Match Details
Match: 36 T20, IPL3
Venue: Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur
Date: April 5, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm

Today in the 36th match of DLF IPL 2010, two Australian greats will be face to face at Nagpur. Gilchrist’s Deccan chargers and Warne’s Rajasthan Royals would face each other in a very crucial encounter. Both the teams need to win this match as the place for semi’s is at stake. DC’s big guns- Gibbs, Symonds and Gilchrist have had a mix tournament so far and thus the defending champions are not been able to show the class so far in this season. On the other hand first edition champs, Rajasthan Royals also have not played to the potential so far. Today’s win will help the team in raising the confidence and thus look forward for the semi’s.

Team compositions
Rajasthan Royals Team
SK Warne (captain), SA Asnodkar, J Botha, SK Trivedi, FY Fazal, YK Pathan, AJ Finch, AA Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, MJ Lumb, M Morkel, S Narwal, NV Ojha(wk), MM Patel, AG Paunikar†, SA Quadri, AS Raut, A Singh, SW Tait, A Uniyal, AC Voges, SB Wagh.

Deccan Chargers Team
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.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match: 32nd T20
Venue: Chennai
Date: April 3, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 23 runs

Chennai Super Kings won the toss today and elected to bat first. They got to a flying start with Hayden and Murli Vijay taking the team score to 62 before Hayden got out. But M Vijay was at his playing best today. He hammered every bowler off the park and got on to score 127 runs off just 56 balls. Vijay along with Albie Morkel propelled the Chennai Super Kings innings with a partnership off 152. They took the team past 200 run mark and helped CSK post a huge total of 246/5 in allotted 20 overs.

Rajasthan Royals had to chase a huge total of 247 to win and they got to the start which was needed for such a huge run chase. Lumb and Ojha scored 69 runs in 7.2 overs before Lumb got out. Soon the star for Rajasthan Royals Yusuf Pathan, also got out but Ojha and Watson played superbly and kept the run chase alive. Both completed the half centuries and took the team score past 150. Ojha and Watson were hitting the ball out of park, particularly Watson who had a strike rate in access of 240 and it looked that 247 would be easily chased if they got going. But then CSK got a major relief with the wicket of Watson. After 16 overs they were 183/3 still requiring another 64 off just 24 balls. With the fall of Watson, Rajasthan Royals were eventually out of the race though Ojha tried his level best and scored a brilliant 94 not out but the required run rate was sky high and thus Rajasthan Royals could score 223 runs in 20 overs and thus lost the match by 23 runs.

Overall an excellent game of cricket with both sides playing superbly but CSK just were one step ahead.

Match 32 Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Match: 29th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: March 31, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to bat
Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 67 runs

Delhi Daredevils were riding high with an empathic win in the last match. but today last match’s hero David Warner got out for just 4 runs and soon Sehwag also got out after scoring quick 19 runs. Collingwood and Jadav also went out cheaply and it looked Delhi Daredevils would face some serious problems in today’s match. they were 67/4 in 8.3 overs and it looked they possibly not pose a total of 150 or more. But Gambhir and Karthik played a superb knock and got a valuable partnership. They both took the team score to 76 runs. Karthik then played a scintillating innings of 69 off just 38 balls. It was his super knock which propelled the Delhi Daredevils innings and they could finally score 188/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing a total of 189 to win, Rajasthan Royals got to a terrible start and lost 2 wickets in the very first over. They could never recover from this and kept loosing wickets at regular interval. Half of the team was back in pavilion for just 66 runs on board. Wickets were falling like heap of cards finally they were all out for 121 and thus lost the match by 67 runs.

Match 29 Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Match: 29th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: March 31, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm

In the 29th match to be played today at Kolta, Delhi Daredevils will take on Rajasthan Royals at 8pm IST. Both the teams are getting back on the winning track after some early jolts. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 17 runs in the last match where as Delhi Daredevils won by 40 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match. With wins under the belt, both teams will have sky high confidence and would like to keep the winning momentum in today’s match too. So it would be a thriller when Gambhir’s Devils will take on Warne’s Royals at the home ground of Delhi Daredevils i.e Feroz Shah Kotla.

Delhi Daredevils squad
G Gambhir*, V Sehwag, PJ Sangwan, DA Warner, Joginder Singh, U Yadav, S Ladda, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MC Henriques, KM Jadhav, KD Karthik, AB McDonald, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, DP Nannes, A Nehra, WD Parnell, S Ranjan, AM Salvi, Sarandeep Singh

Rajasthan Royals squad
SK Warne*, SA Asnodkar, J Botha, SK Trivedi, FY Fazal, YK Pathan, AJ Finch, AA Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, MJ Lumb, M Morkel, S Narwal, NV Ojha†, MM Patel, AG Paunikar†, SA Quadri, AS Raut, A Singh, SW Tait, A Uniyal, AC Voges, SB Wagh.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match: 24th T20, IPL3
Venue: Ahmedabad
Date: March 28, 2010
Toss: Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first.
Result: Rajasthan Royals won by 17 runs

After winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals decided to bat first and they got to a flying start with M Lumb and N Ojha. They zoomed to 47 in just 4 overs before they lost the first wicket in form of M Lumb. But N Ojha was at his best today and hammered the ball to all sides of the park. Though the middle order could not contribute significantly but N Ojha acted as a star for Rajasthan Royals and took the team to 177/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 178 to win, Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings could not get the desired start as they lost Hayden when the team score was 24. M Vijay and S Raina then tried to steady the innings but the required run rate was increasing with the passage of each over. Shane Warne came to bowl and get rid of Raina. Chennai Super Kings were expecting a good performance from M Vijay and Dhoni but both of them got run out, thanks to some excellent fielding by Rajasthan Royals. Chennai Super Kings were 123/4 in 15.4 overs with the required rate hovering at 12.69 per over.Though Morkel tried to change the equation of the game with 3 sixes but the required rate was way too high (17.68) for CSK and in the last over Chennai Super Kings needed 22 runs but they could manage only 160/6 in 20 overs and thus lost the match by 17 runs.

Match 24 – IPL 2010 – Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard