Today was a match between Mumbai Indians vs Kings and Kings XI Punjab in the DLF - IPL. This was the 45 match of the league. Mumbai Indians vs Kings won the toss and decided to bowl first. Shaun Marsh and James Hopes opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab and James Hopes was out on duck on the third ball of the match. Shaun Marsh and Luke Pomersbach took the score to 134 where Shaun Marsh was out. The score of the team was 101 for the loss of 1 wickets in 12 overs. Shaun Marsh was the top scorer for Kings XI Punjab. In the end the team scored 189 runs in 20 overs.

Today Match 45- Scorecard - Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab

This is IPL 45th match played between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab

Mumbai Indians (probables) :- Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar (c), Robin Uthappa, Dwayne Smith, Abhishek Nayar, Pinal Shah (wk), Shaun Pollock, Vikrant Yeligati, Siddharth Chitnis, Dilhara Fernando, Ashish Nehra

Kings XI Punjab (probables) :- Shaun Marsh, James Hopes, Luke Pomersbach, Yuvraj Singh (c) , Mahela Jayawardene, Tanmay Srivastava, Irfan Pathan, Uday Kaul (wk), Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth, VRV Singh

Date - May 21, 2008 45th Match
Venue - Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
20:00 India time.

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Today was a match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab in the DLF - IPL. This was the 40th match of the league. Delhi Daredevils won the toss and decided to bat first. The match was reduced to 11 overs due to heavy rainfall at Delhi. Kings XI Punjab were given a target of 119 by Delhi Daredevils.Shaun Marsh and James Hopes opened the batting for Kings XI but the start was not good. They were out with 2 and 4 scores respectively. Mahela Jayawardene was the top scorer for the team, he scored 36 runs in 17 balls and thus helped the team to win the match. The match was not over and rains again interrupted and this time , it was decided to follow the D/L rule By D/L rule, Kings XI Punjab won the match by 6 runs. The equations were changing after every ball and it was a smart captaincy by Yuvraj Singh which assured the win.

Today Match 40- Scorecard - Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab

This is going to be a real entertainer. Both the teams need to win this match so as to get a berth in the semi’s and we hope to see a tough competition between Sehwag and Yuvraj.

Delhi Daredevils (probables): 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 AB de Villiers (wk), 5 Manoj Tiwary, 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 7 Farveez Maharoof, 8 Rajat Bhatia, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Yo Mahesh, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Kings XI Punjab (probables): 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Luke Pomersbach, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Tanmay Srivastava, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Uday Kaul (wk), 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Date - May 17, 2008 Match-40
Venue - Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
20:00 India time.

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Today was a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in the DLF - IPL. This was the 38 match of the league. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl. They were given a target of 67 runs which was a very small target and Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar opened the batting for Mumbai Indians and took the score to 6 before Sachin Tendulkar was out.  Sanath Jayasuriya was the top scorer and thus helped the team to won the match by 8 wkts

Match Notes Are :

• Kolkata Knight Riders innings
• Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 11.5 overs (76 balls), Extras 6
• Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders - 67/10 in 15.2 overs (AB Dinda 1)

• Mumbai Indians innings
• Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 4.1 overs (28 balls), Extras 4

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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Kings XI were defeated by Chennai Super Kings today in the 31 match of DLF - IPL by 18 runs. Chasing a target of 182, Kings XI had a bad start and lost two wickets at just 29. Then Sarwan and Marsh took the score to 95 at which Sarwan was out. Once he went, Kings XI lost 3 more wickets in quick succession and were 115/6 in 15 overs.They needed 55 runs from the last 3 overs and that was really a herculean task. Pathan and Piyush Chawla played some good shots but all the efforts went to vain as the run rate was more than they could achieve.Though it brought some smiles on the face of Preity Zinta but those were short lived and they needed 27 in the last over. The first ball was hit for a six but after that the wickets started to fell Balaji got a hattrick in the last over of the match and become the first bowler to do so in IPL. 

Today - Match 31 - Scorecard - Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab

Today was a match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab in the DLF - IPL. This was the 31st match of this league. Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to field. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan and Stephen Fleming opened the batting for Chennai Super and took the score to just 10 when Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan was out. Stephen Fleming followed him when the team’s score was just 20. Two main wickets were down in just 3 overs. The score of the team was 64 for the loss of 3 wickets in 7 overs. Subramaniam Badrinath was the top scorer for Chennai Super Kings He scored 64 runs out of 41 balls He was catch out by Yuvraj Singh. At one stage it looked that they will post a target in excess of 200 but some brilliant bowling in the end by Kings XI restricted them. Chennai Super Kings were able to score just 37 runs in the last 5 overs and thus they were limited to 181 runs in 20 overs.

Today - Match 31 - Scorecard - Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab