Indian Premier League (IPL)

The most glamourous team of ipl KKR with the back of King Khan are getting slightly off the track as they faced their second defeat of the tournament after going down to the aspring Mumbai Indians.

The game started in front of a jam packed crowd of over 80,000 KKR supporters it surely was an outrageous crowd.But capitan saurav ganguly couldn`t not get their team off to a good start as he and Superstar Brendon Mcullum got out in the first over.The debutant das provided some resilliance but couldn`t lasted for long enough.Then it was a very bad phase for the team as the wickets kept on tumbling.Ricky Ponting made struggling 19 and the only shine was shukla with 40 which to KKR to a score of 137/8 .

Things started fruitfully for KKR as they got the Mumbai Indians to a disasterous start of 25/3 in 4 overs in which young Ishant Sharma got the vital wicket of Jayasuria for 18 which uprooted his stumps.But after the initial burst the Mumbai Indians recovered well with the Bravery of Dwayne Bravo and great support of Robin Uthappa and managed a superb partnership of 113 runs to see their team home a few balls to spare bravo reched his 50 which was a first from a Mumbai Indians player in this tournament and relaxed the nerves of relliance and ambani after 4 successive defeats.

Sharukh Khan needs to get his guyz focused on cricket rather than the night lives and glamour of bollywood as they need to get their acts together quickly to stay amongst the top teams of the table. 

Match 15 - Chennai Super Kings vs. Bangalore Royal Challengers

Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who won the toss and elected to bat first. MS Dhoni who is most successive captain till now his team is unbeaten. Parthiv Patel and Hayden started off things very quickly for Chennai Super Kings. Matthew Haydan in-form batsmen for Chennai fall earlier with great bowling of Zaheer Khan. Micheal Hussey joined Parthiv Patel and setup a short partnership. After departure of Patel, Suresh Raina came in and gel up with Hussey again after scoring and maintaining Runs momentum. Raina dismissed in form of Run out due to confusion with Hussey. That part of time Chennai Super Kings despretly looking for a partnership to develop and score runs at good pace. So the captain himself MS Dhoni involved in superb partnership with Hussey which gathered so much runs @ decent rate. The Dhonis batting package filled with 9 boundaries and 3 sixes. Michael Hussey also contributed as he made 47 runs including 3 boundaries and 2 sixes. Dhoni able to score much valuable 65 runs. Chennai Super Kings finished their innings with effective total of 178 runs. Zaheer Khan bowled really well grabed up 3 most important wickets.

Bangalore Royal Challengers who are not good at chasing runs innings cheaply lost 1st wicket of debutant Chipli. Ross Taylor who is supreme touch gathered with Wasim Jaffar very well. Jaffar who really looking for IPL Stampage with his performances. Both of them tried and produced great batting momentum. 2nd wicket Parntership scored about 90 runs highly critical that stage. Soon Jaffar completed his well deserved half-century and it was P Amarnath who picked him with brilliant piece of bowling. Bangalore Royal Challengers never seem to chase score and keep wickets in hand soon after departure of Wasim Jaffar. Wickets continue to tumble highly expected Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Rahul Dravid got out without any impression. Ross Taylor shown great commitment with the bat again. Scored his second IPL half century and he was also cleared by P Amarnath. Most of them ran out cheaply and didn’t score that much. Royal Challengers lost by 13 runs and get all out before the end of 20th over. Contribution of Jaffar and Ross Taylor made team members something to cheer about but the spectuclar captaincy of MS Dhoni made his team able win another encounter. MS Dhoni was awarded as Man of the Match for his magnificient 65 off 30 balls which proved to be match winning innings by him.

Report from mohali confirms that amish sahiba the on-field umpire discussed about sreeshant in the media which he should have mentioned on his post match report.

“The umpires are not supposed to give their reports to the media, but there is a set procedure through which they can report to the match referee or IPL,” Bindra said.

“There is a prescribed proforma which umpires are supposed to fill and report in case they want to report on any incident. To my knowledge, the umpire in question has not submitted any report to the match referee or IPL co-ordinator,” Bindra said.

Saheba had reportedly told a Mumbai newspaper that “Sreesanth abused the Mumbai Indians (led by Harbhajan Singh) relentlessly throughout the game and was warned twice” by him and the “other umpire, Pakistan’s Aleem Dar.”

On the slapping incident, Bindra, who is also the ICC’s Principal Advisor, said, “It’s a bad episode. There are no two opinions about that, but we should move forward.

“This kind of behaviour is not acceptable. We have maintained that spirit of the game is equally important, if not more than the letter of the law,” Bindra said.

Bindra said Harbhajan, who was banned from the remaining matches of the IPL and lost 100 per cent of his match fees after being found guilty of slapping pacer Sreesanth, has been counseled on several occasions in the past.

“We have been counseling him in the past. I always counseled him in Australia recently (in the Andrew Symonds episode). When Sourav Ganguly was removed, he (Harbhajan) had given a statement. We remain in constant touch with him..,” Bindra said.

Asked if any action could be recommended against Sreesanth as well, Bindra shot back that there was no proof of the Kerala pacers guilt.

