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Having lost the first three matches in the sixth season of the Pepsi Indian Premier League, Delhi Daredevils couldn't have asked for better news going into their fourth match of the season than to have a fit-again Virender Sehwag train continuous at the Ferozeshah Kotla in the center.

With the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad set to be played at eight in the evening on Friday, Sehwag will have additional time to warm-up ahead of the must-win clash.

Virat Kohli on fire his way to a 47-ball 93 as Royal Challengers Bangalore made a easy of Sunrisers Hyderabad’s total of 161 in the 9th match of the IPL. Chasing a frightening 162 for victory, Royal Challengers got there with 14 balls to spare thanks to Kohli's blitz. The Bangalore captain and young cricketer gave the home crowd bounty to cheer about as he smashed 11 fours and four maximums in his knock unbeaten 93, which is his highest score in the IPL.

Previous, Hanuma Vihari opened the bowling for Sunrisers again; the 19-year-old had got Chris Gayle for a duck in the first leg last match. However, Mayank Agarwal took strike first and smacks the youngster for a six and four.

Virender Sehwag likely return to action

Mumbai Indians face Delhi Daredevils; they would have been definite favourites. The Delhi Daredevils looked harshly depleted in the first two games, with their best batsman and bowler missing in action. Star dasher Virender Sehwag was out with back spasms, while pace ace Morne Morkel was demanding playing the domestic T20 competition back home in South Africa.

As a result, the Devils lost their first two games against Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. Going into today’s clash between the two sides at the Wankhede Stadium, however, things could be entirely different. Morkel is back for a fresh spell with DD, and launches himself into the competition with this game.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, motivated by Chris Gayle and grateful to Vinay Kumar, made a winning start to their IPL 6 battle in nail-biting manner by beating Mumbai Indians by two runs over at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Defending 10 runs off the last over of Mumbai's innings, Vinay removed half-centurion Dinesh Karthik and Ambati Rayudu in consecutive deliveries.

The match was beginning to the equal battle following Karthik's attack on Daniel Christian in a 24-run 17th over, but when Jaydev Unadkat conceded just seven from the second to last the responsibility was on Vinay. He managed to keep his cool, and how. But Bangalore's win would not have been possible without the batting heroics of the Chris Gayle made 92 off 58 balls; the rest of the Bangalore batsmen managed 48 off 62.