Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 32: Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Deccan Chargers"

Hi and Welcome to the 32nd Match of the IPL 2011 season between Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Deccan Chargers. Deccan Chargers are going into this match after their heavy loss to Mumbai Indians and Kochi Tuskers Kerala are coming out to their loss to Chennai super kings. Lets see who will win this battle of bottoms.

Kochi Tuskers kerala won the toss and opted to bowl first. Deccan Chargers Opened with S Sohal and S Dhawan, Kochi Tuskers Kerala opened with RP Singh and S Sreesanth. Hyderabad Deccan Chargers had a disastrous start to the match when they last their top 3 batsmen with just 20 on the board in the 6th over. RP Singh taking two of those wickets and R Vinay Kumar the other. KC Sangakkara and CL White then cautiously started the repair. KC Sangakkara was more aggresive between the two and scored an odd boundary each over and took out the pressure on CL White. Once set both lauched the attack and added another 90 runs in 10 overs. Both where out in consecutive delivers to R Vinay kumar and in the process Hyderabad deccan chargers made a respectable and defendable total on a seamer friend pitch. Hyderabad Deccan Chargers made 129/7 of their allotted 20 overs. For Hyderabad Deccan Chargers KC Sangakkara scored a gritty 65 and CL White scored a strong 31, for Kochi Tuskers Kerala R vinay kumar took 3 and RP Singh took 2 wickets respectively.

In reply kochi tuskers kerala had a very very bad start, it was even more disastrous than Hyderabad deccan chargers. They lost their 6 wickets for 11 runs in 4 overs. Ishant Sharma and DW Steyn where the main distroyers. Ishant Sharma took 5 wickets of those and DW Steyn starting it all with the first wicket. Kochi tuskers kerala didnt recover from the horror start and where bowled for just 74 in less than 17 overs. Hyderabad Deccan Chargers won by 55 runs. For Kochi tuskers kerala RA Jadeja scored 23 and NLTC Perera 22, for Hyderabad Deccan chargers Ishant Sharma took 5 and Dale Steyn 3 wickets respectively.


Man of the Match is Ishant Sharma for his 5 wickets

Score : Deccan Chargers 129 for 7 (KC Sangakkara 65, CL White 31, R Vinay Kumar 3/27, RP Singh 2/21) beat Kochi Tuskers 74 (RA Jadeja 23, NLTC Perera 22, Ishant sharma 5/12, Dale Steyn 3/16) by 55 runs

Cricket: "IPL 2011 Match No 2: Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals "

Welcome to the second match of the IPL 2011 season between Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals. First game for Deccan chargers and Rajasthan royals in IPL 2011 Season. Deccan chargers is completely new where was rajasthan has retained few of their players. Lets see how they started their IPL 2011 Campaign.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and opted to field first. For Deccan Chargers S Dhawan and Jaggi opened the batting. Deccan chargers had a great start when there were 40 without any loss in less than 5 overs. Once Dhawan was out to A Singh Deccan Chargers kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. Rajasthan royals Trivedi and warne bowled brilliantly in the middle overs to restrict Deccan chargers run flow. Deccan Chargers Ravi teja and Christian late hitting brought some respectability to Deccan chargers total. Deccan Chargers made 137 for 8 of their allotted 20 overs. For Deccan chargers Ravi Teja, Jaggi, Christian and S Dhawan made crucial 20's and for Rajasthan Royals SK Trivedi and A singh took three wickets each.

Rajasthan Royals started their chase rather cautiously. Rajasthan royals openers Dravid and Paunikar started slowly but steadily. They puton 30 runs in the 5 overs. Paunikar was caught behind by an exceptional delivery from steyn. Number 3 slot for Rajasthan Royals was a surprise to every one, when J Botha came out to bat. Dravid played second fiddle and botha played his shots to perfection and marched Rajasthan royals to victory. Just when everything was smooth dravid was out to a beauty from steyn and Taylor came in and finish the formalities of victory wit two thunderous hits out of ground. In the end Rajasthan royals won convincingly with 8 wickets. For Rajasthan Royals J Botha Scored 67 notout and for Deccan chargers steyn took 2 wickets.


Man of the match is SK Trivedi for his spell of 3 for 15

Score: Rajasthan Royals 141 for 2 (Botha 67*, Dravid 28, Steyn 2-18) beat Deccan Chargers 137 for 8 (Ravi Teja 28, Christian 26, Trivedi 3/15, A Singh 3/35)

Cricket: "Steyn's Drug Results had High levels of morphine"

The Indian Premier League have asked South African international fast bowler Dale Steyn to explain high levels of morphine found in a drugs test. The sample was taken while the 26-year-old was playing for the Bangalore Royal Challengers in this year's competition.

South Africa team doctor Mohammad Moosajee believes painkillers taken for migraines are behind Steyn's result. "This is an adverse analytical finding and that is totally different from a doping violation," said Moosajee.

Steyn has replied to an enquiry into his results from the IPL's doping authorities and Cricket South Africa are now following up the case with their Indian counterparts. "Since last summer Dale has been laid low by chronic migraines and has been taking a codeine painkiller called Myprodol," added Moosajee.

"The normal level of morphine is one microgram (per ml), Dale was at around 1.1 to 1.3. "Because he was slightly above the level, they wanted to know why. A letter has been written to the IPL and we are awaiting the reply."

Steyn, who has previously played for Essex and Warwickshire, was keeping a written record of the medication he was taking and Moosajee believes that a difference in the branding of Myprodol between India and South Africa may have contributed to his abnormal results.