Amit Mishra’s spell of 5 wickets including a hat-trick helped Delhi daredevils to dominate the game. This is the second hat-trick in the IPL tournament following the Chennai Super Kings’ Lakshmipathi Balaji.

The Deccan Chargers headed by stand-in skipper Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field first. The Delhi Daredevils started their Innings thru their openers – Gambhir and Sehwag (team’s skipper). Sehwag was dismissed for a duck. Gambhir played an excellent knock of 79 runs off 48 balls (7 boundaries and 3 sixers). Dhawan played a brilliant unbeaten knock of 68 runs off 52 balls (8 boundaries). At the end of 20 overs, the Delhi Daredevils posted a total score of 194 runs for the fall of 4 wickets.

Chasing the challenging target of 195 runs, the Deccan Chargers started their Innings thru their openers Adam Gilchrist and Shahid Afridi who scored 14 and 33 runs respectively. Rohit Sharma scored 35 runs off 18 balls (3 boundaries and 2 sixers). Venugopal Rao scored 34 runs off 18 balls (3 boundaries and 2 sixers). In the last over, the Deccan Chargers required 15 runs to win. This is when Amit Mishra took his hat-trick wicket (Teja, Ojha and R.P. Singh). Deccan Chargers were able to score only 182 runs for the fall of 9 wickets at the end of 20 overs. Delhi Daredevils won the match by 12 runs. Amit Mishra was declared the Man of the Match.

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Cricket
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