Match: 19th T20, IPL3
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Date: March 24, 2010

Kings XI Punjab will take on Rajasthan Royals today at PCA Mohali in the 19th match of DLF- Indian Premier League. Kings XI Punjab won the last match against Chennai Super Kings in the superover where as Rajasthan Royals are still the last team in points table.

Brett Lee and Shawn Marsh have joined Kings XI Punjab and with the inclusion of these two, Kings XI Punjab look a formidable side. Rajasthan Royals on the other hand are looking cheeky and will now have to fire all cylinders if they wish to even dream about semis.

Team Compositions
Kings XI Punjab
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, 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.

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

Match: 16th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: March 21, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to field
Result:Kings XI Punjab Won

Kings XI Punjab Innings
Desperate to win and open an account in the points table, Kings XI Punjab today opened the batting with Irfan Pathan. Though this played off well as he scored 39 runs and gave some platform to other batsmen. But the poor run of others continue and Kings XI Punjab could never find a partnership which could get them to a high score. Yuvraj Singh was the top scorer with 43. Kings XI Punjab lost some quick wickets in the last overs and thus could not score at fast pace. In the end of 20 overs they could only score 136/8 which looks like a real easy target seeing the current form of Chennai Super Kings.

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Chennai Super Kings were chasing 137 to win and they got to a flying start with Parthiv Patel and Hayden both hammering the bowlers of Punjab. They took the team score past 50 and then when the score was 65, Powar bowled Hayden. It was here that the match was opened and Kings XI could see a light of hope. Chennai Super Kings lost some quick wickets and even the run rate was dropped. What looked like an easy victory was infact turned to a hard fought match. Chennai Super Kings were 126/5 in 18 overs and needed 11 runs in last 2 overs. A superb second last over made this one sided match a real thriller as Chennai Super Kings needed 10 runs in last over and had 4 wickets in hand. 3 runs were needed from the last 3 balls and Irfan Pathan bowled a wonderful spell to draw the match. Score was tied at 136/7 in 20 overs and the result was drawn with the help of Super Over!

Super over decided the fate of match
Chennai Super Kings batted first in the Super Over. Hayden, Raina and Morkel batted for them. They could score only 9 runs in that over. Kings XI Punjab needed 10 to win in that super over and they did that in style. Mahela Jayawardene scored a six on the first ball and got out at the next ball. But Yuvraj Singh scored a four to ensure the win for Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI Punjab won the first match of this season and have finally opened the account in points tally.

Match 16 Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Match Details
Match Number – 16
Date: 21 March 2010 Sunday
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Chennai Super Kings will take on Kings XI Punjab today at Chepauk, Chennai. Kings XI Punjab have had a poor season so far and would like to get the act together and open the account in point’s table. Kings XI Punjab have lost all the three games played so far and would be under immense pressure to perform where as Chennai Super Kings have won 2 out of the last 3 games and are looking much superior than Kings XI Punjab.

The main concern for Kings XI Punjab will be the poor form of Yuvraj Singh and Kumara Sangakkara. On the other hand Chennai Super Kings are also playing without MS Dhoni, but in the last match they won without Dhoni too. This has raised the team morale and thus Chennai Super Kings will go full barrel on Kings XI Punjab.

Kings XI need to overcome the batting collapse disorder if they dream about making in top 4.

Team Compositions
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.

Chennai Super Kings
PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma

Final eleven will be announced just before the match

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