Cricket: "IPL 2009 Match No 24: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kings XI Punjab"

Match No 24: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kings XI Punjab

Cricket: "Boucher Steals a thriller for Royal Challengers Bangalore"

Match No 19: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kolkata Knight Riders

At last Bangalore Royal Challengers have come out of their loosing streak. They have kept their cool and defeated Kolkata Knight Riders with 5 wickets and one ball to spare at Kingsmead, Durban.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. For Bangalore Kevin pieterson opened the bowling and to Kolkata Knight Riders horror he removed Maccullum of the very first ball. His decision of opening the bowling proved fruitful. Hodge and Gayle then played sensibly and moved the score to 45 of 6 overs. Kumble trapped hodge plumb in front and Ganguly's dodged innings came to an end when he came a timely catch to kallis of praveen kumar. Soon after the strategic break Gayle was out to young Appanna before scoring 40 of 37 balls with 6 fours. Later Van wyk scored a solid 43 of 35 balls with 4 fours and made sure that Kolkata scored a good 139 of their 20 overs. For Bangalore Kumble was the pick of the bowler with 2 wickets against his name.

Bangalore Royal Challengers had a slow but an excellent start when they were 65 with no loss at their strategic break. After their strategic break match slipped away from bangalore and kolkatta made a strong comeback into the match. Bangalore lost Goswami(43) and Kallis (23) in consecutive overs to hodge and sharma respectively. Pieterson and Kohli tried to accelerate the score and where both victims to hodge spin. Inspite of loosing wickets at other end Boucher kept one end intact and cooly took Bangalore home with 5 wickets and 1 ball to spare. Boucher made 25 of 13 balls with 2 fours and 1 six.

Man of the Matchwas awarded to MV Boucher for his cool 25 of 13 balls with 2 fours and 1 huge six.

Scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 143 for 5 (Goswami 43, Hodge 3-29) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 139 for 6 (van Wyk 43*, Kumble 2-16) by five wickets

Cricket: "Dilshan Helps Delhi Score Hattrick Wins"

Match No 14: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Dare Devils had won 3 matches on trot when they defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore with 6 wickets at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. It was really disappointing for the Bangalore with good high class players.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first. They lost kallis of the first ball when Nannes yorked him. Uthappa followed him soon when he was out in the very next over off Nehra. Then Taylor and Captain Pietersen played brilliantly and took the score to 72 in 9 overs without further loss. But 3 balls later Pieterson, when he looked settled tried to charge vettori and was cleaned up. There on Taylor, Kohli and Boucher gave ample support and Royal Challengers Bangalore scored a reasonable 149 for 7 of their alloted 20 overs. For Delhi Nehra was the stike bowler with 2 wickets against his name.

Delhi started their chase quiet disastrously when they lost Sehwag for 7 and score reading 11 for 1 in 1.4 overs. Then came the super cool Dilshan. He along with Gambhir tried to consolidated sehwag wicket with a cautious plan. Gambhir was out in 6th over for a slow paced 16 with one four. Then with the help of De Villiers, Dilshan moved the score. But two qucik wickets of DeVilliers and Karthik gave the advantage again to Bangalore. Dilshan and Manhas had other plans and blasted the Banglaore Bowlers to all parts of the park and chased down the target in 19.2 overs. Dilshan was unconquered with 67 of 47 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes and Manhas undefeated on 23 of 13 balls with 3 fours. For Bangalore stike bowler was Pankaj Singh with 2 wickets against his name.

Man of the Match was awarded to TM Dilshan for his match winning knock of 67 from 47 balls.

Scorers: Delhi Daredevils 150 for 4 (Dilshan 67*) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 149 for 7 (Pietersen 37, Nehra 2-34) by six wickets

Cricket: "Bopara makes Punjab break the jinx with an easy win against Bangalore"

Semi-finalist in the first version of IPL, Kings XI Punjab started there camapaign in second version rather dissapointing with 2 losses. They registered their first win againt Bangalore at Kingsmead Durban with an easy 7 wicket win.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first. They had a disappointing start when they lost Uthappa caught by yuvraj off irfan for a first ball duck. This time around ryder didnt dissappoint (Remember he was out first ball duck in either of his first two matches) and scored a quick fire 32 of 21 balls with 6 hits to the fence before yorked by Abdullah in 6th over when the score was reading 48. Two balls later pieterson followed him giving Abdullah his second wicket in the same over. Dravid too followed suit with a sedade innings of 10 from 13 balls. Dravid wicket had bring taylor to the crease and then the run flow started. Taylor with kallis blasted the Punjab bowlers to all parts of the ground, they added 60 runs in exactly 6 overs. Kallis was caught by jayawardene giving Abdullah his third wicket. Kallis made a gritty 62 of 46 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes and Taylor made 35 of 22 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes. The lower order chipped in with useful contributions. For Punjab Abdullah and Irfan were the stike bowlers with each taking 4 and 3 wickets respectively. Bangalore made a commanding toal of 168 in their stipulated 20 overs.

