RP Singh started it all when he dismissed Jacques Kallis cheaply. Pragyan Ojha followed him up with two quick wickets dismissing Manish Pandey and Roelof van der Merwe in quick succession. He later dismissed Praveen Kumar in his last over to take his match tally to 3 wickets.
Harmeet Singh and Andrew Symonds struck twice each to break the backbone of Bangalore’s batting and making them bite Johannesburg’s dust. Put into bat first, the Men in Blue started off on a bad note with Anil Kumble striking gold off the second ball of the innings when he rattled Gilly’s timber. Jumbo went on to strike every time he brought himself on and finished with figures of 4 for 16 off four overs. He played a major role in restricting the Deccan Chargers to a modest 143.
The silver lining in the Chargers’ innings was the fifty run partnership between Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma who joined hands after Symonds departed cheaply. Gibbs went on to bring up his half century to save Deccan some pride and put up a modest total for Bangalore to chase.
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