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Chennai’s perfect start to the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) season ended following a defeat to Delhi Dare Devils at there home turf chennai.

Delhi Daredevils, chasing 170, romped home by eight wickets and an over to spare to clinch a crucial win .Virender Sehwag (71) and Gautam Gambhir (50) 115-run partnership to set up the win for Delhi.

Viru and Gambhir took only 4.5 overs to reach 50 on the board and reached 100 in the ninth over with Sehwag also completing his half-century off 24 deliveries.

Chennai had earlier made 169-6 after captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni had won the toss and elected to bat. S. Vidyut’s entertaining 37-ball 54 and Albie Morkel 28 off just 16 ball helped settign a modest target.

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Glenn McGrath has taken tournament-best figures of 4 for 29 to help Delhi beat Bangalore by 10 runs in Delhi

Gautam Gambir thrashed 86 off 54 balls to help Delhi post 5 for 191 off its 20 overs.Royal Challengers won the toss and put the Daredevils into bat first, despite lossing Sehwag early in the innings, Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan (50) put on 98 for the second wicket and set a target of 191

Jacques Kallis (54, 44 balls, 6 x 4, 1×6), Rahul Dravid (38) and Mark Boucher 31offered some resistance to reduce the margin. but Bangalore never looked like chasing 191. The start was terrible for the Royal Challengers as they lost too many wickets at the top.

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Delhi Daredevils, powered by Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan fifties, set a target of 191 against Bangalore Royal Challengers. What a wonderfull display of batting by gambhir on a track which is not so batting friendly

watch out the fall of wickets

Simon Katich steered Punjab Kings X1 against a formidable Delhi bowling line-up in Mohali. A brilliant effort by their paceman lead by VRV singh helped Kings XI Punjab restrict Delhi Daredevils to a modest 158 for eight.

Daredevils struggled at the start of their innings, losing captain Virender Sehwag and Shikhar Dhawan with only 12 runs on the board. Dare Devils lost wickets at regular interval and were at 88-5 the Daredevils looked to be in dire straits, but Manoj Tiwary rescued the situation with 39 from 34 balls.

Kings Punjab also started there innings nervously loosing  two wickets in first two overs. But they recovered from the early hiccups with the help of Simon Katich’s knock of 75 runs and Yuvraj Singh’s unbeaten 40.

On his day no one can be as brutal as Delhi daredevils icon player virendar Sehwag, watch out his brilliant knock of 94 in 41 balls that include 10 fours and 6 sixes.

Dissapointment..In a game which every one thought will be a thriller, turned out to be a dampner.
Deccan Chargers lost and lost very badly in home ground. Delhi used new ball to a good extent and troubled HYderabad top order.
Venu Gopal rao is most pathetic of all, he keeps on swinging his bat and miss it by a huge gap, McGrath used the conditions to a great extent and troubled gilly, mcgrath along with Asif gave delhi a perfect strat. Sysmonds looked good in his short stint. when it looked like Hyderabad innings will be rapped out below 110, Rohit Sharma showed soem guts and took on Mahroof in 17 th over and minted 26 runs. Hyderabad scored 52 runsi n last 3 overs. But that was not enough for delhi

Any hopes of saving a low target was dashed by Virender Sehwag his firey 41-ball 94 gave Delhi a emphatic nine-wicket win over the Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad.

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Hyderabad deccan Chargers vs Delhi Dare Devils score card

Delhi Daredevils scored an emphatic nine-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals at Feroz shah kotla stadium here on Saturday. In a one sided match Delhi bowlers and fielders displayed sharpness and discipline in the field (two runouts) to restrict the Rajasthan Royals to 129-8 in 20 overs.

Farveez Maharoof (2-11) and local boy Rajat Bhatia (2-17) bowled superbly in the middle overs. Mc grath was sharp as usual and ended up with 1 wicket . Mahroof concided just 11 runs in his 4 overs. Ravindra Jadeja (29) and Dinesh Salunkhe (26 not out) helped Rajasthan Royals to cross 100 mark

Chasing a modest 129, Gautam Gambhir (58 not out) and Shikhar Dhawan (52 not out) put up an unbroken 112-run stand to take Delhi home. Virender Sehwag fell cheaply for 12 after hitting Watson for 3 consecutive fours viru edge the fourth ball to rip away his off-stump. Rajasthan Royals bowling was trashed apart including there star bowler, shane warne who conceded 16 runs in his 2 overs with no wicket

A boring match with neither entertainment nor cricket, much to the disappointment of 40,000 crowd

Rajasthan Royals: T. Kohli c Manhas b McGrath 7, Y. Pathan (run out) 10, S. Watson (run out) 21, M. Kaif c Geeves b Bhatia 9, D. Lehmann lbw b Maharoof 1, R. Jadeja b Vettori 29, M. Rawat b Bhatia 2, D. Salunkhe (not out) 26, S. Warne b Maharoof 14, S. Trivedi (not out) 3; Extras: (b-1, lb-3, w-3) 7; Total: (for eight wkts in 20 overs) 129.

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-27, 3-41, 4-47, 5-57, 6-71, 7-93, 8-110.

Delhi Daredevils bowling: McGrath 4-1-21-1, Geeves 4-0-41-0, Maharoof 4-0-11-2, Bhatia 4-0-17-2, Vettori 4-0-35-1.

Delhi: V. Sehwag b Watson 12, G. Gambhir (not out) 58, S. Dhawan (not out) 52, Extras (w-10) 10, Total (for one wkt in 15.1 overs) 132.

Fall of wicket: 1-20.

Rajasthan Royals bowling: Munaf 3-0-25-0, Watson 4-0-31-1, Trivedi 3-0-32-0, Warne 2-0-16-0, Yusuf 2.1-0-17-0, Salunkhe 1-0-11-0.

Delhi,will host Shane Warne and his Rajasthan Royals team in today’s second encounter

Sehwag along with Ganbhir will open for delhi and can expect a flying straight and followed by a inexperienced middle order of – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Dhawan, Mithun Manhas or Rajat Bhatia

McGrath and Daniel Vettori, will lead the bowling attack Delhi will be without Pakistanis Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Asif,

AB de Villiers and Graeme Smith Pakistani trio of Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir, and allrounder Dimitri Mascarenhas, wont be available for jaipur. Again a poor bidding strategy. So desperate they choose 38 yr old Darren Lehmann.

Jaipur chances depend on allrounders Pathan and Watson. The seriously need a batsmen to anchor the innings

Delhi may win this encounter because of there aggressive batsmen, wily bowlers and athletic fielders,

Delhi (probable) 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Manoj Tiwary, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Brett Geeves, 10 Glenn McGrath, 11 Pradeep Sangwan.

Rajasthan Shane Watson, Taruwar Kohli, Mohammad Kaif, Darren Lehmann, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Mahesh Rawat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja , Shane Warne, Pankaj Singh, Munaf Patel

Prediction – Delhi Dare Devils will the match comfortable

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