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| Slower ones and variation in pace worked: Jaidev Unadkat Posted: 10 May 2013 09:59 PM PDT  With a five-wicket haul against the Delhi Daredevils, Jaidev Unadkat helped Royal Challengers Bangalore win a crucial contest at the Feroz Shah Kotla. The left-arm pacer started off by claiming the dangerous DD openers – Mahela Jayawardene and Virender Sehwag and then returned to strike a double blow in the 17th over. Even as the host batters put up a fight with the willow, the pacer struck to remove Unmukt Chand who had anchored the DD innings and Kedar Jadhav to keep his team on top. When Irfan Pathan and Morne Morkel threatened to take the match away from the visitors, he defended 19 runs in the last over to help snatch a four-run win. In that process, he sent back Morkel and finished with a five for 25. While speaking to iplt20.com after his match winning performance, Unadkat said varying the pace and bowling the slower ones helped him to successfully bowl his quota of four overs. Excerpts from the interview: What was the plan while bowling to Mahela Jayawardene and Virender Sehwag? We did not planned for those two but we had done overall planning that we would try to bowl in the right areas and keep varying the pace. The wicket was a little dry. And we stuck to the plan and it was a good thing that I got the two wickets. We needed those wickets in the Power-Plays early on. When you came on to bowl, Sehwag was timing the ball well. What was going through your mind and what was your plan? If you have things like that in mind then the ball won't fall in the right areas. There are chances of going for boundaries so it was better for me to sick to my plans and I was be clear in mind of what I wanted to bowl to him and the rest we could figure out. My plan was to vary the pace. The batters were hitting the ball really well with the pace and the wicket too was a little dry. I bowled a lot of slower ones and it worked for me on Friday. What was the plan when you were handed the ball in the last over and Irfan Pathan was striking it well? I had bowled three good overs before that, so my confidence was high. I feel we had to win this match. In the last two matches we had lost close games. I was backing myself to bowl six good balls and think about it a ball at a time. And once I reached my bowling mark, I went off to bowl according to my plan no matter what the result. It was a crucial win given the position in the points table. Your take on the win Thursday's was a very motivational performance. It was very important for us to win. We had lost close games in the last two-three encounters so this was really important and I am really happy that things went our way at the right point of time. What are your strengths? My strength is varying the pace and bowling the Yorkers. My favourite delivery is the slower one that I bowl. source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| DD vs RCB - M57 Report & Stats: IPL 2013 Posted: 10 May 2013 09:33 PM PDT Match Report: Royal Challengers Bangalore got back to winning ways and a step closer to a place in the Pepsi IPL 2013 Play-Offs with a thrilling four run victory over the Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi.
RCB were led by their captain, Virat Kohli who scored a brilliant 99, before Jaydev Unadkat's five wicket haul sealed the match for the visitors. Chasing 184, Mahela Jayawardene hit consecutive boundaries off Moises Henriques in the second over, before he hit two more off Ravi Rampaul in the second over. Jaydev Unadkat got the initial breakthrough as Jayawardene (19) dragged him back onto his stumps. Virender Sehwag dispatched R Vinay Kumar for three successive boundaries before Unadkat deceived him with a slower delivery and had him caught by Cheteshwar Pujara at mid on. Unmukt Chand pulled Henriques for a six before David Warner (4) smashed him for a boundary. However the bowler came back strongly to breach through Warner's defense to castle him. Syed Mohammad's first over went for 20 runs as Chand and Ben Rohrer picked up four boundaries. At the halfway stage, DD were 88 for three, still needing 96 runs. Vinay Kumar sent back Rohrer (32) bowled off an inside edge leaving DD four down in the 15th over. Needing 61 from 30 balls, Unadkat struck twice to have Chand (41) and Kedar Jadhav (8) caught in the deep. Delhi Daredevils came back strongly as Vinay Kumar's 18thover went for 17 runs as Irfan Pathan and Morne Morkel picked up three boundaries from it. Pathan then hit two sixes off Rampaul leaving DD needing 19 from 6 balls. Despite a couple of blows from Morne Morkel (19) and Irfan Pathan, DD fell four runs short. Earlier, DD won the toss and elected to field. DD struck early as Pathan had the dangerous Chris Gayle (4) play one onto his stumps. Morkel then had Kohli caught behind but much to his dismay it was off a no-ball. Siddarth Kaul was hit for two boundaries, before he struck timber to send back Pujara (17). Kohli was given another chance when he was dropped on 14 by Sehwag off Kaul. Shahbaz Nadeem got DD their third wicket as he caught Henriques (26) off his own bowling. AB de Villiers launched Morkel into the crowd before Kohli smashed two boundaries in the 17th over. RCB then took apart Umesh Yadav for 24 runs, with three massive sixes. de Villiers (32*) at his improvising best swept Kaul for two boundaries before Kohli (99) slammed a couple of sixes and boundaries, taking 23 from the last over. The RCB skipper unfortunately was run out off the final delivery to become the first man to be run out on 99. RCB finished their 20 overs at 183 for four.
Man-of-the-Match: Jaydev Unadkat Brief Scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 183 for 4 (Virat Kohli 99, Shahbaz Nadeem 1-23) defeated Delhi Daredevils 179 for 7 (Unmukt Chand 41, Jaydev Unadkat 5-25) lost by 4 runs.
Stats Highlights: 77: Runs scored by Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen in the last four overs of their innings – most by any side in IPL history. The previous record was of 71 runs on two occasions. 65: Runs conceded by Umesh Yadav in his four overs – second most expensive figures by any bowler in IPL history. Only Ishant Sharma has conceded more (66) runs in an IPL match. 5: For 25 – Jaidev Unadkat's figures – second best for any bowler in IPL 2013 after James Faulkner's 5 for 20 for Rajasthan Royals against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Jaipur. 5: All five teams in IPL 2013 - which started IPL2013 with an overseas player as their captain; have now replaced their captain at some stage of the tournament. 2: Number of batsmen to be dismissed on 99 in a Twenty20 match. The only batsman other than Virat Kohli to suffer this fate is Alex Hales, who was bowled on 99 against West Indies at Nottingham in 2012. 1: Virat Kohli became the first captain to aggregate 500 runs in IPL 2013.
Presentation David Warner: Disappointed to lose today. Credit to the way Bangalore batted. (About Morkel's wicket of Kohli off no-ball) - that's cricket. Different from captaining for the Sixers in terms of the crowds. Always a packed house, which is a good thing. Virat Kohli: I love playing in my home ground, wonderful to play in front of my home crowd. I thought I was gone, when I saw that no-ball. The first boundary got me going. Nervous when the last over was going on, the way it has gone last few games. My beard's greying already! Jaidev Unadkat is the man of the match: Happy with the outcome, happy to be given the last over. source: iplt20.com |
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