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Delhi Daredevils won their match against Rajasthan Royals by 14 runs. Rajasthan Royal now need to win their only other league match and hope that either Deccan Charger or Kings XI Punjab to lose their league match.

IPL 2009 – Match 50 – Delhi Daredevils Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

AB de Villiers fifty took Delhi to a good score

Sehwag the captain of Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first. Gambhir and Sehwag opened the innings for Delhi. Both the openers got out in the 3 over of the match bowled by Munaf Patel. Gambhir was caught and bowled for 8(8) while Sehwag got out lbw for 2(8). AB de Villiers and Dilshan joined to steady the innings and they took the score to 66/2 at strategic time out. They both played well and put on 87 runs for the third wicket. Dilshan scored 33 runs in 41 ball and got out bowled by Botha. Delhi Daredevils were struggling at 115/2 after 18 overs. Munaf came to bowl and conceded 25 runs in the 19 over and this turned out to be the turning point of the match. They scored another 10 runs in last over and reached 150 just losing 3 wickets. AB de Villiers played well for his 79 not out of just 55 balls. Shane Warne used 8 bowlers but none of them could really put any pressure on Delhi batsman.

Delhi Daredevils looking strong to take home DLF IPL 2009

Rajasthan Royals needed 151 runs to win the match @ 7.55 runs per over. Smith and Quiney opened the innings and they both got out early without scoring much. Smith didn’t opened his account andd Quiney managed 6runs of 10balls. Ojha scored 9 runs in 17 balls and was caught by Sehwag of the bowling of Salvi. Botha and Jadeja played well and scored runs quickly. They put on 55 runs in 36 balls. Salvi provided the much needed break through for Delhi, inducing Jadeja to edge one to keeper Karthik. Yusuf Pathan couldn’t do much and nicked one to Karthik in the next over bowled by Maharoof. He also got the wicket of Botha in his next over. Botha scored 37 runs in 31 balls. Rajasthan Royals kept losing wickets in regular intervals and they could only manage 136 runs in their 20 overs for the loss of 9 wickets. Munaf played a little cameo at the end scoring 23 runs in 10 balls, the highest by a 11th batsman in all IPL matches.