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 8)
• 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

Batting: Kings XI Punjab Innings

Bowling: Bangalore Royal Challengers

Batting: Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings

Bowling: 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.

Keep checking iplcricketlive .com for more information about the match, match videos, match score cards and an analysis of each team’s performance.

Kolkata Knight Riders spearhead Ishant Sharma was today fined 10 per cent of his match fees for kicking down the stumps in yesterday’s Indian Premier League match against Punjab King’s XI at Mohali.
IPL match referee Clive Lloyd found the speedster guilty of a Level 1 offence (clause 2) as per the International Cricket Council’s Code of Conduct which has been adopted by the Twenty20 League authorities, a media release said today.

The offence relates to abusing ground equipment.IPL had earlier booted out Mumbai Indians off-spinner Harbhajan Singh for slapping King’s XI bowler S Sreesanth at the same venue.It had also fined Shane Warne, captain of Rajasthan Royals, and Sourav Ganguly, skipper of Knight Riders, for different breaches of the Code at Jaipur on May 1 during the two teams’ contest.Former India skipper Ganguly was found guilty of showing dissent on the field and fined 10 per cent of his match fees.

The Match Referee in his recommendation to the IPL said that Ganguly’s act of prevailing upon Pratap Kumar, the on-field umpire, to refer a decision to the TV umpire, constituted a Level I offence as per the ICC’s Code of Conduct.

Spin legend Warne was found guilty of violating Section 1.7 of the ICC’s Code of Conduct, which deals with ‘public criticism of, or inappropriate comment on a match-related incident or official,’ which constitutes a Level I offence.

Warne had publicly criticised his opposite number Ganguly for an on-field incident at the end of the game between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals.
Source :PTI