The team that raised a storm these last fifteen days on the UAE leg of the IPL, winning all five of its matches, will now be back on familiar territory in India.
IPL's UAE leg saw its first tied match played in the desert when the Kolkata Knight Riders made heavy weather of a chase of 152 against Rajasthan Royals.
Ajinkya Rahane hit a classy 72 as Rajasthan Royals posted a fighting 152/5 against Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League encounter on Tuesday.
Knight Riders assistant coach Vijay Dahiya insists there is no danger to Gautam Gambhir's place in the side even as the captain continues to battle poor form.
Two stunning catches by Starc gave RCB a chance of defending a modest total against KXIP, and he felt that dismissing Glenn Maxwell was very "satisfying".
Gavaskar had a chat with all CEOs and owners of the franchises and asked Sundar Raman to write to them asking if there were any issues to be addressed.
The total number of franchises in the IPL will not be increased for the next three years. Eight teams form the league and it will remain the same till 2017.
Chasing 125 for victory against the Royal Challengers, the Kings XI batsmen made a bit of a mess of an easy target before getting there with five wickets to spare.
Curtains came down on the high-pitch campaigning for 29 Assembly and four Lok Sabha (LS) seats in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts on Monday evening.
Virender Sehwag (32) and David Miller (26) played useful knocks to help Punjab register fifth straight victory in IPL 7 after defeating Bangalore by 5 wickets.
KKR bowling coach Wasim Akram has expressed confidence that his side will make it to the final four in the IPL as they have a "good enough" bowling attack.
Smith scored three fifties in five matches and McCullum hit two half-centuries to currently lie at the second and third position in the most runs list respectively.