Bangalore won by 3 runs

Kumble came into bowl the final over as Hyderabad required 20 runs from it. Bangar started off with a single. Yadav then added another single. Bangar then scored two consecutive sixes. Bangar then added another single. Yadav then managed to score just a single of the last ball. Bangalore won by 3 runs in a breath taking encounter. Zaheer Khan was then brought back and he removed Styris on the first ball as he played across the line and was caught in front. The new man in was Sanjay Bangar, who was immediately off the mark. The new man is Yadav who takes a single via a leg bye. Zaheer then ended the over with a dot ball. Hyderabad were 137/6 after 19 overs. Steyn then continued his spell as Afridi was then removed of the first ball as he went for another big one. The new man in was Scott Styris. Laxman then took a single of the next ball. Styris was then off the mark with a drive in the cover region. Laxman then added another single to the total. Styris then added another single to the total. Laxman was then caught in front by kumar as he was given lbw. Hyderabad were 132/5 after 18 overs. Kallis then cama back into the attack as Sharma scored a boundary of the first ball and then scored another huge six of the next ball. Sharma then added another single to the total. Laxman then added another single to the total. Sharma was then hold out in the deep as he went for another big one. The new man in was Afridi and he was off the mark immediately as Hyderabad were 128/3 after 17 overs. Steyn was then brought back into the attack as he started off with a dot ball. Sharma then stole a quick single. Laxman then added another single to the total as he missed out on a pull. Sharma then charged down the track but missed it completely for another dot ball and then added another single to the score. Laxman then finished the over with a dot ball. Hyderabad were 115/2 after 16 overs. Zaheer Khan was then brought back into the attack as Sharma scored a single of the first ball. Laxman then added another single to the total. Kallis then came back into the attack and Laxman scored a single of the first ball. Sharma then added another single to the total. Laxman then played out a dot ball. Laxman then finished the over with a boundary over mid-wicket as Hyderabad were 105/2 after 14 overs. Kumar then continued as Laxman scored a single of the first ball. Sharma then played out two dot balls. Kumar then bowled a bouncer as Shama allowed it to pass. Sharma then scored a huge six over the mid-wicket region and then finished the over with another dot ball. Hyderabad were 97/2 after 13 overs. Kumble then continued as Laxman scored three boundaries in the over as Hyderabad were starting to build some momentum. Hyderabad were 90/2 after 12 overs. Kallis then continued as Sharma took a single of the first ball via leg bye. Laxman then scored a boundary of the next ball. Laxman then added another single to the total. Kumble then came back as Sharma flicked him for a single in the mid-wicket region. Laxman then scored a single after playing out two dot balls. Kumble then bowled a wide down the leg side. Sharma then finished the over with another single. Hyderabad were 63/2 after 10 overs. Kallis was then introduced into the attack and he started off with a dot ball. Sharma then played out another dot ball. Sharma then took a single via a bye as he completely missed the ball. Kallis then bowled a nasty bouncer as Laxman just let it go. Laxman then scored another single. Sharma then finished the over with another single. Hyderabad were 57/2 after 9 overs. Kumar then continued as Sharma scored a boundary of the first ball. He then scored a single of the next ball. Laxman then placed a ball for another single. Sharma then cut a ball to the boundary to keep the runs coming. He then played out a dot ball. Sharma then finished the over with another single. Hyderabad were 54/2 after 8 overs. Kumble was then introduced into the attack as Laxman scored a single of the first ball. Sharma then added another single of the next ball. Laxman then added another single to the total. Sharma then smashed a huge six of the next ball and then ended the over with another single. Hyderabad were 43/2 after 7 overs. Praveen Kumar was then brought into the attack and he removed Gibbs of is first ball as he was caught in the cover region. The new man in was Rohit Sharma, who started off by playing a dot ball. Laxman then finished the over with another single. Hyderabad were 33/2 after 6 overs. Gibbs then faced Steyn who started off with a bouncer. Gibbs then scored a boundary of the next ball and then played out two dot balls. Gibbs then played out another dot ball and then scored a single of the final ball. Hyderabad were 31/1 after 5 overs. Khan then continued as Laxman then played out a dot ball. Laxman then flicked a ball for another single. Gilchrist then smashed a ball back to the bowler for another dot ball and then flicked the ball to the boundary. Khan then removed Gilly on the naxt ball as Jaffer caught him inches from the boundary. The new man in was Gibbs, but he was not on strike as Laxman ended the over with another boundary. Hyderabad were 26/1 after 4 overs. Steyn then continued his spell as Gilchrist played out two dot ball and then scored a single of the next ball. Laxman then played out a dot ball. Laxman then flicked a ball to the boundary. Laxman then finished the over with another single. Hyderabad were 17/0 after 3 overs. Zaheer Khan then came on to bowl the next over and Laxman scored two runs of the first ball. Laxman then played out a dot ball. Laxman then played out another dot ball. Laxman then sliced a ball to the third man area for another single. Gilly then finished the over with another single. Hyderbad were 11/0 after 2 overs. Steyn came on to bowl the first over for the Bangalore team and he started off with a wide and Gilchrist then took another single via leg bye. Laxman then took a single of the next ball. Gilly then played out a dot ball. Gichrist then scored the first boundary of the Hyderabad innings and after the 1st over they were 7/0. Afridi then continued as Boucher scored a single of the first ball. Dravid then added another single to the total. Boucher flicked a ball in the deep for another single. Dravid went for an ambitious cut but missed it and then played out another dot ball. He then finished the over with another single. Bangalore were 130/5 after 18 overs. Styris was then brought back into the attack as he started off by giving away two singles. Dravid then added another single on the next ball. Boucher then played out a dot ball. Boucher then tried to cut for another dot ball. He then finished the over with another single. Bangalore were 126/5 after 17 overs. Ojha was then brought back in the attack and he started off with a dot ball. Boucher then added a single to the total. Dravid then swept a ball for yet another single. Boucher even tried the sweep for a boundary. He then placed a ball in the deep for another single. Dravid then finished the over with another single. Bangalore were 122/5 after 16 overs. Afridi then came into ball the next over and then removed Misbah-ul-haq on the first ball as he caught him in front of the wicket to get him lbw. The new man in was Mark Boucher and he was immediately off the mark with a single. Dravid then added another single to the total. Boucher finished the over with yet another single. Bangalore were 114/5 after 15 overs. After a steady start the Bangalore team lost their opener Chipli as he was cleaned up by the RP Singh. Virat Kohli then joined in and he and Wasim Jaffer again anchored the innings and build a partnership to anchor the Bangalore innings. After some quick runs and easy singles the Jaffer was then hold out as he again skied another ball but was hold out in the cover region by Gibbs. Banagalore were two down as Jacues Kallis came in the middle. Bangalore were 85/2 after 11 overs. The Hyderabad team won the toss and elected to bat first as the Bangalore team have brought in Misbah-ul-haq and Hyderabad have also brought in Herchele Gibbs. In a tie of the two bottom sides, the match between Bangalore and Hyderabad is very crucial for both the teams as both the teams have registered only one victory and they will were both looking to add another win to their belt.

Preview - Bangalore Royal Challengers v/s Deccan Chargers

Match facts Saturday, May 3 2008 Start time 16.00 (local), 10.30 (GMT) The Big Picture It's the tale of two captains under pressure. Rahul Dravid has tried everything - he has opened, moved down the order and come up again but without much success. VVS Laxman, after looking clueless in the initial encounters, is beginning to find some form but he has been unable to convert the starts into substantial scores. The captains' desperation seems to have caught on to the teams. Bangalore should have won against the Chennai Super Kings but choked; they could have won against the Delhi Daredevils but couldn't find that one big over that they desperately needed. Similarly, the Deccan Chargers have had their close encounters. Both teams have registered their solitary wins against fellow-strugglers Mumbai Indians. If the captains are under similar pressure, the teams, though, couldn't be more different. Deccan were supposed to be the powerhouse team with attacking batsmen while Bangalore had batsmen who had great Test records but were not known for their big hitting. But both set of players have been unable to gel as a unit. In their last two games, Bangalore did seem to find some momentum but were unable to finish off. Watch out for ... ... Herschelle Gibbs. This could be the format to showcase his game, which depends a great deal on hand-eye coordination. His paddle-scoops, his pulls off the front foot and the innovative adjustments can make for a fascinating viewing experience. Also, look out for Misbah-ul-Haq. With Ross Taylor leaving for England, Misbah, the man who burst into prominence with his showings at the World Twenty20, should get a chance here. A veteran of domestic Twenty20 games in Pakistan, he has the nous and the wherewithal to shine in this format. Team news Bangalore are stuck with a problem more than one team has faced in the IPL: which foreign player to play and whom to bench. They have had starting problems, but if they play Shivnarine Chanderpaul, they might not be able to pick Misbah. Jacques Kallis is wanted for his all-round skills, Mark Boucher is the wicketkeeper and you can't drop Dale Steyn. Dravid said that Anil Kumble will replace Sunil Joshi and either J Arun Kumar or Bharat Chipli could get a chance. Bangalore (likely): 1 Praveen Kumar, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Misbah-ul-Haq, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Rahul Dravid (capt), 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Virat Kohli, 8 Zaheer Khan, 9 Dale Steyn, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 R Vinay Kumar. Deccan came close to playing the aggressive Hyderabad opener Ravi Teja but have chosen to stick with the tried-and-failed Venugopal Rao. There is also Arjun Yadav who could slot into the middler order in place of Rao. The team landed in Bangalore only late on Friday evening and they will have a light practice session on the morning of the match. Deccan (likely): 1 Adam Gilchrist, 2 VVS Laxman (capt), 3 Hershelle Gibbs, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Arjun Yadav, 7, Sanjay Bangar, 8 Nuwan Zoysa, 9 D Kalyankrishna, 10 RP Singh, 11 Pragyan Ojha. IPL form Bangalore Royal Challengers: LWLLL Deccan Chargers: LLLWL Stats and trivia Dravid has already batted in three different positions - opening, No. 7 and 5 - in five games. Adam Gilchrist has scored the IPL's fastest century so far - off 42 balls against the Mumbai Indians Quotes "You have to challenge yourselves to fight back when you have your backs to the wall. Playing Deccan (who are struggling) doesn't make any difference because in Twenty20 the team that executes their plans best wins. They have a very good players, any one of them can crack the game open. But we have started gelling as a team in the last two games." Rahul Dravid is hopeful of a better performance in their next game