Punjab started their chase brilliantly with their openers Goel and Bopara scoring 52 f 6.4 overs. Goel fell shortly when there was a miscommunication between them and fell short of his crease. Then sangakkara fell to kumble before adding a quick fire 40 runs for the second wicket with bopara. Sangakkara scored 26 of 18 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. with the fall of second wicket yuvraj came to the crease and made sure that there were no more casualties and scored 66 runs with bopara before bopara was out caught to Ryder of kallis trying to clear the boundary. Bopara made a fantastic 84 of 59 balls with 4 fours and 5 sixes. yuvraj made a classy 30 runs of 17 balls with 3 fours and 1 six and completed the formalities for punjab with jayawardene and won the match for Punjab with 1 over to spare.

Man of the match was awarded to Ravi Bopara for his match winning fantastic knock of 84 of 59 balls.

Scores: Kings XI Punjab 173 for 3 (Bopara 84) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 168 for 9 (Kallis 62, Abdulla 4-31, Pathan 3-35) by seven wickets

Cricket: "Hyderabad Deccan Chargers Make it two in a row"

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers have turned the table around in IPL Season 2 by winning their second consecutive match. Last time around they have won just 2 matches of the total 14 matches they played. Here at Newlands, Cape Town Hyderabad defeated Bangalore quite confortably and won as many matches they palyed.

Hyderabad Deccan Charges won the toss and rightly elected to bat first. They had an explosive start with Gilchrist and Gibbs going on a rampage. They scored 46 of just 3.4 overs before Gibbs fell to Praveen Kumar for 13 runs. VVS Laxman followed him soon when he gave a simple low catch to steyn off ryder. Then entered Rohit Sharma who was the star for hyderabad in last IPL season. He and Gilchrist added 61 for the 3rd wicket before Gilchrist was out of pieterson's bowling. Rohit played a quiet innings until his captain was around and exploded once he departed. He scored a well made halfcentury and was out to steyn at death. Others chipped in well and Hyderabad scored a respectable 184 of their stipulated 20 overs.

Bangalore had a dismal start to their chase, Edwards yorked Ryder for a one ball duck. Soon kallis, uthappa and pieterson followed him. It was the wall (Dravid) and yound promising player virat kohli who came to bangalore's rescue for a respectable score. Dravid was out for 48 and kohli scored an entertaining 50 and paved way for bangalore to lose the match with pride. Bangalore made 160 of their stipulated 20 overs and lost the match by 24 runs.

Man of the Match was awarded to AC Gilchrist for his Match Winning 71 fo 45 balls.

Scores: Deccan Chargers 184 for 6 (Gilchrist 71, Rohit 52) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 160 for 8 (Kohli 50, Dravid 48, Styris 3-32, RP Singh 2-17) by 24 runs

Cricket: "Chennai Super Kings trash Bangalore Royal Challengers"

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Chennai Super Kings trash Bangalore Royal Challengers beating them with 92 runs at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth. Chennai Super Kings put the past back and had a thumping win again hapless Bangalore Royal Challengers. They showed their command in all departments.

Chennai won the toss and rightly elected to bat first. Patel and Hayden scored the first century parnership of this series and midway they were 106 without loss. Hayden was more harsh on bangalore, milking 4's and 6's. After the strategic timeout momentom was little deviated towards bangalore as patel was bowled by pietersen. Next ball hayden was runout of dravid's fielding. Then raina kept the momentum going and at end flintoff made sure that the start was not wasted and Chennai compiled a mamoth 179.

In reply bangalore lost early wicket through Praveen Kumar, who was promoted up the order as pinch hitter but was out bowled by Gony in the very first over. There on Uthappa and Kallis added 40 runs for second wicket, Once kallis was out to morkel wickets kept falling like playing cards. With the exception of dravid no other batsmen scored a reasonable score. They were allout for pathetic 87 in 15.2 overs. The wrecker in chief was Murali with 3 for 11 and was well supported by other chennai bowlers.

Man of the Match was rightly awarded to Muralitharan for his 3 for 11 in 4 four overs.

Scores: Chennai Super Kings 179 for 5 (Hayden 65) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 87 (Murali 3-11) by 92 runs