Match 4 IPL 2013 – Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals
Date – Saturday Apr 6 2013
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Today in the 4th match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Delhi Daredevils will take on Rajasthan Royals at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium at 4pm. Delhi who lost their first match to defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders, will be hoping for their first win today where as Inaugural IPL winners Rajasthan Royals will be hoping to start their this year’s campaign on a winning note.

If history is to be seen, then Delhi Daredevils had an edge over Royals as they have won 6 matches and lost 4 matches to Royals. But nothing can be predicted in a T20 game so we have fingers crossed for this match and hope the better one wins.

Delhi Daredevils Team IPL 2013
Ajit Agarkar, Manpreet Juneja, Varun Aaron, Unmukt Chand, Kedar Jadhav, Siddarth Kaul, Shahbaz Nadeem, Yogesh Nagar, Sujit Nayak, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Naman Ojha(wk), Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Arisht Singhvi, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, CM Gautam, Royston Dias , Gulam Bodi, Johan Botha, Mahela Jayawardene(c), Jeevan Mendis, Kevin Pietersen, Andre Russell, Jesse Ryder, Roelof Van Der Merwe, David Warner, Morne Morkel

Rajasthan Royals Team IPL 2013
Rahul Dravid (c), Stuart Binny, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, Shreevats Goswami, Harmeet Singh, Ashok Menaria, Ajinkya Rahane, Sachin Baby, Sanju Samson, Rahul Shukla, Amit Singh, S Sreesanth, Siddharth Trivedi, Dishant Yagnik, Pravin Tambe , Samuel Badree,Kevon Cooper, Fidel Edwards, James Faulkner, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg,Kusal Janith Perera, Owais Shah, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson

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Match 3 IPL 2013 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Pune Warriors
Date – Friday Apr 5
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Toss – Pune Warriors elected to field
Result – Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 22 runs

In the third match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Pune Warriors won the toss and decided to field first. Parthiv Patel and Akshath Reddy gave Sunrisers Hyderabad a decent start and scored 34 in 5.1 overs. All the top order batmen scored runs in double digits but none could make it large and thus with combined team effort, Sunrisers Hyderabad were able to post total of 126/6 in 20 overs

Chasing 127 to win, Pune Warriors started cautiously and added 36 runs for the first wicket stand. As soon as Robin Uthappa’s wicket felt, Pune lost the momentum and lost quick wickets in form of Marlon Samuels, Yuvraj Singh and Manish Pandey. From 36/1 in 6.5 overs they were reduced to50/4 in 11.2 overs. Ross Taylor and Abhishek Nayar then raised some hope but just when the duo started to look dangerous, Amit Mishra strikde and got the wicket of Nayar leaving Pune at 83/5 in 15.5 overs. Needing 44 to win from 24 balls, Ross Taylor also got out in the next over which brought captain Angelo Mathews on to the crease. The increasing required run rate pressure was too much for Pune and finally they were all out for 104 and thus lost the match by 22 runs.

Match 3 IPL 2013 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Pune Warriors Scorecard

Match 3 IPL 2013 – Sunrisers Hyderabad v Pune Warriors
Date – Friday Apr 5
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

First timers Sunrisers Hyderabad will take on Pune Warriors at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad today at 8pm. Kumar Sangakkara who was named the captain of Sunrisers will be hoping that his new team leaves a mark in their opening game and start their campaign with a win. The team looks good on paper but will they be able to deliver in field is yet to be seen.

On the other hand, Pune Warriors suffered a major setback when their captain M Clarke was ruled out of IPL. Under the captaincy of Angelo Mathews, the team has a daunting task but with players like Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Wayne Parnell, the team looks formidable both in batting and bowling department.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Team IPL 2013
Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Shikhar Dhawan, Amit Mishra, Parthiv Patel (wk), Veer Pratap Singh, Sachin Rana, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Akshath Reddy, Biplab Samantray, Ishant Sharma, Karan Sharma, Thalaivan Sargunam, Sudeep Tyagi, Hanuma Vihari , Quinton de Kock, Jean-Paul Duminy, Chris Lynn, Nathan McCullum, Clint McKay, Thisara Perera, Darren Sammy, Kumar Sangakkara, Dale Steyn, Cameron White

Pune Warriors India Team IPL 2013
Eklavya Dwivedi, Udit Birla, Ashoke Dinda, Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Anustup Majumdar, Mithun Manhas, Ali Murtaza, Abhishek Nayar, Ishwar Pandey, Manish Pandey, Parveez Rasool, Mahesh Rawat, Rahul Sharma, Tirumalasetti Suman, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Robin Uthappa (wk), Shrikant Wagh, Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews (c), Mitchell Marsh, Michael Clarke, Ajantha Mendis, Wayne Parnell, Kane Richardson, Marlon Samuels, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Ross Taylor, Luke Wright

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Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Thu Apr 4, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Mumbai elected to field
Result – Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 2 runs

Today in the second match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indiansby 2 runs in thrilling match played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Chasing 159 to win, Mumbai opened with Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar. It was a delight to watch two of the best batsmen in world cricket at center together and the duo did not disappointed the crowd as they put on 52 runs for the first wicket stand. Sachin Tendulkar was run out by Unadkat soon followed by Ricky Ponting’s wicket leaving Mumbai at 62/2 in 9.5 overs. Mumbai needed 51 off last 4 overs and the match was evenly poised but some superb hitting by Dinesh Karthik in the 17th over tilted the game in Mumbai’s favor as just 27 runs were needed of last 3 overs. Needing 10 to win in the final over, the match took a complete U turn as Mumbai Indians lost Kartik and Ambati Rayudu on successive balls leaving them at 149/5 and still needing 9 off 3 balls. Pollard could manage to score just 5 off the last two balls and thus RCB defeated MI by 2 runs in a thrilling IPL match.

Earlier Chris Gayle single handily helped RCB post a total of 156/5 in 20 overs. RCB who were asked to bat first by Mumbai lost Tillakaratne Dilshan for a duck. Captain Virat Kohli then fell after scoring just 24. After Kohli’s wicket, three quick wickets pegged RCB back as they were reduced to 80/5 in 12.4 overs. But Gayle storm unleashed and he smashed 92 runs off just 58 balls which included 11 fours and 5 sixes. It was his efforts which helped RCB post a decent total of 158/5 in 20 overs.

Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard

Match 2 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Date – Thu Apr 4, 2013
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Its Gayle vs Sachin today as Mumbai Indians will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in their opening match of the sixth season of Pepsi IPL 2013. Both star studded teams will be looking to open their account with an emphatic win today at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.

It will be a huge test for young RCB captain Virat Kohli to take on experienced Mumbai Indian captain Ricky Ponting. Kohli who had a brilliant last season will be hoping to lead from front and will be wishing that Gayle Storm strikes this year too.

Mumbai Indians Team IPL 2013
Abu Nechim Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rishi Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dhawal Kulkarni, Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Akshar Patel, Munaf Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Jalaj Saxena, Rohit Sharma, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav , Ricky Ponting (c), Aiden Blizzard, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Franklin, Philip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team IPL 2013
Virat Kohli (c), Mayank Agarwal, K P Appanna, S Aravind, Arun Karthik, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Karun Nair, Pankaj Singh, Prasanth Parameswaran, Harshal Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sandeep Warrier, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sunny Sohal, Syed Mohammad, Saurabh Tiwary, Jaidev Unadkat, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Vijay Zol, Sheldon Jackson , Daniel Christian, Christopher Barnwell, AB De Villiers (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Moises Henriques, Andrew McDonald, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Daniel Vettori

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