Sehwag bom exploded once again ,this time Deccan has destroyed. Take a report-

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 bowlers take
wickets off no-balls and
his fielders drop
sitters, the Delhi
Daredevils captain took
his frustration out on
the Deccan Chargers
with a blistering
century, his first in
Twenty20s. The assault
bettered his
masterpiece against
Kochi Tuskers Kerala,
and stunned Deccan
into offering him two
chances. Unmindful of
the complete lack of
support from his team-
mates, Sehwag cashed
in and drowned Deccan
in a flood of boundaries
that took the bite out
of a challenging total.
The next highest score
was James Hopes' 17.
Delhi's bowlers had been
profligate in letting
Deccan surge to 175,
and their top order,
barring Sehwag, let the
pressure get to them.
Aaron Finch, Naman
Ojha and Venugopal Rao
combusted against
seam as Sehwag
watched bemused from
his end. From 25 for 3 in
the sixth over, only
Sehwag could have
taken Delhi home, and
he did it in some style,
moving from 8 off 13
balls to 119 off 56,
pushing Deccan to the
brink of elimination.
Sehwag has made a
career out of sticking
to his guns regardless
of the situation, and his
approach today was no
different. Two balls
after Venugopal Rao
top-edged a pull off
Ishant Sharma, Sehwag
shuffled across and
glanced a boundary
from the middle-stump
line to fine leg. In the
next over, Travis Birt
struggled against Daniel
Christian, getting
beaten three times in
four balls, as the
asking-rate crossed
eleven at by the end of
seven overs.
Sehwag broke free in
the next over, bowled
by IPL debutant Ishan
Malhotra. The first ball
disappeared over deep
square leg, the next
over deep midwicket.
Two more boundaries
followed, as Sehwag
looted 23 off the over.
As if to dispel the notion
that he had targeted
just the newcomer,
Sehwag plundered 13
off the next over, from
Christian.
Sangakkara brought on
spin, so often Sehwag's
strength as well as
weakness. Sehwag
displayed his strength
first ball, dancing down
and launching Amit
Mishra over the
straight boundary. The
weakness was on
display next ball, as he
rushed out again but
ended up slicing to
sweeper cover. That is
when Deccan decided to
return the earlier
favours, substitute
Ankit Sharma clanging a
simple chance. Sehwag
gladly guided the third
ball through third man
for four.
Birt departed in the
11th over, having
contributed four runs
to a partnership of 61
off 28 balls. Sehwag
continued to ignore the
procession at the other
end, dispatching Mishra
for three consecutive
fours. The second of
those boundaries
slipped into the
boundary from Ravi
Teja's grasp, after he
had managed to get
both hands to the
chance.
With 69 needed off 48,
Sangakkara brought
Dale Steyn back. Steyn
dug one in short,
Sehwag got on top of it,
and flashed it past
backward point. A
desperate Sangakkara
turned to Bharat Chipli's
gentle medium pacers.
Mistake. Sehwag
brought up his hundred
off the first ball, and
then creamed the next
two for sixes. Twenty-
seven needed off 30.
Game over. Though
Steyn had Sehwag
caught behind in the
17th over, the
remaining batsmen
managed to complete
the heist.
Victory was looking far
away for Delhi when
they had allowed
Deccan to run amok on
a bouncy pitch.
Sangakkara and Shikhar
Dhawan had chances
grassed, and JP Duminy
and Christian would
have been dismissed
within the space of
three balls, had Yogesh
Nagar not over-stepped
twice in the 15th over.
Two of the four
reprieved batsmen
made Delhi pay dearly.
Sangakkara doubled his
score to make 44, and
Duminy went better,
clattering four sixes on
his way to converting
23 off 18 deliveries into
55 from 31. The no-balls
meant what should
have been 114 for 5 in
the 15th over turned
into 175 for 5 in 20
overs.
Sangakkara's
partnership with
Duminy was a stop-
start affair, with
punchy and edged
boundaries alternating
with swings-and-
misses. More luck was
to come Deccan's way
when Morkel dropped
Sangakkara at short
fine leg off Ajit Agarkar,
and then failed to get
near the ball when
Dhawan top-edged a pull
off the next delivery.
After Dhawan fell,
Sangakkara's
aggression allowed
Duminy to play himself
in before launching into
an onslaught. Duminy,
who had made 77 runs
in five previous games,
hardly looking like the
batsman who had been
struggling for runs. He
added 71 in 33 deliveries
with Christian, as
Deccan made 108 in the
last ten overs. It
counted for little in the
end.
Abhishek Purohit is an
editorial assistant at
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