Batting: Rajasthan Royals Innings

Batsmen
Rajasthan Royals (180/7 in 20 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Mohammad Kaif
b S Sreesanth
1
5
0
0
20.00

Niraj Patel
b P Chawla
57
39
10
0
146.15

Younis Khan
b I Pathan
3
7
0
0
42.86

Shane Watson (c)
c I Pathan b P Chawla
22
19
1
1
115.79

Yusuf Pathan
c S Marsh b J Hopes
39
15
3
3
260.00

Kamran Akmal
c W Mota b P Chawla
24
8
1
3
300.00

Mahesh Rawat (wk)
not out
23
19
2
1
121.05

Dinesh Salunkhe
c & b J Hopes
6
3
1
0
200.00

Pankaj Singh
not out
1
5
0
0
20.00

Siddharth Trivedi
 
 
 
 
 
 

Munaf Patel
 
 
 
 
 
 

Extras:
b - 0, w - 1, nb - 0, lb - 3
4
 

Total: (180 ….

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This was IPL 55th match between Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians. The match was played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, May 28, 2008. Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
Mark Boucher and Shreevats Goswami opened the batting for Bangalore Royal Challengers. They took the score to 35 where Mark Boucher was out. The highest scorer of the team was Cameron White he made 26 runs out of 20 balls. The team gave Mumbai Indians a target ….

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Batting: Mumbai Indians Innings

Batsmen
Mumbai Indians (126/1 in 16 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Sanath Jayasuriya
c B Akhil b D Steyn
54
37
4
4
145.95

Sachin Tendulkar (c)
not out
40
42
4
1
95.24

Robin Uthappa
not out
19
17
2
1
111.76

Abhishek Nayar

Manish Pandey

Dwayne Smith

Shaun Pollock

Yogesh Takawale (wk)

Dilhara Fernando

Ashish Nehra

Dhawal Kulkarni

Extras:
b - 0, w - 11, nb - 0, lb - 2
13

Total: (126 for 1 in 16 overs)
126
Run Rate: 7.88

Fall Of Wickets

1/96 (Sanath Jayasuriya, 11.3 ov.)

Batting: Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings

Batsmen
Bangalore Royal Challengers (122/9 in 18 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Mark Boucher
c R Uthappa ….

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The best teams take on each other and would leave no chance to prove the superiority so that they have a psychological advantage over each other and thus are high on confidence in the semifinals
Kings XI Punjab (probables): 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 3 Luke Pomersbach, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Ramesh Powar, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.
Rajasthan Royals (probables): 1 Kamran Akmal (wk), 2 Swapnil ….

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With the teams already entering the semi finals, this match is not that important but they still have to play for the prestige.
Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables): 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Rahul Dravid (capt), 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Cameron White, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Shreevats Goswami (wk), 8 B Akhil, 9 Anil Kumble, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 R Vinay Kumar
Mumbai Indians (probables): 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Dwayne Smith, 5 Shaun Pollock, 6 ….

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Chennai Super Kings scored an easy win over Deccan Chargers and stormed in to the semi finals. Chasing a target of 148, they managed to score it with ease with all batsmen contributing to the team success.Chennai bowlers restricted Deccan Chargers to 147 for 8 which made the task of their batsmen little easy and they coasted pretty well to victory. Raina and Dhoni made valuable contributions to storm in to the semis where they will meet Kings XI ….

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New Delhi: As the Indian Premier League authorities toy with the idea of hosting the cash-rich extravaganza twice a year from 2011, Delhi Daredevils’ captain Virender Sehwag warns it may lead to premature retirements among the top players.
IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi, in a recent interview, said for the first three editions, IPL would remain an annual event but after that, he would like to see the Twenty20 league twice a year, starting in May and September.
Sehwag, however, is ….

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Mumbai: Tickets for the Indian Premier League semifinal matches, to be held at the Wankhede Stadium here on May 30 and 31, are going to cost the cricket fans dear with the rates fixed between Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 12,000 for most stands barring the popular East Lower.
The costliest ticket (Rs. 12,000) is the one which gains the fan entry into the Garware Club house, the upper tier to the left of the players’ dressing rooms, according to information provided ….

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RANCHI: Railway minister Lalu Prasad, once a big fan of Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, feels that the cricketer has lost his way.
Lalu, who was here to surrender his passport in a CBI court hearing fodder scam cases, said the ace cricketer has apparently lost interest in the game and is more inclined towards hairstyles and glamour now.
“I have seen Dhoni play from his initial days, but the way he is playing now I can only say there has been ….

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In the 54 th match of DLF - IPL, Deccan Chargers batted first and got a poor start as they lost the openers - Gilly and Gibbs at a team score of just 15.The Chennai Super Kings bowler bowled excellent line and length and didnot let the batsmen of Deccan Chargers score freely. Wickets were falling at regular intervals and in they end they managed only 147 runs. Some relief was brought by Venugopal Rao who was the top scorer ….

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