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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition seeking to restrain a team owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya from playing in the Indian Premier League under the banner of ‘The Royal Challengers’.
The petition filed by a Faridabad-based resident, Kishan Kumar Aggarwal, alleged that under the garb of ‘The Royal Challengers Bangalore Team’, the United Breweries Group was seeking to promote its brands of liquor.
Source : economictimes.indiatimes.com
In a thrilling match today in DLF – IPL, Chennai Super Kings defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 13 runs. Earlier Dhoni and Hussey played gem of an innings and took the score to 178 in 20 overs. Royal Challengers started the run chase with much confidence and Jaffer and Taylor both scored half centuries. They way the duo was batting it looked that Royal Challengers are upto a big fight today. But once the partnership was over, there was no batsmen who could take up the challenge. The fielding of the Chennai Super Kings was excellent and two run outs proved to be too heavy for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Dhoni seems to have immense faith in Joginder Sharma and it was again that Joginder was given the last over and he did not let the captain down.Royal Challengers have lost all the matches and Chennai Super Kings are on a winning path.
Click Here For Scorecard – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings – 15th Match
In the 15th match of DLF- IPL Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. They lost Mathew Hayden when the total was 22 but this did not deter the run rate and they were maintaining the run rate of more than 7 almost in the entire match. Parthiv Patel was the next to go when the score was 42 in 6.3 overs. Hussey yet again played a useful innings and got on to score 47 runs in 36 balls. Raina stroked some good shots in a short cameo of 28 runs in 17 balls. After Raina got out, the captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni came into the center and played some exquisite shots and scored 65 runs in 30 balls. He showed the enormous talent he has by hitting some good bowls to the fence. His shots looked so effortless but the balls was racing to the fence at ultra high speed. Dhoni got his 50 in just 24 balls and scored 24 runs in the 19th over.In the last 5 over 76 runs were scored which helped in increasing the run rate to 8.90
It was the heroic of Dhoni and Hussey that helped Chennai Super Kings to post a target of 179 runs in 20 overs. Now its upto the bowlers to restrict the Royal Challengers and thus continue the winning stride.
Click Here For Scorecard – Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings – 15th Match
The Match 15 is between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Chennai Super Kings today and will be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Chennai Super Kings are on a winning streak and have played excellent cricket so far and have won all the three matches played so far. They are termed as one of the best teams of the tournament where as Bangalore Royal Challengers are in some serious problems after loosing 2 matches so far. Both the teams have to play for something. Chennai Super Kings would like to continue the winning streak where as Bangalore Royal Challengers would like to break the loss jinx.
Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Ross Taylor, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 B Akhil, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 R Vinay Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings: (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Michael Hussey, 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Jacob Oram, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), 7 S Badrinath, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Palani Amarnath, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.
Match details are –
Date – 15th Match April 28, 2008
Venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
20:00 India time.
Update : Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat first
Keep checking iplcricketlive .com for more information about the match, match videos, match score cards and an analysis of each team performance.
What better than this can Deccan Chargers can ask for? After loosing the initial matches in the DLF – Indian Premier League, today they come out with all preparation and routed Mumbai Indians by 10 wickets. Everybody was amazed to see how Deccan Chargers started the chase. Adam Gilchrist and VVS Laxman made a excellent start. Adam Gilchrist was the real star of the show by scoring 100 in just 42 balls (fastest in the IPL). In this 100, 10 sixes and 9 fours were scored at a strike rate of 227.08. Gilly as he is commonly called played with so much dominance that every bowler of Mumbai Indians was helpless.
So at last Deccan Chargers have won the match by 10 wickets and have opened the team’s account in the points listing and that too in emphatic style.
Click Here For Scorecard – Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers – 14th Match
