The dream end of Kolkata Knight Riders ended today when Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings defeated Ganguly’s Kolkata Knight Riders by 55 runs.

Batting first, CSK got to a pretty slow start but managed to score 164/3 in 20 overs thank to a superb knock by Dhoni ( 66 runs of just 33 balls).

The current form of Kolkata Knight Riders should have made it very easy to chase that target but Dhoni’s CSK bowlers were in no mood to give it away so easy. Kolkata Knight Riders lost the first wicket in the very first over and from there on the wickets started to fell like a pile of cards. Not even a single batsmen could take the charge and save the match for KKR. Kolkata Knight Riders were struggling at 69/6 in the 11th over and it looked all over for them. They crossed 100 run mark in 17th over but had lost 9 wickets to get that. Kolkata Knight Riders dream run on the path of victory was atlast halted by Chennai Super Kings.

Chennai Super Kings bundled Kolkata Knight Riders for just 109/10.

Click here to see the scorecard of match 8.

In the battle between icons, Ganguly’s Knight Riders never gave Chennai Super Kings respite with some tight bowling. Today at Eden’s, CSK won the toss and elected to bat first. M Vijay and Hayden started the CSK innings but Hayden was bold by Ishant Sharma and CSK lost the first wicket in 4th over. Knight Riders never allowed Chennai Super Kings to score freely in initial overs. But the onslaught by Dhoni helped CSK score a decent score of 164/3 in 20 overs

Dhoni and Badrinath steaded the innings though initially at a much slower run rate but once they crossed the 15th over, both batsmen started scoring freely. Dhoni was at his blistering best and scored 66 runs in just 33 balls which included 6 fours and 3 sixes.

Match- 8 IPL 3 -2010 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Date: 16 March 2010
Location: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Result: RCB beat Kings XI by 8 wickets
Toss: Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat first

Kings XI Punjab Innings
RS Bopara scored 77 off 50 balls. MS Bisla made 75 runs. DPMD Jayawardene was unbeatable at 26. Yuvraj Singh and IK Pathan scored 9 and 3 respectively.
Kings XI Punjab scored 203 for a loss of 3 wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings
RCB had a good start. RCB lost its first wicket at 74. MK Pandey made 38 runs off 26 balls. Kallis completed his 50 in 42 balls. RCB completed 150 runs in 15.1 overs. RV Uthappa scored 51 off just 21 balls. V Kohli scored 16 runs. Jacques Kallis went on to score an unbeatable 89 runs off just 59 balls. Royal Challengers made 204 runs with 8 wickets remaining in 18.5 overs.

Match 7 – IPL 2010 RCB Vs Kings XI Scorecard

Today will be a match no one would like to miss. So tune in to SET MAX or Youtube or your very own iplcricketlive.com to see how two icons fight it out in a match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.

Today at Eden’s, two of India’s most iconic captains will take on each other in DLF – Indian Premier League match – 8. Ganguly’s Knight Riders are on cloud nine with two wins of the two matches played so far where as Dhoni’s boys need to pull up the socks as they have lost the first match and are reeling under pressure due to some key members missing from the team. With the kind of form KKR’s have shown so far, it is a tough call for Chennai Super Kings but everyone knows what Dhoni is made off. So get set for high performing action today.

Match Details
Match Number – 8
Date:- 16 March 2010 Tuesday
Time – 20:00 ( 8 pm)
Venue – Eden – Kolkata

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

Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni (captain/wicket keeper), 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

Today, March 16th 2010, Bangalore Royal Challengers will take on Kings XI Punjab at MCS – Bangalore. Both the teams have lost their first match and are now under a pressure to perform well. Kings XI Punjab’s batsmen Yuvraj Singh, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara failed in the first match and thus the team suffered a defeat. Similarly Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the first match against KKR by 7 wickets.

Today is the match which would help both teams gain some momentum and thus proceed further in the tournament.

Match Details
Match Number – 7
Date:- 16 March 2010 Tuesday
Time – 16:00 ( 4 pm)
Venue – MCS – Bangalore

Team Compositions
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

Kings XI Punjab
Kumar Sangakkara (Captian), Yuvraj Singh, 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 just before the match