This is very important game for India and Bangladesh,  In my opinion Sri Lanka should win,  becasue of their experienced  bowling as well as  they are playing for their pride, but you never know Bangladesh can surprise the cricket world.

Winning the Toss is crucial for the both the teams, and it will be a dilemma for both of them, whether to bat first or field, as it can been seen  from the past few games that chasing any score is easy in this Asia Cup 2012.

Pakistan have done well to reach 236.  Last over cost 19 runs. Pakistan try to take Tamin early, he is in good touch. Tamin is striking the ball nicely. Pakistan should bring Ajmal now  to create some pressure. Good move by Pakistan, Batsman should be careful. If Pakistan loose today, there will be changes in Pakistan team. Chopping and changing on the card for Pakistan Team. Good going for Bangladesh. They should have given Ajmal more overs, taking wickets is the key in order to stop them. Four fingers represents four  fifties. Dropping from the Team worked in favour of him. He is playing sensibly now.

Poor shot by Tamin. four fingers 4 fifties. he should  have shown only three. fourth would have be century. They need boundaries. Trick from Shakib needed. Game is evenly poised. After 35 overs. Tension in the crowd. Shakib should stay till the end.  Still anybody game. Pakistan Advantage now. Nazimuddin And Nasir Hossain wasted too many deliveries. They were alomst beat Pakistan.

Pakistan the winner of Asia Cup second time.

Good contest between ball and bat. Big loss for West Indies as Russell ruled out of T20 series. Batsmen should go after Pattinson and Lee.m  They need at least 170 plus. Bonner should rotate the strike.  Too many dot balls.  West Indies should ante the tempo. They need few more of those.

Slow batting by WI,  pollard should play at least 10 overs.  They need fours and sixes.  Good bowling by Aussies. it’s pollard time or Sammy time or both.   WI 20-25 runs short. Too many dot balls.

WI should take out Warner or Watson early.  Santokie did it for WI one down.  Good thinking by WI, not to play pacy bowlers.  Aussies on the move  and  running away with the game. WI need wickets, wickets, wickets… Sammy should have kept Sunil on. Good move by Sammy to bring spinner, is it too late for them.

In the end Aussies win comfortably.

Afghanistan and Ireland qualified for ICC World T20. It is nice to see two good teams advance into this big event. In the final of ICC World T20 Qualifier, both team played aggressive cricket but in the end Ireland prevailed.

Afghanistan scored 152, which proved to be not enough. They were short 20-30 runs, as they lost wickets in regular intervals, which slow them down. It was good progress of Afghanistan team.

Ireland opener Stirling was sensational during his inning with brutal batting took apart Afghanistan bowling except Zadran and gave brisk start to Ireland.

I would like to talk about two other teams Namibia and Scotland. They did well in the league stage, especially Namibia undefeated at league stage, lost to Ireland badly at knock out.

They are ready to face test playing team in T20 world cup, which will be held at Sri Lanka in September 2012. Afghanistan landed up in group A with England and India , while Ireland is in group B with Australia and West Indies. This will help both the teams to learn better by playing with quality teams. They need more international exposure to excel.

Let’s wait to see them in T20 World cup…

Poor bowling by Indians, India will be chasing 200 plus.  Indians must be happy to see Levi back.  Good batting track. Seam Bowlers  being treated like spinners. They should fire yorkers. Too easy for SA.  Poor bowling & fielding by Indians. Spin option is better. It says friendship cup, I don’t see any friendship the field.  Indians  were showing friendship but not South Africans. Ashwin & PK are very poor fielders. They need to improve. Indians once they get in the team, they do not work on their fielding, which is very important part of the game.

Indians need to get going from the ball one. Fire works from young guns required. Bad news for India. Lost by 11 run by D/L. India will feel they have been robbed from the win. Shame, Shame, Shame…

WI is batting, they need 160-170 runs. Pollard should play up in the order. Good move by WI to bring Fidel. Good start by WI. It is going to good battle between Pollard and Lee. Lee won the battle.  Clean hitting by Smith, got out at wrong time. Wickets are falling at wrong time. They should maintain the run rate. poor batting by WI they should have got 180-200 . It good & fighting total.

WI started well to take Watson,  Warner is batted well, but his run out triggered the collapse, Samuel bowled well 3 for 23 in four overs. and Fidel did good job by picking three wickets. Bravo 2 in the last over seal the deal win for West Indies. To be Australia it was important to put pressure and and take wickets.  West Indies showed lot of character to tie both the series ODI & T20. They gave tough time to Austraila. This leads to Test  series. WI is high in confidence, ready to upset Australia party.

It is time for England to show some fighting Spirit to combat Spin. Batting at the top of the order to fire so the middle order can build on that platform. They need to take advantage of the new ball Sri Lankan bowler which seems not much effective, to put at least 75-100 runs when they are operating.  Need to bat long and put good score on the board in the first innings; if you concede lead then it is a catch up game rest of the test match. It is hard to score 300 plus on spinning wicket.

England: Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook,  Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wk), Samit Patel, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann,  James Anderson, Steve Finn, Monty Panesar, Ravi Bopara.

