NEW DELHI: Paul Collingwood struck a breezy 46-ball 75 before bowlers wrecked havoc as Delhi Daredevils inched closer towards booking a semi-final berth beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 37 runs in their Indian Premier League match on Sunday.

Openers Virender Sehwag (35) and David Warner (33) set the tone but it was Collingwood’s three fours and seven sixes, that catapulted Daredevils to a competitive 184-5. The hosts then put up a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Bangalore to 147-9 and moved one place up to the second spot.

Spinner Amit Mishra and paceman Pradeep Sangwan picked up three wickets each, while Farveez Maharoof, Daniel Vettori and Rajat Bhatia baged one wicket apiece.

South African Jacques Kallis picked up his fifth fifty of this IPL season but his 42-ball 54 was not enough as the Bangalore outfit lost wickets at regular intervals. Chasing 185 to win, Bangalore rushed to 25 in three overs. But opener Cameron White’s wicket in the fourth over put brakes on the Royal Challengers innings as Kallis and Kevin Pietersen picked up ones and twos to build up the innings.

However, Sangwan’s yorker cleaned up Pietersen as Royal Challengers slumped to 52-2 in 9.2 overs. Needing 105 off 45 balls, Ross Taylor walloped three sixes to take them to 105-3 in 14 overs.

But Taylor’s 10-ball 22 knock was cut short when Bhatia trapped him leg before wicket. Kallis also perished in the very next over. Needing 79 off 34 balls, Virat Kohli (13), Vinay Kumar (3), Rahul Dravid (14) and Abhimanyu Mithun (5) tried their bit but it was not enough.