Delhi Daredevils won the match against KKR

Today, Delhi Daredevils played their home match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Feroz Shah Kotla. Delhi Daredevils won the toss & elected to bat first.

Delhi started to bat aggressively right from the beginning, they lost 3 quick wickets in first 3 overs. But later on David Warner & Paul Collingwood both put up a partnership of 128 runs. Paul Collingwood got out in 19.2 over scoring 53 runs from 45 balls. David Warner was unbeaten & played throughout the innings & scored his first century in the IPL cricket. He scored 107 runs from 69 deliveries which included 9 fours & 5 sixes. After 20 overs, Delhi Daredevils lost only 4 wickets scoring a total of 177 runs.

Kolkata Knight Riders started their chase of 178, They did not give their start as aggressive as Delhi Daredevils did. They lost 3 wickets in first 5 overs, their run rate started to drop & required rate started to increase. They started to loose wickets on regular basis. By the end of 20 overs Kolkata Knight Riders could score only 137 runs loosing 9 wickets.

Delhi Daredevils won the match by 40 runs. Man of Match was David Warner for his unbeaten Century.

Royals Challengers Bangalore failed to continue their winning spree

Delhi Daredevils visited Bangalore to play a match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore today at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Skipper Anil Kumble from RCB won the toss & put the visitors to bat first.

Delhi Daredevils gave a magnificent start as team opener, David Warner 33 runs just in 14 deliveries. Later on after loosing couple of wickets, AB de Villiers & Jadhav played brilliantly to put a good total for Delhi Daredevils. Finally Delhi Daredevils landed up with setting a target of 183.

Royal Challengers Bangalore started their innings with the openers Jacques Kallis & Manish Pandey. RCB started off very well playing aggressively until they reached 71 runs, in the 10th over, RCB lost their first wicket, Jacques Kallis. Later on things started to change, RCB started to loose wickets regularly. RCB finally landed up with a score of 166 in 20 overs loosing 9 wickets.

Delhi Daredevils won the match by 17 runs. Skipper Dinesh Karthik will be very happy about his teams performance. Previously Delhi Daredevils had lost 3 successive matches.

Struggling Delhi Daredevils have a stiff challenge against RCB

Delhi Daredevils will be facing Royal Challengers Bangalore today. It will be a home match for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Delhi Daredevils are in the sixth position having 4 points on the points table. Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bangalore have won 4 successive matches till now who top the points table with 8 points. Royal Challengers Bangalore would be looking to continue their winning momentum against a struggling Delhi Daredevils today.

RCB has a very well balanced bowling & batting sides. Jacques Kallis is in great form, who is the leading scorer in this IPL, meanwhile others include Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Dravid, Mark Boucher who can bat very well. Bowlers like Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn, Skipper Anil Kumble & Vinay Kumar are also bowling well & have been showing performances.

Coming back to Delhi Daredevils, They gave a brilliant start in the IPL - 3 by winning first 2 matches after that till now they din't even win a single match. They have lost Gautam Gambhir who has been ruled out due to injury. Sehwag has shown very good performances, he is the second top run getter in this IPL. But middle order batsmen have not yet given their good performances in this IPL.

Hayden strikes brilliantly to win the match for CSK

Chennai Super Kings played their second match against Delhi Daredevils today. Delhi Daredevils won the toss & elected to bat first. They made a total of 185 for 6, where Virender Sehwag made a brilliant score of 74 from 38 balls.

CSK gave magnificent start where Mathew Hayden scored 93 from 43 balls. He got out in 14th over in Amit Mishra's ball. Later CSK skipper Suresh Raina played brilliantly to lead his team to victory by hitting a six in the first ball of 20th over.

Today, Suresh Raina had taken 3 brilliant catches & also scored 49 runs from 34 balls marking his debut as a Captain which will be a memorable win for his team.

Gambhir not playing against CSK which will be played on this friday

Delhi Daredevils skipper Gautam Gambhir will not be playing Friday's IPL match against Chennai Super Kings due to hamstring injury. He will be having couple of scans to see how bad his injury is, then only it will come to know for how long he will be out of IPL. Due to his absence Dinesh Karthik will be leading the team on Friday which will be played against CSK.