Todays match of deccan chargers vs somerset was a thriller but in the end our own uppal stadium still bears no good signs for us.The match intially started of a blitzkrieg from adam gillchrist and our own hyderabadi v.v.s.laxman deccan chargers were at 59 for loss of two wickets at 5.5 overs gilly and suman [...]
Anticlimax for Deccan Chargers…!!
Posted on 10 October 2009 by sharath | Comments (0) | Tags: clt20, Deccan Chargers, hyderabad, somerset, uppal
Duminy spills the Cobra venom on RCB
Posted on 09 October 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (1) | Tags: Cape Cobras win over Royal Challengers Bangalore, Duminy scored a marvelous 99, Langeveldt injured diving catch, Ross Taylor RCB
Duminy scored a marvelous 99 to secure a convincing victory for the Cape Cobras in the opening encounter of CLT20 against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Duminy made the 180 run chase an easy looking affair with some clean hitting and meticulous planning. It was sheer hitting as he eclipsed every other batsmen, though Davids, Ontong and [...]
Champions Trophy Semi Final Results
Posted on 04 October 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (1) | Tags: Australia enters finals, Bresnan and Wright Partnership, Champions Trophy 2009, Champions Trophy Semi Final Results, New Zealand Wins semifinals, ponting and watson partnership, Vettori and Elliot partnership
1st Semi Final: Australia vs England: The age old rivalry between two Ashes nations was expected to be a thrilling contest. But it proved out to be a converse, with Australia steam rolling England. First with the ball Aussies had England on the mat with 101 for6. But heroics from Bresnan and Wright helped England [...]
India lite, take FLIGHT
Posted on 30 September 2009 by Jaipal Reddy | Comments (2) | Tags: australia wins, india out of semi finals, pakistan loses to australia
In a deadly encounter between the Aussies and Pakistanis where there were more number of Indian viewers than the India Windies match and an nail-biting encounter which finally saw the Aussies take home a win in a last ball win and made the India encounter look meaningless.
The second straight ICC [...]
India messes chase, Pak wins !
Posted on 27 September 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (1) | Tags: Ajmal and Afridi, india loses chase, pakistan defeats india, rahul dravid, Shoab Malik scores century
India messed with the chase to hand over a comfortable 54 run win to Pakistan in an important match. India now stares down the barrel with two matches against Australia and West Indies, requiring to win both the matches. India chasing Pakistan’s mammoth 302 started of well with Dravid and Gambhir adding 67 for the [...]
Australia defeats West Indies
Posted on 27 September 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (0) | Tags: australia wins, champions, Champions Trophy 2009, Fletcher, mitchell johnson, second string side, West Indies
Australia defeated the spirited West Indies yesterday in the league stage of champions trophy encounter. With this defeat West Indies is virtually out of the tournament except for a miracle. Australia batting first managed to score 275 which at one stage looked improbable. But mitchell jhonson, the ever improving all rounder, scored a magnificient 73 [...]
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is all set to start from Tuesday
Posted on 21 September 2009 by Jaipal Reddy | Comments (1) |
ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is going to start from September 22 in South Africa. The tournament a smash-up between the top 8 teams which began as a mini world cup still pertinent in the post IPL age? Is the One Day International two tired format be able to stoke public passions any more? The debates have been [...]
Sri Lanka pull a fourth day stunner
Posted on 07 July 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (2) | Tags: Herath, Khurram Manzoor, Kumar Sangakkara, Rangana Herath, Sri Lanka
Requiring just 168 to win Pakistan started the fourth day of the first test against Sri Lanka with over night score of 71-2 and Mohammad Yousuf who got a century in the first innings at one end ,many believed it was just a matter of time before Pakistan took lead in the three match series [...]
Pakistan moves into super eight, Australia miss out.
Posted on 09 June 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (0) | Tags: australia loses, group of death, Pakistan qualifies to super eight, Shahid Afridi, T20 world cup
Pakistan completed a clinical whitewash of the fantasy team Netherlands. Pakistan won the match by 82 runs good enough to reserve its place in super eight. Netherlands, which affected biggest upset of T20 world cup, lost the toss and was forced to field. The bowling was sprited one but it was undone by some slog [...]
England outplays Pakistan
Posted on 08 June 2009 by Padma Kumar Vemuri | Comments (0) | Tags: Dimitri Mascarenhas, Kamran Akmal, kevin pietersen, Netherlands, Pakistan, Ravi Bopara, Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan
England at last can take a huge sigh of relief after winning over Pakistan in yesterday’s T20. Earlier, England lost to Netherlands in their opening match, England were clear favorites in that match.But who all had their money on Netherlands must be millionaire by now.
England batted first, while Pakistan was bowling opening with Gul.England opened [...]
India Bangs Bangladesh
Posted on 07 June 2009 by sumanth | Comments (0) | Tags: Bangladesh, gautam gambhir, India wins opener, Ojha, sakib al hasan
India beat Bangladesh by 25 runs. Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat first. Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma opened the innings for india. The opening pair seemed to be promising once again. Both of them were able to put up a partneship of 50 runs in just 6 overs. Which had few brilliant [...]
Gayle helps Windies storm past Aussies
Posted on 07 June 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: Andre Fletcher, Brett lee, chris gayle, cricket, Gayle, Jerome Taylor, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Sri Lanka
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Gayle said he preferred T20 to Test cricket and yesterday he just showed us ,why ? when he scored 88 off just 50 balls and helped Windies Storm past Aussies. On the other hand despite Aussies repeated insistence of having a good squad and being in best shape Aussies were not comfortable [...]
New Zealand cruises to victory!
Posted on 06 June 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (1) | Tags: Coetzer, new zealand scotland t20 match, New Zealand Wins, Poonia, Watson
New Zealand beat Scotland in a flashing match filled with fours, sixes and rain. The required run rate for New Zealand was 12.86 and to chase 90 runs in 7 overs. Oh! when you thought 20-20 is the shortest format of international cricket, think over again because we just had a 7-7 over international cricket [...]
Dutch upset host England in the World T20 opener
Posted on 06 June 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (2) | Tags: cricket, Drik Nannes, England, Jeroen Smits, kevin pietersen, Lord, Luke Wright, Netherlands, Peter Borren, Ravi Bopara, T20 world cup
England’s worst ever limited overs defeat- that’s what the British press called the England’s 4 wicket defeat against the Netherlands yesterday at Lord’s. The Netherlands skipper Jeroen Smits described as “unbelievable” and “special” their sensational victory over host England in the opening match of the ICC T20 World Cup at Lord’s. “This result speaks for [...]
India takes it easy!
Posted on 04 June 2009 by Taha Lyra | Comments (0) | Tags: india wins pakistan, misbah ul haq, Rohit Sharma, T20 worldcup
It was a well executed and a professional chase by the Indians to outlast arch rivals Pakistan in front of capacity crowd. It is worth mentioning that this was only a practice match, but mind you in no way it seemed so; neither in the intensity of the players nor the enthusiasm of the crowd! [...]
Gilchrist’s onslaut puts Deccan Chargers in finals
Posted on 23 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: Amith Mishra, Ashis Nehra, delhi daredevils, dilshan, dirk nannes, gambhir, Gilchrist, Gilly, Ryan Harris, sehwag
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 [...]
Defending champions Rajastan loose their way,Kolkata win their last match
Posted on 20 May 2009 by rahul simhadri | Comments (0) | Tags: Brendon Mccullum, Grame Simth, kolkata knight riders, Langeveldt, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Naman Ojha, Rajasthan Royals, Ravidhra Jadeja, semi final
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 [...]


