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Rajasthan Royals thrashed Kings XI Punjab by 78 runs in 30th Match of IPL T20 season 2. Yuvraj Singh won the toss and put Rajasthan Royals to bat. Rajasthan Royals scored the highest score of IPL T20 season 2 till now as they posted 211/4 in 20 overs. Graeme Smith found his form as the scored a brilliant 77 runs off 44 balls while Naman Ojha (68 off 51 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (33 off 12 balls) made significant contributions too. Kings XI Punjab could not keep up to the required. run rate and even a captain’s knock by Yuvraj Singh (48 off 37 balls) could not save them as they were bowled out for 133/8 in 20 overs. Amit Singh and Shane Warne had the best bowling figures of 3/9 and 2/38 respectively. Graeme Smith was awarded the Man of the Match for his brilliant innings.

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Rajasthan Royals

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Naman Ojha (W) c Simon Katich b Piyush Chawla 68 51 5 5 133.33
Graeme Smith c Piyush Chawla b Ramesh Powar 77 44 12 1 175
Yusuf Pathan c Karan Goel b Piyush Chawla 12 7 1 1 171.43
Ravindra Jadeja c Mahela Jayawardena b Irfan Pathan 33 12 5 1 275
Lee Carseldine not out 16 9 2 0 177.78
Abhishek Raut not out 1 1 0 0 100
Niraj Patel
Shane Warne (C)
Shane Harwood
Siddharth Trivedi
Amit Singh
Extras: b – 0, w – 0, nb – 4, lb – 0 4
Total: (211 for 4 wickets in 20.0 overs) 211 Run Rate: 10.55

Fall of Wickets1-135 (Graeme Smith, 14.5), 2-153 (Yusuf Pathan, 16.2), 3-164 (Naman Ojha, 17), 4-203 (Ravindra Jadeja, 19.2)

Bowling (Mohali)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Ramesh Powar 3 0 33 1 0 0 11
Irfan Pathan 4 0 40 1 0 0 10
Sreesanth 4 0 44 0 3 0 11
Yusuf Abdulla 3 0 44 0 1 0 14.67
Piyush Chawla 4 0 30 2 0 0 7.5
Yuvraj Singh 1 0 9 0 0 0 9
Karan Goel 1 0 11 0 0 0 11

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Kings XI Punjab

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Sunny Sohal c Shane Warne b Amit Singh 0 1 0 0 0
Kumar Sangakkara (W) st Naman Ojha b Yusuf Pathan 11 15 2 0 73.33
Karan Goel c Shane Harwood b Amit Singh 1 4 0 0 25
Simon Katich b Siddharth Trivedi 10 13 2 0 76.92
Mahela Jayawardena c Siddharth Trivedi b Shane Harwood 9 11 0 1 81.82
Yuvraj Singh (C) c Shane Harwood b Amit Singh 48 37 3 3 129.73
Irfan Pathan lbw b Shane Warne 19 17 2 0 111.76
Piyush Chawla c Ravindra Jadeja b Shane Warne 6 7 1 0 85.71
Ramesh Powar not out 6 7 0 0 85.71
Sreesanth not out 4 8 1 0 50
Yusuf Abdulla
Extras: b – 1, w – 13, nb – 0, lb – 5 19
Total: (133 for 8 wickets in 20.0 overs) 133 Run Rate: 6.65

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Sunny Sohal, 0.1), 2-2 (Karan Goel, 1), 3-25 (Simon Katich, 5), 4-29 (Kumar Sangakkara, 6), 5-39 (Mahela Jayawardena, 7.4), 6-87 (Irfan Pathan, 13.3), 7-104 (Piyush Chawla, 15.4), 8-127 (Yuvraj Singh, 18.1)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Amit Singh 4 0 9 3 0 0 2.25
Shane Harwood 4 0 26 1 0 6 6.5
Yusuf Pathan 4 0 28 1 0 0 7
Siddharth Trivedi 4 0 20 1 0 0 5
Shane Warne 3 0 38 2 0 2 12.67
Ravindra Jadeja 1 0 6 0 0 0 6

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In IPL T20 season 1, Deccan Chargers were placed at the last position in the points tally while Rajasthan Royals bagged the IPL title. But in IPL T20 season 2 Deccan Chargers won all its initial matches while Rajasthan Royals had just lost quite a few of the matches initially. So, the contest was going to be very interesting as expected. Adam Gilchrist won the toss and decided to bat. With useful contributions from Adam Gilchrist (39 off 35 balls), Rohit Sharma (38 off 32 balls) and Tirumalsetti Suman (41 off 32 balls), Deccan Chargers reached 141/5 in 20 overs. Shane Harwood did well for the Royals with the ball playing his first IPL match and he took 2 wickets for 25 runs. Rajasthan Royals had a terrible start as three of its top order batsmen got out on ducks. But then some brilliant knocking by Abhishek Raut (36 off 23 balls), Lee Carseldine (39 off 32 balls), Yusuf Pathan (24 off 14 balls) and Shane Warne (21 off 17 balls) helped Rajasthan Royals reach the target in 19.4 overs. Yusuf Pathan bagged yet another Man of the Match due to his quickfire 24 off 14 balls and his economical bowling figures of 1 wicket for 19 runs in 4 overs.

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Deccan Chargers

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Herschelle Gibbs lbw b Yusuf Pathan 8 10 1 0 80
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W) c Yusuf Pathan b Ravindra Jadeja 39 35 5 2 111.43
Azharuddin Bilakhia c Siddharth Trivedi b Shane Harwood 1 5 0 0 20
Rohit Sharma c Shane Warne b Siddharth Trivedi 38 32 2 2 118.75
Tirumalsetti Suman not out 41 30 2 1 136.67
Dwayne Smith c Shane Warne b Shane Harwood 7 8 1 0 87.5
Venugopal Rao not out 0 0 0 0
Shoaib Ahmed
RP Singh
Pragyan Ojha
Fidel Edwards
Extras: b – 0, w – 4, nb – 0, lb – 3 7
Total: (141 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 141 Run Rate: 7.05

Fall of Wickets1-34 (Herschelle Gibbs, 4.1), 2-35 (Azharuddin Bilakhia, 5.1), 3-58 (Adam Gilchrist, 9.5), 4-117 (Rohit Sharma, 16.5), 5-135 (Dwayne Smith, 19.2)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Yusuf Pathan 4 0 19 1 0 0 4.75
Munaf Patel 2 0 23 0 0 0 11.5
Ravindra Jadeja 4 0 22 1 0 3 5.5
Shane Harwood 4 0 25 2 0 0 6.25
Shane Warne 3 0 29 0 0 1 9.67
Abhishek Raut 1 0 7 0 0 0 7
Siddharth Trivedi 2 0 13 1 0 0 6.5

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Rajasthan Royals

Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Graeme Smith c Shoaib Ahmed b Fidel Edwards 0 2 0 0 0
Swapnil Asnodkar run out (Herschelle Gibbs) 0 1 0 0 0
Lee Carseldine lbw b Venugopal Rao 39 32 6 0 121.88
Naman Ojha (W) c Herschelle Gibbs b RP Singh 0 6 0 0 0
Ravindra Jadeja c Dwayne Smith b Venugopal Rao 12 17 0 1 70.59
Shane Warne (C) c Adam Gilchrist b Pragyan Ojha 21 17 0 2 123.53
Abhishek Raut not out 36 23 4 0 156.52
Yusuf Pathan c Herschelle Gibbs b RP Singh 24 14 2 2 171.43
Shane Harwood not out 3 7 0 0 42.86
Munaf Patel
Siddharth Trivedi
Extras: b – 1, w – 3, nb – 1, lb – 2 7
Total: (142 for 7 wickets in 19.4 overs) 142 Run Rate: 7.22

Fall of Wickets1-0 (Graeme Smith, 0.2), 2-1 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 0.3), 3-3 (Naman Ojha, 2), 4-54 (Ravindra Jadeja, 9.1), 5-57 (Lee Carseldine, 9.5), 6-93 (Shane Warne, 14.1), 7-131 (Yusuf Pathan, 18)

Bowling (Hyderabad)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Fidel Edwards 3.4 0 17 1 0 1 4.64
RP Singh 4 1 18 2 1 0 4.5
Dwayne Smith 2 0 21 0 0 0 10.5
Rohit Sharma 2 0 14 0 0 1 7
Pragyan Ojha 4 0 27 1 0 1 6.75
Venugopal Rao 2 0 23 2 0 0 11.5
Shoaib Ahmed 2 0 19 0 0 0 9.5

