BCCI re-admits 79 rebel players

Posted on 02 June 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , ,

BCCI has granted amenesty to rebel players who joined ICL by re-admiting 79 of them. All these 79 players are now elgible to play in all the domestic tournaments in the country. It includes some of the stalwarts of the domestic cricket such as Hemang Badani, Dinesh Mongia and Sridharan Sriram. But they will have [...]

Who is the “fake IPL player” ?

Posted on 26 May 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (9) | Tags: , , , , ,

There is one big player from Kolkata Knight Riders missing in this list
For the complete squad click here
 

Bhookha naan = John Buchanan
Appam Chutiya = Sreesanth
Lordie = Sourav Ganguly
Dildo = Shahrukh Khan
Sandy Maddy Babe = Mandira Bedi
Stylebhai =Murali Karthik
Kishan Kanhaiya = Ravi Shastri
Little John = Ishant Sharma
RDB = Rohan Bannerjee
Mangal Pandey = Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Ganji Hanger [...]

Deccan Chargers, IPL Champions 2009

Posted on 25 May 2009 by sumanth | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , , , ,

Who could expect, that the teams which managed to grab the last two positions in the last season would be the finalists in the next one. IPL-2 Final held between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers was qualified enough to be a perfect entertainer. People of Johanesburg experienced a suspense thriller, winning edge oscillating on [...]

Hyderabad Celebrates!!!

Posted on 25 May 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (0) | Tags: , , ,

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers won the 2nd edition of IPL by 6 runs over Bangalore Royal Challengers. Celebrations went late into the night on the streets  of Hyderabad. Many youngsters came down onto the streets, parks, restaurants and celebrated by bursting crackers, shouting slogans of “jai ho DC” and congratulating each other. Many restaurants in hyderabad have [...]

RCB outplays CSK to reach the finals

Posted on 24 May 2009 by Padma Kumar Vemuri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , ,

Bangalore Royal Challengers who were looking down and out of the tournament at half way stage will take on Chennai Super Kings in the second semi final of IPL 2009. Going by the form it’s very hard to predict the winner of 2nd Semi Finals, since both the teams entered into the semi finals after [...]

Gilchrist’s onslaut puts Deccan Chargers in finals

Posted on 23 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Gilly is a true match winner he played crucial knocks for Australia many times including the two world cup finals , justifying the match winner tag Gilly played yet another crucial knock but this time for Deccan Chargers in Semi finals of IPL 2009 season against Delhi Daredevils.His 85 runs of 35  balls is one [...]

The Semi Final Line-up

Posted on 22 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (3) | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The semi final line up is ready with the yesterdays results.Its going to be Delhi Dare Devils vs Deccan Chargers in the first match and the Chennai Super Kings take on Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second semi finals.Bangalore Royal Challengers fought back hard under the captaincy of Kubmle.They won only 2 matches in their [...]

Defending champions Rajastan loose their way,Kolkata win their last match

Posted on 20 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The defending champion Rajastan Royals were knocked out of IPL by Kolkata Knight Riders.The Royals playing for their semi final slot were beaten by Kolkata team playing for the pride.KKR with this win take along with Rajastan Royals for the return trip.
Winning the toss KKR’s Brendon Mccullum elected to field first taking a cue from [...]

Delhi continues to reign supreme RR semis chances slim

Posted on 18 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , ,

The table leader Delhi Dare Devils improved their lead by winning the 50 th match of IPL-2 against Rajasthan Royals with this win the Dare Devils have comfortably booked their semi finals slot.The match which was very crucial for Rajasthan Royals saw Delhi Dare Devils wining  the toss and electing to bat .DD’s openers Sehwag [...]

Royal Challengers going strong for the semis slot…

Posted on 14 May 2009 by vasista | Comments (1) | Tags: , , ,

Bangalore beat Chennai in a thrilling encounter by 2 wickets played at Kings Mead; Durban. This is the 3rd defeat to Chennai at this ground. Toss was won by Super Kings who chose to bat first.
Vijay and Hayden started the innings for Chennai; Kallis made an early break removing Vijay for just 5. On the [...]

