Aclt20 day-10 result 1.Cobras Vs Victoria 2.Bangalore Vs Daredevils

Cape Cobras 129 for 2 (Davids 69*) beat Victoria 125 for 5 (McDonald 29*, Zondeki 2-21) by eight wickets
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How they were out

Andrew Puttick and the Cobras were clearly rattled by the security issue that delayed the start of the match by 100 minutes, shortening it to 17 overs a side. That didn't stop them from crushing Victoria by eight wickets, which also dumped Royal Challengers Bangalore out of the tournament. The result leaves Delhi Daredevils needing to win both their remaining games to keep the Indian challenge in the tournament alive; one loss will mean Victoria and Cobras go through. Despite the heavy defeat, Victoria are through to the semi-finals by virtue of their superior net run-rate (+0.911, Cobras are +0.532, Delhi are -1.100).

Herschelle Gibbs and Ryan Canning were missing but the match again showed off the depth and variety of batting talent in the Cobras line-up. JP Duminy had won them their first game against Bangalore, Puttick and Justin Ontong were the stars against Otago, and today it was the turn of Derek Brand (getting his first game) and Henry Davids to batter the opposition.

Puttick wasn't sure of his line-up at the toss, saying it would be a "surprise" as he didn't know which of his players had chosen to play after the security scare. Opening bowler Monde Zondeki settled the nerves after Victoria chose to bat, getting rid of the dangerous opening pair of Rob Quiney and Brad Hodge in the first three balls. Quiney swung the game's first delivery to fine leg, and Hodge was bowled by a ball that nipped back in.

Aiden Blizzard started a typically Australian counterattack. He muscled a couple of deliveries to the midwicket boundary, drilled a free-hit straight down the ground and a lofted on-drive pushed them to 28 after 3.4 overs. Fast bowler Rory Kleinveldt ended the cameo by getting Blizzard to mis-hit to extra cover.

After the seamers struck, the spin pair of Claude Henderson and Duminy started to tie down Victoria. David Hussey and captain Cameron White had stitched together a useful 32, and they were just shifting into top gear when Hussey slammed Duminy over long-on for six. Duminy again showed his partnership-breaking ability when he had Hussey edging to Kleinveldt at point.

He started to leak runs, though, firing a wide down the leg side which the keeper missed, and was then taken for 13 in his next over. At the other end, Henderson was tidy as usual, only giving away singles in his final three overs.

After White holed out in 14th over, it was left to Matthew Wade and Andrew McDonald to propel Victoria in the final stages. They were up to the task, piling on 31 in the final three overs giving the big crowd something to cheer as a Victoria victory was required to keep Bangalore in the race for a final four spot.

Brand however showed no signs of being awed by the big stage, clobbering five fours and a six in the first four overs to lop a run off the required-rate. He was particularly severe on Shane Harwood, ransacking 26 runs off two overs. There was slight relief for Victoria when, after some confused calling, Brand was run out in the fifth over by Clint McKay.

Enter Davids. He started with a delicate dab past short third man for four, one of the few soft touches in a power-packed half-century. Left-arm spinner Jon Holland was hammered for a couple of leg-side sixes in his first two overs, bringing the asking rate below a run a ball. With Duminy sensibly giving him most of the strike in an unbroken 88-run stand, Davids took Cobras to a comprehensive victory that silenced the home crowd.

The fans had showed up despite the security concerns which returned to haunt cricket earlier in the day. An Under-22 cricketer staying at the venue was detained by the Bangalore police in the afternoon in connection with a suspected presence of explosives before being released. The match was given the go-ahead only after a thorough check of the ground by the police

Royal Challengers Bangalore 139 for 2 (Taylor 65, Dravid 32*) beat Delhi Daredevils 138 for 6 (Sehwag 47, Kumble 3-20)by eight wickets
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How they were out

	Ross Taylor treated Bangalore fans to a final fling

Twenty20 matches are usually pulsating, high-octane affairs, and this one lived up to that billing. A Diwali that began with a bomb scare ended in fireworks as Royal Challengers Bangalore, having been eliminated before they took the field, took Delhi Daredevils down with them.

