that will be it, Mahela has dragged another short ball into the gap between midwicket and mid on
Kings XI vs Daredevils, 64th match at Delhi, IPL, May 15 2012 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Daredevils won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
That is it from us for this game. Join us tomorrow for more from the IPL. Abhishek Purohit signing off for now. Cheers
Umesh Yadav is the Man of the Match. Umesh: "Normally, Viru pa gives us the ball and tells us to bowl according to ourselves. It is the short format, you keep going for fours and sixes even off good balls. I was getting some swing."
Sehwag: "There was little movement for the fast bowlers, Varun and Umesh bowled beautifully, took early wickets and put pressure on Kings XI. We were expecting that Mahela could play till the end and finish the game. It is difficult to go in and play your shots; he took his time."
Hussey: "We fought the game out really well. Full credit to Irfan and Mahela. Delhi are a very talented team. Awana's sort of come from nowhere, he's been the find of the tournament for us as far as bowling is concerned."
Irfan and Mahela embrace, Hussey has hands on his knees. Delhi Daredevils are the first team to make it to the IPL 2012 playoffs. Kings XI Punjab are not out of it yet, but they have to face Delhi once more out of their two remaining games
Kings XI fought, but Delhi had too much depth for them, and 136 was too modest a total to defend
Kishore: "swing with ball...now swing with bat....irfan does it again!!!"
reddy: "Match result apart, today we have witnessed India's bright pace future - Varun, Yadav, Awana."
Mahela gets to fifty, he was looking to make room initially, Mahmood followed him with a back of a length ball, Mahela recovered quickly to swat-pull it through square leg, despite being off-balance
drilled, and it disappears past extra cover, legs wide apart, solid base created to power the full delivery away
pitched up and eased back down the ground to long on
around the stumps
now he finds point once again, he made room outside leg stump, and cut, Irfan went for the single
that should have gone, short, wide, but Mahela has tried to time it rather than hit it, and it goes straight to point
how clean is this from Irfan, Awana's line has been awry this over, now this one is full on the pads, and Irfan swings it powerfully in front of square leg
Irfan doing it, there was width this time outside off, the ball was pitched up, and Irfan smoked it off the front foot, one bounce to the deep extra cover rope
and again, almost, Irfan gets the swing going again, and the pitched up ball is timed even better this time, deep square somehow manages to stop the four, he cannot do it cleanly though, and Irfan gets back in time for the second
deep square leg cannot stop this one with a dive, straight and shortish, and Irfan swats it behind square
Irfan tries to launch him through extra cover but there wasn't enough room to play that shot, the ball bounced as well
Midwicket goes to the rope
stays in the crease and slaps a nippy length ball past extra cover
Awana is back
does not get hold of the pull as he goes at the sharp short delivery, the ball pops up towards square leg
pushes a length ball calmly for a single to mid off
swung off the pads again, but not timed well enough this time, to deep square
that will go, short and on to the pads with the angle, and Mahela swings it eagerly wide of fine leg
opened up as this pitched up ball straightens on off stump, awkwardly pats it back to PK
short of a length, worked off the pads to fine leg
Nagesh: "More for you harsimran ,a maiden!"
Afaq: "Azhar growling at the deep midwicket fielder in his last over reminds me of our club days when he used to do so at the Diamond Cricket Ground in Islamabad."
AK: "Chawla bowls a maiden! Somebody call emergency! Doomsday is upon us!"
PK to bowl now
how on earth, but it is a maiden, from Piyush Chawla to Mahela, flat and wide outside off stump, should have sped away past point, but the cut went straight to the fielder
can he bowl a maiden? Mahela cannot push this one past the bowler
Over 19 • DC 140/5
Daredevils won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)