Today was a match between Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal Challengers in the DLF – IPL. This was the 39th match of the league. Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and Elected to field first. Smith and Swapnil Asnodkar opened the batting for Royal Challengers and took the score to 109 before Swapnil Asnodkar was out. They gave the team an excellent start. Apart from the splendid shots, they were also helped by some sloppy fielding by Royal Challengers.The score of the team was 151 for the loss of 1 wickets in 16 overs. Smith was the top scorer for Bangalore Royal Challengers. Smith and Watson played some beautiful shots and took the score to 197 in 20 overs.

Today Match 39 – Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

In the 39th match of DLF-IPL,Rajasthan Royals take on the depleted Royal Challengers who are almost out of the league and it looks like it will be a cake walk for the Rajasthan Royals.

Rajasthan Royals (probables): 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Yusuf Pathan, 3 Mohammad Kaif, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Niraj Patel, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Shane Warne (capt), 8 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 9 Sohail Tanvir, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables): 1 J Arunkumar, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Misbah-ul-Haq, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Jacques Kallis, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 B Akhil, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.
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Date – May 17, 2008 39th Match
Venue – Jaipur
16:00 India time.

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Kings XI Punjab won today’s match against Royal Challengers Bangalore comprehensively by 9 wickets and the hero for today’s match for Kings XI was Shaun Marsh who scored 74 and almost hit every bowler for some exquisite shots for four and sixes. Chasing the target of 144, they lost the first wicket at 42 in form of James Hope. After that Marsh and Luke Pomersbach had no looking back and they guided Kings XI to a well deserved victory. With this win, Kings XI have almost made it to the semifinals and Royal Challengers are almost out of the race for a berth in semi’s.

Today – Match 34 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Royal Challengers won the toss today in the 34 th match of DLF -IPL and decided to bat first. As happened in almost every match, they lost first wicket at 4 and then Misbah and Kohli took the score to 36 at which Misbah was out. Kohli also followed him soon and was out when team score was 49. Royal Challengers kept on loosing wickets at regular intervals and this was the reason they could not pose a huge target.Nearly all the Royal Challengers batsmen got the start but no could make it big. Boucher played some good shots in the end and thus helped Royal Challengers to set a target of 143 in alloted 20 overs. All praise go to the Kings XI bowlers who bowled balls right in the deck to restrict the Royal Challengers from hitting boundaries in the last overs.

Today – Match 34 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

In DLF-IPL, Kings XI take on already shattered Royal Challengers. The Royal Challengers internal issues have also come up and have worsen the scenario for them.This has added more problems and now it looks that even if they win today,they are almost out of the league.Mallaya believes that it was a wrong choice of team by Dravid that has lead to all this debacle. On the other hand, Kings XI are high on confidence and today it seems to be a cake walk for them. But you can not guarantee anything in cricket so we have to wait and watch.

King’s XI Punjab (probables): 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Piyush Chawla, 8 Uday Kaul (wk), 9 Sreesanth, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Gagandeep Singh.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables): 1 J Arunkumar, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Mark Boucher (wk), 4 Cameron White, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Rahul Dravid (capt), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 Anil Kumble, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Vinay Kumar.

Date – May 12, 2008 34th Match
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
20:00 India time.

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