Kochi Tuskers thrashes Delhi Daredevils

  Kochi Tuskers beat Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets with 5 overs to spare.  Kochi's good bowling restricted Delhi  to  140/6.   Young Kerala left-arm  bowler Prasanth Parameswaran took the wicket of Virender Sehwag  very early in the innings.  He also took the wicket of Venugopal Rao in the 18th over.  Sreesanth bowled beautifully.

   Brendon McCullum gave Kochi  a rollicking start.  He scored a blistering 37 off 19 balls (5x4, 2x6).   Delhi's hapless bowler Umesh Yadav went for 23 runs in his only over. Kochi's 50 came in the 4th over.  Thereafter KTK lost 3 quick wickets. But in the end Parthiv Patel (37* off 31 balls) and Brad Hodge (24 ) guided Kochi to  an emphatic victory.  Kochi scored 141/3  in 15 overs.


  Prasanth Parameswaran was the Man of the Match.
Teams: 

Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (capt), Morne Morkel, Irfan Pathan, Travis Birt, Roelof van der Merwe, Ajit Agarkar, Y Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, Naman Ojha (wk), David Warner, Yogesh Nagar. 

Kochi Tuskers Kerala: Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Brendon McCullum, Parthiv Patel (wk), Brad Hodge, Ravindra Jadeja, Raiphi Gomez, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sreesanth, Michael Klinger, R Vinay Kumar, P Parameswaran. 

Kochin Tuskers' batting collapses

Put into bat  by Rajasthan Royals, Kochi Tuskers could manage to score only 109 from 20 overs.  Without star batsman Brendon McCullum , their batting collapsed like a pack of cards. Rajasthan bowled and fielded well under the captaincy of  Shane Warne. Shane Warne and Siddharth Trivedi took 3 wickets each.
            Parthiv Patel tops cored with 32 from 34 balls.  He was out stumped off Shane Warne while trying for an atrocious reverse sweep.

Kochi Tuskers Kerala innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	DPMD Jayawardene*	b Botha	13	13	2	0	100.00
	VVS Laxman	run out (Dravid)	8	10	1	0	80.00
	PA Patel†	st †Yagnik b Warne	32	34	2	0	94.11
	BJ Hodge	b Warne	8	14	0	0	57.14
	RA Jadeja	c & b Warne	22	23	2	0	95.65
	RV Gomez	c Watson b Trivedi	0	1	0	0	0.00
	NLTC Perera	c Binny b Trivedi	1	4	0	0	25.00
	KM Jadhav	c †Yagnik b Trivedi	5	9	0	0	55.55
	R Vinay Kumar	c Watson b Singh	5	4	1	0	125.00
	M Muralitharan	not out	5	8	0	0	62.50
	RP Singh	run out (Botha/†Yagnik)	1	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(b 2, lb 4, w 2, nb 1)	9
	Total	(all out; 20 overs)	109	(5.45 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-26 (Laxman, 3.3 ov), 2-28 (Jayawardene, 4.1 ov), 3-42 (Hodge, 7.4 ov), 4-90 (Jadeja, 15.3 ov),5-90 (Patel, 15.4 ov), 6-90 (Gomez, 16.1 ov), 7-92 (Perera, 16.6 ov), 8-98 (Vinay Kumar, 17.5 ov), 9-108 (Jadhav, 19.5 ov),10-109 (Singh, 19.6 ov)