South Africa captain AB de Villiers has admitted that the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy is a golden opportunity for the side to lay its hands on a piece of ICC silverware, a feat the country has not achieved since 1998.

“We are really looking forward to the ICC Champions Trophy in England and Wales. This is another opportunity for us to win that elusive ICC trophy and it will be a great test for our ODI squad looking ahead to the World Cup in two years,” admitted de Villiers.

The Mumbai Indians reclaimed second spot in the Indian Premier League standings by routing the Kolkata Knight Riders by 65 runs at the Wankhede Stadium. Powered by an outstanding 48 from just 28 balls by the long overdue Sachin Tendulkar and an equally attacking 34 from Dinesh Karthik, Mumbai posted an imposing 170-6 in their 20 overs. KKR were never really in the hunt, bowled out for an appalling 105 with only four batsmen getting into double figures. Harbhajan Singh led an excellent bowling unit with figures of 3-27, but the wickets were shared around excellently with Mitchell Johnson doing just as well to take 2-13 from his 4 overs.

It had been just two days since the Mumbai Indians had registered an emphatic victory against two-time champions, the unstoppable Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. At the same venue and with the same momentum, the team was all set to take on defending champions, Kolkata Knight Riders, who were in a must-win situation and had a slim chances of making it to the play-offs.

The Rajasthan Royals continued to be perfect performers on home territory, routing the beleaguered Delhi Daredevils by 9 wickets under the hot Jaipur sun. A battling 64 from 40 balls from Ben Rohrer helped Delhi reach a competitive 154-4 in their 20 overs, but Rajasthan cruised to victory thanks to a pair of half-centuries from their openers, Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane. The win takes Rajasthan up to 2nd place in the IPL standings for a couple of hours at the very least.

Two true legends of the sport in Rahul Dravid and Mahela Jayawardene walked out for the toss which went in favour of the Delhi Daredevils, who elected to bat first. Delhi came up with six changes leaving out Jeevan Mendis, Johan Botha, Unmukt Chand, Irfan Pathan, Ashish Nehra and Shahbaz Nadeem and brought in Ben Rohrer, Morne Morkel, Ajit Agarkar, Siddarth Kaul, Pawan Negi and keeper CM Gautam. Rajasthan on the other hand made just a couple of changes bringing in 40+ debutant Pravin Tambe and Shaun Tait in the team for Ajit Chandila and Kevon Cooper.

An exceptional unbeaten century from South African import David Miller powered the Kings XI Punjab to an unlikely 6 wicket win over the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali. Miller smashed an incredible 101 from just 38 balls to lead his side to an unexpected 6 wicket win with 2 full overs to spare.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore were put into bat, and won the first 30 overs of this contest, having posted a massive 190-3 on the back of half-centuries from their openers, Chris Gayle (61) and the returning Cheteshwar Pujara (51).

Match 50 of the Indian Premier League lived up to the hype as there was some exceptional cricket on display as the Rajasthan Royals defended their proud home record once again, scripting a final over victory over a battling Pune Warriors side.

Batting first on winning the toss, Pune posted an excellent 178-4 on the back of some outstanding batting from their openers and a late flourish from Mitchell Marsh. Pune's effort though was matched all the way by Rajasthan, whose Indian contingent flourished with Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane scoring half centuries before Stuart Binny's brilliant 32 from 13 balls took his side to victory, and back into 4th place in the IPL Standings.

The Mumbai Indians ended the winning streak of the table topping Chennai Super Kings with a mauling at the Wankhede Stadium, beating the wannabe Champions by 60 runs. Mumbai recovered from a shoddy 82-5 to post what proved to be a more than competitive 139 on the board thanks to a battling 39 from Skipper Rohit Sharma and a quickfire 25 from Harbhajan Singh. Mitchell Johnson and Pragyan Ojha then shared 6 wickets between them to skittle Chennai out for just 79 in response to end Chennai's unbeaten run at 7 games.

The Mumbai Indians won the toss at the Wankhede Stadium for their big home game against the table topping Chennai Super Kings, and elected to make first use of what looked like a gorgeous batting surface.