20 overs Deccan Chargers 129 for 7 (Sangakkara 65, Vinay 3-27) v Kochi Tuskers It was quite a rollercoaster ride. Kochi Tuskers Kerala bossed around in the first ten overs and haemorrhaged in the middle overs before taking control in the final four to restrict Deccan Chargers to 129.
Kochi will be ruing a no-ball from Sreesanth which allowed Sangakkara to indulged in that middle-over massacre. Sangakkara was on 5 when Sreesanth produced a jaffa - it bent back in from the off stump line to knock out the middle stump - but the third umpire confirmed the on-field umpire's suspicion that it was a no-ball. The next ball was a beamer- Sreesanth apologised to Sangakkara - but Kochi still retained control till the 10th over.
It was the 11th over, bowled by Thisara Perera, that changed the landscape. Both Sangakkara and Cameron White, who was on 6 from 17 balls, pulled two short deliveries to the boundary to take 11 runs in that over. It wasn't your massive "big over" that IPL throws up on a daily basis but it was the spark that ignited Deccan, and Sangakkara in particular.
In the 12th over, he dragged Vinay Kumar for two leg-side boundaries and threw in the conventional and the upper cut to collect two more fours in the 14th over, off Perera. He continued to slash and heave and even unfurled a paddle-swept boundary off Sreesanth but the next over over from Vinay proved the turning point.
He had White holing out to deep midwicket off the fifth delivery and induced Sangakkara to edge a slower one off the next, sucking out the oxygen from the innings. The lower order couldn't produce anything substantial and Deccan derailed.
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