End of the 3rd week of the DLF IPL 2011. Result are as follow
Week 3 began with Kolkata and Bangalore against each other.RCB won the toss and invited KKR to bat first. KKR started well. Haddin and Kallis took the match good but Haddin fall soon. Good partnership f 58 runs between captain and Kallis showed they are not going to come in pressure easily. Kallis Gambhir and Pathan all played very well for their team they score 40 48 and 46. KKR scored 171 runs in their innings. RCB answered in much better way as done by KKR in return. Opener Gayle and Dilshan ruined the bowling plans of Gambhir. Gayle and Dilshan scored 123 runs together. Dilshan got out on 38 but Gayle was unstoppable he finished not out and scored 102* runs. RCB won the match by 9 wickets and C. Gayle was named Man of the Match.
Match 25, Mumbai vs. Chennai. CSK won the toss and asked Sachin to bat first. As Dhoni wanted his bowlers worked same for him, MI both the openers were out for just 13. MI’s were 13/2. Rohit and Rayadu formed a partnership of 61 runs for 3rd wicket brought MI back in the match. Not only with Rayadu, Rohit scored with Symonds even they both built the partnership of 87 runs and Rohit got out on 87. MI ended on 164 for 4. Chennai went through a disaster as they lost Vijay (12) and Raina (05) too. After losing 2 wickets Hussey and Badrinath kept CSK’s hope alive forming 60 runs partnership, te game wasn’t over yet. CSK had a long path to go on. As Hussey went again CSK started losing wickets on perfect intervals. CSK lost 9 wickets for just 140 runs. CSK failed to get victory and ended their innings on 156. R. Sharma was named Man of the Match.
26th Match was to take between Punjab and Delhi. Punjab won the toss and decided to field. Delhi went off to a great start. Both the openers smashed KP bowlers as Gilly introduced them. DD scored the highest score of the IPL ever. DD scored the runs at the average of 11.55, total of 231 in 20 over’s. Both the openers were highest runs scorer of the team. Both the batsmen scored 77 each. Rao remained not out at 28. KP were well known for chasing big targets at this average but this time it was too big for them too. KP lost Paul for just 14. Gilly and Marsh took the match little away but Kumar got Gilly on 45 and KP were 97 for 2. It was Marsh who was standing and scoring runs as fast as possible as wickets were falling on regular interval. Marsh scored 95 of 46 balls with 9 fours and 6 sixes. KP ended on 202 for 06. DD won the match by 29 runs. Warner was named Man of the Match.
No.27 on board. DC vs. MI. Sangakkara won the toss and elected to field. They had good plans about MI and late only but they got MI 70 for 4. A 4th wicket was the last wicket of MI then a partnership between Sharma and Symonds. Sharma registered another fifty and Symonds remained unbeaten on 44. MI ended of 172 and the partnership of 102 between Sharma and Symonds was unbeaten. DC too started badly as MI did. MI recovered it before the time but DC failed to do so. DC were vanished by Malinga’s pace. DC ended on 135 for 8. Captain scored the highest No. of runs 34. Malinga grabbed 3 wickets and was named Man of the Match. MI won the match by 37 runs.
Match 5 of the week. Rajasthan to take on Kochi. RR won the toss and decided to invite KTK to bat first. KTK had no option of course. Nothing to talk about KTK batting order, they fall as the cycle stand one after the other. Parthive Patel was the top scorer from their side. He scored 32. In return RR went with a great start as openers Rahul and Watson built a 71 runs partnership and brought team to the path of victory with no hesitation. RR lost two wickets but won the match at the end. Rahul scored 44 lead by Watson 49. RR won the match by 8 wickets. Warne was named Man of the match for his 3 wickets spell.
Match 29. Yuvraj vs. Dhoni. Yuvi winning the toss asked Dhoni to bat first. Dhoni again started well getting a good opening partnership helped Dhoni settle a good score. Hussey again scores his fifty. CSK scored 142 in 20 over’s. PW had to face one of the small targets of IPL. PW couldn’t start as they wanted nor they could recover later on as Dhoni’s bowlers were on fire. PW kept on losing wickets one by one. Yuvraj was the top scorer with 34 runs but that failed as no one was there to support him. PW ended on 117 for 8. CSK won the match by 25 runs. M.Hussey was named Man of the match.
30th Match was to take on 26th April 2011. RCB vs. DD. RCB won the toss and invited DD to bat first. The decision seemed to be good as RCB started well grabbing some early wickets. Partnership between Rao and Hopes brought DD back in match. Hopes scored 54 while Rao got out for just 24. DD managed to score 160. Hopes was the top scorer followed by Captain Sehwag 25. Pathan and Nagar remained Nout out for 13 and 0. RCB too started badly losing Dilshan for 0. Kohli and Gayle got RCB to a great start after this. 82 runs partnership between Gayle and Kohli released much pressure from RCB. Gayle got out of 26 but Kohli continued. Not too much Kohli too after scoring 54 runs got out. RCB were 96 for 4 and soon 107 for 5. But it was too late for DD, as RCB were very near to their target. RCB won the match by 3 wickets, captain Vettori and Mahmood remained not out for 18 and 13. V. Kohli was named Man of the Match.
Match 8 of the week. PW vs. CSK again. PW won the toss and decided to bat first. Decision according to pitch was not wrong but Dhoni knew very well how to use his bowlers and when, and he did it perfectly. D. Bollinger got 3 wickets and Yuvraj and R. Uthappa, were the only good scoring batsman in the team. Yuvi scored 62 not out and Uthappa was out on 31. PW ended on 141 for 6. CSK faced no difficulties in chasing such a small target of 142. Hussey got out early on just 9 but Badrinath and Vijay handled it very well. Later on Vijay too was out 31 and this was the last wicket for Chennai to fall. Raina and Badrinath finished the remaining match with ease. Badrinath scored 63 and Raina was on 34. CSK won the match by 8 wickets. D. Bollinger was named Man of the Match.
Match 9 of the week, it was KTK vs. DC. KTK won the toss and decided to field, asking DC to bat first. It was a disastrous start for DC as they lost 3 wickets for just 20. A 90 runs partnership between captain Sangakkara and White helped DC to come back in the match. Sangakkara scored 65 and white 31. DC ended for just 129 in their 20 over’s innings. It was known victory for KTK as chasing a target of 130 was never impossible in T20 match. But it’s the game of cricket anything can happen anytime. KTK lost their 6 top batsmen for just 11. Any team losing wickets for just 11 cannot recover and same happened with KTK. KTK got some partnership but Ishant and Steyn were on fire. Ishant got 5 wickets and Steyn 3. KTK were all out for just 74. R.Jadeja was the top scorer with 23 followed by Parera with 22. DC won the match by 55 runs. I. Sharma was named Man of the Match.
Last match of the week. It’s DD to take on KKR. Pathan brothers against each other. DD won the toss and decided to field. DD started well as KKR were in pressure when Irfan struck the early blow. Tiwary was the only batsman from KKR to pass fifty and he remained not out on 61. KKR scored 148. With Tiwary on top followed by Goswami 22. Again not a big target for any team. In spite of having such a strong batting line up DD failed to chase the target of 149. Sehwag was the only batsman to lay for long. He scored 34 and remained top scorer for his team. Iqbal got 3 wickets for KKR. DD finished on 131 for 9. KKR won the match by 17 runs. M. Tiwary was named Man of the Match.