Match 12: DC v. MI: Hatrick for DC! Surprises MI!

Sachin lead Mumbai Indians were surprised for a shocking defeat in the hands of Deccan Chargers! The matche started with MI as favorites but ended against it.

Deciding to bat first, Deccan Chargers started well and utlized the conditions well. They added 63 for the first wicket in 41 balls. Both Gilchrist and Gibbs played sensibly, especially the round-arm action Malinga.

Gibbs has come out well in this edition so far. He scored brilliant 58 off 44 with 6 fours and 2 sixes. Gilchrist, for his part, had 3 sixes and 3 fours in his 35. The only other double digit scorer was DR Smith with 35.

Malinga bowled really well with tight line and length. I think he is the only player to have bowled a maiden over with two wickets in the last over of an T20 innings. He picked Edwards--clean bowled and Ravi Teja leg before.

At one stage, DC were expected to reach 200 run mark. They were 113 for 1 in 12 overs scoring at 9.41 runs per over. Gibbs was in full form and he scored 18 runs in Kulkani's over which included 2 sixes and a four.

The quick wickets of D Smith, Rohit Sharma and Laxman reduce the run rate. Gibbs got run out in the 16th over for 58. At the end of 16 overs DC were 142 for 5. Even a 10 per over in the last 4 overs would have taken them to 180, but Malinga and Harbhajan gave just 12 runs in their two overs and Malinga took double wicket maiden over in the 20th as DC ended with 168.

Mumbai's start was not good as they lost Jayasuria for just 1, but Tendulkar and Duminy handled the situation well as they put on 82 in 9.1 overs. Tendulkar fell in the first over after strategic break and that changed the match. Dhawan fell immediately for 3. Bravo scored 21 while Nayar had 10. Duminy got out at the crucial stage for 47. The last 5 overs required 61 with 5 wickets in hand. Bravo and Harbhajan managed to bring it down to 26 from 12 balls.

RP Singh bowled the 19th over. Bravo moved across to play it over short fine leg, but missed the ball and was plumb in front of the wicket. He gave away just 4 runs and increased the between the number of balls and the runs required.

Last 6 balls needed 22 runs. Zaheer and Harbhajan tried their best, but couldn't meet the necessary target though Bhajji hit a six in the 2nd ball. MI ended with 12 runs short.

With this victory, Deccan Charges have won all their three games played so far and lead the table with 6 points.

DC v. KKR

DC v. RC

Ojha took 3 crucial wickets for Deccan Chargers. He dismissed Tendulkar, Duminy and Dhwan. All three crucial wickets turned the match in favor of DC and earned him the man of the match award.

Scoreboard:

Match # 12
Date: Saturday April 25, 2009
Teams: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers v. Mumbai Indians
Captains: Gilchrist and Sachin
Toss: DC, elected to bat
Venue: Kingsmead, Durban
Result: DC won by 12 runs
Points: DC 2; MI 0
Man of the Match: Ojha of DC

Deccan Chargers Innings:

Batsman	How Out	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Gilchrist	c Shah b Bravo	35	20	3	3
Gibbs	Run Out (Bravo / Z Khan)	58	44	6	2
D Smith	b Jayasuriya	35	22	2	2
Rohit Sharma	c Dhawan b Bravo	3	5	0	0
Laxman	c Nayar b Bravo	0	1	0	0
Venugopal	b Malinga	9	10	0	0
Ravi Teja	lbw b Malinga	9	9	1	0
RP Singh	c Jayasuriya b Harbhajan	4	4	0	0
Edwards	b Malinga	1	3	0	0
Ojha	Not Out	0	2	0	0
Extras	(b 2, lb 7, w 5)	14	-	-	-
Total	for 9 wkts in 20 overs	168	-	-	-

