Kochi Tuskers make easy work of 141-run chase to beat Daredevils by seven wickets at the Kotla
Kochi Tuskers make easy work of 141-run chase to beat Daredevils by seven wickets at the KotlaKochi Tuskers made easy work of the 141-run target set by the Delhi Daredevils in their Indian Premier League match at the Feroz Shah Kotla last night.u00a0 The Tuskers reached their target in just 15 overs to defeat the Daredevils by seven wickets Brendon McCullum (37 off 19 balls with 5 fours & two sixes) and Parthiv Patel 37 not out offu00a0 31 balls top scored for the Kochi outfit, who hardly looked to be in any trouble as they went about the chase on a freshly prepared Kotla square that had a fair sprinkling of grass. The track was tailormade as per the Delhi team management's demand for a hard and bouncier track for their batsmen to play their strokes freely and for the seam bowlers to get some advantage. The ploy however horribly backfired for the Delhi side.
The Kochi side celebrate the wicket of Delhi's Yogesh Nagar.Their two opening batsmen, skipper Virender Sehwag and Australian David Warner managed to score just 15 and 13 runs respectively, while none of their pace bowlers managed to take advantage of the seaming track.
Delhi's Morne Morkelu00a0 and Roelof van der Merwe were the only two bowlers, who could get a wicket each, that of McCullum andu00a0 Michael Klinger (18) respectively as the third Kochi wicket ufffd skipper Mahela Jayawardene (7) wasu00a0 run-out.
The Delhi side were in fact struggling after losing openers Sehwag and Warner early and tottering at 43/3 before Venugopal Rao (40 off 36 balls) and Travis Brit (27 off 15 balls) helped the hosts reach what looked like a respectable total.
For Kochi, Vinay Kumar and debutant Prasanth Parameswaran, who was adjudged Man of the match, took two wickets each.
