Cartoon by Rituparno
The War of the Captains
Bangalorei, India - April 28, 2008
Match No. 15th. Royal Challenger has to win this match so that they can be in a hunt for Semi finals. Super Kings three key players, Australia’s Matthew Hayden and Mike Hussey, and New Zealand’s Jacob Oram, are keen to complete their IPL assignment on a winning note before leaving India to join their respective National teams for official commitments.
Bangalore Royal Challengers and Chennai Super Kings today and will be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Chennai Super Kings are on a winning streak and have played excellent cricket so far and have won all the three matches played so far. They are termed as one of the best teams of the tournament where as Bangalore Royal Challengers are in some serious problems after loosing 2 matches so far. Both the teams have to play for something. Chennai Super Kings would like to continue the winning streak where as Bangalore Royal Challengers would like to break the loss jinx.
Royal Challengers have lost both their two home games thus far and would only keen on setting the record straight. Their only win has been against Mumbai Indians last week, but at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the Challengers’ record has been rather dismal with scores of 82 all out and 135 for eight batting first.
Its a fight between Orange and Yellow Colour, may be Royal Challengers if they win has to better chase the run and do a good job by bowl and fielding. They have to regroup and they should include Misbah in there playing 11, that will make a huge difference.
Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable) 1 Ross Taylor, 2 Rahul Dravid (capt), 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 B Akhil, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 R Vinay Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings: (probable) 1 Parthiv Patel, 2 Matthew Hayden, 3 Michael Hussey, 4 Suresh Raina, 5 Jacob Oram, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), 7 S Badrinath, 8 Joginder Sharma, 9 Palani Amarnath, 10 Manpreet Gony, 11 Muttiah Muralitharan.
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Cricket model study: 20/20?
by Raghuram
Engineers are a fussy alot. They do all kinds of high flying mathematics to analyze a problem but before signing off, demand a model study. |
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Kolkata Knight Riders Rap Anthem
by Abhiroop
This Rap Anthem is dedicated to Kolkatta Knight Riders, hope U people will appreciate this.... |
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Gilly has charged the Deccan Chargers | Scorecard
Navi Mumbai, India - April 27, 2008
Match No. 14th. Deccan Chargers have won the toss and decided to bat first. Pollock is leading the Mumbai Indians team in the absence of Harbhajan Singh now who will have to wait till the hearing which is due tomorrow. |
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Kings XI won by 4 wickets. Battle of the North Gaints | Scorecard
Mohali, India - April 27, 2008
Match No. 13th. Target 159 runs for Kings XI. Delhi Daredevils have won the toss and elected to bat first. Both the teams Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils are high on confidence after winning previous matches. |
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Rajasthan Royals won by 7 wickets | Scorecard - Bangalore, India - April 26, 2008
Match No. 12th. Rajasthan Royals have won the match and they are really a team to: recon with. Guys watch out. Three in a row. Its a Hatrick. |
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Super Kings win by 9 wickets (18 balls to spare) |Scorecard
Chennai, India - April 26, 2008
Match No. 11th. Knightriders and SuperKings, since they are right at the top of the tree |
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Kings XI Punjab won by 66 runs | Scorecard
Mohali, India - April 25, 2008
Match No. 10th. A brilliant all-round performance then from the Kings XI as they crushed Mumbai by 66 runs. Sangakkara set it up beautifully with 94. |
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Balle Balle YUVIBAJJI
Mohali, India - April 25, 2008
Can Kings XI Punjab post a win or can Mumbai Indians post a win. Whoever will lose they will go bottom of the point table. |
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Rocking Rajasthan Royals win by 3 wicket | Scorecard
Royals, who were touted as the weakest team of the tournament have become the first team to chase a 200 plus score successfully. Everyone contributed to the win-Smith and Yusuf with quickfire fifties, a blistering cameo from Kaif and Warne's finish was the icing on the cake. |
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