Kamran Khan is the new-young pacer of Rajasthan Royals

The Rajasthan Royals is the champions of the inaugural Indian Premier League (DLF IPL T20). In this team there many experienced players from different countries of the world who have played a lot of International crickets too. It is the only club, which is leaded by the foreign captain-coach, Australian Leg-spinner Shane Warne, and some quality bowlers Shaun Tait, Indian Munaf Patel, South African Morne Morkel are leading the team. Recently, the team has been highlighted by the media about recruitment of a young new bowler Kamran Khan who is just 18. 

His coach, Naushan Khan, told Cricinfo that his ward, who joined him five years ago, was a complete novice when he came to Mumbai from his hometown, Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. "He was very raw when he first met me, and most of his experience was, and remains, with a tennis ball," said Naushan. "We have worked on his action and tried to develop him into a proper pace bowler. Kamran's work will hopefully start to yield results. I don't think it has really hit Kamran yet that he will be in the same squad as so many big players.

"We entered him into the Mumbai Police squad for a Twenty20 tournament at the DY Patil Stadium recently, and he impressed plenty there. Darren Berry happened to be there and he was impressed with Kamran."

Darren Berry, Rajasthan Royals director of coaching, was impressed with the performances of the new young inexperienced pacer Kamran Khan and that is why he has got the opportunity playing with such big bowlers. So the Rajasthan Royals fans have to wait for the second season of Indian Premier League that will be outset on April 2009. 

Preity Zinta- Ness Wadia-Kings XI Punjab and squad for second season

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia are jointly the owners of Kings XI Punjab. In the recent auction the franchises took parts and bought the English all-rounder Ravi Bopara for $450,000. In the inaugural ceremony of Indian Premier League (IPL T20) the Kings XI Punjab had to surrendered to the Chennai Super Kings at semi-final. 

Sify.com reported:

"It's good news. I don't want to concentrate on the price so much. I’m just delighted to be involved. I sat and watched the auction and as soon as someone put their finger up and said 'we'll have him for $150,000' I was happy," said Bopara.

"There was a bit of a bidding war and I was quite nervous which was weird. Everybody is keen to get involved in the IPL because it is jazzed up and you are playing against and alongside the best players in the world," he added.

 

During the auction Preity Zinta faced huge competition with bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan. Preity tried to take Bangladeshi pacer Mashrafe Mortaza but she could not overtake the king Khan.

After this action Kings XI Punjab has declared is squad for the Indiana Premier League (IPL T20) second season. 

The Squad:  International players: Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich and Burt Cockley (all Australia); Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene (both Sri Lanka); Ravi Bopara (England); Jereme Taylor (West Indies). Team India players: Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, S. Sreesanth, R. Powar, V.R.V. Singh and Piyush Chawla. Domestic players: Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Sahil Kukreja, Ryan Ninan and Yash Gandhi.

Pakistan players have been banned for DLF IPL second season

No Pakistani cricketers will attend in the second season of DLF Indian Premier League (IPL T20) this year April-May 2009. Pakistan government has declared that their players will not allow joining IPL this year for security reason. After the massive terrorist attack in Mumbai last year, relationship between India-Pakistan has depressed more. Even, India stopped their tour of Pakistan in stead they are playing a five matches ODI series and a Twenty20 match in Sri Lanka. 

There is some new Pakistan players named for the auction but after hard decision for the government of Pakistan the players will not come for the second season and the franchises are also terminated their names from their lists for this year. In the last year, most of the Pakistan cricketers played well except Shoaib Akter. Sohail Tanvir built two records during the inaugural IPL T20. He took 6 wickets in an innings and the highest wicket takers (20 wickets) in the whole tournament.

Shilpa Shetty-Raj Kundra 11.7% owner Rajasthan Royals minority stake

Rajasthan Royals is the champions of the inaugural Indian Premier League. By beating Chennai Super Kings in the final it became the champions. This was the only team which was leaded by a foreign captain. Shane Warn was that person who was the captain in aside during the match running time and was the Coach off-time of the tournament.

Recently, the team is going to sell a part of the minority stake to others. There is a news is in media that Shilpa Shetty and her partner Raj Kundra has bought the 12% stake of the Champions of IPL20 2008. Even Shilpa Shetty herself told it by meeting to the press men.

Business Standard reported:

Speaking at a press conference in Mumbai, Shetty said: “It is an honour to be associated with Rajasthan Royals, I hope for a re-run from them this time too. I will help by providing my expertise in merchandising and music videos — basically to develop the creative part of the franchisee.”

Shilpa Shetty is the fourth bollywood superstar who has become the stake holders of any Indian Premier League (IPL T20). Previously, Shah Ruka Khan along with Juhi Chawla(although she withdrew her franchise) stake is the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Pretty Zinta is the for KingXI Punjab. So, Shilpa is the fourth stars.

