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. 

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.