In a cliffhanger today, Chennai Super Kings defeated Delhi DareDevils by 4 wickets. Chasing a target of 188, Chennai Super Kings just got the start they wished and the opening partnership of 62 in 6.1 overs provided the platform for a successful chase. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan scored 40 and Stephen Fleming scored 44 respectively. Stephen Fleming and Raina got out in succession and it looked like Delhi Daredevils are back in the game. Albel Morkel played a useful innings of 30 runs before he was run out by Sehwag. A cameo was needed by M.S. Dhoni but he could not manage more than 33 runs.He got out in the second last over and on the very next ball one more wicket felt. Two vital wickets felt at a very critical moment and thus it looked like things are getting harder for Chennai Super Kings. The Circket Game was swinging from one side’s favor to another. 22 runs were needed in 10 balls when Manpreet Gony came into the center.In the last over Chennai Super Kings needed 15 runs and it was Manpreet Gony who hit a six on the very first ball (300th six of DLF – IPL), the very next ball was a wide and then Gony scored a 4. Chennai Super Kings needed just 3 from 3 balls.They needed 1 run on the last ball and it was Badrinath who chipped the ball and scored the winning run.

Today – Match 28 – Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings

In the Match No: 28, it was Delhi DareDevils vs Chennai Super Kings and this was expected to be a thriller. The expectations were met and Delhi Daredevils started with a flying runrate and scored 50 in just 5.4 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. The batsmen who got out were Sehwag for 23 and AB de Villiers for a duck. But after that there was no looking back and it was Gambhir who took the centerstage and hammered all bowlers. He scored 80 runs in just 49 balls and provided the much needed thrust.Due to this wonderful innings he became the highest run getter in the Indian Premier League and will thus wear the orange cap. On the other end S Dhawan also played a splendid innings and got on to score 59 runs. Gambhir and Dhawan were out one after the other and it thus reduced the scoring rate but still the damage was done and the total score for Chennai Super Kings to chase is 188 in 20 overs
Today – Match 28 – Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings

Match 29 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be a do or die for both the teams. Kolkata Knight Riders started this league on a winning note but have not maintained the success and are now loosing ina row. On the other hand Royal Challnegers are under huge pressure due to the sacking of CEO Charu Sharma and also do to the poor show of the team.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 2 J Arun Kumar, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Bharat Chipli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Knight Riders (probables) 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Salman Butt, 3 Debabrata Das, 4 Brad Hodge, 5 David Hussey, 6 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Match Details :

Date – May 8, 2008 29th Match
Venue – Eden Garden Kolkata
20:00 India time.

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Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings are going to be a thrilling encounter as Delhi Daredevils are at the 3rd place in the points table and Chennai Super Kings are at the 4th place in that table. Dehli Dare devils have played 6 matches and won 4 matches where as Chennai Super Kings have played 7 matches and won 4 matches. There will be a tough competition today.

The probables for today are

Delhi Daredevils (probable): 1) Gautam Gambhir 2) Virender Sehwag (c) 3) AB de Villiers 4) Shikhar Dhawan 5) Dinesh Karthik (wk) 6) Manoj Tiwary 7) Shoaib Malik 8 ) Yo Mahesh 9) Mithun Manhas 10) Mohammad Asif 11)Glenn McGrath

Chennai Super Kings (probable): 1) Parthiv Patel 2) Stephen Fleming 3) Suresh Raina 4) Arun Karthik 5) Abhinav Mukund 6) MS Dhoni (c)(wk) 7) Albie Morkel 8 ) Joginder Sharma 9) Sudeep Tyagi 10) Muttiah Muralitharan 11) Makhaya Ntini

Match Details :

Date – May 8, 2008 28th Match
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

16:00 India time.

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Today was a match between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in the DLF – IPL. This was the 27th match of the league. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first. They were given a target of only 104 and Yogesh Vijay Takawale and Sanath Jayasuriya opened the batting for Mumbai Indians and took the score to 41 before Sanath Jayasuriya was out. The score of the team was 64 for the loss of 2 wickets in 10 overs. Robin Uthappa was the top scorer for Mumbai Indians and thus helped the team to win the match

Match Notes Are :

• Rajasthan Royals innings
• Rajasthan Royals: 50 runs in 6.1 overs (38 balls), Extras 1
• 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (SA Asnodkar 15, SR Watson 31, Ex 4)
• Rajasthan Royals: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (93 balls), Extras 7
• Innings Break: Rajasthan Royals – 103/10 in 16.2 overs (MM Patel 0)

• Mumbai Indians innings
• Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 8.4 overs (55 balls), Extras 5
• Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 14.3 overs (93 balls), Extras 10

Today – Match 27th – Scorecard – Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals