Hi friends, Good morning and have a nice cool day on a hot summer day... The match 30 in DLF IPL T20 was between the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royal Challengers. This match was one sided because of Yousuf Pathan superb hitting. I felt very happy that a new player is ready to play for India.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and put Deccan chargers to bat first. Gilchrist & Gibbs batted superbly upto 8 overs and score was 60 without loss. The first wicket felt when the score was 61 and after that Deccan chargers could not increase the score. Wickets fell at regular intervals and Gilchrist got out at wrong time. Gilly scored 61 in just 49 balls but remaining batsmen could not score quickly like him. Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Sanjay Bangar and Shahid Afridi got out very cheaply and Deccan Chargers were 105 for 6 in 16.2 overs. Thanks to Venugopal Rao who is very promising player scored a superb knock of 23 in just 11 balls and helped Deccan Chargers to reach a respectable target of 140 in 20 overs. Shane Warne & S Trivedi bowled superbly and took important wickets for their team.
Graeme Smith & Yousuf Pathan opened the innings for Rajasthan Royals and it was Pathan's day. Pathan in the early of his innings offered a simple catch which was not taken by Ravi Teja. After this Pathan hit the ball to all sides of the stadium and he scored 68 in just 37 balls. He was awarded the Man of the Match & DLF Maximum Sixes as well and his total earnings Rs.2,00,000/- in a day. Can anyone earn like him in one day???? Royals won the match easily and reached the target of 141-2 in just 16 overs.
I never understood why Deccan Chargers underused Venugopal Rao who is from my place Vizag. He scores hundreds of runs for Andhra Pradesh team in domestic cricket and played for Indian national squad as well. The Deccan Chargers management is expecting more from Gilchrist, Gibbs & Afridi which is not a good sign. Deccan Chargers performance is not good even if these players are playing and management have to give chances to young players instead of trying Afridi so many times after many failures. Afridi had played a stupid shot to Shane Warne which was the turning point. Afridi just faced one ball and in his second ball he wants to hit Shane Warne out of the park. It is ridiculous bcoz it is not that easy to hit Shane Warne when the ball is spinning. Deccan Chargers should try with Charma Silva who is better batsman then Afridi in my opinion. I hope in the next match Deccan chargers come up with a better strategy. Rajasthan Royals need only one more win to qualify for the Semi Finals and I am sure that Shane Warne lead team is outstanding with new young Indian players and that's all for now folks.
By Madhu Vamsi
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