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Yesterday’s match in DLF IPL T20 2009 (Match 43 – Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers) was a match full of turn arounds. Rajat Bhatia was the man who finally turned it to Delhi Daredevils.

IPL 2009 – Match 43 – Delhi Daredevils Vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

Kartick played well at the end to take Delhi to a respectable total

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field first. Delhi Daredevils opened their innings with Gauti and Warner, inspite of Sehwag’s return to the playing eleven. Warner fell early to Chaminda Vaas in the 2nd over after scoring 4 runs in 6 balls. Dilshan was the next man in and opened his account with consecutive boundaries. Rohit Sharma dropped a sitter when Dilshan gloved one to shortish gully. Dilshan made good use of the drop chance and played aggressively. He scored 24runs (4,6,2,4,4,4) of the 6th over bowled by Shoaib Maqsusi, the highest run conceded in a single over in this IPL. Delhi Daredevils scored 56 runs losing just 1 wicket in the powerplay. Symonds got the wicket of Dilshan who scored 37 runs in just 18 balls. Another catch was dropped at long on when Ravi Teja spilled one which came straight to him and the ball bounced of his hands for a six. AB de Villiers was the batsman this time. Gambhir got out just before the strategic break and left Delhi Daredevils at 81/3 during the break. Sehwag was the next man in and he opened his account with a simple catch dropped by Symonds at long on. Vaas took the wicket of Sehwag in the 14th over and he scored 11 runs in 10 balls. AB de Villiers got out at crucial stage after scoring 44 runs in just 36balls. After 17 overs Delhi were 130/5. It looked like Chargers will be bundle out Delhi below 150, but Kartick played smart cricket and took them to a challenging total of 173/7. He scored 23 runs of the last over bowled by Vaas including 2 sixes. Vaas conceded 52 runs in his 4 overs and this is the highest by any bowler in this IPL. Deccan Chargers equaled the record of Knight Riders dropping 4 simple catches.
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Delhi Daredevils registered their 6th win as they beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in yesterdays match.

Sachin fell short and was runout by Karthik

Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. They lost 2 wickets in the first over. Jayasuriya was replaced by Ronchi to open the innings but he couldn’t manage to score a run and got out needlessly, trying to take a single playing the ball straignt to Warner. Warner was quick to react and hit the stumps at the non-strikers end in a flash. Duminy, the in form batsman for Mumbai Indians was the next to go for a duck, caught by Wicketkeeper Murali Karthik of the bowling of Nannes. After the first over Mumbai Indian were 2/1. Sachin Tendulkar looked in good touch and was run out by Karthik. Shah was caught at mid-on trying to clear the boundary rope. Bravo and Nayar played with some responsibility and they put on 57 Runs for the 5th wicket. Both got out off concecutive deliveries and the tail couldn’t do much with the bat. Mumbai Indians just scored 116 runs in 20 overs, their lowest in all IPL games they played. Bravo was the only batsman who showed some intense scoring 35 of 30balls. Daredevils bowlers bowled well and they fielded well except for couple of drop catches. Bhatia was the pick of the bowlers taking 3 wickets just conceding 15 runs. Nannes and Nehra got 2 wickets each.

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