Cape Town, April 22. Deccan Chargers kept their momentum going and defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore quite assuringly. Adam Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma lit up Newlands Stadium with their batting pyrotechnics as Deccan Chargers thumped Bangalore Royal Challengers by 24 runs for their second straight win in the Indian Premier League here today.
Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist was adjudged the Man of the Match for his swashbuckling knock. After the match, Rahul Dravid was presented with the orange cap for being the leading run scorer in the tournament and RP Singh was presented the purple cap for being the highest wicket-taker in the tournament.
On a perfect day, the Deccan Chargers did everything right -- from winning the toss, posting an imposing 184 for six and then restricting their opponents to 160 for eight for a facile win.
Delhi lad Virat Kohli top scored for Bangalore with a fighting knock of 50 that came off 32 balls with the help of 7 fours. Kohli was the last man to be dismissed when he hit a RP Singh delivery to long on for Herschelle Gibbs to take the catch. Bangalore kept losing wickets at regular intervals even though Dravid, with 2 sixes and 5 fours to his credit in his superb knock of 48, tried his best to bail out his side.
A solid start was a pre-requisite to such a herculean chase but Bangalore Royal Challengers had a rather ominous beginning with Fidel Edwards disturbing Jesse Ryder's furniture with the first delivery of the innings. Second ball duck in the first match, dropped from the second game and golden duck today -- Ryder's nightmare simply showed no signs of ending.
Jacques Kallis hit 3 fours in his 15-run knock that came off 14 balls before he was caught in the covers by Rohit Sharma off RP Singh in the 4th over.
Bangalore lost their third wicket in the 8th over when Robin Uthappa (12) pulls a Scott Styris delivery to deep mid-wicket for Ravi Teja to take a running catch.
