Monday, 30 April 2012

Deccan Chargers First Win


Scorecard:

Deccan Chargers Won the Toss Chose to bat

Deccan Chargers won by 18 runs

Deccan Chargers innings : 177/4 in 20 overs

Cameron White – 78
JP Duminy – 26 not out

Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 1/34

Pune Warriors innings : 159/7 in 20 overs

RV Uthappa – 29
Steven Smith – 26

Ashish Reddy – 2/32

Man of the Match: Cameron White

RCB vs CSK Match Abandoned with a Toss


Royal Challengers Bangalore Toss chose to field

The Bangalore win the toss and choose to bowl and Kohli says that with McDonald coming in, they have seven batsmen which is why he is backing RCB to chase.

For the Chennai Super Kings had made two changes, leaving out Doug Bollinger and Shadab Jakati and bringing in Albie Morkel, who returned from South Africa and Yo Mahesh.

The match was eventually abandoned at 11 pm local time to it was still raining. The cut-off for a five-over match was 11.20 pm tthat was the second washout of IPL 2012 after the game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers had met a similar fate at Eden Gardens last night.

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings share points.

Mumbai Indians Thriller Win against Kings XI Punjab

Scorecard:

Kings XI Punjab Won the Toss Chose to bat

Mumbai Indians won by 4 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)

Kings XI Punjab : 168/3 in 20 overs

David Hussey – 68 not out
David Miller – 34 not out

RP Singh – 1/27

Mumbai Indians innings : 171/6 in 19.5 overs

Rayudu – 34 not out
Rohit Sharma – 50

Parvinder Awana – 3/39

Man of the Match: Rayudu

Match abandoned without a ball bowled KKR vs DC


The Kolkata Knight Riders are playing Deccan Chargers at Eden Gardens to it seems like these two teams played so recently at Cuttack, where Knight Riders handed Chargers their fifth consecutive defeat to a spot of rain at Eden Gardens and that's why the toss hasn't taken place yet for the pitch isn't covered through, so it's very light, the drizzle. Both captains are out there, waiting for clear weather.

And the inevitable has finally happened to this match has been abandoned and Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers share points in the Chargers may still be winless after six games they aren't pointless anymore on the Knight Riders are second in the league.

Match abandoned without a ball bowled.

Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers share points

Virender Sehwag Fire Start Easy Win Delhi Daredevils

Scorecard:

Pune Warriors Won the Toss Chose to bat

Delhi Daredevils won by 8 wickets (with 24 balls remaining)

Pune Warriors : 146/2 in 20 overs

Manish Pandey – 80 not out
RV Uthappa – 60 not out

Irfan Pathan – 1/23

Delhi Daredevils : 148/2 in 16 overs

Virender Sehwag – 87 not out
Kevin Pietersen – 27

Rahul Sharma – 1/33

Man of the Match: Virender Sehwag

Monday, 23 April 2012

RR v RCB: RCB won by 46 runs

AB de Villiers blazed his way to the second fastest fifty in this edition of the Indian Premier League before KP Appanna did a star turn with the ball to help Royal Challengers Bangalore post a convincing 46-run win over Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on Monday.

After the undefeated 122-run fourth-wicket stand between de Villiers (59 off 23 Balls, 3x4’s, 5x6’s) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (76 off 58 balls, 10x4’s, 1x6’s) propelled Bangalore to 189 for three, Appanna mystified the Rajasthan batsman with his slow left-arm bowling, which saw him return figures of 4-19, at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

Scorecard:

Royal Challengers Bangalore : 189/3 in 20 overs

Tillakaratne Dilshan - 76*
AB de Villiers - 59*

Brad Hogg - 2/39

Rajasthan Royals : 143/7 in 20 overs

Rahul Dravid - 58

KP Appanna - 4/19

Man of the Match : AB de Villiers


Munaf Patel fined 50 per cent of his match fee for offensive gestures

Mumbai Indians pacer Munaf Patel was fined 50 per cent of his match fee for making offensive gestures to opposition players in his side's Indian Premier League 28th match against Kings XI Punjab.

In the 3rd over of the KXIP innings, Munaf was seen to be resorting to verbal volleys at Punjab opener Nitin Saini after the batsman hit him for two fours and that needed involvement from the umpires and Mumbai skipper Harbhajan Singh.

"Munaf Patel of the Mumbai Indians has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for the Level 1 offences - making offensive gestures (Article 2.1.4) and conduct bringing the game into disrepute (Article 2.1.8) in today's match at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against King's XI Punjab," an IPL release said.

"Munaf Patel admitted the offences and accepted the sanction. In accordance with the IPL Code of Conduct and being Level 1 breaches, the Match Referee's decision is final and binding," the release said.