Today’s Match Details – Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Match -13th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 12, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to bat first
Result – Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets

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Today’s Match Details – Kings XI Punjab v Pune Warriors
Match -14th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 12, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

PCA will host its first match today in IPL 2012 when Kings XI Punjab will take on Pune Warriors in the 14th match of DLF IPL. Kings XI Punjab are desperate to win today as they have lost both of their matches played so far. Though the openers of Punjab, Gilchrist and Valthaty are giving decent start to them but the middle order is not able to capitalize and are falling short of target. On the other hand Ganguly’s Pune has impressed everyone with team effort. Pune who are high on confidence have won both their matches so far and will be eying a third straight win today.

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).

Pune Warriors Squad IPL 2012
Robin Uthappa, Sourav Ganguly(Captain), Graeme Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Mitchell Marsh, Michael Clarke, Marlon Samuels, Callum Ferguson, Harshad Khadiwale, Mohnish Mishra, Yuvraj Singh, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Anustup Majumdar, Manish Pandey, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Kamran Khan, Ashish Nehra, Wayne Parnell, Alfonso Thomas, Ashok Dinda, Nathan McCullum, Rahul Sharma, Murali Kartik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ali Murtaza, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Angelo Mathews, James Hopes, Luke Wright, Raiphi Gomez, Mithun Manhas, Shrikant Wagh, Steven Smith, Eklavya Dwivedi.

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Today’s Match Details – Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore
Match -13th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 12, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Today in the 13th match of DLF IPL 2012, Chennai Super Kings will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. Chennai Super Kings the most favorite team in the league has lost 2 out of the 3 games played so far and are thus looking for the winning momentum. RCB also lost the last game against KKR and are hoping to upset CSK today. CSK’s biggest problem has been running between the wickets and it was shown in the last match too with as many as four batsmen getting involved in run out’s. Also CSK will be hoping that star players like Dhoni, Raina and Jadega get their form back as soon as possible otherwise it will be tough going for them.

On the other hand, RCB will be hoping that Chris Gayle show’s his aggressive form as he showed in last year’s IPL. Virat Kohli is also due for a good score as he is yet to score in double digits in IPL 2012.

Chennai Super Kings Squad IPL 2012
Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Albie Morkel, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Doug Bollinger, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Suraj Randiv, Sudeep Tyagi, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Styris, Faf du Plessis, Joginder Sharma, Yo Mahesh, Ganapathi Vignesh, MS Dhoni(captain/keeper), Wriddhiman Saha.

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 – Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard
Match -12th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 11, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Toss – Rajasthan Royals elected to field
Result – Mumbai Indians won by 27 runs

Today in the 12th match of DLF IPL 2012, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field first against Mumbai Indians. Sachin Tendulkar again missed the match due to finger injury, R Levi and T Suman opened the innings for MI and the duo scored 28 in 3.3 overs for the first wicket partnership. R Levi and Rohit Sharma then smashed bowlers to all corners and just when the partnership was getting dangerous for Royals, Hodge bowled Rohit Sharma when the team score was 59. Soon Levi was also bowled by Hodge and MI were 68/3 in 8.2 overs. A Rayudu and K Pollard then took the charge and scored runs with ease. Both of them hammered Rajasthan bowlers, Pollard was particularly severe on them as he scored 64 runs off 33 balls (6×4 4×6) before getting out. A Rayudu 47 not out off 32 balls (1×4 3×6) took from where Pollard left and he along with Harbhajan Singh (18 not out off 6 balls (1×4 2×6) propelled MI score to 197/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing 198 to win, Royals lost two quick wickets i.e. R Dravid and S Goswami in the second over of the innings when the team score was just 7. At 7/2, they needed a solid partnership and A Rahane and Owais Shah played sensible cricket and took the team score to 89 before A Rahane got out after scoring 40 off 31 balls (4×4 2×6). Needing another 108 runs to win in 52 balls, Owais Shah stepped the peddle as he smashed MI bowlers to all corners of the ground. But once again it was Lasith Malinga who came to the rescue of MI as he bowled Owais Shah (76runs off 42 balls, 5×4, 5×6) and got the wicket of J Botha in the same over. RR were struggling at 136/5 in 14.4 overs and needed 62 runs in 32 balls. Though A Menaria and K Cooper hit few boundaries to match the required rate but it was out of their reach and finally Royals tasted their first defeat in IPL 2012 as they were bundled for 170 in 19.4 overs.

Match 12 IPL 2012 Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Mumbai Indians’ Munaf Patel had to pay 25 percent of his match fees where as captain Harbhajan Singh was warned by match referee Graeme La Brooy for breach of the IPL Code of Conduct. This was done after the duo had an argument with the umpires during the match against Deccan Chargers.

The argument started when Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara got out as the ball hit the off stump but on field umpires thought the bails were dislodged after hitting Mumbai wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik’s gloves. After some heated argument, third umpire was called and he gave Sangakkara out.