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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Sharma fires Deccan over Kochi

Ishant Sharma went upon a uproar with a latest round as Deccan Chargers dejected Kochi Tuskers Kerala by 55 runs upon Wednesday.

Sharma, opening a bowling to a single side South African spearhead Dale Steyn, tore Kochi detached with 5 wickets in his initial dual overs as a hosts collapsed to 6-11 chasing 130 for victory.

Incredibly, opener Mahela Jayawardene was a usually batsman in Kochi’s tip 6 to get off a mark, with Brendon McCullum, Parthiv Patel, Raiphi Gomez, Brad Hodge as well as Kedar Jadhav all vacating for ducks.

Ravindra Jadeja (23 from 35 balls), Thisara Perera (22 from 23) as well as Vinay Kumar (18 from 19) combined a magnitude of respectability to Kochi’s sum as a compulsory run-rate ballooned out to some-more than 10 an over.

But when Jadeja fell to Amit Mishra a finish was close as well as Steyn duly ripped by a tail, dismissing a shell-shocked hosts for 74 with twenty-one balls to gangling as well as finishing with total of 3-16.

Sharma picked up 5-12 from 3 overs – a third-best lapse in IPL story – as well as warranted man-of-the-match honours forward of Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara.

The wicketkeeper-batsman as well as former Sri Lanka skipper struck 10 bounds upon his approach to 65 from 47 balls, top-scoring as Deccan posted 7-129 from their twenty overs.

The visitors proposed feeble – though, in hindsight, not scarcely as feeble as a little – losing openers Sunny Sohal (one) as well as Shikhar Dhawan (four) early to left-armer RP Singh.

Vinay picked up a wicket of Bharat Chipli (four) in a sixth over as a Chargers stalled during 3-20, usually to be regenerated by a 90-run partnership in between Sangakkara as well as Australian Cameron White.

White played a gradual palm to a single side his skipper, calm to collect off a singles upon his approach to 31 from 34 balls as Deccan’s innings collected pace.

But their movement was snuffed out in Vinay’s last over, a seamer dismissing White as well as Sangakkara in unbroken deliveries to leave Deccan teetering during 5-110 with eighteen balls remaining.

Australian Dan Christian (nine) as well as Dwaraka Ravi Teja (eight not out) got starts yet struggled to strech a blockade in a last overs, their swell tiny by a little superb bowling by Perera during a death.

What seemed a gentle follow had turn goal unfit inside of a initial 4 overs of Kochi’s reply, as a hosts collectively mislaid their heads as well as their wickets.

Steyn kick-started a subjection by dismissing McCullum for nought off a fourth ball, as well as Sharma had Patel held during a behind of as well as bowled Gomez as well as Hodge in his initial over to revoke a Tuskers to 2-4.

Jayawardene picked up his usually runs by flaying Steyn to a range in a third over, yet his stay was ephemeral as he as well as Jadhav fell to Sharma prior to a innings was twenty-five balls old.

Perera flashed a integrate of streaky bounds off Steyn in his reduced stay yet never unequivocally looked gentle upon a Kochi strip, in a future mistiming a lift off Perera true to White during cover.

Vinay assimilated Jadeja during a double with a scoreboard displaying an unflattering 7-47, as well as a span eked twenty-six runs from a subsequent thirty balls prior to a latter holed out to midwicket.

That brought Steyn behind in to a conflict for his fourth as well as last over, as well as a intimidating discerning indispensable usually 3 balls to skittle Vinay as well as Singh (0) as well as hang up a extensive victory.

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