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52nd match - Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
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Royal Challengers face must-win game against Delhi Daredevils
ohannesburg, May 18 (IANS) Royal Challengers Bangalore face a must-win situation when they take on Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier League match at the New Wanderers Stadium here Tuesday.Daredevils, with 18 points from 12 matches are already through to the semi-finals. Bangalore, on the other hand, with 12 points from as many matches are at the fifth place and are among the five teams vying for the remaining three places.
For Bangalore a win will tie them with Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab, who are at third position with 14 points from 13 matches. Bangalore's confidence is high after their two back-to-back wins.
Bangalore's problem has been their batting which has not been consistent.
Ross Taylor has been the pick of the Bangalore batsmen and his presence has strengthened the middle-order.
Jacques Kallis has come good with the bat but has not been able to create the same magic with the ball. Robin Uthappa has played one good knock, but overall failed to impress at the top of the order.
Rahul Dravid who got off to a sound start in the tournament is looking to regain his flair in the closing stages.
Bangalore beat Knight Riders in their last match in which Taylor scored an 18-ball 33. But the five-day break can work against Bangalore.
Delhi skipper Virender Sehwag has already announced his intentions to get back to form. He with Gautam Gambhir forms the most dangerous opening pair of the IPL.
AB de Villiers has been impressive, and with Tillakaratne Dilshan makes a formidable batting line-up for Delhi.
Sehwag's return also means that Dave Warner once again will have to warm the bench.
Delhi beat Royal Challengers by six wickets in their first clash.
51th Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders May 18, 2009
McCullum and Hodge gun down Chennai
May 18, 2009
Kolkata Knight Riders 189 for 3 (McCullum 81, Hodge 71*) beat Chennai Super Kings 188 for 3 (Raina 52, Dhoni 40) by seven wickets
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
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Kolkata Knight Riders, powered by fifties from Brendon McCullum and Brad Hodge, staged one of most thrilling chases in the tournament and showed why the bottom-placed team may still prove to be the king-makers in this crucial last phase of the league games. Chennai Super Kings, who looked set to seal a semi-final spot with their mammoth total batting first, will now have to put the celebrations on hold.
The run-chase owed its success to three partnerships; the opening stand totally dominated by McCullum, his association with Hodge, where he took charge initially before letting his partner step up, and Hodge's match-winning knock with Wriddhiman Saha, whose calm presence combined well with the timely acceleration to stun Chennai.
The return of the seamers at the death heralded a decisive turn in the game as Hodge found an unlikely foil in Saha, who smote a six and a four in the 17th over from L Balaji that went for 14. The next over from Albie Morkel bled 13, with Hodge collecting two fours, one slapped back past the bowler and the other swung behind square leg.
With Chennai short of options, Balaji's reputation to hit the blockhole was again banked on, but he was guilty of the same slip-up that cost Kolkata their previous two games. He gifted Hodge with length balls, two of which were struck clean and straight over long-off, and a generous full toss to Saha off the final ball, who duly obliged to smack it over midwicket to bring it down to six off the last over. Suresh Raina tried his best, but despite an attacking field and a dot ball first up, the wave was against him. Hodge and Saha stole singles off the second and third deliveries, a tight run to cover on the fourth, before a swat to long-on with a deep enough Jacob Oram allowed them to scamper back for the second and level the scores. With the field brought up, an incredibly calm Saha chipped Raina over cover to seal a comeback win.
McCullum threatened to wrest the game with his blistering innings, displaying the same destructive facet to his batting that was on display in first match of the IPL's inaugural version. He had got the release he desperately needed against Bangalore, when he clobbered 84. His dominant innings today was undoubtedly a reflection of his brilliance but the disproportionate influence his contribution had to Kolkata's score in the early part of the innings mirrored the serious lack of support from the other end.
McCullum immediately announced his intent from the first over, slashing one past slip, and clipping Morkel past square leg. Keeping him off strike became Chennai's immediate objective, and Sourav Ganguly made their job far simpler, struggling to get bat on ball, a stark contrast to McCullum's free flow. McCullum feasted on Albie, smashing him for 16 in the third over, while Ganguly was made to look like an irritable fly-swatter by Sudeep Tyagi. He was eventually put out of his misery, chopping one on by Muttiah Muralitharan, though Chennai, in hindsight, would have wished he had continued.
The dismissal left McCullum undeterred; the run-chase received a massive boost in Tyagi's next over, as Chennai were suddenly made to grapple with the possibility of an upset. Tyagi was clattered for four consecutive fours - two over cover, one through fine leg and the other over midwicket - before gifting a freebie that was promptly dispatched into the stands. Kolkata had made 56 in the powerplay of which 50 had come off McCullum's blade.
Hodge has been Kolkata's best batsman in the tournament, and adapted to his subordinate role superbly, allowing McCullum the bulk of the strike, something his predecessor had appallingly failed to do. The scoring did experience a dip with Murali and Shadab Jakati doing their utmost to restrain Kolkata, but McCullum's determination to put the horror of the his team's run behind him bode ominously for Chennai. If the Powerplay was lit up by his brute force, his handling of spin exhibited his subtle touch, as he opened the face to Murali's doosra, chopped him through point and shared the floor with Hodge, who showed no signs of difficulty making the transition to being to an equal, thumping Jakati for two sixes.
McCullum survived a chance on 66, dropped by Oram, who palmed a catch over the ropes at long-on, leaving Chennai presumably with a sense of foreboding as the match slipped away. However, the lapse did not prove too costly, as Jakati just managed to squeeze one through his attempted swipe to just kiss the offstump. When the in-form David Hussey was run out seven balls later, Chennai had fought back to steal the advantage, a prized asset that seemed to hinge on the fortunes of one batsman, but as they were to find out, the case wasn't quite so simple.
Chennai were missing Matthew hayden, their most prolific batsman this season, but his team-mates made up for that by posting a formidable score. The effort was a product of a calculated performance by Raina and an equally shrewd effort by MS Dhoni, who built on a solid opening stand to put Kolkata Knight Riders under immediate pressure as they pursue a stiff task.
Raina saw off a relative slide in form - he had managed just 48 in his previous three innings - to quickly slip into his natural mode of play, using the flicks, dabs and cuts that characterize his batting with relentless frequency and opening up in timely fashion to retain the tempo set by the openers. Dhoni, meanwhile, proved again that he remains Chennai's best middle-order batsman. He had been involved in four 50-plus stands before this, and added another one to his tally, mixing up his raw power and rotating the strike. The innings was set up by an admirable display by the openers Parthiv Patel and George Bailey who put together a busy stand of 59, attacking the seamers early on and retaining the momentum once the spinners came on, scoring a boundary virtually every over amid a spate of singles and twos which never allowed the bowlers to settle into a rhythm.
However, their efforts were in vain, as McCullum's blistering knock and Hodge's proven reliability produced an upset, and rendered insecure what had so far been a cosy No.2 spot on the points table for Chennai.