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Rajasthan win the IPL Final

2008-06-02T15:13:00.000-07:00

A galaxy of international stars might have added fizz to the IPL but it was India's most improved domestic player who sparkled in the tense final. Few outside India might have heard of Yusuf Pathan before this tournament but he imposed himself on the grand stage, snaffling three wickets before smashing a scintillating 56, setting the stage for the inspirational Shane Warne to pull off the last-ball thriller.

It was fitting that the most consistent side in the tournament held their nerve to clinch a nailbiter. Chennai summoned every ounce of their reserves to take the match to the last ball but a calm swat from Sohail Tanvir, when one was needed off the last ball, sparked some heady celebrations in the Rajasthan dug-out. The least expensive side in the league had completed the coup that had them winning 13 of their 16 matches.

It was a cat-and-mouse battle at the DY Patil Stadium. Unlike in the two semifinals, neither team held a clear advantage at the end of the first innings. The Chennai Super Kings paced their innings well, not trying anything too rash, and a collective effort took them to a fighting 163.

Rajasthan Royals, who chose to field after winning their 11th toss, weren't as dominant with the ball as they've usually been but Yusuf Pathan's three strikes ensured that the game never really got away. The surface was expected to help the faster men but it was bowlers with variety who prospered as the ball occasionally stopped on the bat. A slow outfield hindered the batting side early on but Suresh Raina's meaty hitting rendered it redundant by the end.

A glittering closing ceremony preceded the game but neither team dazzled early on. The game was played out on an elastic band with both sides vying for the advantage - just as Chennai's batsmen appeared to have sized up the conditions, Rajasthan would strike back with a wicket. Parthiv Patel went about laying the platform sensibly, interspersing judicious glides with clean slaps, before Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni took them to a competitive total.

Dhoni had offered a cautionary warning to his batsmen: "The previous games here have not produced too many big totals," he said at the toss, "so it's important that the batsmen realise that and play accordingly." Chennai accordingly ensured they didn't lose the plot - as Punjab had done last night - and did their bit to thwart a sharp bowling attack.

Rajasthan tried to use the short ball against S Vidyut but he backed away and slashed over the third-man region instead, a shot that brought the first six of the match. It was clear that Vidyut was going to get after the bowling as Parthiv playing a steady hand. But his attempt to smash Yusuf out of the ground didn't come off - charging down the track, he wasn't to the pitch of the ball and holed out to deep midwicket, where Ravindra Jadeja snapped up a sharp catch diving forward.

Raina and Patel, the duo who took Chennai to victory last night, put on a useful 25-run stand but it was more accumulation than attack. Parthiv's dismissal, edging to the wicketkeeper and watching Kamran Akmal juggle before completing the catch, allowed Albie Morkel to inject some urgency into the innings. His two sixes over midwicket livened the atmosphere but Yusuf ensured there was no extended fireworks. Akmal held on to a skier from Morkel but the bad news for Rajasthan was that he collided with Mohammad Kaif, who had to leave the field with an injury.

Raina motored along, before holing out to long-off, but it was strange to see Chamara Kapugedera being sent ahead of S Badrinath. Kapugedera pottered around for a 12-ball 8 and it was down to Dhoni to up the rate. Shane Watson's 17th over, where he conceded just 3 and picked up a wicket, appeared to tilt the scales but a few mighty hits from Dhoni took them past 160. Mumbai's match-winning 162 against Delhi has been the highest score on this ground and Dhoni might just think that his side have done enough to put up a serious fight.

Rajasthan take top spot

2008-05-28T16:30:00.000-07:00

The Mumbai Indians lost their third successive nail-biter to leave their semifinal hopes hanging by a thread in the Indian Premier League. With 43 needed off the final three overs for the Rajasthan Royals to protect their 100 per cent home record, youngsters Niraj Patel and Ravindra Jadeja kept their nerve -- while several more experienced Mumbai players lost theirs -- to win it off the final ball at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday.

The result means Delhi Daredevils become the third team to make it to the semifinals and if the Chennai Super Kings win their match against Deccan Chargers on Tuesday, Mumbai will be out of contention.

When Shane Watson was dismissed with 69 runs still needed off 48 balls and no big-name batsmen to come on a pitch not conducive to stroke-making, Mumbai were in command. The Mumbai bowlers maintained a tight line-and-length and runs came mainly in singles. With Niraj and Jadeja hardly threatening, the equation became a difficult 43 off the final three.

A streaky inside-edge for four and a misdirected yorker which deflected off the pads to the fine-leg boundary left Rajasthan needing 34 off the last two. Jadeja then clubbed Rohan Raje over cover for six off the first ball and a couple of twos followed in the over. Raje's final delivery should also have gone only for a couple, but shoddy work at the bowler's end -- one among Mumbai's several elementary fielding errors -- gave away a crucial, extra run.

Four runs came off the first two balls of Dilhara Fernando's last over and Rajasthan required 11 off the final four balls. A flat, powerful six over long-on from Niraj got them closer but only two runs were scored off the next couple of deliveries and three were needed from the final ball. Fernando, an experienced international, then sent down a leg-side wide and Niraj mistimed the last delivery to mid-on. Only one run should have been taken but the batsmen chanced their luck and set off for the second. Sanath Jayasuriya, another experienced campaigner, fumbled the throw from the deep to fluff a simple run-out opportunity and hand Rajasthan yet another victory.

After choosing to field, on a pitch where was keeping low, Rajasthan restricted Mumbai to 145, a modest total that was reached thanks to Yogesh Takawale's eight-ball 24. Rajasthan's bowlers held sway for most of the innings, and man-of-the-match Sohail Tanvir reinforced his status as the tournament's best bowler with a four-wicket haul that earned him the purple cap.

IPL umpire suspended for commenting on Sreesanth’s behaviour

2008-04-29T14:33:00.000-07:00

The Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday suspended umpire Amish Saheba for two matches for speaking his mind to a newspaper about Kings XI Punjab pacer S. Sreesanth's on-field behaviour against Mumbai Indians in Mohali on Friday night.

Apart from the IPL, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has also sought an explanation from Saheba for his comments.

Saheba, who was umpiring the eventful match along with Pakistani Aleem Dar in which Mumbai Indians stand-in skipper Harbhajan Singh slapped Kings XI Sreesanth, said the Kerala pacer was behaving like a "petulant school boy" ceaselessly sledging the Mumbai Indians players.

"Sreesanth was sledging Mumbai batsmen right from the start. In fact, I along with my colleague Dar twice warned him. We also warned his skipper Yuvraj Singh. Sreesanth was really going over the top," Saheba told a local newspaper.

Contrary to Saheba's statement, Match Referee Farokh Engineer, in a hearing on Monday, said the incident was completely unprovoked but still warned Sreesanth to curb his on-field antics.

Harbhajan has been banned for the rest of the IPL season and has been fined 100 percent of his match fee.

Harbhajan 11-match ban

2008-04-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

Harbhajan Singh has been slapped with a 11-match ban for slapping Shantakumaran Sreesanth. Thus, he will virtually be out of action from the first edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) unless Mumbai Indians reach the semifinals.

Harbhajan has also been fined 100 per cent of his match fee. Lalit Modi, commissioner of the IPL, revealed that he will be paid only for the first two matches and will have to forfeit all his fees from the third game onwards. Indeed a costly price to pay for an instinctive act of immaturity.

Harbhajan also faces a separate action from the board. The BCCI has appointed lawyer Sudhir Nanavati to conduct a preliminary inquiry and submit a report in 15 days.

If found guilty, he could be banned for life or five Test matches or 10 one-day Internationals.

Meanwhile, Sreesanth was let off with a warning. Although it has been found that Sreesanth did not provoke Harbhajan, the warning is based on his growing habit of provoking his opponents.

Strangely, Lalchand Rajput, the coach of the Mumbai Indians team, has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for making no effort to stop Harbhajan's misconduct.

IPL Match Results Report 1

2008-04-21T05:52:00.000-07:00

1st Match

Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 140 runs

Man of the Match: Brendon McCullum

2nd Match

Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings won by 33 runs

Man of the Match: Michael Hussey

3rd Match

Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals

Delhi Daredevils won by 9 wkts

Man of the Match: Farveez Maharoof

4th Match

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 wkts

Man of the Match: David Hussey

5th Match

Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bangalore Royal Challengers won by 5 wkts

Man of the Match: Mark Boucher

Win for Kolkata Knight Riders

2008-04-19T16:43:00.000-07:00

The inaugural of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament got off with a 45-minute glitz and glamour show before the clash between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders as a near-full M. Chinnaswamy Stadium roared 'Welcome to Bengaluru'.

Soon after, the trio of Shankar-Ehsan-Loy had the almost full 55,000-capacity stadium foot tapping with fast-moving mix of Hindi film and pop music.

Shankar Mahadevan regaled the audience with popular Hindi film song "Jhoom barabar..." and it was followed by lots of fancy fireworks.

The stadium began to fill nearly six hours before the show began at 6.30 p.m. Hundreds of people had begun queueing up around noon to get the vantage seats.

IPL opening match:

McCullum’s record century boosts Kolkata Knight Riders

A brilliant innings from Brendan McCullum who scored 158 runs out of a total of 222 for the Kolkata Knight Riders.

McCullum hit 13 sixes, 10 fours to chalk up his record of the highest total. A tall task ahead for the Royal Challengers.

In reply, the Bangalore Royal Challengers were in trouble losing skipper Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Jacques Kallis and Wasim Jaffer in quick succession. After 6 overs their score was a meagre 26 for 4.

Meanwhile, the world's leading news agencies boycotted coverage of the mega Indian event.

Update:

Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL inaugural match against Bangalore Royal Challengers by 140 runs.

The Challengers in reply to Knight Riders' 222 for 3 were all out for 82 runs in 15.1 overs.

For the Challengers led by former India skipper Rahul Dravid, it was an abject surrender of their batting line-up. Bowler Praveen Kumar was the only one who could get into double figures, being unbeaten with 18 runs in 15 balls

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2008-04-19T01:46:00.000-07:00

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Total 59 Matches...8 Teams

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Squad: Rahul Dravid (c), Abdur Razzak, Anil Kumble, Balachandra Akhil, Bharat Chipli, Cameron White, Dale Steyn, Devraj Patil, Jacques Kallis, J.Arunkumar, KP Appanna, Mark Boucher, Misbah-Ul-Haq, Ashley Noffke, Praveen Kumar, Ross Taylor, S.Chanderpaul, Shreevats Goswami, Sunil Joshi, Vinay Kumar, Virat Kohli, Wasim Jaffer, Zaheer Khan
Coach: Venkatesh Prasad

Chennai Superkings

Squad: MS Dhoni (c), Abhinav Mukund, Albie Morkel, Arun Karthik, Jacob Oram, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Makhaya Ntini, Manpreet Gony, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Muttiah Muralitharan, Napolean Einstein, Palani Amarnath, Parthiv Patel, R Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Srikkanth Anirudha, Stephen Fleming, Subramaniam Badrinath, Suresh Kumar, Suresh Raina, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Viraj Vilas Kadbe
Coach: Kepler Wessels

Deccan chargers

Squad: VVS Laxman (c), Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Arjun Yadav, Chamara Silva, Chaminda Vaas, Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Halhadar Das, Herschelle Gibbs, Nuwan Zoysa, Paidikalva Vijaykumar, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sanjay Bangar, PM Sarvesh Kumar, Scott Styris, Shahid Afrid, Venugopal Rao
Coach: Robin Singh

Delhi Daredevils

Squad: Virender Sehwag (c), AB de Villiers, Amit Mishra, Brett Geeves, Daniel Vettori, Dinesh Karthik, Farveez Maharoof, Gautam Gambhir, Glenn McGrath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Tehlan, Mithun Manhas, Mohammad Asif, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Shikhar Dhawan, Shoaib Malik, Tejashwi Yadav, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yo Mahesh, Yogesh Nagar
Coach: Greg Shipperd

Kings XI Punjab

Squad: Yuvraj Singh (c), Ajitesh Argal, Brett Lee, Irfan Pathan, James Hopes, Karan Goel, Kumar Sangakkara, Kyle Mills, Luke Pomersbach, Mahela Jayawardene, Nithin Saini, Pankaj Dharmani, Piyush Chawla, Ramesh Powar, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Rishi Dhawan, S Sreesanth, Sahil Kukreja, Shaun Marsh, Simon Katich, Tanmay Srivastava, Uday Kaul, VRV Singh, Wilkin Mota
Coach: Tom Moody

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Squad: Sourav Ganguly (c),Aakash Chopra, Ajit Agarkar, Brendon McCullum, Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, David Hussey, Debabrata Das, Iqbal Abdulla, Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Shukla, Mohammad Hafeez, Murali Kartik, Prasanta Saha, Ricky Ponting, Rohan Banerjee, Salman Butt, Saurasish Lahiri, Shoaib Akhtar, Siddarth Kaul, Tatenda Taibu, Umar Gul, Yashpal Singh
Coach: John Buchnan

Mumbai Indians:

Squad: Sachin Tendulkar(c), Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Ankeet Chavan, Ashish Nehra, Ashwell Prince, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dilhara Fernando, Dominic Thornley, Gaurav Dhiman, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Loots Bosman, Luke Ronchi, Manish Pandey, Musavir Khote, Pinal Shah, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Uthappa, Rohan Raje, Sanath Jayasuriya, Saurabh Tiwary, Shaun Pollock, Siddharth Chitinis, Swapnil Singh, Vikrant Yeligati, Yogesh Takawale
Coach: Lalchand Rajput

Rajasthan Royals

Squad : Shane Warne (c), Aditya Angle, Anup Revandkar, Darren Lehmann, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Dinesh Salunke, Graeme Smith, Jaydev Shah, Justin Langer, Kamran Akmal, Mahesh Rawat, Mohammad Kaif, Morne Morkel, Munaf Patel, Niraj Patel, Pankaj Singh, Parag More, Ravindra Jadeja, Shane Watson, Siddharth Trivedi, Sohail Tanvir, Sumit Khatri, Swapnil Asnodkar, Taruwar Kohli, Younis Khan, Yusuf Pathan
Coach: Shane Warne

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2008-04-14T14:36:00.000-07:00

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