In the 25th match of DLF – IPL, Royal Challengers will take on Kings XI Punjab. Both the teams are on a roll after winning the last match and Royal Challengers would go for a hunt to stop the winning streak of Kings XI and thus continue the win sequence which started a bit late for them. We hope to see a good match and lets see Dravid or Yuvraj who proves to be heavier for each other.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Bharath Chipli, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Cameron White, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Kings XI Punjab: (probables) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Karan Goel, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Sreesanth, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Gagandeep Singh.
Match Details :

Date – May 5, 2008 25th Match
Venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

20:00 India time.

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The poor run of Royal Challengers Bangalore ended today and they won today’s match by 3 runs. Chasing the target of 157  Deccan Chargers lost Gilly and Gibbs at team score of 31. Very very special Laxman played the captains knock and was firm on one end. Rohit Sharma came to the center and got into a decent partnership with Laxman. Rohit Sharma and V.V.S.Laxman both scored half centuries and with this half century, Rohit Sharma became the highest run getter in the Indian Premier League and thus will wear the orange cap now. They needed 42 runs in the last 4 overs. Kallis was the bowler and Sharma hit the 1st ball for a four and the second for a six.In an effort to hit one more six, Rohit Sharma got out after having a partnership of 96 with Laxman.Afridi was the one who came after the dismissal of Sharma and Deccan Chargers needed 29 runs in 18 balls.Afridi was out for 1 and it looked that Royal Challengers are back again in the game.Wickets were falling continuously and the main stay Laxman was also out leaving the team in  need of 25 runs from 2 overs. Zaheer got Styris in the second last over and bowled an excellent line. Deccan Chargers needed 20 runs in the last over and that proved to be too much for them. Deccan Chargers could not capitalize on the innings of Laxman and Rohit Sharma and lost a match which was almost in their favor. Kumble was hit for 2 sixes and Deccan Chargers needed 5 off the last bowl but they could not score it and thus Royal Challengers Bangalore Won By 3 Runs.It was a match which witnessed  changing fortunes in the last 5 overs. Earlier it looked that Deccan Chargers would easily win the match but some excellent bowling by Royal Challengers Bangalore assured the win.

Today – Match 21 – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers

In the match number 21 of DLF – IPL, Royal Challengers had to play against Deccan Chargers. Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field first. They got an initial breakthrough when Royal Challengers had just scored 13 runs in form of Chipli. But then Jaffer and Kohli played good shots and took the score to 85. Jaffer got out at this score. Kallis was the next to go without doing much.Misbah who is said to be the T20 special also came and without doing much was sent back by the pakistani counterpart Shahid Afridi. Kallis, Virat Kohli and Misbah got out in quick succession and it looked that Royal Challengers are again in some serious problems. But Rahul Dravid played some good shots and took the score to 156 in 20 overs. He hit 2 sixes in the last over before perishing on the last ball of the innings.Much was expected from Boucher and Misbah but both failed. Now its the turn of Royal Challenger bowlers to make a match out of it.

Today – Match 21 – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers

Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers is going to be a very crucial match for both the teams. Both the teams have lost 4 matches out of the 5 they played so far and are therefore in a hunt to prove themself.

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

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (probables) 1 Adam Gilchrist, 2 VVS Laxman (capt), 3 Hershelle Gibbs, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Arjun Yadav, 7, Sanjay Bangar, 8 Nuwan Zoysa, 9 D Kalyankrishna, 10 RP Singh, 11 Pragyan Ojha.

Date – 21st Match May 3, 2008
Venue – Hyderabad
16:00 India time.

Update: Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field first.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore lost yet again in the DLF- Indian Premier League. Replying to the target of 192 set by Delhi DareDevils, Royal Challengers started poorly and lost the first wicket in the very first over. Praveen Kumar was the one to get out to Glen McGrath. Then Taylor and Wassim Jaffer took the score to 46 before Taylor got out. Jaffer soon followed and Royal Challengers were reeling at 48/3. Captain Rahul Dravid came to the center and played responsibly. He scored 38 runs in 30 balls, his personal best so far in the tournament. But in order to increase the run rate he mistimed a shot and scooped the ball straight up in air. Captain was caught by captain – Virender Sehwag and the score of Royal Challengers was 135/4 in 15.3 overs.It was Boucher and Kallis on whose shoulders lied the responsibility to take the team to victory. Kallis scored the half century by hitting Asif for a straight four.In the second last over Kallis got bowled on 54 by Vettori. In the last over Royal Challengers needed 30 runs and they were able to score 20.So Delhi DareDevils Won the match by 10 runs

 DLF-Maximum Sixes award – Shikhar Dhawan

Man of the Match – Glen McGrath for 4 wickets

Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers – 17th Match