The tone for this emphatic win was set in the field when Anil Kumble and Roelof van der Merwe derailed Delhi. The visitors managed just two boundaries - one in the 17th, one in the 20th - in the last ten overs. If ever there was a damning statistic, there you had it.

Bangalore had been sloppy with their fielding - a catch and two run-outs went begging inside the first seven overs and the outfielding was very sloppy in the last six - but it was Delhi who were really left to rue catches put down off Ross Taylor in consecutive overs. With a raucous Bangalore crowd cheering his every move, Taylor gave them value for money with a stunning 38-ball 65 that sealed a thumping win and ensured that no IPL team will make it to the semi-finals.

Delhi's innings was not the performance they needed to ensure their progress to the semi-final, but they seemed set to redeem themselves early on. Bangalore lost Manish Pandey to a muscle pull in the second over and Robin Uthappa to a miscued pull lacking muscle in the fourth. Taylor took Glenn McGrath for three fours in his opening over, hitting with customary flair, but found Dirk Nannes short-of-a-length deliveries tougher to negotiate. With Nannes turning in a good spell of 1 for 12 off three, Bangalore were stifled and managed an unsatisfactory 35 from the Powerplay.

At this stage singles were not a major concern for Gautam Gambhir, but he was severely let down by Ashish Nehra, who dropped an easy catch off Taylor, when on 18, at long-off and parried the ball over for six. To rub it in, Rahul Dravid bisected point and gully for four off Amit Mishra and picked up two as Nehra fumbled in the deep.

That drop was the impetus Taylor needed to step up. Rajat Bhatia was drilled for six and then put down a return catch when Taylor was 32; McGrath returned and was picked for two more fours, one finely edged and the other pulled with disdain; Mishra was slogged for successive sixes, the first raising his fifty from 29 balls, and swatted for four. A thumped four from Dravid made it 21 in the over.

Taylor was bowled soon after by Nannes, but by then the match was over. Out came Virat Kohli, with 31 needed from 41, and in a blaze of boundaries he helped finish it off with 29 balls remaining. Mishra's woeful outing was rounded off with four boundaries from Kohli in an 18-run 15th over, and Dravid scored the winning runs with a six off Nehra. Bangalore scored 104 in their last nine overs.

Earlier in the day, Virender Sehwag gave Delhi a strong start before the hosts fought back gallantly to restrict them to 138 for 6. Sehwag had begun his innings with typical belligerence, cracking four fours from his six deliveries as Delhi put 19 on the ball in just two overs. He hit 47 from 29 balls to help Delhi to 77 for 1 after nine overs, but his departure signalled a slump as Delhi scored 61 in the next 11 while losing five wickets. Leading Bangalore's surge back into the match were their spinners, Kumble and van der Merwe.

With the track slowing up, the run-rate dipped with it, and the spinning pair took full advantage. Sehwag's aggression against van der Merwe was short-lived as he got under another straight ball and picked out long-off, the dismissal that turned the innings. Kumble, on his 39th birthday, struck with the wicket of Dinesh Karthik with his third ball and, combined with a precise spell from van der Merwe, he served to restrict Delhi to a slow run-rate through the middle overs. Kumble was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 30, while van der Merwe finished with 1 for 17.

Mixing googlies and flippers, Kumble stymied the batsmen. Out of the frustration of one run in four balls, Tillakaratne Dilshan reverted to his trademark scoop only to top-edge a return catch to Kumble. Kumble was let down by Manish Pandey and Kohli who over-ran balls and allowed free runs, yet managed limit the damage by getting Owais Shah in the 17th over.

Delhi let themselves down with the bat and in the field, and from his pool the Cobras and Victory march forward.