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Defending champion Rajasthan Royals after a poor start in the 2009 Indian Premier League, with 1 loss and 1 draw will meet Kolkata Knight Riderso on Thursday, 23rd April, 2009 at Cape Town in the 2nd match of the day starting from 16.30pm, 14.30GMT, 8.00 PM IST.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the last rain shorten match by D/L method by 11 runs and gain some confidence as Gayle came back in form. Their middle order looking week and opener has to perform well as they also include spinner Ajantha Mendis.

Rajasthan Royals is looking a dull team without their star players and after just 1 point from 2 games they have to really play well to defend their title. Graem Smith and Yusuf Pathan to show some great performance.

Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Brendon McCullum (capt), Chris Gayle, Sourav Ganguly, Brad Hodge, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Akash Chpra, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Ajantha Mendis.

Rajasthan Royals Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Graeme Smith, Swapnil Asnodkar, Shane Watson, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Tyron Henderson, Shane Warne (capt), Mahesh Rawat (wk), Munaf Patel, Sidharth Trivedi, Kamran Khan.

In the 9th match 0f 2009 Indian Premier League - IPL, Sehwag's Delhi Daredevils will meet Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings on Thursday, 23rd April, 2009 at Durban in the 1st match of the day starting from 12.30 PM local time, 10.30 GMT and 4.00 PM IST.

Delhi Daredevils is one of the favorite to win the 2009 IPL with a very balanced side in all departments. They won the 1st rain hit match convincingly and likely to retain the same team.

Chennai Super Kings bounced back after defeat in the 1st match and won 2nd match by huge margin of 92 runs. They also retain the same winning team as Hayden is in good touch.

Delhi Daredevils Playing Eleven Team, Squad (Likely)

Virender Sehwag (capt), David Warner, Gautam Gambhir, AB de Villiers, Manoj Tiwary, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Rajat Bhatia, Daniel Vettori, Yo Mahesh/Amit Mishra,Ashish Nehra, Glenn McGrath.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11, Team, Squad (Likely)

Matthew Hayden, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), S Badrinath, Andrew Flintoff, Albie Morkel, L Balaji, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Deccan Chargers are now at Number 1 position in IPL Standings by registering a 24 runs win over Banglore Royal Challengers. Skipper Gilchrist won the toss and elected to bat first. Former Australian wicket-keeper explosive batsman Gilchrist entertain the crowd with his superb performance. He scored 71 runs from 45 balls including 4 fours and 5 huge sixes. Praveen Kumar provide first breakthrough by dismissing opener Gibbs. After that it was a wonderful performance from Rohit Sharma. He hit three huge sixes in Kumble’s over. Rohit Sharma manage to complete his half century and was out for a score of 52 runs in 30 balls. Deccan Chargers put a total of 184/6 in 20 overs. In reply, RC opener was cleaned bowled from pacer F.Edwards on first ball of the match. Only Dravid (48) and V.Kohli (50) score runs Royal Challengers Banglore manage to score 160/8 in 20 overs.

Man Of The Match - Adam Gilchrist

Playing XI - DC -
Adam Gilchrist (C) (W), Herschelle Gibbs, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh, Fidel Edwards

Playing XI -RCB -
Robin Uthappa (W), Jesse Ryder, Jacques Kallis, Kevin Pietersen (C), Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Rajesh Bishnoi, Karan Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Dale Steyn, Anil Kumble