Deccan Chargers Vs Rajasthan Royals at Hyderabad

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Deccan Chargers clashing with Rajasthan Royals at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad. Rajasthan Royals are favourites to win against Deccan Chargers. Should they win, they will need to beat Mumbai Indians in Jaipur to get to 18 points and remain in contention of a playoff spot. On the other hand, Chargers' weak bowling and poor fielding has kept them languishing at the bottom of the table.

Rajasthan Royals : Royals' team composition is not very different from Chargers, but they have worked well within their limitations to keep their chances alive. Hope so it will be interesting to see how they react against deccan the team bottom of the table.Must win game for royals to stay in play-offs.

Royals have been the perennial underdogs. They started the season by surprising other teams with strong batting performances. Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Dravid, Owais Shah, Brad Hodge - all contributed in Royals' early wins. The team bears a different complexion now because of two impact players - Shane Watson and Shaun Tait. Royals need another big performance from the two and watch out for the in-form trio of Shikhar Dhawan, Cameron White and Dale Steyn.

Rajasthan Royals squad : R Dravid(C), STR Binny, J Botha, DL Chahar, A Chandila, LD Chandimal, AA Chavan, A Chopra, PD Collingwood, K Cooper, AP Dole, SM Fallah, FY Fazal, SP Goswami†, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, AL Menaria, S Narwal, Pankaj Singh, AG Paunikar, AM Rahane, AS Raut, OA Shah, PR Shah, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik

Delhi Daredevils clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Delhi Daredevils clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Must win game for Royal Challengers Bangalore. The head to head between these sides after nine matches is 5-4 in Daredevils' favour. They lost the first match this season, in Bangalore, by 20 runs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore : The first of Royal Challengers' two must-win games is against Delhi Daredevils, league leaders and the first team to secure a playoff berth. It's at the Feroz Shah Kotla, where the pitch and conditions seem customised for the home side's hard-hitting batsmen and battery of fast bowlers.

Teams hope depend on Gayle and Ab. These two are match winner for Bangalore. Royal Challengers batting line-up is too strong. Royal Challengers have conceded 8.19 runs per over. They have the longest tail in the IPL because they play five specialist bowlers - Vinay Kumar batted at No. 7 in the previous game. Yet their bowling attack, despite having Zaheer Khan and Muttiah Muralitharan, is the second most expensive of the tournament.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad : DL Vettori(C), V Kohli, MA Agarwal, KP Appanna, KB Arun Karthik, RR Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, CM Gautam, CH Gayle, M Kaif, AA Kazi, Z Khan, CK Langeveldt, AB McDonald, A Mithun, M Muralitharan, KK Nair, DP Nannes, R Ninan, P Parameswaran, HV Patel, AUK Pathan, LA Pomersbach†, CA Pujara, RR Rossouw, J Syed Mohammad, S Thiyagarajan, SS Tiwary, R Vinay Kumar, VH Zol

Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab at Dharmshala

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Chennai Super Kings clashing with Kings XI Punjab at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala. Chennai Super Kings are placed fourth on the points table with 17 points and need to win their last league game against Kings XI Punjab to put themselves in a strong position to qualify for the playoffs. Kings XI are also on the brink of elimination after their loss to Delhi Daredevils. Interesting to see how they team react against each-other.

Chennai Super Kings : Super Kings have been in must-win situations in the last few games and their batting, which has always been their strength, has finally started to come together while Ben Hilfenhaus has added spark to their bowling. In Super Kings' last three games, Ben Hilfenhaus' figures read 11-1-61-6. Their bowling attack is so good as their batting attack.

Super Kings' batsmen have scored five half-centuries in IPL 2012, which is the lowest for a team along with Pune Warriors. Royal Challengers Bangalore have 15 half-centuries - the most by a team this season. Their batting strength is to good, they had a goodfinisher like Dhoni, Bravo or Morkel. They can chase any target in the big run score. In the last game, Bravo hit last ball six give Chennaihope to stay in Playoffs.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay

Mumbai Indians Vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Mumbai

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Mumbai Indians clashing with Kolkata Knight Riders at Wankhade Stadium, Mumbai. The contrast between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians was there to see on Monday. After a run of six consecutive wins, Knight Riders lost their previous two games while Mumbai Indians racked up consecutive wins.Both teams would want to finish in the top two to boost their chances of making the final and avoid the eliminator.

Mumbai Indians : Mumbai Indians return to Wankhede Stadium after two away games. They have lost four out of seven home matches this season, and Harbhajan Singh has said that they haven't known what to expect from the Wankhede pitch. Sachin Tendulkar could miss the match as he is expected to take his oath as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha in New Delhi.

Mumbai Indians' on-field behaviour has been appalling this season. Last game Mumbai's Rayudu losing his entire match fee for his bust-up with Harshal Patel of Royal Challengers. Munaf has, in fact, been downright boorish, having arguments with umpires and several batsmen.Mumbai Indians have a home win-loss ratio of 1.54 in the IPL; Knight Riders have an away win-loss ratio of 1.00. Mumbai's batting is always been struglling. Their openers not giving good start to his team.

Mumbai Indians squad : Harbhajan Singh(C), SR Tendulkar, AN Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, AC Blizzard, YS Chahal, JEC Franklin, HH Gibbs, DJ Jacobs, KD Karthik†, Kuldeep Yadav, DS Kulkarni, RE Levi, CJ McKay, SL Malinga, SH Marathe, SS Nayak, PP Ojha, MM Patel, NLTC Perera, RJ Peterson, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, JN Shah, RG Sharma, R Shukla, RP Singh, DR Smith, TL Suman, P Suyal, AP Tare,  AV Wankhade, SA Yadav

Delhi Daredevils clashing with Kings XI Punjab at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Delhi Daredevils clashing with Kings XI Punjab at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Both Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab have three matches left in the league stage and two of them are against each other. Daredevils, who have risen to the top of the table on the back of glittering individual performances, will be the favourites. Kings XI, however, have stayed in contention for the playoffs by playing efficiently as a team.

Delhi Daredevils : Daredevils faltered twice in their last three games and their lead at the top of the league has reduced. Virender Sehwag also failed in these games and his form is crucial as they look to build momentum towards the playoff stage. Sehwag form is crusial at the stagehe will be contribute some runs and go to the team in winning mode.

David Warner announced himself with a century in his second innings. Although he failed against Chennai Super Kings, Warner is always a match-winner. Mahela and taylor is not inform batsmen. Mahela played their all of match and hit only fifty, they both are not in good form.Hope so they wil back with the bang. On the bowling hand Morkel, Umesh and Varoon AAaroon is the fantastic bowlers, they bowl well in this entire series. Sehwag says We have two matches against Kings XI and RCB at home and hopefully we will win those to make it to the playoffs.

Delhi Daredevils squad : V Sehwag(C), MC Juneja, VR Aaron, AB Agarkar, P Bisht, R Bist, GH Bodi, DAJ Bracewell, U Chand, AJ Finch, DPMD Jayawardene, GJ Maxwell, M Morkel, S Nadeem, Y Nagar, PT Naik, P Negi, NV Ojha†, IK Pathan, KP Pietersen, KC Raval, AD Russell, AM Salvi, LRPL Taylor, RE van der Merwe, Y Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, DA Warner, TP Yadav, UT Yadav, Zafir Patel

Kolkata Knight Riders clashing with Chennai Super Kings at Eden Garden, Kolkata

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Kolkata Knight Riders clashing with Chennai Super Kings at Eden Garden, Kolkata. Chennai Super Kings' campaign, which had stuttered midway, was revived by two consecutive victories, the latest coming against Daredevils. Kolkata loose their last match in big margin.

Chennai Super Kings : Chennai Super Kings' campaign, which had stuttered midway, was revived by two consecutive victories, the latest coming against Daredevils. Super Kings silenced a powerful batting order on a pitch that gave the seamers a lot of assistance. They will be solidly reply to daredevills to made 115 in just loss of 1 wicket.

Ben is very good at swinging the brand new ball. It is an asset to ball in the right areas. Ben Hilfenhaus was the standout performer for Super Kings against Daredevils with a match-defining 3 for 27, but Albie Morkel's contribution was also significant. He took a wicket but gave away just 15 runs off four overs. Ravindra Jadeja is Super Kings' leading wicket-taker with ten wickets and has bowled 29 overs. Dwayne Bravo is second with nine but has bowled 13 overs more. Hussey is class player in this site.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay

Mumbai Indians clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Banglore

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Mumbai Indians clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore have played a big role in spicing up the race for the playoffs. Both team need to win to upgrade yourself in points table. Both captains are struggling with their performance.

Mumbai Indians : A big win over Kolkata Knight Riders featured a significant landmark for Rohit Sharma and an excellent start to Herschelle Gibbs' IPL season, giving Mumbai Indians reason to not tinker with their opening combination again. They are excellent with their bat & bowl in this season.

Rohit Sharma's century against Knight Riders was the 22nd in the IPL and the eighth by an Indian in the tournament's history. His 167-run stand with Herschelle Gibbs was the third-highest in the IPL. He played really well against best bowling attack inthis season. Herschelle Gibbs took little time to show his worth to the Mumbai Indians side, stepping out to smash Brett Lee for three fours over extra cover in the space of four balls. he's batted really well. Hope so against Banglore sachin is also performwell.

Mumbai Indians squad : Harbhajan Singh(C), SR Tendulkar AN Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, AC Blizzard, YS Chahal, JEC Franklin, HH Gibbs, DJ Jacobs, KD Karthik†, Kuldeep Yadav, DS Kulkarni, RE Levi, CJ McKay, SL Malinga, SH Marathe, SS Nayak, PP Ojha, MM Patel, NLTC Perera, RJ Peterson, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, JN Shah, RG Sharma, R Shukla, RP Singh, DR Smith, TL Suman, P Suyal, AP Tare, SR Tendulkar, AV Wankhade, SA Yadav

Chennai Super Kings clashing with Delhi Daredevils at Chennai

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Chennai Super Kings clashing with Delhi Daredevils at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. With Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders comfortably placed at the top of the points table, there's a crowd in the middle vying for the two other knockout places. Chennai last win over Kolkata getting fourth in the point table.

Chennai Super Kings : Must win game for super kings. Super Kings made heavy weather of a relatively simple chase against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday, only to be rescued by Albie Morkel and S Anirudha team get win. There batting order not in form. Suresh Raina MS Dhoni, who has changed the batting order frequently, has himself been a slow scorer.

Team will be boosting with the perfomance of morkel & anirudha in the last game. dhoni & raina come up on the order and not getting runs frequently. They give some time to Jadeja and Morkel to spend on the pitch. Albie Morkel hasn't had many chances with the bat but has twice turned a match on its head. He did it first against Royal Challengers and then against Royals. In the previous match between these two sides this season, in Delhi, Super Kings imploded to 110 - their lowest total of 2012.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay

Pune Warriors clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Pune in IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Pune Warriors clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune. Pune Warriors have lost six matches in a row - a sequence even worse than bottom-placed Deccan Chargers. Royal Challengers Bangalore Placed fourth in the IPL Ranking.

Royal Challengers Bangalore : Royal Challengers earned valuable two points after their bowlers had restricted Mumbai Indians to 141 the lowest score against them this season. Chris Gayle & AB Devilliers is fantastic form. When the team need they played a useful innings. If they both are perfom team never loose the game.

Virat Kohli scored useful runs must have come as a relief to the team and they would hope that he continues the form. His form is much neededto his team. Royal Challengers face Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers after the game against Warriors, and with the race to the finish getting hotter. Muttiah Muralitharan is the leading wicket-taker for Royal Challengers with ten although he has just played six games. Muralitharan's double-wicket over derailed a recovering Mumbai Indians batting and inspired a much-improved bowling performance.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad : DL Vettori(C), V Kohli, MA Agarwal, KP Appanna, KB Arun Karthik, RR Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, CM Gautam, CH Gayle, M Kaif, AA Kazi, Z Khan,  CK Langeveldt, AB McDonald, A Mithun, M Muralitharan, KK Nair, DP Nannes, R Ninan, P Parameswaran, HV Patel, AUK Pathan, LA Pomersbach†, CA Pujara, RR Rossouw, J Syed Mohammad, S Thiyagarajan, SS Tiwary, R Vinay Kumar, VH Zol

Rajasthan Royals clashing with Chennai Super Kings at Jaipur

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Rajasthan Royals clashing with Chennai Super Kings at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. Neither team is certain yet of a place in the playoffs, but the team under greater pressure is Chennai Super Kings.Rajasthan looking for the winning momentum. Interesting game seeing in Jaipur tonight.

