Rajasthan Royals mark their first vicory in IPL-3

Rajasthan Royals played their 4th match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera. Rajasthan Royals won the toss & elected to bat first. Micheal Lumb was out for the very first ball of the innings. Rajasthan Royals completed their 20 overs by scoring 168 runs loosing 7 wickets.

Kolkata Knight Riders went on to chase a target of 168, But their slow start was of no use. By 18th over kolkata needed 50 runs from 14 balls, this was very tough situation for KKR as they did not succeed finally landing up with the score of 134 runs in 20 overs loosing 5 wickets. Hence Rajasthan Royals marked their first win after loosing first 3 matches in IPL-3.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Won by ten wickets

Today Royal Challengers Bangalore played their third match against the visitors Rajasthan Royals at Chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore. RCB skipper won the toss & elected to field first letting the royals to bat. Rajasthan Royals gave a very slow start but they started to loose wickets, they only managed to score 92 runs loosing all 10 wickets in 19.5 overs. Praveen Kumar took a hatrick in 17th over. Anil Kumble was very impressive by taking 3 wickets only giving 9 runs in his 3.5 overs.

Later RCB started their innings with the target of only 93 runs to win in 20 overs. Both Manish Pandey & Jacques Kallis started the innings very well. In 10.4 overs RCB reached the target of 93 with no loss & got their 2nd victory in this IPL. Manish Pandey made 42 from 30 balls with 7 fours & a six. Jacques Kallis scored 44 from 34 balls with 7 fours.

RCB have won 2 matches out of 3 played till now. On the points table RCB are now at 2nd place behind MI being first.