May 26th, 2008 Match between Rajastan and Mumbai is an important match for Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi.
How?
If mumbai win, all three teams have to eagerly wait for next matches.
If Mumbai loose, delhi are sure to reach semis. And chennai can still be in semis even if they loose their last match and Mumbai wins against Bangalore as both Mumbai and Chennai will sit at 14 points and one of them with better run rate can go to semi final along with Delhi.
So while Mumbai will play and pray to win against Rajastan, Chennai and Delhi will pray for Mumbai’s loss.
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May 26th, 2008 With Just 4 matches to go, it is almost clear for 5 teams about the semi final status.
While Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab have already made it to semi finals, Deccan Charger, Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders are out of the first edition of Indian premier League.
Now it is between Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Delhi Dare devils to decide who the other 2 joing Semi finals. While Delhi has no role to play and are sitting with 15 points, it is for chennai (1 match left -14 points) and Mumbai ( 2 matches left - 12 points) to decide the fate of themselves as well as that of Delhi.
If Chennai wins against Deccan charges, they will enter semis. If chennai loose, they have to hope that mumbai should loose both their matches against Bangalore and Royal Challengers.
If Mumbai win one match and Chennai loose the last match, then Delhi will enter semis and on net run rate either chennai or mumbai will enter semi finals.
If chennai and mumbai win all their matches ( total 3) , then Delhi will be out of semies.
Exciting, isnt it?
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April 18th, 2008 Brendon McCullum’s super century helped Kolkata Knight Riders set an imposing target of 217 for Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers in the IPL opener.
It was almost a one man show where McCullum scored 75% of the runs at will to reach his unbeaten 152 in just 72 balls at an amazing strike rate of 211.
It is most unlikely that this target is achieved. If that is done, it is not a long way that test and ODI is out of cricket map.
Bangalore Royal Challengers team: Dravid, W Jaffer, V Kohli, JH Kallis, CL White, MV Boucher, B Akhil, AA Noffke, P Kumar, Z Khan, SB Joshi
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April 18th, 2008 April 18: Bangalore v Kolkata at Bangalore
April 19: Mohali v Chennai at Mohali and Delhi v Jaipur at Delhi
April 20: Mumbai v Bangalore at Mumbai; Kolkata v Hyderabad at Kolkata
April 21: Jaipur v Mohali at Jaipur
April 22: Hyderabad v Delhi at Hyderabad
April 23: Chennai v Mumbai at Chennai
April 24: Hyderabad v Jaipur at Hyderabad
April 25: Mohali v Mumbai at Mohali
April 26: Bangalore v Jaipur at Bangalore; Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
April 27: Mumbai v Hyderabad at Mumbai; Mohali v Delhi at Mohali
April 28: Bangalore v Chennai at Bangalore
April 29: Kolkata v Mumbai at Kolkata
April 30: Delhi v Bangalore at Delhi.
May 1: Hyderabad v Mohali at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Kolkata at Jaipur
May 2: Chennai v Delhi at Chennai.
May 3: Hyderabad at Bangalore at Hyderabad; Mohali v Kolkata at Mohali
May 4: Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai; Jaipur v Chennai at Jaipur
May 5: Bangalore v Mohali at Bangalore
May 6: Chennai v Hyderabad at Chennai
May 7: Mumbai v Jaipur at Mumbai
May 8: Delhi v Chennai at Delhi; Kolkata v Bangalore at Kolkata
May 9: Jaipur v Hyderabad at Jaipur
May 10: Bangalore v Mumbai at Bangalore; Chennai v Mohali at Chennai
May 11: Hyderabad v Kolkata at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Delhi at Jaipur
May 12: Mohali v Bangalore at Mohali
May 13: Kolkata v Delhi at Kolkata
May 14: Mumbai v Chennai at Mumbai; Mohali v Jaipur at Mohali
May 15: Delhi v Hyderabad at Delhi
May 16: Mumbai v Kolkata at Mumbai
May 17: Delhi v Mohali at Delhi; Jaipur v Bangalore at Jaipur
May 18: Hyderabad v Mumbai at Hyderabad; Kolkata v Chenna at Kolkata
May 19: Bangalore v Delhi at Bangalore
May 20: Kolkata v Jaipur at Kolkata
May 21: Mumbai v Mohali at Mumbai; Chennai v Bangalore at Chennai
May 22: Delhi v Kolkata at Delhi
May 23: Mohali v Hyderabad at Mohali.
May 24: Delhi v Mumbai at Delhi; Chennai v Jaipur at Chennai
May 25: Bangalore v Hyderabad at Bangalore; Kolkata v Mohali at Kolkata
May 26: Jaipur v Mumbai at Jaipur
May 27: Hyderabad v Chennai at Hyderabad
May 28 and 29: Rest days
May 30: First semi-final at Mumbai
May 31: Second semi-final at Mumbai
June 1: Final at Mumbai
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January 12th, 2008 With the blazing knock of 113 in just 78 balls Sehwag is all set to open in the 3rd test to be played in Perth. With his 97, Dinesh Karthik is all set to partner him for the openers slot.
Out of form Jaffar and Yuvraj Singh are most likely to make way for the duo.
This should also boost the chance of tourists to win the 3rd test against morally low Australians.
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January 12th, 2008 After the dubious 2nd test match which proved that Indians can beat Australia in Australia.
If one looks at the body language of the two teams, one was certain that Australians were too afraid of a defeat. I do not think they can keep making history unethically.
I do not think Harbajan would have racially abused Symonds in any standards. Even if had called Symonds a monkey, it will be more in the sense of kid fighting. We in India can see kids (and even elders) calling others a cat, a dog or a monkey in sportive spirits. It is a very light sence where Indians make fun of thir friends comparing them to these animals.
May be Symonds issue is used by Australians to pressurise India to play a below par game.
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