Archive for April, 2011

A perfect assessment by Muralitharan

Muttiah Muralitharan, the bowling legend of Sri Lanka who is now playing for Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the IPL season 4 stated on the eve of his team’s match against Rajasthan Royals that RR is equipped with top quality players and also after a couple of defeats they will put a desperate fight for a come back and hence Kochi Tuskers should keep that in mind while playing the match. The out come of the match of April 24 held at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur proved Muralitharan’s assessment as perfect.

Murali said that he was happy about his bowling at Eden Gardens against KKR but, was unhappy that he didn’t get the chance to play in the matches against Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. According to the Sri Lankan cricket stalwart, in the first five matches played by KTK, the team has proved that they have the potential to win over even the more powerful teams. He attributed their victory against KKR to team performance. According to Muralitharan, even a team with the best players of the world should keep fighting tremendously when the match becomes tough. Murali lamented that in their initial two matches they lost in the few final overs though they were very much on the winning position.

Muralitharan expressed satisfaction over the settlement reached by Sri Lanka Cricket Board and BCCI regarding the stay of Sri Lankan players in India till the end of the IPL Live tournament which will enable them to concentrate on the game. He fully agrees that preparation is a must prior to the England tour and is optimistic that the players will have sufficient time for the training since they will return to their country eight to nine days before commencement of the Test series in England.

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CSK Vs PWI

The 29th IPL t20 cricket match of IPL season 2011 will be played between Chennai Super Kings Vs Pune Warriors India (CSK VS PWI). The IPL live cricket match will be starting at 8PM IST at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The new IPL team Pune Warriors India is going to meet Chennai Super Kings for the first time.

The Pune Warriors India ipl cricket team has played 4 IPL t20 cricket games so far. They have won 50% of their played matches. They won 2 ipl games and they have 4 IPL points with the net run rate of +0.667.

Whereas the Chennai Super Kings is not performing well so far in this IPL 4 cricket season. They just won only 2 IPL games out of five IPL cricket matches played. They are also having 4 IPL points.

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DD Vs KXIP

The Delhi Daredevils Vs Kings XI Punjab IPL 4 cricket match will be played at Delhi at 8PM today (23/04/2011). The DD Vs KXIP match is the 26th IPL game of this IPL 2011 series. The Delhi Daredevils IPL team is at the last place of IPL 4 points table this time so far.

The Kings XI Punjab IPL team is doing well this time under the captaincy of Adam Gilchrist. They got the 3rd place at IPL 2011 points table with 6 points along with Kolkata Knight Riders having a good net run rate of +0.290.

The Kings XI Punjab IPL team has played totally 4 ipl games so far, they have won 3 ipl cricket matches out of played 4 games and they lost only one IPL game till now. The Delhi Daredevils IPL team has played 4 IPL games and they lost 3 game & they just won only one IPL game.

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KKR Vs RCB

The 24th IPL t20 cricket game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore is going to play at Eden Garden, Kolkata, West Bengal today 22/04/2011. The match will be starting at 4PM IST on the good Friday. The Kolkata Knight Riders team is already on top of the ipl 4 points table with 6 points.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore team is not scoring much points this time. They just won only one IPL t20 game and got 3 points and the RCB ipl team is pushed to 9th place of the IPL points table this time.

The KKR Vs RCB ipl cricket match is much important for Royal Challengers Bangalore team to alive in the IPL 4 season. The RCB team has played totally 5 IPL game so for they won 1 game, lost 3 game and 1 game was no result.

The KKR ipl team has played five ipl t20 games and they have won 3 matches and lost 2 matches. The Kolkata IPL team has a net run rate of +0.629 so far in this IPL 2011 tournament.

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IPL Cricket Games

IPL has arrived to the town and one has to confess every thing looks upside down with it. Nothing sounds to be out of equation with IPL, where teams go for it like a group of incredible.

Score more than one ninety and still you see the teams lose their way. Mahendra Singh Dhoni must have felt likewise, when Paul Valthaty sigle – handedly turned it on for Punjab from no where to knock them over.

Delhi Daredevils, who looked rather insipid from their first two outing turned the tables and chased down a Herculean total and floored the Pune Warriors, who looked like a daunting warriors.

Royal Challengers began the tournament with the bang but that was the end of their party, as they have failed to impact in their next three matches now finding themselves on the bottom half of the table.

Centuries can win matches, but not in the chaos theory called IPL, as Sachin Tendulkar’s nerve wracking century of sixty six balls was not enough to imprint the winner’s stamp.

Previous editions break open the trend, where you saw the spinners licking the new ball regulary and this year it has been quite a mixed bag, where several spinners were bited dust as they were smacked down and Ravichandran Ashwin from Chennai Super Kings’s was one classic exception.

Pinch – hitters is quite a debate in one – day cricket and it would be natural for any one to take it granted in this high – flying format but IPL hasn’t witnessed a single triumphant pinch – hitter in its ranks.

Zaheer Khan was promoted for Royal Challengers against deccan Chargers only to be castled by the pace of Dale Steyn to retun to the pavilion and it was a similar script with Irfan Pathan, who was promoted by Virender Shewag.

