Delhi Daredevils team scored its first victory in this year’s IPL league.
8th IPL is in progress played in several cities across the country. The teams participating are reigning Champions Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, Bangalore Royal Challengers, Rajasthan Royals, King’s XI, Punjab, Hyderabad Sunrisers, and Delhi Daredevils.
Each team plays with all other teams twice in the tournament. At the end of the league matches, the teams in the first 4 places in the points table will qualify for ‘Play-Off’ matches.
The 10th IPL league match was played between Delhi Daredevils & Punjab King’s XI at Pune. There were no changed in the Punjab team. Delhi included Dominic Joseph in place of Jaidev Unatkat.
Punjab won the toss and Captain George Bailey elected to bat. Virendar Sehwag & Murali Vijay opened the batting. They scored slowly and the pair got separated in the 5th over. M Vijay scored 19 runs off 18 balls with 2 4’s & one 6.
Wridhiman Saha joined Sehwag. They tried to score fast. Sehwag hit a 6 and too 4;s in an over from Imran Tahir. However, Sehwag’s batting was not thrilling. Punjab scored 100 runs off 13 overs. Hence it was expected to score over 180 runs in the allotted 20 overs.
However, once this pair was separated, scoring rate came down. Saha was out after scoring 30 (28 balls, 3 6’s) and Sehwag scored 47 (41 balls, 4 4’s & 2 6’s). Glenn Maxwell scored 15 runs off 5 balls including 2 6’s in Imran Tahir’s over.David Miller scored 5, Captain George Bailey scored 19. Aksar Patel scored 13.
Punjab scored 165 runs for 7 wickets in the 20 overs. Spinner, Imran Tahir, who gave 34 runs in his first 2 overs, gave away only 9 runs in his last 2 oversand took 3 wickets. Duminy took 2 wickets. Mathews & Amit Misra got 1 wicket each.
The target was set at 166 runs.
Delhi opened thri innings. Shre4yas Aiyar got out after scoring 5. Captain Duminy was out after scoring 21. However, Mayank Agarwal & Yuvraj Singh steadied Delhi innings. One could see the old Yuvaraj Singh in form after along break. He hit 2 6’s off Aksapr Patel. Agarwal also scored fast. When he was 42, he was dropped.
While nearing the victory target, Yuvaraj Singh got out after scoring 55 (39 balls, 5 4’s & 3 6’s). Mayank Agarwal got out after scoring 68 (42 balls, 7 4’sw & 2 6’s). Kedar Jadhav scored only 3 runs.
Mathews, scoring 6 not out,helped reach the target.
Delhi scored 169 for for 5 wickets off 19.5 overs and won by wickets.
Delhi has lost it first 2 games against Chennai & Rajasthan teams. This is its first win in the league. Punjab has lost 2 of its 3 matches.
During the last IPL, Delhi team had lost its last 5 matches and combined with its 2 lossses in the first 2 matches, it was a stresk of losses in 7 consecutive matches. Dlehi ended this.
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