Bangalore Royal Challenger won the toss today in the 17 match of DLF- IPL but things didn’t went the way they wished and Delhi Daredevils scored at a super run rate. They lost the first wicket at 51 in form of Sehwag who scored 24 runs of just 12 balls. Gautam Gambhir on the other end played some phenomenal shots and got on to score 86 runs in just 54 balls. Shikar Dhawan also scored 50 and the duo took the score past 151. Dhawan was then caught out brilliantly one handed by Rahul Dravid. But till then most of the damage was done. Delhi Daredevils scored at more than 10 runs per over in almost the entire innings. In the last few overs they lost some quick wickets but still they managed to score a total of 191 runs in 20 overs.

Scorecard – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers – 17th Match

Match 17 – Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers is going to be today at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi. Royal Challengers are in a do or die situation after loosing 3 out of 4 matches played so far. This could be the last opportunity to prove “Duniya Hila Deyenge Hum“. On the other hand Delhi DareDevil’s winning streak was broken by Kings XI and now they are all ready to take the challenge. In order to focus more on cricket they have even decided to call off the cheerleaders and we hope this might prove to be successful for them.

Delhi Daredevils (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Manoj Tiwary, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Vijaykumar Yomahesh, 10 Mohammad Asif, 11 Glenn McGrath

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Ross Taylor 4 Bharath Chipli, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 KP Appanna.

Match details are –

Date – 17th Match April 30, 2008
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
20:00 India time.

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Today in the 16th match of DLF-IPL, Mumbai Indians bowlers bowled superbly to restrict the Knight Riders to a low total of 137 and it was the responsibility of the batsmen to make sure that they win the first match and open the account in points table. Knight Riders started the bowling with a superb spell by Ishant Sharma and Ajit Agarkar. Agarkar got the first breakthrough and soon Ishant bowled the dangerous looking Jayasuriya. The wicket tumbled and rotated many time before falling on the ground – A perfect scene for a fast bowler. Then Dinda bowled Pandey for 0 and it looked that Knight Riders are back into the game and will not let the Mumbai Indians enjoy the first victory. But Uthappa and Bravo played some exquisite shots and had a terrific partnership of 113 runs. It was this partnership which assured the victory of Mumbai Indians.Bravo become the highest run getter in the tournament from Mumbai Indians side by scoring 64runs.Sachin Tendulkar was really very happy to see his team winning the first match.

So April 29 was the day Mumbai Indians won the match at last after loosing four matches in a row. This win will surely do a lot of good for the Mumbai Indians and will boost the morale of the entire team.

Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians – 16th Match

In the 16th match of DLF – IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first but the charged Mumbai Indians were today in no mood to let Kolkata Knight Riders to a flyer. The very experienced Pollock striked twice in the very first over and gave a huge shock to Knight Riders as Ganguly and Mac Cullam were back in the pavilion the very first over and the score was 6/2. Then Ponting and Dass took the score to 40 and it looked like a decent partnership is building up but then Bravo got the wicket of Dass and again the Knight Riders were in serious troubles. Ponting and Hussey took the score to 74 and then Hussey was the one to return to pavilion. Soon Ponting was brilliantly run out by Rahane/Jayasuriya. The problems of Knight Riders were deepened by Jayasurya who took 3 crucial wickets and Knight Riders were struggling at 90/7 in 15.3 overs. Laxmi Ratan Shukla came in to bat and provided some relief to the Knight Riders by scoring 40 runs in 21 balls. Kathik was out in the last over after scoring 10 runs but it was L.R Shukla who played a short timely innings to help Knight Riders score 137 runs in 20 overs.

Scorecard – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians – 16th Match

Today is the Match 16 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in the Baap Of Entertainment – DLF – IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders have lost the last match but have won the other two played. But the Mumbai Indians have yet to open the account in the points table. So today we hope both the teams to play for the prestige.

Kolkata Knight Riders: (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Brendon McCullum (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 5 David Hussey, 6 Mohammad Hafeez, 7 Laxmi Rattan Shukla, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda

Mumbai Indians : (probable) 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Luke Ronchi (wk), 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Shaun Pollock, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Dwayne Bravo, 8 Musavir Khote, 9 Ashish Nehra, 10 Dhaval Kulkarni, 11 Siddharth Chitnis

Date – 16th Match April 29, 2008
Venue – Eden Gardens, Kolkata
20:00 India time.

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