The most entertaining match of the DLF – Indian Premier League was believed to be todays encounter between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils. Both the teams have outstanding players and it is said to be the best game of the tournament. Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first.They started well and scored 65 runs in 8.1 overs for the loss of 2 wickets.Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan scored a half century and in a process of speeding the run rate he was out for 54. Dhoni was the key man for Chennai Super Kings but he was kept silent in the 14 and 15 th over by some excellent bowling by McGrath and Yo Mahesh. He was eventually out for 32 in 18th over when the team score was 137. Chennai Super Kings could not capitalize on the start and were limited to 169 in 20 overs thanks to Badrinath who hit a huge six on the last bowl of the innings.

Today’s Scorecard – Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils – 20th Match

The 20th match of DLF – IPL is between the two very strong teams and it is expected to be a thriller to watch Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi DareDevils. Chennai Super Kings are undefeated in the tournament and Delhi DareDevils are also on a high after winning the previous match.

Chennai Super Kings probables: 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Stephen Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 S Badrinath, 6 Albie Morkel, 7, S Vidyut, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Muttiah Muralitharan, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

Delhi Daredevils probables: 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Manoj Tiwary, 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Mohammad Asif, 10 Yo Mahesh, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Match details are –

Date – May 2, 2008 20th Match
Venue – M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
20:00 India time.

Update : Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat 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

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.

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