Match: 30 T20, IPL3
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Date: April 1, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm

Today in a must win situation, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Deccan Chargers at Eden Garden. Deccan Chargers have lost the last match to Mumbai Indians and would thus be looking at this opportunity to get ahead in the points table. On the other hand Kolkata Knight Riders have also been through flip flops and are now in a must win position. This match between Dada’s KKR and Gilly’s DC would be a thrill packed entertainment for all cricket fans.

Team compositions
Kolkata Knight Riders
SC Ganguly (captain), CH Gayle, AD Mathews, G Vignesh, LR Shukla, Rohan Gavaskar, Harpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, BJ Hodge, CR Pathak, CA Pujara, OA Shah, MK Tiwary, Harshad Khadiwale, BB McCullum, WP Saha, AB Agarkar, VR Aaron, AB Dinda, M Kartik, BAW Mendis, CK Langeveldt, I Sharma, Iqbal Abdulla.

Deccan Chargers
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: 29th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: March 31, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm
Toss: Delhi Daredevils elected to bat
Result: Delhi Daredevils won by 67 runs

Delhi Daredevils were riding high with an empathic win in the last match. but today last match’s hero David Warner got out for just 4 runs and soon Sehwag also got out after scoring quick 19 runs. Collingwood and Jadav also went out cheaply and it looked Delhi Daredevils would face some serious problems in today’s match. they were 67/4 in 8.3 overs and it looked they possibly not pose a total of 150 or more. But Gambhir and Karthik played a superb knock and got a valuable partnership. They both took the team score to 76 runs. Karthik then played a scintillating innings of 69 off just 38 balls. It was his super knock which propelled the Delhi Daredevils innings and they could finally score 188/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing a total of 189 to win, Rajasthan Royals got to a terrible start and lost 2 wickets in the very first over. They could never recover from this and kept loosing wickets at regular interval. Half of the team was back in pavilion for just 66 runs on board. Wickets were falling like heap of cards finally they were all out for 121 and thus lost the match by 67 runs.

Match 29 Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals Scorecard

Match: 28th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: March 31, 2010
Toss: Royal Challengers elected to bat
Result: Chennai Super Kings won by 5 wickets

After wining the toss, Royal Challengers decided to bat first. Manish Pandey and J Kallis opened the innings for them but Pandey got out when the team score was just 12. After that Uthapa and Kallis steadied the innings and took the score past 50. Royal Challengers were placed at 54/2 in 6.3 overs. Royal Challengers batsmen played with caution and at one stage they had crossed the 100 run mark with the loss of just 2 wickets. At this stage it looked that now they will fire all cylinders and will try to pose a huge total. But excellent bowling by Chennai Super Kings bowlers played spoilsport as Royal Challengers could not score freely at will. Kevin Pieterson and C White did get some hits in the final overs and thus could manage to take the team score to 161/4 in 20overs.

Chennai Super Kings openers Murli Vijay and Hayden gave them a superb start and scored 61 runs in just 6.5 overs. Even after Hayden got out, Murli Vijay along with Raina kept the required rate under check. Murli Vijay played a superb knock of 78 in just 39 balls and took the team past 100 run mark. His innings laid a platform for the middle order to taste victory. Chennai Super Kings were well placed at 118/2 in 14 overs and needed 44 runs in 6 overs with 8 wickets in hand. But soon they lost 2 quick wickets and at the end of 18 overs they were 146/4. Chennai Super Kings needed 16 to win in 12 balls and it could have been anyone’s game. But Raina played sensibly and took the team to victory in the last over. Finally Chennai Super Kings were able to win the match by 5 wickets and thus move up some position in the points tables

Match 28 Chennai Super Kings vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Scorecard

Match: 29th T20, IPL3
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: March 31, 2010
Time – 8:00 pm

In the 29th match to be played today at Kolta, Delhi Daredevils will take on Rajasthan Royals at 8pm IST. Both the teams are getting back on the winning track after some early jolts. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 17 runs in the last match where as Delhi Daredevils won by 40 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in their last match. With wins under the belt, both teams will have sky high confidence and would like to keep the winning momentum in today’s match too. So it would be a thriller when Gambhir’s Devils will take on Warne’s Royals at the home ground of Delhi Daredevils i.e Feroz Shah Kotla.

Delhi Daredevils squad
G Gambhir*, V Sehwag, PJ Sangwan, DA Warner, Joginder Singh, U Yadav, S Ladda, R Bhatia, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MC Henriques, KM Jadhav, KD Karthik, AB McDonald, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, M Manhas, A Mishra, DP Nannes, A Nehra, WD Parnell, S Ranjan, AM Salvi, Sarandeep Singh

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

Final eleven will be announced before match.

Match: 28th T20, IPL3
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date: March 31, 2010
Time : 4:00 pm

Chennai Super Kings will face Bangalore Royal Challengers today at 4pm at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk. Chennai Super Kings are struggling in this edition of IPL and have to fire all guns today against Bangalore Royal Challengers if they wish to dream about semis. Bangalore Royal Challengers on the other hand have continued the golden run which started in the last season. In this season they are playing superb cricket and are in top 3 teams at this moment.

Chennai Super Kings squad
MS Dhoni*, 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,

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad
A Kumble*, 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.

Final eleven will be announced before match.