Bangalore Royal Challenger won the toss today in the 17 match of DLF- IPL but things didn’t went the way they wished and Delhi Daredevils scored at a super run rate. They lost the first wicket at 51 in form of Sehwag who scored 24 runs of just 12 balls. Gautam Gambhir on the other end played some phenomenal shots and got on to score 86 runs in just 54 balls. Shikar Dhawan also scored 50 and the duo took the score past 151. Dhawan was then caught out brilliantly one handed by Rahul Dravid. But till then most of the damage was done. Delhi Daredevils scored at more than 10 runs per over in almost the entire innings. In the last few overs they lost some quick wickets but still they managed to score a total of 191 runs in 20 overs.

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

Match 17 – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be today at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi. Royal Challengers are in a do or die situation after loosing 3 out of 4 matches played so far. This could be the last opportunity to prove “Duniya Hila Deyenge Hum“. On the other hand Delhi DareDevil’s winning streak was broken by Kings XI and now they are all ready to take the challenge. In order to focus more on cricket they have even decided to call off the cheerleaders and we hope this might prove to be successful for them.

Delhi Daredevils (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Manoj Tiwary, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Vijaykumar Yomahesh, 10 Mohammad Asif, 11 Glenn McGrath

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Ross Taylor 4 Bharath Chipli, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 KP Appanna.

Match details are –

Date – 17th Match April 30, 2008
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
20:00 India time.

Keep checking iplcricketlive .com for more information about the match, match videos, match score cards and an analysis of each team’s performance.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition seeking to restrain a team owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya from playing in the Indian Premier League under the banner of ‘The Royal Challengers’.
The petition filed by a Faridabad-based resident, Kishan Kumar Aggarwal, alleged that under the garb of ‘The Royal Challengers Bangalore Team’, the United Breweries Group was seeking to promote its brands of liquor.

Source : economictimes.indiatimes.com

In a thrilling match today in DLF – IPL, Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 13 runs. Earlier Dhoni and Hussey played gem of an innings and took the score to 178 in 20 overs. Royal Challengers started the run chase with much confidence and Jaffer and Taylor both scored half centuries. They way the duo was batting it looked that Royal Challengers are upto a big fight today. But once the partnership was over, there was no batsmen who could take up the challenge. The fielding of the Chennai Super Kings was excellent and two run outs proved to be too heavy for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Dhoni seems to have immense faith in Joginder Sharma and it was again that Joginder was given the last over and he did not let the captain down.Royal Challengers have lost all the matches and Chennai Super Kings are on a winning path.

• Bangalore Royal Challengers innings Match Notes
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 50 runs in 6.4 overs (43 balls), Extras 3
• 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (W Jaffer 20, LRPL Taylor 28, Ex 2)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 100 runs in 10.5 overs (70 balls), Extras 5
• W Jaffer: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
• LRPL Taylor: 50 off 30 balls (3 x 4, 3 x 6)
• Bangalore Royal Challengers: 150 runs in 17.3 overs (111 balls), Extras 6

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In the 15th match of DLF- IPL Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. They lost Mathew Hayden when the total was 22 but this did not deter the run rate and they were maintaining the run rate of more than 7 almost in the entire match. Parthiv Patel was the next to go when the score was 42 in 6.3 overs. Hussey yet again played a useful innings and got on to score 47 runs in 36 balls. Raina stroked some good shots in a short cameo of 28 runs in 17 balls. After Raina got out, the captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni came into the center and played some exquisite shots and scored 65 runs in 30 balls. He showed the enormous talent he has by hitting some good bowls to the fence. His shots looked so effortless but the balls was racing to the fence at ultra high speed. Dhoni got his 50 in just 24 balls and scored 24 runs in the 19th over.In the last 5 over 76 runs were scored which helped in increasing the run rate to 8.90

It was the heroic of Dhoni and Hussey that helped Chennai Super Kings to post a target of 179 runs in 20 overs. Now its upto the bowlers to restrict the Royal Challengers and thus continue the winning stride.

• Chennai Super Kings Innings Match Notes
• Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 7.5 overs (49 balls), Extras 3
• Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (90 balls), Extras 3
• 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 31 balls (MEK Hussey 28, MS Dhoni 22, Ex 0)
• Chennai Super Kings: 150 runs in 18.3 overs (114 balls), Extras 4
• MS Dhoni: 50 off 24 balls (7 x 4, 2 x 6)

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