Deccan,Delhi's progress checked!
A barbie doll in a saree(too childish/girlish eh?)oK Ok!say Arnold in a soft (intense) romantic role?(or Arnold without his gun??)My point is that, thats how (out of place) I felt when I first heard of M.Vijay in the (Chennai)T20 team as I thought him as a solid opening batsman (with tight defense sort of batsman) but he never looked at sea in the brief stay he had in the crease and was timing fluently!With a few Intl' players unavailable and few others coming back (and with injuries) it will be interesting to see how the balance of the teams gets affected!
Back to the match,Chennai put in to bat by Gambhir posted 163 with good(but short) innings from Hayden n Raina and a fluent innings from badrinath.They once threaten to score big but once Badri. departed no one was there to anchor the innings and lost their way!In reply DD Opening with Gambhir n Warner (Sehwag injured) did not had the best of start loosing Gambhir,Devillers and Dishan and were struggling at 52/3 in 7 overs when (in form) D.Karthick came in to restore DD's chances with hard hitting Warner and looked well in course to win till Warner fell stumped off Slow left armer Jakati after making 51 and when Karthick got out for 53 DD lost their way as it was the similar story!a batting collapse!
Earlier Gilli got Deccan off to a decent start as Rohit and Suman helped them post 141 which started looking very huge after abt 10 min in to RR's chase as they lost 3 wickets in the first 2 overs but Carseldine and Jadeja kept them in the game and it was perfectly set up for Y.Pathan for yet another heroic innings and it looked like the familiar script untill he fell in the 18th over to leave the match to a nail biting finish!But Raut(36 off 23) kept his cool and took them home with 2 balls to spare!
With Delhi and Deccan (kind of) struck/stagnant at the top and just 2 points separating all the 7 teams(except KKR) this IPL seems(Let me re insist that it only seems like...) to be heading to a much closer finish this time with teams swapping positions every match!
RR bt Deccan by 3 wickets!
Chennai bt DD by 18 runs!
Back to the match,Chennai put in to bat by Gambhir posted 163 with good(but short) innings from Hayden n Raina and a fluent innings from badrinath.They once threaten to score big but once Badri. departed no one was there to anchor the innings and lost their way!In reply DD Opening with Gambhir n Warner (Sehwag injured) did not had the best of start loosing Gambhir,Devillers and Dishan and were struggling at 52/3 in 7 overs when (in form) D.Karthick came in to restore DD's chances with hard hitting Warner and looked well in course to win till Warner fell stumped off Slow left armer Jakati after making 51 and when Karthick got out for 53 DD lost their way as it was the similar story!a batting collapse!
Earlier Gilli got Deccan off to a decent start as Rohit and Suman helped them post 141 which started looking very huge after abt 10 min in to RR's chase as they lost 3 wickets in the first 2 overs but Carseldine and Jadeja kept them in the game and it was perfectly set up for Y.Pathan for yet another heroic innings and it looked like the familiar script untill he fell in the 18th over to leave the match to a nail biting finish!But Raut(36 off 23) kept his cool and took them home with 2 balls to spare!
With Delhi and Deccan (kind of) struck/stagnant at the top and just 2 points separating all the 7 teams(except KKR) this IPL seems(Let me re insist that it only seems like...) to be heading to a much closer finish this time with teams swapping positions every match!
RR bt Deccan by 3 wickets!
Chennai bt DD by 18 runs!
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