Title: Delhi dare Royals, win the dare

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It seems that no one can know what will happen in IPL. Everything seems to happening exactly opposite to what happened last year in 2008.

As defending champions Rajasthan Royals hopes of making the semi-finals of the Indian Premier League (IPL) suffered a blow Sunday with their 14-run loss to Delhi Daredevils.

It looks tough for Rjasthan Royals as they have 13 points from 13 matches and are now lying at fifth place. A win here would have boosted them to third place Chasing 151, Rajasthan Royals managed only 136 for nine with Amit Mishra taking three
wickets.

Daredevils' innings revolved around AB devilliers' brilliant unbeaten 79 off 55 balls, studded with eight fours and a six. Munaf Patel stuck onto a spectacular
one-handed catch off his own bowling to remove Gambhir and then trapped Sehwag in front in the third over.

Mishra then took three wickets, two off successive deliveries, to cripple the middle-order.  Yusuf Pathan got out cheaply to Mahroof.

Munaf Patel made a bold attempt, hitting three succesive boundaries in the last over with 28 required, but it came too late.  Earlier, with Daredevils electing to bat, De Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan added 87 runs for the third wicker after the fall of skipper Virender Sehwag and Gautum Gambhir.

Rajasthan bowlers kept it tight, but a late flurry of shots dashed their hopes of restricting Daredvils to a lower score.  Dilshan departed in the 17th over, bowled by Johan Botha, before Munaf was hammered for 25 runs in the penultimate over, with De Villiers and Dinesh Karthick (23) hitting him for two sixes and two fours. 

Royals top-order once again failed with their top three batsmen back in the dugout in the first seven overs with only 24 runs on the board. Johan Botha and Ravindra Jadeja added 55 runs to steady the innings. Aavishkar Salvi got the breakthrough, dismissing Jadeja in the 13th over to trigger a lower order collapse.

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