makes room and swings it down the ground to long on fence for the winning run.
Daredevils vs RR, 18th match at Centurion, IPL, Apr 28 2009 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RR won by 5 wickets (with 9 balls remaining)
Hugs from the players, they shake hands, Royals win by 5 wickets, fireworks in the back ground after the Pathan fireworks. Warne is a happy man and so is his team, a good game of cricket. It was the Royals bowling that did it for them today and some wonderful striking by Pathan. Smith and Pathan bringing them home.
Smith; "We had the power hitters and we knew we could get through." A tough game coming up for the Rajasthan Royals against the Chennai Super Kings on thursday.
Sehwag: "We dropped couple of catches, may be if we had taken them, it would have been different. Till Yusuf came in, we were in control but he played well to hit some big sixes"
Warne: "We wanted someone at the top to take responsibility, so we tampered with the batting order. Pathan's striking was amazing. Had a chat with Munaf and he has done well and the rest of the bowlers."
No surprises for the Man-of-the-Match, it is Yusuf Pathan.
Pathan: "Today was my day, we targeted the smaller boundaries.".
Thanks for being with us, we hope you have enjoyed the commentary, do join us again for the double-header tomorrow, until then bye from all of us here at Cricinfo. Thanks to Raju and Gopi, who have helped us with the scoring.
short delivery down the leg side, nudged down to fine leg for couple of runs. The scores are level.
fuller and strikes the pad, question asked, the ball pitches outside the leg stump.
3 runs of 12 deliveries. Royals have this in their bag.
full toss hit down the ground to long off for a single.
another short delivery and Pathan strikes maximum, pulls well over the midwicket fence this time, wonderful striking.
short and Pathan does the best, pulls well and high over the fielder at deep square leg and over the fence for maximum.
full toss worked to deep midwicket.
keeps it fuller and Smith fails to get the ball away, inside edges onto the pads.
down the track and plays across the line, goes over the stumps to keeper, a terrible shot.
17 runs required from 18 balls, this is surely in Royals side, is there a twist in the tale, stay glued to the commentary. Nehra is back.
comes forward and opens the face off the bat and plays square of the wicket on the off side, a dot ball.
full toss hit down the ground to long on and Sangwan does well this time to field the ball, Smith calls Pathan for the second.
a terrible delivery, too short and Pathan puts it high and over the long on fence for maximum, goes a long way into the stands.
dropped, hits it high in the air to long on and Sangwan fails hold on to the catch.
short ball mishit to midwicket, a tight single, direct hit would have been interesting, Smith is lucky to be there.
A Free hit coming up.
Mishra oversteps, worked to the onside.
googly is too short and Smith puts it away nicely through extra cover and ball goes past the fielder to the fence.
35 runs required from 24 balls. Mishra is back.
once again plays across the line to deep square leg, this time Nannes does well to stop it.
swings it across the line to deep midwicket and Gambhir moves quickly in the deep, puts in a dive and makes a good save.
good smart batting, plays with soft hands to the off side for a single.
this time Pathan connects it well, swings it high and hard over the ropes at midwicket.
Over 19 • RR 147/5
RR won by 5 wickets (with 9 balls remaining)