Rahane 98 in 66 balls give rajasthan victory over punjab in ipl 2012

Rahane 98 in 66 balls give rajasthan victory over punjab in ipl 2012.
Rajasthan Royals managed to get a good score of 191 with loss of 4 wickets.
This score was enough for Punjab as they were able to make only 160.

Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab Full Scorecard IPL 2012 4th Match 6th April 2012 IPL 5th Edition

Coutsey times of india Rajasthan Royals 191/4 (20.0 ov) Kings XI Punjab 160/9 (20.0 ov) Rajasthan Royals beat Kings XI Punjab by 31 runs

Match Ended Kings XI Punjab RR 8 Last 5 ovs 43/4 RR 8.6 Rajasthan Royals RR 9.55

Rajasthan Royals Batting BATSMEN RUNS BALLS 4's 6's SR Rahul Dravid (C) c James Faulkner b Harmeet Bansal 28 24 3 0 117 Ajinkya Rahane b James Faulkner 98 66 16 1 148 Ashok Menaria b Piyush Chawla 0 3 0 0 0 Brad Hodge b James Faulkner 21 16 1 1 131 Owais Shah not out 14 8 2 0 175 Kevon Cooper not out 11 3 1 1 367 Johan Botha Shreevats Goswami (W) Ankeet Chavan Amit Singh Siddharth Trivedi Kings XI Punjab Batting BATSMEN RUNS BALLS 4's 6's SR Adam Gilchrist (C) (W) c Kevon Cooper b Amit Singh 27 18 3 1 150 Paul Valthaty c Amit Singh b Kevon Cooper 13 15 2 0 87 Shaun Marsh c Rahul Dravid b Kevon Cooper 7 6 1 0 117 Abhishek Nayar c Shreevats Goswami b Kevon Cooper 10 10 0 1 100 David Hussey c Kevon Cooper b Siddharth Trivedi 13 10 1 0 130 Mandeep Singh b Ankeet Chavan 34 25 5 0 136 Bipul Sharma c Ajinkya Rahane b Ankeet Chavan 18 13 2 0 138 Piyush Chawla b Kevon Cooper 10 8 0 1 125 James Faulkner not out 11 9 0 0 122 Praveen Kumar run out (Kevon Cooper) 10 6 0 1 167 Harmeet Bansal not out 1 1 0 0 100 Extras (b 0, lb 4, w 1, nb 1, p 0) 6 Total: 160/9(20.0 ov) Power Play 1: 1-6 overs;

Fall of wickets1-36 (Adam Gilchrist, 4.1), 2-44 (Paul Valthaty, 5.5), 3-55 (Shaun Marsh, 7.2), 4-61 (Abhishek Nayar, 8), 5-86 (David Hussey, 11.2), 6-123 (Bipul Sharma, 15.4), 7-127 (Mandeep Singh, 16), 8-143 (Piyush Chawla, 18.2), 9-155 (Praveen Kumar, 19.3) Rajasthan Royals Bowling BOWLERS OVER MAIDEN RUNS WICKET NO BALL WIDE ECO Siddharth Trivedi 4 0 32 1 1 0 8 Johan Botha 4 0 36 0 0 0 9 Amit Singh 4 0 26 1 0 1 7 Kevon Cooper 4 0 26 4 0 0 7 Brad Hodge 1 0 8 0 0 0 8 Ankeet Chavan 3 0 28 2 0

Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils, IPL 2012, Kolkata Full Report 5th April 2012

KKR vs DD: Delhi Daredevils thrash Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets 

 KOLKATA: Irfan Pathan scored a fast 42 to guide Daredevils to a eight-wicket win over KKR in a rain affected 12-overs-a-side IPL 5 match on Thursday Spril 5th 2012.

Irfan struck three sixes and two boundaries to help Delhi make a winning start to their IPL 5 campaign.

In Kolkata batting innings,Morne Morkel scalped three wickets for 18 runs, while  Yadav and  van der Merwe got 2  wickets a piece to restrict the kkr to 97/9 .

Chasing the small total, Aaron Finch and Virender Sehwag (20 off 13) gave the Felhi Daredevils  a nice start.They made 49 for first wicket.

But two quick wickets, after Kallis gave the breakthrough in the form of Finch, brought the crowd back on its feet with the match tentalisingly poised as Daredevils needed 41 runs off 28 balls to win.

But Irfan and Glenn Maxwell just bashed the kkr bowlers and won the match for delhi..

Laxmi Ratan Shukla top-scored for the Kolkata Knight Riders with a 17-ball 26, with two sixes and a single boundry. he helped kolkata from 54/6 to a respectable total.

Congrats to delhi daredevils for their first win in first match.I hope that kolkata knight rider alias kkr will do a better job with bat in coming matches. the match was exciting and thats what ipl is made for.

hope to see more matches like these in coming season.