Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings is going to be a real thriller today.Rajasthan Royals have won the last played matches where as Chennai Super Kings have suffered the first defeat in the last match from Delhi Daredevils.We have to wait till 8pm IST for this Manoranjan Ka Baap.Here are the expected teams

Rajasthan Royals: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Swapnil Asnodkar, 3 Yusuf Pathan, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Mohammad Kaif, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 8 Shane Warne (capt), 9 Sohail Tanvir, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.

Chennai Super Kings: (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Stephen Fleming, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 S Badrinath, 6 Albie Morkel, 7, S Vidyut, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Muttiah Muralitharan, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Makhaya Ntini.

Date – May 4, 2008 24th Match
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
20:00 India time.

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In the 18 th match of DLF – IPL Rajasthan Royals created yet another upset by defeating one of the strongest team of the league ie Kolkata Knight Riders. Chasing the target of 197, Knight Riders lost Salman Butt very early and then Ajit Agarkar also perished after playing some good shots. The whole responsibility was on the shoulders of Captain – Saurav Ganguly who played a good innings of 51. But Rajasthan Royals just striked at right moments and got rid of Ganguly when he was looking very dangerous, soon L.R. Shukla was also run out and it looked all like a real difficult task for the Knight Riders. Hussey on the other end was playing a brilliant innings but his efforts went to vain as no other Knight Rider Batsmen was able to cope up with the increasing run rate. They needed 61 runs in last 4 overs and thus the batsmen felt to the pressure and lost the wickets. In the end it was an emphatic win of Rajasthan Royals by 45 runs.

Now Kolkata Knight Riders have lost 3 in a row and Rajasthan Royals have won 4 in a row.

Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders – 18th Match

The so called underdogs – Rajasthan Royals of the Indian Premier League have shocked all the critics as well as followers by the excellent cricket which they had played so far. In the 18th match of DLF – IPL today, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat first against the so called giants of DLF – IPL Knight Riders. Despite loosing Smith in the second over, Rajasthan Royals played intelligently and they approached the game with a define game plan. They continued scoring at a good run rate and scored a total of 196 runs in 20 overs. The highest scorer was Swapnil Asnodkar (60) for Rajasthan Royals. Yousaf Pathan again played a cameo of 55 runs in 33 balls.This was the second 50 for Yousaf Pathan in the tournament.Jadega also supported him brilliantly and scored 33 runs in 19 balls.In the last over Rajasthan Royals lost Yousaf Pathan. Umar Gul was the bowler and bowled and excellent line for first 3 balls and got the wicket of Shane Warne with an intelligent piece of thinking. Shane Warne was run out probably due to his own laziness. The last over was a good one and only 7 runs were given.

Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders – 18th Match

Today will be the 18th match of DLF – IPL between Rajasthan Royals and  Kolkata Knight Riders. Rajasthan Royals are very high on confidence due to the excellent performance in the tournament even after they were considered as underdogs. Kolkata Knight Rider are considered to be the strongest team in the tournament but have lost the previoud match and are thus desperate to win  today’s match.

Rajasthan Royals (probable) 1 Graeme Smith, 2 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 3 Yusuf Pathan, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Mohammad Kaif, 6 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Dinesh Salunkhe, 9 Shane Warne (capt), 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Salman Butt, 3 Brad Hodge, 4 David Hussey, 5 Mohammad Hafeez, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda. Match details are –

Date – 18th Match May 1, 2008
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
16:00 India time.

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The most underestimated side in the Indian Premier League – Rajasthan Royals have done it again. In the 12 th match of the league, they first restricted Royal Challengers to a small target and then chased the target with atmost ease. Warne’s lead team was in control of the match from the toss stage and it never looked they could loose today’s match. First the bowlers did a splendid job and then the batsmen also played excellent cricket to assure the win. Watson scored 61 (n.o) and Smith scored 49 and these two innings were sufficient to finish the job and make them victorious.

The underdogs of the league have again proved that they are into some serious cricket and are up for the challenge in the upcoming days.

DLF- Maximum sixes award – Praveen Kumar and Taylor

Man of the Match – Shane Watson

Scorecard – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals – 12th Match