‘DD’ Archives
Kings XI Punjab easy win with Delhi Daredevils
Kings XI Punjab 170 for 6 (Valthaty 62, Marsh 46, Irfan 3-28) beat Delhi Daredevils 141 for 8 (Chawla 3-16) by 29 runs.The scorecard will say Paul Valthaty hammered 62 to power Punjab to an eventually match-winning 170, but that's not even half the story. Through 50 balls of clueless flailing, [...]
Deccan drown in Sehwag deluge
Delhi Daredevils 179 for 6 (Sehwag 119, Ishant 2-16) beat Deccan Chargers 175 for 5 (Duminy 55, Sangakkara 44, Agarkar 2-29) by four wickets . For a large part of his career, it was tough being Sachin Tendulkar. In the IPL, it's tougher being Virender Sehwag. After having watched his [...]
All-round Kochi pummel Delhi
Kochi Tuskers Kerala 141 for 3 (Parthiv 37*, McCullum 37) beat Delhi Daredevils 140 for 6 (Venugopal 40) by seven wickets. Five defeats at home have meant the Feroz Shah Kotla faithful have had little to cheer this season, and today was the bleakest day since Delhi Daredevils were routed by [...]
RAJASTHAN ROYALS won by 6 wickets
Rajasthan Royals 144 for 4 beat Pune Warriors 143 for 7 (Uthappa 35) by six wickets .It was a tale of contrasting performances from two Pune Warriors spinners. Rahul Sharma threatened to win it for them but Murali Kartik lost the plot and Rajasthan Royals' Ross Taylor seized the moment, with [...]
Super Sehwag saves Delhi the day
For his super-heroics, Virender Sehwag should consider wearing a cape. It's not often that runs are hard to score in a competition like the IPL. The wickets are even-paced, the boundaries are short, and bowlers arrive on a feeder line to be smashed to pulp. However, against Kochi Tuskers, the [...]
Delhi Daredevils beaten Kochi Tuskers Kerala
Delhi Daredevils 157 for 7 (Sehwag 80, Sreesanth 2-10) beat Kochi Tuskers Kerala 119 (Jadeja 31, M Morkel 3-18) by 38 runs. Virender Sehwag showcased his class on a tricky Nehru Stadium surface on which numerous deliveries hardly got up above ankle height. Sehwag took his time [...]
Two points have suddenly changed everything for us
What fabulous game. It’s hard to understand why the Daredevils are struggling this season, but we should concentrate on our own form and enjoy our own successes. A total of 148-7 may have seemed ‘below par’ after our innings but, as I wrote just a couple of days ago, the secret to success [...]
Kotla set for Sehwag-Gambhir face-off :DD vs KKR
Having heavily criticised the batting conditions at the Ferozeshah Kotla as skipper of the Delhi Daredevils in the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) last year, Gautam Gambhir is back to take guard at the Kotla when the determined Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) play the struggling [...]
Delhi running out of time to get act right
At the halfway mark of their IPL campaign, are still closer to the bottom of the pool than the top. Their story is likely to remain this way unless their feeble middle order unburdens Virender Sehwag and David Warner and produces runs consistently. Delhi haven't been helped by their new [...]
“Warner fast becoming Delhi’s star”
While others teams are struggling to fill stadiums, the support for the Daredevils in Delhi has been amazing. The other night, as Virender Sehwag bludgeoned the attack, the thrilled sell-out crowd screamed, “Viru!Viru!” so loudly that the roar would have shaken the foundations of the Khooni [...]
