Match: 31st T20, IPL3
Venue: Mohali
Date: April 2, 2010
Toss: Kings XI Punjab elected to bat first.
Result: Royal Challengers won by 6 wickets

Batting Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab

Batting Scoreboard : IPL 2010 Second Innings

Match: 31 T20, IPL3
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
Date: April 2, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm

The underdogs Kings XI Punjab will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore today at PCB Mohali. Kings XI Punjab have lost 6 out of the 7 games played so far and are placed last in the points table. Seeing the current form of Royal Challengers Bangalore, it looks that Priety Zinta’s Kings XI has a very small chance of winning today. But as they say, cricket is a game of uncertainty and we should not prejudge, we hope that atleast one of the top order batsmen plays well for Kings XI Punjab today and give some moments of joy to Priety Zinta.

On the other hand, Kumble’s Royal Challengers are very confident of victory today because of the excellent form of some batsmen. Today’s match in IPL 2010 is expected to be a thriller as Royal Challengers would like to keep the winning momentum where as Kings XI Punjab are playing for pride and have nothing to loose.

IPL 2010 Squad
Royal Challengers Bangalore squad
A Kumble*, 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.

Kings XI Punjab squad
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match: 28th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: March 31, 2010
Toss: Royal Challengers elected to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets

After wining the toss, Royal Challengers decided to bat first. Manish Pandey and J Kallis opened the innings for them but Pandey got out when the team score was just 12. After that Uthapa and Kallis steadied the innings and took the score past 50. Royal Challengers were placed at 54/2 in 6.3 overs. Royal Challengers batsmen played with caution and at one stage they had crossed the 100 run mark with the loss of just 2 wickets. At this stage it looked that now they will fire all cylinders and will try to pose a huge total. But excellent bowling by Chennai Super Kings bowlers played spoilsport as Royal Challengers could not score freely at will. Kevin Pieterson and C White did get some hits in the final overs and thus could manage to take the team score to 161/4 in 20overs.

Chennai Super Kings openers Murli Vijay and Hayden gave them a superb start and scored 61 runs in just 6.5 overs. Even after Hayden got out, Murli Vijay along with Raina kept the required rate under check. Murli Vijay played a superb knock of 78 in just 39 balls and took the team past 100 run mark. His innings laid a platform for the middle order to taste victory. Chennai Super Kings were well placed at 118/2 in 14 overs and needed 44 runs in 6 overs with 8 wickets in hand. But soon they lost 2 quick wickets and at the end of 18 overs they were 146/4. Chennai Super Kings needed 16 to win in 12 balls and it could have been anyone’s game. But Raina played sensibly and took the team to victory in the last over. Finally Chennai Super Kings were able to win the match by 5 wickets and thus move up some position in the points tables

Match 28 Chennai Super Kings vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Scorecard

Match: 28th T20, IPL3
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date: March 31, 2010
Time : 4:00 pm

Chennai Super Kings will face Bangalore Royal Challengers today at 4pm at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. Chennai Super Kings are struggling in this edition of IPL and have to fire all guns today against Bangalore Royal Challengers if they wish to dream about semis. Bangalore Royal Challengers on the other hand have continued the golden run which started in the last season. In this season they are playing superb cricket and are in top 3 teams at this moment.

Chennai Super Kings squad
MS Dhoni*, R Ashwin, SK Raina, M Vijay, HK Badani, ML Hayden, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, L Balaji, DE Bollinger, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, MEK Hussey, SB Jakati, AB Karthik, JM Kemp, JA Morkel, M Muralitharan, M Ntini, PA Patel, NLTC Perera, T Thushara, S Tyagi,

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad
A Kumble*, 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: 20th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 25, 2010
Time: 4pm IST
Toss: Royal Challengers elected to field
Result:Delhi Daredevils won by 17 runs

Royal Challengers won the toss and invited Delhi Daredevils to bat first.Desperate to get the winning momentum back,Delhi Daredevils openers gave them a good start. Warner and Sehwag scored over 10 runs per over before Warner got out in the 4th over with team score of 44/1 in 3.2 overs. Soon Sehwag also got out but Delhi Daredevils batsmen continued to make runs at good run rate. AB Villers and Kedar Jadhav got to a good partnership. Kedar Jadhav came as a surprise shocker for Royal Challengers Bangalore as he scored 50 runs of just 29 balls. In the end, Kedar Jadhav and Andrew McDonald took Delhi Daredevils score to 183/4 in 20 overs.

Chasing the target of 184 to win, Royal Challengers Bangalore started on a cautious note. The strategy seemed to be to save wickets and then launch the attack in end overs. Manish Pandey and Kallis gave them a solid start and took the score to 71 before Kallis got out in the 10t over. It was this wicket which paved way for Delhi Daredevils to strike back and break the middle order of Royal Challengers Bangalore. From 71/1 they were reduced to 90/4 in 12 overs. They needed a partnership to get another 94 runs in 8 overs. The required rate was mounting and the Royal Challengers Bangalore crumbled under this pressure. To add to the woes, some superb fielding by Delhi Daredevils and poor running by Royal Challengers led to 3 run outs. Royal Challengers could manage only 166/9 and thus lost the match by 17 runs.

Match 20 Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils Scorecard