IPL CRICKET 2010 - Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Deccan Chargers

IPL CRICKET 2010

Chargee of Deccan brigade

Symonds, Suman Turn On The Heat With Quickfire Fifties As DC Down Royal Challengers By 7 Wickets

Bangalore: For the second time running in a home game, Royal Challengers Bangalore found themselves at the receiving end of a brutal onslaught by someone they would not have spent too much time on during their team meetings. If it was Kedar Jadhav who did them in against Delhi Daredevils, on Thursday it was the turn of Deccan Chargers' Tirumallasetti Suman to hand them a fifth defeat in 10 games.
       the win keeps Deccan, with four wins, in the fray, while RCB find themselves in a tricky position. Coming at the fall of opener Monish Mishra, Suman (78 not out, 57b, 6x4, 3x6) paced his innings superbly, allowing his skipper Adam Gilchrist (32, 19b, 3x4, 2x6) first and then the big-hitting Andrew Symonds (53 not out , 24b, 5x4, 3x6)  to play with freedom as Deccan Chargers chased down RCB's stiff 184 with four balls and seven wickets to spare.
          When the RCB innings finished with a flourish, some great hitting by Jacques Kallis and Virt Kohli doubling their  score from 94 for 4 at the end of the 14th to an impressive 184 at the end of the 20th, the Chargers, who have found themselves at the wrong end of the barrel on six earlier occasion, seemed on the verge of going down again. But not this time as they set themselves up nicely to a stage where they required 60 from the last five overs, a target they scaled down easily as not a single RCB bowler, not even the fast and furious Dale Steyn, managed to make an impression. 
Earlier, RCB showed that they bat a little differently than other teams. They are not all that interested in the so-called power play at the beginning of the innings. Instead they prefer to turn it on towards the end, trusting their power-hitting to take them through. And boy, did they turn it on at the packed Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday night, bringing a somewhat worried gathering to their feet.