Chennai Super Kings : The two-time champions have 11 points, with six defeats and five wins. Super Kings have shown in previous editions that they are most dangerous when the pressure piles up. Doug Bollinger is fit for this game, Du Plessis, though, has been down with a virus and remains doubtful for this game.

M Vijay had been in wondeful form, scoring only 45 runs in 59 balls until the game against Mumbai Indians, when he smashed 41 off 29 balls. That innings included three sixes and showed signs of his form from the previous season. He has struggled this time and that has contributed to Super Kings' wobble this year. Vijay doesn't have too much time to turn things around but at least he's made a start. R ashwin is doing something for Chennai.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay

Deccan Chargers Vs Delhi Daredevils at Hyderabad

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Deccan Chargers clashing with Delhi Daredevils at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad. Deccan Chargers' season can be summed up from what happened in their first meeting against Delhi Daredevils earlier in the tournament. Pieterson's 100th give delhi to stunning win.

Delhi Daredevils : Sehwag finally failing to fire after five consecutive fifties, Daredevils missed Pietersen against Knight Riders. Sehwag and Pietersen are the only Daredevils batsmen with more than 200 runs for the season. Mahela Jayawardene has made one fifty in nine innings; it has been a struggle to watch Ross Taylor bat with his strike-rate of 88.42.

On the other hand their bowling is not impressed in last match. Morkel & Yadav pace attack is the key of daredevills bowling attack. Their batting is more stronger, when warner comes to join the team. Openers like sehwag & Warner distriy every type of bowling attack. Daredevils's 207 for 5 against Mumbai Indians is the highest total this season by a side batting first.

Delhi Daredevils squad : V Sehwag(C), MC Juneja, VR Aaron, AB Agarkar, P Bisht, R Bist, GH Bodi, DAJ Bracewell, U Chand, AJ Finch, DPMD Jayawardene, GJ Maxwell, M Morkel, S Nadeem, Y Nagar, PT Naik, P Negi, NV Ojha†, IK Pathan, KP Pietersen, KC Raval, AD Russell, AM Salvi, LRPL Taylor, RE van der Merwe, Y Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, DA Warner, TP Yadav, UT Yadav, Zafir Patel

Mumbai Indians Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Mumbai Indians clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Mumbai Indians face Royal Challengers Bangalore for the first time this season. The two heavyweights have met each other nine times in IPL and the record is almost even with five wins to Mumbai Indians. Both teams were pre-tournament favourites, boasting intimidating batsmen and experienced bowlers.

Royal ChallengersBangalore : Royal Challengers have five wins and five losses and they are lingering in mid-table, trying to push their way up. Royal Challengers Bangalore are the second fastest batting team behind Delhi Daredevils with a strike rate of 130.71.Royal Challengers have hit the most sixes in the tournament - 73. Most of them have come from Gayle (31) and de Villiers (14).

Royal Challengers have been overly dependent on the Gayle-de Villiers ton. AB de Villiers made Steyn look pedestrian, taking 23 runs off his last over. Overall, de Villiers has scored 292 runs at a strike-rate of 171.76. With no support from the Indian contingent in the team, the responsibility of setting up the pace would again be on him along with Chris Gayle. Kohli isnot perfoming. their bowling attack is so poor. Murali came back in the playing Xi. It will be interesting to se how they guyz are reacted in Mumbai.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad : DL Vettori(C), V Kohli, MA Agarwal, KP Appanna, KB Arun Karthik, RR Bhatkal, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, CM Gautam, CH Gayle, M Kaif, AA Kazi, Z Khan,  CK Langeveldt, AB McDonald, A Mithun, M Muralitharan, KK Nair, DP Nannes, R Ninan, P Parameswaran, HV Patel, AUK Pathan, LA Pomersbach†, CA Pujara, RR Rossouw, J Syed Mohammad, S Thiyagarajan, SS Tiwary, R Vinay Kumar, VH Zol

Deccan Chargers Vs Kings XI Punjab at Hyderabad

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Kings XI Punjab clashing with Deccan Chargers at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad. Kings XI Punjab have developed a reputation of being one of the best teams on the road, beating four of the top five teams in away matches. Hope so it will be insteresting to see how deccan react in their home ground.

