"You see a lot now in one-day games, teams consistently getting up near the 300, but as we’ve seen here all the games have been a contest and I think that’s all you’re after … It’s enjoyable sometimes to come and play on different wickets and have different plans in mind, to get 220 is a very good score in these sorts of conditions, so it’s been quite good." Brad Haddin
"We will learn a lot from this experience, by playing against the Australian team." Younis Khan
Watch Online Live IPL T20 The 22nd match of the IPL 2009 between Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Delhi daredevils at Centurion on April 30, 2009 Start time 4.15pm IST (1445GMT,)
Centurion ground plays host to the clash of the two best teams in the tournament – Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils – in the first of Thursday’s double-header.
Deccan, with a 100 per cent record this season, are unrecognisable from the side that propped up the table in 2008. Herschelle Gibbs and Adam Gilchrist have fired at the top and there have been no batting collapses
Delhi: (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Mithun Manhas, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Daniel Vettori, 8 Dirk Nannes, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Watch Online Live IPL T20 The 21st match of the IPL 2009 between Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Superkings at Centurion on April 30, 2009 Start time 4.45pm (1445GMT, 2015 IST)
Rajasthan royals have problems with their batting. The Indian batsmen, apart from Yusuf, have not contributed at all. More changes are not completely unexpected
Chennai’s biggest problem has been the local players. If they have to play Ntini, they will have to forego either of Jacob Oram and Albie Morkel. And they could also want to play M Vijay ahead of Badri.
Watch Online Live IPL T20 The 20th match of the IPL 2009 between Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab at Durban April 29, 2009 Start time 16:45 pm (14:45 GMT)
Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar has been in tremendous form, with two half-centuries, and averaging 81.50.
Though his opening partner, Sanath Jayasuriya, has not been as prolific, both batsmen have strike-rates of over 130
Punjab emerged winners in both contests between the two sides, of which one was a thriller that went to the last ball and was decided by a run-out.
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Watch Online Live IPL T20 The 19th match of the IPL 2009 between Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Durban April 29, 2009 Start time 12.30pm (10.30GMT) time.
The 1st match of todays double-header in Durban is between two teams that are at the bottom of the league – Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal
Challengers. Kolkata’s campaign has been plagued by all sorts of issues – multiple-captaincy, a mystery blogger, players being cut from the squad
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Bangalore: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 4 Robin Uthappa (wk), 5 Roelof van der Merwe/Ross Taylor, 6 Mark Boucher, 7 B Akhil, 8 R Vinay Kumar, 9 Pankaj Singh, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 KP Appanna.
Watch Online Live IPL T20 The 18th match of the IPL 2009 between Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Durban April 29, 2009 Start time 12.30pm (10.30GMT) time.
The 1st match of todays double-header in Durban is between two teams that are at the bottom of the league – Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal
Challengers. Kolkata’s campaign has been plagued by all sorts of issues – multiple-captaincy, a mystery blogger, players being cut from the squad
Delhi Daredevils won 3 out of three matches and are currently in second spot in the points table, behind Deccan Chargers who won all of their four matches. Last year’s champions Rajasthan Royals are second from bottom with only one win
Rajasthan’s two defeats so far have been because of batting collapses: they folded for 58 against Bangalore and 112 against Kings XI Punjab
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Delhi: 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Mithun Manhas, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Daniel Vettori, 8 Dirk Nannes, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Delhi and Rajasthan played each other thrice last season. Delhi won the first encounter easily by nine wickets, but lost the next two. Rajasthan clinched a home victory by three wickets in the second league game before winning the semi-final by a whopping 105 runs in Mumbai.
Delhi Daredevils won 3 out of three matches and are currently in second spot in the points table, behind Deccan Chargers who won all of their four matches. Last year’s champions Rajasthan Royals are second from bottom with only one win
Rajasthan’s two defeats so far have been because of batting collapses: they folded for 58 against Bangalore and 112 against Kings XI Punjab
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Delhi: 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Mithun Manhas, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Daniel Vettori, 8 Dirk Nannes, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Amit Mishra, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Delhi and Rajasthan played each other thrice last season. Delhi won the first encounter easily by nine wickets, but lost the next two. Rajasthan clinched a home victory by three wickets in the second league game before winning the semi-final by a whopping 105 runs in Mumbai.
Delhi Daredevils won 3 out of three matches and are currently in second spot in the points table, behind Deccan Chargers who won all of their four matches. Last year’s champions Rajasthan Royals are second from bottom with only one win
Rajasthan’s two defeats so far have been because of batting collapses: they folded for 58 against Bangalore and 112 against Kings XI Punjab
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Bangalore: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 4 Robin Uthappa (wk), 5 Roelof van der Merwe/Ross Taylor, 6 Mark Boucher, 7 B Akhil, 8 R Vinay Kumar, 9 Pankaj Singh, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 KP Appanna.
McCullum smashed 158 off 73 balls to annihilate Bangalore by 140 runs in the opening game of the IPL last season. Kolkata won their home game at the Eden Gardens as well by five runs after Bangalore were restricted to 126 for 4 in 16 overs.
The Fake IPL Player blog is now become the focus of attention at this time. Is it a fake IPL player or is it actually an IPL player throwing the dirt on his K K R team mates?
The blogger seems to know many things about what’s going on internally and refers to players using cute nicknames. an example is ‘Lord Almighty’ which can be assumed is Sourav Ganguly.
The Kolkata Knight Riders people seems to know about the blog and the blogger, so if in case it is the truth it might come to an abrupt halt some time soon.
Fake IPL Player calls the franchise’s owner ‘Vinnie Dildo’. Make of that what you will.
Rumours are that Fake ipl blogger could well be Shah Rukh khan , or Akash Chopra
Team news Marcus North is in the squad following Shaun Marsh’s quick exit with a hamstring injury, but his late arrival will probably rule him out of game two. Marsh returns home and his gap will require some series reshuffling, with Michael Clarke and Shane Watson contenders to partner Brad Haddin at the top of the order.
Australia (possible) 1 Michael Clarke (capt), 2 Brad Haddin (wk), 3 Shane Watson, 4 David Hussey, 5 Andrew Symonds, 6 Callum Ferguson, 7 James Hopes, 8 Nathan Hauritz, 9 Stuart Clark, 10 Nathan Bracken, 11 Ben Hilfenhaus.
Following their encouraging opening, Pakistan are unlikely to do too much to their side, which needs match practice following their unscheduled break. Expect Afridi and Ajmal to create more problems, especially if they work in tandem.
Pitch and conditions This is the last game in Dubai before the series switches to Abu Dhabi for Monday’s match. Clear and warm conditions are predicted for the day-night encounter.
Quotes
"We don’t have exposure in domestic cricket in Australia to that style of bowling. It is difficult when the first time you get it is when you step up to international level … My shoulder will probably get worn out throwing offspinners and doosras." Australia’s coach Tim Nielsen looks for ways to fix his team’s spin problems
"It was a fantastic team effort. The fast bowlers did well to check the openers and then Afridi and Saeed Ajmal bowled very well. We wobbled a bit when batting but all’s well that ends well." Younis Khan after the opening success
The 4th ODI of the 5 match series between Australia and Pakistan will begin from May 1 , 2009 at Abu Dhabi Sports Stadium
