Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils, IPL
Delhi secure much-needed win
May 19, 2008
Delhi Daredevils 158 for 5 (Sehwag 47, Kumble 2-18) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 154 for 7 (Goswami 52, Misbah 47*) by five wickets
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How they were out
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Bangalore Royal Challengers are out of contention for a spot in the semi-finals following a five-wicket defeat at the hands of the Delhi Daredevils.
Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag's 90-run opening stand took the game away from Bangalore. Their pace was furious and their shots full-blooded as they careened towards the target. Though Delhi suffered a few scares after the two openers fell, as Bangalore bowled intelligently and fielded accurately, they recovered in time to keep their semi-final hopes alive.
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20 overs Bangalore Royal Challengers 154 for 7 (Goswami 52, Misbah 47*, McGrath 2-15) v Delhi Daredevils
A classy bowling effort from the Delhi Daredevils prevented the Bangalore Royal Challengers from setting a more competitive total than 154. Shreevats Goswami played an entertaining debut innings and was chiefly responsible for Bangalore's total that was boosted by Misbah-ul-Haq taking 24 runs in final over.
Among the first four batsmen to be dismissed, only Goswami fell while going for the runs. The rest were wickets set up by the bowlers. Glenn McGrath, who conceded only nine runs in his first spell, was visibly irritated after opener Bharat Chipli was not given out to an apparent edge when he was on two.
In his next over, McGrath first had him play and miss outside off, then bowled a short one that Chipli half-wanted to hook, followed it with a back-of-length delivery that he cut to point and finally served up another short one that Chipli pulled and edged to Rajat Bhatia, who ran backwards and caught the ball after falling and nearly going head over heels.
Jacques Kallis, the eighth opener Bangalore have tried so far, was caught behind off Farveez Maharoof's first ball - full and wide. Rahul Dravid soon followed, bowled off a quicker delivery by offspinner Tillakaratne Dilshan.
Goswami, like the right-handed Rajasthan opener Swapnil Asnodkar, packs in quite a lot of fireworks in his small frame. He was cramped for room by Maharoof when he got to the crease, but broke loose in the next over by Pradeep Sangwan - pulling him for a six and a four to midwicket and then flicking another four to fine leg. But it was his late cut - which he played against Sangwan and Yo Mahesh - that oozed confidence and aggression. He waited till the last second to cut to third man and Sangwan's figures after two overs read 2-0-37-0. Goswami also tried to disconcert the bowler by either stepping out of the crease or sliding gracefully outside off stump and reached his fifty off 39 balls.
But his wicket, caught trying to pull Maharoof over midwicket, when Bangalore were at 102 in 15.1 overs caused a loss in momentum. They lost Cameron White and B Akhil to run-outs and had added only 28 runs in 23 balls before Misbah's last-over mauling.
Though this is not a must-win game for Delhi to qualify for the semi-finals, they will hope to beat the weakest side of the tournament rather than be compelled to win their final two matches against tougher opposition - Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians.
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 1 Jacques Kallis , 2 Bharat Chipli, 3 Misbah-ul-Haq, 4 Cameron White, 5, Rahul Dravid (capt) 6 Shreevats Goswami (wk), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 Vinay Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 B Akhil.
Delhi Daredevils: 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Farveez Maharoof, 8 Rajat Bhatia, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Yo Mahesh, 11 Glenn McGrath.
| Twenty20 match |  | Indian Premier League - 43rd match Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils | | 2007/08 season |
| Played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, on 19 May 2008 - day/night (20-over match) Result Delhi Daredevils won by 5 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) |
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| Bangalore Royal Challengers innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| JH Kallis | c  Karthik b Maharoof | 25 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 119.04 | |||
| B Chipli | c Bhatia b McGrath | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |||
| SP Goswami | c Dilshan b Maharoof | 52 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 123.80 | ||
 | R Dravid | b Dilshan | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 81.81 | ||
| Misbah-ul-Haq | not out | 47 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 188.00 | |||
| CL White | run out (Maharoof/sub [Shoaib Malik]/Karthik) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |||
| B Akhil | run out (Sehwag/Maharoof) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |||
| P Kumar | b McGrath | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |||
| Z Khan | not out | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 400.00 | |||
| Extras | (w 9) | 9 | |||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 20 overs) | 154 | (7.70 runs per over) | ||||||
| Did not bat A Kumble, DW Steyn |
| Fall of wickets1-31 (Chipli, 4.5 ov), 2-41 (Kallis, 6.1 ov), 3-73 (Dravid, 10.6 ov), 4-102 (Goswami, 15.1 ov), 5-105 (White, 15.6 ov), 6-122 (Akhil, 17.4 ov), 7-126 (Kumar, 18.5 ov) |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| GD McGrath | 4 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 3.75 | (1w) | |
| P Sangwan | 3 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 17.00 | (3w) | |
| VY Mahesh | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 6.25 | (1w) | |
| MF Maharoof | 4 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 3.25 | ||
| R Bhatia | 4 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 11.75 | ||
| TM Dilshan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.00 |
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| Delhi Daredevils innings (target: 155 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| G Gambhir | run out (White/Goswami) | 39 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 125.80 | |||
| V Sehwag | c Chipli b Kumar | 47 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 247.36 | ||
| AB de Villiers | c Goswami b Steyn | 21 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 84.00 | |||
| TM Dilshan | st Goswami b Kumble | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |||
| S Dhawan | not out | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 123.07 | |||
| KD Karthik | c White b Kumble | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 150.00 | ||
| MF Maharoof | not out | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 162.50 | |||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 6, w 5) | 12 | |||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 18.2 overs) | 158 | (8.61 runs per over) | ||||||
| Did not bat R Bhatia, VY Mahesh, P Sangwan, GD McGrath |
| Fall of wickets1-90 (Sehwag, 6.6 ov), 2-100 (Gambhir, 8.6 ov), 3-121 (Dilshan, 13.4 ov), 4-123 (de Villiers, 14.2 ov), 5-132 (Karthik, 15.3 ov) |
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| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| DW Steyn | 4 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 6.50 | ||
| Z Khan | 3 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 12.33 | (1w) | |
| P Kumar | 2 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 16.50 | ||
| JH Kallis | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 | ||
| B Akhil | 3.2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 6.30 | ||
| A Kumble | 4 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 4.50 |
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Toss Delhi Daredevils, who chose to field first
Points Delhi Daredevils 2, Bangalore Royal Challengers 0
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