Kings XI Punjab : The team has ten points from 11 matches, and is still trying to hold on to the ray of hope they have of qualification for the playoffs. They are still waiting on the fitness of their regular captain, Adam Gilchrist, who has missed their previous six matches with hamstring problems. If he is fit in today's game, Kings XI will have a difficult choice to  make  which of their overseas players to leave out.

Shaun Marsh is again expected to be the front man with the bat while Ryan Harris’ four wickets would have given him much-needed confidence as well. zhar Mahmood’s resurgence as an all-rounder cannot be discounted either but captain David Hussey needs to improve his own form before expecting the same from his teammates.

Kings XI Punjab squad : AC Gilchrist(C), P Awana, KJ Abbott, L Ablish, Amit Yadav, Azhar Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, BCJ Cutting, P Dogra, JP Faulkner, Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, VS Malik, Mandeep Singh, SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, AM Nayar, RR Powar, NJ Rimmington, N Saini, SJ Srivastava, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty

Pune Warriors Vs Rajasthan Royals at Pune

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Pune Warriors clashing with Rajasthan Royals at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune. Pune Warriors have a disappointing season, not unlike the previous one, to reflect on. The season began with much promise, with three wins in the first four games. The next eight have brought seven losses. Rajasthan Royals gave their chances of making the top four a boost with a big win over Kings XI Punjab.

Rajasthan Royals : With there last win over kings XI Punjab by 43 runs. His hoping in top four is alive. Dravid in fantastic form. This is already Rahul Dravid's most prolific IPL season, with 379 runs, bettering his return of 371 in 2008. On the other hand, five changes in last match will be working for royals. Tait & watson bowled really well in last match.

Rahane is also impressive with this season. Last nyt Sehwag hitting 23 runs & taking Orange cap. But everybody hoping today rahane hit some smashing shots & take the orange cap. Shane Watson to turn in a match-winning performance, against Kings XI. Thirty-six runs at a strike-rate of 211.76 and two wickets at an economy-rate of 5.50. His class is the boost a flagging Royals campaign needed.

Rajasthan Royals squad : R Dravid(C), STR Binny, J Botha, DL Chahar, A Chandila, LD Chandimal, AA Chavan, A Chopra, PD Collingwood, K Cooper, AP Dole, SM Fallah, FY Fazal, SP Goswami†, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, AL Menaria, S Narwal, Pankaj Singh, AG Paunikar, AM Rahane, AS Raut, OA Shah, PR Shah, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik

Delhi Daredevils Vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Delhi Daredevils clashing with Kolkata Knight Riders at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Only one point separates Delhi Daredevils from Kolkata Knight Riders and a win for the Knight Riders will take them to the lead. Both teams are playing Fabulas in their last couple of matches. Both captains in their home groun. Looking to see interesting match tonight.

Delhi Daredevills : One bad news for Delhi is Kevin Pieterson is left out, smashing 305 runs in eight innings, including a century. Pietersen will join England for the home series against West Indies, but his replacement is the equally intimidating David Warner. He's starting with the Kotla, which has been a high-scoring venue this season.

Virender Sehwag played fantastic in this IPL 5. He hit consistently five fifties in a row.Virender Sehwag needs 18 more runs to overtake Ajinkya Rahane for the Orange Cap in this IPL. Hope so he will get it today. With 91 runs from seven innings, Daredevils' Ross Taylor is yet to show up. Fortunately, his lack of form hasn't affected the team's results. But in Pietersen's absence, Taylor's role will be important.

Delhi Daredevils squad : V Sehwag(C), MC Juneja, VR Aaron, AB Agarkar, P Bisht, R Bist, GH Bodi, DAJ Bracewell, U Chand, AJ Finch, DPMD Jayawardene, GJ Maxwell, M Morkel, S Nadeem, Y Nagar, PT Naik, P Negi, NV Ojha†, IK Pathan, KP Pietersen, KC Raval, AD Russell, AM Salvi, LRPL Taylor, RE van der Merwe, Y Venugopal Rao, Vikas Mishra, DA Warner, TP Yadav, UT Yadav, Zafir Patel

Kings XI Punjab Vs Rajasthan Royals at Mohali

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Kings XI Punjab clashing with Rajasthan Royals at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh. Rajasthan Royals have struggled to win away from their home ground. On the other hand Punjab beat strongest IPL teams like Kolkata Knight Riders, Banglore or Chennai.

