Posts Tagged ‘Virender Sehwag’
2010 IPL Diary: Good ten days, Bad ten days
Ten days have passed since Delhi Daredevils last played at the Feroz Shah Kolta. The last home game was against the Chennai Super Kings and the Mongoose ran away with the match that day. Now it was the coming of the Kolkata Knight Riders and although another Australian did run loose, thankfully for the 40,000-odd fans assembled, he was on [...]
India announce team for 2010 T20 World Cup
The Indian squad for the T20 World Cup in the West Indies has been announced and the fifteen names chosen are on expected lines. Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, [...]
2010 IPL: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers beat Delhi Daredevils
Man of the match Andrew Symonds (35 off 24 balls and 3/21) powered Deccan Chargers past the Delhi Daredevils’ by 10 runs in Match 15 of the IPL 2010 at Barbati Stadium in Cuttack. Earlier, Amit Mishra opened the attack and bowled Madhya Pradesh Ranji opener Mohnish Mishra, who came in place of the injured VVS Laxman, with a googly in the [...]
2010 IPL Diary: poor captaincy and a mongoose bat
The IPL encounter between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings was rightly billed as a contest to see which side would blink first. The reasoning behind this being the absence of respective skippers of the two sides – Gautam Gambhir out with a hamstring problem and MS Dhoni injured in the last game that Chennai played. Inadvertently the [...]
2010 IPL: Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Daredevils
Chasing 186 for victory, Chennai Super Kings scored 190/5 in 19.1 overs. Both Delhi and Chennai were without their regular captains Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni as Dinesh Karthik and Suresh Raina played stand-ins. Virender Sehwag (74 off 38 balls) gave a sparkling start to Delhi even as he lost Australian explosive opener David Warner who came [...]
2010 IPL: Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Daredevils
Sachin Tendulkar (32-ball 62, 11x4) led Mumbai Indians to a huge 98-run win over Delhi Daredevils in Match 9 of the IPL 2010 at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Delhi Daredevils also suffered another huge setback when their skipper Gautam Gambhir pulled a hamstring and did not bat. Tendulkar cracked 11 dazzling fours to give the Mumbai Indians [...]
2010 IPL: Delhi Daredevils beat Rajasthan Royals
Virender Sehwag (34-ball 75; 8x4, 5x6) powered Delhi Daredevils to a six-wicket victory over the Rajasthan Royals in Match 6 of the IPL 2010 on Monday. Gautam Gambhir’s decision to bowl first was justified as Rajasthan Royals nosedived to 50 for four by the ninth over. Openers Swapnil Asnodkar and South African captain Graeme Smith had [...]
IPL 2010: Delhi Daredevils Preview
2009 Record: Semi-Finalist 2008 Record: Semi-Finalist Squad: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Rajat Bhatia, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Moises Henriques, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Sarabjeet Ladda, Farveez Maharoof, Mithun Manhas, Amit Mishra, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes, Ashish Nehra, Wayne Parnell, Shashi [...]
