Birthday boy Sachin Tendulkar led Mumbai Indians will take on Deccan Chargers at Uppal stadium in Hyderabad. Deccan Chargers captain Kumara Sangakkara won the toss and elected to field first. IPL T20 Match result: Mumbai Indians defeated Deccan Chargers by 37 runs. Best of the match: Rohit Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Andrew Symonds & Amit Mishra. Live ratings for MI Vs DC Cricketers: MIRatingDeccan ChargersRating Batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar 6/10Sunny Sohal 5/10Ambati Rayudu 3/10Sikhar Dhawan 5/10Rohit Sharma 8/10Bharat Chipli 3/10R. Satish 5/10Ravi Teja 2/10 All-rounders: Kieron Pollard 1/10Daniel Christian 4/10Andrew Symonds 7/10Cameron White 2/10 Wicket-Keeper: David Jacobs 6/10Kumara Sangakkara 5/10 Bowlers: Harbhajan Singh 5/10Dale Steyn 3/10Lasith Malinga 8/10Amit Mishra 8/10Munaf Patel 4/10Pragyana Ojha 5/10Abu Nechim 4/10Ishant Sharma 4/10 Highlights of MI Vs DC IPL T20 … [Read more...]
IPL 2011 Live: MI Vs RCB
Match result: Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers by 9 wickets. Best of the match: Sachin Tendulkar, Ambati Rayudu & T. Dilshan. Worst of the match: Mayank Agarwal & Asad Pathan. Live ratings for MI Vs RCB T20 Cricketers: Mumbai IndiansRatingRoyal ChallengersRating Batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar 8/10Mayank Agarwal 2/10Ambati Rayudu 8/10Virat Kohli 4/10Rohit Sharma 5/10Saurabh Tiwary 6/10R. Satish 5/10Cheteswar Pujara 5/10 All-rounders: Kieron Pollard 6/10T.Dilshan 8/10James Franklin 5/10Asad Pathan 2/10 Ali Murtaza 5/10 Wicket-Keeper: David Jacobs 6/10AB de Villiers 7/10 Bowlers: Lasith Malinga 7/10Zaheer Khan 3/10Harbhajan Singh 5/10Dirk Nannes 6/10Munaf Patel 7/10Daniel Vettori 7/10 Abhimanyu Mithun 3/10 Toss: Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar won the toss and elected to field. Mumbai … [Read more...]
IPL Match preview: MI Vs DD
Mumbai Indians (MI) will take on Delhi Daredevils (DD) at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi. Both teams are led by dashing openers - Sachin Tendulkar & Virender Sehwag. Strongest team in IPL, Mumbai Indians, is playing as favourites to win in IPL 4 tournament. Match time: 4 PM on April 10 Stadium: Feroz Shah Kotla grounds, Delhi. Ratings for Captains & Teams: 1. Sachin Tendulkar: 8/10 & Mumbai Indians: 9/10 2. Virender Sehwag: 7/10 & Delhi Daredevils: 7/10 Interesting battle: Lasith Malings Vs Virender Sehwag & David Warner. Mumbai Indians (MI) analysis: MI has squad that can send tremors across the spine of opposition. Team management is providing best possible facilities and services to the players. Mumbai played so well in IPL 3 but lost their way in the finals. Sachin is in the form of his life while we know what Pollard and Symonds can do. Lasith Malinga is the best fast bowler in T20 format. Delhi will collapse if Malings takes care off Sehwag and Warner. Suman, Rayudu and Rohit Sharma have good record in Indian Premier League T20. Best strategy for Mumbai: Ask DD to bat first and chase its score as Delhi is looking weak in the bowling department. Probable squad: Sachin Tendulkar (Captain), T. Suman, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu (WK), Andrew Symonds, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, James Franklin, Harbhajan Singh, R. Satish & Munaf Patel Delhi Daredevils (DD) Analysis: DD has sensational openers - Virender Sehwag and David Warners - who can decimate any bowling department on their day. Colin Ingram won the T20 player of the year in … [Read more...]
Live: IPL 4 auction
IPL 2011 Auction live updates: Click here for IPL teams and latest squad composition. 12:28 PM: bought Kumara Sangakkara for $. He played for Punjab Kings Eleveln in the previous IPL. Now, Sri Lankan star batsman-wicket keeper Kumara Sungakkara will go under the hammer. 12:25 PM: Andrew Symonds was bought by Mumbai Indians for $8.5 lakhs. He played for Deccan Chargers in the earlier editions. Now, Australian hard hitter Andrew Symonds. 12:20 PM: Rohit Sharma was bought by Mumbai Indians for $20 lakhs . He played for Hyderabad in the previous editions. Indian batsman Rohit Sharma will go under the hammer. 12:17 PM: South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $ 11 lakhs. He played for Bangalore Royal Challengers in the earlier editions. It is time for No.1 Test batsman Jacques Kallis. 12:13 PM: Cameroon White was bought by Hyderabad Deccan Chargers for Now, Australian all-rounder Cameroon White will go under the hammer. Sensation: What a surprise! No one bid for former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly. Take 15 minutes break. 11:48 AM: South African batsman AB De Villiers was bought by Bangalore Royal Challengers for $11 lakhs. 11:44 AM: Yuvraj Singh was bought by new team Pune IPL for $18 lakhs. It is time for Indian star Yuvraj Singh who played for Punjab Kings in the earlier editions. 11:40 AM: Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene was bought by new team Kochi for $15 lakh. 11:36 AM: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers bought Kevin Pietersen for $6.5 … [Read more...]
Chennai Super Kings are IPL 2010 Champions
The Chennai Super Kings are the IPL 2010 champions. Defeating the title favorites Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in an exciting encounter, amidst the phenomenal atmosphere of the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, the Super Kings finally captured the trophy after having missed it out on the last two occasions. Chennai Super Kings is the only side to have entered the semi final stage in all the three seasons of the tournament. They were the finalists in the inaugural IPL series where they lost the title to the Rajasthan Royals and ended their IPL-2 campaign with a loss at the hands of the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the semi-finals. For Mumbai Indians, which emerged as the strongest team this year, this was their first taste into the finals of the tournament after their lowly performances in the past two editions. The evening for the grand finale was all set on fire by the scintillating performances by the magical AR Rehman, bollywood diva Bipasha Basu and heartthrob Shahid Kapoor during the closing ceremony preceding the final match. What more was required to set the pulses thumping ahead of an interesting encounter between the teams of the two India’s most favorite cricketers! As the electrifying crowd in the stadium roared for the one and only Sachin, the toss flipped in favour of the Chennai skipper MS Dhoni who elected to bat first with the expectation of setting up a 160-plus total to put pressure on the Mumbai Indians which was already feeling the heat with the injury of their in-form captain Sachin Tendulkar. Though Mumbai put a great bowling attack in the first half of the innings by restricting Chennai to just 58 runs in the first 10 overs, it came out as a smashing performance by the southpaw, Suresh Raina, who smashed … [Read more...]
IPL 2010 Final: Mumbai Vs Chennai
After 58 matches and almost seven weeks, the IPL Final takes place on Sunday and Mumbai Indians have home advantage when they take on the Chennai Super Kings. Mumbai are slight favourites in what has the making of a thriller. Venue and conditions: The DY Patil stadium has a toss bias, in total five matches played there so far four have been won by the side batting first. It is clear the surface wears as a match progresses, making it difficult for batsmen to hit through the line of the ball with confidence. In the first innings, the average run rate is 8.23. In the second it is just 6.9. Trivia: The BCCI's top brass will refuse to attend the final to distance themselves from Lalit Modi, IPL's under-investigation commissioner. Suresh Raina, with 1318 runs to his name, has overtaken Adam Gilchrist as the leading scorer in all IPL matches. Tendulkar is fifth with 1122 runs. He also holds record for most catches, 26, for a non-wicketkeeper. Team news: Mumbai Indians: Mumbai must decide whether they want to gamble for a second time. The decision to pair Lasith Malinga and Dilhara Fernando, instead of one from Dwayne Bravo or Ryan McLaren against Bangalore in the semi-final, was a strange one. Of course, it paid off but in terms of balance it makes little sense. Bravo or McLaren bowl more than useful overs and offer vital runs. Five stitches in Sachin Tendulkars right hand make the Mumbai Indians captain and star performer a doubt for the final. It would be a real blow were Sachin to miss out after his performances with the bat and as skipper guided Mumbai to the final via a largely trouble free passage. They won 10 of 14 games to make the semi finals where they disposed of the Royal Challengers in a … [Read more...]
First IPL Semi-final preview: Mumbai Vs Bangalore
The first semi final in IPL 3 sees the Mumbai Indians take on Royal Challengers Bangalore on Wednesday. The fact these two meet in the semis comes as a surprise to many, who thought they'd only lock horns in the final. Mumbai are favourites after topping the table but any side with Bangalore's batting line-up can't be written off. Venue and Conditions: After 56 games in IPL 3 the eight teams have finally been whittled down to four and now it's time to get serious. The first semi final will see the Royal Challengers Bangalore take on the Mumbai Indians and for the winners the spoils couldn't be higher: a place in the final and also a guaranteed spot in the lucrative Champions League this autumn. Originally this match was scheduled to be played in Bangalore, but given there were two explosions before the last Bangalore home game, it has now been switched. Fortunately for Mumbai the game is now to be played in Mumbai, at the huge Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, where 60,000 Sachin Tendulkar fans will be out in force to cheer on their hero. Only two IPL matches have been played there so far so there are no obvious trends but the wicket does appear to provide assistance to the spinners. Team News: Mumbai Indians: Mumbai rested a number of players for their dead rubber match against Kolkata, so expect to see many changes from that game. Tendulkar, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga and Zaheer Khan will all come back in, while Dwayne Bravo will likely be the most high-profile overseas player to miss out. As recently as last weekend, the Mumbai Indians hammered the Royal Challengers by 57 runs in Bangalore. Mumbai were ruthless on the day as they were already assured of their semi final place. … [Read more...]
IPL 2010 Semi-finalists
Introduction: This year in the Indian Premier League the points table has been different from other years because 7 teams were in contention with only a few matches to go to make the semi finals and only 1 team were not winning too many games. Mumbai was the inform team during this IPL with them having more points than the other teams by a long shot. Deccan had a close finish and somehow found them self at 2nd place at the end of the matches before the finals. Chennai had a close game against the bottom team Punjab to make the finals with some impressive batting. Bangalore played well but during some games they fell apart in there middle order but luckily they won enough games to have a place in the finals. Mumbai Indians: Mumbai were defiantly going to be in first place before the finals as they were leading by a few more points than all the other teams. Mumbai were favourites for this tournament as they had a good auction picking up a highly respected cricketer in the T20 format called Kieron Pollard. There star recruit didn’t show too many of his skills with the bat but later he started getting starts that started entertaining the crowd. They had the talent of course to get them through with Sachin Tendulkar scoring 561 runs also top scoring for the whole IPL. Surprisingly Mumbai’s only batsman in the top 10 highest run scorers before the finals was Tendulkar but Saurabh Tiwary was in 10th place with 367 runs. Recently Pollard has performed with the bat as he was a main pick for Mumbai in the auction but was not batting like what people expected he would at the start of this great tournament. Harbhajan Singh was the pick of the bowlers collecting 15 wickets with the ball in his hand and only conceding … [Read more...]
Preview: Mumbai Indians Vs Royal Challengers
"Two giants of the game - Tendulkar and Kallis - come together when Royal Challengers and the Mumbai Indians meet in Bangalore on Saturday. Venue and Conditions: The first game of the day takes place at the M Chinnaswamy stadium as the Bangalore Royal Chargers host the Mumbai Indians. The average first innings score at the stadium is 166, suggesting that it is not an easy track to score on. However, that average is dragged down by Rajasthan's abysmal tally of just 92 all out earlier in the tournament and Bangalore's reply of 93 without loss in 10.4 overs provided evidence that there are no gremlins in the pitch. Trivia: • Mumbai have suffered the least run-outs in the competition - only four to date in 12 matches. • Kallis has scored ten fifty-plus scores in the IPL (all seasons), Tendulkar is joint-second with eight. • Across all three IPLs, Harbhajan Singh has been the stingiest bowler, conceding an average of 6.41 an over. Anil Kumble is a close third, with 6.52. • Bangalore has been the most boundary-happy venue this year, with 57.66% of the runs scored there coming in boundaries. Only Cuttack has a higher ratio - 59.76%. • Mumbai have been the best batting side in the last six overs, scoring at 11.04 an over. Team News: Bangalore: This is Bangalore's final round robin match and victory will certainly guarantee them a place in the semi-finals. They have made hard work of it so far and they could still miss out though their net run rate makes that unlikely. Seven wins and six defeats puts them level on points with the Daredevils and the Chargers but they are well ahead on run rate and a win here would be a giant stride towards securing second place and a home semi final. They … [Read more...]
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