IPL: Pune pummel Delhi, avoid wooden spoon

Pune, May 19 (IANS):

Delhi Daredevils, who topped the league standings in the last Indian Premier League, finished last this season after losing to Pune Warriors at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Sunday.

Delhi fell 38 runs short of Pune’s 172 for five, ending at 134 for nine. The home side skipper Aaron Finch slammed 52 runs off 34 balls while left-arm spinner Ali Murtaza and all-rounder Angelo Matthews snapped up three wickets each.

With this match, a sorry season came to an end for both teams. Pune could win only four of their 16 matches while Delhi ended up on the right side only thrice.

The hosts had the match in the bag when Delhi lost half their side for 64 runs in the 10th over.

Virender Sehwag (11) was a disappointment once again and David Warner, who opened the batting with Mahela Jayawardene, departed early.

A handy 54-run stand between Irfan Pathan (24) and Muralideren Gautham (30) saved Delhi the embarrassment.

Earlier, Finch delivered at the top, smashing four sixes and three fours.

Luke Wright (44 off 23) and Angelo Matthews (30 not out off 22) fired towards the end, blasting 71 off 37 balls.

The result was a welcome one for Pune, who got the wooden spoon in 2012.

The following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Pune Warriors and Delhi Daredevils at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Sunday:

Pune Warriors:

Robin Uthappa c Warner b Yadav 24

Aaron Finch c Sehwag b Kaul 52

Manish Pandey b Nadeem 10

Yuvraj Singh c Sehwag b Pathan 3

Angelo Mathews not out 30

Luke Wright c Sehwag b Kaul 44

Raiphi Gomez not out 4

Extras (lb 2, w 2, nb 1) 5

Total (for five wickets in 20 overs) 172

Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Uthappa, 5.1 overs), 2-74 (Pandey, 9.4), 3-91 (Finch, 11.6), 4-96 (Yuvraj Singh, 13.3), 5-167 (Wright, 19.4)

Bowling:

Irfan Pathan 4-0-34-1

Morne Morkel 4-0-36-0

Siddharth Kaul 4-0-27-2

Umesh Yadav 4-0-52-1

Shahbaz Nadeem 4-0-21-1

Mahela Jayawardene c Wright b Murtaza 14

David Warner c Uthappa b Parnell 2

Bharat Chipli lbw b Murtaza 16

Virender Sehwag c Gomez b Murtaza 11

Ben Rohrer b Dinda 7

Irfan Pathan c Pandey b Mathews 24

CM Gautam c Gomez b Mathews 30

Morne Morkel c Parnell b Mathews 0

Umesh Yadav not out 8

Shahbaz Nadeem c Mathews b Dinda 6

Siddharth Kaul not out 0

Extras (lb 5, w 10, nb 1) 16

Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 134 (6.70 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-17 (Warner, 2.1 overs), 2-40 (Jayawardene, 4.5), 3-55 (Sehwag, 7.2), 4-55 (Chipli, 7.3), 5-64 (Rohrer, 9.4), 6-118 (Gautam, 16.4), 7-119 (Morkel, 16.6), 8-125 (Pathan, 18.3), 9-133 (Nadeem, 19.5)

Bowling:

Wayne Parnell 3-0-36-1

BhuvneshwaR Kumar 4-0-26-0

Ashok Dinda 4-0-21-2

Ali Murtaza 4-0-15-3

Yuvraj Singh 2-0-17-0

Angelo Mathews 3-0-14-3

Match details:

Toss: Pune Warriors chose to bat

Umpires: Nigel Llong (England) and Simon Taufel (Australia)

TV umpire: Vineet Kulkarni

Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Reserve umpire: Pashchim Pathak