Ishant Sharma took five wickets in three overs as Deccan Chargers beat Kochi Tuskers Kerala by 55 runs in their IPL match at Nehru stadium in Kochi on Wednesday.
Chasing a victory target of 130 runs, Kochi were bundled out for 74 runs in 16.3 overs.
Ishant took five wickets in two overs to reduce Kochi to 11/6 in4 overs.
Dale Steyn gave Deccan the firstbreakthrough when he had Brendon McCullum caught behind by Kumar Sangakkara on the fourth ball of the Kochi innings.
Ishant struck thrice in his first over. The tall pacer first had Parthiv Patel caught behind by Sangakkara and then clean bowled Raiphi Gomez and Brad Hodge.
Earlier Kochi captain Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and chose to bowl.
Kochi have brought in Brendon McCullum and S Sreesanth in place of Muthiah Muralitharan and VVS Laxman.
The Chargers have dropped Pragyan Ojha in favour of Manpreet Gony.
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