Today’s Match Details – Delhi Daredevils vs Pune Warriors
Match -27 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Date – Apr 21, 2012
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Toss – Delhi Daredevils elected to field
Result – Pune won by 20 runs
Man of the match: S Ganguly

Today in the 27th match of DLF IPL 2012, Pune Warriors got a superb 20 run victory over Delhi Daredevils thanks to superb all round performance by Saurav Ganguly and fine batting display by J Ryder and Smith.

Earlier, Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first. R Uthappa and J Ryder opened the innings for Pune but Delhi got their first breakthrough in the 4th over when they got the wicket of R Uthappa. S Ganguly was the next to come in and he along with J Ryder played superbly and the duo added 93 runs for the second wicket partnership. Ryder scored a brilliant 86 off 58 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes while Ganguly scored 41 off 35 balls with five fours and a six. In the end overs, it was Smith’s cameo of 34 runs off 13 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes which helped Pune post a good total of 192/3 in 20 overs.

Chasing 193 to win, Delhi lost M Jayawardene in the third over leaving them at 12/1. But Virender Sehwag and last match star K Pietersen played some good cricket to take the team score to 87 before Pietersen got out after scoring 32 off 23 balls. Irfan Pathan was promoted up the order to tackle the rapidly increasing run rate but this did not worked in Delhi’s favor as he also got out after scoring just 15. V Sehwag was the next to get out after scoring a brilliant 57 off 32 balls. This wicket gave Pune a ray of hope to come back into the match and they made the most of it restricting Delhi to 172/7 in 20 overs and thus registering a thumping win.

Match 27 IPL 2012 Delhi Daredevils vs Pune Warriors Scorecard