Todays action

Ahhhhh!!! today was one of the day that had lot of actions. First thing is, it is Saturday. I slept at around 3:15 A.M. and woke up around 11:05 A.M.

After readying myself, i went straight away to my office and had my breakfast cum Lunch at 12:00 P.M. After this next place i visited was Employee Care Center (ECC). I was there till 6:00 P.M. where i played pool from 12:25 P.M. till 4:30 P.M. I enjoyed myself there, sometimes played very good shoots and sometimes worst shots. Victory and defeat as well. After coming out from pool table, i landed at GYM where i did workout for my back for 45 minutes with little bit exercises for my abs. Once i was done with my workout, straight away went to dormitory removed my gym clothes and wore my swimming costume and went for swimming. Did swimming for 15 min and was back to dormitory where i took bath.  Then i dressed up went to canteen and had some juices just to energize myself as i was fully exhausted.

Then i went to my ODC and rested for 25 min at my desk. During this time i unlocked my PC and started checking for mails and blogs. At 6:45 P.M. i left office, took my bike and left to home. After coming home, i spent some time on Facebook. Meanwhile, the IPL match started which was between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab. The match so interesting that i spent almost all the time watching the match itself. In entire 40 overs, there were 433 runs scored in total by both the teams. Plenty of sixes and fours and full excitement and masti. Finally had my dinner at Andhra Mess and came back home and watched the remaining match. Delhi Daredevils won the match. Now i am lying on my bed and writing this article to publish it to everyone.

Kings XI Punjab play their match for pride

Kings XI Punjab played their home match against Mumbai Indians, today at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali - Chandigarh. King XI Punjab have only 2 matches which has made impossible to get into IPL-3 semi-finals. They had to play this match against Mumbai Indians for pride. Mumbai Indians won the toss & elected to bat first.
Opening the innings with the openers Sachin Tendulkar & Shikhar Dhawan, Mumbai Indians gave a great start. But in the 1st ball of 2nd over, Shikhar Dhawan was bowled out in Irfan Pathan's over. Mumbai Indians, started to score at a run rate of 10 runs per over till the second wicket was gone. After this, Mumbai Indians started to play slowing where the run rate started to decrease & even they started to loose wickets in regular intervals. After 20 overs, Mumbai Indians managed to score 154 runs loosing 9 wickets. Kings XI Punjab's economical bowler was Piyush Chawla, whose economical rate was 6 runs per over taking 3 wickets.
Chasing the target of 155 runs set by Mumbai Indians, Kings XI Punjab started their innings with an aggressive start. 1st wicket was gone in the 5th over, where Mahela Jayawardena got out. Punjab was looking good as they had scored 41 runs 4.3 deliveries. Right from the start Punjab team was on the positive go, they were loosing wickets in a very long intervals. Skipper Kumar Sangakkara scored 56 runs from 42 deliveries which included 6 fours & a six. Kings XI Punjab reached their target by 19.2 deliveries thereby winning the match by 6 wickets. This was Kings XI Punjab's 3rd victory & Mumbai Indians 3rd loss in this IPL edition 3.

Kings XI Punjab chased the target of 200 successfully

Today, Kings XI Punjab won the match chasing 200 runs successfully. This was the 3rd successful chase of more than 200 runs in the IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders played their home match against visitors Kings XI Punjab at Eden garden. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss & elected to bat first.

Opening the innings, Kolkata Knight Riders gave a brilliant start where openers Sourav Ganguly & Chris Gayle played nicely. First wicket fell in the 8th over, it was KKR's skipper Sourav Ganguly who got out after scoring 63 runs. Chris Gayle made a partnership with Manoj Tiwary scoring 101 runs which was contributed by both. This helped the Kolkata Knight Riders to reach 200 runs in total after completing 20 overs. Chris Gayle was the top scorer for KKR scoring 88 runs in 42 balls which included 6 fours & 8 sixes. Kings XI Punjab's economical bowler was Ramesh Powar whose economy rate was 5.75 runs per over.

Chasing the score of target 201 runs, Kings XI Punjab started their innings with Manvinder Bisla & Mahela Jayawardena. Bisla was out 5th over when KXIP was at 51 runs, but this did not drop the run rate of KXIP which was 10 runs per over. Kumar Sangakkara & Yuvaraj Singh gave their support to the team as well as to his partner Mahela Jayawardena to put his maiden IPL century. This helped Kings XI Punjab to chase the target of 201 runs in 18.2 overs. Teams top scorer was Mahela Jayawardena who scored 110 runs in just 59 deliveries. Kings XI Punjab won the match by 8 wickets, this was their 2nd victory playing 10 matches in IPL season 3.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Won the match by 6 wickets

Kings XI Punjab played their home match against the visitors Royal Challengers Bangalore today at Mohali. Kings XI Punjab won the toss & elected to bat first. 
Openings their innings, Shaun Marsh & Manvinder Bisla were the opening batsmen for Kings XI Punjab. Things did not go well in the start for Kings XI Punjab as Shaun Marsh got out in the second over. But Kings XI Punjab batted well maintain good run rate throughout the innings. By the end of 20 overs Kings XI Punjab lost only 5 wickets & scored 181 runs in total. Yuvaraj Singh & Kumar Sangakkara scored 36 from 20 balls & 45 from 27 balls respectively. Dale Steyn was the economic bowler for Royal Challengers Bangalore giving 7.75 runs per over.
Royal challengers Bangalore started their innings chasing the target of 182 runs with the openers Jacques Kallis & Manish Pandey. Man in Orange Cap, Jacques Kallis was out in the fifth over scoring only 9 runs which made Royal Challengers Bangalore to tremble. Even Manish Pandey could not make where he got out when Kevin Pietersen hit the ball straight to bowler's hand which further hit on the wicket. After this, Virat Kohli & Kevin Pietersen played till RCB reached 130 runs. Virat Kohli got out in the 16th over, the required run rate got to 11 runs per over which was little difficult to score. But, it all changed in the 17th over where Brett Lee bowled the over. It was Robin Uthappa who batted brilliantly hitting 2 sixes & a four, in this over RCB scored 25 runs in just 6 balls where the pressure completely released for them. In 19.1 overs Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 184 runs loosing just 4 wickets & winning the match by 6 wickets. This was RCB's 5th victory in 8 matches played in this IPL edition 3. Man of the match was Kevin Pietersen for his unbeaten 66 runs from 44 balls. Royals Challengers Bangalore after winning this match moved from 3rd place to 2nd place in the rankings table.

Mumbai Indians won the match by 4 wickets

Mumbai Indians played another home match at Brabourne stadium today against the visitors Kings XI Punjab. Mumbai Indian wons the toss & put the Kings XI Punjab to bat first.

Kings XI Punjab started their innings moderately, they lost Ravi Bopara in second over but Shaun Marsh played well & scored 57 runs 47 balls, meanwhile they were loosing wickets regularly. By the end of 20 overs they scored a total of 163 loosing all the 10 wickets.

Mumbai Indians started their chase of the target 164, it was Sachin Tendulkar & Shikhar Dhawan who opened the innings for Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians were batting well & were meeting the required rate. Things were going very well for Mumbai Indians till they lost their 5th wicket in 16th over. The asking rate started to increase, but Mumbai Indians overcame these when Sathish hit 2 consecutive fours in the first 2 balls of 19th over. Then the things changed, Mumbai Indians were back on the track, finally scoring their target of 164 in 19.3 overs.

Mumbai Indians won the match by 4 wickets & they are still holding the top position in the rankings table.

Kumar Sangakkara has been banned for one match

During the last match which was played between Kolkata Knight Riders & Kings XI Punjab, Mohali team maintained a slow over rate. Due to this, today IPL has advised that Mohali have been fined for maintaining a slow over rate while playing against the Kolkata Knight Riders, they were one over lacking behind the required rate.

This is the third offence of the team in the edition, hence skipper Kumar Sangakkara has been fined with USD50,000 & each player in the team have also been fined with USD20,000. Skipper Kumar Sangakkara is also been banned from playing in the team's next match which will be played against Mumbai Indians on 30th March.

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 39 runs

Kings XI Punjab played their home match at mohali against the visitors Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss & elected to bat first.

Kolkata Knight Riders started their innings aggressively as Chris Gayle & Sourav Ganguly opened the innings for KKR. The Biggie of KKR "Chris Gayle" was out in the 3rd over, even 2nd wicket was gone in the 5th over. But the skipper was still batting & KKR's runrate did not drop at all. Sourav Ganguly & Manoj Tiwary's partnership gave a big boost to the KKR. 3rd wicket fell when Kolkata Knight Riders reached 124, it was sourav Ganguly who was out after scoring his 50th run from 40 deliveries. Meanwhile Manoj Tiwary was batting till the end & scored 75 runs from 47 balls which included 8 fours & 2 sixes. Kolkata Knight Riders after 20 overs scored a total of 183 runs with loss of 5 wickets.

Kings XI Punjab started to chase their target of 184. Ravi Bopara was out in the very second ball of the first over of Kings XI Punjab innings which was a poor start for them. Wickets started to fell regularly, players performed very moderately where the run rate was around 7.2 which made the asking rate to go up regularly. Finally Kings XI Punjab failed to chase the target ending up with a total of 144 in 20 overs loosing 6 wickets. Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 39 runs.

Rajasthan Royals continue their winning spree.....

Kings XI Punjab after winning their first match in IPL season 3, they played their 5th match against Rajasthan Royals in Mohali. Kings XI Punjab won the toss & elected to field first.

Rajasthan Royals right from the start of their innings they played well, they gave a aggressive start. They completed their innings by scoring a total of 183 loosing 5 wickets with a net run rate of 9.15

King XI Punjab also gave a brilliant start with Ravi Bopara & Kumar Sangakkara, but they started to loose wickets, but they were maintaining good run rate which was enough to win against the visitors. But things went bad for Kings XI Punjab when 5th wicket fell in 13th over. Later on, the run rate dropped drastically finally by 19.1 overs, Kings XI Punjab lost all their wickets scoring a total of 152.

Rajasthan Royals won the match by 31 runs. This was their second victory in this IPL season 3 after loosing first three games.

Deccan Chargers won against Kings XI Punjab by 6 runs

Kings XI Punjab skipper "Kumar Sangakkara" won the toss and elected to field first against the Deccan Chargers.

Deccan Chargers gave a good start as skipper Adam Gilchrist was on fire, VVS Laxman was looking in good form but when he had scored 10 runs he had to retire hurt after injuring his fore-arm. Hyderabad kept on losing wickets at regular intervals finally landed up with a total of 170/7.

Kings XI Punajb started their 171-run chase on a low note as they lost 2 quick wickets, Manvinder Bisla was run-out and Kumar Sangakkara was out without scoring a single run in Chaminda Vaas over. Ravi Bopara scored 38 runs & Irfan Pathan played a brilliant knock by scoring 60 runs of 29 balls in which it contained 3 fours & 5 sixes to gain the confidence of their win, but it all went off when he was caught by Andrew Symonds in the first ball of 19th over. Finally KXIP ended with a total of 164 for the loss of 8 wickets completing 20 overs.

Yuvraj Singh progresses well in fitness

Yuvaraj Singh a key player of for INDIA as well as Kings XI Punjab was suffering from injury where his ligament was torn on his left wrist in late January. Hence, he missed the 2nd Test match against Bangladesh & missed entire series against South Africa. He had gone to Australia for treatment recently.

He has resumed his competitive training this week & is getting closer to be fit. Yuvi twittered on his page today saying that after batting around 70-80 balls, he felt good about his progress towards a return to action in IPL-3.