FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 from 14 June at Coca-Cola Park

FIFA Confederations Cup is going to taken place from 14 June in Johannesburg South Africa which is also the FIFA World Cup 2010 host country. With the match between host South Africa and AFC Champions Iraq, the door will be opened for 15 days for the football lovers in different countries of the world. According to South African Stander Time (UTC) the match will be held at Coca-Cola Park, Johannesburg at 16:00 UTC. The Opening and the closing ceremony will be staged at the same gourd at Coca-Cola Park.

Eight countries will take parts by dividing in to two Groups when will play group stage match with each team. The top point holders will be qualified for the next round semi-finals. As a host country, South Africa will take part without playing any qualified match along with Iraq, New Zealand and UEFA Euro 2008 winner Spain in the same group A. And, FIFA world Champions Italy, CONMEBOL winners Brazil and Egypt and United States will play in the group B.

Four stadiums have been selected as venues as well as Coca-Cola Park, Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Vodacom Park, and Loftus Versfeld Stadium. In the opening day two matches will be kicked-off in different two venues but he opening ceremony will be held in Coca-Cola Park. South Africa vs Iraq encounter will kick-off at 1600 and New Zealand v Spain local time 20:30 at Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg.

Among the eight countries, three have appeared first in this festival. They are UEFA 2008 winner Spain, FIFA World Cup 2006 winner Italy and 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner Iraq. Brazil is the most time appears county (6) and the most time champions (2). United Satiate is in the second position as a participant but could not become champion just holds the 3^rd position two times.

World Twenty20 2009: Jacques Kallis in South Africa Squad

I am a big fan of the South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis. There are many things to like him the most world famous cricketers. Very good news for him and his fan that he has draw his name in the declared squad for the next World Twenty20 Cricket tournament in England, is going to play in England from 5 June 2009. He was kept away from the in augural twenty20 wc last year. But, this year, he has got huge popularity after some outstanding performances, especially in the recent IPL T20 on the side of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Deepikaglobal reported:

Smith further added that all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who was included in the South African squad after a fine showing in IPL II, will be crucial for the team's chances at the Twenty20 World Cup. Kallis was dropped from the Proteas squad in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa two years ago

In the inaugural ceremony, Jacques Kallis’ suspension made him depressed and he decided to walk out from the international cricket too. But later he changed his decision. After two years, he will be appeared on the side of his elevens in England.

South Africa bagged 3-2 series wins over Australia

In the last match of the series Australia beat the host South Africa in the last one-day international of the five-match series. Australia has to face second series defeat to South Africa. Really, this is big tremble for the world champions that they beat in the home and away one-day international series. Although Australia take the test series lead, they lost in Twenty20 and one-day international series.

 

Next week Australia will visit to Pakistan for five-match ODI and one Twenty20 match. This tour will not take place in any Pakistan home’s grounds. Pakistan will host the series in Dubai, UAE. Now, it is question that how will they perform in the upcoming tour.

 

The recent tour for Australia is not fruitful, may be they are disappointed to get this results. The visitor won first two Tests among the three and the 3^rd result went on the host. Secondly the Twenty series went on South Africa by 2-0. At last the One-Day series result also goes on the host by 3-2.

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 complete fixture and timetable and venues

South Africa is the host of 2nd season of IPL Twenty20 League. The opening match will be started on April 18, 2009 at Newlands stadium in Cape Town and final match will be held in Johannesburg.

South Africa’s 8 cities will be celebrated IPL 2009’s all matches. 59 matches will be kicked in 8 different cities. They are Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, East London, Kimberly, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth and the opening match will be kicked off between Rajasthan Royals (the inaugural champions) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore.

 

Fist semifinal will be taken place at SuperSport Park, Centurion and the second semifinal and final will be kicked off at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.

 

Fixtures

Indian Premier League, 2009

April 2009
Sat 18 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	1st match - Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers Newlands, Cape Town
Sat 18 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	2nd match - Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 19 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	3rd match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 19 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	4th match - Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab Newlands, Cape Town
Mon 20 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	5th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Tue 21 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	6th match - Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 21 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	7th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 22 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	8th match - Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 22 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	9th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 23 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	10th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Fri 24 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	11th match - Kings XI Punjab v Bangalore Royal Challengers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 25 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	12th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings Newlands, Cape Town
Sat 25 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	13th match - Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians Kingsmead, Durban
Sun 26 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	14th match - Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI Punjab Newlands, Cape Town
Sun 26 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	15th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Mon 27 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	16th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians Newlands, Cape Town
Mon 27 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	17th match - Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 28 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	19th match - Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 29 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	18th match - Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 29 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	20th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 30 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	21st match - Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 30 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	22nd match - Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings SuperSport Park, Centurion
May 2009
Fri 1 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	23rd match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab Buffalo Park, East London
Fri 1 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	24th match - Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Sat 2 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	25th match - Rajasthan Royals v Deccan Chargers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 2 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	26th match - Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 3 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	27th match - Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Sun 3 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	28th match - Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders Buffalo Park, East London
Mon 4 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	29th match - Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Tue 5 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	30th match - Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Tue 5 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	31st match - Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 6 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	32nd match - Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 7 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	33rd match - Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 7 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	34th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri 8 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	35th match - Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians Buffalo Park, East London
Sat 9 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	36th match - Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
Sat 9 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	37th match - Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 10 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	38th match - Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils Buffalo Park, East London
Sun 10 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	39th match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 11 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	40th match - Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein
Tue 12 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	41st match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Riders SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 12 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	42nd match - Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 13 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	43rd match - Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 14 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	44th match - Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 14 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	45th match - Chennai Super Kings v Bangalore Royal Challengers Kingsmead, Durban
Fri 15 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	46th match - Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Sat 16 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	47th match - Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 16 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	48th match - Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders St George's Park, Port Elizabeth
Sun 17 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	49th match - Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley
Sun 17 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	50th match - Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 18 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	51st match - Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 19 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	52nd match - Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Wed 20 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	53rd match - Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab Kingsmead, Durban
Wed 20 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	54th match - Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders Kingsmead, Durban
Thu 21 12:30 local, 10:30 GMT	55th match - Deccan Chargers v Bangalore Royal Challengers SuperSport Park, Centurion
Thu 21 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	56th match - Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri 22 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat 23 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sun 24 D/N 16:30 local, 14:30 GMT	Final - TBC v TBC New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg

 

There was some news in media that the two semi-final and final will be hold in Indian home ground but I now I can see that it will be held on South Africa. Any why, this is very good decision from IPL authority. 

IPL 2009 from 18 April in stead of 10

It is confirmed that Indian Premier League second season (IPL 2009) will be host in South Africa. After an official meeting with CSA and IPL commissioner they come to in a point that 59-games will be placed in South Africa. Previously CSA had to compete with UK. Now, the IPL 2009 will be held from 18 April in stead of 10 April that the date was fixed previously. The tournament had to move from India because of Indian upcoming general election that will be the same time. That is why Indian government could not able to provide more security for the celebration of IPL 2009.

 

The Mumbai attack during the England tour and the Lahore attack on Sri Lanka Cricket team worried about them for more security and this is the main cause of over security.

 

There is no doubt that India is the most important country for the business about cricket. Even most of the advertisers invests more and look opportunities if the games will hold on Indian ground or the match along with India.

 

South Africa is the most experienced country of the world to inaugurate Twenty20 formatted tournament. Even they got huge reputation organizing the Twenty20 World Cup that was held in 2007. From this view South Africa is the best place for this tournament.

 

England is going to inaugurate the Twenty20 World Cup this year. So, they are not less important than the African country. Most probably, the timing becomes the main factor for England. As, IPL is based on Indian people and they have to maintain India time and from this view if they have to follow India time then the match have to organized at 11 AM. So, it is very bad time for England people. But CSA can organize it at 12:30 PM.

Source: Bloomberg