Sehwag-The One Man Army.

   An incredible century by Delhi Daredevils captain Virendar Sehwag helped them to have a win over Deccan Chargers by four wickets with one over to spare and kept them alive in the hunt. Deccan's opening bowlers Dale Steyn and Ishant Sharma fired early in the Daredevil's innings and reduced them to 25 runs for three wickets. But Sehwag was not in a mood to surrender before them as he freed his arms in the sixth over of the innings. In that over of the debutant Ishan Malhotra he scored  23 runs and kept the match alive. In the tenth over Deccan got a very good chance to come back to the match but Ankit Sharma drooped Sehwag's catch as he was there with just 54 runs. If he had taken that catch then I'm sure the match result would have changed.Then Sehwag hadn't any option and he completed all in a jiffy and in a style.He played some sensational shots to which was very much rewarded by the crowd.

   Earlier Deccan Chargers winning the toss elected to bat first which was very much justified by their batsmen and scored a huge total of 175 runs. J P Duminy stars the Deccan's innings as he scored his first half-century (55) runs and had a brilliant partnership with Dan Christian (27) , the duo making 71 runs partnership in 39 balls.

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KOLKATA ,GANGULY- AGAIN & AGAIN....

Now I know why Ganguly is so dear for 'Kolkatans'.Yesterday Ganguly continued his fine form to keep Kolkata Knight Riders in the run to semifinals.The win achieved by Kolkata was not only by Ganguly himslf but also by the thousands of crowd that cheered for Kolkata's win.A 99 run partnership between Sehwag(64) and Gambhir(47) could not fight against these odds and was fell before 14 runs ahead of the target.

Earlier Ganguly (56) and Gayle(40) gave Kolkata a flying start as they reached 100 runs in ust 11 overs.Down the order Tiwary(26) and Mathews(46) played an important role in leading Kolkata to a good target of 181 in 20 overs.Delhi Dare Devils was down in the very first over itself as Dinda got the dangerous Warner-a five ball duck.Then Sehwag and Gambhir tried their best to bring Kolkata near to the target but was fell down in front of the Tactical Game played the Kokata skipper with his braveful fielding and bowling changes.Then none other from Delhi played well and was able to take only 167/8 in 20 overs.

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KOLKATA PLEASE....

Kolkata is now on the edge of "extinction" from 2010 IPL as today they will face a confident Delhi Daredevils.To be there in the context in the run for semi-finals Kolkata must have a desperate win on today's match.Kolkata skipper Ganguly have a unenviable task to lift the player's morale.
Hopefully Newzealand's Brendon Mccullum and Ishant Sharma will be played in ths must-win match.This will add worries to Ganguly as he have to drop still not good David Hussey or Shane Bond.On the other side Delhi will be in a relieved form as their batting strength doubled with Karthik and Ganbhir too in form as they already have hard hitters Sehwag,Warner,Collingwood in good form.Their bowlind side is too good as Nehra is making a come back from shoulder injury.
Even though Ganbhir is not ready to take them silly as he already said like this "They are a very dangerous side...In Sourav, they have a canny captain and in the Eden crowd they have a 40,000-plus strong 12th man. It's a tremendous challenge and a test of character".

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DELHI WRAPPED UP KOLKATA....

Yesterday it was all around David Warner who scored his second century in the IPL and also the highest in IPL-3 .Earlier elected to bat Delhi had a bad start as Sehwag,Gambhir and Karthik went back to the pavilion within 3 overs.But then Warner and Collingwood led Delhi to a fighting total of 177.Thanks to Warner's devastating innings of 107 runs in just 69 balls which include nine fours and five sixes.Collingwood also gave him a good support by scoring 53 runs in 45 balls.
In reply Kolkata had a very bad start as skipper Ganguly ,Mandeep singh and last match's player of the match Manoj Tiwary were out when their score was only 21 runs in 4.2 overs.Then Gayle(30),Hussey(29) and Mathews (24) tried their best but then it was all over and the game was out of their control and they could register only 137 runs in 20 overs.

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