Deccan Chargers earn first IPL IV win

Deccan Chargers finally break home jinx with 33-run win over Bangalore

Deccan Chargers finally break home jinx with 33-run win over Bangalore

Deccan Chargers revived their faltering Indian Premier League campaign with a 33-run thrashing of Royal Challengers Bangalore yesterday.

Deccan Chargers' players celebrate the fall of yet another Royal Challengers Bangalore wicket during their IPL match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday. Deccan Chargers won by 33 runs

Pacemen Dale Steyn and Manpreet Gony grabbed three wickets each while Ishant Sharma took one to restrict Bangalore to 142-9 after Bharat Chipli struck 61 not out to take Deccan to 175-5 at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.

The win was Deccan's first at home after eight IPL losses.

Seven on the trot
The 2009 champions had lost were keen to overcome their home ground jinx first as they had lost all of their seven matches played here in the inaugural IPL in 2008. Thereafter there was a gap of two years, with the next edition being played in South Africa and the 2010 edition seeing matches shifted out of Hyderabad due to political unrest in the region. Their opening match of this the fourth IPL season also was a disaster as they lost to the Rajasthan Royals at home followed by a second defeat ufffd this time away though ufffd to the Kolkata Knight Riders. Sharma struck early for Deccan, having the dangerous Tillakaratne Dilshan caught behind in the second over for seven.

Zak experiment
The experiment to promote tailender Zaheer Khan as a pinch hitter also flopped, with Steyn uprooting his middle stump with a swinging full toss.

Gony then removed opening batsman Mayank Agarwal and the in-form AB de Villiers to leave Bangalore reeling at 29-4 in the seventh over.

Virat Kohli waged a lone battle, making a 51-ball 71 before falling to Gony. Chipli earlier held the Deccan innings together with his quickfire 35-ball knock, containing five fours and three sixes. Zaheer had given Bangalore a key breakthrough when he removed opener Shikhar Dhawan in the third over after skipper Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to field. Sunny Sohal (38) came to his team's rescue, putting on 50 runs with skipper Kumar Sangakkara who made a fine 36 before being caught by de Villiers off Johan van der Wath (1-30).

Deccan piled on 63 runs from the last five overs but Zaheer applied the brakes by removing JP Duminy (22) and Deccan's big buy Daniel Christian in the space of five balls.