Pune keep Deccan to 136

Deccan Chargers had no clue about Yuvraj Singh's round-arm left-arm spin, losing two wickets to him at crucial junctures, scoring only 17 off his four overs. As a result, a quick start was wasted, and only a middling total achieved on a flat track with true bounce and pace. Shikhar Dhawan and DB Ravi Teja had brought up the fifty at the end of the sixth over, but Yuvraj dismissed Dhawan in his first over, and the squeeze that followed slowed Deccan down. Five fours and two sixes were hit in the first six overs, only six boundaries in the rest of the piece.

Dhawan and Teja were good against the medium pace of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shrikanth Wagh, and Dhawan welcomed Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell to the crease with sixes. When he tried to do the same to Yuvraj, who had brought himself on to stop the bleeding, the bowler pulled the length back, bowled a little slower, and Dhawan could only sky him to cover. Mitchell Marsh followed it up with a played-on dismissal of Teja's. At 56 for 2 in the eighth over, Kumar Sangakkara and JP Duminy tried to make sure there were no more quick strikes.

Rahul Sharma, then, played his part, beating Sangakkara's sweep with a flat, straight delivery. Yuvraj came back, and tortured Daniel Christian with deliveries that wouldn't spin. Finally Christian played around his front pad to be caught dead plumb. At 98 for 3 in the 15th over, the onus was on Duminy to take Deccan to a good total. However, as has been the case of late, Duminy couldn't make a telling contribution, managing a run-a-ball 30. Marsh came back to earn rewards for earlier hard work: three men got out looking to force the pace in the 19th over.

Dale Steyn, faced with the prospect of defending a pedestrian total, took matters in his own hands, and scored 10 off the last over, in the process scoring only the third boundary since the 15th overs; the first two two had been a misfiled and an outside edge.