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Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were both losing a lot of matches in IPL 2. But Chennai Super Kings had a very good batting and bowling lineup and it was expected that they will start winning matches once again. And they seemed to be performing to their abilities once again when they had a comfortable win over Rajasthan Royals by 38 runs in Match 22 of DLF IPL T20 season 2. Shane Warne won the toss and put Chennai Super Kings to bat. With the help of a brilliant innings of 98 runs off 55 balls by Suresh Raina, Chennai Super Kings scored 164/5 in their 20 overs. Yusuf Pathan and Munaf Patel had the best bowling figures of 2/17 and 2/25 respectively for the Royals. The weak batting lineup of the Rajasthan Royals were completely exposed as their only trump card Yusuf Pathan (20 runs off 13 balls) did not work today. Although Ravindra Jadeja (37 off 33 balls) played an good innings but Rajasthan Royals were bundled out for 126 runs with 3 balls to spare. Lakshmipathy Balaji, Albie Morkel and Jacob Oram were good with the ball for the Chennai Super Kings with bowling figures of 4/21, 2/21 and 2/21 respectively. Suresh Raina was adjudged the Man of the Match due to his brilliant knock of 98 runs.

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Chennai
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Parthiv Patel c Kamran Khan b Yusuf Pathan 3 11 0 0 27.27
Matthew Hayden b Yusuf Pathan 1 2 0 0 50
Suresh Raina c Graeme Smith b Munaf Patel 98 55 10 5 178.18
Subramaniam Badrinath st Mahesh Rawat b Shane Warne 29 27 4 0 107.41
Jacob Oram c Dimitri Mascarenhas b Munaf Patel 2 6 0 0 33.33
MS Dhoni (C) (W) not out 22 19 0 1 115.79
Albie Morkel not out 4 1 1 0 400
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Shadab Jakati
Sudeep Tyagi
Muttiah Muralidaran
Extras: b – 0, w – 2, nb – 1, lb – 2 5
Total: (164 for 5 wickets in 20.0 overs) 164 Run Rate: 8.2

Fall of Wickets1-4 (Matthew Hayden, 1.1), 2-17 (Parthiv Patel, 3.3), 3-84 (Subramaniam Badrinath, 11.1), 4-88 (Jacob Oram, 12.5), 5-159 (Suresh Raina, 19.4)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dimitri Mascarenhas 3.2 0 26 0 0 0 7.8
Yusuf Pathan 3 0 17 2 0 0 5.67
Kamran Khan 2.4 0 35 0 1 0 13.12
Munaf Patel 4 0 25 2 0 0 6.25
Siddharth Trivedi 3 0 35 0 0 1 11.67
Shane Warne 4 0 24 1 0 1 6

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Jaipur
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney lbw b Suresh Raina 28 31 4 0 90.32
Graeme Smith c Subramaniam Badrinath b Albie Morkel 2 5 0 0 40
Swapnil Asnodkar hit wicket b Albie Morkel 10 8 0 1 125
Ravindra Jadeja c Matthew Hayden b Lakshmipathy Balaji 37 33 2 1 112.12
Yusuf Pathan c Suresh Raina b Lakshmipathy Balaji 20 13 3 0 153.85
Dimitri Mascarenhas c Muttiah Muralidaran b Jacob Oram 8 8 1 0 100
Shane Warne (C) c Subramaniam Badrinath b Lakshmipathy Balaji 3 9 0 0 33.33
Mahesh Rawat (W) not out 8 6 1 0 133.33
Munaf Patel c Parthiv Patel b Jacob Oram 0 1 0 0 0
Siddharth Trivedi c Suresh Raina b Lakshmipathy Balaji 2 3 0 0 66.67
Kamran Khan retired hurt
Extras: b – 0, w – 3, nb – 0, lb – 5 8
Total: (126 for 9 wickets in 19.3 overs) 126 Run Rate: 6.46

Fall of Wickets1-9 (Graeme Smith, 2), 2-29 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 5.3), 3-55 (Rob Quiney, 9.3), 4-86 (Yusuf Pathan, 13), 5-98 (Dimitri Mascarenhas, 15), 6-114 (Ravindra Jadeja, 17.3), 7-117 (Shane Warne, 18), 8-117 (Munaf Patel, 18.1), 9-126 (Siddharth Trivedi, 19.3)

Bowling (Chennai)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Sudeep Tyagi 2 0 8 0 0 1 4
Albie Morkel 4 0 21 2 0 0 5.25
Jacob Oram 4 0 27 2 0 0 6.75
Muttiah Muralidaran 4 0 33 0 0 1 8.25
Suresh Raina 2 0 11 1 0 0 5.5
Lakshmipathy Balaji 3.3 0 21 4 0 1 6

