Delhi trounced by Sangakkara-led KXIP

DD made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Kedar Jadhav and Pradeep Sangwan made way for Mithun Manhas and Ashish Nehra.

KXIP made one change to their playing eleven – Brett Lee made way for Rusty Theron.

On winning the toss, Gautam Gambhir, DD’s skipper, chose to bat.

The first Powerplay of DD’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 45, and lost three wickets.

Virender Sehwag, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. Seven balls into the match, he was caught by Reetinder Singh Sodhi. Irfan Pathan broke the four-run stand.

The second-wicket pair put on 35. Gambhir, whose 12-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 26. Sixteen balls later, Theron and Kumar Sangakkara, KXIP’s skipper, ran him out.

The third-wicket pair put on a couple. David Warner, whose (Go)eleven-ball innings included a boundary, scored half-a-dozen. A couple of balls later, Sangakkara (Ka)ran him out.

DD scored 50 off 6.4 overs (40 balls). KXIP had conceded 13 extras at that point.

Paul Collingwood had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored four. Twenty balls after Warner’s dismissal, Piyush Chawla, the player of the match, broke the 14-run stand.

Daniel Vettori, who faced four balls, scored a couple. Fifteen balls later, Chawla broke the eight-run stand.

Dinesh Karthik, whose 35-ball innings included a boundary, scored 17. Twenty balls (Mahe)later, he was caught by Jayawardene. Pathan broke the 13-run stand.

Rajat Bhatia, who faced five balls, scored a run. Ten balls later, he was caught by Sodhi. Yuvraj Singh broke the five-run stand.

Farveez Maharoof, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. The next ball, he was dismissed by Love Ablish.

DD scored 100 off 17.1 overs (103 balls). KXIP had conceded 17 extras at that point.

Manhas, whose 28-ball innings included a boundary, scored 26. Twenty balls after Maharoof’s dismissal, Theron broke the 23-run stand.

Amit Mishra, who faced 10 balls, was unbea‘ten’.

Nehra, who faced four balls, scored a run. Seven balls after Manhas’ dismissal, he was caught by Chawla. Pathan broke the six-run stand.

KXIP eventually conceded 18 extras. DD were bundled out for 111 off 19.4 overs.

Ramesh Powar, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded 25.

Ablish and Theron bowled a couple of overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 19, the latter conceded 11.

Yuvraj, who bowled four overs, conceded 14. He picked up a wicket.

Chawla, who bowled four overs, conceded 16. He picked up a couple of wickets.

Pathan, who bowled 3.4 overs, conceded 24. He picked up three scalps.

The first Powerplay of KXIP’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 39, without the loss of a wicket.

Pathan, whose 17-ball innings included a boundary, scored 12. Forty balls into the chase, he was caught by Bhatia. Mishra broke the 41-run stand.

KXIP scored 50 off 8.3 overs (51 balls). DD had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Jayawardene, whose 35-ball innings included four boundaries and a six, scored 38. Twenty-six balls after Pathan’s dismissal, he was caught by Nehra. Collingwood broke the 24-run stand.

KXIP scored 100 off 16.3 overs (99 balls). DD had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Sangakkara, whose 30-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 33. Forty-one balls after Jayawardene’s dismissal, Collingwood broke the 45-run stand.

Yuvraj, whose 25-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, scored 21. He was unbeaten, as was Adrian Barath, who faced five balls, scoring a couple.

KXIP, who scored 112 for the loss of three wickets off 18.4 overs, win by seven wickets with 10 balls to spare.

Sehwag bowled a wicketless over, conceding three.

Bhatia, Maharoof and Nehra bowled a couple of wicketless overs apiece. They conceded 19, 16, and eight, respectively.

Vettori bowled 3.4 wicketless overs, conceding 27.

Mishra bowled four overs, conceding 15. He picked up a wicket.

Collingwood bowled four overs, conceding 19. He picked up a couple of scalps.