Don’t judge a team by its Sreesanth

 Here is a funny article about the Sreesanth phenomenon

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=59&contentid=20110429201104290312565713246a96b

Girlfriend or no girlfriend Sreesanth is an improved bowler now

  After the horrors of  worldcup final and first IPL match for Kochi Tuskers in which he was thrashed all around the park, he has made a strong comeback.  In today's match against Delhi Daredevils he had the bowling figures of 2 for 10 in 4 overs.  He took the wickets of Delhi openers David Warner and Naman Ojha in his first over.  An economy rate of 2.5 is unbelievable in twenty twenty cricket. Even though  he was wicketless in the match against Deccan Chargers he had bowled brilliantly in the opening spell. He had a maiden over.  Finally he had to settle for an economy rate of 5.5 due to some late hitting by Chargers.

      But his performances were not enough to bring victory to his team.

Kochi Tuskers suffers third defeat in a row

 Virender Sehwag hit a quick fire 80 off 47 balls which included 8 fours and 5 sixes as Delhi Daredevils scored a 38-run win over Kochi Tuskers Kerala   in Kochi on Saturday.   Delhi scored 157 for seven after electing to bat on a  bowler friendly pitch, which had uneven bounce.  Delhi were 35 for 3 in 6.2 overs, but Sehwag played a captain's innings.  
                                       S. Sreesanth was Kochi's most successful bowler with figures of  2 for 10 in 4 overs.   David Warner and Naman Ojha  were his victims. 


                        In its reply Kochi lost quick wickets at the top order to brilliant bowling by Irfan Pathan and Morne Morkel.  Kochi were  3/28  in 4.3 overs.   There after KTK lost wickets at regular intervals.  Hodge and Jadeja were the only batsmen to score more than 25.   Delhi pace trio of Pathan, Morkel and Agarkar took   seven wickets.  Spinner Roelof van der Merwe who took 3 wickets in 5 balls in  the 19th  over  sealed the fate of Kochi.  The hosts were bowled out for 119 in 18.5 overs.

Delhi Daredevils 157/7 (20/20 ov)

Kochi Tuskers Kerala 119 (18.5/20 ov)

Delhi Daredevils won by 38 runs

• Indian Premier League - 36th match
• Twenty20 match | 2011 season
• Played at Nehru Stadium, Kochi
• 30 April 2011 - day/night (20-over match)

	Delhi Daredevils innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	DA Warner	b Sreesanth	3	7	0	0	42.85
	V Sehwag*	c Hodge b Vinay Kumar	80	47	8	5	170.21
	NV Ojha†	lbw b Sreesanth	0	3	0	0	0.00
	Y Venugopal Rao	lbw b Jadeja	1	10	0	0	10.00
	Y Nagar	run out (Jadeja/†Patel)	22	30	1	0	73.33
	TR Birt	c Vinay Kumar b Powar	20	13	2	1	153.84
	IK Pathan	run out (Singh)	13	7	1	1	185.71
	RE van der Merwe	not out	2	4	0	0	50.00
	Extras	(lb 8, w 6, nb 2)	16
	Total	(7 wickets; 20 overs)	157	(7.85 runs per over)

Did not bat M Morkel, AB Agarkar, U Yadav

Fall of wickets1-4 (Warner, 1.1 ov), 2-4 (Ojha, 1.4 ov), 3-35 (Venugopal Rao, 6.2 ov),  4-91 (Nagar, 14.4 ov),5-132 (Sehwag, 17.5 ov), 6-145 (Birt, 18.4 ov), 7-157 (Pathan, 19.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	RP Singh	4	0	29	0	7.25	(1w)
	S Sreesanth	4	1	10	2	2.50	(2w)
	RA Jadeja	4	0	27	1	6.75	(1w)
	R Vinay Kumar	4	0	41	1	10.25
	B Akhil	2	0	22	0	11.00	(1nb)
	RR Powar	2	0	20	1	10.00

	Kochi Tuskers Kerala innings (target: 158 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	BB McCullum	b Pathan	7	7	1	0	100.00
	M Klinger	c van der Merwe b Morkel	2	6	0	0	33.33
	PA Patel†	b Pathan	1	3	0	0	33.33
	DPMD Jayawardene*	c Sehwag b Agarkar	18	28	2	0	64.28
	BJ Hodge	c †Ojha b Morkel	27	25	3	0	108.00
	RA Jadeja	c van der Merwe b Agarkar	31	22	3	1	140.90
	B Akhil	c †Ojha b Morkel	13	9	0	1	144.44
	R Vinay Kumar	c Yadav b van der Merwe	11	9	0	1	122.22
	RR Powar	b van der Merwe	0	1	0	0	0.00
	S Sreesanth	b van der Merwe	0	2	0	0	0.00
	RP Singh	not out	1	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 1, w 5)	8
	Total	(all out; 18.5 overs)	119	(6.31 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-10 (Klinger, 1.6 ov), 2-15 (McCullum, 2.1 ov), 3-28 (Patel, 4.3 ov),  4-50 (Jayawardene, 9.4 ov),5-77 (Hodge, 13.1 ov), 6-93 (Akhil, 15.2 ov), 7-118 (Jadeja, 17.6 ov), 8-118 (Powar, 18.1 ov),  9-118 (Sreesanth, 18.3 ov),10-119 (Vinay Kumar, 18.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	IK Pathan	4	0	27	2	6.75	(1w)
	M Morkel	4	0	18	3	4.50
	U Yadav	3	0	28	0	9.33
	AB Agarkar	4	0	23	2	5.75
	RE van der Merwe	3.5	0	20	3	5.21

Match details

Toss Delhi Daredevils, who chose to bat Points Delhi Daredevils 2, Kochi Tuskers Kerala 0

Player of the match V Sehwag (Delhi Daredevils)

Umpires HDPK Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and AL Hill (New Zealand) TV umpire K Hariharan Match referee Satayabrata Mukherjee Reserve umpire KN Ananthapadmanabhan

                              Former RCB player Balachandra Akhil  and Australian player Michael Klinger played their first match for KTK today.