Match 51 IPL 2013 –Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Date – Mon May 6
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IS
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Today in the 51st match of IPL 2013, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Kings XI Punjab at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.

RCB who are placed second in the points table with 7 wins out of 11 need just 2 more wins to cement their place in playoffs. They will be hoping that they win today’s match with a good margin to increase their net run rate.

On the other hand, Kings XI Punjab have won just 4 matches out of 10 and thus need 5 wins out of 6 remaining matches to stay alive in playoffs.

Players to Watch Out For
Royal Challengers Bangalore – Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers
Kings XI Punjab – Mandeep Singh, David Miller, David Hussey and Shaun Marsh,

Kings XI Punjab Team IPL 2013
Parvinder Awana, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Chitnis, Aniket Choudhary, Manpreet Gony,Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Praveen Kumar, Mandeep Singh, Nitin Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Sunny Singh, Paul Valthaty,Manan Vohra,R Sathish ,Azhar Mahmood,Adam Gilchrist (c)(wk), Ryan Harris, David Hussey, Shaun Marsh, Dimitri Mascarenhas, David Miller, Luke Pomersbach

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team IPL 2013
Virat Kohli (c), Mayank Agarwal, K P Appanna, S Aravind, Arun Karthik, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Karun Nair, Pankaj Singh, Prasanth Parameswaran, Harshal Patel, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sandeep Warrier, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sunny Sohal, Syed Mohammad, Saurabh Tiwary, Jaidev Unadkat, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Vijay Zol, Sheldon Jackson , Daniel Christian, Christopher Barnwell, AB De Villiers (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chris Gayle, Moises Henriques, Andrew McDonald, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Daniel Vettori

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Match 50 IPL 2013 – Rajasthan Royals vs Pune Warriors
Date – Sun May 5
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Toss – Pune Warriors elected to bat
Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 5 wickets
Man of the match: Ajinkya Rahane

Today in the 50th match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Pune Warriors won the toss and elected to bat first. Robin Uthappa and Aaron Finch gave them flying start as they added 97 runs for the first wicket stand. Aaron Finch was the first who got out as he was bowled by Cooper after he scored 45 off 32 balls. Yuvraj Singh looked good but his innings ended after he scored just 15. Uthappa was run out by Samson and thus Pune were placed at 129/3 in 15.2 overs. Mitchell Marsh then played a cameo of 35 off 21 balls and along with Angelo Mathews helped Pune post a good total of 178/4 in 20 overs.

Chasing 179 to stay alive in the competition, captain Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane added 98 runs for the first wicket stand in 11.5 overs. Rahul Dravid scored a brilliant 40 ball 58 before getting out. The stage was set for a perfect chase but the fall of Watson, Rahane and Brad Hodge raised hopes for Pune. Needing 28 to win from 12 balls, the match was poised for an interesting finish but Stuart Binny once again bailed Royals out with his camoe of 32 off 13 bals which included 2 fours and 2 sixes. Finally Royals were able to reach the victory target with 1 ball to spare and 5 wickets in hand.

Match 50 IPL 2013 – Rajasthan Royals vs Pune Warriors Scorecard

Match 49 IPL 2013 – Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Date – Sun May 5
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Toss – Mumbai Indians elected to bat
Result – Mumbai Indians won by 60 runs
Man of the match – Mitchell Johnson

Today in the 49th match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. Dwayne Smith and Sachin Tendulkar added 40 runs for the first wicket in 6.5 overs before Sachin Tendulkar got out to Ravindra Jadeja. Five balls later, Dwayne Smith also got out leaving Mumbai at 42/2 in 7.4 overs. With both openers back, CSK saw an opportunity to come back and they striked yet again and got the wicket of Pollard reducing Mumbai to 45/3 in 9.1 overs. Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik then took the team score past the 50 run mark. Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten on 39 off 30 balls and a cameo of 25 in 11 balls by Harbhajan Singh helped Mumbai post 139/5 in 20 overs.

