Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Match – 30 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Date – Apr 23, 2012
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Today in the 30th match of DLF IPL 2012, Rajasthan Royals will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium at 8pm. RCB who are high in confidence after two convincing victories against Pune Warriors India and Kings XI Punjab will be looking forward to continue the winning momentum.

On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals are performing well thanks to superb batting by Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane, and Owais Shah. The only thing which will be worrying Rajasthan Royals will be the form of Chris Gayle and they will surely need a special plan to control the devastation by Gayle.

Both teams have played 9 matches in IPL and have won 4-4 each and 1 match was abandoned due to rain.

Rajasthan Royals IPL Squad 2012
Rahul Dravid (Captain), Brad Hodge, Ajinkya Rahane, Owais Shah, Kevon Cooper, Aakash Chopra, Ankeet Chavan, Faiz Fazal, Shaun Tait, Sreesanth, Samad Fallah, Siddharth Trivedi, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Dole, Pankaj Singh, Amit Singh, Shane Watson, Johan Botha, Brad Hogg, Paul Collingwood, Sumit Narwal, Abhishek Raut, Stuart Binny, Ashok Menaria, Dinesh Chandimal, Shreevats Goswami, Amit Paunikar, Pinal Shah, Dishant Yagnik.

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Squad 2012
Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohammad Kaif, Rilee Rossouw, KP Appanna, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel, Vijay Zol, S Thiyagarajan, Dirk Nannes, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Asad Pathan, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, Sreenath Aravind, Abrar Kazi, Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Vettori (Captain), Ryan Ninan, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Muralidharen Gautam, Luke Pomersbach.

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The Mumbai Indian pacer Munaf Patel is again in news and that too for wrong reason as he was fined 50% of the match fees due to breach of code of conduct in the IPL match against King’s XI Punjab.

Munaf Patel admitted to the the Level 1 offenses i.e. making offensive gestures (Article 2.1.4) and conduct bringing the game into disrepute (Article 2.1.8).

The incident happened in the third over of the Kings XI Punjab innings when Punjab opener Nitin Saini hit Patel for two fours. On filed Umpires and captain of MI Harbhajan Singh intervened to calm the situation.

Today’s Match Details – Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -29 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Date – Apr 22, 2012
Venue – Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Kolkata won by 5 wickets
Man of the match – Brett Lee

Today in the 29th match of DLF IPL 2012, rain interrupted in the proceedings of the match and delayed it by 1 hour.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and chose to field first. K Sangakkara and S Dhawan opened the innings and scored 37 runs in 5.5 overs for the first wicket partnership. Sangakkara was the first wicket to fell after scoring just 12 runs. Patel was the next batsmen in and he along with S Dhawan took the team score to 81 before Patel got out. This wicket triggered the fall of wickets and every attempt by DC batsmen to increase the run rate failed. S Dhawan completed his 50 off 50 balls before getting out and thanks to superb bowling by Kolkata Knight Riders, Deccan Chargers were restricted to a modest total of 126/7 in 20 overs.

Chasing 127 to win and jump to third place in the points table, Kolkata Knight Riders lost B McCullum in the third over when the team score was just 16. Gambhir and Bisla then took the team score to 44 and Bisla got out leaving KKR at 44/2 in 7 overs. Needing another 83 to win from 78 balls, KKR looked completely in control but some good bowling by Deccan Chargers created some panic in the batting line up and KKR lost Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan in quick succession. J Kallis and Manoj Tiwary then took the team score past 100 and finally it was Manoj Tiwary who played till the end and ensured KKR win by 5 wickets.

Match 29 IPL 2012 Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab
Match -28 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Date – Apr 22, 2012
Venue –Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Toss – Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result – Kings XI Punjab won by 6 wickets
Man of the match – Shaun Marsh

Today in the 28th match of DLF IPL 2012, Shaun Marsh lead Kings XI Punjab to a superb 6 wicket victory over the mighty Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai who won the toss and elected to bat first. Sachin Tendulkar was back in the team after recovering from an injury and he along with J Franklin added 51 in 8.1 overs before getting out. J Franklin played superbly on one end though wickets kept falling on the other end. Rohit Sharma got out after scoring just 2 runs but D Karthik then along with Franklin steadied Mumbai innings and the duo added 75 runs in just 6 overs. D Karthik was run out by Marsh and this was the turning point in the Mumbai Indians innings. Pollard, Franklin and Harbhajan Singh got out in quick succession and thus Mumbai could manage to post a total of 163/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing 164 to win, Punjab openers N Saini and Mandeep Singh scored 48 runs in 6.2 overs before Saini got out. Soon Mandeep Singh also got out out leaving KXIP struggling at 61/2 in 9 overs. Needing another 103 from 11 overs, KXIP again looked upon Shaun Marsh and David Hussey and the duo didn’t let the team down. They added 58 runs before Hussey got out after scoring 21 off 19 balls. A Mahmood was the next to come in and he scored 10 off 7 balls. The star for KXIP was Shaun Marsh who scored a brilliant 68 off 40 balls and remained unbeaten.

Match 28 IPL 2012 Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -29 DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT |20:00 IST
Date – Apr 22, 2012
Venue –Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Today in the 29th match of DLF IPL 2012, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Deccan Chargers at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. Deccan Chargers have not opened their account yet in the points table and have lost all the 4 matches played so far. On the other hand Kolkata Knight Riders have won 3 out of the 6 matches played so far and are thus the favorites today. But Deccan Chargers can not be written off as though they have not won any match so far but in three matches they were on a verge of victory.

As per IPL records, KKR have won 6 matches out of 8 played so far against Deccan Chargers and they will be hoping to make it 7-2 today.

Deccan Chargers Squad IPL 2012
Cameron White, Daniel Harris, Darren Bravo, Shikhar Dhawan, Tekkami Atchuta Rao, Chris Lynn, Bharat Chipli, Jean-Paul Duminy, Sunny Sohal, Ishank Jaggi, Tanmay Mishra, Veer Pratap Singh, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Biplab Samantray, Sneha Kishore, Tanmay Srivastava, TP Sudhindra, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Syed Quadri, Akshath Reddy, Arjun Yadav, Rusty Theron, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ashish Reddy, Ankit Sharma, Akash Bhandari, Daniel Christian, Kumar Sangakkara (captain/keeper), Parthiv Patel, Kedar Devdhar

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad IPL 2012
Gautam Gambhir(Captain), Marchant de Lange, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena, Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Sarabjit Ladda, Jaydev Unadkat, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Laxmi Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Shakib Al Hasan, Iqbal Abdulla, Brendon McCullum, Brad Haddin, Manvinder Bisla.

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