Delhi moves up the ladder to the fourth place by winning hands down against kolkata who looked all at sea when they were chasing a target of 177 runs.The Man who at one stage of the career,in the early part of the decade was one of the top batsman giving his fight to Sachin and Ponting in One day Internationals,the Prince of kolkata Sourav Ganguly looked completely out of place facing the pacy Dirk Nannes.He is doing more harm to his reputation than ever by figuring in this competitive IPL and that too holding the captaincy.
Throughout the series,Kolkata have won three out of the seven games but the losses have been compounded by the fact that their batters have never been able to get out the shell.The matches they won were also a combination of bowling brilliance and some ordinary batting.Even in the Opening match,it was Angelo matthews heroics down the order and with the ball saw them home.The Captain needs to get his act swiftly and need to make a tough decision after a couple of matches,if the trend carries this way.
Meanwhile Delhi displayed a classical way of coming back into the contest after losing 3 wickets in first 3 overs.Warner and collingwood started slowly to build a partnership and then it was all blasting which took them to a score of 177 which is on par with a score of 220 for the team batting second in that pitch.Everybody would be longing to see the kind of catch David Hussey took to dismiss Collingwood as it is a combination of athleticism,agility and presence of mind.It was a sureshot six and the way he caught in the air put it inside the boundary and dived inside to take it looked awesome to see realtime.Kolkata never looked in the hunt and they have to take a hard look at their batting order as sending in the raw and untested Mandeep singh at Number 3 does not look a great idea.
