Royal Challengers Bangalore registered an excellent win by 8 wickets against Kings XI Punjab who set a target of 204. Bangalore was successful in finishing the chase with seven balls remaining.

Bopara (77) and Bisla (75) laid a good start for the Kings but Kallis (89 not out, 4*8, 6*5) and Uthappa (51, 4*4, 4*6) stole the show from the Punjab XI before the completion of 20 overs.

It was a shower of boundaries from both sides with Kings XI Punjab striking many fours and few sixes while Bangalore Royal Challengers showcased with many sixes and few fours.

Jacques Kallis was declared Man of the Match.

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Here is the list of players and the teams that would be competing in the inaugural Champions League T20. Piyush Chawla has been included in the Sussex Sharks squad. Delhi Daredevils have named the nursing opener Virender Sehwag who is sitting out for the Champions Trophy. Anil Kumble remains the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

The teams:

Trinidad & Tobago: Daren Ganga (capt.), Sherwin Ganga, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons, Dave Mohammed, Keiron Pollard, William Perkins, Samuel Badree, Rayad Emrit, Navin Stewart, Sunil Narine and Adrian Barath.

Victorian Bushrangers: Cameron White (capt.), Bradley Hodge, Peter Siddle, David Hussey, Andrew McDonald, Jon Holland, Clinton McKay, Robert Quiney, Matthew Wade, Aiden Blizzard, Aaron Finch, Shane Harwood, John Hastings, Damien Wright and Bryce McGain.

Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (capt.) Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Dirk Nannes, Dinesh Karthik, Daniel Vettori, Ashish Nehra, Amit Mishra, AB deVilliers, Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah, Pradeep Sangwan, Aavishkar Salvi, Rajat Bhatia and Mithun Manhas.

New South Wales Blues: Simon Katich (capt.), Phillip Hughes, Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Moises Henriques, Nathan Hauritz, Daniel Smith, Doug Bollinger, Stephen O’Keefe, Ben Rohrer, Steven Smith, Aaron Bird, Dominic Thornely and David Warner.

Otago Volts: Craig Cumming (capt.), Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Aaron Redmond, Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Greg Todd, Hamish Rutherford, Derek de Boorder, Nick Baird, Warren McSkimming, Neil Wagner, Mattew Harvie and James McMillan.

Cape Cobras: Graeme Smith (capt.), Herschelle Gibbs, J.P. Duminy, Justin Ontong, Charl Langeveldt, Claude Henderson, Monde Zondeki, Vernon Philander, Henry Davids, Derek Brand, Francois Plaatjies, Ryan Canning, Rory Kleinveldt, Richard Levi and Sybrand Engelbrecht.

Wayamba Elevens: Jehan Mubarak (capt.), Mahela Jayawardene, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath, Farveez Maharoof , Kaushlya Lokuarachchi, Jeevantha Kulathunga, Mahela Udawatta, Thisara Perera, Sameera Soysa, Shalika Karunanayake, Isura Udana, Ishara Amerasinghe, Chanka Welagedera and Michael Vandort.

Sussex Sharks: Michael Yardy (capt.) , Luke Wright, Piyush Chawla, Dwayne Smith, Edmund Joyce, Joe Gatting, Robin Martin-Jenkins, William Beer, Andrew Hodd, Christopher Nash, Ben Brown, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Mohmmed Yasir Arafat, Chad Keegan and James Kirtley.

Diamond Eagles: Boeta Dippenaar (capt.), Dillion du Preez, Morne van Wyk, Mthandeki Tshabalala, Adrian McLaren, Ryan McLaren, Victor Mpitsang, Ryan Bailey, Jandre Coetzee, Cornelis de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Reeza Hendricks, Alan Kruger, Rilee Rossouw and Shadley van Schalkwyk.

Somerset Sabres: Justin Langer (capt.), Marcus Trescothick, Zander de Bruyn, Omari Banks, James Hildreth, Craig Kieswetter, Pete Trego, Arul Suppiah, Alfonso Thomas, Max Waller, Charl Willoughby, Wes Durston, Mark Turner, Jos Buttler and Ben Philips.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Anil Kumble (capt.), Rahul Dravid, Robin Uthappa, Jacques Kallis, Ross Taylor, Dale Steyn, Manish Pandey, Praveen Kumar, Jesse Ryder, Roelof van der Merwe, Mark Boucher, Vinay Kumar, Virat Kohli, B. Akhil and Rajesh Bishnoi.

Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (capt.), V.V.S. Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Fidel Edwards, Scott Styris, Chaminda Vaas, R.P. Singh, Ryan Harris, Pragyan Ojha, Venugopala Rao, T. Suman, Azhar Bilakhia, Harmeet Singh and S.M. Shoaib.

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The inaugural Airtel Champions League Twenty 20 is scheduled to be held from October 8 to 23 featuring 12 teams which include Trinidad & Tobago, Victoria Bushrangers, Delhi Daredevils, New South Wales Blues, Cape Cobras, Diamond Eagles, Otago Volts, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Sussex Sharks, Somerset Sabres and Wayamba.

Schedule:

Date Time (IST) Teams Venue

08 Oct 20.00 Group C – Royal Challengers Bangalore v Cape Cobras M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

09 Oct 16.00 Group B – Eagles v New South Wales Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

09 Oct 20.00 Group D – Delhi Daredevils v Victoria Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

10 Oct 16.00 Group C – Cape Cobras v Otago Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

10 Oct 20.00 Group A – Deccan Chargers v Somerset Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

11 Oct 16.00 Group B – New South Wales v Sussex Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

11 Oct 20.00 Group D – Delhi Daredevils v Wayamba Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

12 Oct 16.00 Group A – Somerset v Trinidad & Tobago M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

12 Oct 20.00 Group C – Royal Challengers Bangalore v Otago M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

13 Oct 16.00 Group D – Victoria v Wayamba Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

13 Oct 20.00 Group B – Eagles v Sussex Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

14 Oct 20.00 Group A – Deccan Chargers v Trinidad & Tobago Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

15 Oct 20.00 League B – C1 v D2 M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

16 Oct 16.00 League A – A2 v B2 Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

16 Oct 20.00 League A – A1 v B1 Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

17 Oct 16.00 League B – C2 v D2 M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

17 Oct 20.00 League B – C1 v D1 M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

18 Oct 16.00 League A – A2 v B1 Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

18 Oct 20.00 League A – A1 v B2 Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

19 Oct 20.00 League B – C2 v D1 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

21 Oct 20.00 1st semi-final – Winner B v Runner up A Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

22 Oct 20.00 2nd semi-final – Winner A v Runner up B Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

23 Oct 20.00 Finals Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

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The Second Edition of the Indian Premier League ended with a perfect fitting finale between the Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Awards and honours for the concluded DLF IPL II are as follows:

The Winners: Deccan Chargers (Rs 4.8 crore)

Runners-up: Royal Challengers Bangalore (Rs 2.4 crore)

Fair Play Award: Kings XI Punjab

Man of the Match (final): Anil Kumble (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

DLF Golden Player of the League (Player of the Tournament): Adam Gilchirst (Deccan Chargers)

Orange Cap winner (highest scorer): Matthew Hayden (Chennai Super Kings)

Purple Cap winner (highest wicket-taker): Rudra Pratap Singh (Deccan Chargers)

Under-23 Player of the league: Rohit Sharma (Deccan Chargers)

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Here is the scoreboard of the 44th match between Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Chennai Super Kings at Durban on Thursday which was won by Royal Challengers with 2 wickets remaining.

Scoreboard:

Chennai Super Kings innings(129 all out from 19.4 overs)

M Vijay                   c Uthappa b Kallis                        5
M Hayden              c Vinay Kumar b Kumble       60
S Raina                    c van der Merwe b Kallis         13
MS Dhoni               c & b van der Merwe                  18
J Oram                    c Boucher b Vinay Kumar         7
S Badrinath           c Uthappa b Kumble                    2
A Morkel                c Kumble b Kumar                       9
S Jakati                   not out                                              7
L Balaji                    c Kumble b Vinay Kumar         0
M Muralitharan  run out (Kumar)                           4
S Tyagi                    run out (Akhil/Kumar)             0
Extras     (lb 3, w 1)       4

Total     (all out; 19.4 overs)     129

Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-48, 3-93, 4-101, 5-107, 6-118, 7-118, 8-118, 9-128, 10-129

Bowling: O-M-R-W-Econ: Kumble:4-0-12-2-3.00, Vinay Kumar:3-0-30-2-10.00, P Kumar:3.4-0-35-1-9.54, J Kallis:4-1-18-2-4.50, Merwe:4-0-29-1-7.25, B Akhil:1-0-2-0-2.00

Royal Challengers Bangalore innings (target: 130 runs from 20 overs)

R Uthappa             lbw b Morkel                                       6
J Kallis                    lbw b Morkel                                       0
R Dravid                c Badrinath b Tyagi                           8
R Taylor                c Dhoni b Oram                                 46
V Kohli                  c Oram b Balaji                                   38
M Boucher           c Hayden b Muralitharan                 5
Van der Merwe  run out (Muralitharan/Dhoni)       3
B Akhil                   c Tyagi b Oram                                     0
P Kumar                not out                                                   12
R Vinay Kumar     not out                                                  6
Extras     (b 4, lb 1, w 3)     8

Total     (8 wickets; 19.4 overs)     132

Fall of wickets:1-2, 2-12, 3-30, 4-86, 5-91, 6-104, 7-107, 8-125

Bowling:O-M-R-W-Econ: A Morkel:4-0-13-2-3.25, S Tyagi:2-0-21-1-10.50, L Balaji:4-0-32-1-8.00, S Jakati:4-0-25-0-6.25, M Muralitharan:4-0-24-1-6.00, J Oram:1.4-0-12-2-7.20

Chennai Super Kings won the toss, who chose to bat first.

Player of the match: Ross Taylor( Royal Challengers Bangalore)

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Ross Taylor smashed an unbeaten half-century as the Royals Challengers Bangalore kept themselves in contention for an Indian Premier League semi-final spot with a six-wicket victory over the Kolkata Knight Riders.

Taylor’s 81 off 33 deliveries overshadowed an unbeaten 84 off 64 from Brendon McCullum, which had helped the Knight Riders reach 173 for four after being asked to take first strike.

David Hussey chipped in with a knock of 43 from 27 deliveries and put on 70 runs for the third wicket with McCullum, but Taylor stole the show.

The Royal Challengers began their chase confidently with openers Jacques Kallis (32) and Jesse Ryder (22) putting on 58 for the opening wicket in fairly good time.

McCullum used five bowlers inside the first six overs but the duo had smashed 46 in the powerplays when Murali Karthik halted the scoring with a tidy spell and a brace of wickets.

The left-arm spinner first sent back Kallis, although the wicket came more through a brilliant catch from McCullum at short cover.

Robin Uthappa was his second victim – caught in the deep – and when Ryder fell to Ajit Agarkar shortly after, the Royal Challengers’ line-up was in danger of unravelling.

But Taylor went on the attack immediately, clubbing Karthik for consecutive sixes in the bowler’s final over and hitting Angelo Mathews for successive boundaries in the next over.

Taylor dragged the Royal Challengers back on course with a 48-run stand for the third wicket with Rahul Dravid and continued to hit boundaries at will after Dravid’s fall in the 16th over.

The Royal Challengers needed 94 from the last eight overs but Taylor reduced the gap to 55 from the last five and 21 from the last two overs, and eventually to five from the last over. He then brought up victory with a six, as the Royal Challengers reached their target with four deliveries to spare, and with Mark Boucher not out on 13.

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Riding high after their crushing victory over Kings XI Punjab, defending champions Rajasthan Royals will be gunning for revenge against Bangalore Royal Challengers in IPL on Thursday.

In their first meeting, Royal Challengers defeated Rajasthan Royals by a huge 75-run margin.

Since then, both teams have followed the same course – losing matches at the start before bouncing back in the tournament.

Rajasthan Royals have nine points, one more than Bangalore Royal Challengers who have eight.

With a depleted side, Rajasthan Royals lost matches at the start and looked like a pale shadow of the formidable team that won the opening IPL championship last year.

Royal Challengers are on a roll with three wins on a trot. A new skipper in Anil Kumble has moulded the team into a winning bunch.

Their last victory against Mumbai Indians saw Jacques Kallis and Robin Uthappa return to form.

Royal Challengers have the advantage of many South Africans in their ranks. In the last match, all their oversesas players — Kallis, Mark Boucher, Preez and Roelof van der Merwe – were South Africans which helped them to assess the local conditions better than any other team.

