Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to field
Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 36 runs
Man of the match: R Uthappa

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the toss and were invited to bat first. They got to a fast start but the main stay, orange cap batsmen Kallis was the first to get out with the team score of 28/1 in 4.4 overs. This was a huge below to Royal Challengers Bangalore as Kallis has been the backbone of Royal Challengers Bangalore batting. Soon Dravid and Manish also went back to pavilion but Robin Uthappa along with Kohli got them to a good total of 171/5 in 20 overs. Robin Uthappa was at his devastating best today and was very severe in the last overs. From 119/5 in 17th over he took the team score to 171/5 in 20 overs.

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Chennai Super Kings were playing without Dhoni and were in dire straits as they had lost consecutive matches. Today chasing a total of 172, they needed a good start but Parthiv Patel got out in the very first over. Wickets started to fell at regular interval and no good partnership could steady the Chennai Super Kings innings. Half of the team was back in pavilion in 13 over with the team score of 74. They needed 98 more runs in last 7 overs and with each dot ball, the required rate was mounting on them. In the last 5 overs they needed 77 runs at 15.40 runs per over. Chennai Super Kings batsmen again succumbed to this intense run rate pressure and could score just 135/7 in 20 overs, thus loosing the match by 36 runs

Match18 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010

Today in the 18th match of DLF Indian Premier League, Suresh Raina’s Chennai Super Kings will take on Anil Kumble’s Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST. Chennai Super Kings lost the last match to Kings XI Punjab in the super over and would thus have to win the match to get back the momentum.

On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore are riding high due to excellent batting form of Kallis and other top order batsmen. This would be a nice challenge between young Raina and veteran Kumble.

Team Composition
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

Chennai Super Kings
PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma

Match: 16th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: March 21, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to field
Result:Kings XI Punjab Won

Kings XI Punjab Innings
Desperate to win and open an account in the points table, Kings XI Punjab today opened the batting with Irfan Pathan. Though this played off well as he scored 39 runs and gave some platform to other batsmen. But the poor run of others continue and Kings XI Punjab could never find a partnership which could get them to a high score. Yuvraj Singh was the top scorer with 43. Kings XI Punjab lost some quick wickets in the last overs and thus could not score at fast pace. In the end of 20 overs they could only score 136/8 which looks like a real easy target seeing the current form of Chennai Super Kings.

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Chennai Super Kings were chasing 137 to win and they got to a flying start with Parthiv Patel and Hayden both hammering the bowlers of Punjab. They took the team score past 50 and then when the score was 65, Powar bowled Hayden. It was here that the match was opened and Kings XI could see a light of hope. Chennai Super Kings lost some quick wickets and even the run rate was dropped. What looked like an easy victory was infact turned to a hard fought match. Chennai Super Kings were 126/5 in 18 overs and needed 11 runs in last 2 overs. A superb second last over made this one sided match a real thriller as Chennai Super Kings needed 10 runs in last over and had 4 wickets in hand. 3 runs were needed from the last 3 balls and Irfan Pathan bowled a wonderful spell to draw the match. Score was tied at 136/7 in 20 overs and the result was drawn with the help of Super Over!

Super over decided the fate of match
Chennai Super Kings batted first in the Super Over. Hayden, Raina and Morkel batted for them. They could score only 9 runs in that over. Kings XI Punjab needed 10 to win in that super over and they did that in style. Mahela Jayawardene scored a six on the first ball and got out at the next ball. But Yuvraj Singh scored a four to ensure the win for Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI Punjab won the first match of this season and have finally opened the account in points tally.

Match 16 Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 16
Date: 21 March 2010 Sunday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Chennai Super Kings will take on Kings XI Punjab today at Chepauk, Chennai. Kings XI Punjab have had a poor season so far and would like to get the act together and open the account in point’s table. Kings XI Punjab have lost all the three games played so far and would be under immense pressure to perform where as Chennai Super Kings have won 2 out of the last 3 games and are looking much superior than Kings XI Punjab.

The main concern for Kings XI Punjab will be the poor form of Yuvraj Singh and Kumara Sangakkara. On the other hand Chennai Super Kings are also playing without MS Dhoni, but in the last match they won without Dhoni too. This has raised the team morale and thus Chennai Super Kings will go full barrel on Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI need to overcome the batting collapse disorder if they dream about making in top 4.

Team Compositions
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.

Chennai Super Kings
PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma

Final eleven will be announced just before the match

Match: 11th T20, IPL 3
Venue: Delhi | Date: March 19, 2010
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings Defeat Delhi Daredevils by 5 Wickets

In the 11th match today, Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first. They got to a flying start with Sehwag at his devastating best. Though other Delhi batsmen contributed a little, but it was Sehwag’s who stole the show. He scored 74 runs off just 38 balls (4*10, 3*6). After a good start, Delhi Daredevils fumbled in the middle orders and lost some quick wickets. But in the end, Mithun Manhas and Rajat Bhatia scored some quick runs and helped them score 185/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing a target of 187 to win, Chennai Super Kings started off well and scored 50/1 in 5 overs. The main stay was Hayden who with his mongoose bat was a source of attraction. Hayden’s mongoose bat wrecked Delhi Daredevils bowlers and his blitzkrieg innings had put Chennai on top. Hayden scored 93 runs off just 43 balls ( 9*4,7*6). At one moment it looked all over for Delhi but then Hayden and Morkel’s wicket fell and Chennai were placed at 154/4 in 14.2 overs. Suresh Raina (captain) along with Murali Vijay then played well and ensured they dont mess up a brilliant effort by Hayden. Chennai Super Kings scored 190/5 in 19.1 overs to register a comfortable win over Delhi Daredevils

Match 11 IPL 2010 Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard