IPL 2009 season 2 Preview and Live Score: Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings

The opening match of the season 2 of the Indian premier league will be commenced on at 16:00 IST, 12:30 South African Local time and 10:30 GMT at Newlands in Cape Town. SET MAX television will air the match for the cricket fans. With Cape Town, the whole globe is waiting to celebrate the IPL T20 tournament; especially the Indian people are very exciting about the tournament.

The year IPL 2009 second (2) season will be started between the match IPL Mumbai (MI) vs IPL Chennai (CSK) but in the first season it was between Bangalore Royal Challengers (BRC) and Kolkata Knights Riders (KKR). Mumbai Indians is the most costly cricket club that was licensed by Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries) and it is the highest paid team of IPL and bought for $ 111.9 m. CSK is the number fourth highest paid team, bought by India Cements (N Srinivasan) for $ 91.0 m.

CSK will be leaded by the Indian cricket team’s captain MS Dhoni. The Dhoni’s boys performed well in the last year and reached to the Final. India titled the ICC World Cup Champions in the inaugural ceremony in 2007. Now, he has brought good luck in Indian cricket.

The opposition Mumbai Indians will dominate in the fields under Little Master Sachin Tendulkar. There is noting introduce newly about him but he could not perform well in Twenty20 international tournament, even in the last year of Indian Premier League.

Indian Premier League season 2 inaugural match

Teams: Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians

Venue: Newlands, Cape Town

Date and time: On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:00 Indian time, 12:30 local time (10:30 GMT)

Live telecast: Set Max

Online live: Cricinfo, FoxSports,

Video streaming and highlight: Willow TV, Directv

In the double robin round matches Mumbai Indians, it secured 7 wins out of 14 matches’ as a result they could not qualified for knock out rounds (semi final). In spite of spending huge money the team could not show good performances in season 1. By winning 8 matches in the qualified round, Chennai Super Kings come up in the semi final and in semi final beat Kings XI Punjab but in final they beat to Rajasthan Royals.

Ami to strong the teams movement in season 2 of IPL, Mumbai Indians bought three players who are JP Duminy, Kyle Mills and Mohammad Ashraful but West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has re-signed with the Mumbai Indians. Similarly, Chennai Super Kings also added three new faces; they are Andrew Flintoff, Thilan Thushara and George Bailey. Important thing is that Andrew Flintoff has broken all the record of auction ever and he has been paid $1.55 millions. Michael Hussey has been withheld for this year.

When IPL 2009 opening ceremony will be held? On 17 April 2009?

In opening day of IPL 2009 two matches and opening ceremony will be held in Cape Town. The Newlands Stadium is well decorated to celebrate the IPL cricket tournaments. After the opening and introduction assembly, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings the meet in the encounter of the Twenty20 formatted most expecting cricket tournaments. The he second IPL match will be kicked off between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Rajasthan Royals at the same ground.

 

This year IPL will be 15 minutes longer than the previous times. Previously, the Twenty20 cricket was scheduled for 3 hour but in the second season of the IPL 2009, t have brought changes and extended it 15 minutes. Now question is; what will happen in this extended time? I think it is a tactics to get extra revenues from the Advertisers. 

 

The inaugural IPL’s opening ceremony was celebrated in the Bangalore and the match was between Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Riders. It was totally different opening ceremony and all the fans enjoyed the match especially for batting and huge runs. Kolkata Knight Riders scored 222 runs for 3wickets but the opposition had to sack their innings just earned 82 runs from 15.1 over out of 20.

 

This year the opening match will be commence on between IPL Mumbai vs IPL Chennai and the team will be leaded star batsman of India ever Sachin Tendulkar and the most successful captain at this moment MS Dhoni.

 

Although the opening match will be stared from 18 April 2009 but the opening ceremony will be held today. No doubt that the stadium will be full with a lot of bollywood stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty along with the cricketers

 

Winning Bidder	Regional Broadcast Rights
Sony/World Sport Group	Global Rights, India
Network Ten	Free-to-air television in Australia
Sky Network Television	New Zealand broadcast rights
Setanta Sports	United Kingdom and Ireland on a subscription basis
Arab Digital Distribution	Middle East broadcast rights on ADD's ART Prime Sport channel. Will broadcast to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya and Nigeria.
Willow TV	Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America.
Super Sport	South Africa and Nigeria broadcast rights
GEO Super	Pakistan broadcast rights
Asian Television Network	Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on ATN's CBN & ATN Cricket Plus channels on a subscription basis. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well.

 

Here are the lists of the tv channels which will broadcast the whole matches including opening ceremony.

 

IPL 2009: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals 2nd match Newlands, Cape Town

In the inaugural day IPL cricket tournament 2009, two matches will be kicked off at the same play ground after the opening ceremony. The second crickets match between the champions of IPL 2008 Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal Challengers at Newlands in Cape Town. This is the big challenge for 2008 Rajasthan Royals; it is a big challenge because they are the title hold of the tournament.

 

Bangalore Royal Challengers could play any good cricket matches in the last season and just got 4 wins out of 14 matches. That is why it was in the 7^th position of the standings tables. They got two wins over Deccan Chargers one was Mumbai Indians and other was Chennai Super Kings. Despite of some top ranked players and under R Dravid’s captaincy, Bangalore Royal Challengers had to face huge difficulties. And, may be this is the main cause BRC will change their leadership that will be handed over the England’s former captain Kevin Pietersen.

 

Rajasthan Royals is only team that was leader by the foreign Captaincy-Coaching. Shane Warne is really talent; he proved it in the first season of DLF IPL cricket tournament. To tell truth, Warne is appropriate to get honor as best captaincy in IPL Cricket League. By picking up 16 wickets from 15 matches SK Warne stood second best wicket takers of the inaugural Indian Premier League. This year, he was away from cricket for his fitness but now he has gained satisfactory and will take the lead of the team.

 

In the home match, Bangalore Royal Challengers beat to Rajasthan Royals for 7 wickets at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore and in away in match Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur beat for 65 runs. In the home twenty20 tournament only LRPL Taylor and Parveen Kumar did well but others could not reach to any honorable score. Similar drama replied in the away T20 cricket matches. Only Captain Rahul Dravid scored 75 runs for 36 balls and was not out. That proved that the franchise spent huge money to buy the club but not for developing the cricket teams. But this year, they brought some changes intellectually so it could perform better this year.

 

Rajasthan Royals acted upon BRC in both matches home and away. Shane Warne, captain RR bowled best of his careen in IPL T20 and picked 3 wickets for 19 runs. And the opposite captain Rahul Dravid played similar roll and scored 75 runs in the same match. Just losing one wicket of SA Asnodkar, RR scored 197runs. GC Smith and SR Watson were not-out as well as 75 and 46 but SA Asnodkar scored 50 runs from 44 balls.

 

Rajasthan Royals’ bowlers Shane Warne and Munaf Patel picket up 4 wickets each from the two matches and Sohail Tanvir took 3 and SR Watson picked 2 wickets. But, the Bangalore Royal Challengers bowlers showed very weak performances in both matches and no bowler could take more that one wicket (who took wicket) from the tow matches. Rajasthan Royals’ bowlers drew their manes of three in the top five lists as a highest wicket taker.

 

This year, the DLF IPL T20 is going to hold in South Africa. Although it is very good place but totally unknown for most of the young Indian players except International players but they all have aim to play a positive crickets. 

IPL 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians 1st match Newlands, Cape Town

During the opening day of the IPL second season Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians will meet for the first encounter at Newlands, Cape Town. This is the first match of the IPL 2009. But, in the inaugural Indian Premier League the opening match was between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders. The Twenty20 formatted IPL tournament become very popular over the world.

 

In the first season, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians met at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 23 April 2008. Mumbai Indians who won the toss and invited the CSK bat first. The CSK scored 208 runs from five wickets. The big challenging score faced them in huge pressure but they took the challenge and scored 202 runs from 7 wickets. The performances of both teams were unbelievable and astonished all the fans. The batsmen enjoyed the match delighted the audiences most. It was the 8^th match of IPL 2008 season.

 

This was the second match of Chennai Super Kings and the home match (first Leg) and similarly for Mumbai Indians second match but away. Indian Captain MS Dhoni was the skipper of CSK and for the absence of Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh leaded Mumbai Indians.

 

A Nehra was the first bowlers who attacked Chennai Super Kings batting line-up at the 4^th over. When the team just reached to 31 runs PA Patel surrendered his wicket to A Nehra through the wicket-keeper and it was his only wicket that day. MA Khote was the successful bowler who took 2 wickets by 29 runs. Mumbai Indians’ Captain Harbhajan Singh used 8 men to take the control of opposite batting.

 

ML Hayden the booming batsmen on the side of Chennai Super Kings scored 81 runs from 102 balls and went back to pavilion by the direct hit of Harbhajan Singh. SK Raina was the second highest scorer of 53 from 54 balls and captain MS Dhoni was the third highest scorer 30 from 31 balls.

 

Mumbai Indians’ had to minimize them in 202 runs as a result they lost to Chennai Super Kings for 6 runs. No doubt that it was a painful defeat of very narrow defeat. Except opener L Ronchi and lower-middle order batsman MA Khote could not score good but rest of the batsmen presented themselves amazingly. AM Nayar the highest scored and was not out for 45 runs by playing 53 balls with 6x4 and just a single six and RV Uthappa who is one of the popular Twenty20 formatted success batsmen from the Mumbai Indians side scored 43 runs from 38 balls when he hits 6 fours and one six.

 

Newlands, Cape Town is known as Sahara Park. It is going to the history of the inaugural match of Indian Premier League IPL 2009 second season. It has a capacity of 25,000 audiences and celebrated the first Twenty20 formatted match during the Inaugural World Cup Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was the 4^th match of Twenty20 World Cup 2007 between Australia and Zimbabwe and the last Twenty20 cricket tournament was ICC World Twenty20 - 1st semi final which was played along with New Zealand and Pakistan.

 

Newlands, Cape Town will be the host of 8 matches of IPL 2009 including the opening ceremony. After the opening ceremony two matches will be taken place at the same ground on 18 April 2009. 

Preview, Highlights, 3rd Test 2009, South Africa vs Australia at Cape Town

Australia has confirmed the series victory along side the host South Africa and leading the series 2-0. The 3^rd test’s third day already has over and the guests are on batting for second innings and have lost two wickets at the end of the third day and added 102 runs with the first innings’  209 runs.

 

By winning tolls Australia chose to bat first and just playing 71.0 overs, South Africa packed them in 205 runs. At end of the first day South Africa played 14.0 overs and scored 57 without lost. At end of the second day South Africa cashed 404 runs just lost 3 wickets from 102.0 overs. Before lunch of the 3^rd day the hosts’ total earning was 508 runs from 6wickets when AB de Villiers scored 90 and JA Morkel 27. After lunch they added 143 and had to sack the first innings.

 

Later Australia came to the ground to face SA bowlers for second innings. They just played 36.0 overs but lost two valuable wickets. M Katich 44 and MEK Hussey 13 are still unbeaten and will come to bat in the morning of the 4^th day.

 

Australia had to face in huge pressure in the first innings and no batmen cross 50 runs except SM Katich who scored 55. Captain Rickey Ponting had to back in pavilion without add any single runs in her personal career and in the second innings he just added 12 runs.

From the host side’s three batsmen searched hundreds for their personal career even Captain JH Kallis scored 102 runs. AG Prince and AB de Villiers secured hundreds each and run were 150 and 163.

Twenty20 World Cup Championship 2007: Australia vs Zimbabwe, Kenya vs New Zealand and Pakistan vs Scotland

On 12 September 2007, three matches will be played in Cape Town and Durban. The teams are Australia vs Zimbabwe, Kenya vs New Zealand and Pakistan vs Scotland. Here is the time table below. I have designed the time table according to the local time of GMT, South Africa, India Bangladesh and Pakistan. I think you will be benefited with this.

12 Sep 2007 Australia vs Zimbabwe

4th Match Group Stage, Group B, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 16:00 GMT (21:30 IST)

12 Sep 2007 Kenya vs New Zealand

2nd Match Group Stage, Group C, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 08:00 GMT (13:30 IST)

12 Sep 2007 Pakistan vs Scotland

3rd Match Group Stage, Group D, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 12:00 GMT (17:30 IST)

Group B

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	Australia vs Zimbabwe at Cape Town	18:00	16:00	21:00	21:30	22:00

Group C

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	New Zealand vs Kenya at Durban	10:00	08:00	13:00	13:30	14:00

Group D

Date	Match	Local	GMT	PST	IST	BST
Wed 12	Pakistan vs Scotland at Durban	14:00	12:00	17:00	17:30	18:00

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