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IPL: Delhi Daredevils v/s Sunrisers Hyderabad: Sunrisers win easily after rain delays

Written By Pranav Joshi | Updated: May 10, 2014, 04:10 PM IST

Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and will bowl first

 

16:20 IST Saturday, 10 May 2014

OUT! Q de Kock is out, he hits straight to cover

Delhi 10/1 after 2.4 overs

Daredevils have made three changes. They have dropped seamer Wayne Parnell, opener M Vijay and left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem, and replaced them with legspinner Imran Tahir, batsman Mayank Agarwal and seamer Rahul Shukla.

Four, Steyn bowls a bad ball and Mayank Agarwal cuts him through backward point for four

DD 14/1 after 3 overs

Four, Pietersen cover drives and gets four

Four, goes for another drive and gets a thick outside edge through the slip cordon for four

DD 23/1 after 4 overs

Karn Sharma comes in from over the wicket

SIX! On the front foot and KP lofts it high over mid off for six

Four. Now crashed through backward point for four

Wide

Gets a single to keep strike

DD 37/1 after 5 overs

Six! Fullish ball on middle and leg, lifted high over long on for six

Four. Crashed straight down the ground, no one had any chance there

Four. Now Agarwal goes over cover, slight leading edge but enough to take it to the boundary

DD 52/1 after 6 overs, time for the timeout

Will Pietersen change his approach now?

Amit Mishra to bowl

OUT! Pietersen is out, he tried to go over cover but hit it straight to the fielder.

An exciting innings gets nipped in the bud. Today seemed to be Pietersen's day.

Four, Mayank cuts late and gets it for four

DD 60/2 after 7 overs

Moises Henriques comes in to bowl

4 singles off 4 balls so far

7 off the over, DD 67/2 off 8 overs

Four, Mishra got lucky in the last over, now Agarwal comes out and drives, gets an edge that flies past backward point for four

Well driven for one

 OUT, Mayank Agarwal is out, an offspinner was biffed to deep midwicket but Agarwal could not clear the fence

Delhi 73/3

Laxmi Shukla comes in, still no sign of Duminy

DD 73/3 after 9 overs

DD 75/3 at the halfway mark

Laxmi Shukla is down the track, misses and the bowler takes off the bails, but Shukla is in

SIX! Now Shukla slog-sweeps and it goes for six over deep midwicket

DD 84/3 after 11 overs

Irfan Pathan comes in from over the wicket

6 runs off 5 balls so far

7 off the over, DD 91/3 after 12 overs

Steyn comes back, and hola hola, Karthik launches him over the midwicket boundary for six

They have to get going now

Delhi get to 100

11 runs off the over, Delhi 102/3 after 13 overs

Karn Sharma comes back

Rain seems imminent as the clouds hover dangerously over the stadium. The umpires take the players off the field. 

Delhi 103/3 after 13.1 overs

We resume after the rain break, no overs reduced

Karn Sharma gets smacked all over the place, a four and a six from Dinesh Karthik to end the over. DD 115/3 after 14 overs

Delhi 128/3 after 16 overs, not enough runs coming

OUT! Karthik is out, Steyn has taken a blinder on the long off boundary

JP Duminy comes in now

Four. Rubbish full toss to follow, gets smacked for four by Shukla

OUT! Shukla is also out now, he slogged hard and holed out at deep midwicket

Delhi 132/5 off 17 overs

Delhi 137/5 after 18 overs, Delhi have really slowed down here

Now just one run off 3 balls

Bowled, OUT! JP Duminy is gone, he tries a sweep to a fast ball but misses and leg stump goes for a walk

That was the last ball of a terrific over, just 2 from it, Daredevils, who looked like crossing 165 at one time will now struggle to reach 150

Steyn comes back and concedes just 3 off the first 4 balls of the last over

OUT! Hard slog, caught in the deep, another one goes down, Delhi finish on 143/7 after 20 overs

Just 22 runs from the last 5 overs, and 4 wickets. Delhi are about 25 runs short here

The heavens open up again and the players head to the dugout, Hyderabad will 11/0 after 1.1 overs, they will need another 106 from 13.5 overs if the rain stops quickly

The target has now been reduced to 98 off 12 overs

OUT! DHawan is out, he slaps it straight to one of the three men in the covers.

7 runs from the over including 2 wides, SRH 17/1 after 2 overs

Oh God. The heavens have opened up again and this contest is soon becoming a mockery.

Sunrisers are 25/12 in 3.2 overs

David Warner walks in

Four. Warner smashes his second ball for four

Six! It's almost over as Naman Ojha hits a six, now just 6 needed off 6 balls

Imran Tahir bowls

SIX Naman Ojha launches him for six and its all over

SRH 44/2 in 4.2 overs