Chargers surrender against Challengers (last year's champion bowled out at 82)

Mumbai, Apr 24: Deccan Chargers’ batsmen did not seem to learn anything from their semi final loss against the Chennai Super kings and once again let their team down with an abysmal batting performance in the contest for the third place with the Bangalore Royal Challengers here at the D Y Patil Stadium.
None of the batsmen except Anirudh Singh (40 off 39 balls) stayed at the wicket for long and the last year’s champion surrendered completely at 82 in 18.3 overs against the disciplined Challengers’ bowling attack.
Venugopal Rao too contributed with 24 off 27 balls for his side.
Anil Kumble led the Challengers’s bowling attack with 4 wickets in four overs. Praveen Kumar and Jacques Kallis got two wickets each, while Dale Steyn and Nayan Doshi chipped in with a wicket each.
Earlier, Adam Gilchrist started the Chargers’ innings with a four to the covers but he was once again shown the doors by Anil Kumble, who got him out at deep square leg boundary off a slow full tose.
Monish Mishra followed his captain soon. He moved too far across the off side, getting trapped in front of the stumps off Praveen Kumar. He went to the pavilion on the first ball without troubling the scorers.
Deccan’s score became 15 for three after Rohit Sharma played an irresponsible shot and gave a simple catch to Kevin Pietersen at long-on. He too got out without scoring.
Anirudh Singh, playing his first game of the event, struggled against the pace of Steyn, whose balls zipped through the pitch to the wicket keeper Robin Uthappa.
Steyn, after dropping Andrew Symonds (2 off 8 balls) in the last over off Praeen Kumar, repented immediately by taking the burly Aussie all-rounder.
Kumble got through the defense of Dwayne Smith (5 off 10 balls) with ball skidded off the wicket and hitting the batsman’s off stumps.
Anirudh finally gave in while slashing a Kallis delivery which hit the timbers after an inside edge.
Nayan Doshi, who plays for Surrey in the county circuit, impressed one and all with his flight in his first match here and got rid of Venugopal in the last over he bowled.