Today was a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the DLF – IPL. This was the 35th match of the Indian Premier League. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat first. Salman Butt and Aakash Chopra opened the batting for the team. They started well and took the score to 35 before Aakash Chopra was out. The score of the team was 109 for the loss of 4 wickets in 17 overs. Salman Butt was the top scorer for Kolkata Knight Riders. He scored 48 runs in 42 balls . In the end the team scored 133 runs in 20 overs.This is really a low target and Delhi Daredevils can easily achieve if they play it with caution.

Today – Scorecard – Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils

Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils is scheduled to be today at the edens and we hope that Shoaib Akhtar might make his IPL debut today.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probables): 1 Salman Butt, 2 Aakash Chopra, 3 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 4 David Hussey, 5 Tatenda Taibu, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Murali Kartik, 9 Shoaib Akhtar, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Delhi Daredevils (probables): 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Dinesh Karthik, 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 7 Amit Mishra, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 V Yomahesh, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Date – May 13, 2008 35th Match
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
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.

Languishing at the bottom of the table, Deccan Chargers were dealt another jolt when VVS Laxman, their captain, ruled himself out of the rest of the Indian Premier League after failing to recover from a hairline fracture just below his right wrist.

“I was very keen to play in yesterday’s (Sunday) match and the coming one. But I found it nearly impossible to hold the bat and face even a tennis ball,” he said just before a practice session at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium after another visit to the orthopaedic surgeon.

“It’s sad that I had to miss some of the matches. It is all the more disappointing since the injury came when I was getting into the groove,” said Laxman, whose right hand was encased in plaster.

Laxman injured his wrist during his 52 in a losing cause against Bangalore and missed the games against Chennai and Rajasthan.
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New Delhi (PTI): The Indian Premier League on Monday announced the introduction of the Purple Cap, which will be awarded to the bowler with most cumulative wickets to his name.

The move comes days after the IPL introduced the Orange Cap for the batsman with most cumulative runs against his name.

According to an IPL statement, at the end of the season, the holder of the Purple Cap will receive recognition on the final day of the IPL.

In the event of a tie at any given time, the holder will be determined by superior economy rate.

“We have seen over the course of the inaugural season of the DLF Indian Premier League so far that bowlers have just as important a role to play in winning T20 matches as batsmen do.

“DLF IPL has created a distinction for the highest wicket taking bowler in the ‘Purple Cap’. The purpose of this initiative is to continue to be innovative, create a further unique piece of history that sets the DLF Indian Premier League apart form the crowd, and to acknowledge outstanding performance by the bowlers,” Lalit Modi, IPL Chairman and Commissioner said.

“The bowler who wins the right to call himself Purple Cap Winner 2008 will certainly have earned the right to feel proud of the achievement, since the prevailing thought is that T20 is a ‘batsmans game’ and DLF IPL is blessed with many of the world’s greatest batsmen,” Modi added.
Source:hindu.com

MOHALI: Rahul Dravid seemed to have given up hope for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL when he said that the team would “play for pride” in their remaining six matches. At the bottom of the eight-team double-leg round-robin tournament with four points, Royal Challengers need to win at least five of the games to have any chance of making the semi-finals. It is indeed a tough ask for a team which is not only affected by poor performances on the field but bothered as much by developments off it.

‘‘We will play for pride and make it hard for the teams in the remainder of the tournament, beginning with Team Mohali on Monday,’’ said the former India captain, who is under pressure from all quarters, including the franchisee. At a press meet at the PCA stadium on the eve of the match against Team Mohali, Dravid was asked how it felt to be termed a ‘good Test team’.

‘‘We have not played good cricket, so such comments will come. It is disappointing for the team, for all who are part of it including the franchisee. But we still have six matches to go and will bounce back with a good performance,’’ he said.

But were the choice of players’ right as the auction? ‘‘Well, there were lot of variables at the auction. The players we picked are all quality players, it’s only that their performances have dipped. The big names are not doing well. We have not got the combination right. All this as magnified after we did not start well and lost some close matches.”
And what does he plan to do differently? Dravid said: “Differently? Well, first of all we must start winning close matches. We have lost three close games.”
Source:ipl.timesofindia.indiatimes.com