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Meanwhile, Mahela Jayawardene’s solid 55 helped Kochi Tuskers to a 17-run win against Kolkata Knight Riders. Sehwag’s knock helped Delhi score 179-6 in 19 overs to overcome Deccan’s challenging 175-5. In the standings, Delhi jumped to seventh, one above Deccan. Mid-table Kochi prevented Kolkata from topping the standings. Sehwag, the Delhi captain, bludgeoned his way with a strike rate hovering around 200 almost through his innings. Lucky to be dropped twice off legspinner Amit Mishra, Sehwag decimated the attack with six sixes and 13 fours, once plundering 23 runs off an over from medium-pacer Ishan Malhotra. “I was telling my boys that if one of us stays for 15-16 overs we can win the match,” Sehwag said. “I knew that they did not have a good fifth bowler and so we could always get the runs.” Sehwag registered the fourth highest individual score in four IPLs before he was out caught behind trying to cut a delivery from South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn with only 23 needed to complete the win. None of the other four batsmen in the top five of the Delhi lineup touched double figures. James Hopes (17 not out) and Irfan Pathan (12) chipped in with useful scores toward the end. For Deccan, South Africa allrounder JP Duminy struck 55 off 31 balls with fours sixes and two fours, while captain Kumar Sangakkara knocked up 44 off 36 balls with eight fours. Earlier, Kochi scored 156-5 and restricted Kolkata to 139-7 to move up to fifth. Asked to bat first, Kochi’s innings was steadied by Jayawardene and received a scoring burst toward the end from Brad Hodge. “(Kolkata) was a tough team and it was an important game for us,” Jayawardene said. “We needed to win this game, especially as it was our last one at Kochi.” Jayawardene struck two sixes and two fours off 41 deliveries. He added 38 runs with Hodge before he was run out with a throw from the deep while trying to complete a second run. Hodge struck two sixes and three fours off 19 balls, with Australian speedster Brett Lee suffering the ignominy of being struck for 22 runs in the last over of the innings. Kolkata got off to a solid start with Eoin Morgan and Jacques Kallis combining to open with 69, but couldn’t regain the momentum after Raiphi Gomez (2-14) removed Kallis and captain Gautam Gambhir off successive deliveries. Morgan struck two sixes and eight fours off 51 deliveries for his 66, while Kallis hit five fours in his 41-ball 45.
SCOREBOARD
Deccan Chargers:
Shikhar Dhawan c Salvi b Agarkar 29
Dwarka Ravi Teja c Ojha b Salvi 2
Kumar Sangakkara c Sehwag b Hopes 44
Jean-Paul Duminy run out (Agarkar/Ojha) 55
Daniel Christian not out 27
Bharat Chipli c Finch b Agarkar 1
Ishan Malhotra not out 7
Extras (lb 4, w 4, nb 2): 10
Total (for five wickets in 20 overs): 175
Fall of wickets 1-19 (Ravi Teja, 2.5 overs), 2-58 (Dhawan, 8.5), 3-87 (Sangakkara, 11.6), 4-158 (Duminy, 17.3), 5-161 (Chipli, 18.2)
Bowling:
Morne Morkel 4-0-37-0
Irfan Pathan 3-0-18-0
Aavishkar Salvi 4-0-26-1
Ajit Agarkar 4-0-29-2
James Hopes 3-0-29-1
Y Venugopal Rao 1-0-12-0
Yogesh Nagar 1-0-20-0
Delhi Daredevils:
Aaron Finch c Christian b Steyn 0
Virender Sehwag c Sangakkara b Steyn 119
Naman Ojha c Sangakkara b Sharma 7
Y Venugopal Rao c Duminy b Sharma 3
Travis Birt b Christian 4
Irfan Pathan st Sangakkara b Mishra 12
James Hopes not out 17
Yogesh Nagar not out 7
Extras (lb 1, w 8, nb 1): 10
Total (for six wickets in 19 overs): 179
Fall of wickets 1-0 (Finch, 0.2 overs), 2-15 (Ojha, 3.2), 3-25 (Venugopal Rao, 5.4), 4-86 (Birt, 10.2), 5-153 (Sehwag, 16.2), 6-168 (Pathan, 17.5)
Bowling:
Dale Steyn 4-0-24-2
Ishant Sharma 4-0-16-2
Daniel Christian 4-0-31-1
Ishan Malhotra 1-0-23-0
Amit Mishra 4-0-53-1
Bharat Chipli 1-0-20-0
Jean-Paul Duminy 1-0-11-0
Match details
Toss: Delhi Daredevils, who chose to field
Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pakistan) and Amiesh Saheba (India)
TV umpire: Suresh Shastri (India)
Match referee: Graeme Labrooy (Sri Lanka)
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