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Queensland beat Knight Riders by 48-run, lead series 4-1

Kolkata Knight Riders’ disastrous Australia tour continues after Queensland defeated the Indian Premier League side by 48-run in the penultimate match of the six-match Twenty20 series, although all-rounder Andrew Symonds made little impact in the victory.
Via Hindu

Don’t fall for IPL lure, Watson urges Symonds

Indian Premier League (IPL) would be a tempting option for Andrew Symonds but teammate Shane Watson does not want the feisty all-rounder to tread that path and waste his talent. Watson reckons playing just two months a year and getting paid USD 1.5 million might tempt Symonds to abandon the baggy green for the IPL [...]

Modi tells Symonds to keep playing for Australia

The Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has told Andrew Symonds, who is weighing up his options after being suspended by Australia for going fishing, that the competition is not a venue for a “bunch of retired cricketers”.
Via Yahoo Sport

Deccan Chargers ‘would welcome Symonds’

Chargers chief executive Tim Wright said they would love to have Symonds available for the entire 2009 series, which runs from April 10 to June 1. “The Deccan Chargers would - as would any IPL team - want Andrew Symonds in from the very first ball of the competition to the very last ball,” he [...]

Symonds ponders his future

ANDREW Symonds is so disillusioned with his treatment over the “gone fishing” debacle - and struggling so much with the demands of being a high-profile cricketer - that he is considering quitting the game that has made him a millionaire. Symonds would lose his $500,000 CA contract if he abandoned the game in Australia. However, [...]

Aussies IPL earnings for a two week stint

Brett Lee returned home with 80,000 dollars per scalp for his four wickets. Lee was bought for 900,000 dollars and he took home more than 320,000 dollars in his four matches with Kings XI Punjab. The highest earner among the Australian players.
Ponting earned $3663 for every run, or $142,000 for the four games [...]

Symonds hits and get hit

Symonds plundered the bowling attack of Rajasthan Royals scoring the fastest 100 in the Indian Premier League and taking the Deccan Chargers score to 214/5 in 20 overs after put into batting by Shane warne. Shane warne won the toss and elected to field. Symonds score stood at 117 ‘not out’ from just 53 balls. [...]

Symonds feels accepted by Indian fans

Symonds representing Hyderabad’s Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League played his first match against Kolkata Knight Riders on Sunday night at Eden Gardens.
“When I came out on the field there was a fair bit of noise but I didn’t hear anything nasty,” Symonds was quoted as saying in The Daily Telegraph . “I went [...]

Cheers replace taunts for Symonds

ANDREW Symonds was cheered as he jogged out to bat in the Kolkata cauldron last night, easing fears of a repeat of racist taunts from Indian crowds.
Symonds’ approach to the wicket for his first Indian Premier League game was partly muted by the Bollywood music reverberating around the ground but there was no repeat of [...]

Aussies show strength in IPL

Hussey smashed 116 not out from 54 balls to guide the Chennai Super Kings to a 33-run victory over the Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on Saturday. The crowd of around 15,000 was treated to a feast of big hitting with 447 runs scored in 40 overs.
The Chennai batsmen cleared the boundary 16 times in [...]