1932dThe Report by Andrew Fidel Fernando

Rajasthan maintain perfect home record

A stuttering top order and a lame effort with the ball saw Delhi Daredevils succumb for the ninth time in 12 matches, while Rajasthan Royals sounded out a warning with a nine-wicket thumping

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

BJ Rohrer
64(40) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %87%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 21 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
12 4 14 5 12 10 2 5
AM Rahane
AM Rahane
63(45) 5x4 - 1x6
Control %89%
  • Productive Shot
  • leg glance
  • 26 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
1 14 5 4 11 8 7 13

Best performances - Bowlers

STR Binny
STR Binny
O2
M0
R3
W1
Eco1.50
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
SK Trivedi
O4
M0
R21
W1
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Delhi Daredevils , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.25, Interval 17.25-17.45, Second Session 17.45-19.10

Match days

7 May 2013 - day/night match (20-over match)

Twenty20 debut

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Rajasthan Royals 2, Delhi Daredevils 0

Scorer: M Venkat Raghav | Commentator: Sidharth Monga

Not a shot played in anger, and Royals have won with 13 balls to spare. Goes to show how poor Delhi's batting has been this season and tonight. Dravid, Rahane have done coolly again. Delhi are officially out of the tournament. Khelo front foot pe. And on the front foot I leave. Cheers.

RB: "Sid are you related to Agarkar somehow??" No, just an impartial, dispassionate observer.

Mahela Jayawardene: "We made a few mistakes, Rajasthan played some good cricket, we were below par. Everyone's working hard, trying their best, everyone goes through seasons like that."

Rahul Dravid: "So far, it's been working out pretty well for us. We were under pressure with Watson picking up a bit of an injury, and Binny falling down after two overs. In T20 you can't afford to put a price on your wicket, Rahane has been batting beautifully, he has reacted very well to being dropped from the Champions Trophy. (Joking) I picked Hogg in the last match because I didn't want to be the oldest payer in the team, and this time it was Tambe. What a story it is for him."

Man of the Match is Ajinkya Rahane: "I just want to enjoy my batting, that's what I did today. We wanted to play the ball on its merit, take it one ball at a time."

Right, that's a wrap from our coverage from the afternoon game, hop over here for all the action from Mumbai v Kolkata.

17.5
1
Kaul to Rahane, 1 run, full toss, and he finishes it off with a drive to deep cover
17.4
1
Kaul to Watson, 1 run, full, on the pads, driven to long-on
17.3
1
Kaul to Rahane, 1 run, full toss, pushed to long-on
17.2
1
Kaul to Watson, 1 run, full, on off, dug out to the right of point for one
17.1
1
Kaul to Rahane, 1 run, full toss, driven to long-on for one

END OF OVER:
17 | 17 Runs | RR: 150/1 (5 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.82, RRR: 1.66)

  • Ajinkya Rahane60 (42b)
  • Shane Watson26 (12b)
  • Morne Morkel4-0-40-0
  • Pawan Negi4-0-28-0
16.6
1
Morkel to Rahane, 1 run, runs off the outside half to third man for one

Dev: "Apropos Ben Rohrer, Tim Zoehrer would have been a massive asset for IPL. Imagine having him and Jimmy Adams as batting, wicket-keeping, spin-bowling allrounders in the same team."