The charge is on as the champions league T20 looms large on the horizon. The city ,which has been at the receiving end of the elements [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Winning is a habbit, so is losing. This seems to be apt for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Delhi piled on kolkata’s agony and in the process reached top of the points  table. With this loss Kolkata team needs a miracle and some disatrous play from other teams to reach the last four. This seems most [...]

Chennai Super Kings were incredible in the last couple of games winning each one of them. Chennai were back in form after a disappointing show in the first week of IPL-2. The match started at 8 o clock sharp (IST). Chennai opened their innings with Hayden and Vijay Murali. Both of them were terrific, gave [...]

Kolkata Knight Riders had done everything right from scoring 21 runs of their innings last over, to Agarkar bowling a tight last over conceding just 7 runs. But it seems bad fortune continues to haunt Kolkata Knight Rider’s team, this time with fielding. The KKR fielders with butter fingers could not hold on to anything [...]

Despite get a Dream start of  (3/3), Deccan Chargers couldn’t keep the momentum going,  thanks to their fielding, with this the chargers has to face two consecutive defeats  after winning four in a row,  This match has  made  Gilchrist and Sharma the top two Six scores, even that couldn’t save them the match, In Royal’s camp [...]

Delhi Daredevils powered by in form Dilshan and motivated Karthik handed over the first pink slip to Deccan Chargers. Delhi was in driver’s seat throughout the game except for a brief period when Devon Smith fought a lone battle for DC to salvage some pride.
DC had the worst start of the season, with score reading [...]

Deccans start the match, with captain pounding on steyn, Praveen and kallis. Gibbs was knocked by kallis after a smooth rear six leaving 1-47 at the end of 4th over. May be Gilly’s ghoul horrified challengers, the board was ticking, kumble’s pantheistic effort wasn’t enough too. Laxman was next caught by Ryder’s first delivery trying [...]

Those who thought Delhi had only two batsmen in Sehwag and Gambhir, then you probably have to change your perception. Add another two batsmen to the power packed team and now Delhi Daredevils look a more formidable opposition then ever before. The batsmen for the day were A B DeVillers (105) and Tilkeratne Dilshan (50). [...]

These are the sequence of events preceding the start of IPL on 18th April, 2009.

March 1st, 2009: Mr. Lalit Modi loses election for the post of President in Rajasthan Cricket Association.
March 6th, 2009: Mr. Modi quotes that there was no question of IPL moving out [...]

Kolkata breaks the Jinx

Chris Gayle’s heavily flooded knock of 44 in 26 balls with 4 sixes and 2 fours gave the KolkataKnight Riders their first victory in IPL-2. He was well supported by captain McCullam(21) and Hodge(10 n.o). Gayle was fortunate to be dropped twice and Punjab had to pay for the costly misses. [...]

Chennai are back with a bang. After a disaster in the opening match, they came back pretty strongly as expected. Royal challenger tried to fight a considerably huge total but failed miserably. Royal challengers, after the win in the first game which gave a boost of confidence did not fare well in this match.

The match [...]

The fourth match of IPL on the eve of 20th was purely one sided. A year of charge let our Deccan boys show the skill that was far from the imagination of any viewer preoccupied by its last season show. Well, well, well if you say you did not watch it; just get into the [...]

The 3rd match of the IPL was totally a one sided match as the earlier one’s,though the rain factor slowed down the pace of the game the players kept their pace going. As the match was delayed due to rain the overs were reduced to 12 per team. Daredevils won the toss and chose to [...]

Unable to resist the temptation of more than one billion potential viewers advertisers are rushing to promote their brands  during IPL-2. The list of brands launching new campaigns during IPL not only include primary sponsors such as DLF, Vodafone, Hero Honda and Citibank. It also includes brands such as Wrigley’s Orbit chewing gum, Cinthol soap, [...]

At last, after all the politics of changing the IPL from India, IPL-2 kicked off today at 4 o clock. The match was between the runners up of IPL-1 and costliest team in IPL.
Dhoni won the toss and elected to bowl, Sachin was also happy with Dhoni’s decision. Mumbai Indians opened their batting with [...]

Dhoni and Sachin face each other in the IPL-2 opener. The first match of IPL-2 is between Chennai super kings and Mumbai Indians. The world’s best captain faces the world’s best batsman till date at Cape Town on April 18th at 4’o clock IST. Lot can be expected from both teams. Both the teams are [...]