Gambhir, McGrath star in Delhi win

Bangalore Royal Challengers v/s Delhi Daredevils Toss Bangalore Royal Challengers, who chose to field first Result Delhi Daredevils won by 10 runs Player of the match GD McGrath (Delhi Daredevils) Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan laid out the carpet and Glenn McGrath, returning the best figures in the IPL's brief history, walked over it as the Delhi Daredevils got themselves back on track after a blip in their last game. It wasn't a comfortable win, as the Bangalore Royal Challengers kept them to 191 for 5 when 205 seemed an easy total and later when Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid threatened to chase it down, but another choke from the visiting side - who for the third game running left Misbah-ul-Haq on the bench - put Delhi at second in the points table. The Feroz Shah Kotla track wasn't known for any major assistance to seam or swing and Dravid's decision to field on a sluggish surface with variable bounce ultimately turned out to be a mistake. After a quiet first over, Gambhir waded into the Bangalore attack in stunning fashion. First he took Zaheer Khan for three fours, a delectable square cut tucked between two shots off the pads, and then hit Dale Steyn for a couple more. Virender Sehwag hit a few lusty shots before he was run out for a 12-ball 24, but Gambhir applied himself excellently. Scoring wasn't easy given the low bounce but shuffling and waiting for the ball to come onto him - there were certain shots that had to be checked as the ball stopped on him - he slashed boundaries backward of point and pulled through the infield. With Dhawan very solid at one end, and consciously playing the ball along the ground, Gambhir backed his judgment of the track to slash boundaries backward of square both sides. Bangalore pulled back the scoring for a couple overs but Sunil Joshi, replacing Anil Kumble, had a torrid first over that went for 19 as both batsmen picked up sixes. Dhawan, upright and packing his drvies with power, scored at a very healthy clip. A massive slog off Kallis took him to 49, and he looked set to press on after his fifty but a stunning catch from Dravid at midwicket cut him short. Steyn and Kallis rattled the stumps to check Delhi's middle order and, having lost strike for a brief while, Gambhir slogged Zaheer to midwicket for 86 from 54 balls. Delhi were on target for over 200 but those strikes left them short. They may have been a tad disappointed by not going further but with McGrath leading a tidy pace they backed themselves. The maestro, bowling as metronimically as he did in his pomp, needed five deliveries to remove Praveen Kumar, flicking to midwicket, but his double-wicket third over was massive: Ross Taylor's gung-ho approached ended in a top-edge to deep midwicket and Wasim Jaffer did the same to mid-on. From 48 for 3 after five overs Dravid and Kallis, with near 20,000 Test runs between them, added 87 in 10.3 overs. Yo Mahesh and Rajat Bhatia went for 26 in two overs through classy, low-risk shots before pumped sixes lowered the asking rate further. Kallis went past his previous IPL best, mostly with shuffled flicks, and Bangalore needed 58 with seven wickets and 30 balls remaining. That's when Sehwag tossed the ball back to McGrath. Three balls later Dravid was walking back for 38, his slog into the starry night setting into Sehwag's palms at mid-on. McGrath finished with 4 for 29, a special and memorable effort. Kallis thumped himself past fifty but a fourth miserly over from another one-day international master, Daniel Vettori, effectively killed all hopes. Vettori allowed just five singles and cleaned up Kallis with a quick arm ball off the sixth. That left Bangalore with 30 to win from six balls and it proved too much for Mark Boucher, who still hit two sixes and a four. Eleven out of 16 matches have been won by sides chasing but Bangalore failed to master two crafty bowlers when it mattered most. Delhi, despite the departure of Vettori, remain one of the better sides in the tournament.

Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers-Preview

Match facts Wednesday April 30, 2008 Start time 20.00 (local), 14.30 (GMT) The Big Picture Both teams are coming off defeats in their previous games, which makes Wednesday's encounter at the Feroz Shah Kotla all the more interesting. Bangalore Royal Challengers missed a golden opportunity to score a win in front of their home crowd on Monday, choking in the face of some disciplined bowling by the Chennai Super Kings. That defeat, their third in four games, leaves them at the bottom of the points table but they are a much better team than their form suggests. Delhi, on the other hand, came apart against an inspired Kings XI Punjab in Mohali, where their middle order was tested for the first time and Mohammad Asif and Glenn McGrath were unusually subdued. Back on home ground, Delhi should start as favourites. Watch out for ... ... Virender Sehwag taking on Dale Steyn. Sehwag took him apart during the first Test against South Africa in Chennai recently, where his early onslaught set the tone for his record-breaking 319. Ross Taylor, if he plays, facing Daniel Vettori should also make for an interesting battle of New Zealanders, as both would like to sign off their IPL campaigns in style. Team news Vettori plays his final game of the IPL before heading to England and his selection seems a certainty. He could replace Farveez Maharoof, who had a rare bad day in Mohali, leaking 31 off three overs. Delhi would also welcome AB de Villiers' arrival from South Africa and his inclusion could see Shoaib Malik making way. Delhi Daredevils (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Manoj Tiwary, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Vijaykumar Yomahesh, 10 Mohammad Asif, 11 Glenn McGrath. Bangalore will check on the fitness of Anil Kumble, who missed the previous game. Misbah-ul-Haq, a reputed Twenty20 player, would be raring to get a game and could come in place of Jacques Kallis, whose appeared uncharacteristically flat in all four games. B Akhil pulled up with an injury against Chennai which leaves the slot open for another seamer, or a spinner in KP Appanna. Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Wasim Jaffer, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Ross Taylor 4 Bharath Chipli, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 KP Appanna. Stats and trivia The biggest margin of victory in terms of wickets is nine, and Delhi have figured in two of them. Clearly, they are a dangerous side when set a target. Misbah-ul-Haq is the second highest run-getter in Twenty20 internationals with 338 runs. Daniel Vettori has an impressive economy rate of 5.50 in Twenty20 internationals. Quotes "This is a long tournament and I think the defeat actually helped us identify certain grey areas and address those issues." Rajat Bhatia, the Delhi allrounder, thinks the defeat against Punjab could be a blessing in disguise. "We are lagging behind in the tournament and every match from now on is important for us. At this stage, we just cannot afford to make a mistake." Rahul Dravid, the Bangalore captain, demands improvement

Indian Premier League Teams

I P L Teams : Bangalore Royal Challengers (Bangalore) Chennai Super Kings (Chennai) Delhi DareDevils (Delhi) Deccan Chargers (Hyderabad) Rajasthan Royals (Jaipur) Kolkata Knight Riders (Kolkata) Kings XI Punjab (Mohali) Mumbai Indians (Mumbai)

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bangalore Royal Challengers Owner: UB Group Franchise fee: $111.6 million Most expensive player: Rahul Dravid - $1,035,000 Captain: Rahul Dravid Coach: Venkatesh Prasad Players : Rahul Dravid Abdur Razzak Balachandra Akhil KP Appanna Jagadeesh Arunkumar Praveen Kumar Devraj Patil Vinay Kumar Mark Boucher (wk) Nathan Bracken Shivnarine Chanderpaul Bharat Chipli Shreevats Goswami (wk) Anil Kumble Dale Steyn Cameron White Wasim Jaffer Sunil Joshi Jacques Kallis Zaheer Khan Virat Kohli Misbah-ul-Haq Ross Taylor