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.

 

Setanta Sports in UK and DirecTV and Willow TV will show IPL 2009 in USA

Last year, during the inaugural auction UK based Satellite Television Channel Setanta Sports brought the right for five years from the official broadcasts right holders for the UK and Ireland cricket fans. Willow TV also brought the TV right to telecast IPL T20 cricket matches for the USA people. Beside I have found in its official website that DirecTV will show the matches highlights.

 

Setanta Sports will show all 59 matches of the IPL second season from South Africa. In it web site they has mentioned clearly the timetables of broadcast according to the UK local time.

 

DirecTV and Dish Network are both American satellite TV channels which offer similar services there are some differences in promotions, programming and receiver options. But I did not get any stable information on behalf of Dish Network that it will show the IPL 2009 cricket match. But it is sure that DirecTV will show the matches. It has offered a package called CricketTicket™ 2009 package. Under this package it will make available of IPL 2009 cricket tours to U.S. audiences and its 2024 CRKP will show all matches and highlights.

 

Willow TV is available for the both Americans people. It has secured the exclusive rights for television, radio, broadband and internet.

IPLT20 Schedule, timetable, teams and Live telecast

IPL (Indian Premier League) has polished its revised schedule for 2009 season that is going host in South Africa from 18 April 2009. This is a big craze in India at this moment. It was inaugurated to protest the Indian Cricket League (ICL) in the year 2008. 

The IPL T20 2009 was scheduled form 10 April 2009 but after changing the host South Africa in stead of India, the authority has made a revised schedule for the second season that will be kicked off from 18 April 2009 the opening ceremony will be arranged at Newlands, Cape Town and later two T20 cricket matches of the IPL 2009 will be placed. First one  Mumbai Indians vs  Chennai Super Kings and second one Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals.

 

IPL 2009 (Twenty20 match)

 

18 Apr 2009

IPL Mumbai vs IPL Chennai

1st Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

18 Apr 2009

IPL Bangalore vs IPL Rajasthan

2nd Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

19 Apr 2009

IPL Delhi vs IPL Punjab

3rd Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

19 Apr 2009

IPL Hyderabad vs IPL Kolkata

4th Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

20 Apr 2009

IPL Bangalore vs IPL Chennai

5th Match, St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

21 Apr 2009

IPL Punjab vs IPL Kolkata

6th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

21 Apr 2009

IPL Rajasthan vs IPL Mumbai

7th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

22 Apr 2009

IPL Bangalore vs IPL Hyderabad

8th Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

23 Apr 2009

IPL Kolkata vs IPL Rajasthan

10th Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

23 Apr 2009

IPL Chennai vs IPL Delhi

9th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

24 Apr 2009

IPL Punjab vs IPL Bangalore

11th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

25 Apr 2009

IPL Hyderabad vs IPL Mumbai

12th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

25 Apr 2009

IPL Chennai vs IPL Kolkata

13th Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

26 Apr 2009

IPL Bangalore vs IPL Delhi

14th Match, St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

26 Apr 2009

IPL Punjab vs IPL Rajasthan

15th Match, Newlands, Cape Town

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

27 Apr 2009

IPL Hyderabad vs IPL Chennai

16th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

27 Apr 2009

IPL Kolkata vs IPL Mumbai

17th Match, St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

28 Apr 2009

IPL Delhi vs IPL Rajasthan

18th Match, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

29 Apr 2009

IPL Bangalore vs IPL Kolkata

19th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

29 Apr 2009

IPL Punjab vs IPL Mumbai

20th Match, Kingsmead, Durban

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

30 Apr 2009

IPL Delhi vs IPL Hyderabad

21st Match, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Live action starts from: 10:30 GMT (16:00 IST)

 

30 Apr 2009

IPL Rajasthan vs IPL Chennai

22nd Match, SuperSport Park, Centurion

Live action starts from: 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)

 

Here I just have added only those matches that will be inaugurated till 30 April. 22 T20 cricket matches will be arranged in the month April.

 

Time schedule:

According the Indian time (IST) all the matches will be kicked off at 16:00 IST. Those days, when two matches will be arranged, the first match will be taken place at the same time of 16:00 IST and the second match at 20:00 IST but according to GMT 10:30 GMT and 14:30. The countries that are in the eastern area of the globe will have to match according to the GMT and the western countries like USA and Canada will have to reduce their time from the IST or GMT.

Teams of Indian Premier League 2009:

Eight Indian Local Cricket Clubs will take part in the IPL Twenty20 formatted tournament in South Africa, in the second season. They are Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals. No Pakistan players will take parts in the second season of the Indian Premier League. Last year some of Pakistani cricketers took parts and also performed well. 

There will be Group stage matches where the 8 teams take part and played a home and a away match later they will take part in semi final in the Knockout stage and two will be in final.

 

Live Telecast Right:

Sony Entertainment Television has bagged the broadcast right with SGW for ten years in the last bid. Later the others TV has brought the right from them. 

CL 08-09: FC Porto v Man. United Preview and Live score, streaming

The second leg match between FC Porto and Man. United will be kicked off at 20:45 (CET). And this is the home match of the Porto at Venue: Estádio do Dragão - Porto – Portugal. Portugal giant FC Porto English leader Man. United and their second leg mach is similar important now because the first leg match resulted down so he second leg match will indicate who will be the qualified for the semi final.

 

Quarter-finals: Porto v Man. United

Date and Time: 15 April 2009 20:45 (CET) –

Venue: Estádio do Dragão - Porto - Portugal

Result of First leg: 2 – 2

 

Among the English football Clubs Man. United is the second highest Uefa Champions League title holders. And Liverpool is the on top how kicked out from the tournament yesterday along with Chelsea scoring 5-7 and other semi finalist is Barcelona who beat Bayern. So, it is a big challenge for the English FC Man. United similar for the Portuguese FC Porto.

 

Man. United kept the match drawn scoring 2-2 and that was the home match for the English FC but second leg match will be hold on FC Porto’s home ground Estádio do Dragão. So this is very important for the both teams and has to show strong performance from the both side.

 

Man. United had to satisfy in their home match just for drawn when FC Port’s preformed confidently if they can continue it then it will be dangerous for the English giant. It can say easily that all the teams will play very positive match in the home ground and FC Porto is stepping a head.

 

This is a big pressure for Man. United but confident to take on the series lead. Sir Alex said: "We were disappointed in losing the last-minute goal [by Mariano] in the last game. That has given a definite edge to Porto but we are capable of turning that around. It is not as if we are going here without a big chance. We have to remember the places we have been in the past, like Juventus, when we drew at home and won away."

 

I mentioned that Portuguese superb FC Porto is taking the match very seriously because they are going to take on the best European Football Club at their home ground.

 

Jesualdo Ferreira: "I said before the game in Manchester that we were very confident and wanted to produce a good performance. We have the same level of confidence a week later." The Portuguese titleholders attacked United with a boldness seldom shown by visitors to Old Trafford and Ferreira promised more of the same. "We don't know how to play in a different way," he said. "This team can never change its identity."

 

Online Live Score and Updates

 

If you can not manage to enjoy the match live on television, you can get live score and updates of the match from the following websites:

 

Live Score

Goalzz

Live Football Scores

Goal.com

Footie Scorez

Who will be qualified for semi final Villarreal-Arsenal or Man. United-Porto?

The two football club already has been confirmed their position to play in the semi-final of the Uefa Champions League. Rest of the four teams is fighting to be qualified for the semi final of the UCL 2008-09. The second leg match between Villarreal-Arsenal and Man. United-Porto will be held on 20:45 GMT.

 

In the previous first leg matches they all have to satisfy with draw. So the result is depending on today’s match. Among the four the winner will be taken part in the semi final. Others two teams Chelsea and Barcelona have already qualified for this semi final stage.

 

All the teams are remember their previous matches and techniques and will implement this match. Man Utd is recalled their squad who played in 1999 with Juventus. Is it mean that he visitors have less confidence over the current men?

Chelsea and Barcelona in Semi-final UCL 2008-09

Chelsea and Barcelona have confirmed their position in the Semi-finals of the UCL 2008-09. With the second leg matches both the teams have straggled hard to go thorough the final. But the six times champion of CL have been kicked out for the running season and other German Club has Bayern beat to the Spanish club and most time winner Barcelona.

 

Liverpool, one of the strongest English Football Club who is leading the second positing of the English Premier League and Chelsea is the 3^rd position holders just 3 point back has beat Liverpool in the UEFA Champion League 2008-09 for 5-7. The two matches of them were nail-beating completion to them. In the first-leg match Chelsea was a head by scoring goals1-3 that was held on last week. In spite of draw in the 2^nd leg match Liver has been kicked out from the tournament this year.

 

The 2^nd leg match was very competitive and the fans of both English Football Clubs enjoyed most. Liverpool has a very good record in this gourd where they drew more tournaments as an example I want to use the Champions League 2005 when the beat AC Milan and scored 3 goals just six minutes.

 

Other Semi-final qualified team is Barcelona that beat German Football Giant Bayern scoring 5-1. In the fist led mach Barcelona pushed 4 goals but none from the oppositions Bayern. But the second league match come to result in 1-1 and the total result is Barcelona won the match for 5-1 and will play the semi-final matches.

 

Argentina’s forward player Lionel Messi who played on the side of Top Spanish Football Club Barcelona, has come the top position after achieving 8 points after the Quarter-finals of Uefa Champion League.

 

Here is vital similarities in all the quarter-finals and drew my attention that Villarreal and Arsenal scored 1-1 and Man. United and Porto 2-2. Both results came in drawn. It is not fixed yet who will be the play which team in the semi-final?