Match Details
Match: 40 T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm

Today in the 40th match of DLF IPL 2010, Deccan Chargers will take Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chinnaswamy Stadium Bangalore. Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the last match to Delhi Daredevils and have slipped down to 4th position in points table. On the other hand, Deccan Chargers also lost the last match to Rajasthan Royals and would thus have to win this match to get up in the points table. With the win of KKR, the place in semi’s is open and teams need to fight fiercely to secure the place. Royal Challengers Bangalore are playing at home and would make sure that they don’t repeat the mistakes did in earlier matches. Gilchrist’s team is capable of turning table’s and its hightime that they do it now.

IPL 2010 Team
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.

Deccan Chargers Team
A Gilchrist (captain/wicket keeper), RJ Harris, DR Smith, A Symonds, WPUJC Vaas, Y Venugopal Rao, MR Marsh, B Sumanth, MD Mishra, AA Reddy, AA Bilakhia, HH Gibbs, VVS Laxman, DB Ravi Teja, RG Sharma, TL Suman, AS Yadav, Anirudh Singh, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, KAJ Roach, R Sharma, Jaskarandeep Singh Bhuttar.

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match Details
Match: 39 T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm
Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders elected to bat
Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won by 14 runs

Today in the 39th match of DLF IPL 2010, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. They got to a superb start with Ganguly and Gayle posting 94 runs for the first wicket partnership. Ganguly continued the good form and scored 56 runs to lay a solid platform for KKR to post a huge total. But once Gayle and Ganguly were out, the run rate dipped but Angela Mathews and M Tiwary took the charge and scored some quick runs to reach the total of 181/3 in 20 overs.

Chasing the target of 182, Delhi Daredevils got to a poor start as they lost superstar D Warner for a duck. But Gambhir and Sehwag then steadied the innings and got a 99run partnership. Sehwag was in full flow and it looked, KKR will have a real problem in curtailing the run flow. But then Gambhir was run out by Ganguly and a dangerous looking partnership ended. This was the opportunity that Kolkata Knight Riders wanted. Once this partnership broke, Delhi Daredevils lost the way and wickets started falling like pile of cards. With each wicket, the pressure of run rate was mounting and finally Delhi Daredevils succumbed to the pressure and could score only 167/8 in 20 overs. This victory by 14 runs kept Kolkata Knight Riders chances for the semis alive.

Match Highlights

* Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 5.6 overs, Extras 4
* SC Ganguly: 50 off 42 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 10.6 overs, Extras 5
* Kolkata Knight Riders: 150 runs in 17.6 overs , Extras 7
* Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders – 181/3 in 20.0 overs

* Delhi Daredevils innings
* Delhi Daredevils: 50 runs in 6.2 overs, Extras 4
* Delhi Daredevils: 100 runs in 10.5 overs, Extras 6
* V Sehwag: 50 off 34 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
* Delhi Daredevils: 150 runs in 17.5 overs, Extras 8

Match 39 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils Scorecard

Match Details
Match: 38 T20, IPL3
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm
Toss: Kings XI Punjab elected to bat
Result: Rajasthan Royals won by 9 wickets

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and decided to bat first today at Jaipur against Rajasthan Royals. They got a fast start but lost Bisla when the score was 29. Sangakkara also could not do much and was out for just 9. Kings XI Punjab were 52/2 in 6.1 overs. Jayawardene and Yuvraj then took the charge and took the score past 100. Yuvraj Singh was severly harsh on Shane Warne and never allowed him to get his rhythm. Jayawardene and Yuvraj were cruising on well and it looked Kings XI Punjab will set a huge total. But then came a twin blow to Kings XI Punjab as Aditya Dole in the 12th over struck twice to get rid of Jayawardene and Yuvraj. This became the turning point of match as Kings XI Punjab who were well placed at 109/4 in 12 overs just could not get runs. Though they had wickets in hands but still the batsmen were not able to get boundaries. In the last 5 overs they could manage only 27 runs and that too without even a single boundary. At one stage it looked they would cross the 180 mark but eventually some excellent bowling by Rajasthan Royals restricted them to 153/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing the total of 154 to win, Rajasthan Royals got off to a flying start with M Lumb and Naman Ojha giving them a 100 run first wicket partnership. M Lumb was typically severe on the Kings XI bowlers as he scored 83 runs off just 43 balls with 16 fours and 2 sixes. Rajasthan Royals were well placed at 110/1 at the end of 10 overs and victory was on the doorsteps. Ojha and Yusuf Pathan then made sure that Royals achieve the victory in style. Rajasthan Royals thrashed Kings XI Punjab by 9 wickets and were able to win the match in 15 overs.

Match Main Points

* Kings XI Punjab: 50 runs in 5.4 overs, Extras 5
* Kings XI Punjab: 100 runs in 10.6 overs, Extras 7
* Kings XI Punjab: 150 runs in 19.4 overs, Extras 9
* Innings Break: Kings XI Punjab – 153/6 in 20.0 overs

* Rajasthan Royals: 50 runs in 3.5 overs, Extras 4
* MJ Lumb: 50 off 28 balls (10 x 4, 1 x 6)
* Rajasthan Royals: 100 runs in 8.3 overs, Extras 5
* Rajasthan Royals: 150 runs in 14.4 overs, Extras 8

Match 38 Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab Scorecard

Match Details
Match: 39 T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm

Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Delhi Daredevils today at Eden’s at 8pm IST in the 39th match of DLF IPL 2010. Delhi Daredevils who had stunned Royal Challengers in the last match are looking in good form with one or the other batsmen taking charge in every match. On the other hand Kolkata Knight Riders have been very unpredictable in this tournament so far. Ganguly has shown some of his lost touch and if he gains his form, Kolkata Knight Riders will give a tough competition to Delhi Daredevils.

Kolkata Knight Riders would be playing in front of home crowd with immense support, which would add to the confidence of the team where as Delhi has shown that when its there day, they can fight with the lion in his den.

Team compositions
Kolkata Knight Riders squad
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.

Delhi Daredevils squad
Gautam Gambhir (Captain), V Sehwag, D Warner, S Ladda, Joginder Singh, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, Paul Collingwood, 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

Match Details
Match: 38 T20, IPL3
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm

Rajasthan Royals will take on Kings XI Punjab in the 38th match of DLF IPL 2010 today to be played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur. Rajasthan Royals who won a thriller against Deccan Chargers in last match would be looking for a victory against Punjab who are almost out of the league. But on the other hand, Kings XI has nothing to loose as now they are playing for pride. In the last match, Kings XI played the natural game and eventually won it against Kolkata Knight Riders.

Shane Warne would be eying this match as an opportunity to move up in the points table where as Kings XI who are the last team would be looking for this match as pride saver.

Team compositions
Rajasthan Royals Team
SK Warne (captain), SA Asnodkar, J Botha, SK Trivedi, FY Fazal, YK Pathan, AJ Finch, AA Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, MJ Lumb, M Morkel, S Narwal, NV Ojha(wk), MM Patel, AG Paunikar†, SA Quadri, AS Raut, A Singh, SW Tait, A Uniyal, AC Voges, SB Wagh.

Kings XI Punjab Team
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, Shawn Marsh, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, Sreesanth, R Powar, V.R.V. Singh, P. Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Ravikant shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Shalabh Srivastava, Love Ablish, Manvinder Bisla, Bipul Sharma, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara, Yusuf Abdulla, Nuwan Kulasekara, Adrian Barath, Jerome Everton Taylor.

Final eleven will be announced before match.