Gilly's Danda Powers Bull Run

After lying low for three matches, the Deccan Chargers came out in full force on Sunday to maul Mumbai Indians and record their first win of the IPL tournament at the D.Y. Patil Stadium here.

After restricting the home side to a modest 154, the Chargers made mockery of the Mumbai total courtesy Adam Gilchrist’s savage 47-ball 109 not out to overhaul the target in just 12 overs without losing a wicket. The win took DC from eighth to sixth on the points table, which has Bangalore and Mumbai languishing at the bottom.

Gilchrist exploded like a dynamite, cracking 10 soaring sixes and nine boundaries to batter the Mumbai bowlers, in the process recording the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket (42 balls). The previous fastest hundred, off 47 balls, was set by Gilly’s teammate Andrew Symonds during the Chargers’ last game against Rajasthan Royals at home last week.

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Indian Premier League thrill starts today

Boundaries will matter as usual. But national boundaries will not.

As the Indian Premier League action gets underway with the match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders at Bangalore on Friday, traditional rivalries and friendships will give way to explosive new combinations.

With players from around the world crisscrossing borders with only the essential spirit of the game to guide them, a new cosmopolitanism has entered the game.

Cricket will no longer be the same after the eight IPL franchises have had their say, or play.

Newfound partnerships will matter more to the players than old loyalties as eight teams fight it out in 59 Twenty20 matches over 44 days.

Prize money worth Rs 4 crore awaits the team that would win the June 1 final. The franchises have spent bushels of money to acquire the teams and star players and have done everything to ensure that the cup of entertainment would overflow.

It promises to be an electrifying experience when the likes of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Andrew Symonds, Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne clash on the field, in different permutations this time. The Deccan Chargers, with devastating batsmen such as Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs and Shahid Afridi in their ranks, appear to be the most menacing of the squads and should go all the way.

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