Today was the 35th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the DLF – IPL. Chasing the target of 134 Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag opened the batting for Delhi Daredevils. Making the IPL debut, Shoaib Akhtar got the price scalp of Virender Sehwag for a duck.The had the worst start and bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders were doing excellent bowling and were not letting the Daredevils to score with ease. The score to only 2 when Virender Sehwag was out for zero score. He was followed by Gautam Gambhir (10 score), AB de Villiers (7 score), Manoj Tiwary (9 score) and Shikhar Dhawan (7 score).Akhtar just missed the hattrick but got 4 priced wickets. The score of the team was 73 for the loss of 6 wickets in 12 overs. Apart from excellent bowling by almost all the bowlers of Knight Riders, it was the brilliant fielding which assured the win despite the fact that they had such a low score. The wickets were coming for them either via direct hits for run out or by the excellent bowling. L.N. Shukla came for bowling and got 3 wickets in the 18th over and Delhi Daredevils were all out for 110 and thus Knight Riders won the match by 23 runs.

Today – Scorecard – Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils

Today was a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the DLF – IPL. This was the 35th match of the Indian Premier League. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat first. Salman Butt and Aakash Chopra opened the batting for the team. They started well and took the score to 35 before Aakash Chopra was out. The score of the team was 109 for the loss of 4 wickets in 17 overs. Salman Butt was the top scorer for Kolkata Knight Riders. He scored 48 runs in 42 balls . In the end the team scored 133 runs in 20 overs.This is really a low target and Delhi Daredevils can easily achieve if they play it with caution.

Today – Scorecard – Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils

Match 35 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils is scheduled to be today at the edens and we hope that Shoaib Akhtar might make his IPL debut today.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probables): 1 Salman Butt, 2 Aakash Chopra, 3 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 4 David Hussey, 5 Tatenda Taibu, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Murali Kartik, 9 Shoaib Akhtar, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Delhi Daredevils (probables): 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Dinesh Karthik, 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 7 Amit Mishra, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 V Yomahesh, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Date – May 13, 2008 35th Match
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
20:00 India time.

Keep checking iplcricketlive .com for more information about the match, match videos, match score cards and an analysis of each team’s performance.

Kings XI Punjab won today’s match against Royal Challengers Bangalore comprehensively by 9 wickets and the hero for today’s match for Kings XI was Shaun Marsh who scored 74 and almost hit every bowler for some exquisite shots for four and sixes. Chasing the target of 144, they lost the first wicket at 42 in form of James Hope. After that Marsh and Luke Pomersbach had no looking back and they guided Kings XI to a well deserved victory. With this win, Kings XI have almost made it to the semifinals and Royal Challengers are almost out of the race for a berth in semi’s.

Today – Match 34 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Royal Challengers won the toss today in the 34 th match of DLF -IPL and decided to bat first. As happened in almost every match, they lost first wicket at 4 and then Misbah and Kohli took the score to 36 at which Misbah was out. Kohli also followed him soon and was out when team score was 49. Royal Challengers kept on loosing wickets at regular intervals and this was the reason they could not pose a huge target.Nearly all the Royal Challengers batsmen got the start but no could make it big. Boucher played some good shots in the end and thus helped Royal Challengers to set a target of 143 in alloted 20 overs. All praise go to the Kings XI bowlers who bowled balls right in the deck to restrict the Royal Challengers from hitting boundaries in the last overs.

Today – Match 34 – Scorecard – Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers