Deccan Chargers players celebrate their victory, in Hyderabad, on Thursday

Hyderabad: Deccan Chargers snapped their eight-match losing streak at their home ground with a 33-run crushing of Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League match here Thursday.

Bharat Chipli first helped Chargers set up a 175 for five with a blistering unbeaten 61 after being put in to bat. The home side then restricted RCB to 142 for 9 to break the jinx of not winning any of their seven previous matches at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium at Uppal. This was also Chargers’s first win this season after losing their first two matches.

The Chargers bowlers complemented the superb show by their batsmen with pacers Dale Steyn and Manpreet Gony taking three wickets each by conceding 24 and 31 runs, respectively. Ishant Sharma, Daniel Christian and Amit Mishra chipped in with one wicket apiece.

RCB, who lost to Mumbai Indians in their last match after starting their campaign on a winning note, suffered early jolts by losing four wickets inside seven overs and could never recover.

Virat Kohli fought a lone battle with a superb 51-ball 71 which was studded with five fours and three sixes but he did not get support from his teammates.

Chasing a target of 176, RCB had just one substantial partnership — 54 from 5.4 overs for the sixth wicket between Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara. Steyn and Ishant did the early damage to RCB with swing and bounce.

Ishant got success in his first over and the second of the innings by removing the dangerous Tillekaratne Dilshan for just seven, caught behind by Chargers captain and wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara.

RCB sent in Zaheer Khan as one-down but the team-management’s ploy to use him as pinch hitter failed as he was out for nought after facing three balls with a Steyn full toss crashing onto his wickets.

RCB were 16 for two in the third over. Sangakkara brought in Gony in place of Steyn in the fifth over and Deccan got immediate success in the form of the wicket of opener Mayank Agrawal.

Agarwal holed out to Amit Mishra at mid-on while trying to play a big shot as RCB found themselves in trouble at 27 for three in the fifth over.

(Agencies)