Bangalore Royal Challengers defeated Deccan Chargers by five wickets in a match that see sawed from one teams favor to another. The home jinx for Deccan Charges contniued and they again lost a close battle. Once it looked that this time they would win the match but some good batting by Misbah-ul-Haq, Rahul Dravid, Cameron White and Akhil ensured they got home with one over to spare.

Today was a 48th match of Indian Premier League, the match was between Kings XI Punjab and Deccan Chargers, played at Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali. Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to bowl first. They were given a target of 176 and Shaun Marsh and Kumar Sangakkara opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab and took the score to 84 before Kumar Sangakkara was out. The score of the team was 117 for the loss of 2 wickets in 13 overs. Shaun Marsh was the top scorer for Kings XI Punjab and thus helped the team to win the match by 6 wkts.

Today’s match was of Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers in the IPL. This was the 48th match of the league, played at Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali. Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to bowl. Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs opened the batting for Deccan Chargers and took the score to 79 before Herschelle Gibbs was out. The score of the team was 122 for the loss of 2 wickets in 16 overs. Adam Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma were the top scorer for Deccan Chargers. They scored 50 runs each. In the end the team scored 175 runs in 20 overs.

Today Match 48- Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers

Kings XI Punjab take on the depleted Deccan Chargers today in the 48th match of DLF-IPL. Punjab has already made it to the semifinals and Hyderabad is out of the semi final race but still it is considered an important match as both have some reason to play.Kings would like to maintain the winning habit where as Deccan Chargers would like to save the prestige.

Kings XI Punjab (probables): 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Luke Pomersbach, 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Pankaj Dharmani (wk), 8 Gagandeep Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Deccan Chargers (probables): 1 Adam Gilchrist (capt & wk), 2 Shahid Afridi, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Chamara Silva, 5 Venugopal Rao, 6 D Ravi Teja, 7 Sarvesh Kumar, 8 Halhadhar Das, 9 RP Singh, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 D Vijaykumar.

Match Number – 48

Time – 8 pm Indian Standard Time

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In a good encounter between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians, it was Mumbai Indians who notched up their sixth win on the trot by defeating Deccan Chargers by 25 runs in their Indian Premier League encounter in Hyderabad on Sunday night.The Mumbai team first scored a competitive 178 for seven, thanks to some sensible batting by Abishek Nayar and Dwayne Bravo, and then restricted hosts to 153 for seven in 20 overs.The win was a sweet revenge for the visitors as they had lost by comprehensive 10-wickets margin against Chargers at the home-tie.Bravo, who was playing his last match in the tournament, ended the tournament on a high note as he first collected 30 crucial runs and then took three wickets, playing a vital role in his team’s victory.Y Venugopal Rao top scored for the Hyderabad team with a sparkling 57-run knock before walking back to the hut.It was the third half-century for Rao in the tournament and it came off just 38 balls with the help of four boundaries and three sixes.
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