The Delhi Daredevils went top of the Indian Premier League with a nine-wicket rout of the Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday.
It's getting hard to keep track of who's on top of the IPL table.
For the third day in a row, there was a new leader, now with the Delhi Daredevils occupying first place after strolling past a luckless Kolkata Knight Riders in Durban.
To make victory even sweeter, one of their key batsmen, Gautam Gambhir, was back among the runs after an indifferent start to the tournament.
Set a target of 155, Delhi rode on a chancy unbeaten half-century by stand-in skipper Gautam Gambhir (71, 57b, 7x4) and recorded a nine-wicket win with an over to spare as Knight Riders’ fielding went to tatters towards the concluding stages.
Kolkata Knight Riders finished with a total that was disappointing, with wickets still in hand, but it was nowhere as disheartening as the shoddiness in the field that was to follow.
Chennai Super Kings recorded its third victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this season with an 18-run win over Delhi Daredevils at Johannesburg on Saturday.
Set 164 to win, Delhi was hindered by man of the match Shadab Jakati’s accurate spin bowling.
He picked up four wickets.
Though IPL debutant David Warner and Dinesh Karthik struck brisk fifties and added 74 runs in nine overs, Delhi was unable to finish strongly in the face of good bowling by Chennai.
Chennai Super Kings 163 v Delhi Daredevils 145-8 Innings Complete (K D Karthik 52, D A Warner 51, S B Jakati 4-24) Chennai Super Kings beat Delhi Daredevils by 18 runs.
At the start of play on Friday, only one team in the major leagues had a worse bullpen than the Yankees.
Luckily for them, it was the team they were playing.
Some wins are bigger than others, and the Yankees certainly thought the thrilling nature of last night's 10-9 victory over the Los Angeles Angels would propel them to even bigger things.
The Yankees blew a four-run lead in the sixth inning, but the Los Angeles Angels did them one better.
The Angels went ahead by five before losing that lead on the final play of the game, a two-run single by Jorge Posada that lifted the Yankees to a wild 10-9 victory at soggy Yankee Stadium.
