Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers
Match -20th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Date – April 17, 2012
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Toss – Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 5 wickets

Today in the 20th match of DLF IPL, Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first. K Sangakkara and S Dhawan opened the innings for DC and gave them the best possible start. The duo added 94 for the first wicket partnership in just 10.4 overs before Sangakkara got out after scoring 44 off 32 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. S Dhawan completed his fifty and got out after scoring 52 off 43 balls with 8 fours leaving DC at 108/2 in 13.1 overs. D Christian and JP Duminy then joined the run feast as they both hammered Rajasthan bowlers. JP Duminy was particularly severe as he scored 58 off 26 with 3 fours and 5 sixes and was supported brilliantly by D Christian who scored 29 off 19 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. The duo helped Deccan Chargers post a good total of 196/2 in 20 overs.

Chasing 197 to win, R Dravid and A Rahane gave an explosive start to Rajasthan as the duo added 62 runs in just 5.5 overs before Dravid got out after scoring 42 off 24 balls which included 7 fours and 1 six. After Dravid’s wicket, Menaria joined Rahane and the duo scored runs with ease and took the team score past 100. A Menaria was the next wicket to fall when the team score was 110 in 12 overs. Needing 78 to win from 7 overs, the onus was on Rahane and Owais Shah both in form batsmen but A Rahane got out after scoring a brilliant 44 runs off 31 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. Brad Hodge joined Shah but soon Misra got the wicket of Shah leaving RR at 134/4 in 15.1 overs. 17 runs were scored in the 17th over by Hodge and Botha and even after Botha’s wicket, Hodge played a superb cameo of 48 runs in 21 balls to take his team to a scintillating 5 wicket win.

Match 20 IPL 2012 Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers
Match -20th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Date – April 17, 2012
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Toss – Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 5 wickets

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Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Pune Warriors
Match -21st DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Date – April 17, 2012
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Today in the 21st match of DLF IPL 2012, Sourav Ganguly’s Pune Warriors India will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Pune who has shocked everyone with their performance so far in the league will look forward to this match to add one more win to their kitty as RCB has been low on confidence after three losses.

Pune Warriors have defeated two best teams in the league -i.e. Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings but captain Ganguly is not taking any game lightly. He said that this format of game changes quickly and they need to take one game at a time. Ganguly further praised his bowlers for their superb bowling so far in the league.

On the other hand, RCB may be down but they are not out as they have some of the best players in their squad. RCB will be hoping that their fortune changes in their home ground so that they can also get the winning momentum.

Pune Warriors Squad IPL 2012
Robin Uthappa, Sourav Ganguly(Captain), Graeme Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Mitchell Marsh, Michael Clarke, Marlon Samuels, Callum Ferguson, Harshad Khadiwale, Mohnish Mishra, Yuvraj Singh, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Anustup Majumdar, Manish Pandey, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Kamran Khan, Ashish Nehra, Wayne Parnell, Alfonso Thomas, Ashok Dinda, Nathan McCullum, Rahul Sharma, Murali Kartik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ali Murtaza, Sachin Rana, Jesse Ryder, Angelo Mathews, James Hopes, Luke Wright, Raiphi Gomez, Mithun Manhas, Shrikant Wagh, Steven Smith, Eklavya Dwivedi.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad IPL 2012
Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohammad Kaif, Rilee Rossouw, KP Appanna, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel, Vijay Zol, S Thiyagarajan, Dirk Nannes, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Muttiah Muralitharan, Asad Pathan, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, Sreenath Aravind, Abrar Kazi, Chris Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Andrew McDonald, Daniel Vettori (Captain), Ryan Ninan, Raju Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, Muralidharen Gautam, Luke Pomersbach.

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Today’s Match Details – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers
Match -20th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Date – April 17, 2012
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Today in the 20th match of DLF IPL 2012, Deccan Chargers will take on Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. This match may look one sided considering the fact that Rajasthan Royals are table toppers where as Deccan Chargers are placed at the bottom of points table but the team composition of Deccan Chargers has the fire power to beat any team in the league.