Stars are only for sky and it seems not for the IPL, where star players like Sreesanth, V. V. S Laxman, Cameroon White, Duminy were benched. One can’t stop but to feel for daredevil captains, who are willing to swagger to any extent to romp to the finish line.

So at the end of road, we conclude IPL is the master wizardry where there is only one rule; rules are meant to broken. Sounds more confusion isn’t it , so just enjoy it rather thinking about it.

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DC Vs RCB

The Deccan Chargers Hyderabad and the Royal Challengers Bangalore both IPL teams are going to play their 3rd IPL t20 game in this series.  Hyderabad will be venue of this 11the IPL cricket match of this IPL 4 season.

The Deccan Chargers (DC) is not yet starting their IPL points they lost first 2 IPL games. Whereas Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) ipl team has won one out of 2 ipl game. The new IPL team Pune Warriors India is on top of the IPL points table so far.

The DC Vs RCB ipl match will be staring at 8PM IST. This will be a day and night match and this is the only IPL match of the day.  From now, every IPL team is going to fight to qualify for the IPL semi final as this time qualifying for semi final is very tough because of the increase in the team total.

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KolKata Vs Hyderabad

The Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Deccan Chargers IPL t20 match will be played at KKR’s home ground Eden Gardens, Kolkata. This match will be a Day & Night ipl cricket match. The 6th kkr vs dc ipl match is the second IPL game for the both teams Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers Hyderabad.

The Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team has already lost their 1st IPL t20 cricket match against CSK on April 8th by 2 runs margin. On that match, CSK has won the toss and elected to bat first against KKR. A Srikanth from Chennai Super Kings has scored 65 runs from 55 balls.

J. Kallis has scored 54 runs from 42 balls from Kolkata Knight Riders team, who was actually playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore last time. Finally, the CSK team won the match by two runs different.

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DC Vs RR & CSK Vs KKR

The captain of Rajasthan Royals Shane Warne made the wisest decision to send Johan Botha as his third batsman in their match against Deccan Chargers in the IPL 2011. Johan Botha’s brilliant score of 67, not out put his team in a very strong position.

In the inaugural match of IPL 2011 at M A Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, Kolkata Knight Riders were defeated by Chennai Super Kings just for 2 runs. The main reason for the defeat of KKR is attributed as a wrong decision by the captain Gautam Gambhir to put himself at the lower level of the batting line. Gautam Gambhir has been playing for India as the opening batsman or as the batsman just after the fall of first wicket. If that tradition was followed in the IPL match also, it would have been beneficial for his team. Gambhir’s entry at a time when his team required 35 runs off 21 balls proved futile. More over he was run out at a very crucial point.

According to Gautam Gambhir it was part of a strategy he had made with his team mate Jacques Kallis. The understanding between them was that in case Kallis was out at an early stage, Gautam Gambhir can go and take care of the innings. But, unfortunately their strategy failed in yielding the desired result.

Gautham Gambhir preferred the right-handers after taking into consideration the presence of off-spinners like Suraj Randiv and Ravichandran Aswin in the rival team. The captain of KKR says that he has put up the best mix of batsmen with only two of them from abroad so that bowlers like Aswin, Randiv and Jakati can be properly dealt with.

Gautam Gambhir was also of the opinion that the Chennai pitch was not so suitable for T 20 match.

The captain of KKR is however confident that his team will perform much better in the coming matches of the season.

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DC Vs RR

The Deccan Chargers Vs Rajasthan Royals IPL 2011 cricket match will be a high class trat for each and every cricket fans. The reason is, both teams were IPL champions. The Deccan Chargers was the second IPL champion in 2009 and the Rajasthan Royals were the first IPL champion in 2008.

The most notable things about these teams are, both captains are from Australia, when the won the IPL title. Adam Gilchrist made this when DC won the cup in IPL 2 and Shane Warne made RR on top when Rajasthan won the first ever IPL title.

The DC Vs RR IPL 4 cricket match will be the second IPL match of this IPL 4th edition and it will be played at Deccan Chargers Hyderabad’s home ground Hyderabad, Andhrapradesh on 9th April. This will be the first IPL match of on that day.

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CSK Vs KKR

The Chennai Super Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders IPL cricket match is the first cricket t20 game of this IPL 2011 edition. This live csk vs kkr ipl match will be played in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The match will be played under day & night match after the inauguration of IPL 2011 edition.

CSK Team Profile

Indian wicket keeper and batsman M.S.Dhoni will lead the Chennai Super Kings IPL team, who has guided the Chennai IPL team 3 times to semi final, 2 times to final and 1 time as IPL title winner in IPL 2011. A Morkel, S Jakati, D Bollinger, R Ashwin, Suresh Raina, A Srikanth, S Badrinath, S Tyagi, J Sharma are the IPL players will be continuing for 4 the season also in Chennai Super Kings. W Saha, G Bailey, D Bravo, S Randiv and Scott Styirs are the new addition of IPL players added to Chennai Super Kings this time.

KKR Team Profile

The Delhi based left hand batsman Gautam Gambhir will lead the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team instead of Sourav Ganguly. Former captain and star bowler of Pakistan cricket team Wasim Akram will be working as a bowling consultant of Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team.

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