Match: 20th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 25, 2010
Time: 4pm IST

Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Delhi Daredevils today at Chinnaswamy Stadium at 4pm Indian standard time. Delhi Daredevils who started as the favorites in this season of IPL have suddenly lost the momentum and are now on a loosing streak. They need to break the jinx today as now they are in bottom two of points table. On the other hand Royal Challengers Bangalore are number one team till date due to the superb batting and bowling form of its team members. In the last match they defeated Chennai Super Kings and that too convincingly.

The kind of form in which Royal Challengers Bangalore are playing, it looks like a herculean task for Delhi Daredevils. But Delhi Daredevils do have some of the best T20 players and have that ability to come back. So today’s match promises to be yet another entertainment packed match for the crowd.

Team Composition
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar.

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

Match: 19th T20, IPL3
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Date: March 24, 2010
Toss: Kings XI Punjab elected to field.
Result : Rajasthan Royals won by 31 runs

Rajasthan Royals were invited to bat first by Kings XI Punjab in the 19th match of DLF IPL today in Mohali. Rajasthan Royals got to a good start and all the top order batsmen contributed to the team score. Rajasthan Royals batsmen scored freely and three batsmen scored in 40’s. At the end of 20 overs, Rajasthan Royals were able to put a decent score of 183/5 and now it was on the bowlers to restrict Kings XI Punjab so that the Royals can open the account in points tally.

Chasing the target of 184, K Sangakkara and Bopara gave them the perfect start. Kings XI Punjab was scoring runs at more than 10 runs per over and it looked that this match will be a very close call. When K Sangakkara was out in the 4th over, Bisla came to bat and he continued where K Sangakkara left. He hammered the bowlers to all part of the ground and took the score to 85. It was here when the Rajasthan Royals seek the opportunity to come back in the match. After the fall of Yuvraj Singh, wickets started falling quickly and from 85/2 in 8 overs they were reduced to 126/6 in 14.5 overs. A very good start was wasted and Kings XI Punjab who once looked would win this match lost the match by 31 runs as they were limited to 152/10 in 19.1 overs.

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Match: 19th T20, IPL3
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Date: March 24, 2010

Kings XI Punjab will take on Rajasthan Royals today at PCA Mohali in the 19th match of DLF- Indian Premier League. Kings XI Punjab won the last match against Chennai Super Kings in the superover where as Rajasthan Royals are still the last team in points table.

Brett Lee and Shawn Marsh have joined Kings XI Punjab and with the inclusion of these two, Kings XI Punjab look a formidable side. Rajasthan Royals on the other hand are looking cheeky and will now have to fire all cylinders if they wish to even dream about semis.

Team Compositions
Kings XI Punjab
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.

Rajasthan Royals
SK Warne, SA Asnodkar, DR Martyn, MJ Lumb, FY Fazal, AA Jhunjhunwala, AG Paunikar, SA Quadri, AS Raut, NV Ojha, YK Pathan, S Narwal, SB Wagh, P Dogra, Kamran Khan, M Morkel, MM Patel, Amit Singh, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, A Uniyal, AP Dole

Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010
Toss: Chennai Super Kings elected to field
Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 36 runs
Man of the match: R Uthappa

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the toss and were invited to bat first. They got to a fast start but the main stay, orange cap batsmen Kallis was the first to get out with the team score of 28/1 in 4.4 overs. This was a huge below to Royal Challengers Bangalore as Kallis has been the backbone of Royal Challengers Bangalore batting. Soon Dravid and Manish also went back to pavilion but Robin Uthappa along with Kohli got them to a good total of 171/5 in 20 overs. Robin Uthappa was at his devastating best today and was very severe in the last overs. From 119/5 in 17th over he took the team score to 171/5 in 20 overs.

Chennai Super Kings Innings
Chennai Super Kings were playing without Dhoni and were in dire straits as they had lost consecutive matches. Today chasing a total of 172, they needed a good start but Parthiv Patel got out in the very first over. Wickets started to fell at regular interval and no good partnership could steady the Chennai Super Kings innings. Half of the team was back in pavilion in 13 over with the team score of 74. They needed 98 more runs in last 7 overs and with each dot ball, the required rate was mounting on them. In the last 5 overs they needed 77 runs at 15.40 runs per over. Chennai Super Kings batsmen again succumbed to this intense run rate pressure and could score just 135/7 in 20 overs, thus loosing the match by 36 runs

Match18 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Match: 18th T20, IPL3
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: March 23, 2010

Today in the 18th match of DLF Indian Premier League, Suresh Raina’s Chennai Super Kings will take on Anil Kumble’s Royal Challengers Bangalore at 8 pm IST. Chennai Super Kings lost the last match to Kings XI Punjab in the super over and would thus have to win the match to get back the momentum.

On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore are riding high due to excellent batting form of Kallis and other top order batsmen. This would be a nice challenge between young Raina and veteran Kumble.

Team Composition
Bangalore Royal Challengers
A Kumble (captain), R Dravid, V Kohli, MK Pandey, LRPL Taylor RV Uthappa, Eoin Morgan, KP Apanna, B Akhil, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, JH Kallis, KP Pietersen, RE van der Merwe, CL White, Steven Smith, S Sriram, MV Boucher (wicket keeper), SP Goswami(wicket keeper), D du Preez, A Mithun, Praveen Kumar, DW Steyn, R Vinay Kumar

Chennai Super Kings
PA Patel, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, ML Hayden, MEK Hussey, SK Raina, M Vijay, T Thushara, JA Morkel, JDP Oram, NLTC Perera, JM Kemp, HK Badani, R Ashwin, L Balaji, C Ganapathy, MS Gony, SB Jakati, M Muralidaran, M Ntini, S Tyagi, Joginder Sharma