Posted on May 7th, 2009 by admin
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Chennai Super Kings (Hayden 89, Dhoni 56*) beat Kings XI Punjab 174 for 3 (Yuvraj 58*, Katich 50, Jayawardene 44*) by 12 runs (D/L method)
Kings XI Punjab made Chennai Super Kings really sweat in a spirited chase towards a Duckworth-Lewis revised target of 187, but when it mattered most tactical nuance won it for Chennai. Simon Katich had set the tone for Punjab’s bravado and Yuvraj Singh and Mahela Jayawardene batted superbly in the face of adversity, adding 90 in just 8.5 overs under lights. Then, with 30 left to defend off 12 balls, MS Dhoni took pace off the ball by calling on Suresh Raina’s part-time offspin, and that six-run over provide definitive.
Chennai’s big total was set up by Matthew Hayden’s belligerent 89, either side of an hour-and-half’s rain delay, and Dhoni’s sparky 56 from 27 balls. Up against the strongest batting line-up in the tournament, they were pummeled into submission for the second match running.
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Source: Cricinfo
Tags: IPL 2009
IPL 2009 Scores, IPL Live Scores
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by admin
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Indian board (BCCI) chairman Lalit Modi has said that the two-Test series between India and England next month will go ahead, although the second Test will be moved away from Mumbai.
A series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai led to the cancellation of the final two One Day Internationals, the Champions League 2020 and the ICL 20s World Series while England’s Performance Programme squad is also to return home.
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Source: Cricketworld
Tags: India Test Series, India vs England
India vs England
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by admin
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India 166 for 4 (Sehwag 69, Gambhir 40) beat England 178 for 8 (Shah 72, Flintoff 41) by 19 runs (D/L method)
Whether it’s a contest over 50 overs, 20 overs, or - as it turned out today - 22, India’s one-day cricketers are simply streets ahead of England’s. They duly claimed an unassailable 4-0 lead in the seven-game series thanks to a 19-run victory in a match that was rescued from a soggy grave by some valiant work from the Bangalore groundstaff.
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Source: Cricinfo
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India vs England
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by admin
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Lunch England 116 for 3 (Pietersen 42*, Collingwood 1*) trail South Africa 194 by 78 runs
South Africa took the early wicket of Ian Bell on the second morning at The Oval and that of Alastair Cook 10 minutes before lunch, but England’s new captain, Kevin Pietersen, was unbeaten on a confident 42 as the fourth Test was left intriguingly poised.
Bell has yet to make a hundred at No.3, and he’ll have to wait until the second innings at the earliest in order to rectify that. After a thirty-minute delay for rain, Makhaya Ntini found one to hold its line on Bell, who was defending to extra cover, and it took a thick outside edge to Graeme Smith at first slip who held it smartly, low to his right.
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Source: Cricinfo
Tags: South Africa vs England, Test series
England vs South Africa
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by admin
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Sri Lanka 14 for 1 trail India 249 (Gambhir 72, Mendis 5-56, Prasad 3-82) by 235 runs
Dammika Prasad’s raw pace pulled India back after an explosive start, whereupon the spinners took charge of the game, as has been their wont over the course of the series. India’s middle order failed again, as they fell from 51 for 0 in seven overs to 198 for 9, after which Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma frustrated Sri Lanka for one ball less than 20 overs - the longest partnership of the innings, and at 51 runs also the joint highest. Ishant followed up the good work with the bat to get Malinda Warnapura’s wicket two overs before stumps.
Mahela Jayawardene made exceptional use of the review system, getting the wickets of Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid after challenging decisions.
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Source: Cricinfo
Tags: Dammika Prasad, India Vs Sri Lanka, Third Test
India Vs Sri Lanka
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by admin
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India were right back in the match as Harbhajan Singh dismissed Samravera trapping him right in front. He also dismissed Dilshan in the same over as he edged the ball and was taken spectacularly at short leg. India with Harbhajan Singh were looking threatening as the Sri Lankan middle order was on a verge of a collapse.
Harbhajan Singh finally got into groove as he removed in-form Warnapura who got an outside edge and was caught by Gambhir. India finally broke a threatening partnership, which was shaping for a long partnership. He also removed Sangakkara to bring India right back in the match. With two quick wickets, and two new batsmen, India can put pressure on the Lankans.
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Source: Hindustan Times
Tags: 2nd Test, Galle, India Vs Sri Lanka
India Vs Sri Lanka
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by admin
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Ajantha Mendis and Chaminda Vaas led Sri Lanka’s fightback after Indian opener Virender Sehwag missed out on a rare feat of scoring a century before lunch in the second Test on Thursday.
Sehwag was unbeaten on 91 at the lunch-break before hammering a robust 128 not out for his 15th Test hundred on a rain-hit opening day. He dominated a 167-run stand for the opening wicket with Gautam Gambhir (56).
But unorthodox spinner Mendis and veteran left-arm seamer Vaas did not allow India to capitalise on a strong start, sharing four quick wickets to reduce the tourists to 214-4 in the first innings at stumps.
Only four batsmen — Australians Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney and Don Bradman, and Pakistan’s Majid Khan — have scored a hundred before lunch on the opening day of a Test.
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Source: AFP
Tags: Galle, Second Test
India Vs Sri Lanka
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by admin
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At Lunch India was 151 for 0 (Sehwag 91*, Gambhir 50*)
Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put behind them not only the debacle at the SSC, but also thoughts of how they played and missed early here, and how the ball misbehaved when it hit the cracks populating one end of the pitch.
As a result India got off to a flying start, taking the first steps towards exorcising the ghosts of the first Test. Sehwag came close - for the second time in his career - to getting a hundred in the first session of a Test.
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Source: Cricnfo
Tags: Galle, India Vs Sri Lanka, Second Test
India Vs Sri Lanka
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by admin
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India’s One-day opening batsman Virender Sehwag will realise the importance of placing a bigger price tag on his Test wicket.
India, on 79-3 with Sehwag’s early departure and fellow opener Gautam Gambhir immediately after tea, had a shaky start in their pursuit of challenging Sri Lanka’s massive first innings total of 600-6 declared at tea on day three of the first Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club.
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Source: Cricket Next
Tags: Sinhalese Sports Club
India Vs Sri Lanka
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by admin
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They have been looking for a genuine Asian Bradman for generations. Suddenly they have found one in Mahela Jayawardene.
Sri Lanka’s 31-year-old captain joined the great Don for most centuries scored at a Test venue as he reached his ninth at the Sinhalese Sports Club before tea on day two of the Idea Series against India.
After a rain-affected first day, 88 overs have been bowled on Thursday as Sri Lanka reached 305 for three at tea with Jayawardene not out 105 while his partner, Tilan Samaraweera has 51.
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Source: CricketNext
India Vs Sri Lanka