“It is a hypothetical situation. Till yesterday, nobody has reported anything and Harbhajan has already accepted his mistake.”

Match 14: Deccan Chargers vs. Mumbai Indians

A must win situation for both teams because they played 3 matches and unable to grab victory. Shaun Pollock replaced Harbhajan Singh as captain of Mumbai Indians. Fortunately VVS Laxman won the toss and elected to field first.
Mumbai Indians started off innings with same sort of stragety in last few matches. Luke Ronchi who is still unable to show any form got out early. Sanath Jayasuriya looked in fine touch but he was also cleared by brilliant bowling of Shahid Afridi. Initially Deccan Chargers seemed to apply pressure on Mumbai Indians. Shaun Pollock promoted himself and tried to boost up scoring tempo. He accomplished things well with Abhishek Nayyar who is enough consistent for Mumbai Indians in whole competetion. Nayyar played fine cricketing strokes with good partnership with Pollock and Bravo. Scoring rate always be key factor but Mumbai Indians fall short to score anything higher than 8 runs per over. Mumbai Indians made 154/7
Deccan Chargers also begun to reply to competetive target of 154. It was totally Adam Gilchrist show with full of action jam packed innings all over the park. He produced solid foundation along with VVS Laxman who supported him time by time. Adam Gilchrist continued his fearous form and completed his century in grand fashion in 42 balls fastest by anyone in IPL. Previous was Andrew Symonds century in 48 deliveries. Gilchrist performance finished all hopes for Shaun Pollock to come up in the match. They reached target within 12 overs. Adam Gilchrist was rewarded man of the match for his brilliant knock of 109 which includes 9 boundaries and 10 smashing sixes.

Mumbai Indians who are in search for their first victory in IPL faces another problem in shape of controversy. Last Friday Mumbai Indians played match against Kings XI Punjab which they lost it and Harbhajan Singh acting captain instead of Sachin Tendulkar who misbehaved with Sreesanth after the ending of last innings.
Sreesanth seen unhappy and his eyes were fully filled with lots of tears that time. No more action taken place Friday night but on Saturday Indian Premier League officials commitee decided and suspended Harbhajan Singh temporarily basis. On Monday hearing of this case will be reviewed and finalised until Harbhajan Singh cannot play game against Deccan Chargers. Shaun Pollock will render his services of Captaincy.
From a source Harbajhan and Sreesanth cleared problems with each other and they are now brothers of one’s family.

Match 13 - Kings XI Punjab vs. Delhi DareDevils

Delhi DareDevils captain Virendar Sehwag won the toss and decided to bat first on flat and batting track. Yuvraj Singh guided bowlers to grab out wickets at quick intervals. The plan worked for him pidy early when Virendar Sehwag who is in supreme touch dismissed by Irfan Pathan. From other end VRV Singh continued to apply more pressure with his straight line bowling Brett Lee also bowled at great pace. Handy contribution of Manoj Tiwari and Dinesh Karthik made Delhi DareDevils to reach score of 158/6 no one performed really well for Sehwags XI.

King XI Punjab opened up worldclass bowling attack of Delhi DareDevils picked 2 early blows for Kings XI Punjab in shape of Karan Goel and Kumar Sangakkara. Simon Katich played a fine knock for his 75 along with Mahela Jayawardena and Yuvraj Singh. Yuvraj Singh also scored awesome cricketing shots. Mohammad Asif striked some wickets for Delhi but it was well enough because of great contribution of Simon Katich and Yuvraj Katich guided a fine and easy victory for Kings XI. Its proven to be fine comeback by Punjab after loosing 2 matches in a row and winning against Delhi and Mumbai Indians this week. Simon Katich was rewarded as Man of the Match for his magnificient 75.

Match 12: Rajasthan Royals vs. Royal Challengers

Both Royals teams get together to play an interesting day night encounter. Bangalore team which is relatively confident with their past performances but highly boosted Rajasthan Royals who clinched up last nail bitter match against Deccan Chargers.
Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne won the toss and choose to field first. Bangalore Royal Challengers opened by Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Rahul Dravid. Both of them unable to do anything on wicket but entry of Ross Taylor exciting Newzealanders created early problems for Rajasthan his short cameo scored at great level. Jacques Kallis also disappeared by fine bowling of Munaf Patel. Shane Watson was again seem to be full swing by grabbing out two very important early wickets. Unlucky Mark Boucher also dismissed by skipper Shane Warne. After departure of Ross Taylor who made 44 off 20 balls only Praveen Kumar shown any kind of resistance in batting and scored much valuable 34. Royal Challengers finished their innings scoring 135 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.

Rajasthan Royals after chasing up big total against Deccan Chargers seemed to quite confident chasing anything around 7 in an over. Graeme Smith opened up innings with newly replaced keeper Rawat who was unlucky get out early. Yosuf Pathan again looked in fine tough as hitting 5 boundaries seem to well in touch. He was removed by Zaheer Khan early stage of the game. Then Shane Watson and Greame Smith come up together and established magnificient partnership of 104 runs. Smith was totally unlucky got out scoring 49 runs. Shane Watson continued his powerful batting form and chased the target along with Mohammad Kaif in just 17.1 overs.

