safely defended off the backfoot and game over!
RR vs Kings XI, 30th match at Durban, IPL, May 05 2009 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Clinical performance by Rajasthan. They took the score past 200 and the bowlers did the perfect job by hitting the deck hard and creating opportunities. Punjab virtually threw in the towel after an ordinary performance in the field and didn't have the stomach for a target of 212. Rajasthan have the habit of unearthing two heroes and today they had two - Ojha and Amit Singh.
Rajasthan now jump to No.2. They are tied on points with Chennai but behind on Net Run Rate.
Unexpected bad day in the office for Punjab. The beauty of this IPL is that the teams (with the exception of Kolkata) have found ways of coming back. So
Punjab will look at today as a bad dream.
Stay with us for the presentation.
Yuvraj: "Totally outplayed. Went for too many runs. Wanted at least 60 in the first 6 overs but we lost three. We've got to win 90% of our games now."
Warne: "Great to see Smith stamp his authority. Great to see Ojha bat the way he did. The guys showed a lot of character. Nice to be back at the top of the table."
Smith is the Man of the Match: "About time. I was messing around in the first few games. I was a little tense back then, Nice to get in and hit it around."
That's it from us. Thanks for the mails. Kolkata v Delhi will start very soon. Goodbye.
that's a cracker of a shot! But too late, he crashes a full delivery down the ground and long-off dives in vain
gets right behind and defends again
The description for the Chawla dismissal has been rectified. Thanks for the heads up guys.
digs it in short and he watches it through to the keeper
batting practice, he gets across, right behind the line and defends to mid-off
squirts it to the offside for a single
That ends a terrific outing for Amit Singh
full on the offstump and dug out to cover
full on the stumps and Singh appeals for a catch thinking he chipped it back to him on the full
bowls a full toss and he pushes it to to long-off
full on middle and leg and worked to the on side
goes for the woodchop off a short delivery and mis-hits it, he almost plays it one-handed the top edge swirls in the air to Harwood at square leg
shortish outside off and he taps it wide of backward point
strays wide down the leg side, umpire Sanjay Hazare has had quite a stretch this evening
bangs it in short and he swivels and pulls to deep square leg
shuffles and clips it to the off side
digs it in short, too high for Yuvraj and another wide called
dabs it down to third man
fullish outside off and he jams it out hard to cover
short outside off and he reaches out and slaps it to third man
Over 20 • KXIP 133/8
RR won by 78 runs