Fall of Wickets: 1-63 (Gilchrist, 6.5 ov), 2-124 (Smith, 12.5 ov), 3-136 (Sharma, 14.4 ov), 4-137 (Laxman, 14.6 ov), 5-141 (Gibbs, 15.4 ov), 6-156 (Venugopal Rao, 17.4 ov), 7-161 (Singh, 18.4 ov), 8-163 (Edwards, 19.2 ov), 9-168 (Ravi Teja, 19.6 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Edwards	4	0	27	2
RP Singh	4	0	27	2
Harmeet Singh	1	0	19	0
DR Smith	2	0	15	0
Ojha	4	0	21	3
Rohit Sharma	1	0	8	0
Venugopal	4	0	33	0

Mumbai Indian Innings:

Batsman	How Out	Runs	Balls	4s	6s
Jayasuriya	c Gilchrist b RP Singh	1	8	0	0
Tendulkar	c Gibbs b Ojha	36	27	3	2
Duminy	c D Smith b Ojha	47	40	4	2
Dhawan	b Ojha	3	7	0	0
Bravo	lbw b Edwards	21	18	2	0
Nayar	c Gilchrist b Harbhajan	10	6	0	1
Harbhajan	c D Smith b RP Singh	20	8	1	2
Z Khan	Not Out	4	6	0	0
PR Shah	Not Out	1	1	0	0
Extras	(lb 6, w 6, nb 1)	13	-	-	-
Total	for 7 wkts in 20 overs	156	-	-	-

Fall of Wickets: 1-4 (Jayasuriya, 1.4 ov), 2-86 (Tendulkar, 10.5 ov), 3-92 (Dhawan, 12.3 ov), 4-105 (Duminy, 14.3 ov), 5-120 (Nayar, 16.2 ov), 6-144 (Bravo, 18.2 ov), 7-154 (Harbhajan Singh, 19.3 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W
S Akhtar	7	1	32	0
Umar Gul	10	0	51	1
I Anjum	9	0	32	0
S Afridi	10	0	38	2
S Ajmal	7	0	37	1
S Malik	2.1	0	14	0

Match 54: Chennai Enter Semi finals! Mumbai Out!

In the crucial do or die situation, Chennai Super Kings today beat Deccan Chargers and stormed into the semi finals. With this victory, Chennai has went to third place behind Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI. The last position is occupied by Delhi Daredevils.

Mumbai has one more match to be played against Bangalore Royal Challengers, which is insignificant to both the teams in terms of qualifying for the semi-finals.

Deciding to bat first, Deccan Chargers started their innings slowly. They lost Gibbs in the 3rd over, trying to cut it over point, he was caught at third man for the second time.

Gilchrist trying to slog was also caught at third man in the next over. End of 10 overs, Deccan were 57 for 2.

Styris was bowled by Muralitharan for 20 in the 11th over. Venugopal Rao played his usual agressive innings. He started little slow because of the fall of 3 wickets in 11 overs for 57 with just 57 on board.

The 14th over bowled by Balaji gave momentum to Deccan Chargers. Venugopal hit him for a six over extra cover. Teja hit a four of the last ball to score 14 runs in that over and take the score to 85 for 3 at the end of 14 overs.

The 15th and 16th over added 8 and 11 runs respectively. End of 16 overs, Deccan Chargers were 104 for 3.

The 18th over by Balaji added 15 to Deccan's total including a six and four by Teja.

Chennai is known for hat-trick now. It recorded a team hat-trick with Teja getting out in the 3rd ball off Morkel caught by Mukund. The next ball was a run out of Venugopal Rao. Going for the second run, he was short by a milli-metre. Yadav was bowled in the next ball, losing his leg stump. Three balls, three wickets.

But, RP Singh hit a six of the last ball in the 19th over which took the score to 140 for 6. The last over by Balaji added 7 to the total with 2 wickets to his credit. Deccan Charges finished their 20 overs with 147 for 8.

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Chennai started well with a 26-run first wicket partnership. Fleming trying to square cut the ball, was caught behind of a thick outside edge of Vijaykumar.

At the end of power play, Chennai were cruising well with 44 for 1. Patel and Raina added 34 for the 2nd wicket in 31 balls.

