Bangalore won by 12 runs.
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banaglore won their fourth consecutive game as they beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs, here on Thursday. Bangalore bowlers restricted the Deccan batsman to just 158 in their full quota of overs, to bring home victory for the side.
The star of the show was young Manish Pandey who earlier in the day played a heart-warming innings of 114 runs and remained unbeaten till the end. Sent out to open with Jacques Kallis,the Karnataka batsman made most of the opportunity and smashed his maiden hundred in the Indian Premier League. Pandey not only hit powerful shots but embellished his innings with some graceful cover drives to the fence and became the first Indian to make a hundred in a twenty-twenty game. The lad from Bangalore received the Man of the Match award for his effort with the willow
Buoyed by a cracking hundred from Manish Pandey, the Royal Challengers set about the task of defending the target. Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs provided a fiery start to the innings. The duo took to Praveen Kumar and hit him for 22 runs. The opening partnership brought up the Deccan fifty in no time, but couldn't flourish on as Balachandra Akhil removed Adam Gilchrist for 15 runs. Gilly's dismissal checked the Deccan chargers run rate somewhat, though Herschelle Gibbs carried on to make fifty in 32 deliveries. The blistering knock included three hits to the fence and four sensational sixes.
Andrew Symonds walked in after T Suman gave a catch to van der Merwe at cover. He along with Gibbs put forth a 25-run partnership until the explosive South African went for a pull off an Akhil delivery and 'man of the moment' Manish Pandey held on to the catch at long on. Gibbs went for 60 and Symonds followed him soon as he played an across the line slog-sweep and was clean bowled by van der Merwe . The Royal Challengers looked on the top after the removal of two big players. However, with Rohit Sharma still batting, the danger was not yet over. Venugopal Rao sacrificed his wicket in a needless run-out. Rao's sacrifice though was squandered away when Sharma holed out in the deep to Virat Kohli. Anil Kumble's low full-toss doing the job this time.
Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and Anil Kumble decided to put runs on the board first up. Manish Pandey was sent out to open along with veteran Jacques Kallis. The hero of the last match could not last long as he flicked RP's delivery straight into the hands of Pragyan Ohja at short square leg. Singh though was not generous to his bowling partner Ryan Harris, when he dropped Pandey at third man. The batsman rubbed salt into the wound by smashing Harris for a four in the next ball. Roelf van der Merwe looked restless on the crease as he tried to slog almost every ball towards the boundary. The South African allrounder huffed-puffed and hit Ojha for a six over midwicket. Manish Pandey at the other played with a sense of freedom and sandwiched some classy shots inbetween some mis-timed slog hits. At the stroke of the strategy break Gilchrist stumped van Der Merwe for 23 and the Royal Challengers ended the first ten overs with 64 runs in the bank.
After the break Pandey unfurled his strokes and hit Suman for two smooth sixes that came of consecutive balls. Pandey looked comfortable and at complete ease in the middle and brought up his fifty in 36 deliveries. Bangalore accelerated their run-rate on the back of his stroke-play as he continued to smash both the fast bowlers and the spinners alike. The hundred was up for the Royal Challengers in the fourteenth over. Pandey not only hit the ball had but had the intelligence to use the fast bowler's pace as he glided a delivery from Jaskaran Singh through the third man boundary for four runs. Jaskaran's over was further spoiled when the Banglorean cleared his left leg and smashed Singh for a massive six over the long on boundary. A bad over became more worse as Pandey got a thick edge that flew to the third man boundary again for a lucky four. The Deccan attack bowled well but the Karnataka batsman still came up on the top and dominated them heavily.
