2018 IPL Match Results
Match 01 MI Vs CSK @ Mumbai Saturday April 07,2018
Scorecard
MI 176/7 in 20 Overs
CSK 177/6 in 18.5 Overs
Match Result KKR won by 1 wicket
MOM Dwayne Bravo(CSK) for his 68(30 Balls 4x3 and 6x7)
Match 02 KXIP Vs DD @ Mohali Sunday April 08,2018
Scorecard
DD 166/7 in 20 Overs
KXIP 167/4 in 18.5 Overs
Match Result KXIP won by 6 wickets
MOM K L Rahul(KXIP)for his 51(16 Balls 4x6 and 6x4)
Match 03 KKR Vs RCB @ Kolkata Sunday April 08,2018
Scorecard
RCB 176/7 in 20 Overs
KKR 177/6 in 15.5 Overs
Match Result KKR won by 4 wickets
MOM Sunil Narine(KKR) for his 1/30(4 Overs) and 50(19 Balls 4x4 and 6x5)
Match 04 SRHVs RR @ Hyderabad Monday April 09,2018
Scorecard
RR 125/9 in 20 Overs
SRH 127/1 in 18.5 Overs
Match Result SRH won by 9 wickets
MOM Shikhar Dhawan(SRH)for his 77*(57 Balls 4x13 and 6x)
Ajinkya Rahane and Kane Williamson Set for Big Challenge
Ajinkya Rahane and Kane Williamson will have to step up for the big challenge of captaincy come Monday April 09,2018 when they led Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad respectively.
SRH beat RR by 9 Wickets
SRH won the toss and chose to field
Scorecard
RR 125/9 in 20 Overs
SRH 127/1 in 18.5 Overs
Match Result KKR won by 4 wickets
MOM Shikhar Dhawan(SRH)for his 77*(57 Balls 4x13 and 6x)
With Steve Smith and David Warner missing, all eyes will be on these two men who will look to make most of the big opportunity.
Ajinkya Rahane will be the 5th RR skipper in the IPL. Amazingly, he’ll be just the 2nd Indian, after Rahul Dravid.
Shane Warne, Shane Watson & Steve Smith are the others to have captained RR in the past.
Kane Williamson will be Sunrisers’ 6th captain, astounding since they only started playing the IPL 5 years ago!
He’ll be the fifth foreign-born skipper after Warner, Sangakkara, Cameron White & Darren Sammy. While Williamson hasn’t captained in the IPL, he has captained NZ in 33 matches.
Out of the 33, he has won 17 matches. Williamson’s 17 T20I victories are the most by any Kiwi skipper (McCullum & Vettori are next with 13 apiece) and his win rate is the best (min. 5 matches in charge) – 51.52%
He has scored 894 runs for NZ in T20Is as a captain, the most by a Kiwi captain.
For those who had doubts as to how Sunrisers Hyderabad would perform in the absence of David Warner, Kane Williamson’s men thumped Rajasthan Royals by 9 wickets in match 4 of IPL to make a telling statement. After being set a below-par target of 126, the Hyderabad batsmen made short work of their opposition and finished the game with 25 balls to spare. But with Warner out, opener Shikhar Dhawan took it upon himself to lead from the front with an unbeaten 77 as skipper Kane Williamson, who wasn’t a regular in the playing XI until last year, played perfect second fiddle.
Playing their first home game at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal, Dhawan and Williamson did not allow the Rajasthan bowlers to dominate and smashed them all over the park. After losing the first wicket, opener Wriddhiman Saha for 5 runs, the duo just piled on the misery on the Royals who at one point looked clueless as Dhawan dealt only in boundaries. But most importantly, Dhawan was given a lifeline right at the top when as he was dropped at first slip by Ajinkya Rahane off Dhawal Kulkarni. The opener was yet to open his account at that stage. From there on he did not put a foot wrong and scored a swashbuckling 77 in just 57 balls. His innings included 13 fours and one six. This was also his 29th fifty in the IPL. Williamson, on the other hand finished the match unbeaten on 36.
Rajasthan bowlers had a torrid outing as they just did not get their length right on a good Uppal track. Except for Kulkarni, who gave away 18 runs in 2.5 overs, every other bowler leaked runs. Jaydev Unadkat was far too short at times and was hit for two boundaries in one over by Dhawan. Aussie bowler Ben Laughlin was at the receiving end too as he was smashed for 20 runs in two overs.
Earlier in the day, it wasn’t the kind of start that Rajasthan would have hoped for after coming back into the league after a gap of two years. Their batsmen didn’t quite play the way they should have, and could only post 125/9 on the board in their allotted 20 overs.
Rahane, the skipper of the side and D’arcy Short could only score 13 and four respectively before going back to the pavilion. Sanju Samson did try to stabilize the Royals innings with his watchful 49 from 42 balls, but that was not enough to take his team to a fighting total.
Rajasthan innings was marked by wickets at regular intervals, and just couldn’t get partnerships going. From being 48/1 in the first six overs, they could just add 77 runs in the next 14.
Their big buy Ben Stokes could not prove his worth with the bat as he was constantly troubled by leg-spinner Rashid Khan. In just his first over, he appealed against Stokes twice. The southpaw finally fell to Billy Stanlake while trying to up the run-rate.
His departure put extra pressure on the relatively inexperienced middle-order and none of the batsmen could get going after that. Rahul Tripathi, who rose to fame in the previous edition of IPL, departed for 17 from 15 balls. Another England international Jos Buttler fell cheaply and could not bail his team out of trouble.
Sunrisers were extraordinary with the ball as they did not let any of the batsmen to settle on the wicket. All the bowlers contributed in restricting the opposition to a low score, and enhanced their reputation as one of the best bowling units in the IPL.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar troubled the batsmen with his impeccable lines and returned with figures of 1/30. He was ably supported by Billy Stanlake who also chipped in with a wicket. But these performances were overshadowed by the exploits of pacer Siddharth Kaul who got the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane and Krishnappa Gowtham. In his quota of four overs, he just gave away just 17 runs.
As usual it was a great outing for Rashid. The batsmen were unable to pick his googlies and found it hard to score runs off him. The other spinner in the team, Shakib Al Hasan finished with two wickets too
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