The Rajasthan Royals was the at least franchise of Indian Premier League. Emerging Media group, Lachlan Murdoch, Sir. Aditya S Chellaram and Suresh Chellaram was the previous stake holders and the new and 11.7% stake holder bollywood actress and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty and her business partner Raj Kundra. They have become the partners by paying approximately US $15.4 million.

DLF IPL T20 second season and World Cup T20

The next secession of the IPL T20 will be taken place on the March 2009. This is the second time for the IPL T20 and the inaugural ceremony was held on 18 April 2008 but Indian Premier League was established by the BCCI in 2007. The second season of IPL T20 will be the similar way I mean the T20 format and two robin-rounds and the knockout and the eight teams will be the participant of the upcoming tournament. The will be kicked off from April 10 and the final match will be held on May 29 2009.

 

Cricinfo:

According to the Future Tours Programme, Australia are slated to be touring South Africa in April, 2009, India are set to be in New Zealand, and West Indies in Bangladesh. India haven't toured New Zealand since early 2003 with their scheduled trip in 2007 put of because plans to prepare for the World Cup.

 

 Just after a week the second season of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2009 ( Twenty20 International ) will be grounded on 05 Jun 2009. So, just over three months the cricket fans will enjoy competitive and anticipated tournaments. 

Rajasthan Royals got victory in IPL T20

After passing a suffocating moment Rajasthan Royals has got victory by 3 wickets. This is a great victory for the team. By beating Chennai Super Kings Rajasthan Royals achieve the trophy of the Indian Premier League.

Rajasthan Royals played well form the very beginning. It just lost 2 matches and everything was the positive side of the tournament. The Captain Shane Warne’s role was very constructive that inspire all the players all time.

IPLT20 drama around Shoaib Akter

It is a big tragedy for Shoaib Akhtar. Five years ban form International cricket will destroy his career. Just after a dramatic decision, PCB has shown flexibility for Shoaib Akhtar so that he could join IPL. It could for two vital reason; 1. After joining IPL he will not allow to join ICL. 2. They are making drama about Shoaib Akhtar. As it is a three years agreement so Shoaib is bound to stay here.

For many of us, there is no better sight in cricket than watching Shoaib steaming in to bowl, raw pace at its best and the crowds in a packed stadium behind him. The “Rawalpindi Express” crossed the 100 mile per hour speed barrier in the 2003 World Cup and there aren’t many in international cricket that quick.

I think Shoaib should change himself. For momentary excitement his career is going to destroy totally.

Top 5 Highest totals runs in Indian Premier League (IPLT20)

The 20^th match was over. I am eager to write about the highest total scorer in the Indian Premier League. The articles I am writing will be changed because it is the middle of the tournament. I have collected 5 teams that scored the highest total. Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab have achieved the top five positions.

Chennai Super Kings 240/5: It was the 2^nd match of Indian Premier League. The match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab was taken place at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. The Captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. Interesting thing is that just scoring 2 runs he was trapped by lbw. MEK Hussey the Australian batsman scored 116 runs (not out). That time it was the second highest score in the Indian Premier League. Chennai Super Kings cashed 240 by twenty boundaries and 16 over-boundaries. Among them MEK Hussey hit 8 boundaries and 9 over-boundaries. Chennai has accomplished the two highest total score still now. The second total is 208/5 against Mumbai Indians. It was the fifth highest total in IPLT20

Kolkata Knight Riders 222/3: The second highest score holder Kolkata Knight Riders cashed this run in the inaugural ceremony of the ongoing Indian Premier League. That day the total stadium was full of cheerful. The match was held between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rahul Dravid on 18 April at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. The day-night match was totally colorful because of inaugural ceremony. BB McCullum is the New Zealand batsman who scored 158 form 73 balls. In his highest run he hit 10 boundaries and 13 over boundaries and his strike rate was 216.43. It was the most total runs that time and the opposite team cashed just 82 runs. The one bats man scored 18 runs and that was highest and everyone was under 10 runs. Sourav Ganguly leaded Kolkata Knight Riders cashed this runs for 15 boundaries and 14 over-boundaries.

Rajasthan Royals 217/7: This is the only team that is leaded by foreign captain Shane Warne. Besides he is doing the job of responsible coach. Rajasthan Royals is the third highest score holder of the IPLT20 tournament. It scored 217 runs against Deccan Chargers at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad, on 24 April. The match was full of pressure because of losing a few wickets in Afridi’s last over. Rajasthan Royals’ Captain Shane Warne’s aggressive batting against Symonds bowling.

Deccan Chargers 214/5: In the same match against Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers cashed 214/5 runs. Deccan Chargers lost the toss but got bat first. The batsmen bat without pressure and cashed huge runs of 215. To score this run Australian batsman A Symonds himself add 117 runs from 53 balls and hit 11fours and 7 sixes. May be it was the highest hited fours in a match that was 24 and 9 sixes too.

Kings XI Punjab 207/4: Although the score of Kings XI Punjab 207 is the 6^th highest score of the IPLT20 but I have added it just for Chennai Super Kings. Anyway now Kings XI Punjab is one of the stronger team in the IPLT20. It scored this runs against Chennai Super Kings. This is the same match of when Chennai scored 240 runs the highest total in the IPLT20. Running behind 240 runs on this match Kings XI Punjab failed to reach the target.

This is a rough list of the highest total. It will be changed by the time being. After the end of the IPLT20 I will give a complete list of the highest total score.

What the prize money in the IPL is!

I got news on the website ‘The Australian’, the heading was ‘Where the wickets are paved with gold’. Do you think which wickets are warped with the precious metal gold? It is nothing but India. There is nothing to say newly about Indian cricket. Recently BCCI inaugurate Indian Premier League (IPL). The prize money is too high than any cricket matches. The players who have relation with IPL are earning a lot of money from the tournament. The payers who are playing well in the matches are getting more money. So it is totally a game of money.

The Australian wrote:

At least two of the Australians have earned $3000 or more per run scored. And it didn't matter what sort of run. A nice cover drive and an ugly outside edge were equal in the eyes of the benevolent bean-counters.

Ricky Ponting went for a relatively modest $400,000 when sold at auction in February to the Kolkata Knight Riders, a franchise so wealthy its pads, gloves, helmets and God knows what else appear to be plated with gold.

The Australia captain was no doubt a little put out to learn his trusty all-rounder Andrew Symonds was bought for $1.35million by the Deccan Chargers, but did not complain too loudly.

In the end, Ponting has emerged as the highest paid Australian batsman when earnings are worked out on a rupees-per-runs-scored basis.

I just have quote these three paragraphs. If want to know more you can visit that site.

IPL has increased the Relationship between the Cricketers

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting thought the Indian Premier League will increase the relationship between cricketers of both subcontinent and abroad. His comment is not less important, I think so. As an example I want to say that before inaugurate IPL no one thought that Indian-Pakistan will play in a same team that was unbelievable. Even in the last summer the rival between India-Australian was in ultimate stage. Just after 15 days Australian cricketers joined IPL without use any words. Really it is amazing.

"I had Ganguly and Ishant Sharma both in my side. We got on really, really well," he said.

"I think it's a good opportunity for some of those cultural differences or breakdowns in international cricket to be understood better."

Ponting says he is already looking forward to another stint in the IPL.

"The professionalism around the franchises and around the tournament was great," he said.

"I enjoyed and it will be good when I get a chance to go back and play some more."

He says the ICC needs to recognise the success of the Indian Premier League.

"I think they'd be silly if they didn't put it on the calendar," he said.

"There's a real danger that international players will see the glitz and glamour of this event and won't want to play international cricket anymore which I don't think would be great for the game."

All the Australian cricketers who are in international teal will have to return home before 15 May because of tours. Australia has a tour of West Indies form 22 May. They will play a three Test, five ODI and a T20 formatted match.

Indian Premier League: Online IPLT20 Live and analysis

IPLT20 has passed nearly two weeks and the popularity is echoing all over the world. It is like a EPL structured Indian formatted Cricket tournament.

There is nothing new to describe about Circinfo. Does the circinfo telecast the live text commentary, ball-by-ball commentary, Mobicast, 3D Animation, Desktop Alerts only of DLF IPL? No, it also contributes in different stage of cricket media and the most popular cricket website in the world that is famous for its variety. You will get any lack of information about cricket even about the ongoing DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) that you want to know. It is not only the archive of the previous records but also the store house of recent news and analysis.

If you are a fan of DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) and want to watch live score of the match and you are the internet enabled desktop pc users so Cricinfo’s is the most helpful and information full area for you. it is providing information in the individual pages of different matches. If you visit the first page by using the website www.cricinfo.com you will get the links of live score of the match that is running that time. So you can easily choose which match you like to watch now. By cricking the link you will get individual page of a small scoreboard of the batsmen who are batting and the bowlers who are bowling. To get full scoreboard and ball-by-bally text commentary you have to visit the scoreboard link. So it is totally as complete assistant for the pc users who are not watching TV.

Cricinfo Desktop Alerts: Cricinfo Desktop Alerts only for the Windows users. By installing the InstallCricinfoDesktopAlerts.exe you can get the news, scores & wicket alerts from Cricinfo direct to your desktop. It is totally free service. To get the information directly during the match time you can add it to your PC. first you have to be an internet enabled PC (Widows). Install the InstallCricinfoDesktopAlerts.exe. To get more information you can visit the link: http://ind.cricinfo.com/db/PRODUCTS/ALERTS

Cricinfo TV: Cricinfo TV is newly added items to watch the internet TV. If you want to watch the Cricinfo TV you have to download the Adobe Shockwave form adobe website which is free. The CricifoTV is the snapshot of the ongoing world cricket news. It telecast news daily. If you miss any news you could get it from its archives. http://www.cricinfo.tv/ this link can help you what do you want to know.

Cricinfo 3D: It provides not only 3D animation but also Animation with Sound, Animation with Sound too. You can choose the camera angles what do you like more. Match scorecard and statistics is another opportunity for the cricket fans. It will show a 3D window also gives you access to a live scorecard, automated wagon wheels, pitch maps and partnership statistics.

Cricinfo 3D Highlights are a part of 3D animation:

Watch the highlights of all International matches on Cricinfo 3D

Re-live the action by watching the wickets, fours and sixes

Compare the statistics of teams playing each other

Read the complete ball by ball commentary

Cricinfo Mobicast: The most important chance for cricket fan form Cricinfo is Mobicast. By using this opportunity a mobile users can access Cricinfo's famed ball-by-ball commentary. Cricinfo now offers you ball-by-ball coverage on your mobile phone, and it's free. To get all the test by using mobile phone you have to have mobile phone that is compatible for the queries. Which handset is compatible to get Cricinfo Mobicast service visit the website: http://www.cricinfomobile.com/india/mobicast.html

Online live, video and an important brief

The DLF IPL Live telecast area in internet: by the time being IPL is getting popularity among the people home and abroad. There some television channel that is telecasting live the match from the play ground. Sony Entertainment television has got the telecast right. Willow TV an interment based TV media also got the right. It is broadcasting live commentary and video streaming too for the North American cricket fans. But if you like to want the video sreaming then you wil have to

There are many website you will is giving the live ball by ball commentary. After banning the website about cricket during the office time in India some of the website that is not related cricket is showing the ball by ball commentary live in its websites.

On 1 May the 18th match of DLF Indian Premier League between Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders will be held at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. The match will full of competition because of Kolkata Knight Riders past two matches’ performances. On the other hands Rajasthan Royals is steady after a serial win of last three matches among the four matches.

The next victory will be confirmed Rajasthan Royal’s for semi-final. There is no doubt that the Rajasthan Royals are improving mot day after day. It lost just the first matches along with Delhi Daredevils that was leading by the Indian top order batsmen V Sehwag. The 3rd match of DLF Indian Premier League was totally accident for Rajasthan Royals. Everyone thought that the only foreign captain in the IPL team will go ahead. I also thought so. But the performances of the second match of Rajasthan Royals and the 6th match of Indian Premier League totally change my evaluation. Now my concept increase so much and thinking that the team is one of the top team in the IPL tournament that could be qualified for the final.

It seems, the time is coming is good for Rajasthan Royals. Most important thing is for the team is the England all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas is going to play the next matches till 12 May. He may play 5 IPL matches and later he will go back to join his home series (County Cricket). He will be free during the semi-final and the final according to IPL Schedule. He is expecting to play the semi-final and the final match. Now the team’s condition is to steady to defeat any team any time. So Rajasthan Royals is danger for any team now, especially the team Kolkata Knight Riders.

The last math of Rajasthan Royals, the 12th match of Indian Premier League was most attractive for all the cricket fans who were watching math live on stadium and TV viewers. Shane Watson is the Man of the Match for his spell of 2 for 20 off four overs followed by an unbeaten 61 off 41 balls. He even hit 26 runs off one over from Praveen Kumar, which read 4,6,4,4,4,4.

Kolkata Knight Rider is another strong team in the DLD IPL tournament. The team has been played 4 matches and success come 50%. Its fate is trembling. Although the team on the top according to the point table. In the first time the long distance victory against Bangalore Royal Challengers rise up the team high. The second victory at Eden Gardens was not easy like the first match. It could say that it was great victories for the team to beat the top teams of the IPL tournament. Rahul Dravid leaded Bangalore Royal challengers considered as a most favorite team in the IPL tournament. So the popularity comes most after beating the team easily.

It is the first time; Kolkata Knight Riders is going the meet against the second higher scorer team in the point tables. The team already has showed its mind blowing performances. I think Kolkata Knight Riders will not take the match very easy. The rules of the tournament are each team will play two matches in every team. So now what is Sourav’s team is thinking to dominate Rajasthan team.

The first and the second match summary of the Kolkata Knight Riders team

Kolkata Knight Riders was the top score holders among the IPL Teams. Now IPL has become a most exciting and poplar match. The first two matches Kolkata Knight Riders has won were more suffocating. On 18 April, in the inaugural ceremony, they defeated Bangalore Loyal Challengers by a long distance of 140 runs and in the second match it beat Deccan Chargers by 5 wickets.

In the first match, the winning hero was MoM - Brendon McCullum who scored 158 runs not out just played 73balls. It is the individual highest score in Twenty20 history and IPL (Indian Premier League) too. Scoring this runs he achieves a respected cap.

On the other hands, in the second match, the team was about to loss but David Hussey’s 6 in the last ball help Kolkata Knight Riders winner. That is why he selected as the Man of the Match.

Kolkata Knight Rider is playing the rule like the team India in the inaugural ceremony in South Africa. I think not one thought that India and Pakistan will play the final match. The movement of the team is totally gloomy to all the fans. The last match was most terrible for all the cricket fans. It seems that all of team members are absent from their responsibilities. But he tem Mumbai Indian was very action full. After a long silence it back it life.

The DLF IPL Live telecast area in internet: by the time being IPL is getting popularity among the people home and abroad. There some television channel that is telecasting live the match from the play ground. Sony Entertainment television has got the telecast right. Willow TV an interment based TV media also got the right. It is broadcasting live commentary and video streaming too for the North American cricket fans. But if you like to want the video sreaming then you wil have to

There are many website you will is giving the live ball by ball commentary. After banning the website about cricket during the office time in India some of the website that is not related cricket is showing the ball by ball commentary live in its websites.

Dimitri Mascarenhas: The Booster of Rajasthan Royals in IPL

IPLT20 is an Indian formatted Twenty20 cricket tournament. The BCCI setup it to protest ICL and ICC is backing up it. It was one kind of tournament like English Premier League (EPL) where foreign cricketer will take part beside the Indian players. Some of cricketers have joined the inaugural tournament except the English. The English County Cricket is running at the same time of Indian Premier League.

Mascarenhas' arrival will bolster Rajasthan, who are now second in the IPL standings after three-successive victories, and he hoped that his team would be able to sustain their momentum. "The biggest challenge for the Royals from hereon is to achieve consistent winning results. The team has had an amazing run after the first game and the main objective now is to force our way into the semi-finals and then the final," Mascarenhas told the Hindu.

The first English man has come to join IPL on behalf of Rajasthan Royals. The team just has lost one match among the fours. The fifth match of Rajasthan Royals will be held on 1 May against Kolkata Knight Riders.

Why Royal Challenger Bangalore is showing poor performances in IPLT20?

The days are coming hard for the Royal Challenger Bangalore. It still does not add more than 2 points in the basket. It is not honorable for Indian Test skipper Rahul Dravid. Royal Challenger Bangalore just won one match against Mumbai Indians, the fifth match of DLF IPLT20 tournament. So what is the main cause of the defeat of the team?

I think there is no hard hitter a batsman in the team. Most of them are middle orders batsmen. Even I do not see any notable blowers in the team. Only Jacques Kallis is the top all-rounder. Although Zaheer Khan is the blower of the team but he has not any eye killer performances in the T20 formatted cricket. Even he is not the regular players in Indian T20 team too.

The top order batsmen of Royal Challenger Bangalore P Kumar and W Jaffer are not regular players. Any way the middle order batsmen LRPL Taylor, JH Kallis, R Dravid and MV Boucher are looking good but in T20 formatted match it need more run in a short time. Is it possible for them?

Dimitri Mascarenhas: The Booster of Rajasthan Royals in IPL

IPLT20 is an Indian formatted Twenty20 cricket tournament. The BCCI setup it to protest ICL and ICC is backing up it. It was one kind of tournament like English Premier League (EPL) where foreign cricketer will take part beside the Indian players. Some of cricketers have joined the inaugural tournament except the English. The English County Cricket is running at the same time of Indian Premier League.

Mascarenhas' arrival will bolster Rajasthan, who are now second in the IPL standings after three-successive victories, and he hoped that his team would be able to sustain their momentum. "The biggest challenge for the Royals from hereon is to achieve consistent winning results. The team has had an amazing run after the first game and the main objective now is to force our way into the semi-finals and then the final," Mascarenhas told the Hindu.

The first English man has come to join IPL on behalf of Rajasthan Royals. The team just has lost one match among the fours. The fifth match of Rajasthan Royals will be held on 1 May against Kolkata Knight Riders.

Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders: Online live, video and an important brief

The DLF IPL Live telecast area in internet: by the time being IPL is getting popularity among the people home and abroad. There some television channel that is telecasting live the match from the play ground. Sony Entertainment television has got the telecast right. Willow TV an interment based TV media also got the right. It is broadcasting live commentary and video streaming too for the North American cricket fans. But if you like to want the video sreaming then you wil have to

There are many website you will is giving the live ball by ball commentary. After banning the website about cricket during the office time in India some of the website that is not related cricket is showing the ball by ball commentary live in its websites.

On 1 May the 18th match of DLF Indian Premier League between Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders will be held at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. The match will full of competition because of Kolkata Knight Riders past two matches’ performances. On the other hands Rajasthan Royals is steady after a serial win of last three matches among the four matches.

The next victory will be confirmed Rajasthan Royal’s for semi-final. There is no doubt that the Rajasthan Royals are improving mot day after day. It lost just the first matches along with Delhi Daredevils that was leading by the Indian top order batsmen V Sehwag. The 3rd match of DLF Indian Premier League was totally accident for Rajasthan Royals. Everyone thought that the only foreign captain in the IPL team will go ahead. I also thought so. But the performances of the second match of Rajasthan Royals and the 6th match of Indian Premier League totally change my evaluation. Now my concept increase so much and thinking that the team is one of the top team in the IPL tournament that could be qualified for the final.

It seems, the time is coming is good for Rajasthan Royals. Most important thing is for the team is the England all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas is going to play the next matches till 12 May. He may play 5 IPL matches and later he will go back to join his home series (County Cricket). He will be free during the semi-final and the final according to IPL Schedule. He is expecting to play the semi-final and the final match. Now the team’s condition is to steady to defeat any team any time. So Rajasthan Royals is danger for any team now, especially the team Kolkata Knight Riders.

The last math of Rajasthan Royals, the 12th match of Indian Premier League was most attractive for all the cricket fans who were watching math live on stadium and TV viewers. Shane Watson is the Man of the Match for his spell of 2 for 20 off four overs followed by an unbeaten 61 off 41 balls. He even hit 26 runs off one over from Praveen Kumar, which read 4,6,4,4,4,4.

Kolkata Knight Rider is another strong team in the DLD IPL tournament. The team has been played 4 matches and success come 50%. Its fate is trembling. Although the team on the top according to the point table. In the first time the long distance victory against Bangalore Royal Challengers rise up the team high. The second victory at Eden Gardens was not easy like the first match. It could say that it was great victories for the team to beat the top teams of the IPL tournament. Rahul Dravid leaded Bangalore Royal challengers considered as a most favorite team in the IPL tournament. So the popularity comes most after beating the team easily.

It is the first time; Kolkata Knight Riders is going the meet against the second higher scorer team in the point tables. The team already has showed its mind blowing performances. I think Kolkata Knight Riders will not take the match very easy. The rules of the tournament are each team will play two matches in every team. So now what is Sourav’s team is thinking to dominate Rajasthan team.

The first and the second match summary of the Kolkata Knight Riders team

Kolkata Knight Riders was the top score holders among the IPL Teams. Now IPL has become a most exciting and poplar match. The first two matches Kolkata Knight Riders has won were more suffocating. On 18 April, in the inaugural ceremony, they defeated Bangalore Loyal Challengers by a long distance of 140 runs and in the second match it beat Deccan Chargers by 5 wickets.

In the first match, the winning hero was MoM - Brendon McCullum who scored 158 runs not out just played 73balls. It is the individual highest score in Twenty20 history and IPL (Indian Premier League) too. Scoring this runs he achieves a respected cap.

On the other hands, in the second match, the team was about to loss but David Hussey’s 6 in the last ball help Kolkata Knight Riders winner. That is why he selected as the Man of the Match.

Kolkata Knight Rider is playing the rule like the team India in the inaugural ceremony in South Africa. I think not one thought that India and Pakistan will play the final match. The movement of the team is totally gloomy to all the fans. The last match was most terrible for all the cricket fans. It seems that all of team members are absent from their responsibilities. But he tem Mumbai Indian was very action full. After a long silence it back it life.

The DLF IPL Live telecast area in internet: by the time being IPL is getting popularity among the people home and abroad. There some television channel that is telecasting live the match from the play ground. Sony Entertainment television has got the telecast right. Willow TV an interment based TV media also got the right. It is broadcasting live commentary and video streaming too for the North American cricket fans. But if you like to want the video sreaming then you wil have to

There are many website you will is giving the live ball by ball commentary. After banning the website about cricket during the office time in India some of the website that is not related cricket is showing the ball by ball commentary live in its websites.

A short story on IPL20

IPL20 an Indian formatted League where a lot of foreign crickets are playing for different team in India. BCCI inducted IPL20 is running with full speed. In the IPL20 there are 8 teams. Such as Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Daredevils, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals, Kings XI Punjab, Bangalore Royal Challengers, Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers.

The Franchise of the IPL20 teams are some top class businessmen and some Bollwood superstars and the brand ambassadors are a group of film stars of different film industries.

The TV telecast right acquired by Sony Entertainment Television and World Sport Group jointly. Network Ten, Setanta Sports, Prime Sport channel, Willow TV, SuperSport, GEO Super and Asian Television Network also has got telecast right in different continent.

It is the first time in cricket industry the one internet based TV channel Willow TV has got the broadcast right.

There are many web sites that are telecasting different types of live commentary. Text commentary, video streaming, 3D Video, short scoreboard and detailed scoreboard are available in different website too.

www.cric6.com

www.cricket66.com

www.action8cricket.com

Some mobile company also showing ball by ball description on the subscribers hand set.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Premier_League

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/current/site/ipl/

http://www.vcricket.com/series/2008/IPL_2008.html

Super Kings has the last laugh

In a format created to favour batsmen and big hitting, a bowler won the match for Chennai Super Kings at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here on Wednesday.

Young paceman Manpreet Singh Goni’s four immaculate overs at the beginning of the Mumbai Indians’ innings proved the decisive spell in a crucial Indian Premier League duel in front of a packed audience.

Bowling with control and working around the basics, Goni conceded just 18 runs in his four overs.

Super Kings won but not before surviving a scare after some hectic hitting by Abhishek Nayar (45 n.o., 20b, 6x4, 1x6) and skipper Harbhajan Singh in the end overs. A barrage of fours and sixes brought Mumbai Indians desperately close.

Joginder Sharma, once again, was alive at the death.
Second win


Defending 208, the host clinched a thriller by six runs for its second successive victory in the competition. Mumbai Indians is without a win in two games.

Mumbai Indians faltered at the start. S. Badrinath scored a direct hit from point to catch Luke Ronchi short of the crease at the non-striker’s end.

Not much later, key man Sanath Jayasuriya was unable to pick the impressive Manpreet Singh Goni’s change of pace.

Goni bowled tight from one end, but Jacob Oram suffered at the other as Robin Uthappa (43 off 36 balls) cut loose.

The batsman displayed power and finesse before swishing at a delivery from Joginder Sharma to lose his leg stump.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni shuffled his bowlers, led with a combination of instinct and foresight.

With the ability to get his deliveries to skid off the surface, Joginder can be a dicey bowler in this format and Dhoni used him to break partnerships.

A youngster like Palani Amarnath held his nerve — after being struck for a six — to castle Pollock.
Super Kings has the last laugh

IPL an incentive, not a distraction

IPL an incentive, not a distraction - How
Jamie How insists there is no ill-feeling towards New Zealand players in the Indian Premier League - and has urged the rest of the squad to seize their chance to get noticed for the tournament.

With captain Daniel Vettori in India, How will be skipper against MCC at Arundel on Sunday when New Zealand starts preparations for its three-Test series against England.

Vice-captain Brendon McCullum is also playing in the Twenty20 tournament - he smashed 158 in his first match - along with Ross Taylor, Kyle Mills and Jacob Oram.

Coach John Bracewell insists there is unity in his squad and How believes the money and exposure of the IPL is an incentive to perform.

"I think everyone wishes they will be in India at some point," he said.

"It's like our coach says, our best players are over there and it is something to aim for. We're happy for the guys that are over there."

Ironically, How's opposite number this weekend will be former New Zealand skipper Chris Cairns, with Nathan Astle also in the MCC line-up.

Bracewell admits the situation of missing players could have a destabilising effect, but also argued that problems can arise from a number of scenarios tourists face.

"It's not ideal but it is the reality of the landscape we live in and it's a great opportunity," he said.

"It's the landscape of our salaries in New Zealand. For us we see it as a glass half full rather than half empty - it brings us into line with rugby [salaries]."

Bracewell will have his IPL players returning next week, with Mark Gillespie travelling home and Michael Mason staying in England.

When his five senior players arrive in England, squad discussions will continue over how to deal with the IPL.

Bracewell believes much of New Zealand's previous preparations have been fractured anyway by split tours and different one-day and Test personnel.

"It's something we've discussed openly as a group, at length during our summer, and we are still discussing it," he explained.

"It is part of the growth and maturity of this team that we have to work in this landscape. You are always looking for ideals, this is reality - we have to adapt quickly to comings and goings."

He added: "All things have potential for [friction]. Our particular group understand it. It's incentive-based and an opportunity to bring us into line with [the salaries of] other Test nations."

Despite fringe players being given the platform to impress, the reality is that New Zealand's five 'superstars' will be in the side for the first Test, at Lord's on May 15.

"Superstars? We're a team," said How.

"The guys are realistic about the guys coming in. They are our senior players. There is the opportunity to press for selection and you can only go out and do your best."

With Stephen Fleming's retirement adding to their problems, New Zealand is regarded in England as overwhelming underdogs as it looks to rebuild. This despite having beaten England in the one-day series, and the first Test of their three-Test series in New Zealand last month.

Bracewell himself has been suggested as a possible departure, with the 50-year-old linked with a return to Gloucestershire.

"There are a lot of options out there for coaches as well as players," he said.

"I'm constantly in touch with them because I built up a lot of relationships. It's something that is not out of the question.

"I want to return to county because I really enjoyed the cricket played, the structure and the lifestyle."

Nayantara the Brand Ambassador of Chennai Super Kings

Most of the franchise of Indian Premier League team (a T20 formatted cricket match) has selected brand ambassador form different film industry. Nayantara is one of them who is from Kollywood, the brand ambassador Chennai Super Kings. She is spending her time in a tight schedule. Now she has become physically unfit.

This master of multitasking shoots for films round-the-clock. Recently, she had some health issues due to over exertion and opted out from the responsibility of being ambassador of Chennai Super Kings which would have put her under even more work pressure. We just witnessed her star power which made IPL select her as brand ambassador. Her presence and acting skills added to the success of Yaaradi Nee Mohini, where she was cast opposite Dhanush. She was Rajinikanth's heroine in Chandramukhi and has worked with Ajith. She is going to share screen space with Vijay in Singam and with Ajith in Aegan.

She is the most popular actress in the south India and has acted almost most of the actor. Chennai Super Kings will be played its next match against Kolkata Knight Riders. The fight will be harder because both teams are still unbeaten. Now will the brand ambassador present in the play ground to add more pleasure?

Cheerleaders needs to be ban?

Now DLF IPL is going on full speed. It is extra cheer for Indian especially cricket fans. To add more joy it added cheerleaders in the fields. Indian people are always crazy about cricket. It is one kind of pleasant for them. May be someone objected about the cheerleaders that their presence are not acceptable in the play ground.

"The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the instructions of organisers," Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said, adding that a performance license has been granted to the organisers of the match between Mumbai Indians and Deccan Chargers to be held at Nerul's D Y Patil stadium.

In the event of the cheerleaders indulging in obscenity, Wagh said, the "license holders" (the organisers) will be prosecuted under various provisions of the Bombay Police Act for indecency in a public place and breach of license terms.

The objection on the cheerleaders was raised in the State Legislative Council by Maharashtra BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who is also a member of the House. Gadkari said it was degrading to women and should be banned.

Maharashtra's Minister of State for Home, Siddhram Mhetre had yesterday told reporters that the government will not allow the cheerleaders to perform as their acts are "absolutely obscene" and wondered why the organisers required "semi nude" women at cricket matches.

Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders: Who will win?

Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders: Who will win?

Chennai Super Kings is one of the team which still does not loss any match. It has already played two matches against Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians. The third match it will be played against Kolkata Knight Riders on April 26 at Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai of the DLF Indian Premier League.

Kolkata Knight Riders is also another team that owns all the previous two matches and got the full score. It has beaten some of the big teams Bangalore Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers. So the Points table is totally bowed down to the Kolkata Knight Riders. It is the top position holder of DLF Indian Premier League.

Now it is time to see what the time result will come on 26 April between the match Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata is in full strength with some high quality players Ponting, McCullum and Chris Gayle are among them. But the three are in injury they will back to home except Chris Gayle.

Sourav Ganguly's team will be the worst hit by the exodus. Ricky Ponting, McCullum and Chris Gayle, though he is yet to play due to injury, will be missing in action soon. Ponting will leave on May 1, McCullum on April 30 while the injured Gayle, even if he gets fit, will have to leave on May 15. These are big shoes to fill as Ponting is a proven commodity and McCullum became the first superstar of the IPL with a whirlwind record 158 on the opening night. They will look to the Pakistan opener Salman Butt and Zimbabwe's Tatendu Taibu to try plugging the big hole but it remains to be seen how effective they will be. Butt averages only 15.42 at a strike-rate of 81.20 in eight Twenty20 internationals and 16.62 at a strike-rate of 95 from 17 domestic Twenty20 games. Taibu averages 15.70 from 10 domestic Twenty20 matches but the runs have come at a fair clip of 122.65. Perhaps, Mohammad Hafeez will be pushed up the order. There is some good news for Kolkata, as the Pakistani seamer Umar Gul, who has joined the squad, will beef up the bowling.

Here is a complete Point Table till 24 April. After losing the third match against Rajasthan Royals Deccan Chargers confirm its tour to home. On the other hand Rajasthan Royals heroic come back driving them to the knock out league.

Team	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Pts	Net RR	For	Against
Kolkata	2	2	0	0	0	4	+3.764	334/39.0	192/40.0
Delhi Daredevils	2	2	0	0	0	4	+2.988	275/28.1	271/40.0
Chennai	2	2	0	0	0	4	+0.975	448/40.0	409/40.0
Rajasthan Royals	3	2	1	0	0	4	-0.419	514/58.0	512/55.1
Bangalore	2	1	1	0	0	2	-3.423	248/39.4	387/40.0
Mumbai Indians	2	0	2	0	0	0	-0.254	367/40.0	374/39.4
Deccan Chargers	3	0	3	0	0	0	-1.339	466/60.0	472/51.5
Kings XI Punjab	2	0	2	0	0	0	-1.365	373/40.0	408/38.1

Although Kolkata Knight Rider is in good position because of its team member’s injury make them anxious. The players who are in injury may play on the match against Chennai Super King. The Chennai Super King is lead by Indian ODI captain MS Dhoni. There others strong team members are Matthew Hayden, Stephen Fleming, Michael Hussey who are powerfully dominating the other bowlers of the opposite team. Indian Twenty20 world Champions Trophy winner bowers Joginder Sharma is also in the team. In the last match his last over’s performance help Chennai Super King although the over was not less expensive.

The Prince of Kolkata Sourav Ganguly is the leader of the Kolkata Knight Riders who is the most successful Test Captains among the Indian captain ever. With DLF Indian Premier League, he is introducing with T20 matches. Now it is the question, will he be able to lead the teal well and perform well for his personal career?