Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 42 runs

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders. Jacques Kallis along with captain Gambhir opened the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders and right from the first over, the duo took the charge and hammered RCB bowlers to all corners of the ground. The duo added 60 runs in the first power play (1-6 overs). Captain of RCB, Daniel Vettori got the much needed breakthrough when he got the wicket of J Kallis. But there was no stopping for Gambhir who then along with Manvinder Singh Bisla took the team score past 100 in the 11th over. At one stage it looked like the target of 200 is quite achievable. Gambhir completed his half-century from just 28 balls, the fastest fifty in this year’s IPL. Finally Muralitharan got the priced wicket of Bisla who scored 46 from 29 balls. At the end of 14 overs, KKR were comfortably placed at 126/2 and Yusuf Pathan was the next batsmen in. The crowd expected some fireworks from Pathan but was disappointed as he failed again and got out after scoring just 1 run. This lead to a flurry of wickets, from 126/2, KKR slumped to 154/8 in 19.3 overs with no middle order batsmen able to score run in double digit.A complete middle order collapse brought RCB back into the game and they were able top restrict KKR to 165/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 166 to win, RCB needed a good start but KKR bowlers didn’t let allow them easy runs. Kallis striked in his first over and got the wicket of Pujara. RCB were hopeful that return of Chris Gayle will do wonders to their team but Kallis nulled The Gayle factor as he got his wicket in his second over leaving RCB struggling at 8/2 in 3.3 overs. Balaji was the next to strike as he got the priced wicket of V Kohli, last match hero AB de Villiers and M Agarwal leaving RCB tottering at 33/5 in 9.1 overs. Needing another 123 to win from 10 overs, Saurabh Tiwary and D Vettori took the charge and tried to accelerate the run rate. Vettori played a cameo of 20 runs in 12 balls and just when he started to look dangerous for KKR, Balaji bowled him leaving RCB at 60/6 in 11.5 overs. With this wicket, curtains were drawn on RCB’s victory dream and the team could manage just 124/9 in 20 overs and thus lost by 42 runs.

Match 10 IPL 2012 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 42 runs

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Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL 2012, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Kolkata Knight Riders at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Royals who won their first match are all set to keep their winning momentum intact where as KKR needs to redefine their strategies as they have lost both their games so far. But KKR have the potential to beat any team in the league and KKR fan’s will be hoping that today the team gets the taste of victory. KKR would be hoping that McCullum again unleashes his explosive batting as he did on April 18, 2008 at the same ground.

RCB has further strengthened their squad with in-form Sri Lankan Batsmen Tillakaratne Dilshan joining the team on Sunday.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad IPL 2012
Gautam Gambhir(Captain), Marchant de Lange, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena, Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Sarabjit Ladda, Jaydev Unadkat, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Laxmi Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Shakib Al Hasan, Iqbal Abdulla, Brendon McCullum, Brad Haddin, Manvinder Bisla

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad IPL 2012
Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohammad Kaif, Rilee Rossouw, KP Appanna, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel, Vijay Zol, S Thiyagarajan, Dirk Nannes, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Asad Pathan, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, Sreenath Aravind, Abrar Kazi, Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Vettori (Captain), Ryan Ninan, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Muralidharen Gautam, Luke Pomersbach.

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Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -7th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 8, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 22 runs

Chasing 165 to win, Kolkata Knight Riders got off to the worst start possible and lost J Kallis,G Gambhir and B McCullum in three consecutive deliveries when the team score was just 8. At 8/3 in 2.1 overs, KKR were in dire needs of a partnership. Manoj Tiwary and D Das were at the center and they took the score to 25 when D Das was bowled by Cooper. KKR were reeling at 25/4 in 5.4 overs and victory looked a distant dream. Manoj Tiwary and Y Pathan then played sensibly and took the team score past 50. Just when it looked that KKR are back on track for the run chase, Yousuf Pathan got out leaving KKR struggling at 66/5 in 10.2 overs. KKR needed 88 to win from last 8 overs and had 5 wickets in hand and Manoj Tiwary single handily tried to take his team towards victory as he scored a brilliant (59 off 49balls, 7×4 0x6) but his efforts went to vain as the required rate was way too high for KKR and they could manage 142/10 in 20 overs, thereby losing the match by 22 runs.

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field first. Rajasthan Royals got off to a poor start as the last match’s star A Rahane was run out for a duck leaving RR at 1/1 in 1.3 overs. R Dravid and S Goswami then took the team score to 44 when again run out lead to wicket of Dravid who departed after scoring 26 off 24 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes. Having lost both openers and that too via run out, RR looked in some trouble and needed a partnership going. But soon S Goswami was also bowled leaving RR at 61/3 in 8.4 overs. A Menaria and B Hodge then steadied the innings and the duo took RR score past 100 in the 14th over.They both lashed on every bowler and scored runs freely. B Hodge was particularly severe on bowlers as he scored 44 runs in 29 balls which included 3 fours and 2 sixes. After he got out, O Shah came to the center and started hitting the ball in all directions. It was some fine hitting of Hodge, Shah and Menaria which helped Rajasthan Royals post a total of 164/5 in 20 overs.

Match 7 IPL 2012 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders Live Scorecard IPL 2012
Match -7th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 8, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 22 runs

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