All over. Steyn finished with two wickets in two balls. Yorker length and RP was backing away and that came off his pad to dislodg the bail. Comprehensive win for the Chargers, who looked dead and buried mid way through their innings and came back with a bowling performanace that was simply phenomenal.
Chargers vs Kochi, 32nd match at Kochi, IPL, Apr 27 2011 - Ball by Ball Commentary
That's it from the team for this match. Join us tomorrow for the match between Delhi and Kolkata. Be well.
Man of the Match Ishant Sharma: It's not about inspiration, when we sitting in the dressing room we thought 130 is a good total. when RP's first ball hit the gloves, we thought we won't mind bowling first on this track. I need to say thanks to Zaheer Khan because he told me to keep working hard on my fitness. Working with him is really tremendous for me.
Sanga: Once we started batting, we though 130-140 is a competitive score. Both Steyn and Ishant were magnificent in the first six overs. Darren Lehman has a lot of common sense when it comes to cricket, nothing flash, just go out there and hit your lengths. We need to keep playing good cricket. Mishra was a genuis on that wicket
Mahela: I thought it was a good effort by the bowlers. We knew they had quality bowlers upfront and we had to get through that spell. Ishant bowled very well upfront. The pitch had a bit more movement than we expected.
Sharma didn't get to finish his overs but it doesn't matter. He still has t
the third best return in IPL history.
Steyn: The coach told us to bowl our lengths and if they miss, we hit. I thought Ishant bowled fantastically well. I'd love to roll this wicket up and take it everywhere I go. We've just got to try and keep winning and go off the bottom and into the top four.
This win moves the Chargers up to sixth. Stay with us for the presentation.
We've got a broken stump. Some of it remained in the ground and now needs to be pulled out.
Goner! That's a full, straighter one, held it's line and there was very little Vinay Kumar could have done about that. Offstump is castled and the end is near. Jayawardene looks increasingly glum in the pod
decent length, bit wide of offstump and Vinya swings and misses
Steyn's back
looking to cut, gets a bottom edge down onto the pitch and it's brealk time again
Sree to face
turned to short fine leg
launches but doesn't launch far enough. Down on one knee, slog sweeps that to Christian at deep mid-wicket who collects on the boundary
pushed back to the bowler
Jadeja chargs down the track, tees off and mishits that to short third man, gets a leading edge that doesn't carry
last over for Mishra, pushed away on the off side
full again and steered away to third man, looks for a second but its not there
wide and Vinay has to reach for it, can only nudge it past point
full and inviting the drive, Vinay Kumar wants to but gets an outside edge that runs down to third man
back of a length again and shapes away a touch, before carrying to Sanga
a little bit more width on offer here, driven to deep cover
back of a length, pushed into the covers
ends the over with a googly, played to point
nice and fine, that was a topspinner, strayed on leg stump line and hits the pad to trickle to fine leg, just two
swatted onto the on-side, no boundary in this over yet
driven along the ground to mid-on
and again, this time he gets it away for a single on the leg side
Over 17 • Kochi 74/10