Riding on a brilliant half-century from Gautam Gambhir and a match-winning spell by Glenn McGrath , the Delhi Daredevils defeated bottom-placed Bangalore Royal Challengers by 10 runs in an Indian Premier League match at Delhi.
Gambhir and Sehwag gave a fiery start to the Delhi team by playing the biggies. Sehwag was out midway on 24 Gambhir continued his power hitting and scored 86 of 54 balls.
Shikhar Dhawan with his well-struck 50 from 33 deliveries gave him support as the Delhi team steered to 191-5 in 20 overs.
Chasing a target of 192, the Challengers could only make 181 for five wickets from 20 overs.
The Challengers failed to get a good partnership going. Jacques Kallis was the top scorer with 54 while skipper Rahul Dravid made 38 and Mark Boucher contributed 31.
For the Daredevils, Glenn McGrath 4/29 was the top performer with the ball getting all the top-order batsmen out.
Glenn McGrath was the Player Of the Match.
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