Match: 20th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 25, 2010
Time: 4pm IST

Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Delhi Daredevils today at Chinnaswamy Stadium at 4pm Indian standard time. Delhi Daredevils who started as the favorites in this season of IPL have suddenly lost the momentum and are now on a loosing streak. They need to break the jinx today as now they are in bottom two of points table. On the other hand Royal Challengers Bangalore are number one team till date due to the superb batting and bowling form of its team members. In the last match they defeated Chennai Super Kings and that too convincingly.

The kind of form in which Royal Challengers Bangalore are playing, it looks like a herculean task for Delhi Daredevils. But Delhi Daredevils do have some of the best T20 players and have that ability to come back. So today’s match promises to be yet another entertainment packed match for the crowd.

Team Composition
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar.

Delhi Daredevils
V Sehwag, DA Warner, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MC Henriques, KM Jadhav, KD Karthik(c), AB McDonald, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, DP Nannes, A Nehra, WD Parnell, S Ranjan, AM Salvi, PJ Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, U Yadav

Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to field
Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 36 runs
Man of the match: R Uthappa

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the toss and were invited to bat first. They got to a fast start but the main stay, orange cap batsmen Kallis was the first to get out with the team score of 28/1 in 4.4 overs. This was a huge below to Royal Challengers Bangalore as Kallis has been the backbone of Royal Challengers Bangalore batting. Soon Dravid and Manish also went back to pavilion but Robin Uthappa along with Kohli got them to a good total of 171/5 in 20 overs. Robin Uthappa was at his devastating best today and was very severe in the last overs. From 119/5 in 17th over he took the team score to 171/5 in 20 overs.

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Chennai Super Kings were playing without Dhoni and were in dire straits as they had lost consecutive matches. Today chasing a total of 172, they needed a good start but Parthiv Patel got out in the very first over. Wickets started to fell at regular interval and no good partnership could steady the Chennai Super Kings innings. Half of the team was back in pavilion in 13 over with the team score of 74. They needed 98 more runs in last 7 overs and with each dot ball, the required rate was mounting on them. In the last 5 overs they needed 77 runs at 15.40 runs per over. Chennai Super Kings batsmen again succumbed to this intense run rate pressure and could score just 135/7 in 20 overs, thus loosing the match by 36 runs

Match18 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010

Today in the 18th match of DLF Indian Premier League, Suresh Raina’s Chennai Super Kings will take on Anil Kumble’s Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST. Chennai Super Kings lost the last match to Kings XI Punjab in the super over and would thus have to win the match to get back the momentum.

On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore are riding high due to excellent batting form of Kallis and other top order batsmen. This would be a nice challenge between young Raina and veteran Kumble.

Team Composition
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar

Chennai Super Kings
PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma

Match: 14th T20, IPL3
Date: 20 March 2010
Toss: Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first.
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Result : Royal Challengers Won By 7 Wickets

Mumbai Indians Innings
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first, though they kept losing wickets at regular interval but Tendulkar, Saurabh Tiwary, R Satish, K Pollard chipped in with small yet useful innings. At one stage it looked they would not reach 150 run mark but a cameo from Zaheer Khan helped them score 151/9 in 20 overs. The collapse of middle order helped Royal Challengers restrict them to a low total thus helped them stop the winning path of Mumbai Indians

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
After restricting Mumbai Indians for 151, it was the turn of batsmen to guide them to victory. Royal Challengers Bangalore got off to a flying start and scored 85/1 in 9.5 overs. Manish Pandey and Jacques Kallis again shattered the opponent bowling attack and took control of the match. Though in middle orders, it looked that Mumbai Indians have some chance as the match was taken to last over. But Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen kept the cool and finally won the match by 7 wickets. Jacques Kallis was given man of the match due to his excellent performance. Once again it was Kallis who stole the show and helped the RCB win a match.

This was the first loss of Mumbai Indians where as now it looks that Royal Challengers Bangalore are on a winning streak as today they have defeated the most formidable side of IPL 3.

Match 14 – IPL 2010 Mumbai Indians Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 14
Date:- March 20, 2010 Saturday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Mumbai Indians are riding high on the points tally and would like to continue the current form till the end of this season of Indian Premier League where as Royal Challengers Bangalore have shown some phenomenal cricket and would like to end the running streak of Mumbai Indians.

Today at Brabourne stadium, two giants of Indian cricket – Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble will will fight for retaining the momentum of win. Royal Challengers Bangalore will try to end Mumbai Indians’ unbeaten run but this herculean task needs some real good performance and thus we can expect a cracker of a match today at Mumbai.

Team Compostion
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar

Mumbai Indians squad
SR Tendulkar*, DJ Bravo, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, CRD Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, ST Jayasuriya, Z Khan, DS Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, SL Malinga, AG Murtaza, GR Napier, AM Nayar, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, R Sathish, KS Sahabuddin, R Shukla, AP Tare†, SS Tiwary