CRICSTARS THE STARS OF CRICKET

Rajasthan Royals with their all-round show outperformed Kolkata Knight Riders and beat them by 45 runs in their IPL tie in Jaipur.Rajstha Royals fourth successive win helped them past Delhi to second place in the points table

Yusuf Pathan and Swapnil Asnodkar struck rapid half-centuries to set a target of 196. Rajasthan score 53 between overs 10 and 15 and  Ravindra Jadeja’s cameo – 33 off 19 balls in last overs helped them set a very good target.Knight Riders were bowled out for 151, their last five wickets falling for just eight runs.Ganguly(51) and Hussey (42) fought for a while and put on a partnership but that was not enough

Video Highlights of Kolkata Knight Riders Batting;

Video Highlights of Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6NeiFUWeqQ

Royal Chargers disaapointed home crowd yet again, juss out from a party given by mallya after a win over Mumbai, Royal chargers faced music yet again. Royal Challengers lost their top four wickets to pulls and hooks, and never recovered from it and set a target of 136. Jaipur chased their modest target of 136 with seven wickets and overs to spare in the most boring and one sided match of IPL till now

Royal Challengers Wickets vs Rajasthan Royals. Shane Watson picked up 2 for 20 first and then topped it up with 61 off 41 balls to seal a comfortable win for Rajasthan.

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Shane Warne steered Rajasthan Royals to a remarkable win with one ball to spare in Hyderabad, With 17 needed in last over, Warne trashed symo with 4,6 and 6. Rajasthan are the first team in the IPL to chase down a 200-plus score. Yusuf Pathan and Graeme Smith 98-run partnership in just 8.3 overs come handy to royals. despite losing wickets royals hold the nerve

Earlier Symonds hit 117 from 53 balls to help the Deccan Chargers reach an imposing 5 for 214 from their 20 overs. deccan Chargers began there innings shackily but a brilliant knock from Symonds (scored fastest hundred in IPL) along with Rohit sharma helped in scoring 200+ score

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Shane Watson and Warne steered Rajasthan Royals to their maiden victory in the tournament

In a surprising result, Rajsthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings at Jaipur, thanks to a inspiring performace from Shane Watson and Shane Warne. Shane Warne’s 3 for 19 restricted Kings XI Punjab to 166. Yuvraj Singh rescued Punjab Team with his 34 ball 57 runs. Rajasthan Royals comfortable chased the target, thanks to a fiery 49-ball 76 by Watson, and a unbeaten 36 by Ravindra Jadeja. . At 99 for 4 in 12th over Rajasthan Royals were rescued by a a unbeaten 69-run partnership between Watson and Jadeja

IPL Video Highlights of 6th match betweeb Rajasthan Royals Kings XI Punjab

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A pretty settled Punjab Kings X! will take on a unsettled Rajsthan Royals in the 6^th match of IPL at the Sawai Man Singh stadium at 8 PM IST. Nothing is going right for Rajasthan Royals, they are still waiting for there foreign Recruits to join the squad. While both teams lost there opening encounters, punjab fought well and are favourates for this match

Graeme Smith and Morne Morkel are still playing in S.Africa Domestic Series and Mascarenhas is expected to join on May 12. Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, and Sohail Tanvir will join the team on Sunday. Punjab may replace Simon Katich for this match and dont have much worries in team composition. Rajsthan Royals desperatley need some fresh faces, but as of now they dont have much choice. Rajsthan Royals may go with the same squad that played against Delhi Daredevils. Can they put a decent show infront of there home fans, I dont think so

Probable Teams – Punjab Karan Goel, James Hopes, Kumar Sangakkara (wk),Yuvraj Singh, Mahela Jayawardene/Simon Katich, Irfan Pathan, Pankaj Dharmani, Brettt Lee Piyush Chawla, Wilkin Mota/Ramesh Powar, Sreesanth.

Rajasthan Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan,  Shane Watson,Mohammad Kaif, Darren Lehmann,  Ravindra Jadeja  Mahesh Rawat, Dinesh Salunkhe, Shane Warne, Siddharth Trivedi, Munaf Patel.

Delhi Daredevils scored an emphatic nine-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals at Feroz shah kotla stadium here on Saturday. In a one sided match Delhi bowlers and fielders displayed sharpness and discipline in the field (two runouts) to restrict the Rajasthan Royals to 129-8 in 20 overs.

Farveez Maharoof (2-11) and local boy Rajat Bhatia (2-17) bowled superbly in the middle overs. Mc grath was sharp as usual and ended up with 1 wicket . Mahroof concided just 11 runs in his 4 overs. Ravindra Jadeja (29) and Dinesh Salunkhe (26 not out) helped Rajasthan Royals to cross 100 mark

Chasing a modest 129, Gautam Gambhir (58 not out) and Shikhar Dhawan (52 not out) put up an unbroken 112-run stand to take Delhi home. Virender Sehwag fell cheaply for 12 after hitting Watson for 3 consecutive fours viru edge the fourth ball to rip away his off-stump. Rajasthan Royals bowling was trashed apart including there star bowler, shane warne who conceded 16 runs in his 2 overs with no wicket

A boring match with neither entertainment nor cricket, much to the disappointment of 40,000 crowd

Rajasthan Royals: T. Kohli c Manhas b McGrath 7, Y. Pathan (run out) 10, S. Watson (run out) 21, M. Kaif c Geeves b Bhatia 9, D. Lehmann lbw b Maharoof 1, R. Jadeja b Vettori 29, M. Rawat b Bhatia 2, D. Salunkhe (not out) 26, S. Warne b Maharoof 14, S. Trivedi (not out) 3; Extras: (b-1, lb-3, w-3) 7; Total: (for eight wkts in 20 overs) 129.

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-27, 3-41, 4-47, 5-57, 6-71, 7-93, 8-110.

Delhi Daredevils bowling: McGrath 4-1-21-1, Geeves 4-0-41-0, Maharoof 4-0-11-2, Bhatia 4-0-17-2, Vettori 4-0-35-1.

Delhi: V. Sehwag b Watson 12, G. Gambhir (not out) 58, S. Dhawan (not out) 52, Extras (w-10) 10, Total (for one wkt in 15.1 overs) 132.

Fall of wicket: 1-20.

Rajasthan Royals bowling: Munaf 3-0-25-0, Watson 4-0-31-1, Trivedi 3-0-32-0, Warne 2-0-16-0, Yusuf 2.1-0-17-0, Salunkhe 1-0-11-0.

Delhi,will host Shane Warne and his Rajasthan Royals team in today’s second encounter

Sehwag along with Ganbhir will open for delhi and can expect a flying straight and followed by a inexperienced middle order of – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Dhawan, Mithun Manhas or Rajat Bhatia

McGrath and Daniel Vettori, will lead the bowling attack Delhi will be without Pakistanis Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Asif,

AB de Villiers and Graeme Smith Pakistani trio of Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir, and allrounder Dimitri Mascarenhas, wont be available for jaipur. Again a poor bidding strategy. So desperate they choose 38 yr old Darren Lehmann.

Jaipur chances depend on allrounders Pathan and Watson. The seriously need a batsmen to anchor the innings

Delhi may win this encounter because of there aggressive batsmen, wily bowlers and athletic fielders,

Delhi (probable) 1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 Manoj Tiwary, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 7 Rajat Bhatia, 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Brett Geeves, 10 Glenn McGrath, 11 Pradeep Sangwan.

Rajasthan Shane Watson, Taruwar Kohli, Mohammad Kaif, Darren Lehmann, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Mahesh Rawat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja , Shane Warne, Pankaj Singh, Munaf Patel

Prediction – Delhi Dare Devils will the match comfortable

Indian Premier League 20:20 Cricket – Rajasthan Royals Promotional Video.

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Rajasthan Royals

Captain: Shane Warne

Coach: Shane Warne

Franchisee: Emerging Media

Franchise cost: $67 Million

Official Website: http://www.rajasthanroyals.com

Batsmen:
Graeme Smith
Mohammad Kaif
Justin Langer
Younis Khan
Anoop Revandkar
Taruwar Kohli
Niraj Patel

Wicket Keepers / All Rounder’s:
Kamran Akmal
Yusuf Pathan
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Shane Watson
Sohail Tanvir
Ravindra Jadeja
Siddarth Trivedi
Swapnil Asnodkar
Sumit Khatri

Bowlers:
Shane Warne
Munaf Patel
Morne Morkel
Pankaj Singh

Most expensive player: Mohammad Kaif – $675,000

Looking at the team one can easily conclude either they don’t have deep pockets or decided to nurture talent. Rajasthan Royals represent pink city Jaipur and owned by Emerging media. Captained and Coached by Aussie leg spinner Shane Warne (Cost Cutting or would have thought no need of a coach!!). There is no Icon Player for the team. This is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach..

Fraser Castellino is the Ceo for this team. Shane Warne will be the head coach for this team and assisted by T20 specialist Jeremy Snape as performance coach

Strength – Balanced team with a good mix of all rounder’s

Week nes – over aged players, poor bowling strength

Star Players – Mascarenhas, Graeme Smith, Warne, Shane Watson. With A strike rate of 142 in T20’s and 120’s in ODI’s Macherenhas ( England’s sole representive in IPL) is a guy who can turn fortunes for Rajasthan Royals, but unfortunatley he will only be part of IPL for 2 weeks in mid-may and returns for Finals. Shane Warne is a great player but will have little impact in a flat subcontinent T20 specific pitches. Could not understand what Justin Langer is supposed to do in a Twenty 20 matches.

My bet- They will end up somewhere between 6-8. What do you guys think?

Schedule-

Sat 19 Apr Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan @, Delhi

Mon 21 Apr Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI @, Jaipur

Thu 24 Apr Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals @, Hyderabad

Sat 26 Apr Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals @ Bangalore

Thu 1 May Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders @ Jaipur

Sun 4 May Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings @ Jaipur

Wed 7 May Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan @ Mumbai

Fri 9 May Rajasthan Royals v Deccan Chargers @ Jaipur

Sun 11 May Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils @ Jaipur

Wed 14 May Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals @ Mohali

Sat 17 May Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers @ Jaipur

Tue 20 May Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals @ Kolkata

Sat 24 May Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals @ Chennai

Mon 26 May Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians @ Jaipur