CRICSTARS THE STARS OF CRICKET

Looks like theres no end to Rahul Dravid IPL woes they spilled catches gave too many runs, and hardly fought to win. Rajasthan Royals retained top position with a 65 run victory in Jaipur. Rahul Dravid fought a lonely battle to  finish on an unbeaten 75.

IPL Video Highlights of Rajasthan Batting

IPL Video Highlights of Bangalore Batting

Shoaib Akhtar made his much-awaited Indian Premier League’s debut match against Delhi Daredevils.Shoaibs four wickets and was instrumental in Kolkata win and an ideal comeback to IPL

Mumbai scored a crushing victory after Kolkata was bowled out for an embarrassing 67 in the Indian Premier League
Pollock (3 for 12) scintillating spell dismmised Knight Riders for the lowest score of the tournament. The worst score previously in the tournament was Bangalore Royals’ 82 against Knight Riders. Kolkata lost  half their side with only 29 on the board. Bravo, Rohan Raje and Australia’s Dominic Thornely grabbed two wickets each

Sachin Tendulkar went for a duck ,Robin Uthappa made 9 and sanath Jayasuriya scored a unbeaten 48 in 17-ball’s helped mumbai  to finish the game in style. The race for 4th place is hotting up with 3 teams contesting for the fourth place

Video high lights of Kolkata knoght Raiders vs mumbai Indians

Kolkata knight raiders wickets

Mumbai Indians Innings (post 43 sec)

Sanath Jayasuriya’s extraordinary onslaught on chennai super king bowlers scoring a undefeated 114 off 48 balls, with nine fours and eleven sixes Sanath Jayasuriya’s scintillating ton helped Mumbai Indians to beat Chennai Super Kings by nine wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20

VIDEO OF SANATH JAYASURIYA’S INNINGS AGAINST CHENAI SUPER KINGS

Sanath Jayasuriya bashed the second-fast century in Indian Premier League history as Mumbai thrashed Chennai by nine wickets at the Wankhede Stadium overnight. Chasing 157 to win, the Indians reached the target losing only one wicket and with 37 balls to spare

Jayasuriya, smashed the second-fastest hundred of the IPL. His century came off just 45 balls and included 11 sixes and nine fours, 102 of his runs coming from boundaries and sixes. Jayasuriya’s innings look like watching highlights

Jaysuriya’s power innings overshadowed the IPL debut of Sachin Tendulakr,Sachin made only 12
Chennai battled to 6/156, thanks to a 95-run stand between Mahendra Singh Dhoni (43 not out) and Subramaniam Badrinath (53).

Shaun Pollock bowled one of the best spells in 20-20 format taking 1 for 9 off four overs, while Dhawal Kulkarni was the leading wicket taker with 3 for 33.

The scores:

Chennai Super Kings: S. Vidyut c Raje b Pollock 16, S. Fleming b Kulkarni 26, S. Raina c Takawale b Bravo 1, S. Badrinath c & b Bravo 53, C. Kapugedara c Takawale b Kulkarni 0, M.S. Dhoni (not out) 43, A. Morkel c Uthappa b Kulkarni 5; Extras (lb-3, w-9): 12; Total (for six wkts. in 20 overs): 156.

Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-28, 3-46, 4-46, 5-141, 6-156.

Mumbai Indians bowling: Pollock 4-1-9-1, Nehra 4-0-31-0, Bravo 4-0-37-2, Kulkarni 4-0-33-3, Raje 3-0-33-0, Thornely 1-0-10-0.

Mumbai Indians: S. Jayasuriya (not out) 114, S. Tendulkar b Joginder 12, R. Uthappa (not out) 16; Extras (lb-4, w-12): 16; Total (for one wkt. in 13.5 overs): 158.

Fall of wicket: 1-82.

Chennai Super Kings bowling: Goni 3-0-31-0, Morkel 3-0-44-0, Balaji 2-0-9-0, Joginder 3-0-24-1, Muralitharan 2-0-20-0, Kapugedera 0.5-0-26-0.

Jayasuriya Innings against chennai Super Kings

chennai Innings

As expected in a one sided match Punjab trashed Banglore Royal Challengers Bangalore set Kings XI Punjab a target of 144 in their DLF-Indian Premier League match at the PCA Stadium

Punjab bowlers dominated a strugling, low confidence bangalore batting line up. S. Sreesanth took three wickets, while Piyush Chawla and Irfan Pathan shared 2 wickets each. Bangalore’s new opening combination Virat Kohli and J. Arun Kumar did not last long. Misbah-ul-Haq’s eight-ball 21, Dravid’s 27-ball 29 and Bouchers 39 off 31 deliveries helped Bangalore to set a very low target in batting friendly PCA stadium

Shaun Marsh, who smashed sizzling unbeaten 74 off just 51 balls helped punjab to reach the target in 16 th over itself. Bangalore royal challengers off field controversies added more pressure to the side and their batting failed yet again.

Video Highlights of Punjab innings(Post 52 seconds)

Lakshmipathy Balaji took a stunning 5 for 24 including the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) first hat-trick in Chennai against Kings XI Punjab. Balaji, who has missed a good part of the last three seasons, due to injuries made a great come back in IPL. Honestly I fell Balaji is lucky enough to get this hatrick with 27 needed in last overs and Punjab batsmen throwing bat at anything, Balaji is lucky enough to get IPL’s first hatrick. But anyways Kudos to Balaji who fought back from a career-threatening injury that had put him completely out of action.

VIDEO Of LAXMIPATHY BALAJI HATRICK IN IPL

Lakshmipathy Balaji took a stunning 5 for 24 including the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) first hat-trick as Chennai downed the Kings XI Punjab by 18 runs. Honestly Balaji is lucky enough to get that hattrick. Balaji’s hatrick came in the last over of the match, off which the Mohali team needed an unlikely 27 runs.

Batting first chennai set a target of 182. despite lossing both openers early, chennai middle order batsmen played very sensible cricket. S. Badrinath and M.S. Dhoni put on 91 runs in 64 balls for the fourth wicket,badrinath hit sixes with remarkable ease  and made 64 in 47 balls

On IPL Points table chennai Super Kings level with the Rajasthan Royals at the top of the points table, while Punjab remain well placed in third despite the loss.

Chennai super kings vs Punjab Kings

Chennai Innings

Kings Punjab innings

Deccan Chargers poor performance continued in IPL, the latest defeat against. Rajasthan Royals registered a convincing eight-wicket victory over the uninspiring Deccan Chargers in their IPL league tie. Deccan chargers middle order fumbled against a disciplined Royals bowling and good fielding

Gilly’s  61 off 49 balls was in vain for Deccan because the rest of the line-up failed and ended up with only 140. Afridi yet again given his wicket with a irresponsible shot . Rohit  was unlucky to get runout.  Hyd chances of entering semis now looks unlikely

Rajasthan chased the score with 4 more overs to spare. Yusuf Pathan and Graeme Smith 109 run opening stand ensured royals to reach top of points table

Deccan Chargers Innings

Rajasthan Royals innings( post 20 sec’s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1nP2sDsnI

Manpreet Gony and Manoj Tiwary helped see the Chennai Super Kings claim a dramatic four-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League. Delhi Daredevils suffered their third straight defeat in the Indian Premier League (IPL)

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and invited Delhi Daredevils to bat first in their return leg of the Indian Premier League tie. Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan (59) put on a record 121 for the third wicket and the Super Kings did well to restrict the Devils to below 200.

Chennai then pulled off a fantastic run chase, led by Stephen Fleming’s 44 off 28 balls and S Vidyut (40 off 23), opening partnership of 62 runs, MS Dhoni (33) and Albie Morkel (30) contributed in middle overs
With 15 needed in last over facing Shoaib mallik Manpreet ghony lashed a six and four in first 2 balls.
Delhi missed all rounder Rajat Bhatia, lack of fifth bowler proved very costly to Delhi

Delhi Dare devils Innings:

Chennai Innings last over