In the rain interrupted match, Kolkata Knight Riders broke the jinx and atlast won the match by runs. They had set a target of 130 for the Royal Challengers and that proved to be too much for the Royal Challengers. They started off miserably and lost Chaderpaul of just 17 and then the next to go was Jagadeesh Arunkumar.The problem for Challengers was not wickets but the climbing runrate. The bowlers of Knight Riders were superbly assisted by the fielders. Fielders were throwing themself for saving each run and in the end it was the combine efforts of superb bowling and fielding which helped Knight Riders win the match. In the last over Royal Challengers needed 19 runs and they were short by 5 runs. So after loosing the last 4 matches Knight Riders are back and the happiness was seen on in the camp and also on the dancing Shahrukh Khan’s face.

Today – Match 29 – Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

The 29th match of DLF – IPL was interrupted by rain and due to this, umpires had decided to reduce the overs to 16 over each. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat first but had a dismal start as they lost Akash Chopra when the team score was 9. Soon Hodge also was out leaving the Knight Riders at 20/2. Captain Ganguly then played some brave shots before he was brilliantly run out and the team score was 46/3. Hussey and Taibu then took the score past 50 and at a team score of 64 at which Hussey also returned to pavilion.Taibu and L.N Shukla also felt soon and the Knight Riders were struggling at 88/6 in 12 overs. Some sloppy fielding and some good hits to the boundary finally took the score of Knight Riders to 129 runs in 16 overs.

Lets see how the bowlers try to restrict the Royal Challengers Batsmen.

Today – Match 29 – Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Match 29 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be a do or die for both the teams. Kolkata Knight Riders started this league on a winning note but have not maintained the success and are now loosing ina row. On the other hand Royal Challnegers are under huge pressure due to the sacking of CEO Charu Sharma and also do to the poor show of the team.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 2 J Arun Kumar, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Bharat Chipli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Knight Riders (probables) 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Salman Butt, 3 Debabrata Das, 4 Brad Hodge, 5 David Hussey, 6 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Match Details :

Date – May 8, 2008 29th Match
Venue – Eden Garden Kolkata
20:00 India time.

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Today was a match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kings XI Punjab in the DLF – IPL. This was the 25th match of this league. Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to field first. They were given a target of 127 which was mearly a small target to achieve by Kings XI Punjab. Shaun Marsh and James Hopes opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab and took the score to 11 before James Hopes was caught by C White in the second over of the match. The score of the team was 81 for the loss of 2 wickets in 10 overs. The captain of the team Yuvraj singh was caught by D Patil, he scored just 1 run. Even the bowling part of Kings XI Punjab of today’s match was excellent, it looked like the luck was favoring them. Shaun Marsh was the top scorer for Kings XI Punjab and thus helped the team to win the match by 6 wickets

Match Notes Are :

• Bangalore Royal Challengers innings
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 50 runs in 9.6 overs (64 balls), Extras 4
• 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (V Kohli 22, R Dravid 26, Ex 2)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 100 runs in 15.6 overs (101 balls), Extras 10
• R Dravid: 50 off 44 balls (7 x 4)
• Innings Break: Bangalore Royal Challengers – 126/10 in 19.2 overs (DW Steyn 1)

• Kings XI Punjab innings
• Kings XI Punjab: 50 runs in 5.3 overs (37 balls), Extras 9
• 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (SE Marsh 13, RR Sarwan 29, Ex 8)
• Kings XI Punjab: 100 runs in 13.1 overs (85 balls), Extras 15

Today – Match 25th – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab

Today it was Rahul Dravid vs Yuvraj Singh as Royal Challengers were to compete with Kings XI Punjab.Kings XI won the toss and decided to field first.The decision of Yuvi proved very beneficial and the bowlers of Kings XI got the first break through on the 4th ball of the innings. Sreesanth gave double blow and got the second wicket on the 5th ball of the very first over.Royal Challengers were struggling at 1/2. Royal Challengers were not yet fully recovered and Kallis was also run out leaving the team at 15/3 in 3.3 overs. Virat Kohli and Dravid then took the score to 69 and then Kohli was out. Misbah was the next to go and Royal Challengers had lost 5 key players for just 98. Praveen Kumar got out without even bothering the score card and thus a total of 5 batsmen from Royal Challengers were out for a duck in today’s match. Full credit goes to the bowlers of Kings XI for making the Royal Challengers batsmen struggle to make runs. In the end it was the bowlers of Kings XI who bundled out the whole team for 126 in 19.2 overs.

Today – Match 25th – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab