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Deccan Chargers won the first Semi Final match against Delhi Daredevils by 6 wickets and they are through to the finals.

IPL T20 – First Semi final – Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field first, as he always does.

Delhi Daredevils lost 2 wickets without any runs on the board. Gambhir and Warner got out for a duck each and the score was 0/2. Sehwag and Dilshan batted well to get Delhi to a reasonable score. At the end of 20 overs Daredevils managed to score 153 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.

Gilchrist played a bliztering innings to take Deccan Chargers to the finals of IPL T20 2009

Gilchrist and Gibbs opened the innings for Deccan Chargers. Nannes opened the bowling and he was hit for 5 fours in the first over by Gilchrist. Gibbs got out the next over for a duck. Gilchrist continued hitting all over the park and scored the fastest IPL half century in just 18 balls. He got out the last ball just before strategic break and he scored 85 runs in just 35 balls. Deccan Chargers reached 154 runs in the 18th over and won the match comfortably by 6 wickets.

Deccan Chargers will play with the winner of the Second Semi final to be held today.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match against Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets. They still have chance to move to the semi finals provided they win their last match. All the teams now have 1 match to play each.
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

DLF IPL T20 Points Table Tally at the end of day – 19/05/2009

IPL T20 Points table & teams standing after 52 League matches

Probability for teams to make it to Semi Finals:

For Rajasthan Royals

• They should win against Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin
• Kings XI Punjab should lose their match against Chennai Super Kings. Otherwise, Chennai Super Kings should lose their match by more than 100 runs

For Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Must win their only match

For Chennai Super Kings

• Shouldn’t lose their match by big margin. Defeat by <50 runs shouldn’t risk their semi final chance.

I love statistics and graphs a lot…

Here is an interesting table/graph showing the points progress of the 8 teams in the Leagues matches of the DLF IPL T20 2009.

Click on the image below to view full graph….

DLF IPL 2009 - Points progress of teams in League matches

If you are a fan of Kolkata Knight Riders it would be heart breaking to see the black line horizontal…

While Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore did well to recover from the worst position they were in after first 5 matches. Chennai Super Kings just had 3 points and Royal Challengers had 2 points. Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians were the teams to give away the early advantage they had. They both lost 4 matches in a row.

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.

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Yesterday’s match in DLF IPL T20 2009 (Match 43 – Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers) was a match full of turn arounds. Rajat Bhatia was the man who finally turned it to Delhi Daredevils.

IPL 2009 – Match 43 – Delhi Daredevils Vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

Kartick played well at the end to take Delhi to a respectable total

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field first. Delhi Daredevils opened their innings with Gauti and Warner, inspite of Sehwag’s return to the playing eleven. Warner fell early to Chaminda Vaas in the 2nd over after scoring 4 runs in 6 balls. Dilshan was the next man in and opened his account with consecutive boundaries. Rohit Sharma dropped a sitter when Dilshan gloved one to shortish gully. Dilshan made good use of the drop chance and played aggressively. He scored 24runs (4,6,2,4,4,4) of the 6th over bowled by Shoaib Maqsusi, the highest run conceded in a single over in this IPL. Delhi Daredevils scored 56 runs losing just 1 wicket in the powerplay. Symonds got the wicket of Dilshan who scored 37 runs in just 18 balls. Another catch was dropped at long on when Ravi Teja spilled one which came straight to him and the ball bounced of his hands for a six. AB de Villiers was the batsman this time. Gambhir got out just before the strategic break and left Delhi Daredevils at 81/3 during the break. Sehwag was the next man in and he opened his account with a simple catch dropped by Symonds at long on. Vaas took the wicket of Sehwag in the 14th over and he scored 11 runs in 10 balls. AB de Villiers got out at crucial stage after scoring 44 runs in just 36balls. After 17 overs Delhi were 130/5. It looked like Chargers will be bundle out Delhi below 150, but Kartick played smart cricket and took them to a challenging total of 173/7. He scored 23 runs of the last over bowled by Vaas including 2 sixes. Vaas conceded 52 runs in his 4 overs and this is the highest by any bowler in this IPL. Deccan Chargers equaled the record of Knight Riders dropping 4 simple catches.
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