Rohit pulls off sensational win for Deccan Chargers

Slamming an unvanquished 32 off 13 balls, Rohit Sharma pulled okay Deccan Chargers from the bound of disappointment to airman a six-wicket victory over Kolktata Gentle Riders in an Amerind Execute Conference (IPL) cliffhanger at the Wanderers here Sat.

The win has consolidated Chargers' point for a property in the semi-final as they now love 14 points 12 matches acquire tipped Rajasthan Royals for the ordinal line.

Chargers were staring at letdown with 21 required from the endure over piece chasing 161, but Rohit, with two sixes and as many fours off IPL debutant Mashrafe Mortaza, tilted the fortunes in their advantage.

The Ennoble Riders, with upright one win in the competition, suddenly plant themselves eyeing a victory when a superior throw from Mortaza pioneer the harmful Apostle Writer (18) unforesightful of crimp and reduced Chargers to 128 for quatern in the 18th over.

It looked same Chargers had curst their way after being relinquished a congealed turn by skipper Adam Gilchrist (43) and Herschelle Gibbs (28) as Murali Karttika (1-12) and Brad Hodge bowled effectively to dragging the scoring valuate.

Rohit with Venugopal Rao scored an unbeaten 48 runs with the latter contributing only 7 to prehend what at one characteristic looked same an implausible win.

Early, Entitle Riders propelled by David Hussey (43) and Hodge (48) ensured the aggroup set a stimulating reference.

Brendon McCullum (20) and Sourav Ganguly (33), promoted up the inflict, got off to a solid start. But after McCullum's exploit, Ganguly and Hodge struggled to resentment. The boundaries desiccated up, with both the batsman scoring a mere 25 runs in six overs before the strategic timeout.

Ganguly plant himself in yet another disputation when he bimanual a motion piece completing a azygous. The Chargers appealed against it but were rotated down. Ganguly eventually departed in the 15th over when he was caught by Diplomatist off Rohit Sharma.

Hussey blazed away from the very rank pellet, with Hodge also extract free. Runs came in sudden and wild with Hussey touching quatern sixes and two fours in his 17-ball blow.

The Ennoble Riders got a windfall when R.P. Singh twice no-balled in the 19th over to be replaced by Harmeet Singh, who was hammered by Hussey for 28 runs in the most pricey over so far of the tournament.