Match: 49th T20, IPL3
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Date: April 14, 2010

Today in the 50th match of DLF IPL, two teams will fight for a place in semifinals. Rajasthan Royals will take on Bangalore Royal Challengers in a very crucial match today to be played at 8 pm IST. Both teams have 12 points and a win today will take them to second spot in the points table.

So IPL fans watch out for today’s match as this match promises to be a real thriller in which teams will fight for survival in IPL 2010.

Team compositions
Rajasthan Royals Team
S Warne (captain), SA Asnodkar, J Botha, S Trivedi, F Fazal, Y Pathan, A Finch, A Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, M Lumb, M Morkel, S Narwal, N Ojha(wk), M Patel, A Paunikar, S Quadri, A Raut, A Singh, S Tait, A Uniyal, A Voges, S Wagh.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team
A Kumble (Captain),, B Akhil, KP Appanna, RV Uthappa, MV Boucher, R Dravid, SP Goswami, JH Kallis, V Kohli, R Vinay Kumar, B Kumar, P Kumar, A Mithun, EJG Morgan, MK Pandey, KP Pietersen, SPD Smith, S Sriram, DW Steyn, LRPL Taylor, D du Preez, RE van der Merwe, CL White.

Match: 48th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: April 13, 2010
Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 9 wickets

Today in the 48th match of DLF IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders won the tos and elected to bat first. Gayle and Ganguly opened the innings but today, they could not give a good start. Gayle, Ganguly and McCullum all got out when the team score was just 17. David Hussey also got out for a duck and Kolkata Knight Riders were in a serious problem at 19/4 in 4 overs. Manoj Tiwary and Angela Mathews then played cautiously and took the score to 92 in the 15th over. A poor show by the top order effected the run rate and Kolkata Knight Riders could only post 139/8 in 20 overs thanks to 48 by Angela Mathews and 17 by Luxmi Ratan Shukla.

Chasing a small total of 139 to win, Chennai Super Kings lost Hayden for a duck in the very first over. But then Suresh Raina came to center and changed the whole scenario. He along with M Vijay took CSK to an easy victory.Both batsmen scored 50’s and took Chennai Super Kings to an easy win by 9 wickets. But the star for CSK was Suresh Raina who scored 78 runs at a crucial time and took the team to number two spot. With today’s loss KKR are almost out of semi’s race.

Match Notes
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 9.5 overs, Extras 11
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 16.3 overs, Extras 12
* Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders – 139/8 in 20.0 overs

* Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 4.4 overs, Extras 11
* SK Raina: 50 off 24 balls (10 x 4, 1 x 6)
* Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 9.5 overs, Extras 13
* M Vijay: 50 off 40 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)

Match 48 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Match: 47th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4 pm
Toss: Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by 39 runs

Today at Brabourne stadium, home ground of Mumbai Indians, Mumbai Indians elected to bat first. They changed the opening combination today and opened with C Madan and S Tendulkar. They got a decent start and scored 41 for the first wicket. Madan was the first to get out after scoring 15 off 19 balls. Soon Sachin also got out for 30 and the team score was 65/2 in 9.3 overs. Run rate was dipping and at one stage it looked they could only manage 150. Ryadu and Tiwary also got a good start but could not convert it into big score. After 17 overs, Mumbai Indians were 133/4. Then came K Pollard who changed the whole equation of the match. He blasted every ball out of the park and scored 45 off just 13 balls. It was his cameo which took Mumbai to a score of 183/4 in 20 overs. The last over yielded 25 runs and Gambhir and his boys were seen really tensed as this is a must win match for Delhi.

Delhi Daredevils opened the batting with Warner and Sehwag and the duo started off extremely well. They scored at a very good run rate but this did not lasted for long as Warner was out when the team score was 39 in 3.4 overs. Then Gambhir and Sehwag scored runs with ease and just when they partnership was looking dangerous, Harbhajan Singh striked and got Gambhir’s wicket leaving Delhi at 72/2 in 6.4 overs. In the very next over, Delhi got a huge blow as Sehwag was run out leaving them at 75/3 in 7.3 overs. This fall of wicket triggered the wicket flow and Delh Daredevils suddenly collapsed like a deck of cards. They were struggling at 94/6 in 12 overs. In last 5 overs Delhi needed 76 to win and had just 4 wickets in hand. The match was over and also the place in semi’s became more difficult for them. In the end they could manage to score 144/7 in 20 oversand thus lost the match by 39 runs.

Match Kwypoints

* Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 6.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 8
* Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 18.3 overs, Extras 10
* Innings Break: Mumbai Indians – 183/4 in 20.0 overs

* Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 4.4 overs, Extras 3
* Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 13.3 overs, Extras 7

Match 47 Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Match Details
Match: 48th T20, IPL3
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 8 pm

The second match scheduled for today is between Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders. This is a must win match for both teams as the fight for semi finals is getting intense with every match. A win will take both these teams closer to semis. Ganguly who was furious after the last defeat will take no chance in this match and would like his teammates to fire all guns as they have to win this match to keep the semi’s hope alive. On the other hand, CSK is also struggling to keep the wining momentum and would hope that today they win the match with a huge margin to improve the net run rate.

Teams for today’s match
Chennai Super Kings Team
MS Dhoni (Captain), R Ashwin, SK Raina, M Vijay, HK Badani, ML Hayden, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, L Balaji, DE Bollinger, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, MEK Hussey, SB Jakati, AB Karthik, JM Kemp, JA Morkel, M Muralitharan, M Ntini, PA Patel, NLTC Perera, T Thushara, S Tyagi.

Kolkata Knight Riders Team
S Ganguly (captain), C Gayle, A Mathews, G Vignesh, L Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, B Hodge, C Pathak, C Pujara, O Shah, M Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, B McCullum, W Saha, A Agarkar, V Aaron, A Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, C Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.

Match: 47th T20, IPL3
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4 pm

Mumbai Indians, the only team who have made it to semi’s will take on Delhi Daredevils today. Delhi Daredevils are in a must win condition as the points table is evenly poised with as many as 4 teams having same points and having chance to make in semis. On the other hand, Mumbai would like to win today’s match and make it extremely difficult for Delhi Daredevils to enter semis as they know how dangerous Delhi Daredevils can be on a given day. So today we can hope for a entertaining match between Sachin’s Mumbai and Gautam’s Delhi.

Team Compostion
Delhi Daredevils Team
Gautam Gambhir (Captain), V Sehwag, D Warner, Paul Collingwood, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, T Dilshan, M Henriques, K Jadhav, K Karthik, A McDonald, M Maharoof, V Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, D Nannes, A Nehra, W Parnell, S Ranjan, A Salvi, P Sangwan, Sarandeep Singh, U Yadav.

Mumbai Indians Team
S Tendulkar (Captain), D Bravo, S Dhawan, J Duminy, C Fernando, Harbhajan Singh, S Jayasuriya, Z Khan, D Kulkarni, R McLaren, C Madan, I Malhotra, S Malinga, A Murtaza, G Napier, A Nayar, K Pollard, A Rayudu, R Sathish, K Sahabuddin, R Shukla, A Tare, S Tiwary.