IPL Match 23 Score: Pietersen 100 Give DD 4th Win, DC 4th Loss

Riding on Pietersen century, 20th century in IPL, DD overcame DC fight. The first half of the game belonged to DC in both innings. But in second half, first bowlers dried runs, and then Pietersen smashed them out of the park with 9 sixes, helped by poor fielding from DC.

IPL 2012 Schedule and Results

Match Facts

MOM: Pietersen
Pietersen hit the 20th century of IPL.
DD joins KXIP at top in hitting the highest number of centuries. Both have hit 4 centuries each.
DD lead 6-4 against DC.

Deccan Chargers innings (20 overs maximum)

Sangakkara c Nagar b Morkel 1 run 7 balls
Dhawan lbw b Nadeem 44 runs 29 balls 5 4s 1 six
Parthiv Patel c Jayawardene b Nadeem 45 runs 27 balls 5 4s 1 six
Christian c Nadeem b Yadav 19 runs 21 balls 1 four
Duminy c Sehwag b Nadeem 4 runs 5 balls
Chipli not out 25 runs 17 balls 3 4s 1 six
Jhunjhunwala c Ojha b Morkel 4 runs 5 balls 1 six
Steyn c Sehwag b Morkel 2 runs 3 balls
Amit Mishra run out 6 runs 6 balls
Ankit Sharma not out 1 run 1 ball
Extras (w 5, nb 1) 6
Total (20 overs) 157/8

Fall of wickets

1-10 (Sangakkara, 2.2 ov), 2-81 (Dhawan, 9.1 ov), 3-106 (Patel, 11.6 ov), 4-113 (Duminy, 13.4 ov), 5-125 (Christian, 16.1 ov), 6-132 (Jhunjhunwala, 17.2 ov), 7-134 (Steyn, 17.5 ov), 8-156 (Mishra, 19.5 ov)

Bowling

Irfan Pathan 4 ov 27/0
Pietersen 2 ov 16/0
Morne Morkel 4 ov 23/3
Agarkar 3 ov 42/0
Umesh Yadav 3 ov 33/1
Nadeem 4 ov 16/3

Delhi Daredevils innings (target: 158 runs from 20 overs)

Naman Ojha c Duminy b Pratap Singh 1 run 4 balls
Sehwag c Christian b Steyn 7 runs 5 balls 1 four
Pietersen not out 103 runs 64 balls 6 4s 9 6s
Jayawardene c Sangakkara b Christian 6 runs 5 balls 1 four
Ross Taylor run out 13 runs 11 balls 1 four
Irfan Pathan c Parthiv Patel b Steyn 5 runs 11 balls
Nagar not out 23 runs 15 balls 3 4s
Extras (w 4) 4
Total (19.1 overs) 162/5

Fall of wickets

1-2 (Ojha, 0.5 ov), 2-15 (Sehwag, 3.2 ov), 3-23 (Jayawardene, 4.3 ov), 4-65 (Taylor, 9.4 ov), 5-114 (Pathan, 14.4 ov)

Bowling

Pratap Singh 4 ov 31/1
Steyn 4 ov 19/2
Christian 4 ov 35/1
Duminy 3 ov 33/0
Mishra 2 ov 26/0
Ankit Sharma 2.1 ov 18/0