 For Sri Lankan are tigers at home, it is hard to beat them in their backyard, condition are familiar and favor’s them. Though they lost crafty king of spin Murli, but still they good spinners in the team in form of Herath. Their batting looks ok not up to the mark yet, they will improve well to win the test. There is no pressure on them.

Sri Lanka: Lahiru Thirimanne, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jaywardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Angelo Mathews, Prasanna Jayawardene, Suraj Randiv, Rangana Herath, Dhammila Prasad, Suranga Lakmal.

It will be good battle between the two good teams, England try to give a fight to win the Test to level the series

IPL is time for Fun, food and fellowship, to see players, and people from all parts of the world playing in this big event to understand cricket culture.

IPL 2012 is ready to roll with nine teams roster for about two months of an entertaining, an exciting and an electrifying cricket. It is big time of ball bashing and blasting to blow out other team.

It will be nightmare for college student’s as they prepare for their exams, as their favorite team are playing; it is a temptation to study or stay away from TV or computer. People working in offices ready and running home to watch the game, Oh! forgot about the dinner, after the tiring day and wife still at works. Men speak out, “honey don’t worry about cooking, IPL comes once a year, no need to worry order pizza or KFC, let’s enjoy…”

Chennai Super Kings, Deccan Chargers, Delhi Daredevils, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Pune Warriors, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Teams are training hard to show off their skills to the world , what they are made of. It will be the test of their strategies, skills, spirit and smart out each other to win the battle. There is chopping and changing in the teams in form of players as well as in leadership in some teams looking for right combination to do well in this edition of IPL-5.

It is wonderful to see some young guns coming into fold from different countries to show their talent at this stage to perform to move up to higher level. It is dream come true for some of these young guys to play and rub shoulders with their heroes to learn to advance their professional skill.

MI won the toss and decided to bowl first. Malinga should bowl 3 overs. slow going. MI should take wickets. CSK need 150-160 runs on this wicket.  poor start by CSK. they need some lusty blow. Albie should hit. CSK loosing the way. Is MS the man of the hour. Batting order baffle costing them. MI captain is doing good job along with his boys. 112 all out.

Test for Dhoni and his boys. Danny Morrison is the best. Dhoni should have started with spin. Million dollar man really can’t bat, bowl & field. Clean hitting by Levi. It is easy going for MI. MI did well with ball, bat and in the field. hat off to Harbajan, back with bang. Big win for MI wins by eight wickets.

“Singh is the King”, prevailed over super kings. Man of the Match “Richard Levi”. job well done.

Delhi daredevil won the toss, and elected  to field. Only a 12 overs game. Delhi batting looks weak without their big guns. Kolkata Knight Riders needs 125-130 runs on the board. Good start for DD, three wickets in three overs. fourth wicket down and big fish YK Pathan for nought. Good stuff, fielding, bowling from DD. Fine bowling by Morkel and Yadav. DD have done well to keep them under 100. KKR short 20-25 runs. Now KKR have to bowl really well in order to win the game.

Good first over from Lee. Brisk start by DD, on their  way to victory. Is this a twist in the game. Pressure time for DD. Good hitting from Irfan took the game from them in a jeffy  42 in 20 balls. They want to create a family feud between Pathan brothers. In the end, it was DD all the way to start their campaign with a win. Job well done, allround performance by DD.

Man of the Match “Irfan Pathan”  who took the game awayfrom KKR.

There are many Royals but only one Rajasthan Royals, there are many kings, but they are Punjab XI Kings.

Rahul Dravid, who is retired from international cricket ,will lead the Rajasthan Royals. He has a lot of experience behind him to motivate his team to do well in this edition of IPL-5. No more Shane Warne in the camp, who won the championship of first edition of IPL. Batting is a real concern for them. They have good spinners and pace bowlers. They need to combine right chemistry for the team in order to produce the right result.

Rajasthan Royals : Rahul Dravid (Capt.), Aakash Chopra, Abhishek Raut, Aditya Dole, Ajinkya Rahane, Ajit Chandila, Amit Paunikar, Amit Singh, Ankeet Chavan, Ashok Menaria, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Deepak Chahar, Dinesh Chandimal, Dishant Yagnik, Faiz Fazal, Gajendra Singh, Johan Botha, Kevon Cooper, Owais Shah, Pankaj Singh, Paul Collingwood, Samad Fallah, Shane Watson, Shaun Tait, Shreevats Goswami, Siddharth Trivedi, Sreesanth, Stuart Binny, Sumit Narwal.

His counterpart retired from international cricket but a legend  Adam Gilchrist an inspirational leader who leads from front. In the last IPL he won five game in a trot, best all round players, and match winner in the camp. He is an aggressive  and attacking batsman, he can turn the game around.

Kings XI Punjab: Adam Gilchrist (Capt.), Abhishek Nayar, AD Mascarenhas, Amit Yadav, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, David Hussey, David Miller, Harmeet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Nathan Rimmington, Nitin Saini, Paras Dogra, Paul Valthaty, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Rajagopal Sathish, Ramesh Powar, Ryan Harris, Shalabh Srivastava, Shaun Marsh, Siddharth Chitnis, Stuart Broad, Sunny Singh, Vikramjeet Malik.

IPL will again be crucial for all the players to perform well as the selectors are looking ahead towards the T20 World Cup. Spinners will play the crucial part in IPL as well as in T20 World Cup which will be held in Sri Lanka Sep. 2012. As far as the conditions are concerned it is similar to Indian condition, spinning wickets.

It’s nice to see Royals take on Kings XI. You mean “Gilly the great”  vs. “Rahul the Wall”!  Yes I mean it, both are great. But Rahul should remember, it is T20 not Test.

Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first. Poor start by Pune Warriors, More wicket down, they losing wickets in regular intervals. MI have done to restrict PW to 130 runs on this wicket, it not going to be easy, ball spinning. PW have lot spinner in their team. good work by the MI bowlers. Let see how MI approach this chase.

Good start by Pune Warriors  five for three on the board, they are in trouble. Nice stroke play by Karthik, partnership developing, again they lost two in quick succession. Mid way stage it is getting difficult for MI, Run rate has crept to over ten now, can Franklin and pollard do for MI. Game is nicely set up for last five overs.Big fish gone KP. Good stuff from PW. Dada is showing his experience by rotating his bowlers. Dada did the trick to upset MI.

Pune Warriors crushed Mumbi Indians by  29  runs. Man of the  Match Steve Smith.

Kings XI won the toss and choose to field. Flying start by RR  57 runs in 6 overs. Rahul and Rahane are in good touch. Great going for RR. 160-175 runs on the card. RR has good chance to post good total. Two down in two overs. 100 on the board, can they extend to 170-180. Rahane is playing a gem of an inning, good for him to show his talent. Missed century. King XI bowling seems weak. RR well to reach 191 run with the help of poor bowling and fielding by Kings XI, it will take some chasing. Kings XI has fire power to get this total, it is good batting wicket and fast out field.

Good start by Kings XI, but lost Gilchrist and Paul valthaty. Kings XI are stumbling. Three down only 55 on the board. another gone, Cooper is doing the damage for RR. Still gettable, but wickets are the problem for them. Hussey is the only hope for them.  Hussey is gone, down and out. Kings XI should have won this, but did not pace their inning properly loosing wickets regularly put them behind run rate,it was good wicket to bat on. winning Chance missed by them.

Win for RR Man of the Match AM Rahane.

Deccan Chargers without their regular captain Kumar Sagakkara, so in his place, Cameron White will be in charge. Can he inspire his team to do well against defending champion Chennai Super Kings? They look on the balanced side in all the three departments, but it is matter of time to put right combination and perform on the field.

Deccan Chargers: Kumar Sangakkara(Capt.), Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Akash Bhandari Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Arjun Yadav, Ashish Reddy Bharat Chipli Cameron White Chris Lynn Dale Steyn Daniel Christian Daniel Harris Darren Bravo Dwaraka Ravi Teja Ishank Jaggi JP Duminy Juan Theron Kumar Sangakkara Manpreet Gony Parthiv Patel Shikhar Dhawan Sunny Sohal Syed Ahmed Quadri Tanmay Mishra Tanmay Srivastava

Chennai’s Super Kings have done well over the years. They lost opener to Mumbai Indians, but ready correct their mistake to win the game. They have international experience and many of them are all-rounders to bowl and bat at the lower order. Super Kings have a couple of injury concerns, Michael Hussey who is to join at the end of the month. Still they have enough fire power to pull the things together for the team.

Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt.), Abhinav Mukund, Ganapathi Vignesh, Joginder Sharma, Kuthethur Vasudevadas, Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, Srikkanth Anirudha, Subramaniam Badrinath, Sudeep Tyagi, Suresh Raina, Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh, Wriddhiman Saha, Albie Morkel, Ben Hilfenhaus, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, George Bailey, Michael Hussey, Nuwan Kulasekara, Scott Styris, Suraj Randiv.
IPL will again be crucial for all the players to perform well as the selectors are looking ahead towards the T20 World Cup . Spinners  will play the crucial part in IPL as well as in T20 World Cup which will be held in Sri Lanka Sep. 2012. As far as the condition are concerned similar to Indian condition, spinning wickets.

Delhi Daredevil won the toss decided to field first, good Start by Royals Challengers Bangalore fourth overs 37 on the board. then wickets at regular intervals peg them back, But AB De Villiers with some innovative shot in the end set up good total of 157. Nice hitting by AB 64 in 42 balls,  but this wicket is a batting beauty. hope Delhi can knock this runs down.

Stupid shot by Sahwag, decient start by DD  40 on the board in five overs. sensible batting by finch and Ohja. Murli is on song here, two more down. match nicely set up for an exciting finish. poor batting order by DD. Pathan should have been there now, they are wasting balls. Stupid shot, stupid captaincy by Sahwag, sending Pathan so low in the batting order. DD lost due to stupidity. Madness by DD.

Man of the Match AB De Villiers.

Deccan Chargers won the toss and asked  Chennai Super Kings to bat first. Visakhapatnam is generally good wicket for batting, let see how it play today. good Start by DC, taking out Vijay early. Good hitting by F Du plessis. Good going for CSK. Can they reach 170-180. Million man is doing job for CSK. He got himself out. Bravo big hitting 43 of 18 took them 193. but is small ground.

Good start by DC,   32  for 1 in four  overs. Excellent start. but wickets peg them back. It getting difficult for DC. Run rate is creeping up. white should hit some lusty blows.  And they are they done and out. CSK won by 74 runs. Jadeja with his all-round performance 48 of 29 ball and 5 for 16 in four overs fetch him player of the game.

Man of the match million man RA Jadeja.

Pune Warriors won their first game with good spin and pace bowling. They did well against Mumbai Indians by taking wickets in regular intervals after scoring only 129 runs in 20 overs. Their batting looks weak. They need to bat well to keep themselves in the competition.

Pune Warriors squad  SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

Kings XI Punjab lost their first game against Rajasthan Royals with poor bowling and  allow them to post 191 runs on the board. Though it was a good wicket to bat on. They had a good chance to chase down the total, but poor shot selection led them to their fall. They need to bat well, because their batting is their strength, bowling is weak link.

Kings XI Punjab squad AC Gilchrist*†,P Awana,L Ablish,Amit Yadav,Azhar Mahmood,BA Bhatt,Bipul Sharma,PP Chawla,SD Chitnis,P Dogra,JP Faulkner,Gurkeerat Singh,Harmeet Singh,RJ Harris,DJ Hussey,P Kumar,VS Malik,Mandeep Singh,SE Marsh,AD Mascarenhas,DA Miller,AM Nayar,RR Powar,NJ Rimmington,N Saini,R Sathish,SJ Srivastava,Sunny Singh,PC Valthaty

Both teams are equal but Kings XI Punjab have an edge over Pune Warriors because of their batting.

Rajasthan Royals  lost the last Vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to field first. Rajasthan Royals lost their last game hero for nought. Slow start 42 in 6 overs. middle order played well to bring some stability to the inning.  late hitting by shah put the them in a good condition ended up with 164. Not a winning total but a fighting one. Lets see how KKR approach the chase.

Rajasthan Royals is on the roll four wicket are down 25 runs on the board. same story as the first game. Run rate is creeping up. Tough task but not impossible. Big fish gone YK Pathan. they need big hitting from the lower order. good hitting by Lee. he is  gone, that means it is over for KKR, poor batting by them and good bowling by RR. RR won by 22 runs good win for them.

Man of the Match “BJ Hodge”

Royal Challengers has won their first game with some disciplined bowling, and also with help of Delhi Daredevil Batsmen eho played some bad shots. RCB has done well without Chris Gayle in their first game, if he plays  it will be boost their batting strength immensely.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad: SSDL Vettori*,MA Agarwal,KP Appanna,S Aravind,KB Arun Karthik,RR Bhatkal,AB de Villiers,TM Dilshan,CM Gautam,CH Gayle,M Kaif,AA Kazi,Z Khan,V Kohli,CK Langeveldt,AB McDonald,A Mithun,M Muralitharan,KK Nair,DP Nannes,R Ninan,HV Patel,AUK Pathan,LA Pomersbach†,CA Pujara,RR Rossouw,J Syed Mohammad,S Thiyagarajan Tiwary,R Vinay Kumar,VH Zol

Kolkata Knight Riders lost their first two games. They need to bat well and put up good total. They have to play Shakib Al Hasan, he is in good form with bat and ball. Let see if things can turn around  for KKR

Kolkata Knight Riders squad:G Gambhir*,S Ladda,L Balaji,R Bhatia,MS Bisla,DB Das,M de Lange,BJ Haddin†,Iqbal Abdulla,CS Jani,JH Kallis,B Lee,BB McCullum†,EJG Morgan,SP Narine,YK Pathan,JL Pattinson,SV Samson,PJ Sangwan,I Saxena,Shami Ahmed,Shakib Al Hasan,LR Shukla,RN ten Doeschate,MK Tiwary,JD Unadkat

Rajasthan Royals  won the toss and elected to filed. RR should have batted first and put good total on the board and pressure them batting second. Good start by MI, 26 in 3 overs.  good hitting by MI 87 in 10 overs.  Pollard is blowing them away. Can they reach 200 in 20 overs. Good total by MI 197. RR has to play really well.

RR started badly but recovered well 78 in 10 overs. Good hitting by Shah. 62 runs in 32 balls, it is going to be tight finish. Is it KC time? RR did mistake to put MI bat first. they won the first two games by batting first, why have you to change the things, when is working for you? Madness! MI won by 27 runs.

Man of the match ” Kieron Pollard”

Kings XI have to improve in their bowing department. They have given too many runs. Batting has not clicked yet, big and little guns are not firing. They need someone to kindle the fire. Someone has to do the sparking so it can rub on others, so the fire can spread in the team. Who is the fireman? Let see in this game…

Kings XI Punjab squad: AC Gilchrist*†,P Awana,L Ablish,Amit Yadav,Azhar Mahmood,BA Bhatt,Bipul Sharma,PP Chawla,SD Chitnis,P Dogra,JP Faulkner,Gurkeerat Singh,Harmeet Singh,RJ Harris,DJ Hussey,P Kumar,VS Malik,Mandeep Singh,SE Marsh,AD Mascarenhas,DA Miller,AM Nayar,RR Powar,NJ Rimmington,N Saini,R Sathish,SJ Srivastava,Sunny Singh,PC Valthaty

Dada is doing good job for Warriors so far in the absence of Yuvraj Singh. Hats of to him. Bowing, batting and fielding are doing wonders for them. Can they continue this momentum for rest of the tournament. This will be seen in the games to come, let enjoy this game

Pune Warriors squad : SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to bat first. Gayle and Agarwal started with brisk pace. Agawral 45 of 26 balls. He took the pressure off from Big man. After the fall of Agarwal Gayle took over and blasted all over the park before he got out. Batsmen enjoyed the party in first part of the match. Kohli played well too, 200 plus on the board. Wickets fall in heap in the end.  Work is cut out for CSK. it will be testing time for them.

Chennai Super Kings has to tee off from ball one. Slow start by CSK, they need to ante the tempo. Required  Run rate is 11.6 now. Clean hitting by Du Plessis. 52 in 6 overs. Murali did his trick. This match is going to the wire. It  will very intresting to big guns from both teams gunning at each other. Morkel magic 28 runs in one over. Bravo finish the Job for CSK. They came nowhere and took the game from their pocket, or RCB got robbed.

 Man of the Match “ F du Plessis”

Rajasthan Royals royals won the toss and choose to bat. Good start by RR 46 in 6 overs. But lost 3 wickets in quick succession, which peg them back. they need 140-150 runs on the wicket. Ball is spinning, it will difficult for the team batting second. RR will have good chance it they reach to fighting total. Tough going for RR. Good partnership going on between Goswami and Shah. Another 40 runs in 4 overs. Things slow down by spinners. Hodge should have come before Goswami, defensive approach by Dravid. 20-25 runs short. It is a tricky turning track.

Decent start by KolKata Knight Riders.  Gambhir run out. 36 for 1 in 6 overs. Good partnership going on. Half way stage of the inning. 64 in 60 balls. They call him Brad Hogg (Hoggi), which one? Going to the wire. In the end they win, but took the game too far

Man of the Match ”Shakib Al Hasan”  allround performance by him.

Chennai Super Kings won the toss and decided to bat first. Brisk start by CSK.  Vijay’s played a shot in the air, when the field restriction are lifted.  180-200 on the cards. CSK slow down a bit. They are short 20 runs at least. 155 on the  board good total, but not winning.  Good bowling by PWI. it will not be easy to chase under light.

Good start by Pune Warriors. 44 in 4 overs. They lost robin and Ganguly run outs, But  Ryder held the inning together batted well till the end.  Smith in the end with lusty blow with little cameo 44 of 22 balls. Poor bowling by CSK. Dada and his team doing well in this Edition of IPL.

Man of the Match “JD Ryder”.

Royal Challengers Bangalore lost a heart breaking game against CSK, After scoring 200 plus runs on the board. They will try to avoid the mistake which they made in the last game. The good news for RCB is Gayle has found some form, but bad news for the other teams, if he gets going it will be difficult to stop him. He may repeat last year feat.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad:DL Vettori*,MA Agarwal,KP Appanna,S Aravind,KB Arun Karthik,RR Bhatkal,AB de Villiers,TM Dilshan,CM Gautam,CH Gayle,M Kaif,AA Kazi,Z Khan,V Kohli,CK Langeveldt,AB McDonald,A Mithun,M Muralitharan,KK Nair,DP Nannes,R Ninan,HV Patel,AUK Pathan,LA Pomersbach†,CA Pujara,RR Rossouw,J Syed Mohammad,S Thiyagarajan,SS Tiwary,R Vinay Kumar,VH Zol

Rajasthan Royals has lost their both games of the road. Now they have to pull up their socks and bat well. Last game they lost Cooper which was a big blow.   Hope in this game he is fit, ready to go. He is good with bat and ball. Hope they will improve in both the department.

Rajasthan Royals squad:R Dravid*,STR Binny,J Botha,DL Chahar,LD Chandimal,AA Chavan,A Chopra,PD Collingwood,K Cooper,AP Dole,SM Fallah,FY Fazal,SP Goswami†,BJ Hodge,GB Hogg,AL Menaria,S Narwal,Pankaj Singh,AG Paunikar,AM Rahane,AS Raut,OA Shah,PR Shah,A Singh,S Sreesanth,SW Tait,SK Trivedi,SR Watson, DH Yagnik  

Kolkata Knight Riders has won the toss decided to field. Good start by KKR by taking 2 quick wickets. they are bowling well. They need to ante the tempo, David played very well. Also in the end they ened up with 134 on the board. it is not a winning total, but competitive. it is slow track. KKR against RR knock down the required runs. let see how they are going to respond to Kings XI Punjab spinners.

Brisk start by KKR, despite to loosing both the openers. Nice partnership between Bisla and Manoj. Chawla’s over with two wickets turn the game for Kings XI favour. Das hitting brought KKR to the striking distance, but failed to get 13 in 12 balls. They had defensive approach to the last game, as well as in this, but did not work this time left too long to finish the game.

Man of the match ” Sunil Narine”

Royal Challengers Bangalore have lost two games at the trot, they need to start firing all cylinders. They lack intensity. They have pick up their games specially in the bowling department, fifth bowler is issue for them, leaking too many runs. They should bring a T20 bowler.

Royal Bangalore squad Challengers: DL Vettori*,MA Agarwal,KP Appanna,S Aravind,KB Arun Karthik,RR Bhatkal,AB de Villiers,TM Dilshan,CM Gautam,CH Gayle,M Kaif,AA Kazi,Z Khan,V Kohli,CK Langeveldt,AB McDonald,A Mithun,M Muralitharan,KK Nair,DP Nannes,R Ninan,HV Patel,AUK Pathan,LA Pomersbach†,CA Pujara,RR Rossouw,J Syed Mohammad,S Thiyagarajan,SS Tiwary,R Vinay Kumar,VH Zol

Pune Warriors are rocking. It will be difficult to stop the momentum they are with. It will take a special super star effort to stop them. The have good bowling unit, but Bangalore wicket is batting beauty. PW bowlers will be tested in these condition. Their batting has clicked so far except few times.

Pune Warriors squad :SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to bat first. Good move by Sangakara to open the inning. Brisk start by DC. 200 runs on the cards.  94 runs in 10 runs only one. 100 runs in the next 10 overs. fantastic finish by JP Duminy  58 in 26 runs. Wicket is batting paradise. Is this the day for them? Can RR knock down 196. They have to play out of their skin, good form and performing well.

 Rajasthan Royals also with brisk start. 2 overs 17 on the board. Runs are coming from both ends. 62 in 6 overs 1 down. Excellent going for RR. Dale steyn 3 overs will be the key for DC. Other bowlers have to bowl well to keep the thing tight and quite. Match is heading towards tight finish. 87 from 8 only 2 down. Good bowling by Amit Mishra, he took out Rahane &  Shah. Poor fielding by DC drop catch and misfield. it is going to wire. RR has chased down 196. Power hitting by Brad Hodge 48 in 21 balls.

Man of the Match”Brad Hodge”

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Warriors won the toss, decided to bat. Dada and his team is doing well so far. Good move by Dada to move Robin up in the order. Dilshan is in the team, will it change their fortune. Brisk start by PWI. 30 in 3 overs. 58 in 6 overs. Again 200 on the cards. Robin is batting  well. Run outs pull them back. Good total, still 20 less. Game on, work cut out for RCB. Birthday boy enjoying Chocolate cake. Can they chase this down? Yes no choice for them. Gayle and Dilshan should after the bowling. If RR can, so RCB can. wait and see..

Good start by PW, but the ball is disappearing in from Gayle’s bat. slow down considerably. 5 sixes in 5 balls. 66 in 30 balls. RR did it. RCB can do it too. they did it. Power hitting by AB and Tiwary finish it off. it is raining now, it was raining of sixes.

Manof the Match “Chris Gayle”.

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat. Few changes from both sides. May be Paul’s and Pathan’s day. Paul is done for the day with poor shot. decent start by Kings XI. Gilly is hurt, blow to KIngs XI, he was playing well. They need to tee off to get to big total, at least 150-160. it is good wicket to bat on. Not enough runs on the board. 30-40 short. 124 is piece of Cake for KKR, Can they eat it?

Brisk Start by KKR. 53 in 6 overs 1 down. they should get it easly. Bowlers set them up for them. but Gambhir played well for his 66 in 44 balls. Gilly going from the field after got hurt, he was hitting the ball nicely, that pulled their inning back, from that onward. KKR day.

Man of the Match “G Gambhir”.

Chennai Super Kings lost to Pune warriors in the last game. They need to tighten their screws in the bowling department. No changes expected from them in the playing Eleven, M.S. Dhoni gives his players enough time to build their confidence, Vijay have failed so far, but will Dhoni stick with him or axe him. The problem CSK have in the top of the order, runs flow from one end only, that put pressure on the other guy run rate drops down. If they are batting first the fell short of 20-30 runs, batting second it will make difficult for the middle and lower order batsmen to chase down total.

Chennai Super Kings squad:MS Dhoni*†,S Anirudha,R Ashwin,S Badrinath,GJ Bailey,DE Bollinger,DJ Bravo,F du Plessis,BW Hilfenhaus,MEK Hussey,RA Jadeja,SB Jakati,Joginder Sharma,S Randiv,KMDN Kulasekara,VY Mahesh,JA Morkel,A Mukund,SK Raina,WP Saha†,SB Styris,S Tyagi,K Vasudevadas,G Vignesh,M Vijay

Pune Warriors  were rocking, till the last game, last ball lost. It was heart breaking for them after putting a decent total, It took a special super star effort from Chris Gayle to stop. They had good bowling unit, but Bangalore wicket was batting beauty. PW bowlers were tested in those condition, and failed to defend. The crazy two run out pull them back, and fell short 15-20 runs, that made the difference between Won and loss. Their batting has clicked so far except few times.  They need to come of that shock defeat by the hands of RCB. Not many changes expected in their playing eleven.

Pune Warriors squad: SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

The battle between the two icons of Indian cricket past and present Dada Vs Dhoni.

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat first, Lost Sangakkara early, but Dhawan and Patel stich nice partnership. 9 over 81 on the board. But introduction of regular spinner S Nadeem, immediately striking by taking wickets in regular intervals, that peg DC back and lost last six wickets for 57 runs in 11 overs. It is decent total but not winning, short 20-25 runs. They way DD are playing their should not be any problem for the to chase it down, until something disastrous happens. DC has to bowl and field really well in order to win this game.

 Delhi Daredevils start with poor shot by Ojha, it is slow wicket, he try to hit through the line. Good strat by DC by taking wickets. KP did for 103 in 64 balls. Seal the deal for DD. Graet hitting by KP.

Man of the Match”K Pietersen”

Chennai Super Kings won against Pune warriors at home. They need to tighten their screws in the bowling department. No changes expected from them in the playing Eleven, M.S. Dhoni gives his players enough time to build their confidence, Vijay have failed so far, Dhoni made right decision to use Badrinath as a opener in the last game. He did decent job, but was slow. It was a close game only won by 13 runs, would have gone either way. The problem CSK have in the top of the order, runs flow from one end only, that put pressure on the other guy run rate drops down. If they are batting first the fell short of 20-30 runs, batting second it will make difficult for the middle and lower order batsmen to chase down total. They need to put 170-180 on the board in order to defend. Bowlers are not looking in good form, specially Ashwin and Bollinger.

Chennai Super Kings squad:MS Dhoni*†,S Anirudha,R Ashwin,S Badrinath,GJ Bailey,DE Bollinger,DJ Bravo,F du Plessis,BW Hilfenhaus,MEK Hussey,RA Jadeja,SB Jakati,Joginder Sharma,S Randiv,KMDN Kulasekara,VY Mahesh,JA Morkel,A Mukund,SK Raina,WP Saha†,SB Styris,S Tyagi,K Vasudevadas,G Vignesh,M Vijay

Rajasthan Royals are rocking and rolling, with big win over RCB and DC. Young and old guns are blazing again. It is nice to see underrated team is doing well so far in the tournament, with the limited resources. They are looking very confident at the moment. They are good side, because performing as a team. They chased down daunting total against DC, stir up in their spirit.

Rajasthan Royals squad : R Dravid*,STR Binny,J Botha,DL Chahar,LD Chandimal,AA Chavan,A Chopra,PD Collingwood,K Cooper,AP Dole,SM Fallah,FY Fazal,SP Goswami†,BJ Hodge,GB Hogg,AL Menaria,S Narwal,Pankaj Singh,AG Paunikar,AM Rahane,AS Raut,OA Shah,PR Shah,A Singh,S Sreesanth,SW Tait,SK Trivedi,SR Watson,DH Yagnik

Mumbai Indians have lost their last game at home against DD. Poor batting display by MI in the last game. Now they are without Malinga, work is cut out for other MI Bowlers. Harbajan Singh doing well with his leadership and experience. They need to work on their batting, in order to put good total. Oh! No worry, It is Kings XI, their bowling is weak. MI will put big total if they bat first. MI have home advantage.

Mumbai Indians squad: Harbhajan Singh*,AN Ahmed,Amitoze Singh,AC Blizzard,YS Chahal,JEC Franklin,HH Gibbs,DJ Jacobs,MG Johnson,KD Karthik†,Kuldeep Yadav,DS Kulkarni,RE Levi,CJ McKay,SL Malinga,SH Marathe,SS Nayak,PP Ojha,MM Patel,NLTC Perera,RJ Peterson,KA Pollard,AT Rayudu,JN Shah,RG Sharma,R Shukla,RP Singh,TL Suman,P Suyal,AP Tare,SR Tendulkar,AV Wankhade,SA Yadav

Kings XI Punjab has lost their last game against KKR and RCB, low in the confidence, need to improve in batting and bowling. There is bite in their bowling. Last game they tried new guys from the bench, brought freshness in the team, with some good performance by them. Azhar did good with his all round performance. If they have stay in the tournament, they have perform to their potential.

Kings XI Punjab squadAC Gilchrist*†, P Awana, KJ Abbott, L Ablish, Amit Yadav, Azhar Mahmood, BA Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, PP Chawla, SD Chitnis, BCJ Cutting, P Dogra, JP Faulkner, Gurkeerat Singh, Harmeet Singh, RJ Harris, DJ Hussey, P Kumar, VS Malik, Mandeep Singh, SE Marsh, AD Mascarenhas, DA Miller, AM Nayar, RR Powar, NJ Rimmington, N Saini, SJ Srivastava, Sunny Singh, PC Valthaty

Pune Warriors  were rocking, now are rolling again. Their batting is clicking,  last game they played really well to put big score, and defended the total with good bowling. Ryder and Ganguly played nicely and Smith in the end gave the fantastic finish, and came out with flying colors against daunting Delhi. Dada at this showed the world, he is class act with his all-round performance. PW looking good under his leadership. It will be revenge game.

Pune Warriors squad: SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

Delhi Daredevils were devouring everyone on the way to the destiny. But last game they got their own dose from Pune Warriors. Bowlers gave too many runs against fine batting by PW. They will come back hard at PW to take revenge. They have quality players, will bounce back. DD is the team you can not keep them down for long time. KP and company has to do again.

