Pune Warriors India Innings
10th over: Pune 89 for 1. Sehwag brings back Shahbaz Nadeem, who restores some parity after the strategic time-out. Seven runs coming off this over.
9th over: Pune 82 for 1. Sehwag's Plan A is not working here for Delhi. Another big over for Pune, with Pietersen conceding 17 runs. After Ryder's inside-out four off the first ball, Ganguly just about manages to clear long-off for a six. To make it worse, the over included three wides as well.
8th over: Pune 65 for 1. Ryder starts the over with a four and Ganguly ends it with a four, both off sweep shots. In total, nine runs off the over.
7th over: Pune 56 for 1. If anything exciting was left, it just happened in this over. Ganguly sweeps Pietersen and the ball hits umpire Asad Rauf flush on the hand. Wake-up call! But a good over by KP, just four runs off it.
6th over: Pune 52 for 1. It's all happening at the Kotla. Dada gets a boundary, Pietersen drops a catch, no-ball, free hit, 18 runs off the over. In short, exciting Twenty20 cricket.
5th over: Pune 34 for 1. What's it between Jesse Ryder and sixes behind the wicket! Another edge from his bat, this time off Umesh Yadav, hits the sightscreen behind the wicketkeeper.
4th over: Pune 27 for 1. What an over! A six, a four and then a wicket. Uthappa has been dismissed by Morkel. First Ryder welcomes Morkel with a six and a four off his first two deliveries. But none of those convincing shots. The six went over the third-man boundary while the four came off an inside edge. The over, though, ends on a happy note for the South African as he has Uthappa caught behind.
Robin Uthappa c Ojha b Morkel 10 (13)
3rd over: Pune 14 for 0. Finally some runs for Pune, and 12 of them of this Irfan over, including two boundaries. First Uthappa finds the boundary over the extra-cover region and then an edge off his bat beats the third-man.
2nd over: Pune 3 for 0. KP, talking on the microphone, says Shahbaz Nadeem is turning out to be a champion when some said Delhi don't have a quality spinner. How true! And bowling the innings' second over, Nadeem has once again started on a bright note, giving away just three runs.
1st over: Pune 0 for 0. Good, tight start by Irfan Pathan. A maiden! Bowling in the channel and has Uthappa scratching around for most part.
7:35 p.m. Delhi Daredevils win the toss and are bowling.
One change each in both the teams. The South African fast bowler Alfonso Thomas has replaced Marlon Samuels for PWI. And for Delhi, left-arm spinner Pawan Negi will play in place of Ajit Agarkar.
Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (capt), Naman Ojha (wk), Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Ross Taylor, Irfan Pathan, Yogesh Nagar, Morne Morkel, Pawan Negi, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav
Pune Warriors India: Jesse Ryder, Robin Uthappa (wk), Sourav Ganguly (capt), Angelo Mathews, Steve Smith, Manish Pandey, Alfonso Thomas, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Murali Kartik, Rahul Sharma, Ashish Nehra
7:15 p.m. Aloha! We're here in the Capital of India, home of the Delhi Daredevils who are all in readiness to host Dada's army, Pune Warriors India.
Delhi, the IPL 5 table-toppers, wear an intimidating look, especially after that dismissive century by Kevin Pietersen against Deccan Chargers the other night. But Pune have India's most successful captain at the helm with a bagful of tricks up his arms to outwit Virender Sehwag's men.
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