Today South Australian Redbacks will take on tournament favorites Royal Challengers Bangalore at Durban. Both the teams had won the previous match and would like to continue the winning momentum. RCB’s had thrashed Guyana by 9 wickets where as South Australian Redbacks won both the matches against Highveld Lion and Mumbai Indians and have surprised one and all with their performance. Today’s match is expected to be a thriller.

Match Details
Match – 11th Airtel Champions League CLT20 2010
Date – September 17 ,2010 Friday
Time – 15:30 GMT, 21:00 IST
Venue – Durban

Royal Challengers Bangalore CLT20 Squad 2010
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, B Akhil, J Kallis, V Kohli, ND Doshi, D du Preez, P Kumar, A Mithun, M Pandey, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, R Uthappa(wk), R Vinay Kumar, C White

South Australian Redbacks CLT20 Squad 2010
Cullen Bailey(Captain), Daniel Christian, Chris Duval, Peter George, Daniel Harris, Cameron Borgas, Tom Cooper, Tim Ludeman(WicketKeeper), Aaron O’Brien, Callum Ferguson, Jake Haberfield, Michael Klinger, Graham Manou, Gary Putland, Shaun Tait.

Today in Airtel Champions League 2010, the second match of the day will be between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Guyana. Royal Challengers Bangalore are the real favorites to win this match but Guyana is lead by R Sarwan and thus can pose some risk to the might Royal Challengers.

Match Details
Match – 5 Group B Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Guyana
Date – September 12, 2010 (Sunday)
Time – 15:30 GMT ( 21:00 IST)
Venue – Centurion

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, B Akhil, J Kallis, V Kohli, ND Doshi, D du Preez, P Kumar, A Mithun, M Pandey, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, R Uthappa(wk), R Vinay Kumar, C White

Guyana squad
R Sarwan (captain), C Barnwell, D Bishoo, RT Crandon, LJ Cush, S Chattergoon, DO Christian(wk), EA Crandon, N Deonarine, TM Dowlin, JA Foo, AB Fudadin, SA Jacobs, RN Ramdeen, PG Wintz

Match: 3rd Place Play-off
Venue: DY Patil Stadium Mumbai
Date: April 24, 2010
Toss: Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result: Bangalore Royal Challengers won by 9 Wickets

Royal Challengers Bangalore finished on a high note today as they thrashed Deccan Chargers by 9 wickets to win today’s match and thus qualify for the Champions League T20. Earlier Deccan’s won the toss and decided to bat first. A superb bowling by Bangalore never allowed Deccan Charger batsmen to score runs. Wickets started to fell right from the very first over and the whole batting order collapsed. Deccan’s were all out for mere 82/10 in 18.3 overs. The entire batting line up looked spineless against classic bowling by Kumble (4 wickets) and team.

Chasing 83, Royal Challengers Bangalore started off really calmly and scored just 50/1 in 9.5 overs. But as the total was very small, they played with ease and finally thrashed Deccan’s by 9 wickets to get the third spot in this edition of DLF Indian Premier League.

* Deccan Chargers: 50 runs in 11.3 overs, Extras 4
* Innings Break: Deccan Chargers – 82/10 in 18.3 overs
* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 50 runs in 9.5 overs, Extras 3

3rd Place Play Off Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard

Now all eyes are on the grand finale to be played tomorrow between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.

Play off for 3rd Place
Date: Sat 24 April-2010
Time: 20:00
Venue: Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai

Today is the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers at DY Patil Stadium In Mumbai at 8pm. The winner of this match will be eligible for the the Champions T20. Deccan’s who are the defending champions lost to CSK where as Royal Challengers lost the semi final to Mumbai Indians. Now both these teams would wish to win this match and get the third spot.

Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have already qualified for the Champions T20.

Teams for today’s match
Deccan Chargers Team
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team
A Kumble (Captain),, B Akhil, KP Appanna, RV Uthappa, MV Boucher, R Dravid, SP Goswami, JH Kallis, V Kohli, R Vinay Kumar, B Kumar, P Kumar, A Mithun, EJG Morgan, MK Pandey, KP Pietersen, SPD Smith, S Sriram, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, D du Preez, RE van der Merwe, CL White.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match: 1st semi-final T20, IPL3
Venue: DY Patil Stadium Mumbai
Date: April 21, 2010
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 35 runs
Man of the match – K Pollard

In the first semi final of DLF Indian Premier League 2010, Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. All hopes were on Sachin Tendulkar and fans wished to see the blaster again in full flow, but this time millions of hopes were dashed as the master blaster could not give Mumbai a good start and was out for just 9. The other opener, Shikhar Dhawan also got out for just 12 and Mumbai were 29/2 in 3.4 overs. Nayar and Rayadu then got into a 39 run partnership and took the score to 68. Mumbai then lost Nayar (22 runs) and JP Duminy (3 runs) in space of 7 balls and it looked Royal Challenger Bangalore are in control of the game. But then Saurabh Tiwary and A Rayudu played well and took the score close to 150. A Rayudu (40 runs) was the next to get out but his wicket proved to be a blessing in disguise for Mumbai as it brought Pollard (33 runs) and Saurabh Tiwary (52 runs) in the center. They both then fired all cylinders and when it looked Mumbai could post 160 or so, they both scored 34 runs in last 2 overs to post a decent total of 184/5 in 20 overs.

Royal Challengers started with R Dravid and J Kallis. Kallis, the man in form for RCB got out for just 11 and RCB were 24/1 in 2.4 overs. Kevin Pietersen and R Dravid then tried to bring RCB back on track, Harbhajan Singh got the wicket of Kevin Pietersen (19 runs) and thus reduced Royal Challengers to 47/2 in 6.2 overs. Rahul Dravid and Robin Uthapa were at the center and they both scored runs at good run rate and took the score to 81/2 in 9 overs. The 10th over changed the game as Royal Challengers lost 2 wickets in this over and were reduced to 81/4. Dravid and Uthapa both were back in pavilion and Mumbai Indians were back in the game. K Pollard was the star for Mumbai Indians, earlier in batting he played a cameo of 33 runs off just 13 balls and then while bowling he took 3 crucial wickets to knock Royal Challengers Bangalore out of DLF IPL – 3. RCB were 109/6 in 14 overs and needed another 76 runs from 36 balls. Mumbai bowlers then kept RCB batsmen in total control and were finally able to win today’s 1st semi final with a convincing margin of 35 runs.

Bangalore will play the losing team of the second semi final match between Chennai Super Kings and Deccan Chargers. Mumbai Indians will play the winner of that match in the grand finale of IPL 2010.

Semi Final Match Highlights
* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 5.5 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 9
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 17.6 overs, Extras 12
* SS Tiwary: 50 off 31 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 184/5 in 20.0 overs

* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 2
* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 100 runs in 11.6 overs, Extras 5

1st Semi Final Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard