Rehmat's Cricket Blog: June 2009

June 24, 2009

Cricket: "India Review at ICC World Twenty20 Cup"

India the Defending Champions are ranked 1. They were defending their title in the Second World Twnety20 cup. Lets see how they fared at the recently concluded ICC World Twenty20 Cup.

Warm Up's:
India started their campaing against NewZealand in a warmup match and they lost it. Inspite of their loss they gave a good fight till the end and had a good warm up match. Their second warm up match was with the runnerup of the previous ICC World Twenty20 cup, Pakistan. Truely speaking the match was not less than a final of any Tournment. India won the match quite convincingly but the environment and the attendance fot the match was incredible. Initially in the match Pakistan was blazing away with super shots but india came back strongly and have beaten them easily. India maitained their record in world cup of not loosing to Pakistan in any world cup. India emerged as a stronger side and after their perfect warmups they looked as if they are perfectly up for the tasks to come.

Initial Round:
India was in a easy compared to other groups. India was with Bangladesh and Ireland in Group A. It played first with Bangladesh and defeated them easily and then went on to crush Ireland and easily went into the super eights. Other teams like Australia, westindies and Srilanka were in a group of death, where they had to sweat out to reach super eight india had the luxury of qualifying to super eight quite effortlessly.

Super Eight's:
India faced first with WestIndies in Super Eights. West indies were on a high after ousting Australia out of the ICC World Twenty20 Cup and coming into the super eights stage. India lost to westindies easily. Bravo was the allround star for westindies with both ball and bat. First he took 4 wickets to limit the total of india and when West indies were struggling at one point he came and just blasted Indians bowlers to all parts of the ground and gave them the initial lead in the super eight stage. Then india faced england in the second Super eight match. India had to defeat england to stay alive in the tournment and they tried all their strenght but went down fighting and lost the match and lost the chances of making it to the semifinals. With this loss the defending champions were out of the tournment. Last match they played in super eight stage was against South Africa. South Africa were undefeated in the tournment and india has to salvage some pride by defeating them. India bowled well with their spinner coming to party but they coudnt repeat the same with the bat and lost the match easily to charged up southafricans.

This was the flop show from indians, who showed their authority with minnows but coudnt show the same with the other strong teams and lost all their matches with them.

June 23, 2009

Cricket: "Pakistan are the ICC Twenty20 World Champions"

Pakistan are the ICC Twenty20 World Champions. After they were denied first time, they came back strongly and defeated Srilanka in a rather easy win and took the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Now they will be called the Defending Champions.

The only team which they lost was India. It was a practise match but not less than any war. Pakistan looked weak in the beginning of the tournment and looked as if they will loose to Ireland as well. Once they got the right combination and perfect game plan they cruised towards the title and grabed it. They rightly selected the openers in the form of Kamran Akmal and Hasan, both were destructive at times and everytime they came out they gave a dream start to Pakistan. Afridi remoulding has perhaps one of the excellent gift which pakistan was gifted and it proved a greak blessing for them to win ICC Twenty20 World Cup. Till the semifinal his bowling was lot talked about and then in SemiFinal and Final apart from taking wickets he scored 50's in each innings and won Man of the Match awards in both the games. He provided the allrounder role perfectly for pakistan. Coming to the death bowling, how can we forget the Umar gul, the reverse swing specialist. His death bowling was lethal for pakistan in every game. Especially against New Zealand against whom he took 5 for 6 best figures till date in International Twnety20 cricket, he was divastating. In every match he used to come in 13th over and continued till the end of the innings. His role was set strategically and he executed it perfectly.

Pakistan main strength were the Game Plan and the roles assigned to each individuals. More over the perfect implimentation of each individual made them win as a team. Congrats once again for the new Twnety20 Champions. Next ICC Twenty20 World Cup is due in nine months time, lets see how it goes.

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 Final SriLanks Vs Pakistan"

We are into the final game of the Fasinating ICC World Twnety20 World Cup. Its the final between last time finalist Pakistan and Sri Lanks who are yet to be defeated in this tournment.

Srilanka won the toss and elected to bat first. Srilanka had a disastrous start to the ICC World Twnety20 final match. Consistant Opening Batsmen Dilshan was out for a duck in the very first over and Mubarak, who are promoted up the order soon followed in the next over. Srilanka were already into the trouble loosing two wickets in the first two overs. Sangakkara and Jayasuriya tried to repair the damage but Jayasuriya was out trying to increase the run rate ans soon wickets started tumbling at regular intervals. Pakistan spin attack was dangerously spinning the match in pakistan's favour. At one point Srilanka were 6 for 70 from 13 overs and were neck deep in trouble. But Sangakkara made sure that they reached a competitive total and scored a brilliant fifty and had a counter attacking partnership of 68 from 7 overs with Mathews. Sangakkara truely played a captains innings and bailed his team out of humiliation by helping them score a challenging total. Sangakkara scored 64 and he was not out till end with Mathews who scored 35 and helped Srilanka scored a reasonable total. For Pakistan Razzaq took 3 wickets.

Is the total of 138 defendable? srilanka has a good pace attack with Malinga and new kid Mathews in their stand and not to forget the deadly combo of Murali and Mendis in their side. Can the Pakistani's chase this target? they have a new afridi, akmal younus and shoaib malik in their side. lets see how the chase went and who won the most prestigious ICC World Twnety20 Cup.

Pakistan had a great start to their chase when they were 48 for no loss in the first 7 overs. Jayasuriya was introduced in the 8th over and he produced the first breakthrough for Srilanka when Sangakkara Stumped Akmal. Akmal played brilliantly for his 37 and soon Hasan followed him when he was out caught of Muralitharan. That had bring Afridi and Shoaib Malik to the crease. Initially they played very cautiously and were limited to only singles. But once the runrate was increasing, boundaries were hard to come by so both of them cleverly converted ones to twos and kept the score board ticking and made sure that runrate never went high. Once everything was under control and had wickets in their hand, Afridi blasted the bowlers and romped home comfortably with 8 wickets in hand. Afridi scored a brilliant 50 second time in a row. dont forget his majestic 50 in semifinal. Afridi was unconquered on 54 and shoaib was with him till the end with 24. For Srilanks Muralitharan and Jayasuriya took a wicket a piece.

Pakistan are the World Twnety20 Champions.

Afridi was adjudged Man of the Finals and TM Dilshan was adjudged Man of the Series.

Scored board:

Srilanka Innings:

Name		Runs
TM Dilshan	C Hasan B Aamer	0
ST Jayasuriya	B Abdul Razzaq	17
J Mubarak	C Hasan B Razzaq	0
KC Sangakkara	Not Out	64
DPMD Jayawardene	C Misbah B Razzaq	1
LPC Silva	C Ajmal B Gul	14
I Udana	B Shahid Afridi	1
AD Mathews	Not Out	35

Bowling:

Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
Mohammad Aamer	4	1	30	1
Abdul Razzaq	3	0	20	3
Shahid Afridi	4	0	20	1
Saeed Ajmal	4	0	28	0
Shoaib Malik	1	0	8	0
Umar Gul	4	0	29	1

Pakistan Innings:

Name		Runs
Kamran Akmal	St Sangakkara B Jayasuriya	37
Shahzaid Hasan	C Jayasuriya B Muralitharan	19
Shahid Afridi	Not Out	54
Shoaib Malik	Not Out	24

Bowling:

Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
AD Mathews	2	0	17	0
I Udana	4	0	44	0
SL Malinga	3.4	0	14	0
M Muralitharan	3	0	20	1
BAW Mendis	4	0	34	0
ST Jayasuriya	2	0	8	1

June 18, 2009

Cricket: "ICC World T20 Semifinal Two Srilanka Vs WestIndies"

Welcome to the exciting second semifinal between Srilanka and WestIndies. Yet to be defeated in the Tournment Srilanka will take on the Strong West Indies in an exciting Semi Final clas in ICC World T20 Semifinal.

West Indies won the toss and elected to field first. Inspite of Jayasuriya Struggling Srilanka had a great start to this second semifinal of ICC World T20. They were 72 without any loss at the half way mark. Dilshan was in prime form and it showed on the field when he did the bulk of scoring in the opening partnership and continued till the end. But the other once Jayasuriya was out for his scrachy innings of 24 no other srilankan batsmen stayed at the crease for a long time. Wickets tumbled at regular intervals but Dilshan made sure that Srilanka reached a fighting total of 158 of their 20 overs. Dilshan was unconquered till the end with 96 from 57 balls and for West Indies Bravo took two crucial wickets.

It was a chaseable target, in lieu of the long batting line up of West Indies heading with Gayle. Srilanka bowling has also the reputation of defending any target. Lets see who did what and most importantly who won the match.

West Indies had a horrible start of the tournment when their three main batsmen were back in the pavilion with just one run on the board. Interestingly all the three were clean bowled and the super bowler was Mathews. Still West Indies has hopes of chasing the target since Gayle was still at the crease and proving very destructive. Gayle was scoring runs at one end and West Indies kept loosing wickets at other end. They coudnt come out the first over debacle and when spin was introduced they just surrendered themselves and were allout for a below par 101. Such was the first over effect that except Gayle no other West Indian batsmen coudnt score a double figure. Gayle carried his bat through the innings and scored a brilliant 63 of 50 balls and for Srilanka Mathews and Muralitharan took 3 wickets a piece. Dilshan was adjudged Man of the Match for his Super innings of 96 not out.

With this win Srilanka have reched finals for the very first time. Mind you Srilanka are yet to be defeated in this tournment. Will Pakistan do it? lets see what happens in the final.

Congrats!!! to Srilanka for their great victory and All the best for their final match against Pakistan.

Cricket: "ICC World T20 SemiFinal One SoutAfrica Vs Pakistan"

After all the preliminary matches and super eight matches the semi finalist have been selected and the first semi final is between still to be defeated South Africa with engergized Pakistan team. Both teams have batsmen as well as bowlers are match winner in their team. But the Momentum is surely with South Africa who are still to be defeated in this tournment.

Its a very crucial match for pakistan after they were out for a long in world stage. If they win they will prove a point to the world. Nevertheless match is poised to be exited one. Lets see how the teams will fare. Since its a knockout stage, pakistan has a little edge since south africans have fared really bad in their knockout stages. But south africa have to prove a point by winning this match and have eradicate the tag of chokers attached to them.

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan lost hasan in the very second over. to everyone's surprise Afridi walked in at no 3. Afridi played sensibly and he was not the old afridi who would go after every ball. Kamran akmal played his part and scored a quick fire 23. Shoaib malik joined Afridi and they played good cricket by not going for the big shots, instead they took twos and ones and a boundary of each over. They were playing a risk free innings until shoaib malik tried to clear boundary and was caught of van der merwe. South african bowlers were excellent in the death bowling as they restricted pakistan under 150. Later younis khan and abdul razzaq made sure that pakistan reached a respectable score of 149 of their 20 overs. For pakistan afridi scored 51 of 34 balls with 8 fours and for South Africa Steyn, Parnell, Duminy and vander merwe took a wicket a piece.

South Africa has a strong start in the first 5 overs. Both their openers were looking solid until spin was introduced. Once spin was introduced South African batsmen had no clue what they were upto and kept loosing wickets. Kallis stood firm at one end and other end South Africa kept loosing wickets. Kallis played brilliantly and kept the hopes alive with Duminy who was giving a perfect support to Kallis. But once kallis was out so were the hopes of South Africa as they lost the match by 7 runs. For South Africa Kallis scored a solid 64 and Duminy was unconquered on 44 and for pakistan took wickets to add to his 51 earlier. He rightly derserved the man of the match award.

So Pakistan marched into the finals once again, second time in a row they have reached the finals and are poised to win the title as well. Lets see who will join them in the finals and who will win the finals.

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 Cup 2009 Semi Finals"

Four teams have qualified to the semifinals. They are South Africa, Pakisthan, Srilanka and WestIndies. South Africa and Srilanka are undefeated in this tournment yet. Where as WestIndies and Pakistan had to struggle to reach Semifinals.

