Sachin and Dhoni commands base price of Rs 1.84 cr at IPL’s January auction

The bidding price will start at Rs 1.84 crores for Sachin and MS Dhoni for this IPL season 4 IPL player auction. Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh will also included in the same band price for this auction.

The BCCI released some set of price bands for the players and send a list to all state associations for their notifications.

Nearly 62 Indian Cricketers will be geared up for this IPL Fourth Edition auction to be held on January 2011. Indian Team Captain, Dhoni and Master Blaster Sachin are valued at Rs 1.84 crores for this season.

The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 specialist Yusuf Pathan finds a place alongside speedster Zaheer Khan and the talented Suresh Raina.

And mostly, Sachin and MS Dhoni will be retained by their respective franchisees Mumbai Indians and Super Kings respectively for the next IPL season. Former Captain Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman have been priced at the rate of Rs 92 lakh.

Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan are also placed in the 92 lakh band. The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh and the fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh. The other players Wridhamaan Saha, Murali Vijay, etc will come under fourth and fifth bracket, sources said.

Players who have taken IPL hat-tricks

List of players who have taken hat-trick wickets in IPL(all seasons)

Lakshmipathy Balaji in 2008
Match: Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab
Batsmen dismissed: Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, VRV Singh

Amit Mishra in 2008
Match: Delhi Daredevils Vs Deccan Chargers
Batsmen dismissed: Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, R.P Singh

Makhaya Ntini in 2008
Match: Chennai Super Kings Vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Batsmen dismissed: Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das, David Hussey

Yuvraj Singh in 2009
(a) Match: Kings XI Punjab Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
Batsmen dismissed: Robin Uthappa, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher

(b) Match: Kings XI Punjab Vs Deccan Chargers
Batsmen dismissed: Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Y Venugopal Rao

Rohit Sharma in 2009
Match: Deccan Chargers Vs Mumbai Indians
Batsmen dismissed: Abhishek Nayar, Harbhajan Singh, JP Duminy

Praveen Kumar in 2010
Match: Royal Challengers Vs Rajasthan Royals
Batsmen dismissed: Damien Martyn, S Narwal, P Dogra

Source: http://sports.in.msn.com

Yusuf Pathan fastest century in T20

Yusuf Pathan Fastest ton off 37 balls. The match was between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians held at Mumbai as a second match in IPL third season. Though Mumbai indians won this thrilling match against Rajasthan Royals, Yusuf pathan century was fantastic and awesome. He reached ton with 37 balls which includes nine fours and eight sixes. Here is the Video of the Yusuf scored ton in the IPL 3rd season.
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Mumbai Indians won despite Yusuf Pathan's ton

The spectacular and fantastic innings by Yusuf Pathan agaisnt Mumbai Indians was awesome and interesting. He reached 100 runs off 37 balls which made Mumbai Indians to struggle to won the match against Rajasthan Royals. At last Mumbai Indians clinches the thrilling victory by 4 runs against Rajasthan Royals.

Maiden half-centuries from Ambati Rayudu and Saurabh Tiwary powered Mumbai Indians to a stiff 212-6. It was Mumbai's highest score in all IPL matches.

Pathan reached his fifty in just 21 balls which includes nine fours and eight sixes in his innings. Both Dogra and Pathan were run out and the Royals' hope of winning the match was faded away.

Sachin Quoted after the thrilling victory, "Yusuf played a special innings. It was an equally special effort too to end it. Sathish showed good presence of mind," .

"Best Innings I have ever seen"- Warne quoted.

Yusuf Pathan declared as Man of the Match for his marvelous innings.

Mini Score Card:

Place :Brabourne Stadium Mumbai

Mumbai Won the toss and elect to bat first.

Saurabh Tiwary 53 runs off 33 balls(4x4;2x6)

Ambati Rayudu 55 runs off 33 balls(6x4;2x6)

Dimitri Mascarenhas 4-0-34-2

Amit Uniyal 4-0-41-2

Yusuf Pathan 100 runs off 37(9x4;8x6)

Paras Dogra 41 runs off 29 balls(2x4;2x6)

Lasith Malinga 4-0-22-2

Zaheer Khan 4-0-27-0

IPL Third Match: Delhi DareDevils Vs Kings XI Punjab

Delhi Daredevils Squad/ Team for IPL 3 2010

The members of the squad are:-

Gautam Gambhir ( Captain),Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Aavishkar Madhav Salvi, Mithun Manhas, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Umesh Yadav, Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh, Yogesh Nagar, Paul Collingwood, Farveez Maharoof, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Abraham de Villiers, David Warner, Wayne Dillon Parnell.

Kings XI Punjab Squad/ Team for IPL 3 2010

The members of the squad are:-

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain) Yuvraj Singh, Shaun Marsh (AUS), Mahela Jayawardene (SL), Simon Katich (AUS), Luke Pomersbach (AUS), Sunny Sohal, Karan Goel, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Yusuf Abdulla (SA), Ajitesh Argal, Ravi Bopara (ENG), Piyush Chawla, Burt Cockley (AUS), James Hopes (AUS), Uday Kaul, Brett Lee(AUS), Wilkin Mota, Ryan Ninan, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, VRV Singh, Jerome Taylor (WI), Taruwar Kohli, Amanpreet Singh, Ranadeb Bose, Ravikant Shukla.

Place: Mohali Stadium, Punjab

Result: Delhi Dare Devils won the match by five wickets.

Gambhir's Delhi Dare Devils won the toss and chose to field first. Punjab's early wickets made them to score 142 off 20 overs. The each two wickets taken by Maharoof and Dirk Nannes made some useful contribution to Delhi DareDevils and bring down their opponent score to 142.

Chasing 143 as target, Gambhir stunning performance of 72 runs off 54 balls made Delhi Daredevils to won the match against Punjab. Dinesh Karthik (20) and Mithun Manhas (31 not out) also came up with useful contributions. Manhas slammed Irfan Pathan for four in the penultimate delivery of the innings for the winning runs.

ScoreCard:

Kings XI Punjab: 142/9 in 20 Overs

Ravi Bopra 56 off 48 balls(7x4, 1x6) Dirk Nannes 4-0-12-2

Irfan Pathan 21 off 16 balls(2x4) Farveez Maharoof 4-0-37-2

Delhi DareDevils: 146/5 in 19.5 overs

Gautam Ghambhir 72 off 54 balls(9x4;1x6) Sreesanth 4-0-24-2

Mithun Manhas 31 off 24 balls(2x4) Irfan Pathan 3.5-0-27-1

IPL Second Match: Mumbai Indians Vs Rajashtan Royals

Rajasthan Royals Squad/ Team for IPL 3 2010

The members of the squad are:-
Shane Warne (AUS), Aditya Angle, Swapnil Asnodkar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Kaif, Kamran Akmal, Sumit Khatri, Taruwar Kohli, Robert Quiney (AUS), Lee Carseldine (AUS), Graeme Smith (SA) ,Yusuf Pathan, Niraj Patel, Dinesh Salunkhe, Ralphi Gomez, Shaun Tait (AUS), Shane Harwood (AUS), Morne Morkel (SA), Anup Revandkar, Mahesh Rawat, Shane Watson (AUS), Tyron Henderson (SA) ,Dimitri Mascarenhas (ENG), Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel, Amit Singh, Atul Sharma, Gajendra Singh, Naman Ojha.


Mumbai Indians Squad/ Team for IPL 3 2010

The members of the squad are:-
Sachin Tendulkar (capt), Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Chandan Madan, Syed Sahabuddin, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shikhar Dhawan, Graham Napier, Dilhara Fernando, Dwayne Bravo, Zaheer Khan, Ali Murtaza, Saurabh Tiwary, R Sathish, Aditya Tare, Ishan Malhotra, Rahul Shukla, Abhishek Nayar, JP Duminy, Sanath Jayasuriya, Harbhajan Singh, Ryan McLaren

Place: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai At 15:00 local (IST), 9:30 GMT

IPL First Match: KKR Vs Deccan Chargers

Knight Riders defeat the defending champs

In IPL 2010, the teams for Deccan Chargers vs. Kolkata Knight Riders:

DC: Adam Gilchrist (capt.), Rohit Sharma, R.P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha, V.V.S. Laxman, Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Chaminda Vaas, Harmeet Singh, Ravi Teja, Rahul Sharma, T. Suman, Azhar Bilakhia, Anirudh Singh, Mohnish Mishra, Venugopala Rao, B. Sumanth, Arjun Yadav, Ashish Reddy. Coach: Darren Lehmann.

KKR: Sourav Ganguly (capt.), Manoj Tiwary, Murali Kartik, Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashok Dinda, Cheteshwar Pujara, Iqbal Abdulla, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Brad Hodge, Owais Shah, Charl Langeveldt, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ganapathi Vignesh, Rohan Gavaskar, Mandeep Singh, Harshad Khadiwale. Coach: Dav Whatmore .

Place: Mumbai DY Patil Stadium

Result: Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 11 runs.

Deccan Chargers won the toss and chose to field first. Though the beginning innings of the KKR was not good one after their successive wickets, the partership between Owais Shah and Angelo Matthews have created the momentum on the field. They brought the score to 161 for 20 overs.Shah (58 *: 46b, 3x4, 3x6) and Mathews (65*: 46 b, 5x4, 4x6) revived the innings with a breathtaking 130-run unbeaten stand.

Deccan Chargers though the 54 runs accounted by Gilchrist not helped their team to won the match as all other batsmen failed to perform. Ganguly's KKR won it in an easy way with the help of pace bowlers at last.

Deepika Padukone Sizzles At Ipl 3 Opening Ceremony

Fantastic fireworks and Bollywood Beauty Deepika's performance was awesome at the Opening ceremony of DLF IPL Season 3. Performers like Lionel Richie, Ali Campbell of UB40's and Bjorn have added extra flavor to the opening ceremony and make the IPL opening day remarkable.

The eight players also signed the "Spirit of Cricket Board" to mark the presence of spiritness while playing the game. It was addressed by the BCCI chief Shashank Manohar.

The gatherings in the D Y Patil Stadium in Mumbai and those who have gathered in multiplexes across city had their fulfillment and enjoyment after this cricket's largest extravaganza started with a grand opening ceremony.

A awesome laser show which portrays cricket action, which go along with Oscar winner A.R. Rehman's superhit song “Jai Ho” brought on a big cheer from the crowd in the stadium. But the stadium was not full enough as expected.

But as good as the extravaganza was, what the crowd was really waiting for the charged up contest between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Deccan Chargers.

Appeal on Ravindra Jadeja's ban rejected

Ravindra Jadeja's appeal was vanished after a last minute rejection made by the league's IPL governing council. This decision was taken at the meeting held in Mumbai for discussing about the tender process for the two new franchises.

Niranjan Shah, the IPL vice chairman asked the BCCI president Shashank Manohar to remove one year ban imposed on Jadeja, he refused it without any consideration. Manohar reportedly declined the plea and Jadeja will have to sit out the current season.

The negotiation made by Jadeja outside his contract with the Rajasthan Royals made the League to impose one year ban on him. Though Jadeja in his appeal claimed that he had taken the BCCI's permission to look for other teams after the Royals gave no indication of renewing his contract which ended in December last year.
The unknown resides opposite the strict plant.
The all rounder Jadeja whose performance is good in recent days is going to miss this IPL 3rd season. Rajasthan Royals would miss key performer Ravindra Jadeja in the third edition of the Indian Premier League.

Better luck next time Jadeja!!!

Catch IPL 2010 matches live in theatres

Watching IPL third edition matches on the big screen would be a great news for cricket fans in India. Digital Distribution company UFO Moviez has bring out this idea and they are going to implement this in IPL third season.

They form a alliances with multiplex operators such as PVR, INOX, Fame and Cinemax to bring out this awesome idea come into effort. Moreover , already many single screen theatres are ready to showcase the T20 matches in more than 550 screens.

No Bollywood films are getting released during this IPL third season, this would be a great relief measure for both audiences and theatre owners. This strategy will definitely generate revenue for the multiplex operators.

Till date the company has signed over 550 screens, out of which close to 200 are multiplexes. This concept would drive a great pleasure to cricket fans as this includes benefits like uninterrupted live action , advertisement free viewing, 33 percent more image, stadium atmosphere, etc.

The ticket prices would be comparable to weekend ticket rates and this would be higher for the semi final and final matches. The week end tickets normally cost about 100-150rs.

Cricket fans, Get ready to watch IPL matches on the big screen soon. Happy cricketing!!!