Delhi won their first IPL match of the season

Today, Delhi Daredevils took over Pune Warriors India at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Navi Mumbai. Toss was won by Virender Sehwag and they chose to field first.

Jesse Ryder and Graeme Smith opened the batting innings for the PWI. The start good but not an aggressive one though. The big man Graeme Smith in the last delivery of the fourth over. Jesse Ryder played an magnificent and so did the skipper Yuvaraj Singh. Jesse Ryder departed scoring 60 runs in just 27 deliveries that included 5 fours and 5 sixes. In the 20th over, Yuvaraj Singh did the real damage for the Delhi Daredevils. He scored 3 consecutive sixes in the last 3 deliveries. He remained unbeaten scoring 66 runs from 33 balls that included 4 fours and 5 sixes. In 20 overs, PWI managed to put up a total score of 187 runs loosing 5 wickets (PWI - 187/5, 20 over).

So far DD have not won a single match in this season and this score was a pretty big total for them as well. David Warner and Virender Sehwag started the innings off. They both played well and were belting the bowlers in every angle they could. First wicket partnership was worth 75 runs in just 7 overs. David Warner was the first wicket to fall and soon skipper Sehwag followed him. After this fall, another 3 more wickets fell very quickly and the hopes kept on fading out as the wicket started to fall. Venugopal Rao and Aaron Finch played well and eased the pressure off by hitting 3 sixes and 2 sixes respectively. But they both did not stay till the end. It was James Hopes in which the hopes for the Delhi Daredevils was back. He just utilized the opportunity and scored a magnificent runs in just 4 balls and won the match for Delhi Daredevils with 4 deliveries to spare. Delhi Daredevils scored 190 runs in 19.2 overs and lost 7 wickets (DD - 190/7, 19.2 over). Yuvaraj Singh took 4 important wickets for PWI.

Delhi Daredevils won the match by 3 wickets. Man of the match was Yuvaraj Singh for his magnificent performance with bat and ball.

India vs Australia in quarter finals facing each other

India won against West Indies in the last league match of the ICC World Cup 2011 that took place at Chennai, yesterday. This victory has led to face against the toughest team Australia in the quarter finals. Australians are the defending champions who are defending from last 3 World Cup's which was in 1999, 2003 and 2007.

In 2003, India and Australia were in the finals. Australia outplayed India and defended the cup. Now, this is the time for the Indians to take their revenge against the Aussies for their World Cup loss. As you can see from the league matches, India have not performed at a good level against the strong teams so far. On the other side, Aussies have lost only one match so far and a match was drawn. Aussies have not performed that great though, but they have played sensible cricket so far.

Aussies looks to be a silent killer. On the other side, Indians apart from poor bowling, now their batting performance is also getting inhibited. But both the rivals will face against each other after the finals that was played in 2003 World Cup.

Other quarter finalists are Pakistan playing against West Indies, Srilanka playing against England and South Africa taking against the Kiwis. All the top teams of the World are into the quarter finals. This World Cup is going to be full of excitement and entertainment with lots of action.

India vs Srilanka / India vs Australia at quarter finals??

In Group A, Pakistan tops the table followed by Srilanka and third stands Australia finally Kiwis at the last. In Group B, South Africa are at the top and England are at the fourth position. The fight for second and third place is between India and West Indies.

Based on the todays match result which will be played against India and West Indies, we will come to know that who will be in the second and third position. If India wins this match, India will play against Australia and West Indies will play against Srilanka in the quarter finals of the ICC World Cup 2011. If India looses, West Indies will come to the second position and they will be facing the Aussies in the quarter finals and Indians will face against Srilankans.

India have already completed its batting innings, Yuvaraj Singh was the top scorer scoring 113 runs and Virat Kohli scoring a half-century. Indians did not perform well with the bat today and again they were all-out in 49.1 over scoring only 268 runs in total. Ravi Rampaul took 5 wickets.

After seeing the match and the performance by the Indians i lost the hope that they will win this match. It looks like they will end up with a loss and face Srilankans in the quarter finals.

ICC World Cup 2011 updates: Day 19

25th match of the ICC World Cup 2011 was played between India and Netherlands at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India. Netherlands won the toss and they chose to bat first.

Netherlands opened its batting innings with the openers Eric Swarczynski and Wesley Barresi. They both started off well and they were slow & steady. They put up a partnership of 56 runs and the Indians were really pissed off to get their first wicket. After a long struggle, Indians managed to take their first wicket in 15.2 over. Once the break happened, the match turned in the favor of the hosts. They managed to take wickets by giving very less runs and  the interval of taking the wickets were large. The run rate kept on dropping for Netherlands. In 34.2 overs, Netherlands lost 6 wickets and scored 108 runs. They were all out in 46.4 overs, and put up a total of 189 runs (NED - 189/10, 46.4 over). Which means in 12.2 overs i.e, in 74 deliveries they scored 81 runs loosing 4 wickets. This clearly shows that Indians poor bowling performance. Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets for India.

Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar opened the innings for India. They opened their batting innings with a four and started belting the Netherland bowlers. At one point of time, Indians were looking like they were going to finish the match in 22-25 overs. But unfortunately after a superb start, Virender Sehwag got out and soon master blaster followed him. Yusuf Pathan, Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli did not make it big today. At this point of time, Netherlands were back with hopes as India lost 5 wickets only 139 runs. Now entire team were depending on MS Dhoni and Yuvaraj Singh, if they both failed then Netherlands had their best chance to win a match against India. Unfortunately, they could not succeed. Yuvaraj Singh and MS Dhoni stayed till the end and completed the innings successfully. Yuvarj Singh scored his half-century which was the 3rd one in this World Cup. In 36.3 overs, India scored a total of 191 runs for the loss of 5 wickets (191/5, 36.3 over). Pieter Seelaar took 3 wickets for Netherlands team.

India won the match by 5 wickets. Man of the match went to Yuvaraj Singh for his brilliant performance with bat (51*) and ball(2 wickets).

Indians have played against Bangladesh, England, Ireland and now on Netherlands in this World Cup. In all the games, opponents have clearly dominated Indian bowling attack. Being an Indian supporter, i don't really know where the hell are the good bowlers are gone. Zaheer Khan because of whom we lost 2003 World Cup against Australia is now again a part of Indian team but somehow managing to bowl and take wickets. He has got lot of attitude and does not respect his opponents and so is Sreesanth. Why BCCI are not considering these things because of which our bowling performance are diminishing day by day. First thing that has to be followed is discipline, i really want BCCI to act upon this matter. If there is no or less attitude, the more the performance will be. Anyways, what ever i have felt, i have spilled it out and i want my India to win the World Cup this time. 

ICC World Cup 2011 updates: Day 16 Match 2

On the 16th day of the ICC World Cup 2011, second match of the day was played between India and Ireland at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India. The toss went into the favor of India and they elected to field first.

William Porterfield and Paul Stirling opened the batting innings for Ireland. Zaheer Khan started the bowling innings for India and he took Paul Stirling's wicket in the very first over itself. This gave some confidence to the Indians bowling. In the 3rd over, Zaheer Khan took his second wicket, this time it was Ed Joyce who gave an easy catch to MS Dhoni. Niall O'Brien came in and made a good partnership with the skipper William Porterfield. Indians started to loose control and Ireland started to dominate the match. It cost-ed 113 runs partnership before loosing the 4th wicket. After this breakage Indians somehow managed to take out remaining wickets restricting Ireland to put up a total of 207 runs on board (IRE - 207/10, 47.5 over). Ireland skipper William Porterfield scored 75 runs. Yuvaraj Singh took 5 wickets which supposed to be his best bowling figure. Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets.

India opened its batting innings with Virender Sehwag and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar. Sehwag could not stay for longer time and so was Gautam Gambhir. After the fall of 2 wickets, Virat Kohli came in to bat and put up some good runs. Even MS Dhoni, Yuvaraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan played some good knocks that helped India to add up required runs. By 46 overs, India scored 210 runs and lost 5 wickets (IND - 210/5, 46 over). Yuvaraj Singh was unbeaten scoring 50 runs and Yusuf Pathan unbeaten at 30 runs that included 2 fours and 3 sixes.

India won the match by 5 wickets. Man of the match was Yuvaraj Singh who played magnificently with bat and ball where he took 5 wickets, one catch and an unbeaten half-century.

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Yuraj Singh says that he taught of quitting cricket last year

As he had a series of injuries which led to his poor performance last year. He was not into the Indian ODI nor into the test team. He even showed poor performance in IPL-3 which led to few controversies. Now he admits that this was the worst situation that raised in his 10 years of cricketing. He even taught of quitting from cricket but his parents gave a strong support that he should continue his cricketing career.

Now he is into the World cup team that will be starting from 19th of Feb this year and he is very confident this time that he will show a good performance. He is also an part time spin bowler for the team as well. As this will be mostly the last World cup for Sachin Tendulkar, Yuraj Singh likes to make it a special World cup by winning it.

Kings XI Punjab won the match by 7 wickets

Delhi Daredevils played their home match against the Kings XI Punjab today at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. They won the toss & elected to bat first. Delhi Daredevils started their innings with the openers, David Warner & Virender Sehwag. Right from the start of the Delhi Daredevils batting innings, batsmen failed to score aggressively, the run rate was very low. Virender Sehwag was out in the first delivery of the second over which was a big blow for the Delhi Daredevils. They even lost the skipper Gautam Gambhir in the 3.5 over & David Warner in 4.1 over. This made the Delhi Daredevils moral to go down, they started to play very slow & were loosing wickets regularly. Till Daniel Vettori got out, their run rate was just above 6 runs per over, After his fall, their run rate was started to getting lower & lower. By 19.4 overs, Delhi Daredevils lost all 10 wickets making a total of just 111 runs. Yuvaraj Singh was the most economical bowler for Kings XI Punjab in this match giving only 14 runs bowling 4 overs & picked up a wicket. Gautam Gambhir was the only batsman for Delhi Daredevils who had an batting strike rate more than 100. He scored 26 runs from 12 balls which included 5 fours.
Chasing the target of 112 runs, Kings XI Punjab started their batting innings with openers Mahela Jayawardena & Irfan Pathan. Irfan Pathan was out in the 7th over where Kings XI Punjab total had reached 41 runs. Mahela Jayawardena got out scoring 38 runs 35 balls which included 5 fours & a six. Kumar Sangakkara & Yuvaraj Singh contributed a good partnership which lasted till they reached the total of 110 runs. Kumar Sangakkara was out & Adrian Barath finished the match by getting a single to score a total of 112 for Kings XI Punjab. They finished their innings in 18.4 overs & won the match by 7 wickets. This was the 4th victory for Kings XI Punjab in this IPL season 3 playing 12 matches in total. Man of the match was Piyush Chawla.

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.

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.

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.

Kings XI Punjab mark their first win in IPL-3

Finally Mohali team register their first win in IPL edition 3. Kings XI Punjab played their 4th IPL-3 match against Chennai Super Kings today at Chidambaram Stadium, chennai. Kings XI Punjab started to bat first, where they had put up a total score of 136 runs loosing 8 wickets. Only Yuvaraj Singh & Irfan Pathan played nicely scoring 43 & 39 respectively.

Chennai Super Kings started their chase of 137, gave a magnificient start to open the innings. Opening wicket partnership was 65 runs where almost half of the runs had been scored. Everything seems to be working well on CSK side, but it all went when Hayden (33) & Parthiv patel (57). Finally there was a situation for CSK needed just 1 run to win from 2 balls, but Pathan bowled brilliantly & took ashwin's wicket therefore levelling the score.

Finally there was a super over in this IPL, where i was so happy to watch it. I guess almost all would have were eager to watch the super over. CSK played their super over & scored 9 runs in 5 deliveries, the stat was 1 W 2 6 W. They din't play last ball as they had lost their 2 wickets. So Kings XI Punjab needed 10 off 6 deliveries, KXIP started their super over by a 6 hit hit by Jayawardhane, then loosing Jayawardhane's wicket in next delivery. Finally Yuvaraj Singh finished the match with a 4, stat was 6 W 0 4.Hence Kings XI Punjab marked their first victory in IPL-3.

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.