IPL 5: Day 27 – Day of Double S’s ; Sanga & Shewag Scintillate…

May 2, 2012 at 12:17 am (Cricket, IPL, IPL 2012, IPL 5) (Catches Dropped, Day 27 review, DC Vs PWI, Delhi Daredevils, Dravid, Funny fatcs of IPL, Interesting facts, Interesting IPL facts, IPL, Leading Rungetter, Leading Wicket taker, Longest Six, Longest Six distance, Man of the Match, Orange Cap, Pawan Negi, Points Table, Purple Cap, RR Vs DD, Sangakarra, Shewag, Standings, Total No.of Fours, Total no.of Sixes)

Hi all,

Another double header on a holiday…

Match 42:

Deccan Chargers Vs Pune Warriors India

Deccan’s having won their only game against Pune, will like to make it 2-0 for this season. Pune started off in bright note, but light seems to be fading in Dada’s army as they continue their losing streak.

Sangakarra who sat out last match came back as Skipper won the toss and decided to bat first. As always DC had a slow start, but they didn’t lose many wicket this time just a couple, Both Sangakarra & Cameron white stitched in a very important partnership between them and smacked the PWI bowlers out of the park as they piled up 122 runs in the last 9 overs, esp 18 & 19th overs yielded 25 runs a each, one bowled by Ganguly & Nehra.

Pune also had a first ball wicket, this time Manish Pandey being the victim, Clarke who just joined the team, along with Dada try to make amends to get themselves in the game, eventhough they found boundaries every now & then it wasn’t enough for the runrate as it kept on creeping. Ganguly & Clarke got themselves out in their forties. Smith & Uthappa tried to bring themselves close,  even after most shabbiest fielding display by DC, PWI fell short of 13 runs.

Match 43:

Rajasthan Royals Vs Delhi Daredevils

Just Couple of days back both teams met against each other and it went till the last ball and Delhi scampered through to win with 1 run. Rajasthan will like to change the fortunes in their fortress Jaipur.

Dravid won the coin battle and decided bat first on a good batting track, Royals started off to a flyer both Dravid & Rahane looked in prime form and playing strokes at their will. Once Rahane departed to a reverse sweep, score read 71/1 in 9 overs but the scenario itself got reversed, as Royals were 95/5 in no time, with 13 overs gone past them. Dravid tried to steady the thing, still he was scoring, but runs weren’t coming from the other end, which kept Royals under the score they looked for. As they completed their 20 overs with 141/6. Pawan Negi being the main tormentor who picked up 4 main key wickets in the middle overs to strangle royals less than the par score.

If Royals had to win this one, they need to pick Shewag upfront, which they failed to do so, the result is written as the wall, Shewag picked up his consecutive fifth fifty to demolish royals. By the time they picked up his wicket, he finished the game and left for the icing. KP playing the last game for this season of IPL played a handy 36 in the winning cause.

Delhi Daredevils won the match by 6 wicket & 28 balls to spare.

Standings as on DAY 27:

Interesting facts as on Day 27:

–          Deccan Chargers picked up their second win of this season; ironically both their wins have come against same team Pune Warriors.

–          Rahul Dravid scored the 1000^th Boundary for this season of IPL.

–          Virender Shewag became the first player in T20 history to score 5 fifties consecutively.

–          157 runs between Sangakarra & Cameron White is the highest partnership for this season, they bettered Pandey & Uthappa’s 145 runs for 3^rd wicket against Delhi.

–          157 runs between Sangakarra & Cameron White is also the third time highest in IPL so far, falling behind 159 runs between Hussey & Vijay & 206 runs between Marsh & Gilly both against RCB.

–          This is the first win for Delhi Daredevils in Jaipur in the IPL history so far.

–          Both the innings of the match DC Vs PWI had a first ball wicket, for DC it was Parthiv Patel & PWI it was Manish Pandey.

–          Shewag also is now second in the list the most no. of fifties scored in IPL with 13 to his name. Kallis & Gambhir top with 14 to their names.

At the end of DAY 27:

No. of Catches dropped for the day – 6

Total no. of Boundaries – 1023

Total no. of Sixes – 399

Longest Six – Chris Gayle – 106 Meters followed by Kieron Pollard – 105 Meters.

Most no. of Fours – A.Rahane (60) followed by V.Shewag (51)

Most no. of Sixes –Chris Gayle (25) followed by K.Pietersen (20)

Orange Cap –A.Rahane (458) followed by V.Shewag (445)

Purple Cap – Morne Morkel (19) followed by L.Malinga (15)

~rams~