IPL 50th Match: CSK Vs Delhi Daredevils

The IPL match which is going to happen today between Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Daredevils is the 50th match in this IPL 3 2010. This match is 13th match for this both team and this match is the deciding factor to get qualify for the semi finals.

Though Delhi Daredevils is the good team, the recent defeats made them to lose their momentum at present. The key players like David Warner, Sehwag, Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Collingwood are good in form but they fail to show their form in the field.

The match is at Chennai Chidambaram Stadium, which is the home ground for the in-form Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni led Super Kings showing their fantastic performance on the field and they were at the good position in the IPL points table. But CSK need to win these game which paves the way easy for getting into semifinal.

The previous match between CSK and Delhi Daredevils held at feroz shah Stadium Kolta, in which Chennai Super Kings defeated Delhi by chasing the score of massive 183. The "mangoose man" Mathew Hayden showed his all time brilliance in the batting area and scored 93 off just 43 balls.

Today match would be more interesting since both the teams are contesting for semi-finals. All the best CSK and Delhi!!!

Mumbai Indians in semifinals

Master blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar helped his team to march towards semi finals in the IPL season 3. Moreover being the Skipper of the team, he did his job more than the others. Mumbai Indians fixed a target of 175 which is the good chasing score in this IPL season.

Rajasthan Royals though they struggled to chase, they were unable to make it. Lot many run-outs in Rajasthan Royals team made the Mumbai Indians won by huge 37 runs.Mumbai Indians became the first team in IPL 3 to secure a semifinal spot on Sunday.

Zaheer Khan did a brillant performance taking 2-17 is his four overs. On fielders also made their work good by doing three run-outs which is more crucial wickets for Rajasthan Royals. Harbhajan ended with figures of 1-21.

Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten 89 carried Mumbai Indians to a convincing 37–run win and he secured man of the match award.

Rajasthan Royals has complicated its course and must win its remaining two matches.

Ganguly's Best Catch

IPL Match 17: Mumbai Indians Vs Knight Riders

Ganguly's best catch at the IPL match 3. It was stunning and awesome catch by Dada hit by Tiwary and bowled by Ishant Sharma at the 17th league match of IPL third season. Though Ganguly's Knight Riders lost match to little master's Mumbai Indians, the fantastic catch caught by Ganguly created a strong waves on the field.

Many critics were raised about the Ganguly's(IPL) Performance. But this catch proved that Ganguly is nowhere but still in the cricket fire.




To watch in youtube, just click this link and enjoy the performance of DADA. Ganguly Catch

The IPL Watcher content on cricinfo blog praising Ganguly's catch. Just read it to know the Ganguly's pride.http://blogs.cricinfo.com/iplwatcher/archives/2010/03/gangulys_catch.php

Keep going Ganguly!!!

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.
Enjoy it...

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.