Chasing 140 to win, Chennai openers Michael Hussey and Murali Vijay failed to give them a good start. Vijay got out after scoring just 2. The third over saw a complete batting collapse as Murali Vijay, Suresh Raina and ubramaniam Badrinath got out leaving CSK struggling at 9/3. CSK needed a partnership to continue their winning streak but superb bowling by Mumbai never allowed them to have it. Only three CSK batsmen, M Hussey, MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja scored double digit runs with Hussey being the top scorer with 22. CSK were all out for 79 and thus lost the match by 60 runs.

Match 49 IPL 2013 –Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

Match 50 IPL 2013 –Rajasthan Royals vs Pune Warriors
Date – Sun May 5
Time – 8:00 pm i.e 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST
Venue – Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Today in the second match of the day and match number 50 of Pepsi IPL 2013 Rajasthan Royals will take on Pune Warriors India at Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

Rajasthan Royals surely need two points from today’s match to stay alive for the play offs where as Pune are out of the race and are playing for pride. Both teams are coming into this match with a defeat in their previous one and for Royals this match means much more than just 2 points. With each passing match, the competition for playoffs is getting harder and harder and thus Royals will be looking to win today’s match to make things simple.

Players to watch out for
Rajasthan Royals – Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Dravid, Shane Watson and Sanju Viswanadh.
Pune Warriors India – Robin Uthappa, Aaron Finch and Yuvraj Singh

Rajasthan Royals Team IPL 2013
Rahul Dravid (c), Stuart Binny, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, Shreevats Goswami, Harmeet Singh, Ashok Menaria, Ajinkya Rahane, Sachin Baby, Sanju Samson, Rahul Shukla, Amit Singh, S Sreesanth, Siddharth Trivedi, Dishant Yagnik, Pravin Tambe , Samuel Badree,Kevon Cooper, Fidel Edwards, James Faulkner, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg,Kusal Janith Perera, Owais Shah, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson

Pune Warriors India Team IPL 2013
Eklavya Dwivedi,Udit Birla, Ashoke Dinda, Raiphi Gomez, Harpreet Singh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Anustup Majumdar, Mithun Manhas, Ali Murtaza, Abhishek Nayar, Ishwar Pandey, Manish Pandey, Parveez Rasool, Mahesh Rawat, Rahul Sharma, Tirumalasetti Suman, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Robin Uthappa (wk), Shrikant Wagh, Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews (c), Mitchell Marsh, Michael Clarke, Ajantha Mendis, Wayne Parnell, Kane Richardson, Marlon Samuels, Steven Smith, Tamim Iqbal, Ross Taylor, Luke Wright

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Match 49 IPL 2013 –Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Date – Sun May 5
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

Today in the 49th match of IPL 2013, Table-toppers Chennai Super Kings will take on the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium.

Chennai who have already qualified for the playoffs will be playing to rein supremacy where as Mumbai Indians who have won 6 out of 10 matches will be looking for a win to move up the points table. History favors Mumbai as they have won 7 out of 12 matches played against Chennai Super Kings but CSK are on roll with a record 7 win on a trot and will be looking to make it 8 today.

Players to Watch Out For
Mumbai Indians – Dwayne Smith, Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik.
Chennai Super Kings – Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni.

Mumbai Indians Team IPL 2013
Abu Nechim Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal, Rishi Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Dhawal Kulkarni, Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Akshar Patel, Munaf Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Jalaj Saxena, Rohit Sharma, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav , Ricky Ponting (c), Aiden Blizzard, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Franklin, Philip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Lasith Malinga, Glenn Maxwell, Jacob Oram, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Smith

Chennai Super Kings Team IPL 2013
MS Dhoni (c)(wk), Anirudha Srikkanth, B Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ronit More, Suresh Raina, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay, R Karthikeyan, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati,Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, Akila Dananjaya, Ben Laughlin, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Albie Morkel, Dirk Nannes, Christopher Morris

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