Match 4 of the DLF Indian Premier League, would bring two legends of Indian cricket face to face today at 8 pm Indian standard time.

Dada vs Jumbo
After winning the first match of IPL season 3, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ganguly will take on season 2 finalist Bangalore Royal Challengers today at Eden gardens. Kolkata Knight Riders are flying high after the first win which gave them much needed booster but Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Kumble and his boys are also willing to take the challenge. This match is expected to be a thriller and fans can expect fireworks today.

Match Details
Match Number – 4
Date:- Sunday 14 March 2010
Time – 16:00 ( 4 pm)
Venue – Eden Garden Kolkata

Team Compositions
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar

Kolkata Knight Riders

SC Ganguly (captain), CH Gayle, AD Mathews, G Vignesh, LR Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, BJ Hodge, CR Pathak
CA Pujara, OA Shah, MK Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, BB McCullum, WP Saha, AB Agarkar, VR Aaron, AB Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla

Final eleven will be announced just before the match

Match: 3rd IPL -2010 Match
Venue: Mohali
Date: March 13, 2010
Toss: Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first.

Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 5 wickets

Kings XI Punjab Innings
Kings XI got off to a good start, scoring 50 runs in 7.2 overs. Kings XI completed 100 runs in 12.6 overs. RS Bopara scored 56 runs off 48 balls with 7 boundaries and one sixer. I Pathan scored 21. K Sangakkara made 17 runs. Dirk Nannes and F Maharoof took two wickets each.

Sreesanth’s 15, which he made with the help of two 4s, powered the Kings XI team to cross the 140-run mark.

Kings XI set a target of 143 for Delhi Daredevils.

Delhi Daredevils Innings
Delhi Daredevils lost early wickets. The score was 47/3 after 8 overs. After 10 overs score was 61 for a loss of 3 wickets. Gautam Gambhir completed his 50 off 40 balls with 7 boundaries and went on to score 72 with a strike rate of 133.3. Karthik scored 20 runs. Sreesanth took two wickets. After the end of 15th over the score was 105/4. DD required 4 runs in the last over with six wickets remaining. Gautam Gambhir was caught out in last over.

Delhi Daredevils won the match in the final over with 5 wickets remaining.

Delhi Daredevils will take on Kings XI Punjab in third match of IPL -2010 today. The match will start at 8 pm Indian standard time. Kings XI Punjab will play under a new captain Kumara Sangakkara and Delhi Daredevils will play under Gautam Gambhir.

Kings XI Punjab : Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.

Delhi Daredevils
Gautam Gambhir, Mithun Manhas, David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Paul Collingwood, Kedar Jadhav, Joginder Singh, Andrew McDonald, Rajat Bhatia, Farveez Maharoof, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Moises Henriques, Shashi Ranjan, AB de Villiers, Dinesh Karthik, Africa Wayne Parnell, Pradeep Sangwan, Aavishkar Salvi, Dirk Nannes, Daniel Vettori, Ashish Nehra, Amit Mishra, Sarabjit Ladda, Sarandeep Singh, Umesh Yadav

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March 13, 2010 : Today the 2nd match of DLF – IPL – 2010 between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals was played at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bat first. Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar opened the batting for Mumbai Indians and gave them a flying start. But later they lost three quick wickets but some solid performances from the middle order gave them a good score. Mumbai Indians scored 212 for 6 in 20 overs.

Chasing the total of 213 to win, Rajasthan Royals lost wickets at regular interval. But Yusuf Pathan played a brilliant knock and scored a century of just 37 balls. Despite a brilliant knock Rajasthan Royals, lost the match in the final over by just 4 runs.

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Update – Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat

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Mumbai Indians will take on Rajasthan Royals in second match of IPL -2010 today. Following are the teams details which will play in third match of IPL-2010. The match will start at 3pm Indian standard time

Mumbai Indians:-
Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar (c), Ambati Rayudu, Saurabh Tiwary, Rajagopal Sathish, Ryan McLaren, Aditya Tare (wk), Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ali Murtaza, Lasith Malinga

Rajasthan Royals
Graeme Smith, Naman Ojha, Swapnil Asnodkar, A Jhunjhunwala, Yusuf Pathan, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Paras Dogra, Shane Warne, Shaun Tait, Amit Uniyal, Kamran Khan

Match: 1st IPL -2010 Match
Date – 12th March, 2010
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs
Location – New Delhi

Kolkata Knight Riders: 161/4
Deccan Chargers: 150/7

Deccan Chargers: A Gilchrist (captain/wk), A Reddy, A Singh, A Bilakhia, H Gibbs, H Singh, VVS Laxman, M Mishra, P Ojha, D Ravi Teja, R Sharma, RP Singh, T Suman, B Sumanth, A Symonds, C Vaas, V Rao and A Yadav

Kolkata Knight Riders: S Ganguly (captain), V Aaron, A Agarkar, A Dinda, E Ahmad, R Gavaskar, B Hodge, I Abdulla, M Kartik, H Khadiwale, A Mathews, C Langeveldt, A Mendis, C Pathak, C Pujara, W Saha (wk), O Shah, I Sharma, LR Shukla, M Tiwary and G Vignesh

Kolkata Knight Riders Innings
Defending champions Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field first against Kolkata Knight Riders in the first match of the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Kolkata Knight Riders had a good start with 50 runs in 8.2 overs. KKR’s score was 100 runs in 15.4 overs (99 balls). AD Mathews (not out) scored 65 runs off 46 balls. OA Shah (not out) made 58 runs. Brad Hodge scored 13 runs. Manoj Tiwari and Captain Saurav Ganguly couldn’t make any run.

Kolkata Knight Riders scored a total of 161 runs for a loss of 4 wickets.

Deccan Chargers Innings
Deccan Chargers scored 150 runs for a loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Adam Gilchrist scored 54 runs. VVS Laxman scored 22.

The grand opening of IPL 2010 will be start at 6:00pm IST and will be telecasted live on SET Max and YouTube.com. The two teams which will start this biggest cricket feast are Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team: S Ganguly (C), Harpreet Singh, S Bangar,S Gaekwad, Sunny Singh, S Rana, A Chowdhury, S Sanyal, Amit Das, Bhavik Thakkar, Kl Waingankar, M Tiwary, V Indulkar, Ameya Shrikhande, Arindam Ghosh, S Sarkar,Gnaneshwar Rao, Mohnish Parmar, I Choudhary, Laxmi R Shukla, Debabrata Das, W Saha, A Dinda, Aditya Dole, Rajesh Verma, Anureet Singh, Iqbal Abdulla, M Kartik, Ishant Sharma, A Agarkar, C Pujara.
B McCullum (WK), David Hussey, B Hodge, Chris Gayle, Owais Shah, A Mendis, M Mortaza, A Mathews, Shoaib Sheikh, G Chabbra, S Bond, Charl Langeveldt, Murtuza Hussain, Sheldon Jackson.

Deccan Chargers Team: Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Arjun Yadav, Bodapati Sumanth, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Harmeet Singh, Kemar Roach, Mitchell Ross Marsh, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Harris, Venugopal Rao, Ammana Ashish Reddy, Anirudh Singh, Azhar Anjum Bilakhia, Chaminda Vaas, Dwayne Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Laxman VVS, Mohnish Dinesh Mishra, Rahul Sharma, Rudra Pratap Singh, Tirumalasetti Suman.

Sourav Ganguly is the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders for 2010 IPL season. Click on image to enlarge