Royal Challengers Bangalore enter Champions League

Today Royal Challengers Bangalore & Deccan Chargers played against each other in the IPL  season 3 third-fourth play off at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. Both the teams had lost semi-finals which had shattered their IPL winning dreams. This is a very crucial match & a must win match for both the teams. The team which wins this match will be playing the Twenty20 Champions League that will taking place this year.
Deccan Chargers won the toss & elected to bat first. Skipper Adam Gilchrist & Monish Mishra opened the innings for Deccan Chargers. Adam Gilchrist hit a four in the very first ball of the DC innings, but this did not work for Deccan Chargers as both were dismissed. Even Rohit Sharma did not stay long as he gave a clean catch to Kevin Pietersen. Deccan Chargers were under real trouble as they lost 3 wickets in 3.2 overs scoring only 15 runs. Further the wicket falls kept on continuing regularly but with very bad run rate. By, 10 overs, DC scored only 43 runs & had lost 5 wickets. All important wickets were gone & this particular point of time, Royal Challengers Bangalore looked very outrageous & very dominant. Deccan Chargers scored only 82 runs in 16.2 overs & had lost 6 wickets. This was an halted scored for them, because they lost remaining 4 wickets at this run itself. This was the lowest total ever made by a team in IPL history.
 Royal Challengers Bangalore wanted just 83 runs to grab the 3rd position & also qualify to play in Twenty20 Champions League.

Jacques Kallis & Rahul Dravid opened the innings for RCB. Jacques Kallis again became the highest run getter in IPL 2010 crossing Sachin Tendulkar. He did not stay for long time as he was tricked by Rohit Sharma & gave a simple catch to the bowler. Kevin Pietersen walks to the crease & played well till the end. Rahul Dravid & Pietersen were unbeaten scoring 35 & 29 runs respectively, thereby winning the match by 9 wickets. Royal Challengers Bangalore completed their chase in 13.5 overs & got qualified for the Champions League.

Next match will be the IPL finals where Chennai Super Kings will be playing against the dominant Mumbai Indians. Definitely this will be an very interesting match to be watched as the Indian captain MS Dhoni's team will be playing against the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar 's team.

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 24 runs

Kolkata Knight Riders played their home at Eden Garden against the visitors Deccan Chargers today. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss & elected to bat first.
Kolkata Knight Riders gave an aggressive start with the openers Chris Gayle & the skipper Sourav Ganguly. They lost Christ Gayle in the 3rd over where cheers went down because the big hitter of KKR was gone. But nothing changed, Kolkata Knight Riders were still dominating the match as skipper Sourav Ganguly played a brilliant knock of 88 runs from 54 balls which included 9 fours & 5 sixes.This helped Kolkata Knight Riders to put up a score of 181 runs in total in 20 overs loosing 6 wickets. Deccan Chargers only bowler who had good econmony in the match was Jaskaran Singh with a economy of 6 runs per over.
Chasing the target of 182 set by Kolkata Knight Riders, Deccan Chargers opened their innings with the skipper Adam Gilchrist & Herschelle Gibbs. Adam Gilchrist was out in the 3rd over, but the run rate was still good for Deccan Chargers Gibbs & Symonds played well to score 50 & 45 respectively, but this did work out for Deccan Chargers. As soon as Gibbs & Rohit Sharma were out, the run rate required to win increased a lot, even Symonds could not compensate. So Deccan Chargers could not successfully chase their target. They lost the match by just scoring 157 runs in 20 overs loosing 5 wickets. Hence Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 24 runs. This was their 4th victory in this IPL edition 3.

Yusuf Pathan shines for Rajasthan Royals to win their third consecutive match

Rajasthan Royals played their home match against the visitors Deccan Chargers on Friday. Deccan Chargers batted first, Right from the beginning of the innings till the end Deccan Chargers were loosing wickets regularly. It was Rohit Sharma who played well & scored 49 runs to put up a decent total of 148 loosing 9 wickets.

Rajasthan Royals started their chasing by an impressive start where the players played aggressively right from the beginning. Micheal Lumb was out when had scored 45 runs, later it was Yusuf Pathan who was the show stopper. He cruised very fast to score his half century in just 23 deliveries. He ended the game by hitting his eighth six being unbeaten scoring 73 runs from just 34 balls. There was 26 balls remaining when Rajasthan Royals reached their target. This was Rajasthan royals 3rd successive win in the tournament.