Today it was Rahul Dravid vs Yuvraj Singh as Royal Challengers were to compete with Kings XI Punjab.Kings XI won the toss and decided to field first.The decision of Yuvi proved very beneficial and the bowlers of Kings XI got the first break through on the 4th ball of the innings. Sreesanth gave double blow and got the second wicket on the 5th ball of the very first over.Royal Challengers were struggling at 1/2. Royal Challengers were not yet fully recovered and Kallis was also run out leaving the team at 15/3 in 3.3 overs. Virat Kohli and Dravid then took the score to 69 and then Kohli was out. Misbah was the next to go and Royal Challengers had lost 5 key players for just 98. Praveen Kumar got out without even bothering the score card and thus a total of 5 batsmen from Royal Challengers were out for a duck in today’s match. Full credit goes to the bowlers of Kings XI for making the Royal Challengers batsmen struggle to make runs. In the end it was the bowlers of Kings XI who bundled out the whole team for 126 in 19.2 overs.

Today – Match 25th – Scorecard – Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab

In the 25th match of DLF – IPL, Royal Challengers will take on Kings XI Punjab. Both the teams are on a roll after winning the last match and Royal Challengers would go for a hunt to stop the winning streak of Kings XI and thus continue the win sequence which started a bit late for them. We hope to see a good match and lets see Dravid or Yuvraj who proves to be heavier for each other.

Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Bharath Chipli, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Rahul Dravid, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Cameron White, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn.

Kings XI Punjab: (probables) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 James Hopes, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Karan Goel, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Sreesanth, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Gagandeep Singh.
Match Details :

Date – May 5, 2008 25th Match
Venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

20:00 India time.

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Knight Riders continue to loose where as Kings XI continue to win .Knight Riders were defeated by Kings XI Punjab in the 22nd match of DLF – Indian Premier League. Chasing the target of 179,they lost Ganguly when the team score was 22.Soon Hafeez, Hogg and Dass were also back in the pavilion and the Knight Riders were in dire straits. Half of the team was out in 9.4 overs at a score of 50 and it looked like a mere formality is to be done by Kings XI to win the match but David Hussey and Saha raised some hope and had a partnership of 104 runs.This could not proved to be sufficient as the run rate was way too high for Knight Riders to chase. Knight Riders needed 55 runs in last 3 overs and Hussey and Saha hit some huge sixes and thus they needed19 runs in the last over. The last over was bowled by Irfan Pathan and he gave only 8runs and thus Kings XI won the 4th match in a row.

Today – Match 22 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders

In the 22nd match of DLF – IPL, Kings XI won the toss and decided to bat first. They got to a good start and scored 28 runs in 3.5 overs before loosing Hopes. The next wicket to go was of Yuvraj Singh who scored a quick fire 17 of just 10 balls. But this wicket stand was a good one for Kings XI and they took the score of the team to 82/2 in 9 overs. Saun Mash was the top scorer with 40 runs of just 32 balls. Other batsmen of Kings XI also chipped in with useful contributions.Kumara Sangakkara  scored some exquisites boundaries and got on to score 28 runs.Piyush Chawala scored 21 runs of 7 balls to finish the innings. The last  over brought some relief for Kings XI and they scored 21 runs in Ishant Sharma’s over. Kings XI finished the innings at 178/6 and now we have to wait and watch what special the bowlers can do so as to restrict the Kolkata Knight Riders from getting that target.

Today – Match 22 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Today is the 22nd match in DLF IPL between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders are loosing the matches in a row and now need to break that jinx where as Kings XI Punjab are riding on success and will go all over to maintain the winning streak. So we can expect a good battle on the ground between these two teams.

Kings XI Punjab (probable) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Gagandeep Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Salman Butt, 3 Brad Hodge, 4 David Hussey, 5 Debabrata Das, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Umar Gul, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Date – 22nd Match May 3, 2008
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
20:00 India time.

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