Patel was caught at extra covers off Sarvesh Kumar by Shahid Afridi for 20. Dhoni promoted himself up the order one more time and he played sensibly. Dhoni was dropped the first ball he faced by Sarvesh Kumar on his own bowling and it went for a four. The next ball took outside edge and went for another four, Dhoni 8 off 2 balls.

When the score was on 115 in 15.1 overs, Dhoni tried to attack Ojha and went over long on, but was caught by Gibbs. He scored 37 off 25 balls with 4 fours and a six. Though the intention was right, but it put pressure on Morkel and Raina in the next few overs.

Last 4 overs required 31 runs. Styris bowled a very good over and Chennai scored just 3 runs.

28 required of 18 balls. Ohja's over added 11 to the total including a boundary over mid wicket. Equation reduced to 17 of 12 balls.

The caught and bowled chance was missed by RP Singh of the first ball. It bounced from his hand and went to mid on and the fielder had enough time to hit the stumps and he missed it. Two chances in one ball to send Raina to pavilion missed.

Three runs were scored in the next ball. The boundary was saved in the point. The fourth ball took the inside edge of Morkel and went to fine leg boundary.

Last over required 7 runs and Vijaykumar had the ball. The first ball was a single by Morkel and the next ball was a huge six over long on by Raina to give victory and semi-final birth to Chennai. It means, Mumbai has no more chance of entering semi-finals. With that winning six, Raina reached his 50 in 43 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. He was rightly declared man of the match.

Match 54
Venue: Hyderabad
Date: May 27, 2008
Teams: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings
Captains: Adam Gilchrist and Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Toss: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers and decided to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 7 wickets with 4 balls remaining
Man of the Match: Suresh Raina off Chennai Super Kings (India)
Points: Chennai Super Kings-2; Hyderabad Deccan Chargers-0
Score:

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers 147 for 8 in 20 overs (AC Gilchrist 5, HH Gibbs 8, SB Styris 20, Y Venugopal Rao 46, DB Ravi Teja 40, Shahid Afridi 1, AS Yadav 0, RP Singh 10, PP Ojha 1 not out, Extras-16 (b 1, lb 8, wide 7), M Ntini 4-0-24-1, M Gony 4-0-21-1, JA Morkel 4-0-37-2, M Muralitharan 4-0-22-1, L Balaji 4-0-34-2) lost to Chennai Super Kings 148 for 3 in 19.2 overs (PA Patel 20, SP Fleming 14, SK Raina 54 not out, MS Dhoni 37, JA Morkel 12 not out, NK Patel 40 not out, Extras-11 (lb 3, wide 8), RP Singh 4-0-32-0, DP Vijaykumar 3.2-0-32-1, Shahid Afridi 3-0-19-0, PM Sarvesh Kumar 2-0-18-1, PP Ojha 4-0-28-1, SB Styris 3-0-16-0)

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Match 26: Deccan's 2nd Win beating Chennai!

What happened to Dhoni? Why is he not learning the positives and negatives from the previous losses? The Chennai super Kings have given a hopes to Deccan Chargers and now more pressure on Dhoni to win the remaining matches.

Put into bat, once gain the top order failed. Patel wanted to hit from the first over itself--may be using the tactics of attacking the bowler before he does it. He failed once more time, caught by RP Singh, a well run catch off Vijaykumar.

Anirudha Srikanth, appearing for the first time, couldn't handle the pressure. He faced 7 balls for his 1 run and fell for the pressure. He stepped out and tried to pull the short ball. But, he hit from the top of the batch, which went in air like a lolly pop.

Fleming looked like he was coming to form, but fell to a good jumping catch by Rohit Sharm at covers of Styris.

Badrinath came in and was briliantly caught by Gibbs at point. It was a wide and short deliery by Afridi. He chased it and tried to steer it between point and third man, but it went in the air towards left of Gibbs. He dived and grabbed the ball, though looked easy, it was a good catch. At this stage, Chennai were 43 for 4 in 6.5 overs.

Raina and Dhoni added 39 for the 5th wicket off 40 balls. Raina was out off a low full toss, which he hit straight to Rohit Sharma at extra cover, an easy catch to end his innings at 32 off 21 balls with 5 fours.

