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Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match against Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets. They still have chance to move to the semi finals provided they win their last match. All the teams now have 1 match to play each.
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

DLF IPL T20 Points Table Tally at the end of day – 19/05/2009

IPL T20 Points table & teams standing after 52 League matches

Probability for teams to make it to Semi Finals:

For Rajasthan Royals

• They should win against Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin
• Kings XI Punjab should lose their match against Chennai Super Kings. Otherwise, Chennai Super Kings should lose their match by more than 100 runs

For Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Must win their only match

For Chennai Super Kings

• Shouldn’t lose their match by big margin. Defeat by <50 runs shouldn’t risk their semi final chance.

Click here for Points table of IPL 3 – 2010

IPLT20 Points Table Tally at the end of day – 18/05/2009:

Kolkata Knight Riders won the match against Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets.

IPL T20 Points table after 51 League matches

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I love statistics and graphs a lot…

Here is an interesting table/graph showing the points progress of the 8 teams in the Leagues matches of the DLF IPL T20 2009.

Click on the image below to view full graph….

DLF IPL 2009 - Points progress of teams in League matches

If you are a fan of Kolkata Knight Riders it would be heart breaking to see the black line horizontal…

While Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore did well to recover from the worst position they were in after first 5 matches. Chennai Super Kings just had 3 points and Royal Challengers had 2 points. Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians were the teams to give away the early advantage they had. They both lost 4 matches in a row.

Delhi Daredevils won their match against Rajasthan Royals by 14 runs. Rajasthan Royal now need to win their only other league match and hope that either Deccan Charger or Kings XI Punjab to lose their league match.

IPL 2009 – Match 50 – Delhi Daredevils Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

AB de Villiers fifty took Delhi to a good score

Sehwag the captain of Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first. Gambhir and Sehwag opened the innings for Delhi. Both the openers got out in the 3 over of the match bowled by Munaf Patel. Gambhir was caught and bowled for 8(8) while Sehwag got out lbw for 2(8). AB de Villiers and Dilshan joined to steady the innings and they took the score to 66/2 at strategic time out. They both played well and put on 87 runs for the third wicket. Dilshan scored 33 runs in 41 ball and got out bowled by Botha. Delhi Daredevils were struggling at 115/2 after 18 overs. Munaf came to bowl and conceded 25 runs in the 19 over and this turned out to be the turning point of the match. They scored another 10 runs in last over and reached 150 just losing 3 wickets. AB de Villiers played well for his 79 not out of just 55 balls. Shane Warne used 8 bowlers but none of them could really put any pressure on Delhi batsman.

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Yuvraj Singh took yet another hat trick, his second in this IPL T20. He’s the only bowler to have two hat tricks in IPL. Kings XI Punjab clinched yesterday’s nail bitter winning by just 1 run against Deccan Chargers.

Gilchrist won the toss again and elected to field first. His strategies are clear to restrict the opposition and chace down the target. His strategy didn’t work as his batting power house consisting of himself, Gibbs, Rohit Sharma, Symonds, Suman and Rao couldn’t do the trick today.

IPL 2009 – Match 49 – Kings XI Punjab Vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

RP Singh bowled well to get back the Purple cap

Sohal and Katich opened the innings for Kings XI Punjab. Sohal tried to be aggressive but couldn’t do much and got out trying to scoop the ball over short fine leg. He scored 9(12) caught by Rohit Sharma of the bowling of RP Singh. Pomersbach was the next man in and retuned back quickly, run out by Gibbs for 1 run. Katich was the next wicket caught by Ojha at mid on of the bowling of Symonds and the Kings XI were struggling at 26/3. Yuvraj and Sangakkara joined in the middle to steady the innings. They managed to add 26 runs for the fourth wicket before a straighter deliver from Venugopal Rao disturbed the middle stumps of Yuvraj. Yuvraj looked settled with 20 runs in 18 balls. Kings XI Punjab scored 55/4 in their first 10 overs. Mota and Sangakkara took the score to 105/4 at the end of 16 overs. Suman got the better of Mota who was looking to break free, caught at mid wicket by Harris. Sangakkara also got out at crucial stage for 56 runs of just 43 balls. Irfan Pathan scored quick 17 runs in 11 balls. Lee played 5 balls and couldn’t manage a single out of that. Kings XI Punjab ended their innings scoring 134 for the loss of 7 wickets. RP Singh was the pick of the bowler took 3/26 and got back the purple cap.

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