Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field first in the 6th match of DLF IPL 2010. Delhi Daredevils bowlers made the most of their decision and restricted Rajasthan Royals to 141/6 in 20 overs.

Rajasthan Royals big gun Yusuf Pathan failed today and was out on a duck but a brilliant innings from Abhishek Jhunjhunwala (53 not out) made it possible for them to score 141

Rajasthan Royals lost wickets at regular interval and none of the top order batsmen could face the warth of Delhi Daredevils bowlers. Dirk Nannes struck in his very first over dismissing Swapnil Asnodkar and from there on the fall of wickets started. Rajasthan Royals got some respite with a 60-run fifth wicket partnership between Paras Dogra (29) and Jhunjhunwala.

Now its upto the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals to restrict Delhi Daredevils and save themself from a second defeat.

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Rajasthan Royals take on Delhi Daredevils today in the match number 6 of DLF IPL season 3. Delhi Daredevils are riding high on the win where as Rajasthan Royals need to pull the socks up if they wish to give a scare to Gambhir’s Delhi Daredevils. Rajasthan Royals squad looks somewhat deleted as they don’t have Shane Watson and Ravinder Jadega this time. They are depending largely on Yusuf Pathan but even Shane Warne knows cricket is a team game and can not be played individually.

But fans of Rajasthan Royals are sure that they will be back with a bang and would justify the slogan – “HALLA BOL”

Match Details
Match Number – 6
Date:- Monday 15 March 2010
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – SMS – Ahmedabad

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

Delhi Daredevils
Gautam Gambhir, Mithun Manhas, David Warner, Virender Sehwag, Paul Collingwood, Kedar Jadhav, Joginder Singh, Andrew McDonald, Rajat Bhatia, Farveez Maharoof, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Moises Henriques, Shashi Ranjan, AB de Villiers, Dinesh Karthik, Africa Wayne Parnell, Pradeep Sangwan, Aavishkar Salvi, Dirk Nannes, Daniel Vettori, Ashish Nehra, Amit Mishra, Sarabjit Ladda, Sarandeep Singh, Umesh Yadav.

Playing eleven will be announced before the match.

Match: 5th T20, IPL3
Venue: Chennai
Date: March 14, 2010
Toss: Deccan Chargers elected to bat
Result: Deccan Chargers won by 31 runs
Man of the match: C Vaas
Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first in DLF IPL match number 5 here played at Chennai. Deccan Chargers got to a flying start with Gilchrist hammering bowlers to all corners of ground. Chennai Super Kings got a twin success when they were able to get Gilchrist and Laxman out in the 5th over. But Gibbs and Symonds then steadied the innings and lead the Deccan Chargers to 150 runs mark in 18th over.

In the last overs, Deccan Chargers scored at a very fast rate and scored 190/4 in 20 overs.

When Chennai Super Kings came to chase the target, they needed a brilliant start but Deccan Chargers were in no mood to give them the start they needed. In the third over Vaas striked twice and broke the backbone of Chennai Super Kings They were reduced to 52/4 in 8th over. The responsibility was on the shoulders of Dhoni and Kemp and they did tried but Kemp lost the patience and was stumped by Gilchrist and Chennai Super Kings were reeling at 78/5 in 11 overs.

The pressure of run rate was mounting and Dhoni was the only hope for Chennai Super Kings.The team crossed 100 run mark in the 15th over and it looked a real daunting task ahead. But when Dhoni got out, it was a lost battle. Though Balaji showed some resistance but the asking rate was way too much for the lower order and they were able to make 159/9 in 20 overs.

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Chennai Super Kings will take on Deccan Chargers in the fourth match of DLF IPL 2010 today at 8pm Indian standard time. The defending IPL champions Deccan Chargers have lost the first match to Kolkata Knight Riders and would be all set to take on Dhoni’s boys today. On the other hand, the most consistent team of IPL – Chennai Super Kings would make sure this time in the third season they don’t repeat the small mistakes which cost them dear.

Today’s match is expected to be a sensational encounter and due to Sunday, crowd in large numbers is also expected.

Match Details
Match Number – 5
Date:- Sun-14 March-2010
Time – 20:00 ( 8pm)
Venue – MAC – Chennai
Team Compositions
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

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 playing eleven would be announced before the match

Kolkata Knight Riders continued the winning streak today by registering a second consecutive win. Kumble’s Bangalore Royal Challengers could not contain Dada’s Riders as they got to a flying start with both openers scoring half century. Manoj Tiwary and B Hodge scored 100 runs for the first wicket partnership and it looked that they both will take the team to a win but both of them got out in quick succession. Ganguly along with Pujara then took the team close to victory and in the last over they won the match by 7 wickets

Earlier a good performance by Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers helped them to contain Royal challengers for just 135 runs

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