Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 16: Pune Warriors v Delhi Daredevils"

Hi and Welcome to the Match No 16 of the IPL 2011 season between Pune Warriors and Delhi Daredevils. Pune warriors who are debuting in IPL 2011 season are doing good with two impressive wins and on other side inspite big names in Delhi Daredevils chart they are struggling to win against other teams. Lets see if Delhi Daredevils can stop the winning steak of Pune warriors.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and selected to bowl first. For Pune warriors JD Ryder and GC Smith opened the batting, for Delhi Daredevils Y Venugopal Rao opened the bowling. Pune warriors had a reasonably good start until GC Smith was out. M Manhas too went quickly after scoring 20 runs. JD Ryder on other hand took it on him and hit 5 glorious sixes and took Pune warriors to nearly 100 of the first 10 overs. Once he was out for 60 to S Nadeem, Yuvraj Singh took it on from where JD Ryder left it. Inspite of not much support from other end Yuvraj Singh kept on scoring runs and took Pune warriors to a fanstastic score of 187 for the loss of 5 wickets in their 20 overs. For Pune warriors Yuvraj singh scored 66* and JD Ryder scored 60, for Delhi Daredevils AB Dinda and S Nadeem took 2 wickets a piece.

In Reply Delhi Daredevils opened the batting with DA Warner and V Sehwag, for Pune warriors AC Thomas opened the bowling. Delhi Daredevils had a superb start when both DA Warner and V Sehwag blasted the pune warriors bowlers to all parts of the ground. Delhi where 75 for no loss in the first 7 overs. Once DA Warner and V Sehwag where out in quick succession Delhi Daredevils lost the momentum and started loosing wickets. Yuvraj singh was the main destroyer in the middle of the innings. Y Venugopal Rao and AJ Finch played some blinders in the end and took the match from the clutches of Pune warriors. Yuvraj Singh struck twice and took out the wickets of both Y Venugopal Rao and AJ Finch. JR Hopes coolly finished things off with two big hits and took Delhi Daredevils home with 3 wickets in hand. For Delhi Daredevils DA Warner scored 46 and V Sehwag scored 37, for Pune warriors Yuvraj Singh took 4 wickets.

Man of the Match is Yuvraj Singh for his allround performance of 66* runs and 4/29 bowling.

Score : Delhi Daredevils 190 for 7 (DA Warner 46, V Sehwag 37, Yuvraj Singh 4/29) beat Pune Warriors 187 for 5 (JD Ryder 60, Yuvraj Singh 66*, S Nadeem 2/39) by three wickets

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 7: Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils"

Hi and Welcome to the 7th match of the IPL 2011 Season between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Daredevils. Rajasthan Royals are on a high after their win in their first match and on other hand Delhi Daredevils want to put behind thier loss to Pune warriors and get a move on. Lets see what is the outcome of this intense battle.

Delhi Daredevils won the toss and opted to bat first. Delhi Daredevils Opened the batting with DA Warner and V Sehwag, for Rajasthan Royals bowling was opened by SW Tait and A singh. Delhi Daredevils lost V Sehwag in the very first over to SW Tait, this triggered a mini collapse and in no time Delhi where 36 in 7.3 overs for the loss of 4 wickets. DA Warner and Y Venugopal Rao scored 83 runs of 10 overs to revive Delhi Daredevils and with that Delhi Daredevils scored 151 in 20 overs for the loss of 6 wickets. For Delhi Daredevils DA Warner scored 54 and Y Venugopal Rao scored 60, for Rajasthan Royals SW Tait and SK Warne took two wickets each.

In reply Rajasthan Royals lost AG Paunikar early, but R Dravid and J Botha played sensibly and moved the score board on. R Dravid fell for a well played 38 and J Botha stood on one side and played a standing knock and allowed others to play the strokes. J botha stood undefeated till the end with 39 and made sure Rajasthan Royals where home with more than a over to spare. For Rajasthan royals J botha scored 39* and R Dravid 38, for Delhi Daredevils AB Dinda, M Morkel, IK Pathan and RE van der Merwe took a wicket a piece.


Man of the Match was given to SK Warne for his 2 crucial wickets

Score : Rajasthan Royals 152 for 4 (J Botha 39*, R Dravid 38, M Morkel 1/11) beat Delhi Daredevils 151 for 6 (Y Venugopal Rao 60, DA Warner 54, SK Warne 2/17, SW Tait 2/40) by six wickets