Match: 22nd T20, IPL 3
Date: March 26, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad

Rajasthan Royals will take on Deccan Chargers today at the Motera ground at 8 pm. Both the teams have won the last match and are now fully confident to do well. Though Rajasthan Royals had started off poorly in this season but now they seem to be gaining momentum. Deccan Chargers on the other hand have had a mix tournament so far. Both teams would be looking to strengthen the position in points table with a win, so its expected to be a thriller today.

Team Squad
Deccan Chargers
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar

Rajasthan Royals
SK Warne, SA Asnodkar, DR Martyn, MJ Lumb, FY Fazal, AA Jhunjhunwala, AG Paunikar, SA Quadri, AS Raut, NV Ojha, YK Pathan, S Narwal, SB Wagh, P Dogra, Kamran Khan, M Morkel, MM Patel, Amit Singh, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, A Uniyal, AP Dole.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match Number – 15
Date: 21 March 2010 Sunday
Time – 16:00 ( 4pm)
Venue: Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Toss: Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result: Deccan Chargers Won By 10 Runs

Deccan Chargers Innings
Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first. They lost the wicket of Mohnish Mishra in the very first over but then Gibbs and Gilchrist steadied the innings.All the top order batsmen contributed with the bat and helped Deccan Chargers to score a total of 171/6. Rohit Sharma was the top scorer with 45 runs. T Suman also played a useful cameo in the end.

Delhi Daredevils Innings
Chasing the total of 172 to win and break the jinx of consecutive loss. Delhi Daredevils got to a real bad start as they lost the superstar Sehwag out in the 4th over. Warner on the other hand played a superb innings and scored a 50. AB villers and Karthik also chipped in with useful innings. But Delhi Daredevils lost some quick wickets and run rate was also mounting on them. Delhi Daredevils were 135/5 in 17 overs, Karthik played a captain’s knock and scored 17 runs in that over and changed the equation to – 20 runs needed in the last 2 overs. Symonds bowled the 19th over and got the priced wicket of Karthik and A Mishra and the game was again open for both teams. It was this over which changed the entire complexion of the game. Delhi Daredevils required 14 runs off the last over and it was too much for them. Wickets fell like pile of cards and Delhi Daredevils were restricted to 161/9 for and thus lost the match by 10 runs

Match 15 Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 15
Date: 21 March 2010 Sunday
Time – 16:00 ( 4pm)
Venue: Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Sunday is going to be a rocking day for cricket fans as two very important games are coming up today. In the first match starting at 4pm, Delhi Daredevils will take on Deccan Chargers. Delhi lost the previous match and will now be rearing to get back into winning track where as Deccan Chargers are getting the rhythm back and thus we can expect a sensational twenty twenty match today.

Team Compositions
Delhi Daredevils squad

V Sehwag, DA Warner, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MC Henriques, KM Jadhav, KD Karthik(c), AB McDonald, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, DP Nannes, A Nehra, WD Parnell, S Ranjan, AM Salvi, PJ Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, U Yadav

Deccan Chargers
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar

Match Details
Match Number – 12
Date:- March 19, 2010 Friday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Toss: Kings XI Punjab elected to field
Result: Deccan Chargers won by 6 runs

Deccan Chargers Innings
Deccan Chargers were invited to bat first by Kings XI Punjab and the openers of Deccan Chargers took full advantage of some lose bowling. Though Laxman was retired hurt early but Gilchrist and Gibbs played sensational innings. The real superstar for Deccan Chargers was Symonds who smashed quick fire 53 runs. Deccan Chargers middle order crumbled and from 100/2 the went down to112/4. But then a good performance by Vaas and Suman helped them score 170/7 in allotted 20 overs.

Kings XI Punjab Innings
Desperate to win this match, Kings XI Punjab wanted a good start to chase 170. But they lost two quick wickets and were reeling at 11/2 in 3 overs. They needed a partnership and that never came. From 11/2 they were reduced to 68/6 in 12 overs and were virtually fighting a lost battle. Irfan Pathan did gave a little scare to Deccan Chargers and was the highest run getter for Kings XI, he scored 60 off just 29 balls before getting out and ending the last hope for Kings XI. They could score 164/8 in allotted 20 overs and thus lost by 6 runs.

Kings XI poor run in the tournament continues and thus now they need to do something spectacular if they want to even think about being in semis.

Match 12 IPL 2010 – Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 12
Date:- March 19, 2010 Friday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Adam Gilchrist’s Deccan Chargers would take injury ridden Kings XI today at Barabati Stadium at 8 pm Indian Standard Time. Though Deccan Charges got a poor start, loosing to Kolkata Knight Riders, Chargers got back in style by defeating Chennai Super Kings.

On the other hand Kings XI, have lost both the matches played so far, The team needs to get the act together as soon as possible if they want to stay alive in the tournament.

Team Compositions
Deccan Chargers
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar

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.

Final eleven will be announced just before the match