On Thursday (21-05-2009) the Deccan Chargers lost yet another match but still made it to the Semi-Finals due to their outstanding NRR (Net Run Rate). This time it was none other than the Bangalore Royal Challengers that out witted the Deccan Chargers. An outstanding performance by the young Indian Manish Pandey who scored a brilliant 114 off 73 balls with 10 fours and 4 sixes and remained unbeaten. Thanks to RP Singh who dropped his catch when he was on just on 2. With this outstanding performance Manish Pandey charged and took the Bangalore Royal Challengers to a high score of 170out of their alloted 20 overs.
Needing a 171 to win the match and march into the Semi-Finals with a win the Deccan Chargers started their innings with the usual pair of Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs. As Gilchrist got out early for just 15 Herschelle Gibbs kept his momentum going and scored a brilliant 60 off 43 balls with 3 boundaries and 4 sixes however could not take the Chargers home with a victory. On one end if there was a brilliant performance by Gibbs then on the other end the others did not perform very well and as expected and Andrew Symmonds, Rohit Sharma, Venugopal Rao and Suman could together score only 50 runs.
With loosing all the way from the time Herschelle Gibbs got out the Deccan Chargers could manage 158 with the loss of 6 wickets out of their alloted 20 overs and lost the match by 12 runs. However it did not matter much for the Chargers as they got into the Semi-Finals with their better Net Run Rate than the Kings XI Punjab.
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