Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the toss and then were asked to bat first. Wicket falling was a regular phenomenon starting from the very first over. Dravid got out for 0 and then Chanderpaul, Kallis, Kohli and others also fell cheaply. It was not the start which they had expected and it looked like half the battle is lost when they lost 7 wickets for 90 runs.Praveen Kumar played some good shots and Taylor and Praveen scored 44 and 34 respectively.The bowlers of Rajasthan Royals never let the batsmen score easy runs and were complemented well by the fielders. In the end it was a score of mere 136 to be chased by Rajasthan Royals to have a second straight win in the DLF – IPL.

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

Match 12 – Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals

Bangalore Royal Challengers: (probable) 1 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Bharat Chipli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Sunil Joshi, 11 R Vinay Kumar.

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

Date – 12th Match April 26, 2008
Venue – M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
20:00 India time.

Update : Rajasthan Royal Win the toss and elected to bowl first

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The DLF – Indian Premier League is becoming a real source of entertainment with all the teams performing there best to win the match. When Deccan Chargers scored 214 in 20 0vers, it looked a difficult task to achieve. But Rajasthan Royals played brilliant  cricket and won the match by 3 wickets. Yousaf scored the fastest fifty of the tournament and when he was batting it looked Rajasthan Royals are very much in the game. But he was out at the team score of 112. Smith took the responsibility for taking Rajasthan Royals to victory and scored a fifty. But the run rate was climbing and that what forced the players to do some lusty hitting. Kaif hit 3 sixes on 1 over of Symonds and Rajasthan Royals looked in complete charge of the game. But Shahid Afridi had different plans and in the 17 over of the inning he got two major breakthroughs. It could have been three if the catch was not dropped. Rajasthan Royals needed 21 runs from the last 10 balls and it could be anyone’s game. R P Singh was given the second last over and he bowled brilliantly by giving just singles on first two balls and then got the wicket of Ravindra Jadeja.In the next two balls a single and a wicket was what Deccan Chargers got. In the last over Rajasthan Royals needed 17 runs and Symond was the one who was bowling. The first ball was hit for two, second for a single.third was hit for a four. In the last 3 balls they needed 10 runs. The fourth ball was hit for a six by Shane Warne and then Shane Warne striked the ball for 1 more six and it was all over for Deccan Chargers.

Rajasthan Royal won the match by 3 wickets.
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What a treat to watch Andrew Symonds Bat. Today again he proved why he was the second highest paid player of DLF – IPL.After loosing the toss, Deccan Chargers were invited to bat first and they had initial problems when they lost Gilchrist and Afridi when team score was 32.Then Laxman and Symonds had a decent partnership and took the score to 75. Warne broke the partnership by catching of Laxman of his own bowling.But there was no looking back for Symonds who on the other end was hitting the ball to all corners of the ground.He completed his 100 in less than 50 balls. But he didn’t stopped at this. Munaf Patel was the one who took most of the hammering.Rohit Sharma on the other end played positively and helped the team to score at a very fast rate.They both took the score to 186 in 18 overs before Sharma got out.Symonds scored a total of 117 runs in 53 balls which included 7 sixes and 11 fours.Deccan Chargers scored a total of in the alloted 20 overs and thus posed a nice total to chase for Rajasthan Royals.

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Match 09 – Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals will start in just few hours. Deccan Chargers have lost both the matches and will be desperate to win the match and open the account in IPL point table. Rajasthan Royals won the match against Kings XI Punjab and are therefore high on confidence.

Deccan Chargers (probable) Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ravi Teja, Shahid Afridi, VVS Laxman (capt), Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma, Sanjay Bangar, Arjun Yadav, Chaminda Vaas, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha.

Rajasthan (probable) Yusuf Pathan, Kamran Akmal (wk), Mohammad Kaif, Shane Watson, Graeme Smith, Ravindra Jadeja, Pankaj Singh, Dinesh Salunkhe, Shane Warne (capt), Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel.

Date – 9th Match April 24, 2008
Venue – Hyderabad
20:00 India time.

Update : Shane Warne’s Lead Rajasthan Royals Win The Toss And Decided To Bowl First. 

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