On 18th June South Africa will take on Pakistan. It will be a facinating match which starts 10 pm India time (IST). Inspite of being undefeated South African's should be wary of the Pakistan side, which is getting stronger day by day. Pakistan batting has improved as the tournment progressed, there bowling with the backing of Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal is highly rated. Where as Southafrica has perfect pace and spin attack which will jolt any apposition. For pace they have steyn, parnell and steyn brothers. For spin they have Vander marwe and Botha, they have proved deadly in this tournment. These two teams looks good and it will be a good fight never the less. Wishing South Africa and Pakistan all the very best for their First Semi-Final match.

On 19th June West Indies will take on Srilanka. It will be surely a tight contest between West Indies and Srilanka. Srilankan's are on a high after being undefeated in the tournment and West Indies are on high after winning their last two matches to reach Semifinals. Both teams have good hitters and perfect timers. Coming to bowling department srilanka has a slight upper hand compared to West Indies. Srilanka has deadly Mendis and powerful Murali and dont forget the yorker king Malinga. WestIndies bowling has been week throughout the tournment but their batsmen have come to theri rescue. Since this is a knockout stage they should be wary of their weekness and plan accordingly. Srilanka have a slight upper hand going into the second semifinal.

My Prediction:
Ist Semi-Final: SouthAfrica will win
2nd Semi-Final: Srilanka will win

These are just my assumptions the actual winners will let you know as and when the matches complete.

June 17, 2009

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 cup 2009 India Vs South Africa"

After loosing both their matches india are already out of the tournment. Needs to see how they fare against a already semifinalist southafrica. SouthAfrica is on a high after defeating england and westindies quite convincingly. It will require a very good performance from india to win this match. Lets see how they fared.

First time in this tournment india lost the toss and were asked to field first. India started well by removing Gibbs in the second over. Then deVilliers and smith consolidated and moved the score board. When the spin attack was launched South Africa were out of sorts and kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. deVilliers kept his cool and held on to one end while South Africa was loosing wickets at other end. India came back into the game with their spin bowlers, even the part time spinners were giving a torrid time for South Africa batsmen. South Africa managed a below par total of 130 of their 20 overs. deVilliers top scored with 63 of 51 balls with 7 fours and for India Raina, Harbhajan, Jadeja, RP Singh and Zaheer took a wicket a piece.

This is a total which is easily chaseable. Lets see what india do after failing in their earlier encounters.

India started well with 48 runs in the first 6 overs. This start was enough for india to take home confortably. But once the spin was introduced in the 7 over india too kept loosin wickets. Can you believe that, the greatest palyers against spin were just loosing wickets for the same spin. Inspite of a late surge from Yuvraj and Harbhajan singh, india fell short by 12 runs. It was really a dissapointing show from indians after loosing their earlier two Super Eight matches. They were in a very comfortable position and lost the match by 12 runs. For india sharma scored 29 and Yuvraj scored 25 and for South Africa Botha and Steyn took 3 and 2 wickets respectively.

It was a pathetic performance by india, if they had won a match here they would have salvaged some pride. So this was the tale of indians at the second edition of the ICC World Twenty20 World cup.

June 15, 2009

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 cup 2009 India Vs England"

India Will face England in their Second Super eight Match in ICC World Twenty20 Cup 2009. After loosing to WestIndies india have to win this match against England to keep their hopes alive in this tournment. If they loose England or westindies will have a outright chance of making it to the semifinals. Since southafrica have already qualified for semifinals. So this is a do or die situation for india.

Fourth time in a row Dhoni won the toss and elected to field first. Inspite of loosing the wicket of Luke Wright england made a reasonable start to their innings. Once the spinners were introduced runs were very hard to come by and England kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. But with the help of Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen and Mascarenhas england made a very good yet defendable total of 153 in their 20 overs. For England Pietersen scored a quick fire 46, Bopara played a responsible 37 and late florish of 25 from Mascarenhas. For india Harbhajan took 3 and Jadeja 2 respectively.

Score of 153 is a decent total and hard to chase. But india has no other way other then to chase this total to stay alive in this tournment. Lets see how they fared in this do or die situation.