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Mumbai Indians will look to thwart a resurgent Royal Challengers, who are attempting a late comeback in the Indian Premier League with two wins in a row, at the Wanderers here on Sunday.

Royal Challengers have slowly moved up to fifth place in the standings after beating Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab. They have six points from seven matches.

One of the bottom-placed teams of last year, Challengers started with a big win over defending champions Rajasthan Royals in the first match, but then slumped to four losses before renewing their challenge in Kevin Pietersen’s last IPL match for the season.

The new captain Anil Kumble has brought the Challengers’ luck and they played like a well-knit unit to pull-off a close match against Kings XI Punjab on Friday. Kumble used his resources well while Challengers have to sort out their batting problems which again failed to fire on Friday.

Jesse Ryder and Robin Uthappa’s lack of form is hurting the team and Jacques Kallis, too, is not in great touch. The lower order is coming under tremendous pressure with wickets falling regularly at the top.

Mumbai Indians’ top-order batting has looked rusty in the last two matches and JP Duminy came to their rescue on both occasions. It was the performance of Duminy and Zaheer Khan that saw the Mumbai team through against Knight Riders, though the Kolkata team came close to beating them.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya in good touch in the tournament, Mumbai certainly would hope its top-order batting gives them a good start against Challengers.

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Yuvraj Singh had almost single-handedly won the match and if he would have stayed there five overs more, the game would have been all over, feels Royal Challengers skipper Anil Kumble.

“The ball was stopping and coming and Yuvraj of course likes pace on the ball and I wanted to take the pace off and that worked. Yuvi was going great guns and if he had been five overs more, probably the game was over and there on we really tightened screw,” Kumble said after the match.

Yuvraj Singh notched up the first hat-trict of second Premier League and also scored a blistering 33-ball 50 but still could not avoid Kings XI Punjab’s narrow 9-run defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore here today.

Kumble gave credit to Roelof van der Merwe for posting such a competitive target even after losing three wickets in three balls.

“It was a great game. After losing three wickets in three balls, I thought Re (van der Merwe) batted fantastically to get us to 145 and everybody rallied around him and when we got to the score we really backed ourself. It is a great show by the bowlers,” he said.

Merwe score a quickfire 35 off 19 balls studded with three fours and three sixes to post a target of 146 to win against the Kings XI Punjab.

Kumble also lavished praise on Praveen Kumar for his crucial over in the end. “It was tough to grip the ball because of the dew. We didn’t expect dews and Praveen is a quicker baller and has experience and he bowled brilliantly,” he said.

Kumble, who succeeded Kevin Pietersen as skipper, said they are improving with each game and hoped the winning streak will continue.

Disappointed at the loss, Yuvraj Singh said the opponent were a better side on the given day.

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After ending their losing streak, Bangalore Royal Challengers will be looking to maintain their new-found form when they clash with an upbeat Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Friday.

Both Royal Challengers and Kings XI Punjab clinched thrilling victories in their last matches. Royal Challengers beat Knight Riders to end their four-match losing streak while Kings XI Punjab beat Mumbai Indians in a low-scoring match.

The Bangalore team captain Kevin Pietersen left for England for the series against the West Indies. Earlier Jacques Kallis was supposed to take over from Pietersen, but now it looks like Anil Kumble or Rahul Dravid might take up the job, as indicated by coach Ray Jennings.

Under Pietersen, Royal Challengers made a brilliant start with an upset win over defending champions Rajasthan Royals. But then lost way only to get back with a thrilling win over Knight Riders.

But what might have worked for Royal Challengers was the changes to their side. They replaced Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor with youngster Shreevats Goswami and Mark Boucher. It worked for Royal Challengers as Goswami made a flamboyant 43 as an opener while the experienced Boucher saw the team through in the final stages.

In the bowling department, barring Kumble and Praveen Kumar none of the bowlers have looked impressive.

Kings XI, on the other hand, are riding high after beating Mumbai Indians for their third straight win.

Kumar Sangakkara and Ravi Bopara have played crucial knocks with good all-round performances from Irfan Pathan. Pacer Yusuf Abdulla has been impressive in the tournament and gave a match-winning performance against Mumbai Indians. Skipper Yuvraj Singh is still to come good.

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