The so called underdogs – Rajasthan Royals of the Indian Premier League have shocked all the critics as well as followers by the excellent cricket which they had played so far. In the 18th match of DLF – IPL today, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first against the so called giants of DLF – IPL Knight Riders. Despite loosing Smith in the second over, Rajasthan Royals played intelligently and they approached the game with a define game plan. They continued scoring at a good run rate and scored a total of 196 runs in 20 overs. The highest scorer was Swapnil Asnodkar (60) for Rajasthan Royals. Yousaf Pathan again played a cameo of 55 runs in 33 balls.This was the second 50 for Yousaf Pathan in the tournament.Jadega also supported him brilliantly and scored 33 runs in 19 balls.In the last over Rajasthan Royals lost Yousaf Pathan. Umar Gul was the bowler and bowled and excellent line for first 3 balls and got the wicket of Shane Warne with an intelligent piece of thinking. Shane Warne was run out probably due to his own laziness. The last over was a good one and only 7 runs were given.

Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders – 18th Match

Today will be the 18th match of DLF – IPL between Rajasthan Royals and  Kolkata Knight Riders. Rajasthan Royals are very high on confidence due to the excellent performance in the tournament even after they were considered as underdogs. Kolkata Knight Rider are considered to be the strongest team in the tournament but have lost the previoud match and are thus desperate to win  today’s match.

Rajasthan Royals (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 3 Yusuf Pathan, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Mohammad Kaif, 6 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Dinesh Salunkhe, 9 Shane Warne (capt), 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Salman Butt, 3 Brad Hodge, 4 David Hussey, 5 Mohammad Hafeez, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda. Match details are –

Date – 18th Match May 1, 2008
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
16:00 India time.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore lost yet again in the DLF- Indian Premier League. Replying to the target of 192 set by Delhi DareDevils, Royal Challengers started poorly and lost the first wicket in the very first over. Praveen Kumar was the one to get out to Glen McGrath. Then Taylor and Wassim Jaffer took the score to 46 before Taylor got out. Jaffer soon followed and Royal Challengers were reeling at 48/3. Captain Rahul Dravid came to the center and played responsibly. He scored 38 runs in 30 balls, his personal best so far in the tournament. But in order to increase the run rate he mistimed a shot and scooped the ball straight up in air. Captain was caught by captain – Virender Sehwag and the score of Royal Challengers was 135/4 in 15.3 overs.It was Boucher and Kallis on whose shoulders lied the responsibility to take the team to victory. Kallis scored the half century by hitting Asif for a straight four.In the second last over Kallis got bowled on 54 by Vettori. In the last over Royal Challengers needed 30 runs and they were able to score 20.So Delhi DareDevils Won the match by 10 runs

 DLF-Maximum Sixes award – Shikhar Dhawan

Man of the Match – Glen McGrath for 4 wickets

Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers – 17th Match

Bangalore Royal Challenger won the toss today in the 17 match of DLF- IPL but things didn’t went the way they wished and Delhi Daredevils scored at a super run rate. They lost the first wicket at 51 in form of Sehwag who scored 24 runs of just 12 balls. Gautam Gambhir on the other end played some phenomenal shots and got on to score 86 runs in just 54 balls. Shikar Dhawan also scored 50 and the duo took the score past 151. Dhawan was then caught out brilliantly one handed by Rahul Dravid. But till then most of the damage was done. Delhi Daredevils scored at more than 10 runs per over in almost the entire innings. In the last few overs they lost some quick wickets but still they managed to score a total of 191 runs in 20 overs.

Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers – 17th Match

Match 17 – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be today at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi. Royal Challengers are in a do or die situation after loosing 3 out of 4 matches played so far. This could be the last opportunity to prove “Duniya Hila Deyenge Hum“. On the other hand Delhi DareDevil’s winning streak was broken by Kings XI and now they are all ready to take the challenge. In order to focus more on cricket they have even decided to call off the cheerleaders and we hope this might prove to be successful for them.

Delhi Daredevils (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Manoj Tiwary, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Vijaykumar Yomahesh, 10 Mohammad Asif, 11 Glenn McGrath

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Ross Taylor 4 Bharath Chipli, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 KP Appanna.

Match details are –

Date – 17th Match April 30, 2008
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
20:00 India time.

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