Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
Played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on 20 April 2008 - day/night (20-over match)

Deccan Chargers:
Fall Of Wickets
1/21 (Venugopal Rao, 3.2 ov.), 2/22 (VVS Laxman, 4.3 ov.), 3/47 (Adam Gilchrist, 8.1 ov.), 4/47 (Rohit Sharma, 8.4 ov.), 5/58 (Scott Styris, 11.4 ov.), 6/71 (Arjun Yadav, 14.3 ov.), 7/104 (Andrew Symonds, 17.4 ov.), 8/105 (Chaminda Vaas, 17.6 ov.), 9/110 (Sanjay Bangar, 18.3 ov.), 10/110 (Pragyan Ojha, 18.4 ov.)

Total (all out; 18.4 overs) 110(5.89 runs per over)

Kolkata Knight Riders:
Fall Of Wickets
1/6 (Brendon McCullum, 1.2 ov.), 2/16 (Ricky Ponting, 2.1 ov.), 3/21 (Prasanta Saha, 4.2 ov.), 4/68 (Sourav Ganguly, 12.6 ov.), 5/88 (Mohammad Hafeez, 16.3 ov.)

Total (5 wickets; 19 overs) 112(5.89 runs per over)

DJ Hussey was awarded the Man of the match.

Umpires: BF Bowden (New Zealand), K Hariharan (India)
Third umpire: Asad Rauf (Pakistan)
Referee: FM Engineer (India)
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Delhi Daredevils won by 9 wickets (with 29 balls remaining)
Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, on 19 April 2008 - day/night (20-over match)

Rajasthan Royals:
Salunkhe 26*, Trivedi 3*, Warne 14, Jadeja 29, Rawat 2, Kaif 9, Lehmann 1, Watson 21, Yusuf 10, Kohli 7
Total (8 wickets; 20 overs) 129(6.45 runs per over)

Delhi Daredevils:
Gambhir 58*, Dhawan 52*, Sehwag 12
Total (1 wicket; 15.1 overs) 132(8.70 runs per over)

Daredevils’ Farveez Maharoof is ‘Man of the Match’ for his superb bowling (4 overs for 11 runs and 2 wickets).
Ravindra Jadeja collects DLF Maximum number of sixes award (2 6s)

Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan), GA Pratapkumar (India)
Third umpire: IL Howell (South Africa)
Referee: GR Viswanath (India)
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Chennai Super Kings won by 33 runs
Played at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh, on 19 April 2008 - day/night (20-over match)

Kings XI Punjab:
Katich 21*, Pathan 3*, Sangakkara 54, Yuvraj 23, Hopes 71, Goel 24
Total: (4 wickets; 20 overs) 207(10.35 runs per over)

Chennai Super King:
Hussey 116*, Badrinath 31*, Oram 13, Raina 32, Dhoni 2, Hayden 26, Patel 15
Total (5 wickets; 20 overs) 240 (12.00 runs per over)

Mike Hussey gets Man of the Match award for his scintillating unbeaten 114 runs off 54 balls and DLF Maximum number of 6s award (9 sixes).

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Mike Krzyzewski the coach of the US Olympic team will concentrate his attention in the NBA playoffs to choose the best players possible and hopes the top players will stay healthy and without injuries for the Olympics in Beijing. “If all our players are in the playoffs, that’s better. They will be in the best shape,” Krzyzewski said. “We evaluate everything. We want to see what a guy does in his environment. That’s the highest level.” Four years ago while in Athens, U.S captured the bronze medal and two years after U.S lost the semifinals to Greece at the World Championships in Japan. With that the U.S team with NBA players is trying to regain global dominance and recapture superiority. Read the rest of this entry »

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 140 runs

M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Bangalore Royal Challengers: 82-all out (15.1 Ovs)
Praveen Kumar 18(15)

Kolkata Knight Riders: 222/3 (20.0 Ovs)
Ishant Sharma 3-0-7-1
Laxmi Shukla* 1.1-0-12-1

• Brendon McMullum is the Man of the Match for 158 runs. Also he got the DLF Maximum Sixes award for smashing 13 in his innings. Read the rest of this entry »

Kings XI Punjab
(Mohali)

Mumbai Indians
(Mumbai)

Rajastan Royals
(Jaipur)

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