Rajasthan Royals needed a win to stay in contention for the play-offs and two half-centuries, coupled with an Ajit Chandila hat-trick powered the hosts here to a dominating 45 run win against a devastated Pune Warriors on Sunday. This was Pune's eight consecutive defeat.

South Africa skipper Johan Botha on Friday conceded that the one-off Twenty20 match against India in Johannesburg was evenly poised before rain stopped play, helping the hosts to emerge winner by 11 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Johan Boha will be released from his national contract at the end of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in September, according to an official release from Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Friday.

South Africa need a win. They need it at Port Port Elizabeth as the hosts get ready to face Australia in the 2nd ODI. This after losing the first match in which rain played a secondary role to a determined Australian attack. A look at how the two teams stack up against each other.

Following the 50-run win over South Australian Redbacks in the Champions League Twenty20 on Sunday, Warriors captain Johan Botha said his team played to the plan and was now looking forward to the challenges ahead.

The Warriors lower-order batsmen kept swinging their first balls for boundaries to make sure the comeback from Ashwell Prince and Johan Botha was not wasted. Royal Challengers Bangalore had the game won, then lost, then won, then lost, then won, until they finally lost it last ball.

South African batsman Jean-Paul Duminy stated that it will be a three-way battle for the ODI captaincy between T20 captain Johan Botha, prolific batsman Hashim Amla and the dashing AB de Villiers.

Former captain Rahul Dravid is hopeful about the Indian cricket team improving upon its 2006 performance on the upcoming tour of the West Indies.

Chennai Super Kings continued their dominance at home and eased to a fourth-successive win in conditions where power play took a backseat to opportunistic strokemaking, and stamina and steady consolidation was in greater supply than short outbursts of runs.

Rajasthan Royals executed a well-calibrated chase against an off-colour Delhi Daredevils attack to register their second win in two games and move atop the IPL leaderboard.