Rajasthan Royals beat Delhi Daredevils by five wickets

Yusuf Pathan hammered an unbeaten 61 off 30 balls as Rajasthan Royals beat Delhi Daredevils by five wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match.

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Published: Tue 28 Apr 2009, 8:11 PM

Last updated: Thu 2 Apr 2015, 8:48 AM

Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag won the toss and elected to bat against Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match. But the Royals have managed to restrict the opponents to a gettable score.

Yusuf wins his second game for Royals in this season. After 17 overs, Delhi had scored 121 runs for 5. And a blitzkreig from Yusuf has taken Rajasthan to 127 for 5 wickets with the last two overs producing 31 runs out of which Yusuf has scored 21 runs off the 7 bowls he has faced.

It was a splendid match right from the start. Delhi did not get off to a good start as they lost Gouti and Viru early.

Delhi Daredevils: Have won all 3 matches played so far, without a major contribution from Gautam Gambhir and with just one cameo from Sehwag. With AB de Villiers and Dilshan in cracking form, Delhi has been able to afford the poor scores from its opening batsmen. However, it is just a matter of time before they fire, and when they do, Delhi will be hard to stop. The continuing mystery of the tournament has been their reluctance to play Glenn McGrath. His replacement, Dirk Nannes, has picked up a solitary wicket in 3 matches at an economy rate of 7.27 - hardly the figures that would prompt inclusion ahead of McGrath.

Rajasthan Royals: The team is under fire, and it hasn't helped that Graeme Smith has been out of sorts so far. He is the one man capable of taking the game by the scruff of the neck, but his lack of form is hurting Rajasthan badly. With only Yusuf Pathan hitting some form, Rajasthan need to beef up their batting. Their bowling has looked good, but even Kamran Khan and Shane Warne cannot do much if the batsmen fail to put up a decent score.


Teams:


Delhi Daredevils Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag(c), Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Mithun Manhas, Dinesh Karthik(w), Daniel Vettori, Dirk Nannes, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Manoj Kumar Tiwary, Aavishkar Salvi, Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh, Glenn McGrath, Andrew McDonald, David Warner, Farveez Maharoof, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Rajat Bhatia, Tejashwi Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar

Rajasthan Royals Graeme Smith, Swapnil Asnodkar, Tyron Henderson, Yusuf Pathan, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Ravindra Jadeja, Shane Warne(c), Mahesh Rawat(w), Abhishek Raut, Kamran Khan, Munaf Patel, Niraj Patel, Aditya Angle, Amit Singh, Atul Sharma, Gajendra Singh, Lee Carseldine, Mohammad Arif, Morne Morkel, Naman Ojha, Parag More, Paul Valthaty, Raiphi Gomez, Rob Quiney, Shane Watson, Shane Harwood, Shaun Tait, Siddharth Trivedi, Siddharth Chitnis, Sumit Khatri

Delhi Daredevils 143 for seven (A B de Villiers 50, Daniel Vettori 29; Munaf Patel 2-14, Dmitri Mascarenhas 2-28)

Rajasthan Royals 147 for five in 18.3 overs (Yusuf Pathan 61, Graeme Smith 44; Amit Mishra 3-34)


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