Deccan Chargers again caused an upset today in the 26th match of DLF -IPL by defeating one of the strongest team ie Chennai Super Kings. Chasing a small target of 145, Gibbs and Gilchrist opened the innings and took the score to 24 when Manpreet Goni got rid of Gibbs. Gilchrist on the other end was simply fierce and was hitting the ball with atmost power. He scored 54 of just 36 balls and thus laid a solid platform for Deccan Chargers. Gilly was the captain for today’s match due to an injury to Laxman and he really played a captain’s knock. When he got out, Rohit Sharma came to bat who along with Scott Styris scored freely and took the score past 100. Deccan Chargers needed run a ball and the game was in the control. With a huge hit to the fence, Rohit began the highest run getter in the tournament and thus bagged the orange cap from Sehwag.When Rohit got out,Afridi came to the center and ended the match with two sixes and two fours in the favor of Deccan Chargers.

Today – Match 26th – Scorecard – Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers

In the 26th match of DLF – Indian Premier League, Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field first. Deccan Chargers bowlers could not have asked for more as they continued to get wickets at regular intervals of time. The very first wicket fell in the first over as Parthiv Patel was out for 4. Soon Shrikanth got out trying to play a pull and completely mistimed it. The next to go was the experienced Kiwi batsmen Stephen Fleming. The score of Chennai Super Kings had not even crossed 50 and they had lost 4 crucial wickets.Raina and Dhoni then started to build a partnership but they scored at a very slow run rate as compared to T20 standards. In the process of increasing the run rate both of these fell and the score was 86/6 in 15 overs.Albie Morkel hit some shots and hit a huge six out of the stadium. In the last over it was Manpreet Gony and Morkel who scored 20 runs to take the the Chennai Super Kings to 144 /7 runs in 20 overs.

Now its upto the bowlers of Chennai Super Kings to prevent one more upset in the already so much twisted Manoranjan Ka Baap – DLF Indian Premier League.

Today – Match 26th – Scorecard – Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers

Chennai Super Kings (probables): 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Stephen Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 S Vidyut, 5 Albie Morkel, 6 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 7 S Badrinath, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Manpreet Gony, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Makhaya Ntini

Deccan Chargers (probables): 1 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 2 VVS Laxman (capt), 3 Scott Styris, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Chamara Silva, 7 Arjun Yadav, 8 Sanjay Bangar, 9 RP Singh, 10 P Vijaykumar, 11 Pragyan Ojha

VVS says: “We have lost a few very close matches after being in winning situations. Super Kings have lost two games no doubt, but we have lost five. So, that makes us even more determined than them to win tomorrow,” Laxman told reporters in a pre-match press conference.

Match Details :

Date – May 6, 2008 26th Match
Venue – M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
20:00 India time.
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The poor run of Royal Challengers Bangalore ended today and they won today’s match by 3 runs. Chasing the target of 157  Deccan Chargers lost Gilly and Gibbs at team score of 31. Very very special Laxman played the captains knock and was firm on one end. Rohit Sharma came to the center and got into a decent partnership with Laxman. Rohit Sharma and V.V.S.Laxman both scored half centuries and with this half century, Rohit Sharma became the highest run getter in the Indian Premier League and thus will wear the orange cap now. They needed 42 runs in the last 4 overs. Kallis was the bowler and Sharma hit the 1st ball for a four and the second for a six.In an effort to hit one more six, Rohit Sharma got out after having a partnership of 96 with Laxman.Afridi was the one who came after the dismissal of Sharma and Deccan Chargers needed 29 runs in 18 balls.Afridi was out for 1 and it looked that Royal Challengers are back again in the game.Wickets were falling continuously and the main stay Laxman was also out leaving the team in  need of 25 runs from 2 overs. Zaheer got Styris in the second last over and bowled an excellent line. Deccan Chargers needed 20 runs in the last over and that proved to be too much for them. Deccan Chargers could not capitalize on the innings of Laxman and Rohit Sharma and lost a match which was almost in their favor. Kumble was hit for 2 sixes and Deccan Chargers needed 5 off the last bowl but they could not score it and thus Royal Challengers Bangalore Won By 3 Runs.It was a match which witnessed  changing fortunes in the last 5 overs. Earlier it looked that Deccan Chargers would easily win the match but some excellent bowling by Royal Challengers Bangalore assured the win.

Today – Match 21 – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers

In the match number 21 of DLF – IPL, Royal Challengers had to play against Deccan Chargers. Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field first. They got an initial breakthrough when Royal Challengers had just scored 13 runs in form of Chipli. But then Jaffer and Kohli played good shots and took the score to 85. Jaffer got out at this score. Kallis was the next to go without doing much.Misbah who is said to be the T20 special also came and without doing much was sent back by the pakistani counterpart Shahid Afridi. Kallis, Virat Kohli and Misbah got out in quick succession and it looked that Royal Challengers are again in some serious problems. But Rahul Dravid played some good shots and took the score to 156 in 20 overs. He hit 2 sixes in the last over before perishing on the last ball of the innings.Much was expected from Boucher and Misbah but both failed. Now its the turn of Royal Challenger bowlers to make a match out of it.

Today – Match 21 – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers