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 – 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

Today in the 13th match of DLF IPL 2012, Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first. M Agarwal and C Gayle opened the innings for RCB. M Agarwal went after CSK bowlers right from first over and scored 45 in just 26 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes before getting out. The duo scored 53 runs in 5.2 overs for the first wicket partnership. After Agarwal’s wicket, Gayle and V Kohli played superbly and maintained a healthy run rate. RCB were comfortably placed at 96/1 in 10 overs. Chris Gayle then took the charge and unleashed himself and scored the fastest fifty of IPL 2012. Virat Kohli and Gayle added 109 runs in just 66 balls for the second wicket partnership before Gayle got out after scoring 68 runs in 35 balls (2×4,6×6). RCB were comfortably placed at 162/2 in 16.2 overs, with 22 balls remaining, RCB were eying 200. V Kohli then completed his first half century of IPL 2012 and scored 57 off 46 balls with (5×4,2×6). Four wickets in the last over slowed RCB’s run rate but still they were able to post a good total of 205/8 runs in 20 overs.

CSK had to chase a mammoth total of 206 and needed a solid start, the openers M Vijay and F du Plessis gave them a good start with a 56 run first wicket partnership. M Vijay was the first to got out but F du Plessis and S Raina then took the team score to 88 before Raina got out. F du Plessis stood firm on one end and scored 71 off 46 balls which included 5 fours and 4 sixes. CSK were 128/3 in 14.3 overs and needed a special innings from some one to achieve victory. From last 5 overs, CSK needed 75 and MS Dhoni and D Bravo played superbly . After the wicket of MS Dhoni (40 runs off 24 balls 1×4,2×6) Albie Morkel came to crease and smashed RCB bowlers. His cameo of 28 runs off 7 balls which included (2×4 3×6) took the match to a nail-biting finish as CSK needed 15 off last over. V Kumar was asked to bowl the last over and he got the wicket of dangerous Morkel. R Jadega was the next batsmen for CSK, D Bravo hit a four on a no ball and six on the next. CSK needed 2 to win from the last bowl and Jadega hit a four on the last bowl to take Chennai to victory by 5 wickets.

Match 13 IPL 2012 Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard

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 – 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 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 42 runs

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders. Jacques Kallis along with captain Gambhir opened the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders and right from the first over, the duo took the charge and hammered RCB bowlers to all corners of the ground. The duo added 60 runs in the first power play (1-6 overs). Captain of RCB, Daniel Vettori got the much needed breakthrough when he got the wicket of J Kallis. But there was no stopping for Gambhir who then along with Manvinder Singh Bisla took the team score past 100 in the 11th over. At one stage it looked like the target of 200 is quite achievable. Gambhir completed his half-century from just 28 balls, the fastest fifty in this year’s IPL. Finally Muralitharan got the priced wicket of Bisla who scored 46 from 29 balls. At the end of 14 overs, KKR were comfortably placed at 126/2 and Yusuf Pathan was the next batsmen in. The crowd expected some fireworks from Pathan but was disappointed as he failed again and got out after scoring just 1 run. This lead to a flurry of wickets, from 126/2, KKR slumped to 154/8 in 19.3 overs with no middle order batsmen able to score run in double digit.A complete middle order collapse brought RCB back into the game and they were able top restrict KKR to 165/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 166 to win, RCB needed a good start but KKR bowlers didn’t let allow them easy runs. Kallis striked in his first over and got the wicket of Pujara. RCB were hopeful that return of Chris Gayle will do wonders to their team but Kallis nulled The Gayle factor as he got his wicket in his second over leaving RCB struggling at 8/2 in 3.3 overs. Balaji was the next to strike as he got the priced wicket of V Kohli, last match hero AB de Villiers and M Agarwal leaving RCB tottering at 33/5 in 9.1 overs. Needing another 123 to win from 10 overs, Saurabh Tiwary and D Vettori took the charge and tried to accelerate the run rate. Vettori played a cameo of 20 runs in 12 balls and just when he started to look dangerous for KKR, Balaji bowled him leaving RCB at 60/6 in 11.5 overs. With this wicket, curtains were drawn on RCB’s victory dream and the team could manage just 124/9 in 20 overs and thus lost by 42 runs.

Match 10 IPL 2012 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard