Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore have put one foot into the IPL 6 play-offs by registering a narrow four-run victory over Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Friday. With their eighth win, RCB now have 16 points from 13 matches and are fourth in the points table, below Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. For this, they have Virat Kohli and Jaydev Unadkat to thank.
Having won the toss and getting Chris Gayle (4) early, Delhi might have thought they had taken massive strides but that was not the case as Kohli (99 off 58 balls) and AB de Villiers (32 off 17) were still to bat. Neither can send the ball as long and as hard as the Jamaican but they can be equally effective while being orthodox and innovative at the same time. Kohli and de Villiers massacred the Delhi bowlers in a rollicking 94-run stand off just 40 balls, 84 of which came in the last five. Their fourth-wicket partnership drove RCB to 183 for 4.
While Kohli's innings was a mature one, de Villiers got the perfect launch pad to go after the bowling from ball one. Losing Gayle and Cheteshwar Pujara (17) early, Kohli shunned the lofted strokes for the early part of his innings and got to his fifty off 44 balls. But his attacking play came to the fore thereafter as he jumped from 51 to 99 in the just 14 deliveries, adding five fours and four
11:28 PM, May 10, 2013
Live Updates from Game 57 of IPL 6 between Delhi Daredevils and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Friday. Delhi Daredevils innings: End of over 20 - DD 179 for 7: Well, it came down to the wire. Delhi need 19 off the last six balls. Morne Morkel gets four of the first ball, then a single to long-on. Irfan Pathan swings the third into the gap... 
Saurashtra were rolled over for 82 in their second innings with only 2 batsmen reaching double figures as the hosts romped home by an innings and 125 runs. ... 
The Jaydev Shah-led side has had a superb journey so far and will hope to do the same when they face a formidable Mumbai in the final. ... 
Resuming the final day at 45 for 2 and chasing 349 to win, Punjab were bundled out of just 119 runs. ... 
Saurashtra stormed into the final pummeling Punjab by 229 runs and at Palam, Services reached 164 for 3 in reply to Mumbai 454 for 8 declare. ... 
Defending a target of 348 runs, Jaydev Unadkat removed Jiwanjot Singh and Taruwar Kohli early to give Saurashtra advantage. ... 
Electing to bowl first, the Indians packed off the hosts for 176 before surviving some anxious moments to overhaul the target in 47.2 overs. ... 
