Match: 56th T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 18, 2010
Time: 8 pm

In a dead rubber today, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Mumbai Indians at Eden Garden in the last group match of DLF IPL 2010. The teams have already qualified for semi finals so this match is of no importance. Kolkata Knight Riders are out of DLF IPL Season 3 as Chennai Super Kings won the match against Kings XI Punjab leaving KKR on the 6th position in points table. Mumbai Indians have decided to rest captain Sachin Tendulkar today so that he is all charged up for semi finals.

Mumbai Indians Team
D Bravo (Captain), S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team
S Ganguly (captain), C Gayle, A Mathews, G Vignesh, L Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, B Hodge, C Pathak, C Pujara, O Shah, M Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, B McCullum, W Saha, A Agarkar, V Aaron, A Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, C Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.

Match: 52nd T20, IPL3
Venue: Bangalore
Date: April 17, 2010
Toss: Royal Challengers elected to field
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 57 runs
Man of the match: R McLaren

Today, the match was delayed due to a low intensity blast but after a security check, the match started and Mumbai Indians were invited to bat first. They got off to a slow start and lost the priced wicket of Sachin Tendulkar when the score was 34 in 6 overs. A Rayudu and R McLaren then broke the shackles and took the score past 100. A Rayudu played a superb cameo of 46 runs off just 27 balls and gave the necessary acceleration to Mumbai Indians innings. When A Rayudu got out, Pollard came like a storm to score 20 runs off just 7 balls. Kumble got the wicket of Pollard and hoped that this would slow down the run rate but JP Duminy was in no mood to let RCB go so easily. He hammered the bowlers to all corners of the ground and scored 42 not out off just 19 balls. Due to a combined team effort, Mumbai Indians despite a slow start could set a huge score of 191/4 in 20 overs.

Chasing 192 to win, Royal Challengers Bangalore started off cautiously and scored 30 runs for the first wicket partnership. But once Manish Pandey got out, the wickets started to fell. K Pietersen tried to stabilize the innings but was eventually out for 21. Chasing 193 was never easy and with all the top order batsmen back in pavilion, it became an impossible task for RCB. Virat Kohli did offered some resistance but that too was too little and too late. Eventually RCB lost the match by 57 runs. Mumbai Indians had taken the loss revenge and that too in an emphatic style.

Match Notes

* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 8.2 overs, Extras 5
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 12.4 overs, Extras 12
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 16.5 overs, Extras 15
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 191/4 in 20.0 overs

* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 50 runs in 8.1 overs, Extras 1
* Royal Challengers Bangalore: 100 runs in 15.1 overs, Extras 2

Match 52 Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match: 52 T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: April 17, 2010
Time: 4 pm IST

Today in the 52nd match of DLF IPL 2010, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Mumbai Indians at M Chinnaswamy stadium at 4pm. This match is of great psychological importance as two top teams of IPL will take on each other to show the supremacy. Royal Challengers Bangalore have defeated Mumbai Indians in previous match and would try to repeat it today where as Mumbai Indians will fire all cylinders to take the revenge of last defeat.

Cricket is a game of uncertainties and we can never be sure off which teams would be in final. But if the current form of these two teams is seen, we can hope it to be a preview of the finals of DLF IPL 2010. Also the thousands and thousands of fan’s are eager to see how these two top teams fight out today and may be in the finals.

Today’s Probables
Royal Challengers Bangalore Team
A Kumble (Captain),, B Akhil, KP Appanna, RV Uthappa, MV Boucher, R Dravid, SP Goswami, JH Kallis, V Kohli, R Vinay Kumar, B Kumar, P Kumar, A Mithun, EJG Morgan, MK Pandey, KP Pietersen, SPD Smith, S Sriram, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, D du Preez, RE van der Merwe, CL White.

Mumbai Indians Team
S Tendulkar (Captain), D Bravo, S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.

Match: 47th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4 pm
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 39 runs

Today at Brabourne stadium, home ground of Mumbai Indians, Mumbai Indians elected to bat first. They changed the opening combination today and opened with C Madan and S Tendulkar. They got a decent start and scored 41 for the first wicket. Madan was the first to get out after scoring 15 off 19 balls. Soon Sachin also got out for 30 and the team score was 65/2 in 9.3 overs. Run rate was dipping and at one stage it looked they could only manage 150. Ryadu and Tiwary also got a good start but could not convert it into big score. After 17 overs, Mumbai Indians were 133/4. Then came K Pollard who changed the whole equation of the match. He blasted every ball out of the park and scored 45 off just 13 balls. It was his cameo which took Mumbai to a score of 183/4 in 20 overs. The last over yielded 25 runs and Gambhir and his boys were seen really tensed as this is a must win match for Delhi.

Delhi Daredevils opened the batting with Warner and Sehwag and the duo started off extremely well. They scored at a very good run rate but this did not lasted for long as Warner was out when the team score was 39 in 3.4 overs. Then Gambhir and Sehwag scored runs with ease and just when they partnership was looking dangerous, Harbhajan Singh striked and got Gambhir’s wicket leaving Delhi at 72/2 in 6.4 overs. In the very next over, Delhi got a huge blow as Sehwag was run out leaving them at 75/3 in 7.3 overs. This fall of wicket triggered the wicket flow and Delh Daredevils suddenly collapsed like a deck of cards. They were struggling at 94/6 in 12 overs. In last 5 overs Delhi needed 76 to win and had just 4 wickets in hand. The match was over and also the place in semi’s became more difficult for them. In the end they could manage to score 144/7 in 20 oversand thus lost the match by 39 runs.

Match Kwypoints

* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 18.3 overs, Extras 10
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 183/4 in 20.0 overs

* Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 4.4 overs, Extras 3
* Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 7

Match 47 Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Match: 47th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4 pm

Mumbai Indians, the only team who have made it to semi’s will take on Delhi Daredevils today. Delhi Daredevils are in a must win condition as the points table is evenly poised with as many as 4 teams having same points and having chance to make in semis. On the other hand, Mumbai would like to win today’s match and make it extremely difficult for Delhi Daredevils to enter semis as they know how dangerous Delhi Daredevils can be on a given day. So today we can hope for a entertaining match between Sachin’s Mumbai and Gautam’s Delhi.

Team Compostion
Delhi Daredevils Team
Gautam Gambhir (Captain), V Sehwag, D Warner, Paul Collingwood, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, T Dilshan, M Henriques, K Jadhav, K Karthik, A McDonald, M Maharoof, V Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, D Nannes, A Nehra, W Parnell, S Ranjan, A Salvi, P Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, U Yadav.

Mumbai Indians Team
S Tendulkar (Captain), D Bravo, S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.