Kings XI Punjab won today’s match against Royal Challengers Bangalore comprehensively by 9 wickets and the hero for today’s match for Kings XI was Shaun Marsh who scored 74 and almost hit every bowler for some exquisite shots for four and sixes. Chasing the target of 144, they lost the first wicket at 42 in form of James Hope. After that Marsh and Luke Pomersbach had no looking back and they guided Kings XI to a well deserved victory. With this win, Kings XI have almost made it to the semifinals and Royal Challengers are almost out of the race for a berth in semi’s.

Today - Match 34 - Scorecard - Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Royal Challengers won the toss today in the 34 th match of DLF -IPL and decided to bat first. As happened in almost every match, they lost first wicket at 4 and then Misbah and Kohli took the score to 36 at which Misbah was out. Kohli also followed him soon and was out when team score was 49. Royal Challengers kept on loosing wickets at regular intervals and this was the reason they could not pose a huge target.Nearly all the Royal Challengers batsmen got the start but no could make it big. Boucher played some good shots in the end and thus helped Royal Challengers to set a target of 143 in alloted 20 overs. All praise go to the Kings XI bowlers who bowled balls right in the deck to restrict the Royal Challengers from hitting boundaries in the last overs.

Today - Match 34 - Scorecard - Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

In DLF-IPL, Kings XI take on already shattered Royal Challengers. The Royal Challengers internal issues have also come up and have worsen the scenario for them.This has added more problems and now it looks that even if they win today,they are almost out of the league.Mallaya believes that it was a wrong choice of team by Dravid that has lead to all this debacle. On the other hand, Kings XI are high on confidence and today it seems to be a cake walk for them. But you can not guarantee anything in cricket so we have to wait and watch.

King’s XI Punjab (probables): 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Piyush Chawla, 8 Uday Kaul (wk), 9 Sreesanth, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Gagandeep Singh.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables): 1 J Arunkumar, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Mark Boucher (wk), 4 Cameron White, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Rahul Dravid (capt), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 Anil Kumble, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Vinay Kumar.

Date - May 12, 2008 34th Match
Venue - Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
20:00 India time.

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In the rain interrupted match, Kolkata Knight Riders broke the jinx and atlast won the match by runs. They had set a target of 130 for the Royal Challengers and that proved to be too much for the Royal Challengers. They started off miserably and lost Chaderpaul of just 17 and then the next to go was Jagadeesh Arunkumar.The problem for Challengers was not wickets but the climbing runrate. The bowlers of Knight Riders were superbly assisted by the fielders. Fielders were throwing themself for saving each run and in the end it was the combine efforts of superb bowling and fielding which helped Knight Riders win the match. In the last over Royal Challengers needed 19 runs and they were short by 5 runs. So after loosing the last 4 matches Knight Riders are back and the happiness was seen on in the camp and also on the dancing Shahrukh Khan’s face.

Today - Match 29 - Scorecard - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

The 29th match of DLF - IPL was interrupted by rain and due to this, umpires had decided to reduce the overs to 16 over each. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat first but had a dismal start as they lost Akash Chopra when the team score was 9. Soon Hodge also was out leaving the Knight Riders at 20/2. Captain Ganguly then played some brave shots before he was brilliantly run out and the team score was 46/3. Hussey and Taibu then took the score past 50 and at a team score of 64 at which Hussey also returned to pavilion.Taibu and L.N Shukla also felt soon and the Knight Riders were struggling at 88/6 in 12 overs. Some sloppy fielding and some good hits to the boundary finally took the score of Knight Riders to 129 runs in 16 overs.

Lets see how the bowlers try to restrict the Royal Challengers Batsmen.

Today - Match 29 - Scorecard - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Match 29 - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be a do or die for both the teams. Kolkata Knight Riders started this league on a winning note but have not maintained the success and are now loosing ina row. On the other hand Royal Challnegers are under huge pressure due to the sacking of CEO Charu Sharma and also do to the poor show of the team.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 2 J Arun Kumar, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Bharat Chipli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Knight Riders (probables) 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Salman Butt, 3 Debabrata Das, 4 Brad Hodge, 5 David Hussey, 6 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Match Details :

Date - May 8, 2008 29th Match
Venue - Eden Garden Kolkata
20:00 India time.

