Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 42 runs

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders. Jacques Kallis along with captain Gambhir opened the batting for Kolkata Knight Riders and right from the first over, the duo took the charge and hammered RCB bowlers to all corners of the ground. The duo added 60 runs in the first power play (1-6 overs). Captain of RCB, Daniel Vettori got the much needed breakthrough when he got the wicket of J Kallis. But there was no stopping for Gambhir who then along with Manvinder Singh Bisla took the team score past 100 in the 11th over. At one stage it looked like the target of 200 is quite achievable. Gambhir completed his half-century from just 28 balls, the fastest fifty in this year’s IPL. Finally Muralitharan got the priced wicket of Bisla who scored 46 from 29 balls. At the end of 14 overs, KKR were comfortably placed at 126/2 and Yusuf Pathan was the next batsmen in. The crowd expected some fireworks from Pathan but was disappointed as he failed again and got out after scoring just 1 run. This lead to a flurry of wickets, from 126/2, KKR slumped to 154/8 in 19.3 overs with no middle order batsmen able to score run in double digit.A complete middle order collapse brought RCB back into the game and they were able top restrict KKR to 165/8 in 20 overs.

Chasing 166 to win, RCB needed a good start but KKR bowlers didn’t let allow them easy runs. Kallis striked in his first over and got the wicket of Pujara. RCB were hopeful that return of Chris Gayle will do wonders to their team but Kallis nulled The Gayle factor as he got his wicket in his second over leaving RCB struggling at 8/2 in 3.3 overs. Balaji was the next to strike as he got the priced wicket of V Kohli, last match hero AB de Villiers and M Agarwal leaving RCB tottering at 33/5 in 9.1 overs. Needing another 123 to win from 10 overs, Saurabh Tiwary and D Vettori took the charge and tried to accelerate the run rate. Vettori played a cameo of 20 runs in 12 balls and just when he started to look dangerous for KKR, Balaji bowled him leaving RCB at 60/6 in 11.5 overs. With this wicket, curtains were drawn on RCB’s victory dream and the team could manage just 124/9 in 20 overs and thus lost by 42 runs.

Match 10 IPL 2012 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard

Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to field
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 42 runs

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Today’s Match Details – Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings
Match -11th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Delhi Daredevils will take on Chennai Super Kings today in the 11th match of DLF IPL 2012 at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium. Delhi who won started their IPL campaign with a superb 8 wicket win over Kolkata could not sustain their winning momentum in the second match as they lost it to Royal Challenger Bangalore by 20 runs. Today Delhi Daredevils will be hoping to get back to winning ways against Chennai who lost their first match against Mumbai but came back to beat Deccan Chargers by 74 runs.

Today’s match promises to be an action pack thriller with both teams roaring to go against each other and show their supremacy with a win.

Chennai Super Kings Squad IPL 2012
Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina, Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Albie Morkel, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Doug Bollinger, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Suraj Randiv, Sudeep Tyagi, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Scott Styris, Faf du Plessis, Joginder Sharma, Yo Mahesh, Ganapathi Vignesh, MS Dhoni(captain/keeper), Wriddhiman Saha

Delhi Daredevils Squad IPL 2012
Virender Sehwag (Captain), David Warner, Mahela Jayawardene, Kevin Pietersen, Ross Taylor, Aaron Finch, Travis Birt, Robin Bist, Venugopal Rao, Unmukt Chand, Prashant Naik, Manprit Juneja, Puneet Bisht, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Raval, Tejashwi Yadav, Morne Morkel, Aavishkar, Salvi Varun Aaron, Andre Russell, Umesh Yadav, Ajit Agarkar, Doug Bracewell, Shahbaz Nadeem, Vikas Mishra, Irfan Pathan, Roelof van der Merwe, Yogesh Nagar and Naman Ojha.

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Today’s Match Details – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Match -10th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 10, 2012
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Today in the 10th match of DLF IPL 2012, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Kolkata Knight Riders at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Royals who won their first match are all set to keep their winning momentum intact where as KKR needs to redefine their strategies as they have lost both their games so far. But KKR have the potential to beat any team in the league and KKR fan’s will be hoping that today the team gets the taste of victory. KKR would be hoping that McCullum again unleashes his explosive batting as he did on April 18, 2008 at the same ground.

RCB has further strengthened their squad with in-form Sri Lankan Batsmen Tillakaratne Dilshan joining the team on Sunday.

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad IPL 2012
Gautam Gambhir(Captain), Marchant de Lange, Eoin Morgan, Sunil Narine, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson, Iresh Saxena, Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Sarabjit Ladda, Jaydev Unadkat, Jacques Kallis, Yusuf Pathan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Laxmi Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, Shakib Al Hasan, Iqbal Abdulla, Brendon McCullum, Brad Haddin, Manvinder Bisla

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 – Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians
Match -9th DLF IPL T20, IPL5 2012
Date – April 9, 2012
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Toss – Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first.
Result – Mumbai Indians won by 5 wickets

Today in the 9th match of DLF IPL 2012, Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first against Mumbai Indians at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. Deccan Chargers could not take advantage of the toss as Munaf Patel and Lasith Malinga bowled superbly and took two quick wickets leaving DC struggling at 9/2 in 3.1 overs. S Dhawan and D Christian then had a 37 run partnership in 23 balls and just when it looked that Deccan Chargers are getting settled, S Dhawan got out after scoring 41 runs off 24 balls which included 2 fours and 4 sixes. K Sangakkara and D Christian then took the score to 82 when Sangakkara got out leaving Deccan at 82/4 in 12.3 overs. D Christian and C White then took the charge of accelerating the run rate, the duo added 41 runs in 23 balls before Christian got out after scoring 38 runs off 36 balls which included 1 four and 2 sixes. C White played some good shots for his 22 ball 30 run which included 1 four and 2 sixes cameo and helped Deccan Chargers post a total of 138/9 in 20 overs.

Chasing 139 to win, Mumbai Indians lost both their openers to D Steyn and were reeling at 10/2 in 4 overs. Rohit Sharma and A Rayudu then took the team score past 50 in the 11th over. MI needed 90 to win from last 10 overs. With the required rate at 9 runs per over, chances had to be taken and during the process, A Rayudu got out. But his wicket brought Pollard on the crease and he along with R Sharma started to score runs with ease. The duo added 37 runs in 5 overs before Pollard was out after scoring 24 off 18 balls (0x4 3×6). The match was evenly poised at this stage as MI needed 45 to win from 24 balls and stage was all set for a nail-biting finish. Rohit Sharma completed his half century and the hit some mighty sixes to bring the game to last over. MI needed 18 to win in the last over and the first ball was hit for a four by J Franklin. In last three balls 11 were needed, Rohit Sharma hit a six to take his team to 134/5 in 19.4 overs. On Last ball, MI needed 3 to win and Rohit Sharma hit a six to give his team a great victory. It was the superb performance of Rohit Sharma 73 not out of 50 balls (4×4 5×6) which helped Mumbai Indians win by 5 wickets.

Match 9 IPL 2012 Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians Scorecard