This was IPL 56th match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals. The match was played at Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali on May 28, 2008. Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field first.

Shaun Marsh and James Hopes opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab. Shaun Marsh was at his best in this match. Both the players shared the partnership of 133, James Hopes was out in 14th over and scored 51 runs out of 35 balls. The top scorer of the team was Shaun Marsh. He scored 155 runs in 69 balls. This helped a lot in winning the match. The score of the team was 221 for 3 in 20 overs.

Mohammad Kaif and Niraj Patel opened the batting for Rajasthan Royals. Mohammad Kaif was out on the boll by Sreesanth in the second ove, he scored 1 run. Niraj Patel was the highest scorer of the team he scored 57 runs in 39 balls. The team scored 180 runs in 20 overs with 4 wkts in hand. They were unable to achieve the target given by Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI Punjab won by 41 runs in IPL 56th Match

Scorecard Match 56 – Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals

This was IPL 55th match between Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians. The match was played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, May 28, 2008. Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.

Mark Boucher and Shreevats Goswami opened the batting for Bangalore Royal Challengers. They took the score to 35 where Mark Boucher was out. The highest scorer of the team was Cameron White he made 26 runs out of 20 balls. The team gave Mumbai Indians a target of 123 runs.

Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar opened the batting for Mumbai Indians. They took the score to 96 before Sanath Jayasuriya was out. Sanath Jayasuriya was the top scorer for Mumbai Indians and thus helped the team to win this match by 9 wkts.

Scorecard Match 55 – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians

The best teams take on each other and would leave no chance to prove the superiority so that they have a psychological advantage over each other and thus are high on confidence in the semifinals

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

Rajasthan Royals (probables): 1 Kamran Akmal (wk), 2 Swapnil Asnodkar, 3 Yusuf Pathan, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Mohammad Kaif, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Niraj Patel, 8 Shane Warne (capt), 9 Sohail Tanvir, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Pankaj Singh.

Match starts today at 8 pm IST at Mohali

With the teams already entering the semi finals, this match is not that important but they still have to play for the prestige.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables): 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Rahul Dravid (capt), 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Cameron White, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Shreevats Goswami (wk), 8 B Akhil, 9 Anil Kumble, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 R Vinay Kumar

Mumbai Indians (probables): 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Dwayne Smith, 5 Shaun Pollock, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 8 Dhawal Kulkarni, 9 Rohan Raje, 10 Andre Nel, 11 Ashish Nehra

Chennai Super Kings scored an easy win over Deccan Chargers and stormed in to the semi finals. Chasing a target of 148, they managed to score it with ease with all batsmen contributing to the team success.Chennai bowlers restricted Deccan Chargers to 147 for 8 which made the task of their batsmen little easy and they coasted pretty well to victory. Raina and Dhoni made valuable contributions to storm in to the semis where they will meet Kings XI Punjab whom they have defeated twice in the league matches.Win for Chennai made sure that Mumbai Indians are out of the Semis. So it would be Rajasthan vs Delhi and Punjab vs Chennai.