Rajasthan Royals : Rajasthan Royals have struggled to win away from their home ground. Royals though, are going in with a run of four consecutive losses. In three of those defeats, it was their much-praised batting which failed to score sufficient runs. They lost six matches matches out of seven. Dravid says : The first thing we have to do is to get a win, arrest the slide and get back some of the momentum.

Rahul Dravid has been in fine touch and has scored 333 runs, but his strike-rate of 116.02. It's feel preasure on the middle order batsmen.Shane watson joined the team. he's oz vice-captain & big hitter. he's also ball well in t20s. Dravid dissapointed with the batting of shah &Hodge for their last couple of matches. On the other hand hogg bowled well.

Rajasthan Royals squad : R Dravid(C), STR Binny, J Botha, DL Chahar, A Chandila, LD Chandimal, AA Chavan, A Chopra, PD Collingwood, K Cooper, AP Dole, SM Fallah, FY Fazal, SP Goswami†, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, AL Menaria, S Narwal, Pankaj Singh, AG Paunikar, AM Rahane, AS Raut, OA Shah, PR Shah, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik

Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Pune Warriors at Eden Garden in Kolkata

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Kolkata Knight Riders clashing with Pune Warriors at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In this match special attention for Sourav Ganguly is Playing his home ground, ironically as captain of the away team. He is capable of rousing the passionate Eden Gardens crowd to feverish levels; his iconic status in Kolkata is comparable to Sachin Tendulkar's in Mumbai. 

Pune Warriors : Ganguly, and Warriors, need all the inspiration they can get. They are second from bottom in the league, having lost six out of their previous seven games. Ganguly struggling his last game against Mumbai Indians. He scored 16 off 24 balls. The stage is set for Ganguly's homecoming but fans will need to hope that the weather stays clear.

Michael Clarke is new to the Warriors camp but he is expected to turn things around for a struggling team. He looked comfortable in his first two two games, but he will want to convert those starts. His class against spin could be key to negotiating a tricky Knight Riders attack. Ryder & Uthappa not in his good form. his batting lay down in every match. They have to win this game' if they want to stay in this IPL 5.

Pune Warriors squad : SC Ganguly(C), ER Dwivedi, MJ Clarke, AB Dinda, CJ Ferguson, RV Gomez, Harpreet Singh, DS Jadhav, Kamran Khan, M Kartik, HH Khadiwale, B Kumar, NL McCullum, AP Majumdar, M Manhas, AD Mathews, MD Mishra, AG Murtaza, A Nehra, MK Pandey, WD Parnell, S Rana, JD Ryder, MN Samuels, R Sharma, GC Smith, SPD Smith, Tamim Iqbal, AC Thomas, K Upadhyay, RV Uthappa, SB Wagh, LJ Wright

Chennai Super Kings Vs Deccan Chargers at Chennai in IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Chennai Super Kings clashing with Deccan Chargers at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai. Chargers have picked up four points from their previous three matches, their opponents on Friday, Chennai Super Kings, have just one point from their previous three. Interesting to see today who will win the battle.

Chennai Super Kings : Last victory came two weeks ago and had given them a share of the top spot, but they have since slid seven points behind the leaders. MS Dhoni not in his good form. In this IPL season, he's going at only 116.08. For more stats on Super Kings' batting.

Michael Hussey joined the team as well. Their Openers will more aggressive then other games. Duplesis & Hussey open the batting. It will be challenged for other team how they defend this two openers. Good news is raina scored runs in their last game. Ashwin in his good form. Albie Morkel in good form with the ball & bat. Must win game for Chennai.

Chennai Super Kings squad : MS Dhoni(C), S Anirudha, R Ashwin, S Badrinath, GJ Bailey, DE Bollinger, DJ Bravo, F du Plessis, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, Joginder Sharma, S Randiv, KMDN Kulasekara, VY Mahesh, JA Morkel, A Mukund, SK Raina, WP Saha†, SB Styris, S Tyagi, K Vasudevadas, G Vignesh, M Vijay

Mumbai Indians clashing with Pune Warriors at Pune

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Mumbai Indians clashing with Pune Warriors at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune. With a hat-trick of losses. Second from the bottom Pune Warriors Set To Play Match against Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians have had five wins from nine games even though they haven't performed to their potential. Of all their big names.

