Delhi: Virat Kohli smashed 56 off 38 deliveries as Royal Challengers Bangalore beat the Delhi Daredevils by 3 wickets with three balls to spare in match 30 of IPL-4 at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Tuesday.
Earlier, a flurry of wickets put the Royal Challengers on the backfoot.
Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli sent the Daredevils bowlers on a leather hunt after Tillakratne Dilshan went for a first ball duck.
James Hopes scored a valuable half-century to enable Delhi post a challenging 160 for six against the Royal Challengers.
Hopes made vital 54 runs off 43 balls during which he hit seven fours to steer the Delhi innings after captain Virender Sehwag (25) and David Warner (7) fell early.
Y Venugopal Rao (24), Naman Ojha (16) and Irfan Pathan (13 not out) also made useful contributions with the bat to guide Delhi to a decent score.
Young right-arm pacer Abhimanyu Mithun was the pick of the bowlers for the Bangalore outfit with figures of two for 37 while Zaheer Khan (1/27), Sreenath Arvind (1/30) and skipper Daniel Vettori (1/25) scalped wicket apiece.
Sent into bat, Daredevils were off to a shaky start as they lost both their openers inside the first seven overs.
David Warner was the first to depart, cleaned by Zaheer Khan with an in-swinging delivery as he went for a booming drive.
Daredevils captain Sehwag too failed to make much of an impact in front of the home crowd as he was run out in pursuit of a tight single with the scoreboard reading 43 for two.
Australian James Hopes, however, was in an attacking mood as he hit Chris Gayle for back-to-back boundaries in his first over.
But Daredevils' problems were further compounded when Abhimanyu Mithun disturbed Mathew Wade's timbers.
James Hopes and Y Venugopal Rao then joined hands and not only steadied the Delhi innings, but also upped the tempo with some lusty shots.
The duo took the attack to the opposition and sent the bad deliveries to its logical conclusion to bring up Delhi's 100 in 13.2 overs.
But just when it was time to accelerate, Venugopal Rao departed bowled by Vettori in the first delivery of the 16th over.
The pair put on 47 runs off 38 balls for the fourth wicket.
New man in Naman Ojha, however, made his intentions clear from the onset as after playing three dot balls, he clobbered Vettori over the long-off boundary for the second six of Delhi innings.
Ojha then struck Zaheer over long-on boundary in the next over to notch up his second six of the innings.
But after doing all the hardwork, Hopes fell as he edged one to AB de Villiers off Mithun behind the stumps. Pathan then used his long handle to great affect, hitting two lusty sixes to take Delhi beyond the 150-run mark.
In pics: Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
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