DLF Indian Premier League

PORT ELIZABETH: Delhi Daredevils joined Deccan Chargers at the top of the DLF Indian Premier League with six points after they scored their third successive victory, a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore with four deliveries to space in a low-scoring but fiercely competitive at the St George’s Park here on Sunday.

In the end, Delhi Daredevils was relieved that it has the seasoned and determined Tillekeratne Dilshan to man the chase of 150 runs with an unbeaten 67 (47 balls, five fours, two sixes) and the experience of Mithun Manhas who bustled his way to a quick 23 not out after RCB paceman Pankaj Singh sent Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir packing inside six overs.

New Delhi: Batsman had start tough in the IPL season 2 and trouble has widely come from slightest expected quarters. Spin has also been the undeniable king in South Africa and predictable with the best in the business g operating, a few ground rules of Twenty20 cricket are just about to be well rewritten.

Shane Warne, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Daniel Vettori and Muttiah Mualitharan these bowlers are five men who had already put their squash on IPL 2009. The pre-tournament talk that revolved around the seamers, but real then ignore these men, the best torchbearers of modern-day spin bowling going at your own peril.

Cape Town: Sachin’s innings that against Chennai Super Kings in just opening game of the DLF IPL Season 2 was entirely fantastic. Considering that the Newlands pitch and also about the weather, I personal think that his innings was more imperative. It obviously deserve the man of the match award cause. Given into the way the pitch has behaved for the next first six overs, Sachin had to just carry his bat all the way through the innings particularly after Sanath Jayasuriya was when dismissed.

frequently in a Twenty20 game the pitch and also the conditions don’t matter so much but Saturday was so different. There was malleable bounce and the ball was also stopping and coming. The CSK bowlers be supposed to have got wickets in just those conditions but they did not get so enough. MS Dhoni had opened the bowling with Thilan Tushara and Manpreet Singh Gony hoping just that the helpful conditions would thus make help even his lesser bowlers. In theory, he was right but the reality is that everything went against him. His batsmen batted when the conditions were better and yet failed to get to the target.

It was so special match for player both MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar. It was that moment Dhoni won the Twenty20 World Cup and next it was here in the South Africa that Sachin Tendulkar scored more runs than anybody else to take India to road to the World Cup final in 2003.

April 19, 2009 : IPL 2009 : IPL Delhi won by 10 wickets (D/L method)
IPL Delhi Daredevils vs IPL Kings XI Punjab, 3rd Match
Newlands, Cape Town
Umpires: M Benson (ENG) and S Ranade (IND) Third Umpire: K Dharmasena (SL)
Match Referee: Y Sharma (IND)

The Twenty20 cricket extravaganza comes to Canada in October month  with a bang.

Fresh from the sponsorship by Scotiabank, Cricket Canada Tuesday has unveiled the nation’s first premier cricket tournament, that to be known as the Scotiabank National T20 Cricket Championship.and  It will to be held at King City right near Toronto May 17 and 18.

Eight teams from just the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia will vie for the Scotiabank National Cricket Trophy.

Cricket Canada, which is a  regulating body of cricket in Canada, even said the eight teams will play 24 games over the two-day, entertainment  and rightly filled extravaganza, including bhangra and band performances.

The championship will feature that  Canadian national players such as Umar Bhatti, Henry Osinde, Geoff Barnett, Sunil Dhaniram, and Sanjay Thuraisingam.

Cricket Canada CEO Atul Ahuja, who has vowed to make cricket the nation’s top sport, told IANS: “In the light of what is happening in the IPL in India at the moment, what we are undertaking in Canada is a major step to restore this sport to its former glory which it enjoyed till ice hockey replaced it.”

Ahuja, who attended the IPL opening in India recently, said the owners of league teams have promised to send their teams to Canada.

“All of them - Indian cricket board chief Sharad Pawar, Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Mallaya, Rajiv Shukla and others promised to send Twenty20 teams to Canada in the summer to help us groom players. We have a huge talent from the South Asian and Caribbean communities in Canada,” he said.

Back in India and ready for the second edition of the Indian Premier League, former Australia [Images] opener Matthew Haydenattributed  here India’s as growing stature in Tests and ODIs to the IPL and also  the country’s Twenty20 [Images] World Cup triumph.

“India was focused  mainly towards Tests and ODIs but the  great win in the T20 World Cup has changed all that and the IPL has brought out some rapid excellent players,” said Hayden, who addressed the media after his training session with the Chennai Super Kings [Images] at the Chepauk, in Chennai on Friday.

“Bowlers will have a chance there (in South Africa) but small grounds and high altitude will ensure high scores there too,” he said, adding that the IPL will “take the game to a wider audience”.

Having been there and done that, Hayden’s job is to guide the juniors in the Chennai Super Kings team which finished runners-up in the inaugural year.

After a huge pressure from the IPL and the ECB that is expected to offer a three week window right after the end of the West Indies tour also and before the start of the summer series that against the same opposition. The IPL are also demanding the window should be available for 2 years at least, and a demand likely to be get agreed. But will the IPL stint assist for it the England players? The evidencethat surely is clear that the IPL will assist ipl players. It has donegreat so for the Indians who are competing in these event

There is no doubt that it would improve their chances in the twenty20 world cup, but how would it affect their from in other forms of cricket. The IPL stint means that players won’t have played a first class game in England this year before the West Indies Test series. Looking at the quality of the position that shouldn’t be a problem. Ahead of the Ashes you would want to play as much competitive cricket as possible, which would help more, a twenty20 tournament or county Championship games. The players believe the IPL stint will provide more benefits

As everybody busy in their lives  we want instant results that  without waiting  for so long five days that actually might produce as result a draw as well and that  even there  if T20 has evolved, it is so factually far by slow in to comparison with  the other games like football and tennis

So as per  we find it already have T20 match by  reduced to 1.5 hrs  with an innings. I am seriously confused  for understand it that  how much faster all you’d like the game  really to be. By the way   if you compare cricket to football,  seriously I would  prefer  it on any day pick cricket because:

1)    Firstly  I am not a  such great football fan.

2) Football is  such a boring game to me because there is  In fact not so much  excitement in the game like everyball in cricket. It’s only you have to wait  for one goal you get the jubilation and also  then wait for an age to see the other goal scored. Most of  the times you only get seeing the goal into a replay. Even a noball in  the cricket can  also decide a winner and a loser.

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