Mumbai Indians second loose RCB Second won

Mumbai Indians drooping to their second defeat in as many matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore, who have now won 2 out of 2. 

The defending champions struggle at the start, scratched around in the middle and crumbled at the death on a rather difficult surface seeing its 1st IPL match. 

For their opponents, it was the bowling again that set up the win, although their batsmen, minus the recovering Chris Gayle again, did not find it easy.

Score Details

Mumbai: 115/9 (20)

Bangalore: 116/3 (17.3)

Player of the match

Parthiv Patel

Delhi Daredevils 1st won in this IPL season beat KKR

J.P. Duminy played a thrilling match to take the Delhi Daredevils to a 4-wicket won over the Kolkata Knight Riders in an Indian Premier League 7th season at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium here Saturday.

Chasing a challenging target of 167, the South African played a strutting knock of 52 not out to take the Daredevils home with a 6 - with 3 balls to spare.

Earlier, the Knight Riders recovered from an early on slump to put up a fighting total of 166/5.

However, Manish Pandey (48) and Robin Uthappa (55) took control of the ship and steered it through the middle overs. The duo provided stability to the innings by a 64-run third-wicket partnership to take the team out of trouble.

Score Details

Kolkata: 166/5 (20)

 

Delhi: 167/6 (19.3)

 

Player of the match

J Duminy

Low Score Thrilling Won Rajasthan beat Hyderabad

Rajasthan Royals Indian players came to the fore as Shane Watson team managed to get over the line against Hyderabad Sunrisers in the 4th match of the IPL 7th Season of at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Friday evening.

Rajasthan bowlers led by Dhawal Kulkarni, Rajat Bhatia and Pravin Tambe limited the top-heavy Hyderabad batting line-up to 133 for 6 before a 77-run partnership for the 4th wicket between Ajinkya Rahane and Stuart Binny took their team over the line with only 3 deliveries left in the match.

Ajinkya Rahane and Stuart Binny 77-run partnership in 9.4 overs for the 4th wicket Rahane hit six boundaries in his 53-ball 59, before Amit Mishra had him caught by Aaron Finch at long-off, with Rajasthan 108 for 4 in 16 overs. Stuart Binny remained unbeaten on 48 from 32 deliveries, which included four boundaries and a six, as his counter-attacking knock proved to be the perfect foil to Rahane’s innings.

Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner added 75 runs for the 2nd wicket, but it took the pair 64 balls to do so. Though Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner found boundaries hard to come by, they rotated the strike well and were fast between the wickets, but the required impetus to spur Hyderabad’s innings failed to come in the face of tight bowling by Rajasthan Royals bowlers.

Score Details

Hyderabad: 133/6 (20)

 

Rajasthan: 135/6 (19.3)

 

Player of the match

A Rahane

IPL T20 KXIP Big Chased Score This Year Competition Beat CSK by Six Wickets

IPL 2014 7th Season 3rd Match Yesterday Maxwell justified his heavy price-tag by knocking the stuffing out of IPL tow time title winner Chennai Super Kings, as new-style and new players –new look for all Kings XI Punjab made a winning start to this year competition.

So far as early games in protracted leagues go, this one was amazingly absorbing and not all had to do with the Australian Player Maxwell 43-ball 95, which made light work of the very big 205-run target Chennai had set his team.

Chennai had earlier shrugged off a bog of allegation and a fresh opening pair to reach an imposing 204-4 after MS Dhoni elected to bat. This time Chennai team new players Smith (66, 43b) and Brendon McCollum (67, 45b) very good start of the game. McCollum needed no further invitations to wreak havoc and crossed 5,000 runs in all T20 cricket.

The showpiece of their chase was a 115-run partnership between Glenn Maxwell (95 for 43 balls and David Miller (54 for 37balls) that came at almost 11 runs-per over. The alliance killed Chennai Super Kings in the center and included a frightening 13th over by rookie left-arm spinner Pawan Negi that was taken for 22 runs.

Chasing a monstrosity against a side famous for its spin trickery, Kings XI Punjab tem chances seemed to reside exclusively in the hands of Virender Sehwag and Glenn Maxwell, who they had purchased for six times his base price of Rs.1 Croce. But a bespectacled Sehwag was bowled for 19 after a flurry of carefree strokes.

Finally Kings XI Punjab Chase big Score 206 offer 18.5 Overs start to this year’s competition.

Score Details

Chennai Super Kings 205 (20 Overs)

Kings XI Punjab 206 (18.5)

Player of the Match

Glenn Maxwell (KXIP)

IPL 2014 Yuvraj was back to his best for Royal Challengers beat Delhi.

IPL 2014 7th Season yester day match Yuvraj Singh was back to his best in his first match for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

The Yuvraj and Virat Kohli partnership didn't have a happy ending in the World T20 final, but less than 2 weeks after that night in Mirpur, Swapping Bangalore Royal Challengers the pair made easy work of Delhi 145, helping Bangalore won by eight-wicket. 

The bedrock of the chase was Kohli, who benefited from two let-offs in his 20s to remain unbeaten on 49. The pair added 84 in just 7.5 overs, nullifying the unbeaten 110-run association between Delhi's JP Duminy and Ross Taylor. Duminy and Taylor helped Delhi recover from a wobbly 35 for 4, but their efforts weren't enough to stretch Bangalore at any stage of the chase.

Parthiv Patel gave the innings a push with a positive 35. He charged down the track to the seamers, forcing the ball down the ground and pulling a six, off the left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem, out of the ground.

Parthiv Patel gave the innings a push with a positive 35. He charged down the track to the seamers, forcing the ball down the ground and pulling a six, off the left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem, out of the ground. 

Yuvraj didn't look secure initially, taking his eyes off a short ball and hooking a boundary to fine leg. He found his groove with a flat six over long-on off the leg spinner Rahul Sharma and some wayward bowling by Nadeem gave Yuvraj the chance to pepper the leg side boundaries with his favorite slogs.

Jimmy Neesham fluff the simple of catches at short well leg when Kohli was on 23, and when the batsman had added one more, he was put down by Mayank Agarwal at deep cover. It was clearly Bangalore night as Yuvraj and Kohli closed out the chase with more blows over the boundary. Yuvraj managed his 1st IPL fifty in 20 innings and the smile was back on his face.

Delhi found it tough on a two-paced Sharjah pitch, struggling to get the run rate above five in the first ten overs. The loss of early wickets slowed them down. Agarwal fell top-edging a pull to square leg as the frustration to score began to build and Delhi were pegged back further when Dinesh Karthik and Manoj Tiwary fell for 0 and 1 respectively.

The strategic timeout didn't change Delhi's fortunes as M Vijay, who had made a start with 18, was bamboozled by the leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. At 35 for 4 in the 8th over, Delhi desperately needed a big partnership Ross Taylor and JP Duminy at a good clip to compensate for the sluggish scoring in the first half.

His momentum in the latter half was provided by Duminy, who unlike Taylor found the middle of the bat regularly. He lofted Yuvraj Singh for a six to the sight screen before scooping Dinda to the same area. Dinda was unsuccessful at the death yet again as he leaked 51 off his 4 overs. Delhi took 30 off the last 2 overs and 63 off the last 5 but in the end, 145 wasn't enough. 

Player Of the match

Yuzvendra Chahal

Score Details

Delhi: 145/4 (20) 

Bangalore: 146/2 (16.4)