Its perfect example show by Rajasthan Royals to chasing up good and competetive totals. Now they are supposed to be favorite teams of IPL. However they started like underdogs after two successive victories over good teams will increase moral and team confidence. Shane Watson rewarded man of the match due to all-round performance with ball and bat he scored unbeaten 61 runs and lead his team to win the encounter from 7 wickets.

Match-11 Chennai Super Kings vs. Kolkata Knight Riders
Both Unbeaten teams joined toghether for a day game between each other. Chennai Super Kings which is performing outstanding throughout the tournament again smelt for a victory agains Kolkata Knight Riders who also playing better and improved cricket.
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Saurav Ganguly won the toss and elected to bat first. Brendon McCullum and himself opened up against great pace attack of Chennai Super Kings. Jacob Oram and M Gony up to mark as they removed McCullum and follwing another ball Ricky Ponting get out with scoring any run. Early problems for KKR begin to start as WP Saha also clean bowled by thunderous Gony.High hoped David Hussey outclassed by P Amarnath.

Time to Time Chennai looking for wickets and wickets. Ganguly, Hafeez and few other also sent pavilion by pace attackers. Only Laxmi Shukla who shown resistance in batting and stayed at wicket scored valuable 42 runs. Kolkata Knight Riders finished their innings with competetive 147 for the lose of 9 wickets. No wicket for Srilankan premier Spinner Muralitharan. Jacob Oram finished with 3 super wickets and it could be said his match-winning performance with ball.

Matthew Hayden and Parthiv Patel started Chennai Super Kings innings in grand fashion. Partnership of 1st wicket scored 66 runs. Then MS Dhoni promoted himself and smashed 43 runs in which 2 sixes and 3 boundaries also included. Matthew Hayden compiled his second half-century with a surprise package of 70 runs including 6 boundaries and 3 sixes.

Chennai won comprehensively by 9 wickets and it is their 3 victory in a row as Kolkata Knight Riders lost their first match. Jacob Oram was rewarded as Man of the Match.

Match 10 – Kings XI Punjab vs. Mumbai Indians @ Mohali

Much interesting match of IPL Cricket League because Punjab and Mumbai both looking to open account on points table after winning this encounter. Stage set as Harbhajan Singh again won the toss and elected to field first. Mumbai Indians who was missing Sachin Tendulkar (Legend Cricketer) and captain of team quite badly.
Karan Goel and newly promoted Irfan Pathan opened up the innings for Kings XI Punjab. Pathan felt earlier only by making 6 runs. Kumar Sangakkara came in and shown great display of natural batting and ultimate class. Karan Goel run out cheaply due to confusion between Sangakkara only made 19 runs. Yuvraj Singh captain of Kings XI Punjab arrived with smashing mode. He stoked some good shots but caught out greatly by Dwayne Brawo with a decent catch. After him Ramnaresh Sarwan and Mahela Jaywardena joined Sangakkara but no one over looked to build strong partnership but Sangakkara continued his batting momentum and made his table to decent score of 180+ and got out in process of slogging against Harbajhan Singh. Kings XI Punjab ended up with 182 all out.
Mumbai Indians who are not very good in chasing batting second. Started off innings quite badly as Sanath Jayasuriya who given straight back chance to Lee and following next ball Luke Ronchi dismissed due to misunderstanding with Robin Uthappa.

Dywane Bravo and Robin Uthappa smelt a partnership together. But it was soon enough broken by Piyush Chawla a leg spinner who really turns around the game from Kings XI. After dismissal of Bravo and Uthappa no one continued to maintain the runs momentum. Shaun Pollock shown some resistance in the batting he was also outclass with a superb and fantastic catch by Yuvraj Singh. It is a poor and immature batting display by Mumbai Indians cost them to again loose the match. Mumbai Indians ended their innings only by making 116-9 playing all allotted overs. Kumar Sangakkara was rewarded as Man of the Match for his magnificent 94 runs. It is the first victory of Kings XI Punjab in IPL. The owner Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia seemed to much happy and relaxed because of first win in IPL.

Match 10: Kings XI Punjab vs. Mumbai Indians, both teams are unable to make mark on points table will look for a win against each other.

Mumbai Indians which are missing Sachin Tendulkar and his valauble services still unable to create any sort of magic as it Mumbai is the most expensive team of IPL. Kings XI Punjab led by Yuvraj Singh also didn’t look comfortable with team performances. Both team lost their opening and second matches. Harbhajan Singh acting captain of Mumbai Indians still spirited to win over fellow mate Yuvraj Singh’s King XI Punjab. 

It will be amazing encounter between Punjabs and Mumbai teams because of search for first point definately counts on Team moral and confidence.

Mumbai Indians: (probable) 1 Sachin Tendulkar (capt), 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Luke Ronchi (wk), 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Abhishek Nayar, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Shaun Pollock, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Musavir Khote, 10 Ashish Nehra, 11 Dhaval Kulkarni.

Kings XI Punjab: (probable) 1 Karan Goel, 2 James Hopes, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Sunny Sohal, 8 Brett Lee, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Vikram Singh, 11 Sreesanth