Deccan beat RCB for first home win - TeluguPeople.com News

Hyderabad: The long wait and agony is finally over for Deccan Chargers. After tasting 10 successive defeats, including eight in IPL and two in Champions League, Deccan Chargers overcame the home jinx to register a comprehensive 33-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Thursday night.

This is the first ever win at home. There were smiles, jubilation, celebrations and sense of relief among the team members. The Chargers made a strong statement by making 175 with the bat and then the bowlers ran through Royal Challengers, who made 142/9 in 20 overs.

The 2009 champions thus opened their account in IPL-4 after losing their first two matches. It was a different team today. They put up a stellar show and Royal Challengers were caught napping. After Bharat Chipli, who struck a match-winning 35-ball 61 (5x4, 3x6), gave the platform for the Chargers, the bowlers pinned down the Royal Challengers batsmen with incisive and fast bowling.

They made early inroads and the Bangalore team could never recover from the early shocks. It was victory all the way for the Chargers. There was something to cheer for skipper Kumar Sangakkara, who had a record haul of five catches behind the stumps. This was second straight loss for the Bangalore team.

Bowling fast and accurate, Ishant Sharma gave the first breakthrough in the second over itself when he forced Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan to edge and was caught behind. Zaheer Khan, who was promoted, saw his stumps castled by Dale Steyn (3/24). The tall fast bowler Manpreet Gony (3/31), who came into the side in place of left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, delivered two big blows in his first two overs.

In his first over, Gony removed opener Mayank Agarwal for 16 and in the next over, he took the big scalp of AB de Villiers. Bowling a superb line, Gony had the South African, who had rescued RCB against Kochi Tuskers in the first match, sn'icking to wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara for a duck. The Chargers took the bull by its horns as the Royal Challengers were reduced to 29/4 in 6.4 ov'ers. The writing was on the wall when leg spinner Amit Mishra had the lanky left-hander Saurabh Tiwary caught off a top-edge by Sangakkara.

Steyn hastened the end with two wickets in one over that of Cheteshwar Pujara (25) and Johan van der Wath (0). It was left to young Virat Kohli (51-ball 71; 5x4, 3x6) to delay the inevitable with a defiant and courageous knock before being bowled by Gony.

Earlier Chipli was the toast of the Deccan Chargers innin'gs. The 28-year-old Karnataka batsman was full of energy. He started with a flourish by clipping off-spinner Dilshan over mid-wicket boundary and continued to dominate with some eye-catching strokes.

He was severe on his Karnataka off-spinner Ryan Ninan by hitting two successive sixes. The free-stroking and in-form batsman reached his 50 off 29 balls, the first by Chargers batsman this season. Chipli also slammed three successive fours of left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan and in the end he remained unbeaten with a knock which was full of vibrant strokes.

Chipli had two significant partnerships in the Chargers innings. He stitched 43 runs for the third wicket with skipper Sangakkara, who made 36 off 25 balls (3x4, 1x6), and then added 55 runs off 28 balls with left-hander JP Duminy (22 off 15 balls). Opener Sunny Sohal, who pl'a'yed in place of Ishant Jaggi, hit a brisk 37-ball 38 to give the early impetus to the Chargers' innings. However, left-hander Shikhar Dhawan perished to Zaheer Khan for 11. The seamer was the most impressive bo'w'ler for RCB with 3 for 32.