In what was the most thrilling match of Indian Premier League, Knight Riders could hold the nerves and win the match against Deccan Chargers. Unlike the earlier matches which were mostly one sided, this match witnessed to many ups and downs. Kolkata Knight Riders had a poor start and were 21/3 in 4.2 overs and it looked like they would fell apart chasing that target. But Saurav Ganguly and David Hussey started to stabalise the innings with singles and doubles.The score reached 68 when Ohja bowled Ganguly and raised hopes for Deccan Chargers.

The match was poised evenly and Knight Riders needed run a ball. Mohammad Hafeez and David Hussey hit few shots to bring the climbing run rate down but Ohja came into attack and got the wicket of Hafeez. Knight Riders needed 22 runs in 20 balls and suddenly the lights went off to add more tension to the already prevailing match tension.

But the match resumed after few crucial minutes were lost. But it was decided that Duckworth method was not required.Hussey striked a huge six (86m) followed by a four to bring back the run rate and they required 8 to win from 12 balls.They took few singles and then it was Hussey who hit a six and thus Kolkata Knight Riders won the match.

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In one of the most awaited matches, Kolkata Knight Riders take on Deccan Chargers on Sunday. At 4 pm local time (IST) the match started with Deccan Chargers winning the toss and deciding to bat first. The decision proved not so fruitful as they lost Venugopal Rao at 21. Captain of Deccan Chargers Laxman came to bat but didn’t lasted long. The very first ball missed the stumps by inches and after facing mere 6 balls he was out and the team was reeling at 22/2 in 4.3 overs.

Now the responsibility was on the shoulders of Australian batsmen, Symonds and Gilchrist were in the center and the run rate started to improve.But just then Murli Kartik gave the final jolt when he got rid of Adam Gilchrist.Rohit Sharma came at the center but was not able to understand the ball from Kartik and was catch out by Saha. Deccan Chargers were reduced to 58/5 with the fall of Scott Styris for 6. Hussey came for bowling and and striked in his second over by tricking Arjun Yadav.It was Sanjay Bangar and Andrew Symond who provided some much needed acceleration with some power hitting but once they perished it was almost all over for Deccan chargers. They ended on 110/10 in 18.4 overs and thus the target to chase was 111 which also looked a bit hard due to the pitch which was said to be non suitable for twenty20 format

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The third match of Indian Premier League was a one sided match and Delhi Daredevils beat Rajasthan Royals convincingly by 9 Wickets. Chasing a small target of 130, Delhi DareDevils never had any problem.The Duo of Sehwag and Gambhir opened the innings and Sehvag was out when the team score was 20.

After that there was no looking back and the duo of Gambhir and Dhawan assured that Delhi DareDevils easily win the match. Both of them scored half centuries and had a partnership of 112 runs in 81 balls. Delhi Daredevils won the match by 9 Wickets in 15.1 overs.
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Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bat first. The start was not what they had expected as they lost Kohli when the team score was 17.The team had not even recovered that another jolt was given. Yousaf was run out with the team score of 27. From that onwards, Rajasthan Royals were not able to recover the initial shocks and the wickets continued to fell at regular interval. With Lehman , Kaif , Watson back to the pavilion at 57/5 it was clear that Delhi Daredevils had not too high score to chase.

A small resistant was offered by the lower middle order and they scored singles, doubles to take the score to a respectable 129 in the alloted 20 overs. One of the reason for low score was the excellent fielding of Delhi DareDevils. Two batsmen were run out and more than 20 runs were saved due to excellent fielding.

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On second day of DLF – Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings takes on Kings 11 Punjab. Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first.The decision looked good when Parthiv Patel hit three consectutive fours to Shreesant but later Brett Lee gave the initial jolt to Chennai Super Kings and soon after Mathew Hayden was bowled by Irfan Pathan. Mahinder Singh Dhoni also did not lasted long and was given LBW of Hopes.

Then it was on Hussey and Raina to sail the ship of Chennai Super Kings. They stroked some huge sixes to give some much needed thrive to the team and in 11th over 100 was crossed.Hussey was on fire as he tried to loft each ball over the boundary line and thus played a gem of an inning. Kris Srikant was seen dancing and rocking when Hussey was hammering the bowlers

At the end of 12th over Suresh Raina in an attempt to hit a six was catched near the boundary line. Jacob Oram replaced him but didn’t lasted long and was clean bowled by Irfan Pathan on 13. Badrinath came to the center to give company to Hussey who on the other end was simply in a golden touch. He completed his 1st hundred in IPL in just 50 balls. He striked 9 sixes in his innings of 116 not out and in the last over Badrinath(31 n.o) hit two mighty sixes and four to pose a huge total of 240 for Punjab Kings.

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