they samshed 18 runs in the first over including 4 fours by the Skipper Adam Gilchrist.After the end of the 10 overs IPL Hyderabad was in a very good position by taking 83 runs for the loss of just 2 wickets of Suman and Rohith Sharma.

Gilchrist was bowled by Sangwan in the 11th over but the momentum of scoring runs was maintained by Andrew Symonds.Symonds took 41 runs from just 22 deliveries and they were almost won the match.IPL Hyderabad needed only 29 runs off the last four overs.From there onwards the wickets started to tumble.

The wicket of Symonds by Rajat Bhatia was the turning point of the game.IPL Hyderabad lost 7 wickets for 12 runs in just 17 balls.At the end of the match IPL Delhi won the game by 12 runs and the man of the match is Rajat Bhatia who took 4 wickets in 2.4 overs.

Click here for scorecard of IPL Hyderabad vs IPL Delhi

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