The 2009 UEFA Champions League Final football match will be contested by Barcelona and holders Manchester United, The match is to be played at the 72,698-capacity Stadio Olimpico in Rome, the home of Roma and Lazio, on 27 May 2009 at 7-30 pm IST.
Manchester United are the first defending champions to reach the final since Juventus in 1997, and will be looking to be the first team to retain the European Cup since Milan in 1990.
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Royal challengers Bangalore owner and Liqour Baron Vijay Mallya must be proud of his team . unlike last year the bangalore team has reached the Finals of the IPL and will clash with Deccan Chargers on 4th May 2009 Here’s the Theme song of Royal challengers Bangalore
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Watch Live Streaming of the 2nd ODI between England and West Indies which will begin in Bristol, England from Sunday ,May 24 , Start time 10.45 (9.45GMT)
The 1st ODI was washed out due to Rain .This is now a two-match series after the abandonment at Headingley which gives both sides even less room for mistakes
Team news
England haven’t replaced Kevin Pietersen in their squad so are down to 13 players.
With an eye on the Twenty20, Eoin Morgan could be given his debut so the selectors can assess his form and the trio of Dimitri Mascarenhas, Tim Bresnan and Ryan Sidebottom are probably fighting for two places.
West Indies have played two ODIs at Bristol, losing to Pakistan by 27 runs during the 1999 World Cup and also being beaten by Zimbabwe in 2000.
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England (probable) 1 Andrew Strauss (capt), 2 Ravi Bopara, 3 Owais Shah, 4 Eoin Morgan, 5 Paul Collingwood, 6 Matt Prior (wk), 7 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 8 Stuart Broad, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 Tim Bresnan, 11 James Anderson
West Indies (probable) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Lendl Simmons, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Sulieman Benn, 10 Fidel Edwards
Pitch and conditions
The forecast is said to be perfect for cricket with temperatures set to raise so there shouldn’t be any concerns on that front.
Previous ODIs at Bristol have produced pitches with pace and bounce, as opposed to the slow surfaces that often greet domestic cricket.
Quotes
"We gained some momentum in one-day cricket in the West Indies. We were a little bit Jekyll and Hyde, up and down, but we came through and won the series."
Andrew Strauss wants England to find some consistency in their one-day game.
Watch Live the 56th match of the IPL 2009 between Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers at Centurion – May 21, 2009
Start time 16.30 local, (14:30 GMT) IST 8 – pm
What could have been a potential quarter-final clash will perhaps be of less importance now that Kings XI Punjab’s defeat against Chennai Super Kings.
These two teams were the bottom ranked in the 1st edition of the IPL .The turnaround for these teams from last season has been remarkable.
Team news
A new opening combination is expected as Bangalore with the in-form Ross Taylor likely to open with Jacque Kallis, and Robin Uthappa bating lower down the order.
Deccan Chargers will play with their best playing XI . This match they might use as a practice match before the big semifinals. Dwayne Smith may again be rested with Gibbs given another chance for a long overdue big score.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore: (probable) 1 Ross Taylor, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Robin Uthappa, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Roelof van der Merwe, 8 B Akhil, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10 R Vinay Kumar, 11 Anil Kumble (capt).
Deccan: (probable) 1 Adam Gilchrist (capt & wk), 2 Herschelle Gibbs, 3 T Suman, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Andrew Symonds, 6 Venugopal Rao, 7 D Ravi Teja, 8 Chaminda Vaas, 9 RP Singh, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 Jaskaran Singh/Harmeet Singh.
Watch Live the 55th match of the IPL 2009 between Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils at Centurion – May 21, 2009
Match scheduled to begin at 12:30 local time (10:30 GMT) 4 00 pm IST
Delhi DareDevils are through to the semi-finals quite emphatically; while Mumbai Indians have been the underperformer of the tournament and are out of contention for a place in the last four
Delhi made sure of a semi-final berth so early in the tournament that they’ve had the luxury of remaining on top of the table despite a couple of defeats in recent games
For Mumbai, this game is their last of the tournament, but if they win they move up the ladder to sixth place.
The Last time these two teams met , Delhi won the match comfortably
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Delhi Daredevils 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Virender Sehwag (capt), 3 AB de Villiers, 4 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 David Warner, 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Dirk Nannes, 9 Amit Mishra, 10 Aavishkar Salvi, 11 Ashish Nehra.
Mumbai Indians 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Ajinkya Rahane, 4 Shikhar Dhawan, 5 JP Duminy, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Chetanya Nanda, 9 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Lasith Malinga.
Watch Live the 46th match of the IPL 2009 between Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab at Durban on May 15, 2009 Start time 16.30 (14.30 GMT, 20.00 IST)
This is a do-or-die match for Kings XI Punjab in this, the last lap of the league matches, and they could not have asked for tougher opposition. Punjab has to win this match to stay in the hunt for a semi final berth , Whereas Delhi have been on song with near-flawless performances this season.
Punjab had won both their games against Delhi last season.
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Kings XI Punjab (probable): 1 Sunny Sohal, 2 Simon Katich, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Karan Goel, 5 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 6 Wilkin Mota, 7 Brett Lee, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 VRV Singh, 10 Vikramjeet Malik, 11 Yusuf Abdulla.
Delhi Daredevils (probable): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 David Warner, 3 Virender Sehwag (capt), 4 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Amit Mishra, 9 Pradeep Sangwan, 10 Ashish Nehra, 11 Dirk Nannes.
Watch Live the 45th match of the IPL 2009 between Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals at Durban on May 15, 2009 Start time 16.30 (14.30 GMT, 20.00 IST)
Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Super Kings appear to have sealed a semi-final berth. But the other two spots are up for grabs in a five-way battle and the results of today’s games will provide a better indication of who will progress from the league stages.
Rajastan Captain Shane Warne is injured and will miss this game , Graeme Smith is most likely to step in as captain.
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Rajasthan (probable): 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Swapnil Asnodkar, 3 Naman Ojha, 4 Lee Carseldine/ Rob Quiney, 5 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Ravindra Jadeja 7 Abhishek Raut, 8 Tyron Henderson, 9 Morne Morkel, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.
Watch Live the 44th match of the IPL 2009 between Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Durban on May 14, 2009 , Start time 12.30 (10.30 GMT, 16.00 IST).
Bangalore team may have been boosted by the win over Kolkata Knight Riders. but actualy their chances of making it to the semi-finals remain slim. because their remaining 3 matches are all against tough opponents , Chennai Super Kings, Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils.
Chennai has won the previous encounter between these two teams
Chennai have won all there last 5 games and are almost certain to have semi final berth
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Royal Challengers Bangalore (probable) 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Robin Uthappa, 4 Rahul Dravid, 5 Ross Taylor, 6 Virat Kohli/Rajesh Bishnoi, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 R Vinay Kumar, 10 Anil Kumble (capt), 11 KP Appanna/ Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Chennai are unlikely to make changes to a combination that served them well against Rajasthan Royals on Saturday.
Chennai Super Kings (probable) 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 M Vijay, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 S Badrinath, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Albie Morkel, 7 Jacob Oram, 8 Sudeep Tyagi, 9 Shadab Jakati, 10 L Balaji, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.
