The 31 match is between the two best teams in DLF- Indian Premier League.Lets check who can hold on the nerves and register a win.

Chennai Super Kings: 1 S Vidyut, 2 Stephen Fleming, 3 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), 4 Suresh Rania, 5 Albie Morkel, 6 Chamara Kapugedera, 7 S Badrinath, 8 Manpreet Gony, 9 Palani Amarnath, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Lakshmipathy Balaji.

Kings XI Punjab: 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 Gagandeep Singh, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Date - May 10, 2008 31st Match
Venue - M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
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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Knight Riders continue to loose where as Kings XI continue to win .Knight Riders were defeated by Kings XI Punjab in the 22nd match of DLF - Indian Premier League. Chasing the target of 179,they lost Ganguly when the team score was 22.Soon Hafeez, Hogg and Dass were also back in the pavilion and the Knight Riders were in dire straits. Half of the team was out in 9.4 overs at a score of 50 and it looked like a mere formality is to be done by Kings XI to win the match but David Hussey and Saha raised some hope and had a partnership of 104 runs.This could not proved to be sufficient as the run rate was way too high for Knight Riders to chase. Knight Riders needed 55 runs in last 3 overs and Hussey and Saha hit some huge sixes and thus they needed19 runs in the last over. The last over was bowled by Irfan Pathan and he gave only 8runs and thus Kings XI won the 4th match in a row.

Today - Match 22 - Scorecard - Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders

In the 22nd match of DLF - IPL, Kings XI won the toss and decided to bat first. They got to a good start and scored 28 runs in 3.5 overs before loosing Hopes. The next wicket to go was of Yuvraj Singh who scored a quick fire 17 of just 10 balls. But this wicket stand was a good one for Kings XI and they took the score of the team to 82/2 in 9 overs. Saun Mash was the top scorer with 40 runs of just 32 balls. Other batsmen of Kings XI also chipped in with useful contributions.Kumara Sangakkara  scored some exquisites boundaries and got on to score 28 runs.Piyush Chawala scored 21 runs of 7 balls to finish the innings. The last  over brought some relief for Kings XI and they scored 21 runs in Ishant Sharma’s over. Kings XI finished the innings at 178/6 and now we have to wait and watch what special the bowlers can do so as to restrict the Kolkata Knight Riders from getting that target.

Today - Match 22 - Scorecard - Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Today is the 22nd match in DLF IPL between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders are loosing the matches in a row and now need to break that jinx where as Kings XI Punjab are riding on success and will go all over to maintain the winning streak. So we can expect a good battle on the ground between these two teams.

Kings XI Punjab (probable) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Gagandeep Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

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

Date - 22nd Match May 3, 2008
Venue - Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
20:00 India time.

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In the 19th match Of DLF - IPL, Kings XI defeated Deccan Chargers convincingly by 7 wickets. Chasing the target of 165, Kings XI started well and scored 41 runs in 6 overs for the first wicket partnership. Sarwan was the one to get out and that too very unfortunately as the straight drive touched the hands of Bangar and cliped the bails off. Kumara Sangakkara was the next to go  for mere 3 runs and the score was 45/2 in 6.5 overs. Yuvraj Singh came to the center and played awesome shots. He just scored 14 runs before being dismissed by Zoysa. Even when the wickets were falling on the other hand, one man was holding the innings together. He was Shaun Marsh who scored 84 runs. Mahela Jaywardene also played a responsible innings and played some of his trademark shots in covers. Both these players had a very good partnership and it was the batting of this duo which took the match from Deccan Chargers.

Scorecard - Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab - 19th Match

In the 19th match of DLF - IPL Deccan Chargers took Kings XI at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Kings XI won the toss and decided to filed first.Laxman was at his very best and played some elegant shots. But Gilly (Gilchrist) could not capitalise on the start and was out for only 6. Then the next to go was the very explosive batsman Gibbs for only 7. Deccan Chargers kept loosing wickets on the other end but Laxman played a captain’s knock of 48 before being dismissed by Chawla. The middle order failed miserably with Afridi, Rao, Zoysa and Bangar all back to pavilion when the team score was 98. But Rohit Sharma was the man who again played the prestige saving innings for Deccan Chargers. He scored 76 runs in 42 balls.He played the shots with much elegance and totally entertained the crowd. It was his heroic efforts which took the score to 164  in 20 overs. 17 runs were scored in the 19th over of the match.

Scorecard - Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab - 19th Match

In the 19th match of DLF - IPL, Kings XI Punjab take on Deccan Chargers. Both the teams are high on confidence after winning the last match. Now both want to maintain the winning streak and thus we expect it to be a thriller of a match.

Deccan Chargers (probable) 1 Adam Gilchrist (wk), 2 VVS Laxman (capt), 3 Herschelle Gibbs, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Sanjay Bangar, 7 Arjun Yadav, 8 Nuwan Zoysa, 9 Pragyan Ojha, 10 RP Singh, 11 D Kalyankrishna.

Kings XI Punjab (probable) 1 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 2 James Hopes, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Ajitesh Argal, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Date - May 1, 2008 - 19th Match
Venue - Rajiv Gandhi Int. Stadium, Hyderabad
20:00 India time.

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