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 11: Deccan Chargers v Royal Challengers Bangalore"

Hi and Welcome to 11th Match of IPL 2011 season between Hyderabad Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Hyderabad Deccan Chargers are yet to gel with the new players and Royal Challengers Bangalore working hard to maintain their winning streak. Lets see who will make a move with the momentum.

Royal challengers Bangalore won the toss and opted to bowl first. For Deccan Chargers S Sohal and S Dhawan opened the batting, for Royal Challengers Bangalore Zaheer Khan opened the bowling. Zaheer Khan gave a good start to Royal challengers Bangalore when he got rid of S Dhawan for 11 with just 20 on the board. KC Sangakkara and S Sohal then build Deccan charger score. S Sohal and KC Sangakkara made crucial 30's and after both of them were back to the pavilion B chipli and JP Duminy made sure that the momentum is not lost and scored runs at will. B Chpli impressed one and all with his 61. Deccan Chargers made a impressive 175 for 5 of their 20 overs. For deccan chargers B Chipli scored 61* and S Sohal 38, for Royal challengers Bangalore Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets.

In reply royal challengers opened the batting with MA Agarwal and TM Dilshan, for Deccan Chargers DW Steyn opened the bowling. DW Steyn and I Sharma both bowled beautifully and gave Deccan Chargers the start which they were looking for with three wickets and just 27 on the board in 5 overs. Royal challengers bangalore kept loosing wickets at regular intervals. V Kohli who was retained by Royal challengers bangalore never gave up and scored runs at one end inspite of the wickets falling at another end. CA Pujara gave a little support and raised hopes of a come back but re-introduction of Steyn cleared the hope and Deccan chargers where home with 33 runs. For royal Challengers Bangalore V Kohli scored 71 and CA Pujara scored 25, for Deccan Chargers DW Steyn and MS Gony took three wickets each.



Man of the Match is DW Steyn for his spell of 3/24

Score : Deccan Chargers 175 for 5 (B Chipli 61*, S Sohal 38, Zaheer Khan 3/32) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 142 for 9 (V Kohli 71, CA Pujara 25, DW Steyn 3/24, MS Gony 3/31) by 33 runs

Cricket: Wounded Laxman steers india to one wicket win

India Vs Australia First Test

I am writing this at 01:41 PM CST, watching the final day session two after lunch. Where india need 54 runs and Johnson is bowling to ishant.

After a long time india is looking beyound Srilanka. Yeah there is a surprise for you, India is going to play Australia their favourite opponents. Lately India Vs Australia series has been one of the toughest and closest.

First test started with the same promise. As usual Dhoni lost the toss and Ponting choose to bat first. India's bowling was spearheaded by Zaheer, others to assist him where Ishant, Harbhajan and Ojha. Zaheer got rid of Katich early, but ponting and watson got the things going. Raina brilliantly ran out ponting and gave india the much needed momentum to make inroads at regular intervals. Watson stood firm and completed his century at other end. India kept on the pressure but paine and johnson took them past the 400 run score. Zaheer took a five for and paine missed what could have been his maiden test century. He made a patient 92. Australia scored 428 in their first innings.

India started their first inning with their most successful opening partners sehwag and gambhir. India started well and where going run a ball until gambhir was out. Sehwag soon followed him after a brisk half century. After night watchmen ishants departure tendulkar and dravid held the innings together and scored half centuries respectively. After dravid's departure raina came and gave support to sachin who was eventullay out 2 short of his century. Once sachin was out Australia crawled back into the game and polished off the tail and india were allout for 405 runs. Australia got the upperhand by taking a 23 run lead. Johnson took a five for australia and for india sehwag,dravid, tendulkar and raina scored half centuries.

Australia after their 23 run lead started their second innings to build the lead. Watson started positively and scored at a brisk rate. In no time he reached his half century and with katich was looking good to extend the lead futher more. Ishant who was wayward in the first innings got his rhythm back and took three quick wickets to peg australia back. Indian spinners took the charge next and had four wickets between them as Zaheer returned to complete the tail with his ferocious reverse swing. Australia where all out for 192 and setting india a target of 216 runs. For australia watson made half century and for india zaheer and ishant took 3 wickets a piece.

India's chase was hit right in the first over when Gambhir was adjudged LBW when the ball was clearly going leg side. Inspite of the early first wicket india tried to score runs at faster rate, generally thats the case though when sehwag is around in the middle. End of the fourth day with late burst form the australia bowlers india were reduced to 55 for 4 and still needing 161 on the lastday and only 6 wickets in hand which includes laxman who had injured his back and will bat only if required.

Fifth day started with all the possible results possible. Tendulkar and zaheer started well and were steady until zaheer was out to hauritz. Laxman came to bat with raina as runner as he had a bad back. Laxman and Tendulkar started the counter attack and started scoring at a faster pace and didnt allowed any bowler to settle. Tendulkar was out for 38, dhoni and harbhajan followed him soon and india required another 92 runs and just two wickets in hand. Then came Ishant to support laxman in the middle. Ishant blocked the australia bowlers with determination and on the other hand helped laxman score runs at will. They added 81 runs and where almost at touching distance that another bad umpiring saw Ishant walking back to pavilion. Wicket of Ishant raise lot of hopes for australians as they were just a wicket away from victory. Ojha looked very tensed but he managed to hold on. Ojha was lucky to miss a close LBW call and a run out for which he got four overthrows. He flicked the ball towards leg and completed 2 runs and gave india victory by one run.

Laxman was unbeaten on 73 from 79 balls as india registered their first one wicket win in tests. Laxman was the man of the moment, no one knows why he plays so well against a team which is hightly rated for their skills in cricket. He was given a special prize for this efforts during the presentation ceremony.

Zaheer was adjudged man of the match for his crucial 8 wickets.

Score: India 405 (Tendulkar 98, Raina 86, Johnson 5/64) and 216 for 9 (Laxman 73*, Hilfenhaus 4/57, Bollinger 3/32) beat Australia 428 (Watson 126, Paine 92, Zaheer 5/94) and 192 (Watson 56, Ishant 3/34, Zaheer 3/43) by 1 wicket