Match Preview KTK vs DD 30th May
After overplaying 4 matches at home, and winning only game out of them, the Delhi team who face a danger of elimination will be more than desperate to win against Kochi Tuskers. Delhi have a breather of only 2 more games out of 8 and are going to same on the same Nehru stadium, Kochi pitch which saw a batting collapse in a match vs Deccan Chargers. Kochi Tusker’s have generated both winning and loosing streak in their campaign just 7 games old. They come in with 3 straight losses and Delhi with 2. The latest loss of devils was against Kolkata.
Batting has been a major cause of concern for both teams but Delhi more. They will continue to depend on Sehwag and Waner’s contribution as they are depending all along. Warner has been in decent form and Venugopal Rao chipped in with innings that can be called great for Delhi not so actually if they had a consistent batting line-up like the previous season. Other than these 3 other’s haven’t done anything substantial. At least as yet no one even looked to. James hopes has come for rescue once but remains to be seen if he will be consistent.
Bowling has been just a little less terrible because of Morne Morkel initially and James hopes has helped him a little in last 2 matches. Irfan’s performance with bowl in previous match against KKR must have give him confidence to believe that he can deliver. However he needs to do much better for Delhi to turn around things
The pitch at the Nehru Stadium will give him support as it looked like a bowler’s heaven when Tuskers were out for small total. That can go against them, with bowlers like Sreesanth and Vinay who can be very dangerous on such tracks. Delhi’s has got to know of their weakness quite a lot in past few games. They will only do different if they learn from the mistakes, especially the batsman.
Tuskers also will taken this as a golden opportunity against the seemingly weak Delhi to get out the loosing streak which are in. Their three wins were against Mu
mbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, were only against the favorites to win the tournament.
Both sides have strong opening batsman who can single handedly change the match irrespective of the pitch. While Sehwag and Warner form one of the most feared opening combinations, Kochi have Brendon McCullum and captain Mahela Jayawardene are no less dangerous. In fact complementing each other have been more consistent.
Delhi and Kochi looking for win desperately might put their best performance till now in IPL 4. And this makes this encounter both crucial and interesting.
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