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Royal Challengers storm into finals
Royal Challengers Bangalore 149 for 4 (Pandey 48, Dravid 44) beat Chennai Super Kings 146 for 5 (Parthiv 36, 2-38) by six wickets. Anil Kumble had his way with the toss and put Chennai to bat. With a disciplined attack, Royal challengers restricted the favorites Chennai Super Kings to 146. Even though Royal challengers had [...]
Gilchrist powers Deccan Chargers to the Finals
Deccan Chargers 154 for 4 (Gilchrist 85) beat Delhi Daredevils 153 for 8 (Dilshan 65, Sehwag 39, Harris 3-27) by six wickets. Most thought that Delhi Daredevils are the favorites for the final, however Adam Gilchrist had other plans. After winning the toss, Adam Gilchrist choose to field which was a surprise considering the fact [...]
Who will win the IPL Season II Championship?
Any early guesses as to who will win the IPL 2009 season in South Africa. I personally feel that Royal Challengers will be the team to look out for winning the coveted championship this time as they have more South African essence in their composition. Your thoughts and guess?
Race to South Africa
Three weeks to the opening of Indian Premier League Season II and franchisees are busy to get their pseudo home base in South Africa. Rajasthan Royals were first of the block and have tied up with Cape Cobras and will be based from Cape Town. Mumbai Indians have chosen Durban, while Kolkata Knight Riders are [...]
IPL 2009 match schedules released
South Africa is the new venue which will host IPL season 2 from April 18. The tournament will now be held between April 18 and May 24, which will feature 59 matches. The tournament would start from April 18, a delay of about one week from the original schedule.
The schedule (All times IST):
April 18: [...]
IPL 2009 Teams & Squads
Royal Challengers
International players: Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Dillon Du Preez, Cameron White, Nathan Bracken, Ross Taylor, Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder and Roelof van der Merwe.
Indian players: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Virat Kohli, Wasim Jaffer, Manish Pandey, Srivastava Goswami, R. Suteesh, Pankaj Singh, Vinay Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Karan [...]
IPL 2009 – How the teams stack up after the auction
Keeping the list to only key players of each team.
Royal Challengers
Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Chanderpaul, Robin Uthappa, Kallis, Boucher, Dale Steyn, Bracken, Virat Kohli…..
Good Batting side.. Bowling department weak!
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni, Flintoff, Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, Hayden, Mike Hussey, Ntini, Muralitharan…
Good balanced team with bowlers, all-rounders and batsmen led by Captain Cool. [...]
IPL 2009 Auction update
Thilan Tushara picked by Chennai Super Kings for $140,000
Chennai made a bid for George Bailey, a Tasmanian batsman, for $50,000 and won it
The Bangladeshi players are not attracting buyers. Shakib, Ashraful and Tamim remain unsold
Mortaza is the first Bangladesh player sold for $600,000, bought by Kolkata Knight Riders
King’s XI Punjab snaps Bopara for $450,000
Ryder [...]
Wish List for IPL 2009 season
I am putting a wish list that I would like to see in the Indian Premier League 2009 season.
Dedicated slot
Indian Premier League to have a dedicated slot in ICC calendar so that the world’s best cricketers are available
Additional Franchises
There should be additional two more franchises which would take the total to 10. If all the [...]
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