Bhatia, Sangwan take Delhi closer to semi-final berth!

Posted on 14 May 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (3) | Tags: , , ,

It was a clash of  Heavyweights on wednesday night. A small error in judgement could prove decisive in this version of game. Deccan Chargers made not one, but plenty of such errors. They dropped far too many catches and let Delhi off to an imposing total. Target that went beyond the heriocs of Gilchrist and [...]

Taylor thrashes KKR’s hope of winning…

Posted on 13 May 2009 by vasista | Comments (0) | Tags: , , ,

Challengers beat Kolkata in a stunning encounter and keep up their chances to reach the semifinal.

Banglore won the toss and chose to field,McCullum along with Ganguly started the innings for Kolkata.Asusual it was the worst starts which are regularly given by them,Ganguly who was hammered with a bouncer earlier went on to reach the length [...]

RC Bangalore smashes the dreams of KKR

Posted on 13 May 2009 by Killer Raghu | Comments (0) | Tags: , , ,

Royal Challengers Bangalore, smashed the dreams of Kolkata Knight Riders, winning by 6 wickets at Centurion on 12th May, 2009. Through this match, all I can say is, KKR is a history now, and people rarely remember the existence of team.

Coming on to the match, KKR was first to bat, and they [...]

IPL pulls out SMS game

Posted on 13 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (2) | Tags: , , ,

IPL withdraws controversial SMS contest in which the users had to predicted the outcome of each ball of an over for cash prizes.The  decision came just two days after India’s sports minister MS Gill severly criticized this SMS game named 6UP .
“I see the commercial use of cricket for business gains that is going on. [...]

Sweet revenge for Chargers over Rajastan Royals

Posted on 12 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , , , ,

Deccan Chargers won quite convincingly over Royals in the second clash between the two teams .Deccan chargers choose to bat after winning the toss .DC’s  early loss came in the form of Adam Gilchrist .Gilchrist was out for an unfortunate LBW decision for a ball which pitched outside the leg stump. T.Summan who opened at [...]

Devils on FIRE, KKR masters the art of losing!

Posted on 11 May 2009 by Killer Raghu | Comments (11) | Tags: , , ,

Seems like bad days are not yet over for KKR,  Delhi Daredevils junked of KKR by 7 wickets to win 39th match of IPL2 at New Wanderers Stadium on Sunday, 10th may.

KKR was first to bat and they could hardly make a score of 123 runs, with a lose of 8 wickets in 20 overs. [...]

Kolkataz knight mare continues!

Posted on 11 May 2009 by Naveen Kumar | Comments (0) | Tags: , , ,

Ajit Agarkar

Delhi Registered their seventh win, and almost guaranteed  their place in semis, where as kolkata night mare continued,  it was a good captaincy from Gauti, that he made Nehra bowl the first over, and Nehra took two very crucial wickets of Mcullum and Hodge, and the very next over, Van Wyk was dismissed for [...]

Mumbai Secures a Crucial Win over BRC…

Posted on 10 May 2009 by vasista | Comments (1) | Tags: , , ,

Mumbai Indians won the toss and chose to bat.

The explosive openers started the innings for Mumbai but Challengers gave an early shock to them. Tendulkar was caught by Boucher in the bowling of Vinay in the second over for a duck. Kallis at the other end gave good support to Vinay Kumar, but veteran batsmen [...]

Chennai on a Winning Spree

Posted on 10 May 2009 by Padma Kumar Vemuri | Comments (0) | Tags: , ,

Chennai and Jaipur both playing their 10th match against each other, 37th match of the tournament was started Yesterday at 8 o clock. Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat first. Rajasthan opened their innings with Smith and Ojha. Smith starts the innings by getting an inside edge to the fine leg for a [...]

Amit Singh reported for suspect bowling action

Posted on 09 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: , , , ,

Rajasthan Royals fast bowler Amit Singh was reported for suspect bowling action on certain deliveries by Umpires Daryl Harper and K. Hariharan after the game against Royal Challengers Bangalore at SuperSport Park. Amit Singh becomes second player to be reported for suspect action in the second editon of the IPL the after Kamran Khan who [...]