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Today was a match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kings XI Punjab in the DLF - IPL. This was the 25th match of this league. Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to field first. They were given a target of 127 which was mearly a small target to achieve by Kings XI Punjab. Shaun Marsh and James Hopes opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab and took the score to 11 before James Hopes was caught by C White in the second over of the match. The score of the team was 81 for the loss of 2 wickets in 10 overs. The captain of the team Yuvraj singh was caught by D Patil, he scored just 1 run. Even the bowling part of Kings XI Punjab of today’s match was excellent, it looked like the luck was favoring them. Shaun Marsh was the top scorer for Kings XI Punjab and thus helped the team to win the match by 6 wickets

Match Notes Are :

• Bangalore Royal Challengers innings
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 50 runs in 9.6 overs (64 balls), Extras 4
• 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (V Kohli 22, R Dravid 26, Ex 2)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 100 runs in 15.6 overs (101 balls), Extras 10
• R Dravid: 50 off 44 balls (7 x 4)
• Innings Break: Bangalore Royal Challengers - 126/10 in 19.2 overs (DW Steyn 1)

• Kings XI Punjab innings
• Kings XI Punjab: 50 runs in 5.3 overs (37 balls), Extras 9
• 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (SE Marsh 13, RR Sarwan 29, Ex
• Kings XI Punjab: 100 runs in 13.1 overs (85 balls), Extras 15

Today - Match 25th - Scorecard - Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab

Today it was Rahul Dravid vs Yuvraj Singh as Royal Challengers were to compete with Kings XI Punjab.Kings XI won the toss and decided to field first.The decision of Yuvi proved very beneficial and the bowlers of Kings XI got the first break through on the 4th ball of the innings. Sreesanth gave double blow and got the second wicket on the 5th ball of the very first over.Royal Challengers were struggling at 1/2. Royal Challengers were not yet fully recovered and Kallis was also run out leaving the team at 15/3 in 3.3 overs. Virat Kohli and Dravid then took the score to 69 and then Kohli was out. Misbah was the next to go and Royal Challengers had lost 5 key players for just 98. Praveen Kumar got out without even bothering the score card and thus a total of 5 batsmen from Royal Challengers were out for a duck in today’s match. Full credit goes to the bowlers of Kings XI for making the Royal Challengers batsmen struggle to make runs. In the end it was the bowlers of Kings XI who bundled out the whole team for 126 in 19.2 overs.

Today - Match 25th - Scorecard - Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab

In the 25th match of DLF - IPL, Royal Challengers will take on Kings XI Punjab. Both the teams are on a roll after winning the last match and Royal Challengers would go for a hunt to stop the winning streak of Kings XI and thus continue the win sequence which started a bit late for them. We hope to see a good match and lets see Dravid or Yuvraj who proves to be heavier for each other.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Bharath Chipli, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Cameron White, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Kings XI Punjab: (probables) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Karan Goel, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Sreesanth, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Gagandeep Singh.
Match Details :

Date - May 5, 2008 25th Match
Venue - M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

20:00 India time.

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The poor run of Royal Challengers Bangalore ended today and they won today’s match by 3 runs. Chasing the target of 157  Deccan Chargers lost Gilly and Gibbs at team score of 31. Very very special Laxman played the captains knock and was firm on one end. Rohit Sharma came to the center and got into a decent partnership with Laxman. Rohit Sharma and V.V.S.Laxman both scored half centuries and with this half century, Rohit Sharma became the highest run getter in the Indian Premier League and thus will wear the orange cap now. They needed 42 runs in the last 4 overs. Kallis was the bowler and Sharma hit the 1st ball for a four and the second for a six.In an effort to hit one more six, Rohit Sharma got out after having a partnership of 96 with Laxman.Afridi was the one who came after the dismissal of Sharma and Deccan Chargers needed 29 runs in 18 balls.Afridi was out for 1 and it looked that Royal Challengers are back again in the game.Wickets were falling continuously and the main stay Laxman was also out leaving the team in  need of 25 runs from 2 overs. Zaheer got Styris in the second last over and bowled an excellent line. Deccan Chargers needed 20 runs in the last over and that proved to be too much for them. Deccan Chargers could not capitalize on the innings of Laxman and Rohit Sharma and lost a match which was almost in their favor. Kumble was hit for 2 sixes and Deccan Chargers needed 5 off the last bowl but they could not score it and thus Royal Challengers Bangalore Won By 3 Runs.It was a match which witnessed  changing fortunes in the last 5 overs. Earlier it looked that Deccan Chargers would easily win the match but some excellent bowling by Royal Challengers Bangalore assured the win.

Today - Match 21 - Scorecard - Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers