Date:- 18 March 2010
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 10 wickets

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL 2010, Bangalore Royal Challengers thrashed Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bowl first. RCB Bowlers showed the best bowling so far in the tournament and never let Rajasthan Royals score runs at will. Rajasthan Royals batsmen were choked and were finding it really hard to score. To add to this, Praveen Kumar’s Hat trick acted as the last nail in coffin and thus Rajasthan Royals could manage only 92/10 in 19.5 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore had to chase a small total and they did that in style. From the first over, they attacked Rajasthan Royals and scored boundaries at regular interval. It took them just 10.4 overs to register second consecutive win and move up in Points Table.

Match 10 DLF IPL 2010 – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Match Number – 10
Date:- 18 March 2010 Thursday
Time – 20:00 ( 8 pm)
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and decided to field first and the bowlers didnt let the captain down. In the first 4 overs Rajasthan openers managed just 20 runs and this poor run rate was building enormous pressure on Yousaf Pathan. Pathan got two lives as he was dropped twice with in the gap of few balls but still could not take advantage of it as he was run out brilliantly by Virat Kohli. After 15 overs, Rajasthan Royals could score only 78/4.

To add to woes of Rajasthan Royals, Praveen Kumar wrecked the lower middle order with a hattrick thus reducing them to 85/7 in 16.4 overs.

Over all Royal Challengers Bangalore Bowlers did a splendid job and never gave away easy runs. Every bowler bowled economically, the bowler with the highest economy was Vinay Kumar ( economy 6.25) which in itself is very very good when compared in T20 cricket. They had restricted Rajasthan Royals at 92/10 in 9.5 overs and now it looks an easy win for them.

Match 10 DLF IPL 2010 -Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 10
Date:- 18 March 2010 Thursday
Time – 20:00 ( 8 pm)
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Today will be a clash between world’s top two leg spinners, Kumble vs Shane Warne at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Rajasthan Royals are looking depleted due to injury of two key players, Graeme Smith and Mascarenhas where are Royal Challengers Bangalore are looking in full flow with a sensational win against Kings XI Punjab. Royal Challengers would like to win this game and keep the momentum where as Rajasthan Royals need to win the match and open the account in points table.

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

Rajasthan Royals
SK Warne, SA Asnodkar, GC Smith, DR Martyn, MJ Lumb, FY Fazal, AA Jhunjhunwala, AG Paunikar, SA Quadri, AS Raut, NV Ojha, AD Mascarenhas, YK Pathan, S Narwal, SB Wagh, P Dogra, Kamran Khan, M Morkel, MM Patel, Amit Singh, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, A Uniyal, AP Dole

Date: 16 March 2010
Location: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Result: RCB beat Kings XI by 8 wickets
Toss: Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat first

Kings XI Punjab Innings
RS Bopara scored 77 off 50 balls. MS Bisla made 75 runs. DPMD Jayawardene was unbeatable at 26. Yuvraj Singh and IK Pathan scored 9 and 3 respectively.
Kings XI Punjab scored 203 for a loss of 3 wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
RCB had a good start. RCB lost its first wicket at 74. MK Pandey made 38 runs off 26 balls. Kallis completed his 50 in 42 balls. RCB completed 150 runs in 15.1 overs. RV Uthappa scored 51 off just 21 balls. V Kohli scored 16 runs. Jacques Kallis went on to score an unbeatable 89 runs off just 59 balls. Royal Challengers made 204 runs with 8 wickets remaining in 18.5 overs.

Match 7 – IPL 2010 RCB Vs Kings XI Scorecard

Today, March 16th 2010, Bangalore Royal Challengers will take on Kings XI Punjab at MCS – Bangalore. Both the teams have lost their first match and are now under a pressure to perform well. Kings XI Punjab’s batsmen Yuvraj Singh, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara failed in the first match and thus the team suffered a defeat. Similarly Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the first match against KKR by 7 wickets.

Today is the match which would help both teams gain some momentum and thus proceed further in the tournament.

Match Details
Match Number – 7
Date:- 16 March 2010 Tuesday
Time – 16:00 ( 4 pm)
Venue – MCS – Bangalore

Team Compositions
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

Kings XI Punjab
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, 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 just before the match