On the other hand Rajasthan Royals under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid will be hoping to continue the winning streak and remain on top of points table. Rajasthan Royals have won 6 out of 7 matches played between two teams in IPL so far and thus on paper RR surely have an edge.

Rajasthan Royals Squad IPL 2012
Rahul Dravid (Captain), Brad Hodge, Ajinkya Rahane, Owais Shah, Kevon Cooper, Aakash Chopra, Ankeet Chavan, Faiz Fazal, Shaun Tait, Sreesanth, Samad Fallah, Siddharth Trivedi, Deepak Chahar, Aditya Dole, Pankaj Singh, Amit Singh, Shane Watson, Johan Botha, Brad Hogg, Paul Collingwood, Sumit Narwal, Abhishek Raut, Stuart Binny, Ashok Menaria, Dinesh Chandimal, Shreevats Goswami, Amit Paunikar, Pinal Shah, Dishant Yagnik.

Deccan Chargers Squad IPL 2012
Cameron White, Daniel Harris, Darren Bravo, Shikhar Dhawan, Tekkami Atchuta Rao, Chris Lynn, Bharat Chipli, Jean-Paul Duminy, Sunny Sohal, Ishank Jaggi, Tanmay Mishra, Veer Pratap Singh, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Biplab Samantray, Sneha Kishore, Tanmay Srivastava, TP Sudhindra, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Syed Quadri, Akshath Reddy, Arjun Yadav, Rusty Theron, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ashish Reddy, Ankit Sharma, Akash Bhandari, Daniel Christian, Kumar Sangakkara (captain/keeper), Parthiv Patel, Kedar Devdhar.

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Today’s Match Details – Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Match -19th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 16, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Toss – Delhi Daredevils elected to field
Result – Delhi Daredevils won by 7 wickets

A superb all round performance by Delhi Daredevils helped them register a convincing 7 wicket win over Mumbai Indians.

Today in the 19th match of DLF IPL 2012, Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first. Sachin Tendulkar was not declared fit and thus was not able to play today. Apart from that Mumbai Indians had three changes Davy Jacobs, RP Singh and Clint McKay come in for T Suman, Lasith Malinga and James Franklin. Delhi Daredevils also brought Ross Taylor and Ajit Agarkar for Roelef van der Merwe and Venugopal Rao.

Davy Jacobs and Richard Levi came to open for Mumbai Indians and D Jacobs was bowled by Shahbaz Nadeem in the second over and soon Levi was also bowled by Nadeem in the 4th over. Mumbai were struggling at 5/2 in 3.1 overs. Ambati Rayudu and Rohit Sharma then joined the crease and tried to build a partnership but when the team score was 30, Ambati Rayudu was run out by Sehwag. Mumbai Indians batting lineup could never recover from the loss as the wickets kept falling at regular intervals. At one stage, MI were struggling at 43/6 in 10.2 overs. Rohit Sharma and Harbhajan Singh were the only batsmen who scored in double digits as they scored 29 and 33 respectively. But this was not enough as finally Mumbai was bundled out for 92/10 in 19.2 overs.

Chasing 93 to win, Delhi got off to a good start with Naman Ojha and V Sehwag adding 34 runs for the first wicket partnership. Naman Ojha got out after scoring just 13 which brought K Pietersen on to the crease. K Pietersen also got out after scoring just 8 and Delhi were reduced to 52/2 in 8 overs. Delhi needed 41 to win from 12 overs when M Jayawardene and Sehwag were at the crease. The duo took Delhi Daredevils to a total of 74 when Sehwag got out. Needing another 19 to win, M Jayawardene and R Taylor made sure no more wickets fell and finally Delhi registered an excellent 7 wicket win.

Match 19 IPL 2012 Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard