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

Today in the 7th match of DLF IPL, Rajasthan Royals will take on Kolkata Knight Riders at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. Rajasthan Royals have won the first match in league and are looking really confident against Kolkata Knight Riders who started with a defeat. But KKR with the likes of Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan and Brendon McCullum are capable of beating any time in the league and thus this match promises to be a real entertainer for the crowd.

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

Rajasthan Royals Squad IPL 2012
Rahul Dravid (Captain), Brad Hodge, Ajinkya Rahane, Owais Shah, Kevon Cooper, Aakash Chopra, Ankeet Chavan, Faiz Fazal, Shaun Tait, Sreesanth, Samad Fallah, Siddharth Trivedi, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Dole, Pankaj Singh, Amit Singh, Shane Watson, Johan Botha, Brad Hogg, Paul Collingwood, Sumit Narwal, Abhishek Raut, Stuart Binny, Ashok Menaria, Dinesh Chandimal, Shreevats Goswami, Amit Paunikar, Pinal Shah, Dishant Yagnik.

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Match: IPL Match 2 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils
Venue: Eden Garden
Date: April 5, 2012
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to field
Match reduced to 12 overs per side due to rain
Result – Delhi Daredevils Beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 Wickets

In the second match of DLF IPL, it looked that the game will be washed due to heavy rains but the rain god showed some mercy and the game was limited to 12 overs each.

Chasing 98 to win the match, Delhi Daredevils started superbly with both openers A Finch and Virender Sehwag. Both scored runs with ease and took the score to 49 in just 6.2 overs before A Finch got out. Soon Sehwag also got out but Irfan Pathan was not deterred by Sehwag’s wicket. He played a superb cameo of 42 runs in just 20 balls which included 3×6 and 2×4. Delhi required 11 runs off last 2 overs and they won the match by 8 wickets in 11.1overs.

Earlier Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first and their decision proved right as they got 3 quick wickets, Morkel took two wickets in a row leaving KKR tottering at 20/3 in 2.5 overs. Captain Gambhir was seeing wickets falling at other end as Yusuf Pathan also got out for a duck leaving KKR at 31/4 in 4 overs. Gambhir and Dass then took the team score to 54 before both got out on consecutive balls leaving KKR at 55/6 in 6.5 overs. Laxmi Shukla then took the charge and scored quickfire 26 runs off just 17 balls taking KKR to a total of 97/9 in 12 overs.

Match 2 DLF IPL 2012 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Highlights
Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 6.2 overs, Extras 7

Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 3
Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 11.1 overs, Extras 5

Click here for Match 2 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Today’s Match Details
Match –2 DLF IPL 2012 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard
Date – 5 April 2012 – day/night (12-over match)
Time – 10:30PM IST
Venue –Played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss –Delhi Daredevils (Elect to field)
Result –Delhi Daredevils won by 8 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Man of the Match – Irfan Pathan

Batting Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders

Batting Scoreboard -Delhi Daredevils team

Finally the match will start at 10.30pm and it will be a 12 overs game. Delhi Daredevils have won the toss.

Update: Rain has stopped and covers are being taken off. Inspection scheduled at 10 pm.

The second match of IPL 2012 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils has been delayed due to a mild thunderstorm and heavy showers

At 7.30pm, the showers started lightly but after some time, heavy rains covered the Eden Garden Stadium and thus keeping spectators guessing about the future of match.

“One can expect more thundershowers with an occasional squall towards late afternoon or evening till the weekend,” said a IMD official.

Match had not started till reports last came in and we will keep you updated with latest match scores.

KKR’s latest anthem for IPL ( Updated 2012)

The previous KKR Anthem.