Sewag's Hurricane made Delhi to win

After watching his bowlers who take wickets in no-balls and his fielders who drop sitters, the captain of Delhi Daredevils took his frustration over Deccan Chargers. He made a blistering century, also his first in Twenty20s. Complete lack of support from his team-mates, Sehwag made a flood of boundaries that help them to make a challenging total. The next highest score was James Hopes' 17.
 

Sehwag has made a career out of sticking in this match. Sehwag shuffled across and glanced a boundary from the middle-stump line to fine leg. The asking-rate crossed eleven at by the end of seven overs. Sehwag broke free in the next over, bowled by IPL debutant Ishan Malhotra. In the first ball of this over he played in deep square leg, in the next ball deep midwicket. Two more boundaries followed, as Sehwag looted 23 off the over. Sehwag plundered 13 off the next over, from Christian.

Sangakkara brought on spin, so often Sehwag's strength as well as weakness. Sehwag displayed his strength first ball, dancing down and launching Amit Mishra over the straight boundary. The weakness was on display next ball, as he rushed out again but ended up slicing to sweeper cover. That is when Deccan decided to return the earlier favours, substitute Ankit Sharma clanging a simple chance. Sehwag gladly guided the third ball through third man for four.
 

Birt departed in the 11th over, having contributed 4 runs to a partnership of 61 off 28 balls. Sehwag ignored the contribution at the other end, dispatching Mishra for three consecutive fours. The second of those boundaries slipped into the boundary from Ravi Teja's grasp, after he had managed to get both hands to the chance.
 

When 69 needed off 48, Sangakkara brought Dale Steyn back. Steyn dug one in short; Sehwag got on top of it, and flashed it past backward point. A desperate Sangakkara turned to Bharat Chipli's gentle medium pacers. Sehwag brought up his hundred off the first ball, and then creamed the next two for sixes. Twenty-seven needed off 30.
 

Victory was looking far away for Delhi when they had permitted Deccan to run on a bouncy pitch. Sangakkara and Shikhar Dhawan had chances grassed, and JP Duminy and Christian would have been dismissed within the space of three balls in the 15th over. Sangakkara's partnership with Duminy was a good affair, with punchy and edged boundaries alternating with swings-and-misses. More luck was to come Deccan's way when Morkel dropped Sangakkara at short fine leg off Ajit Agarkar, and then failed to get near the ball when Dhawan top-edged a pull off the next delivery. Duminy, who had made 77 runs in five previous games, hardly looking like the batsman who had been struggling for runs. He added 71 in 33 deliveries with Christian, as Deccan made 108 in the last ten overs. It counted for little in the end.

Ponting sets India 261 to win second quarter-final.

Ricky Ponting answered his army of critics on Thursday with a fine century to help champions Australia post a competitive total of 260-6 in their World Cup quarter-final against India.
The 36-year-old Ponting, who will likely see his nine-year reign as one-day skipper end should his defending champions lose in Ahmedabad, made a composed 104 off 118 balls after he won the toss and elected to bat.
Opener Brad Haddin hit 53 while the recalled David Hussey pitched in with an unbeaten 38 off 26 balls.
Ponting's hundred, which featured a six and seven fours, was his first in 39 international innings since he made 106 against the West Indies in a one-dayer in Brisbane last year.
The captain, who'd managed just 102 runs at 20.4 in five previous innings this tournament, had come into the match amidst reports he could be quitting international cricket completely after the World Cup. Spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuvraj Singh took four wickets between them with left-arm quick Zaheer Khan taking the other two to fall.
When India bat, Sachin Tendulkar will need one more century to complete a hundred international tons.
But just as defeat could trigger the end of Ponting's reign, a loss would leave the Indian superstar without a world title and, at 38, he is unlikely to play in the 2015 edition. Tendulkar moved to 99 centuries (51 in Tests and 48 in one-day internationals) with a majestic innings of 111 in his side's group match against South Africa.
"He keeps it really simple," said India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. "He doesn't look at the milestones that are coming up for him."
Meanwhile, Pakistan coach Waqar Younis said he is relishing the prospect of playing the last two matches in India to win the World Cup as his team continued its ruthless march.
Pakistan, led from the front by inspirational captain Shahid Afridi, crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets in Dhaka on Wednesday to advance to their first semi-final since 1999.
Waqar said it would be "awesome" if Pakistan was to play India for a place in the final at the Wankhede stadiun in Mumbai on April 2.
"I would love to play India in India," the fast bowling great said. "There is no bigger rivalry in the game than that. We have not played each other in our own country in recent years.
"So it should be very exciting. The two are cricket-loving countries. If it happens it will be awesome."
West Indies coach Ottis Gibson threatened his senior players with the axe after their humiliating defeat.
"We are very very disappointed with our performance," the coach said. "It's a fact that our senior players have not performed. When the going got tough we did not stand up to it."
Star opener Chris Gayle managed just 170 runs in the tournament, Shivnarine Chanderpaul made 114, Ramnaresh Sarwan just 115 and big-hitter Kieron Pollard scored 180.
The third quarter-final will be between South Africa and New Zealand in Dhaka on Friday with Sri Lanka hosting England in Colombo on Saturday. England all-rounder Michael Yardy quit the World Cup on Thursday suffering from depression.