Dhoni fell in the next over, trying to sweep Ojha. He was struggling against Ojha already and he tried sweep the ball pitched outside leg stump. The ball hit gloves, and the back of the bat and flew to short third man where Afridi took one of the simplest catches. He scored 23 off 31 balls with just 2 fours. Chennai was struggling at 86 for 6 in 15 overs.

It was Morkel who lighted the Chennai innings. He hit a four and 2 sixes in his 29 not out off 19 balls. Joginder Singh contributed 16 off 10 balls with a six and a four. He was bowled in the 19th over in which only 3 runs were scored.

The last over cold have been a turning point, if Chennai had bowled well. Gony hit two sixes and a four to finish the last over with 17 runs and Chennai ended their innings with 144 on the board.

RP Singh took 2 wickets in his 3 overs giving away just 12 runs.

Chasing a moderate score is alwyas kind of 50-50. You lose two quick wickets or score low runs in couple of hours, it turns the match. Though the first two overs did not go well for Deccan Chargers--4 for no loss, Gibbs opened it up and Gilchrist took it from there! Gibbs stepped out and hit Ntini for a six over covers.

Morkel's over had two boundaries from Gilchrist. The change of end for Gony worked when he dismissed Gibbs caught and bowled for 10.

In the next over, Gilly hit Ntini for 2 sixes and a four in the 6th over. Both Gilly and Styris played sensibly with Gilly scoring at high speed in one end.

Gilly reached his 50 off 34 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. In the 10th over, Gilly played his favorite shot, a slashing cut towards point, flying like a bullet, where Badrinath took a good catch. He was out for 54 off 36 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes.

Rohit Sharma, took his orange cap again for going beyond Shewag. He added 47 along with Styris, in which he scored 23 off 17 balls with 2 fours and a six. He was trying to finish the game faster, but did not read the doosra from Muralitharan. The ball went up in the air and Badrinath accepted it easily. That was too late for Chennai to get a wicket. The score was 125 for 2 in 16.1 overs.

Deccan Chargers needed 20 runs from 4 overs with 8 wickets in hand--a sure win. With Muralitharan completing his spell of 4 overs with 1 for 24, there was no specialist bowler to contain the Deccan Chargers. The last three overs needed 18.

Afridi, the usual destructor finished scoring all the 18 runs in one over of Joginder Sharma by hitting two sixes and two fours--six, four, six, four.

Gilly was rightly chosen for the man of the match award.

This is the 2nd win for Deccan Chargers and 3rd continuous loss for Chennai Super Kings.

Match 26
Venue: Chennai
Date: May 6, 2008
Teams: Chennai Super Kings and Hyderabad Deccan Chargers
Captains: Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Adam Gilchrist
Toss: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers and decided to field
Result: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers won by 7 wickets with 12 balls remaining
Man of the Match: AC Gilchrist off Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (Australia)
Points: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers-2; Chennai Super Kings-0
Score:
Chennai Super Kings 144 for 7 in 20 overs (PA Patel 4, SP Fleming 14, S Anirudha 1, SK Raina 32, S Badrinath 0, MS Dhoni 23, JA Morkel 29 not out, Joginder Sharma 16, M Gony 15 not out, Extras—10 (lb 6, wide 4), DP Vijaykumar 3-0-17-1, RP Singh 3-0-12-2, SB Styris 3-0-24-1, Shahid Afridi 3-0-27-1, SB Bangar 4-0-36-1, PP Ojha 4-0-22-1) lost to Hyderabad Deccan Chargers 148 for 3 in 18 overs (AC Gilchrist 54, HH Gibbs 10, SB Styris 36 not out, RG Sharma 23, Shahid Afridi 20 not out, Extras-5 (lb 1, wide 2, nb 2), M Ntini 4-0-37-0, M Gony 3-0-15-0, JA Morkel 4-0-26-1, Joginder Sharma 3-0-45-0, M Muralitharan 4-0-24-1)