Yousuf Pathan knocks spoiled the Deccan Chargers day

Hi friends, Good morning and have a nice cool day on a hot summer day... The match 30 in DLF IPL T20 was between the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royal Challengers. This match was one sided because of Yousuf Pathan superb hitting. I felt very happy that a new player is ready to play for India.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and put Deccan chargers to bat first. Gilchrist & Gibbs batted superbly upto 8 overs and score was 60 without loss. The first wicket felt when the score was 61 and after that Deccan chargers could not increase the score. Wickets fell at regular intervals and Gilchrist got out at wrong time. Gilly scored 61 in just 49 balls but remaining batsmen could not score quickly like him. Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Sanjay Bangar and Shahid Afridi got out very cheaply and Deccan Chargers were 105 for 6 in 16.2 overs. Thanks to Venugopal Rao who is very promising player scored a superb knock of 23 in just 11 balls and helped Deccan Chargers to reach a respectable target of 140 in 20 overs. Shane Warne & S Trivedi bowled superbly and took important wickets for their team.

Graeme Smith & Yousuf Pathan opened the innings for Rajasthan Royals and it was Pathan's day. Pathan in the early of his innings offered a simple catch which was not taken by Ravi Teja. After this Pathan hit the ball to all sides of the stadium and he scored 68 in just 37 balls. He was awarded the Man of the Match & DLF Maximum Sixes as well and his total earnings Rs.2,00,000/- in a day. Can anyone earn like him in one day???? Royals won the match easily and reached the target of 141-2 in just 16 overs.

I never understood why Deccan Chargers underused Venugopal Rao who is from my place Vizag. He scores hundreds of runs for Andhra Pradesh team in domestic cricket and played for Indian national squad as well. The Deccan Chargers management is expecting more from Gilchrist, Gibbs & Afridi which is not a good sign. Deccan Chargers performance is not good even if these players are playing and management have to give chances to young players instead of trying Afridi so many times after many failures. Afridi had played a stupid shot to Shane Warne which was the turning point. Afridi just faced one ball and in his second ball he wants to hit Shane Warne out of the park. It is ridiculous bcoz it is not that easy to hit Shane Warne when the ball is spinning. Deccan Chargers should try with Charma Silva who is better batsman then Afridi in my opinion. I hope in the next match Deccan chargers come up with a better strategy. Rajasthan Royals need only one more win to qualify for the Semi Finals and I am sure that Shane Warne lead team is outstanding with new young Indian players and that's all for now folks.

By Madhu Vamsi

Hayden was too hot to handle for Knight Riders

The DLF IPL T20 match 11 was between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders and everyone expect this match as close one. But this match turned out to be one sided and the reason for bad performance of Kolkata Knight Riders said by media that Shahrukh Khan was not present that is why team had played so badly. I would say KKR was over hyped with 2 back to back matches which were played against weak teams.

Bangalore Royal Challengers played the first match with rather weak team and lost the match 1 very badly against KKR. Hyderabad Deccan Chargers was about to win the game against Kolkata Knight Riders but 2 bad overs by Deccan Chargers spoiled the show. Chennai Super Kings outplayed the KKR and it is bullshit that without Shahrukh Khan the team performed played badly. King Khan is neither coach of team nor captain of the team and it is all the rubbish gossips created by media.

M.S.Dhoni led the Chennai Super Kings team very well and proved that he is best captain than Dravid or Ganguly in T20 format. When Chennai Super Kings lost the first wicket of Partiv Patel, Dhoni came in front of Hussey & Raina and blasted the ball to all parts of the ground. But the knock of Mathew Hayden is highlight of the match. He scored 70 runs in just 48 balls and hit 6 fours & 3 huge sixes. I wonder what will happen in future matches when Hayden & Hussey leave to Australia. I hope Dhoni might be having some ideas… Dhoni blasted a quick 43 runs in just 27 balls (3 fours & 2 sixes), what a captains knock, I admire captains who wants to perform and show an example to the team members.

Ganguly (12 runs) had horrible match with Kolkata Knight Riders, nothing went right for him. First of all his form is big concern, he had to yet fire a big knock in the tournament. Ponting (out for zero) is out form and his duck outs are proving very costly for the team. Mc Cullum also could not score a big score and was out for 24 runs. David Hussey was duck out and this proved very costly for Knight Riders. Laxmi Ratan Shukla saved the team with his quick 42 runs in just 33 balls and I would rate his innings as one of the best knocks under pressure. Kolkata Knight Riders somehow managed to reach 147 in 20 overs. Jacob Oram bowled a superb spell and took the key wickets of Mc Cullum, Ricky Ponting & Kartik and won the Man of the match award. But the highlight was the spell bowled by Muttaih Muralidaran and his bowling figures shows 4 overs and gave away 12 runs but no wickets. Chennai Super Stars chased the target successfully in 17 overs and won the match in style…

Coming to the match 12 between Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Jaipur Rajasthan Royals was one sided match. Royal challengers batting failed once again and Rahul Dravid opining the innings is not a good idea in my opinion. Rahul Dravid was out for duck and one stage his team was struggling to post a good competitive score for Rajasthan Royals. Ross Taylor and Praveen Kumar batted superbly and helped the Royal Challengers to reach a score of 135 in 20 overs which was not a good score to defend. Shane Watson opened the bowling for Rajasthan Royals and the first ball of the innings Rahul Dravid got out and Royal Challengers lost the first wicket without score on the board. Shane Watson took the wicket of S Chanderpaul and when he came to bat he just blasted all the bowlers of Bangalore Royal Challengers including Anil Kumble. He was awarded Man of the match which was right choice.

Finally, many of the Australia, New Zealand and West Indies players will leave the DLF IPL because of Australia is touring West Indies but some sources say that ACB (Australian Cricket Board) had given special permission for Australian players who are playing IPL. I feel sorry that new faces are not performing well because many of the players belong to U 19 team which won the ICC World Cup 2008 and these players have no experience in T20 format. I hope with exit of big foreign players from IPL these youngsters will get good chance to perform better. That’s all for now folks….

By Madhu Vamsi……

Mumbai Indians third consecutive win

Hi friends, the match between Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders was very interesting but rain interrupted the match. Kolkata Knight Riders scored 149 for 5 in its 20 overs. Thanks to a wonderful knock by Salman Butt 73 in just 54 balls (10 fours and 1 six) but the top order batsmen of Knight Riders did not score much. Ganguly (2) and Hussey (0) were big flop before the home crowd in Eden Gardens, Kolkata. M Ntini took 4 wickets and bowled a tight line for Super Kings and was awarded with Man of match.

Chennai Super Kings did not lose any wicket and were ahead in run rate according to D/L method. When the play was interrupted by the rain then Super Kings score was 55 for no loss in eight overs. Chennai Super Kings won the match by 3 runs (D/L method).

Another match was played yesterday between Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad. Deccan Chargers won the toss and asked Mumbai Indians to bat first. This match was won by Mumbai Indians by 25 runs and I would blame that Deccan Chargers bowled the last overs very badly and gave away too many runs. Mumbai Indians some how reached the 179 in 20 overs and A Nayar (38 in just 24 balls), Jayasuriya (36 in just 15 balls), Sachin (23 in just 19 balls) and Bravo (30 in just 17 balls) played important knocks.

Deccan Chargers lost the first wicket when the score was just 7 in the second over of the match. Afridi got out for zero and later in the 5th over Gilchrist got out for 13 and then next ball Rohit Sharma was also out. Deccan Chargers were 20-3 in 4.3 overs and Venugopal Rao builds a partnership with Charma Silva but was no use. Deccan chargers lost wickets at regular bases and were not able to reach the target of 180 in 20 overs. Dwayne Bravo was named the Man of the Match. Deccan Chargers are already out of the tournament and Mumbai Indians registered its third consecutive victory. That's all for now friends and will be coming up with more.

By Madhu Vamsi.....

Sanat Jayasuriya helped Mumbai Indians to win

Good morning and yesterday night the match 36 in DLF IPL T20 tournament between Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Stars was outstanding. I am happy to see Sachin back into the team and the Mumbai crowd supported the local team by shouting chants of Sachin!!! Sachin!!! But the show belongs to muscle man Sanath Jayasuriya, when he gets going then the bowlers have no option but to stick to a line close to his half stump. But Chennai Super kings bowlers keep on banging short pitch deliveries and Jayasuriya send those balls in to the stands very people are cheering him.

Sanath Jayasuriya blasted 114 runs in just 49 balls that included 11 sixes and 9 fours. This was the first century from a Sri Lanka player in this IPL and Sanath won 2 awards, one is for hitting maximum sixes and another for the Man of the match. Mumbai Indians reached the target of 156 in just 13.5 overs and Jayasuriya scored the winning run by hitting a straight four. Except Balaji all the remaining bowlers were hammered to all parts of the ground.

Earlier Sachin won the toss and elected to field first and Chennai Super King's openers were struggling to score quickly. Fleming was completely out of form and it is important that he comes into form in the remaining matches. Badrinath (53 in just 33 balls) and captain MS Dhoni (43 in just 35 balls) saved the team and helped the team to reach a fighting total of 156 in its 20 overs.

All the experts predicted that bowlers will get some assistance and it will be difficult target for Mumbai Indians to chase and win. But Jayasuriya played so fluently that who ever see the match live will think that nothing is there in the wicket. But I will salute to Jayasuriya for hitting even the good balls to sixes.

Dhoni made a mistake by not trying Balaji as new bowler and Morkel was not able to control the flow of runs. It is bad luck for Dhoni in this match and I know Super Kings will definitely come back strongly in the next match.

Later during the presentation ceremony, Jayasuriya told to media that he was privileged and delighted to play with Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. He even said, he will not forget this knock ever and Sachin eased pressure which was falling on him in last few matches. Tomorrow match is between Delhi Dare Devils vs Hyderabad Deccan Chargers.

By Madhu Vamsi....

Costlier teams are not performing in DLF IPL

Hi friends, Good afternoon and I have just recovered from viral fever which hunted me for a week. How are u all doing? Sorry for being irregular.

It is strange that costlier teams which are participating in DLF IPL T20 tournament are not performing well. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries had bought the Mumbai Indians paying 111.9 million dollars and Vijay Mallya of the UB group bought the Bangalore Royal Challengers for 111.6 million dollars. The Deccan Chronicle group bought the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers for 107 million dollars.

Coming to performance of the Mumbai Indians, this team is yet to play as a unit and Sachin Tendulkar is also not yet played in this tournament due to groin injury. Harbhajan Singh made mess of his career by slapping Sreesant in front of public but thank god the Mumbai Indians started winning all the matches after the exit of the head strong sardar. Shaun Pollock is leading the team very well and Robin Uttappa, Bravo, Nayar, Nehar are showing consistency in their performance. I hope Sachin makes some difference to this team.

Bangalore Royal Challengers team is sitting at the bottom of the table and Rahul Dravid is struggling to make the team play like a unit. Vijay Mallya recently removed the CEO of the team and appointed new one and even planning to remove the coach of the team. But the real problem is that this team has too many test playing players. They are J Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, S Chanderpaul & the list goes on. The above said players are not known for big hitting. I hope this team plays remaining matches with some competitive spirit.

The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers is another team which is struggling to win the game under pressure. Deccan Chargers have too many big hitters in the team but nobody is in the form and the bench strength of this team is underused by the team management. The team management is expecting too much from Adam Gilchrist, H Gibbs, S Afridi & Scott Styris and ignoring players like Charma Silva. Andrew Symonds left the team because he needs to represent for his national squad and Laxman had a hairline fracture on his wrist made the team even weaker. Rohit Sharma, Laxman, Symonds & Adam Gilchrist are showing some consistency in batting but remain players are yet to show their skills. I hope Deccan Chargers show some consistency and win the remaining matches.

So finally, the costlier teams are not playing up to their potentiality and for how many days franchises will keep the liability players in the team are a big question mark. In my next post, I will write about the other teams in IPL until then take care and bye.

By Madhu Vamsi........