India didnt learn from their earlier mistakes and again toporder failed to strike. Wit just 24 on the board india lost Rohit sharma and Raina in quick succession. Jadega was promoted up the order, but he coudnt do any anything other than wasting the balls and creating more pressure on the players to come. They lost 3 quick wickets in the form of jadeja,Gambhir and Yuvraj. It was left to Dhoni and Yousuf Pathan to finish off the game. They tried their level best but fell short by 4 runs thus giving England a 3 run victory. For india Dhoni scored 30 and Pathan Scored 33 and both were notout till end. For England Sidebottom and Swann took 2 wickets a piece.

Side Bottom was adjudged Man of the Match for his Superb bowling during death overs.

With this loss india was knocked out of the tournment by england and they fancy their chances of heading to the semifinals. They will meet WestIndies tomorrow to decide who will go to semifinals. But for india they are already ont and will have to play Southafrica for pride. It was a very poor show from the defending champions and they have to blame for thier show.

June 14, 2009

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 Cup 2009 India Vs WestIndies"

After defeating Bangladesh and Ireland in the first round, india will be facing a stronger side in the form of WestIndies in their first SuperEight Match. India defeated ireland easily but they were not in best of forms, there form will be tested with wesindies today. Lets see how they fared in this crucial match.

Third time in a row Dhoni won the toss and tactically choosed to bat first. India's top order was exposed first time in ICC World Twenty20 Cup. With just 29 on board three of them already in the pavilion. Dhoni and Yuvraj studied the innings before Dhon was out for 11 of 23 balls. Yousuf pathan and Yuvraj came to indias rescue and scored runs at a grisk rate and helped india reach 153 for 7 of their 20 overs. For India Yuvraj Scored 67 and Yousuf Pathn scored 31. For WestIndies Bravo took 4 wickets and Edwards 3 wickets.

India's score of 153 was a decent total and was defendable. How did westindies approached the target and how india tried to defend the target let us see now.

West Indies had a horrible start when they lost Fletcher early. Gayle was also out of sorts and was playing a rather cautiously innings. He holed out to Zaheer of the bowling of Yousuf pathan. Gayles wicket gave a lot of confidence for india, but fall of gayles wicket had bring Bravo to the crease. Bravo started the counter attack with Simmons who had already spend some time in the middle and was well set. These two were just hitting the ball all parts of the ground. Ojha took the wicket of Simmons in 15th over. Still with Chanderpaul and Bravo cruising, there was no stopping for westindies from winning this match. WestIndies overcame the target with 8 balls to spare and 7 wickets in hand. Bravo top scored with 66 and simmons made a gritty 44. For india Pathan brothers and Ojha took a wicket each.

Man of the Match was awarded to Bravo for his Allround performance.

India faced a strong side in ICC World Twenty20 cup for the first time and they were out of sorts and went down tamely. Will they continue the same in other two matches or will learn from their mistakes and try to rectify their mistakes. Lets see and hope for the best.

Cricket: "ICC World Twnety20 Cup India Vs Ireland"

After defeating Bangladesh in the inaugural match india had to face Ireland. Ireland were on a high after defeating Bangladesh in their first match for which they have qualified to the super eights. Which means Ireland will play with three strong teams. India might have got a lesson from that match and will not be taking the Ireland team for granted. Because of rain the match was reduced to 18 overs a side.

India won the toss and elected to field first. As india planned for this match beforehand they stuck to their game plan and executed it beautifully. Zaheer too came to the party and proved his fitness with four wickets. Put into bat Ireland started their innings rather disastrously when they lost their openers with just 9 on the board. Zaheer was the bowler on both the occassions. They kept loosing wickets at regular intervals, apart from a late flourish from white who scored 29 from 25 balls no other Ireland batsmen scored a reasonable score. They tamely surrendered and scored a below par 112 of their 18 overs. Zaheer took 4 for 19 of his three overs and Ojha took 2 for 18 of his four overs. For Ireland White scored 29.

India started their chase slowly but steadily. They reached the target in less than 16 overs and with just 2 casualities. Gambhir scored a elegant 37 with 3 fours and 1 six Sharma scored a perfect 52 with 4 fours and 1 six. For Ireland west and McCallan took one wicket a piece. So that a easy first round outing for india in their ICC World Twenty20 Cup. Hope they continue the same winning form in the matches to come. Zaheer was adjudged the Man of the Match for his superb bowling.

India will face westindies who are on a high after defeating australia in their first match.

Cricket: "ICC World Twenty20 Cup India Vs Bangladesh"

India are on a high after defeating pakistan in the last practise match. They faced Bangladesh in their first match of the preliminary round. Luckily for india they were in a easy group compared to other three groups. India's group consisted of Bangladesh and Ireland. But you cant underestimate bangladesh as they are the one who defeated us and made us to exit the 2007 world cup in initial stages it self. In their first match in ICC world Twnety20 they are playing with India after narrowly missed the target versus Australia.

India won the toss and choose to bat first. They started of well with both Rohit Sharma (who is opening instead of sehwag) and Gautham Gambhir blasting the Bangladeshi bowlers. They layed a good foundation when they scored 59 of first 7 overs. Rohit sharma was out trying to up the runrate. Dhoni came and played a scrachy innings. It was yuvraj who played a gem of an innings and took india to a strong total. He had hit Naeem Islam for 3 sixes in a single over, before which naeem islam was dagerously getting bangladesh back into the game with his two wickets. Other chipped accordingly and India scored 180 of their 20 overs. Gautham scored 50 and Yuvraj scored a quick fire 41. For Bangladesh Naeem Islam took 2 for 32 of his 3 overs.

Bangladesh batsmen started off well but their inexperience in handling the situation did them in. Bangladesh openers Tamim and Junaid started off well but kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. Junaid played superbly for his 41 with 3 sixes, if he had continued in the same fashion Bangladesh would have forced an upset. Bangladesh sccumbed to spinners. Ojha took 4 for 21 of his 4 overs and ishanth taking 2 for 34 of his 4 overs. For Bangladesh Junaid scored a perfect 41. Bangladesh scored 155 loosing the match by 25 runs. Ojha was adjudged man of the match for his superb bowling.

It was indeed a easy win for india, but the zeal wasnt there in the indian camp. Whether it was the IPL schedule or fatigue i am not sure, but the intensity wasnt there in the match. Hope they pick up the momentum as the series progresses.

So it was a good start for india in ICC World Twenty20 cup.

June 9, 2009

Cricket: "ICC world Twenty20 world cup India start its campaign with a bang"

Not even few weeks have gone by and we haven't come out of the IPL hangover we are already into another visual treat. Hi friends lets welcome ICC world twenty20 world cup. As you all know INDIA is the defending champion and are looking certainly so again for the second time in a row.

India played its practise match with Newzealand, though lost it fared reasonably well. Mind you they had just come to England and haven't adjusted to the environment yet. You might be thinking how i am sure about it. If you see the second practise match against Pakistan you can see the authority of the defending champions in that match. They had defeated Pakistan quite convincingly and showed that they have adapted to the circumstances well bu then.

Losing to Newzealand is a blessing in disguise, last time around when India played ICC twenty20 world cup they lost to only New Zealand and won the cup. So this time around its like a great start losing to New Zealand, don't you agree? you better agree.

Coming to Practise match with Pakistan, it wasnt like a practise match it was like a final or not less than a semi-final match. India maintained the world cup record of not loosing to Pakistan even once. Initially Pakistan were blasting away to corners of the park until ishant was introduced. He dried up the runs for which resulted in a run out and wickets in last ball. Then on Pakistan kept loosing wickets but posted a respectful total for chase. India started cautiously then rohit sharma showed why he is opted when sehwag is rested and blasted Pakistan bowlers and had a very good match practise. Gambhir at other end gave a solid support by rotating the strike and scoring runs when needed. India just loosed one wicket and scored the runs rather easily. It was indeed a fantastic match practise for India after loosing to newzealand in their earlier match practise. This win should give India lot of confidence going into the world cup as defending champions.

Any ways "All The Best for our Indian Team".

June 8, 2009

Cricket: "2009 IPL Hyderabad Deccan Chargers are the champs"

Can you believe it, Hyderabad Deccan Chargers who were last in the table last edition of IPL are indeed the champions of the second edition of IPL 2009. Its really incredible and kudos to the victorious Hyderabad Deccan Chargers who showed great character, strength and unity.

They started their campaign with a bang when they won 4 continuous matches in a row and topped the table for a while. In middle of the campaing they stumbled but again boosted thier spitits when ever they required to do so. They managed to be in the top four of the table after all the premilinary matches and made their way for their first semi final in IPL.

It was Captain Gilchrist all the way in semifinals, delhi gave a reasonable target for Hyderabad to chase. But delhi were blown away by the Gilchrist tsunami and they lost as if they were not deserved to be in semis. Gilchrist blasted the delhi bowlers and gave a superb start for which hyderabad were into the finals.

Finals saw two underdogs Deccan chargers hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. These were the teams who finished last in the first edition of IPL. It was really fantastic match with both the captains showing why they are into finals. It was a close match with all the thrills to be called finals. Bangalore were unlucky to lose the match, but Deccan should be credited for holding on their nerves and winning the second edition of the IPL 2009.

Congratulations to Hyderabad Deccan Charges for their Glorious win and winning the Second Edition of IPL 2009.

Cricket: "IPL 2009 Final: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Deccan Chargers"

Final: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers proved too good for Royal Challengers Bangalore when it mattered the most. Deccan Chargers won the second edition of IPL. They defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 runs and held their nerves to win a tense finish at Wanderers stadium, Johannesburg.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field first. To defend their call, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Anil Kumble deceived Gilchrist and bowled him of the third ball of the first over to give Royal Challengers Bangalore a terrific start. Suman soon was showed the way for pavilion when he was out trying to hook vinay kumar and was safely taken by Manish Panday after a slight confusion. Other end Gibbs was playing a rather controlled innings and made sure that wickets are intact at one end. Fall of Suman had bring Symonds to the crease. Symonds started blasting the Royal Challengers Bangalore and was almost single handedly carry the counter attack. Kumble brought himself back and immediately took the wicket of symonds to check the run flow. Rohit sharma with Gibbs made sure that Hyderabad Deccan Chargers reached a safe score and later Hyderabad Deccan Chargers kept loosing wickets and made 143 for 6 of their stipulated 20 overs. For hyderabad Gibbs played a sensible innings and scored 53 of 48 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. For bangalore Kumble had a terrific outing with 4 for 16 of 4 overs and Vinay kumar took 2 for 30 of 4 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore started their campaign quite cautiously and were 20 for no loss in 3 overs. In fourth over RP Singh showed his class and bowled Kallis for 15. Soon Pandey followed kallis trying to up the runrate and edging a ball from Ojha to Gilchrist. Van der merwe played a good cameo in the middle with three huge sixes but still coudnt contain the raise of runrate and flow of wickets. Wickets kept falling, apart frol taylor and Van der merwe no one could score a reasonable score. Taylor scored quick fire 27 from 20 balls with 3 fours and 1 six where as Van der merwe scored 32 of 21 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes. All was dependend on Uthappa to see Bangalore home, but RP Singh made sure that Deccan were safely home and won the Second edition of the IPL 2009. It was indeed a tense filled final which came to the last ball and Hyderabad Deccan Chargers were the deserved champions to win the Second edtion of the IPL 2009. Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 137 for 9 of their 20 overs and lost the match by 6 runs. For Hyderabad Deccan Chargers Ojha took 3 wickets and Symonds and Harmeet took 2 wickets a piece.

Man of the Match was awarded to Anil Kumble for his 4 for 16 of 4 overs.

Man of the Series was awarded to Adam Gilchrist for his Superb batting through out the series and dont forget his apt keeping and cool captaincy. He was a truely allrounder and much deserved to honour with this award.

Scores: Deccan Chargers 143 for 6 (Gibbs 53*, Kumble 4-16) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 137 for 9 (Ojha 3-28, Symonds 2-18) by six runs

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