Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals
Match -18 th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 15, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Rajasthan Royals elected to bat
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 59 runs

Superb 103 not out by Rahane and 4 wickets by Siddharth Trivedi helped Rajasthan Royals Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 59 runs.

Earlier, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bat first. R Dravid and A Rahane gave them a super start with 62 run first wicket partnership. Rahul Dravid got out after scoring 25 off 32 balls but A Rahane was the star for Rajasthan Royals today as he scored a brilliant 103 off just 60 balls which included 12 fours and 5 sixes. Rahane created an IPL record of six consecutive fours in the 14th over. His partner Owais Shah also smashed Banglore bowlers as he completed his half-century off just 19 balls. Some very big overs in the innings propelled Rajasthan Royals to a handsome total of 195/2 in 20 overs.

Chasing 196 to win, RCB needed a flying start and the duo of M Agarwal and C Gayle added 42 runs for the first wicket partnership in 4.4 overs. M Agarwal got out after scoring 34 off 21 balls but Gayle failed to impress as he was out after scoring just 8.The 5th over from Pankaj Singh changed the tide towards Rajasthan Royals favor as both openers got out in the same over. From 42/0 in 4 overs, RCB were 42/2 in 5 overs. V Kohli and AB de Villiers had huge responsibility on their shoulders but AB de Villiers was the bowled by Siddharth Trivedi and RCB were reduced to 69/3 in 8.4 overs. Needing another 125 to win from 11 overs, RCB had a real tough task in hand and the team was hoping on Virat Kohli and S Tiwary but Siddharth Trivedi bowled Virat Kohli when the team score was 78. Tiwary and M Kaif then took the team score past 100 but Siddharth Trivedi struck twice in the 15th over and left RCB at 103/6 in 14.4 overs. With two quick wickets, victory looked a distant dream and finally RCB were all out for 136 runs in 19.5 overs thereby losing the match by 59 runs.

Match 18 IPL 2012 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab
Match -17th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 15, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bowl first
Result – Kings XI Punjab won by 2 runs

Today in the 17th match of DLF IPL 2012, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bowl first at the hot and sweaty condition of Eden Gardens. Kolkata replaced injured Balaji by Jayadev Unadkat and Punjab dropped out of form Paul Valthaty and Parvinder Awana to include Paras Dogra and Bhargav Bhatt. Kolkata got the big wicket of Gilchrist when the team score was just 17. Soon the star batsmen Shaun Marsh also got out. Both the big names of Kings XI Punjab were back in pavilion when the team score was just 21. Narine taking both the wickets gave the best bowling start possible to KKR. Punjab needed a solid partnership to stabilize the innings, Mandeep Singh and D Hussey both played sensibly to take the team score past 50 and just when it looked that the duo is set for a big score, Hasan got the wicket of Mandeep and soon Hussey also got run out due to a terrible mix up. KXIP were struggling at 85/4 in 14.1 overs and needed some good hitting to get a reasonable total. But wickets kept falling regularly and Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers never allowed easy runs to Kings XI Punjab batsmen. Finally Kings XI Punjab managed to score 19 runs in the 19th over and post a total of 134/9 runs in 20 overs. S Narine was the star for Kolkata Knight Riders as he got 5 wickets for just 19 runs in his 4 overs.

Chasing 135 to win, KKR lost Kallis when the team score was just 13. Captain Gambhir was also out cheaply leaving KKR struggling at 30/2 in 3.4 overs. Manoj Tiwary and M Bisla then played sensibly and took the team to 74 before Tiwary got out. KKR were comfortably placed at 74/3 in 11.2 overs before Kings XI Punjab bowler P Chawla turned the match. He got three quick wickets leaving KKR struggling at 88/6 in 14.4 overs. Needing 36 to win from last 4 overs, the match was going for an exciting finish but superb hitting by D Das ( 35 runs off 23 balls) took the match to the last over finish. Finally it was Punjab who holded on to the nerves and won the match by 2 runs in a thrilling finish.

Match 17 IPL 2012 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals
Match -18 th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 15, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Today in the18th match of DLF IPL 2012, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Both teams have suffered loss in their previous match and will be hoping to get back to winning ways. RCB who scored a brilliant 205 in their last match against CSK was not able to defend such a big total and thus needs to improve its bowling department where as Rajasthan needs to improve its batting order as they were restricted to just 131 in their last match against KKR.

RCB has won just 1 match out of 3 where as RR have won 2 out of 4. Both the teams will be going all out against each other to improve their points tally, so we can hope a high scorer entertainer today at 8pm.

Rajasthan Royals Squad IPL 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 Squad IPL 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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Today’s Match Details – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab Preview
Match -17th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 15, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Today in the 17th match of DLF IPL 2012, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Kings XI Punjab at Eden Garden. Kolkata Knight Riders who registered a 5 wicket win on Friday against Rajasthan Royals at Eden Garden will be hoping to repeat the performance and win this match to move up the points table where as on the side, Kings XI Punjab are also coming with a win in their back as they defeated Pune Warriors by 7 wickets on past Thursday.

This match promises total entertainment to the Kolkata crowd as both teams are equally balanced and high on confidence as they are coming with recent victories.

Kings XI Punjab Squad IPL 2012
Shaun Marsh, Sunny Singh, David Miller, Paul Valthaty, Azhar Mahmood, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Paras Dogra, Parvinder Awana, Siddharth Chitnis, James Faulkner, Ramesh Powar, Nitin Saini, Stuart Broad, Praveen Kumar, Ryan Harris, Nathan Rimmington, Love Ablish, Harmeet Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Vikramjeet Malik, Shalabh Srivastava, Bipul Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Mandeep Singh, Rajagopal Sathish, Amit Yadav and Adam Gilchrist (captain).

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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Today’s Match Details – Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super Kings
Match -16th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 14, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune
Toss – Chennai Super Kings elected to bat
Result – Pune Warriors won by 7 wickets

Today in the 16th match of DLF IPL 2012, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first. F du Plessis and M Vijay opened the inning for CSK and the duo scored 43 runs for the first wicket partnership. M Vijay scored just 8 runs out of it and got out but it was F du Plessis who did the bulk scoring. He then along with Raina took the team score past 50 but got out after scoring 42 off 33 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. CSK were comfortably placed at 67/2 in 9.1 overs. Raina and captain Dhoni then played cautiously and took the team score to 86 when Raina got out. R Jadeja was the next to come in and he justified his big auction money. The star batsmen for CSK hammered Pune bowler and provided the much needed momentum to the scoring rate. It was his brilliant knock of 44 off 26 balls(4×4,2×6) which helped CSK post a total of 155/5 in 20 overs.

Pune needed 156 to create yet another upset in the league and they got off to a flying start R Uthappa and J Ryder adding 31 in just 3 overs for the first wicket partnership. Even after R Uthappa was run out by Bravo, J Ryder and S Ganguly maintained a healthy run rate and took the team score past 50 in the 6th over. Pune needed 100 to win from 14 overs and it looked like the duo is completely set to take their team to an emphatic win but a superb run out by Jadeja got the wicket of Ganguly and the run chase lost some momentum. With J Ryder and M Samuels on crease, the match was poised for a superb finish as Pune needed 71 to win from last 8 overs. The wicket of M Samuels brought S Smith on crease and he along with J Ryder took the team score past 100. J Ryder completed his well deserved 50 and scored runs with ease. He along with Smith smashed CSK bowlers to all corners of the ground and it was the brilliant innings of 73 in 56 balls by Ryder and 44 off 22 balls by Smith which took Pune Warriors to a superb 7 wicket victory.

Match 16 IPL 2012 Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard