The 30th match between Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers was supposed to be a thriller but it ended in a one side affair with Rajasthan Royals beating the Deccan Chargers by 8 wickets. First the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals restricted the formidable batting line up of Deccan Chargers to 140 runs and then the batsmen played brilliant shots to register one more win for Rajasthan Royals.Chasing the target, Rajasthan Royals got to a flying start and had a century partnership for the first wicket. Yousaf Pathan was the first to go followed by Smith.But after that it was a cakewalk as they scored a very easy win over Deccan Chargers.

Today – Match 30 – Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers

It was the 30th match of DLF – IPL today. This was a match between Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers played in the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur . Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to field first. Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs opened the batting for Deccan Chargers and took the score to 61 before Herschelle Gibbs was out. He was caught by M Rawat. After his wicket was down the next players were unable to play well, due to the changed bowling attack of Rajasthan Royals. The score of the team was 100 for the loss of 3 wickets in 14 overs. Adam Gilchrist was the top scorer for Deccan Chargers. In the end the team scored 140 runs in 20 overs.

Today – Match 30 – Scorecard – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers

Today is Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers and it could be one more match which could make the spec taters glued to the seats. Royals lost the last match and will now wish to come back where as Deccan Chargers won the match and would like to maintain the winning streak. So we have to wait and watch who plays better cricket today.

Deccan Chargers (probables) 1 Adam Gilchrist (capt/wk), 2 Herschelle Gibbs, 3 Scott Styris, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Venugopal Rao, 7 Sanjay Bangar, 8 Arjun Yadav, 9 RP Singh, 10 P Vijaykumar, 11 Pragyan Ojha

Rajasthan Royals (probables)1 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 2 Swapnil Asnodkar, 3 Yusuf Pathan, 4 Shane Watson, 5 Mohammad Kaif, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Mahesh Rawat, 8 Shane Warne, 9 Sohail Tanvir, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel

Date – May 9, 2008 30th Match
Venue – Jaipur
20:00 India time.

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In the rain interrupted match, Kolkata Knight Riders broke the jinx and atlast won the match by runs. They had set a target of 130 for the Royal Challengers and that proved to be too much for the Royal Challengers. They started off miserably and lost Chaderpaul of just 17 and then the next to go was Jagadeesh Arunkumar.The problem for Challengers was not wickets but the climbing runrate. The bowlers of Knight Riders were superbly assisted by the fielders. Fielders were throwing themself for saving each run and in the end it was the combine efforts of superb bowling and fielding which helped Knight Riders win the match. In the last over Royal Challengers needed 19 runs and they were short by 5 runs. So after loosing the last 4 matches Knight Riders are back and the happiness was seen on in the camp and also on the dancing Shahrukh Khan’s face.

Today – Match 29 – Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

The 29th match of DLF – IPL was interrupted by rain and due to this, umpires had decided to reduce the overs to 16 over each. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bat first but had a dismal start as they lost Akash Chopra when the team score was 9. Soon Hodge also was out leaving the Knight Riders at 20/2. Captain Ganguly then played some brave shots before he was brilliantly run out and the team score was 46/3. Hussey and Taibu then took the score past 50 and at a team score of 64 at which Hussey also returned to pavilion.Taibu and L.N Shukla also felt soon and the Knight Riders were struggling at 88/6 in 12 overs. Some sloppy fielding and some good hits to the boundary finally took the score of Knight Riders to 129 runs in 16 overs.

Lets see how the bowlers try to restrict the Royal Challengers Batsmen.

Today – Match 29 – Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers