Deccan Chargers vs King XI Punjab (19th March 2010)

Result: Deccan Chargers won by 6 runs

Kings XI Punjab have won the toss and elected to field. Batting first Deccan Chargers scored 170/7 in 20 overs. Initial quick fire by Gilchrist and  53 runs by Symonds in middle, helped DC to reach a respectable total. Again opening order batting collapse and good bowling spell from Vaas & Symnods put KXIP in trouble. Irfan played a fantastic innings down the order scoring runs with ease and dispatching the balls to all parts of the ground but failed in last over giving DC a narrow win by 6 runs.

Andrew Symonds is declared as the Man of the match for his all round effort in the field.

Numbers that mattered, Match 12

• 60 Irfan Pathan’s 60 is the second highest individual score at number seven in an IPL match. Brother Yusuf Pathan holds the record with an unbeaten 62 against Delhi Daredevils at Centurion in 2009.

• 51 Runs conceded by S Sreesanth – his worst performance in an IPL game.

•  12 Cuttack’s Barabati Stadium became 12th ground to host an IPL game.

• 3 VVS Laxman became the third batsman to retire hurt in an IPL match. The other two to suffer this fate are Mumbai’s Dominic Thornely and Harbhajan Singh.

• 1 Deccan Chargers registered their first win on home soil. They had lost all seven games in 2008, both Champions League matches in 2009 and the opening match of IPL 2010 at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai, which was their home ground for that game.