Today was a match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings in the DLF - IPL, played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. This was the 24th match of the league. Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. It seems from the very first ball of the match that Rajasthan Royals were in no mood to let Chennai Super Kings to play well. Parthiv Patel and Stephen Fleming opened the batting for Chennai Super Kings and was the worst start for their team. On the very first ball Parthiv Patel was lbw by Sohail Tanvir, moreover Stephen Fleming as also lbw by Sohail Tanvir on the fifty ball of the match. The score was 11 when Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan was caught by Shane Warne. The partnership of Suresh Raina and Albie Morkel took the team score to 87/6. The score of the team was 91 for the loss of 7 wickets in 15 overs. Albie Morkel was the top scorer for Chennai Super. Five batsmen were out on 0 score. In the end the team scored 109 runs in 20 overs.

Sohail Tanvir was at his excellence, he took 6 wickets in 4 overs, 14 runs

Today - Match 24 - Scorecard - Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings

Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings is going to be a real thriller today.Rajasthan Royals have won the last played matches where as Chennai Super Kings have suffered the first defeat in the last match from Delhi Daredevils.We have to wait till 8pm IST for this Manoranjan Ka Baap.Here are the expected teams

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

Chennai Super Kings: (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Stephen Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 S Badrinath, 6 Albie Morkel, 7, S Vidyut, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Muttiah Muralitharan, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

Date - May 4, 2008 24th Match
Venue - Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
20:00 India time.

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In the 18 th match of DLF - IPL Rajasthan Royals created yet another upset by defeating one of the strongest team of the league ie Kolkata Knight Riders. Chasing the target of 197, Knight Riders lost Salman Butt very early and then Ajit Agarkar also perished after playing some good shots. The whole responsibility was on the shoulders of Captain - Saurav Ganguly who played a good innings of 51. But Rajasthan Royals just striked at right moments and got rid of Ganguly when he was looking very dangerous, soon L.R. Shukla was also run out and it looked all like a real difficult task for the Knight Riders. Hussey on the other end was playing a brilliant innings but his efforts went to vain as no other Knight Rider Batsmen was able to cope up with the increasing run rate. They needed 61 runs in last 4 overs and thus the batsmen felt to the pressure and lost the wickets. In the end it was an emphatic win of Rajasthan Royals by 45 runs.

Now Kolkata Knight Riders have lost 3 in a row and Rajasthan Royals have won 4 in a row.

Scorecard - Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders - 18th Match

The so called underdogs - Rajasthan Royals of the Indian Premier League have shocked all the critics as well as followers by the excellent cricket which they had played so far. In the 18th match of DLF - IPL today, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first against the so called giants of DLF - IPL Knight Riders. Despite loosing Smith in the second over, Rajasthan Royals played intelligently and they approached the game with a define game plan. They continued scoring at a good run rate and scored a total of 196 runs in 20 overs. The highest scorer was Swapnil Asnodkar (60) for Rajasthan Royals. Yousaf Pathan again played a cameo of 55 runs in 33 balls.This was the second 50 for Yousaf Pathan in the tournament.Jadega also supported him brilliantly and scored 33 runs in 19 balls.In the last over Rajasthan Royals lost Yousaf Pathan. Umar Gul was the bowler and bowled and excellent line for first 3 balls and got the wicket of Shane Warne with an intelligent piece of thinking. Shane Warne was run out probably due to his own laziness. The last over was a good one and only 7 runs were given.

Scorecard - Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders - 18th Match

Today will be the 18th match of DLF - IPL between Rajasthan Royals and  Kolkata Knight Riders. Rajasthan Royals are very high on confidence due to the excellent performance in the tournament even after they were considered as underdogs. Kolkata Knight Rider are considered to be the strongest team in the tournament but have lost the previoud match and are thus desperate to win  today’s match.

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

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Salman Butt, 3 Brad Hodge, 4 David Hussey, 5 Mohammad Hafeez, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda. Match details are -

Date - 18th Match May 1, 2008
Venue - Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
16:00 India time.

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The most underestimated side in the Indian Premier League - Rajasthan Royals have done it again. In the 12 th match of the league, they first restricted Royal Challengers to a small target and then chased the target with atmost ease. Warne’s lead team was in control of the match from the toss stage and it never looked they could loose today’s match. First the bowlers did a splendid job and then the batsmen also played excellent cricket to assure the win. Watson scored 61 (n.o) and Smith scored 49 and these two innings were sufficient to finish the job and make them victorious.

The underdogs of the league have again proved that they are into some serious cricket and are up for the challenge in the upcoming days.

DLF- Maximum sixes award - Praveen Kumar and Taylor

Man of the Match - Shane Watson

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

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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The DLF - Indian Premier League is becoming a real source of entertainment with all the teams performing there best to win the match. When Deccan Chargers scored 214 in 20 0vers, it looked a difficult task to achieve. But Rajasthan Royals played brilliant  cricket and won the match by 3 wickets. Yousaf scored the fastest fifty of the tournament and when he was batting it looked Rajasthan Royals are very much in the game. But he was out at the team score of 112. Smith took the responsibility for taking Rajasthan Royals to victory and scored a fifty. But the run rate was climbing and that what forced the players to do some lusty hitting. Kaif hit 3 sixes on 1 over of Symonds and Rajasthan Royals looked in complete charge of the game. But Shahid Afridi had different plans and in the 17 over of the inning he got two major breakthroughs. It could have been three if the catch was not dropped. Rajasthan Royals needed 21 runs from the last 10 balls and it could be anyone’s game. R P Singh was given the second last over and he bowled brilliantly by giving just singles on first two balls and then got the wicket of Ravindra Jadeja.In the next two balls a single and a wicket was what Deccan Chargers got. In the last over Rajasthan Royals needed 17 runs and Symond was the one who was bowling. The first ball was hit for two, second for a single.third was hit for a four. In the last 3 balls they needed 10 runs. The fourth ball was hit for a six by Shane Warne and then Shane Warne striked the ball for 1 more six and it was all over for Deccan Chargers.

Rajasthan Royal won the match by 3 wickets.
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What a treat to watch Andrew Symonds Bat. Today again he proved why he was the second highest paid player of DLF - IPL.After loosing the toss, Deccan Chargers were invited to bat first and they had initial problems when they lost Gilchrist and Afridi when team score was 32.Then Laxman and Symonds had a decent partnership and took the score to 75. Warne broke the partnership by catching of Laxman of his own bowling.But there was no looking back for Symonds who on the other end was hitting the ball to all corners of the ground.He completed his 100 in less than 50 balls. But he didn’t stopped at this. Munaf Patel was the one who took most of the hammering.Rohit Sharma on the other end played positively and helped the team to score at a very fast rate.They both took the score to 186 in 18 overs before Sharma got out.Symonds scored a total of 117 runs in 53 balls which included 7 sixes and 11 fours.Deccan Chargers scored a total of in the alloted 20 overs and thus posed a nice total to chase for Rajasthan Royals.

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