Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the toss and then were asked to bat first. Wicket falling was a regular phenomenon starting from the very first over. Dravid got out for 0 and then Chanderpaul, Kallis, Kohli and others also fell cheaply. It was not the start which they had expected and it looked like half the battle is lost when they lost 7 wickets for 90 runs.Praveen Kumar played some good shots and Taylor and Praveen scored 44 and 34 respectively.The bowlers of Rajasthan Royals never let the batsmen score easy runs and were complemented well by the fielders. In the end it was a score of mere 136 to be chased by Rajasthan Royals to have a second straight win in the DLF - IPL.

Scorecard - Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals - 12th Match

Match 12 - Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals

Bangalore Royal Challengers: (probable) 1 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Bharat Chipli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Sunil Joshi, 11 R Vinay Kumar.

Rajasthan Royals: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Yusuf Pathan, 3 Shane Watson, 4 Mohammad Kaif, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 7 Shane Warne (capt), 8 Sohail Tanvir, 9 Dinesh Salunkhe, 10 Pankaj Singh, 11 Siddharth Trivedi.

Date - 12th Match April 26, 2008
Venue - M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
20:00 India time.

Update : Rajasthan Royal Win the toss and elected to bowl first

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Victorious Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Rahul Dravid paid tribute to man-of-the-match Mark Boucher after the South African’s unbeaten knock inspired victory at the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Dravid admitted it was vital his team recovered from the setback of losing to Kolkata Knight Riders in their first match on Friday.

“What a cricketer he is, so cool under pressure,” Dravid said on Setanta Sports 2. “His partnership with Kallis was absolute gold. It just shows what a difference a bit of experience can make. “These guys have been in this position 50 or 60 times in games for their countries. You wouldn’t want anyone else there.

Source :setantasports.com/en/Sport

The 5th match of the Indian Premier League was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. Chasing the target of 166 Royal Challengers Bangalore got to a good start. Dravid and Chanderpaul made 37 runs for the first wicket before Chanderpaul was out. Rahul Dravid was the next one to get out and the team score was 68/2 in 8.5 overs.Ross Taylor was the next to go without bothering Mumbai Indians much. Virat Kohli played a short cameo of 23 runs of 14 balls and was out due to a irresponsible shot. At the end of 13.3 overs Royal Challengers Bangalore were 106/4 with and still needed 60 more runs to win the match. Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher started to play responsibly and played some excellent shots to take the team victory.The partnership of these two was of 55 runs which proved to be enough for the victory. The winning runs were scored by Balachandra Akhil in the last over of the game.

Man Of The Match -  Mark Boucher

Batting Scorecard For Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bowling Scorecard Of Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Check below the highlights of Mumbai Indians Innings (5th match)

Check below the highlights of Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings (5th match)

In the 5th match of IPL, Mumbai Indians were against Bangalore Royal Challengers at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar missed the match due to injury and Harbhajan Singh was the captain for them. He won the toss and decided to bat first. The start was not as Mumbai Indians wished to had and they lost the first wicket at team score of 9. Sanath Jayasuriya was the key player and he made 26 before he was run out by Zaheer Khan. Dominic Thornley was retired hurt and then the whole responsibilty was on the shoulders of Robin Uthappa and Pinal Shah who took the score to 97/3 . Pinal Shah was caught by Kohli of Akhil. Soon after Robin Uthappa was stumped by Boucher of Akhil at a personal score of 48. The team score was 125/4 at the end of 16.5 overs

Shaun Pollock came to center and from the very first ball he smashed the bowl to all corners of the ground. Abhishek Nayar played some useful shots before perishing for 20 runs of 14 balls.Zaheer Khan bowled Pollock of the last ball and Mumbai Indians were limited to 165 runs in 20 overs.

Batting Scorecard For Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bowling Scorecard Of Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Check out the highlights of todays match between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Bangalore Challengers

After what was one of the best batting performance in Twenty20, it was the turn of the bowlers to steal the show. They dented the so said strong batting line of Royal Challengers. Ishant Sharma gave the initial break through by tricking Rahul Dravid - The Wall and then the Royal Challengers Batsmen started falling like a heap of cards.

At the end of the first 10 overs Royal Challengers were 51/7 while chasing the huge 223 in 20 overs.The task looked really impossible and the Knight Riders Bowlers were in no mood to let the Royal Challengers batsmen score easily.The last wicket partnership tried to save some of the salvage but it was a little too late and in they end they lost the match by a huge 140 by being all out for 82. Ishant Sharma was the one who finished the proceedings by picking up the last wicket.

King Khan along with others were seen celebrating the win of Knight Riders

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The opener of the much awaited Indian Premier League can not have been more fantastic.Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and decided to field and the decision proved to be fruitful when the Kolkata Riders three quick wickets,but Mc cullam had some different thoughts. The way he played today it was bang bang all over.The ball was flying to every corner of the ground.He hit 13 sixes and 10 fours in his innings of 158

So now the royal challengers have to achieve 223 in 20 overs which seems to be a difficult task.Keep logged in to iplcricketlive.com for the latest and upto date news of Indian Premier League.

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In IPL ie Indian Premier League Bangalore will be represented by Bangalore Royal Challengers. Rahul Dravid is the icon player and this team is owned by the chairman of UB group Mr. Vijay Mallya .Charu Sharma is the CEO of the team and Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has also been signed-in as a member of the management team.The home ground is M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

In Indian Premier League team “Royal Challengers” that is Dr Vijay Mallya’s Bangalore team will be attired in a attractive mix of red and yellow.The RC team has tied up with Reebok for the sporting uniforms and Louis Phillippe for formals. Monoviraj Khosla has designed the special uniforms for the cheer leaders.

Name And Logo Of IPL Bangalore - Royal Bangalore Challengers

Coaches:
* Head Coach - Venkatesh Prasad
* Assistant Head Coach - TBA
* Physiotherapist - TBA

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Players Of Bangalore Royal Challengers