IPL 4 match 53: Pune Warriors Peg back Deccan Chargers with Mitchell Marsh, Batting

The Pune Warriors managed to back one win with another, this time against the Deccan Chargers with one young upcoming fast bowler and one veteran batsman who made a successful return to the IPL 4.

sourav ganguly batting for pune warriors

mitchell marsh pune warriors

The Deccan Chargers will rue yet another opportunity to make their run count for more. Having started well, the hosts stuttered at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal, Hyderabad. With Ravi Teja contributing thirty runs at the top and Shikar Dhawan starting reasonably well, Deccan Chargers seemed to want to defy history that suggested prudence in batting second.

The Pune Warriors captain, Yuvraj Singh, himself provided the breakthrough with the wicket of Ravi Teja with the score on fifty-one and thereafter, left it to the young Mitchell Marsh to make mayhem even as JP Duminy tried a desperate attempt to turn it around with thirty runs. At seventy-six runs after ten overs, the Deccan Chargers should have accelerated. However, they had lost three wickets by then and Marsh made sure they efforts remained stuttered with four wickets conceding just twenty-five runs, the second best effort economically after Rahul Sharma.

Left to chase 137, the Pune Warriors did not seem to have any doubts about who would end up on the winning side. Fifty-five runs raced off the bats of Jesse Ryder and the watchful Manish Pandey. And it seemed everything was in order until Pragyan Ojha gave the hosts their first breakthrough - the wicket of Ryder for thirty-five runs.

Manish Pandey's departure with the score on ninety-three should not have bothered the Pune Warriors too much. But his stay was ended by Amit Mishra after making a significant contribution of forty-nine runs, leaving Sourav Ganguly to negotiate the tricky period thereafter where Pune Warriors lost two more wickets.

Sourav Ganguly had to quickly put his confidence issues aside, as Pune Warriors relied on every run of his thirty-two runs off thirty-two balls to ensure that they finished the job they had started out with an over and four balls to spare.