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Brilliant Bangalore Defeat Mumbai

Kallis and Manish Pandey (40) shared a 85-run partnership to provide Royal Challengers a perfect chase as the visitors achieved the target with five balls to spare.

Earlier, Vinay Kumar sent back Ambati Rayudu, Tendulkar who made a fluent 25 with an array of flicked and glanced fours in 22 balls - and Dwayne Bravo in his third over and Mumbai’s 11^th as the home team, seemingly on course to a formidable score, slid from 71 for two to 76 for six in a jiffy.

With lower order batsmen failing to perform, Mumbai Indian managed 151 for nine in 20 overs.

Mumbai had lost veteran Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasuriya in the second over, made a brief recovery to 36 before one-down Aditya Tare fell and then rallied through an enterprising stand between in-form batsmen Tendulkar and Saurabh Tiwary only to lose four wickets in a heap.

RCB captain Anil Kumble started the slide soon after the strategic time-out called for by the fielding side at 69 for two in nine overs. He sent back the left-handed, long-haired Tiwary for 25 in 21 balls with three fours.

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SCOREBOARD

Mumbai Indians

S Jayasuriya lbw b Steyn 2

S Tendulkar b Vinay Kumar 25

A Tare c Pandey b Kallis 9

S Tiwary b Kumble 25

A Rayudu c Boucher b Vinay Kumar 3

D Bravo lbw b Vinay Kumar 1

R Sathish c Dravid b Steyn 24

K Pollard c Kohli b Steyn 21

Harbhajan Singh c Kallis b Kumar 4

Z Khan (not out) 23

L Malinga (not out) 0

Extras: (lb-10, w-4) 14

Total: (for 9 wickets; 20 overs) 151

Fall of Wickets: 1-6 (Jayasuriya), 2-36 (Tare), 3-71 (Tiwary), 4-74 (Rayudu), 5-75 (Tendulkar), 6-76 (Bravo), 7-123 (Pollard), 8-125 (Sathish), 9-135 (Harbhajan Singh).

Bowling: P Kumar 4-0-37-1 (1w), D Steyn 4-0-26-3 (3w), J Kallis 4-0-35-1, R Vinay Kumar 4-0-25-3, A Kumble 4-0-18-1.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

J Kallis (not out) 66

M Pandey c Pollard b Harbhajan Singh 40

R Uthappa c Malinga b Khan 23

V Kohli run out (Pollard) 17

J Morgan (not out) 7

Extras: (b-1, lb-1) 2

Total: (for 3 wickets; 19.1 overs) 155

Fall of Wickets: 1-85 (Pandey), 2-116 (Uthappa), 3-136 (Kohli).

Bowling: Z Khan 4-0-18-1, L Malinga 4-0-25-0, D Bravo 3.1-0-35-0, K Pollard 2-0-24-0, Harbhajan Singh 4-0-35-1, S Jayasuriya 2-0-16-0.

Chargers on a High Against Stumbling Daredevils

cuttack — Rocked by two consecutive defeats, Delhi Daredevils face a stiff challenge of putting their campaign back on track when they take on defending champions Deccan Chargers in the IPL here on Sunday.

Deccan are coming into the match with two wins in a row while Delhi suddenly are seen struggling after a tremendous start to season-III.

Not cashing on a good start is a concern for the Delhi team, who are without injured skipper Gautam Gambhir.

The Delhi batsmen could not cross the 200-run mark, which was within their reach after Virender Sehwag’s early blitzkrieg against the Chennai Super Kings on Friday.

AB de Villiers has been a let down and he needs to fire in the middle-order if Delhi has to make a big score.

The Delhi team would also want Australia’s David Warner to contribue though scoring runs against in-form Chaminda Vaas would not be easy.

The Sri Lankan paceman is in good form and has given Deccan advantage by striking early. At least twice in the tournament, he has taken two wickets in a single over to unsettle the opponents’ innings.

Deccan spinners Pragyan Ojha and Rohit Sharma have also done well in stifling the rivals innings.

Yet again, key for Delhi would be Sehwag’s performance. They badly need him to give a solid start. The bowling was not much of a concern for Delhi so far but the severe bashing they got from Matthew Hayden on Friday may have shaken their confidence.

Except for Dirk Nannes, none of the Delhi bowlers could survive the Hayden storm as they were hit brutally all round the park by the burly Australian left-hander. And Deccan too have some really big hitters, especially their skipper Adam Gilchrist, who plays the same aggressive brand of cricket which Hayden displayed.

South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs and Australia’s Andrew Symonds are also in good nick and once they find feet they can single handedly destroy the rival team.

Delhi would look to bring back Farveez Maharoof as the experiment of playing Umesh Yadav did not work.

Spinner Amit Mishra has a big role to play in the mid-innings since Pradeep Sangwan has not been able to stop the run flow.

It will be interesting to see if Delhi persist with Rajat Bhatia or try out some other player.

Bhatia had played a good hand down the order against Chennai but could not do much with the ball.