IPL 6: Royals beat Daredevils in IPL

New Delhi, April 6 (IANS):

Rajasthan Royals beat the Delhi Daredevils by five runs in a thrilling Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Saturday.

The home side failed to chase down Royals’ 165//7 in their quota of 20 overs, finishing at 160/6.

Scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Saturday.

Rajasthan Royals

Kusal Perera c Pathan b Yadav 14

Ajinkya Rahane c & b Nadeem 28

Rahul Dravid c Jayawardene b Yadav 65

Stuart Binny b Yadav 40

Brad Hodge c Warner b Yadav 5

Kevon Cooper c Yadav b Nehra 2

Ashok Menaria b Nehra 1

S. Sreesanth not out 0

Rahul Shukla not out 1

Extras (lb 3, w 6) 9

Total (for seven wickets in 20 overs) 165

Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Perera, 2.6 overs), 2-87 (Rahane, 11.3), 3-142 (Binny, 16.1), 4-161 (Dravid, 18.5), 5-161 (Hodge, 18.6), 6-164 (Cooper, 19.3), 7-164 (Menaria, 19.4)

Bowling

Irfan Pathan 4-0-31-0

Ashish Nehra 4-0-35-2

Umesh Yadav 4-0-24-4

Andre Russell 3-0-31-0

Shahbaz Nadeem 4-0-22-1

Johan Botha 1-0-19-0

Delhi Daredevils

David Warner run out (Hodge) 77

Unmukt Chand b Sreesanth 23

Mahela Jayawardene c Rahane b Shukla 19

Manpreet Juneja c Hodge b Cooper 20

Andre Russell b Cooper 7

Johan Botha lbw b Cooper 2

Irfan Pathan not out 1

Naman Ojha not out 0

Extras (lb 5, w 6) 11

Total (for six wickets in 20 overs) 160

Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Chand, 5.4 overs), 2-82 (Jayawardene, 10.6), 3-149 (Juneja, 17.6), 4-153 (Warner, 18.3), 5-159 (Botha, 19.3), 6-160 (Russell, 19.5)

Bowling

Samuel Badree 4-0-34-0

S. Sreesanth 4-0-18-1

Siddharth Trivedi 4-0-35-0

Kevon Cooper 4-0-30-3

Rahul Shukla 3-0-27-1

Stuart Binny 1-0-11-0