Manish Pandey's batting hurt Deccan Chargers and his dropped catch early on proved to be costly as the youngster notched his first IPL hundred and the second one of the series itself. Pandey's efforts with bat was enthusiastically cheered by his team members. The 100 came up in just 68 balls. RP Singh leaked more runs in his final over when Virat Kohli dug into him as he smashed two massive sixes, Pandey also had fun smacking one for his own, straight over RP's head. The last over cost the Chargers a whopping 23 runs as the Royal Challengers posted a healthy score of 170 runs. Manish Pandey's scintillating stroke-play fetched him 114 runs and he remained unbeaten in the end.
banaglore won their fourth consecutive game as they beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs, here on Thursday. Bangalore bowlers restricted the Deccan batsman to just 158 in their full quota of overs, to bring home victory for the side.The star of the show was young Manish Pandey who earlier in the day played a heart-warming innings of 114 runs and remained unbeaten till the end. Sent out to open with Jacques Kallis,the Karnataka batsman made most of the opportunity and smashed his maiden hundred in the Indian Premier League. Pandey not only hit powerful shots but embellished his innings with some graceful cover drives to the fence and became the first Indian to make a hundred in a twenty-twenty game. The lad from Bangalore received the Man of the Match award for his effort with the willow
Buoyed by a cracking hundred from Manish Pandey, the Royal Challengers set about the task of defending the target. Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs provided a fiery start to the innings. The duo took to Praveen Kumar and hit him for 22 runs. The opening partnership brought up the Deccan fifty in no time, but couldn't flourish on as Balachandra Akhil removed Adam Gilchrist for 15 runs. Gilly's dismissal checked the Deccan chargers run rate somewhat, though Herschelle Gibbs carried on to make fifty in 32 deliveries. The blistering knock included three hits to the fence and four sensational sixes.
Andrew Symonds walked in after T Suman gave a catch to van der Merwe at cover. He along with Gibbs put forth a 25-run partnership until the explosive South African went for a pull off an Akhil delivery and 'man of the moment' Manish Pandey held on to the catch at long on. Gibbs went for 60 and Symonds followed him soon as he played an across the line slog-sweep and was clean bowled by van der Merwe . The Royal Challengers looked on the top after the removal of two big players. However, with Rohit Sharma still batting, the danger was not yet over. Venugopal Rao sacrificed his wicket in a needless run-out. Rao's sacrifice though was squandered away when Sharma holed out in the deep to Virat Kohli. Anil Kumble's low full-toss doing the job this time.
Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and Anil Kumble decided to put runs on the board first up. Manish Pandey was sent out to open along with veteran Jacques Kallis. The hero of the last match could not last long as he flicked RP's delivery straight into the hands of Pragyan Ohja at short square leg. Singh though was not generous to his bowling partner Ryan Harris, when he dropped Pandey at third man. The batsman rubbed salt into the wound by smashing Harris for a four in the next ball. Roelf van der Merwe looked restless on the crease as he tried to slog almost every ball towards the boundary. The South African allrounder huffed-puffed and hit Ojha for a six over midwicket. Manish Pandey at the other played with a sense of freedom and sandwiched some classy shots inbetween some mis-timed slog hits. At the stroke of the strategy break Gilchrist stumped van Der Merwe for 23 and the Royal Challengers ended the first ten overs with 64 runs in the bank.
After the break Pandey unfurled his strokes and hit Suman for two smooth sixes that came of consecutive balls. Pandey looked comfortable and at complete ease in the middle and brought up his fifty in 36 deliveries. Bangalore accelerated their run-rate on the back of his stroke-play as he continued to smash both the fast bowlers and the spinners alike. The hundred was up for the Royal Challengers in the fourteenth over. Pandey not only hit the ball had but had the intelligence to use the fast bowler's pace as he glided a delivery from Jaskaran Singh through the third man boundary for four runs. Jaskaran's over was further spoiled when the Banglorean cleared his left leg and smashed Singh for a massive six over the long on boundary. A bad over became more worse as Pandey got a thick edge that flew to the third man boundary again for a lucky four. The Deccan attack bowled well but the Karnataka batsman still came up on the top and dominated them heavily.
Manish Pandey's batting hurt Deccan Chargers and his dropped catch early on proved to be costly as the youngster notched his first IPL hundred and the second one of the series itself. Pandey's efforts with bat was enthusiastically cheered by his team members. The 100 came up in just 68 balls. RP Singh leaked more runs in his final over when Virat Kohli dug into him as he smashed two massive sixes, Pandey also had fun smacking one for his own, straight over RP's head. The last over cost the Chargers a whopping 23 runs as the Royal Challengers posted a healthy score of 170 runs. Manish Pandey's scintillating stroke-play fetched him 114 runs and he remained unbeaten in the end.