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Yusuf Pathan saved the match for the Rajasthan Royals once again as he hit a blazing 62 off 30 balls with six 6s guiding them to victory. Virender Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat. Most of the Delhi Daredevils batsmen failed yet again and Delhi could only score 143/7 in their 20 overs by virtue of a 50 by AB De Villiers off 40 balls. Shane Warne, Munaf Patel and Dimitri Mascarenhas took 2 wickets each for the Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan Royals also kept on loosing frequent wickets as they came to bat though Graeme Smith (44 off 46 balls) was consistent on one end. The Royals were struggling at 64/5 after 11 overs when Shane Warne got out but Yusuf Pathan came to the rescue once again and his powerful hitting helped the Rajasthan Royals reach the target in 18.3 overs. Amit Mishra performed well for the Delhi Daredevils with his bowling spell of 3 wickets for 34 runs. Yusuf Pathan was awarded the Man of the Match for his blazing 62 off 30 balls and the maximum sixes award for this six 6s in the match.

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Delhi
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Gautam Gambhir c Shane Warne b Dimitri Mascarenhas 8 6 1 0 133.33
Virender Sehwag (C) c Kamran Khan b Dimitri Mascarenhas 16 11 2 1 145.45
AB de Villiers lbw b Shane Warne 50 40 5 1 125
Tillakaratne Dilshan c Swapnil Asnodkar b Munaf Patel 7 10 1 0 70
Dinesh Karthik (W) c & b Shane Warne 4 5 0 0 80
Daniel Vettori b Munaf Patel 29 28 3 0 103.57
Mithun Manhas not out 23 16 2 1 143.75
Amit Mishra b Kamran Khan 0 4 0 0 0
Pradeep Sangwan * not out 1 1 0 0 100
Ashish Nehra
Dirk Nannes
Extras: b – 0, w – 1, nb – 1, lb – 3 5
Total: (143 for 7 wickets in 20.0 overs) 143 Run Rate: 7.15

Fall of Wickets1-20 (Gautam Gambhir, 2.3), 2-25 (Virender Sehwag, 3), 3-38 (Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5.5), 4-49 (Dinesh Karthik, 7.2), 5-105 (AB de Villiers, 15.2), 6-135 (Daniel Vettori, 18.3), 7-142 (Amit Mishra, 19.5)

Bowling (Jaipur)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dimitri Mascarenhas 4 0 28 2 0 0 7
Kamran Khan 4 0 35 1 0 1 8.75
Munaf Patel 4 0 14 2 1 0 3.5
Shane Warne 4 0 32 2 0 0 8
Ravindra Jadeja 2 0 17 0 0 0 8.5
Yusuf Pathan 2 0 14 0 0 0 7

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Jaipur
Batsmen Status Runs Balls 4s 6s S.Rate
Rob Quiney lbw b Ashish Nehra 4 9 1 0 44.44
Graeme Smith not out 44 46 5 0 95.65
Swapnil Asnodkar run out (Amit Mishra) 11 8 1 1 137.5
Paul Valthaty c Daniel Vettori b Amit Mishra 1 5 0 0 20
Ravindra Jadeja c Pradeep Sangwan b Amit Mishra 16 13 1 0 123.08
Shane Warne (C) st Dinesh Karthik b Amit Mishra 0 2 0 0 0
Yusuf Pathan not out 62 30 3 6 206.67
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Mahesh Rawat (W)
Munaf Patel
Kamran Khan
Extras: b – 0, w – 5, nb – 1, lb – 3 9
Total: (147 for 5 wickets in 18.3 overs) 147 Run Rate: 7.95

Fall of Wickets1-20 (Rob Quiney, 3.3), 2-31 (Swapnil Asnodkar, 4.5), 3-34 (Paul Valthaty, 6.4), 4-63 (Ravindra Jadeja, 10.3), 5-64 (Shane Warne, 11)

Bowling (Delhi)Bowler O M R W nb wd R/O
Dirk Nannes 3.3 0 23 0 0 2 6.57
Ashish Nehra 4 0 23 1 0 1 5.75
Pradeep Sangwan 4 0 28 0 0 2 7
Amit Mishra 4 0 34 3 1 0 8.5
Tillakaratne Dilshan 1 0 4 0 0 0 4
Daniel Vettori 2 0 32 0 0 0 16

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