Mumbai Indians : Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh haven't fired. Rohit Sharma is the top-scorer in the IPL 2012 From Mumbai Indians.Batting is worry for mumbai Indians' specially the Openers. Tendulkar not in his good form. their partner not been regularly. sometime Levi, Blizzard,Jacobs and Franklin open the Batting with sachin. They Guyz are not shown their forms in this IPL. 

Pollard is not fit for the match. Only Malinga Perform Briallantly in the field. Ambati Rayudu and Dinesh Karthik, though, have shown signs of form after an indifferent start to the season. Mumbai Indians scored 101 against Warriors in their last match, the second-lowest score this season after their 92 all out against Delhi Daredevils. It will be Interesting to see how they react against Pune Warriors.

Mumbai Indians squad : Harbhajan Singh(C), SR Tendulkar, AN Ahmed, Amitoze Singh, AC Blizzard, YS Chahal, JEC Franklin, HH Gibbs, DJ Jacobs, KD Karthik†, Kuldeep Yadav, DS Kulkarni, RE Levi, CJ McKay, SL Malinga, SH Marathe, SS Nayak, PP Ojha, MM Patel, NLTC Perera, RJ Peterson, KA Pollard, AT Rayudu, JN Shah, RG Sharma, R Shukla, RP Singh, DR Smith, TL Suman, P Suyal, AP Tare,  AV Wankhade, SA Yadav

Kings XI Punjab Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Banglore in IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Kings XI Punjab clashing with Royal Challengers Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Royal Challengers Bangalore have had a slight blip after a hat-trick of victories, lost the last game against Knight Riders

Kings XI Punjab : Kings XI are currently second from bottom in the points table, but they could have their captain Adam Gilchrist back tomorrow, after he sat out the previous four matches with torn hamstrings. They could also have Ryan Harris, the Australia fast bowler Now their bowling & batting department is more solid.

Shaun Marsh is the leading run-scorer in matches between these two teams, with 224 runs in six innings at an average of 56 and a strike rate of 133.33. Azhar Mahmood has become Kings XI's preferred overseas allrounder, and he has been influential in almost every game he's played. Piyush Chawla has taken 14 wickets against Royal Challengers at an average of 15.92 and an economy rate of 6.75. Only three bowlers have taken more wickets against an opposition team in the IPL.

Kings XI Punjab squad : AC Gilchrist(C), P Awana, KJ Abbott, L Ablish, Amit Yadav, Azhar Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, BCJ Cutting, P Dogra, JP Faulkner, Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, VS Malik, Mandeep Singh, SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, AM Nayar, RR Powar, NJ Rimmington, N Saini, SJ Srivastava, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty

Rajasthan Royals VS Delhi Daredevils at Jaipur In IPL

The Indian Premier League (IPL) : Today the match begins with Rajasthan Royals clashing with Delhi Daredevils at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. Rajasthan Royals will still be wondering how they botched the chase against Delhi Daredevils two days back. With 15 needed off 12 balls, with nine wickets in hand.

Rajasthan Royals : In the Last defeat against delhi Daredevills' It's thrilling. Theory that all it takes is one good over to tilt the scales in Twenty20s. Royals have a chance to set things right against the same opponent, in their Jaipur fortress.

Shane Watson come to join the team. If Watson does play straightaway, the question is who will make way - either Brad Hodge or Owais Shah. Three consecutive defeats will be at the back of their minds when they take on the in-form Daredevils. On the Other hand their bowling department is good Amit Singh , Trivedi, Hodge done good job at Kotla.

Rajasthan Royals squad : R Dravid(C), STR Binny, J Botha, DL Chahar, A Chandila, LD Chandimal, AA Chavan, A Chopra, PD Collingwood, K Cooper, AP Dole, SM Fallah, FY Fazal, SP Goswami†, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, AL Menaria, S Narwal, Pankaj Singh, AG Paunikar, AM Rahane, AS Raut, OA Shah, PR Shah, A Singh, S Sreesanth, SW Tait, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik