IPL 2009: 2nd match result and highlights, Anil Kumble takes 5 wickets

The second match of Indian Premier League season 2 was between Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal challengers was held in the same ground where the 1^st match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indian was commenced on, at Newlands Cape Town. MI has won the match and felt in heavy competition. In the 2^nd match Bangalore Royals Challenger won the toll and elected bat first.

From the first time Bangalore Royals Challenger felt huge batting downfall lost two wickets in the first over. It lost JD Ryder, RV Uthappa and LRPL Taylor, the three premier wickets just adding 17 runs. This sequence was continued after short breaks.

Mascarenhas picked up 3 wickets for 20 runs Shane Wane and MM Patel took 2 wickets each.

Rajasthan Royals repeated the same things as Bangalore Royal challengers did during the batting time. It lost earlier three wickets just for 14 runs and BRC packed them in 58 runs. Three batsmen scored same and highest runs and that was 11 runs. It is really unbelievable that the champions had to be booked in 58 runs.

Anil Kumble figured the best bowling and picket up 5 wickets in an innings just for 5 runs and P Kumar and JD Ryder picket 2 wickets each.

It is clear the Anil Kumble will be the star of the tournament and Man of the match. Anil Kumble is the second man who secured 6 wickets in an innings. In the last year Sohail Tanvir picked up 6 wickets for 14 runs. Now Kumble holds the best bowling record.

4 players have achieved the maximum six awards. And Man of the Match goes to Rahul Dravid for outstanding job in this innings because he holds the teams searing during the bad time of the team and scored 66 runs.

1st match Highlights: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians IPL 2009 season 2

The toss of the first match of season 2 IPL had finished before the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi declared IPL 2009. The pitch was very hard according the pitch experts Sunil Gavaskar. Mumbai Indians was send to bat first after winning the toss Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni took the decision. The runner-up of the IPL 2008 CSK beat to Mumbai Indians in its first match and got tremble.

 

Fall of wickets1-39 (Jayasuriya, 5.5 ov), 2-82 (Dhawan, 11.4 ov), 3-95 (Duminy, 13.3 ov), 4-102 (Bravo, 14.3 ov), 5-148 (Nayar, 18.1 ov), 6-157 (Harbhajan Singh, 18.6 ov), 7-161 (Khan, 19.5 ov)

 

May be this is the first match for Sachin Tendulkar who kept unbeaten in T20 tournament and scored 59 runs from 45 balls. The other star batsman ST Jayasuriya scored 26           but he second highest runs holder was AM Nayar 35 runs and got he maximum six awards. As a result Mumbai Indians score 166 runs from 20 over just losing 7 wickets and Sachin Tendulkar got the Man of the match awards and star of the tournament. SL Malinga took 3 wickets on the side of Mumbai Indians by 15 runs Sanath Jayasuriya picket up 2 wickets. As a result MI scores 166 runs. Sachin Tendulkar has archived the first Man of the Match award of the IPL T20 season 2.

 

Chennai Super Kings innings could not start well its games because losing more wickets earlier. Andrew Flintoff and Hayden took the lead but after losing the partner Flintoff he could not continue more times.

Fall of wickets1-0 (Patel, 0.2 ov), 2-18 (Raina, 2.5 ov), 3-70 (Flintoff, 9.5 ov), 4-89 (Hayden, 12.4 ov), 5-101 (Oram, 14.3 ov), 6-109 (Badrinath, 15.3 ov), 7-144 (Dhoni, 19.4 ov)

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.

Pakistan wiped out to host 2011 World Cup Cricket

Pakistan wiped out to host 2011 World Cup Cricket

Pakistan has been released to organize all kinds of international cricket tournaments even the Cricket World Cup 2011. The next cricket scheduled to be organized South Asian four countries Indian, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan jointly. But form the list, Pakistan has been wiped out. In the recent meeting in Dubai ICC cleared it.

 

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Speaking after the first day of an ICC executive board meeting in Dubai Friday, its president David Morgan said: "It is a regrettable decision but our priority is to deliver a safe, secure, successful event."

 

Not only the recent attacks but also the some of the world cricket teams unwilling to play cricket matches in the Pakistan home grounds. The upcoming tour of Pakistan and Australia is one of the big examples that is going to hold in Dubai. 

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.