Daredevils squad: V Sehwag*,MC Juneja,VR Aaron,AB Agarkar,P Bisht,R Bist,GH Bodi,DAJ Bracewell,U Chand,AJ Finch,DPMD Jayawardene,GJ Maxwell,M Morkel,S Nadeem,Y Nagar,PT Naik,P Negi,NV Ojha†,IK Pathan,KP Pietersen,KC Raval,AD Russell,AM Salvi,LRPL Taylor,RE van der Merwe,Y Venugopal Rao,Vikas Mishra,DA Warner,TP Yadav,UT Yadav,Zafir Patel

Chennai Super Kings got some momentum with three wins. Few changes here and there made difference. They are still lack discipline in both batting bowling needs improvement. Last few game they left too long to finish the game and went ot the last ball, Could have gone either way. M.S. Dhoni found some form, and coming up in the batting order helping him and team. No change is expected from them.

Chennai Super Kings squad:MS Dhoni*†,S Anirudha,R Ashwin,S Badrinath,GJ Bailey,DE Bollinger,DJ Bravo,F du Plessis,BW Hilfenhaus,MEK Hussey,RA Jadeja,SB Jakati,Joginder Sharma,S Randiv,KMDN Kulasekara,VY Mahesh,JA Morkel,A Mukund,SK Raina,WP Saha†,SB Styris,S Tyagi,K Vasudevadas,G Vignesh,M Vijay

Royal Challengers are back to the winning ways with three win, big boys are doing well. They have some momentum at the moment. They are well balance and settled side. Not much change in the team combination. Dilshan’s waiting was not in vain, played a winning inning for his team in the last game. It is revenge time. Can the take out the monkey from their back, they lost to CSK last three games; which they played against them.

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad:DL Vettori*,MA Agarwal,KP Appanna,S Aravind,KB Arun Karthik,RR Bhatkal,AB de Villiers,TM Dilshan,CM Gautam,CH Gayle,M Kaif,AA Kazi,Z Khan,V Kohli,CK Langeveldt,AB McDonald,A Mithun,M Muralitharan,KK Nair,DP Nannes,R Ninan,HV Patel,AUK Pathan,LA Pomersbach†,CA Pujara,RR Rossouw,J Syed Mohammad,S Thiyagarajan,SS Tiwary,R Vinay Kumar,VH Zol

They will be fire works of sixes and fours from both sides. Do not miss, it will be heartbreaking, may be last ball game breaker. Last game for “Appanna ka Sapnaa”, took 4 wickets for 19 in 4 overs. Can he repeat his feat again?

Pune Warriors  lost last few games, They need to give brisk start in the first 6 overs, slow start peg them back against DD., They only put 146 on the board; that proved to be very little against mighty DD batting. Ryder needs continue to fire at the top, otherwise it is difficult for others to do the same. Smith should play more overs, come up in the order; because he is in good form and also fantastic finisher of the inning with high note. PW have to rethink about their Batting order. Dada should make some adjustments, and play according to thieir strength. PW is against DC, the team who is low in confidence at this point.

Pune Warriors squad: SC Ganguly*,ER Dwivedi,MJ Clarke,AB Dinda,CJ Ferguson,RV Gomez,Harpreet Singh,DS Jadhav,Kamran Khan,M Kartik,HH Khadiwale,B Kumar,NL McCullum,AP Majumdar,M Manhas,AD Mathews,MD Mishra,AG Murtaza,A Nehra,MK Pandey,WD Parnell,S Rana,JD Ryder,MN Samuels,R Sharma,GC Smith,SPD Smith,Tamim Iqbal,AC Thomas,K Upadhyay,RV Uthappa,SB Wagh,LJ Wright

Deccan Chargers lost five games, but got heavely blessing through rain and put point on the board. They are doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, it is called insanity. They need to bow first and chase down the total, that is the demand of the time. They are not doing any good to themselves by dropping catches. They need to play T20 bowler J Theron. If DC Play to their potential they have chance against PW.

Deccan Chargers squad: KC Sangakkara*†,A Ashish Reddy,Anand Rajan,Ankit Sharma,T Atchuta Rao,AA Bhandari,DM Bravo,B Chipli,DT Christian,KH Devdhar,S Dhawan,JP Duminy,MS Gony,DJ Harris,IR Jaggi,AA Jhunjhunwala,CA Lynn,A Mishra,T Mishra,PA Patel†,V Pratap Singh,SA Quadri,DB Ravi Teja,PA Reddy,BB Samantray,C Sneha Kishore,S Sohal,TM Srivastava,DW Steyn,TP Sudhindra,J Theron,CL White,AS Yadav

Kings XI Punjab Vs RC Bangalore

Banglore like Chennai is probably impatient to bounce back to it winning habits, but they have face the resurgent Punjab whose hero has been Azhar Mahmood so far, and the likely induction of Gilchrist and Ryan Harris is going to make their job difficult, unless they top order batting fires.

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Can Punjab upset the mighty Bangalore?

With the likely reinforcements of Adam Gilchrist and Ryan Harris and the consistent perfomance of Azhar Mahmood, it doesn’t seem to be unlikely. But to do this they have to tame the solid

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