Bengal vs Delhi Giants, 8th Match at Hyderabad, Oct 16 2008 - Full Scorecard

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Deep Dasgupta †	b Murtaza	26	27	39	4	0	96.29

Hamish Marshall	run out (Murtaza)	23	13	19	2	2	176.92

Abhishek Jhunjhunwala	c Atapattu b Bond	0	3	2	0	0	0.00

Craig McMillan (c)	c Atapattu b Bali	69	40	46	7	4	172.50

Lance Klusener	c Bali b Srivastava	22	24	45	2	0	91.66

Rohan Gavaskar	c Bali b Murtaza	12	8	7	0	1	150.00

Andre Adams	run out (†Nixon)	7	6	11	1	0	116.66

Mihir Diwakar	not out	1	1	3	0	0	100.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 5, nb 2, w 3)	11
Total	20 Ov (RR: 8.55)	171/7
Did not bat: Eklak Ahmid, Upul Chandana, Sujay Tarafdar
Fall of wickets: 1-37 (Hamish Marshall, 4.2 ov), 2-37 (Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, 4.5 ov), 3-66 (Deep Dasgupta, 8.5 ov), 4-136 (Craig McMillan, 15.5 ov), 5-155 (Rohan Gavaskar, 17.6 ov), 6-167 (Lance Klusener, 19.3 ov), 7-171 (Andre Adams, 19.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Shalabh Srivastava	4	0	34	1	8.50	9	4	1	2	0
19.3 to L Klusener, pitches it short this time and Klusener is late in pulling it as he top edges a pull shot. Bali, running in from third man takes a well judged catch. 167/6
TP Sudhindra	3	0	22	0	7.33	9	2	1	0	1
Shane Bond	4	0	23	1	5.75	12	3	0	0	1
4.5 to AA Jhunjhunwala, outside edge carries to first slip, where Atapattu is waiting. Jhunjhunwala's horror run continues. 37/2
Jai Prakash Yadav	2	0	19	0	9.50	3	3	0	0	0
Ali Murtaza	4	0	19	2	4.75	13	2	0	0	0
8.5 to D Dasgupta, arm ball does the trick. Dasgupta, is playing for the normal spinning delivery and does not pick the arm ball from hand and is bowled neck and crop. 66/3 17.6 to RS Gavaskar, short outside the off stump, Rohan slices it straight into the hands of the waiting point fielder. 155/5
Abhinav Bali	2	0	36	1	18.00	3	2	4	1	0
15.5 to CD McMillan, flights it outside the off stump. Mcmillan looks to go downtown once again and gets an outside edge to point, which is safely pouched by Atapattu. 136/4
Dale Benkenstein	1	0	12	0	12.00	1	0	1	0	0

Delhi Giants (T: 172 runs from 20 ovs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Dale Benkenstein	c Klusener b Tarafdar	3	9	10	0	0	33.33

Avishka Gunawardene	b Tarafdar	25	23	31	5	0	108.69

Marvan Atapattu (c)	st †Dasgupta b Chandana	19	22	39	3	0	86.36

Abbas Ali	c Diwakar b Adams	18	13	15	2	1	138.46

Paul Nixon †	c Adams b Chandana	5	7	11	0	0	71.42

Abhinav Bali	c Chandana b Eklak Ahmid	12	10	12	0	1	120.00

Jai Prakash Yadav	run out (Eklak Ahmid)	24	22	26	2	1	109.09

TP Sudhindra	b Adams	12	13	19	1	0	92.30

Shane Bond	not out	7	2	2	0	1	350.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 2, nb 1, w 7)	11
Total	20 Ov (RR: 6.80)	136/8
Did not bat: Shalabh Srivastava, Ali Murtaza
Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Dale Benkenstein, 2.1 ov), 2-43 (Avishka Gunawardene, 6.5 ov), 3-71 (Abbas Ali, 10.4 ov), 4-73 (Marvan Atapattu, 11.3 ov), 5-82 (Paul Nixon, 13.3 ov), 6-89 (Abhinav Bali, 14.1 ov), 7-125 (TP Sudhindra, 19.2 ov), 8-136 (Jai Prakash Yadav, 19.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Sujay Tarafdar	4	0	19	2	4.75	18	4	0	0	0
2.1 to DM Benkenstein, Zulu does it for the Tigers. Benkenstein does not connect on the swat over mid off and ends up top edging it and Zulu running in, slides and takes the catch. 14/1 6.5 to DA Gunawardene, now he has his man. Tarafdar, bowls a yorker on the middle stump and makes it to swing in and uproots the leg stump. Gunawardene, can't quite handle the fuller deliveries dishes out to him. 43/2
Mihir Diwakar	1	0	12	0	12.00	2	2	0	2	0
Lance Klusener	3	0	17	0	5.66	10	2	0	2	0
Andre Adams	4	0	34	2	8.50	10	2	2	1	1
10.4 to S Abbas Ali, it's the turn of Diwakar to pull off a good catch. Adams pitches it short yet again and Ali pulls it but without timing as it goes to the right of Diwakar at midwicket. A blooming innings nipped in the bud. 71/3 19.2 to TP Sudhindra, fuller on the leg stump. Sudhindra looks to turn it away and misses and is duly castled. 125/7
Upul Chandana	4	0	24	2	6.00	9	1	1	1	0
11.3 to MS Atapattu, Chandana slips in a flipper as he see's Atapattu down the track and Atapattu is playing for the leg break and is beaten in the air and Dasgupta removes the bails in a flash. 73/4 13.3 to PA Nixon, on the leg stump, Nixon lofts it and does not get the distance as it lofts it down the throat of Adams att long on. 82/5
Eklak Ahmid	4	0	27	1	6.75	10	2	1	1	0
14.1 to A Bali, on the off stump and moving away, Bali has a wild swing at it and ends up lofting it down the throat of Chandana at long off. 89/6

Match Details

Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Deccan
Toss	Royal Bengal Tigers, elected to bat first
Series	ICL 20-20 Indian Championship
Season	2008/09
Player Of The Match	Craig McMillan
Hours of play (local time)	19.30 start, First Session 19.30-20.50, Interval 20.50-21.10, Second Session 21.10-22.20
Match days	16 October 2008 - night (20-over match)
Umpires	Allan Jones Keith Smith
TV Umpire	Shakeel Khan
Match Referee	Ajit Wadekar
Points	Royal Bengal Tigers 2, Delhi Giants 0

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Delhi Giants Innings

Player Name	O	R	W	Econ
S Tarafdar	4	19	2	4.75
M Diwakar	1	12	0	12
L Klusener	3	17	0	5.66
AR Adams	4	34	2	8.5 (1 nb)
UDU Chandana	4	24	2	6
Eklak Ahmid	4	27	1	6.75

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