Indian Premier League Cricket

‘Success” or ‘Failure’ is cyclic. They change from hands to hand.They do not belong to one individual for long time. A gifted or a lucky person may have it for a longer period but not for ever.
When Hayden scored 93 in 43 balls, critics were of opinion that he will repeat his performance in his [...]

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Sahara Adventure Sports Group bid with highest amount of US $ 370 million for Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune and bagged contract for all the three cities. They were asked select one and they selected Pune as their home ground
Rendezous Sports World Ltd successfully bid with an offer of US$ 333.33 for Kochi.
The bidders who lost [...]

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The adversities also provide some consolation. The injuries to Guatam Gambir and Mahendra Singh Dhoni have crowned captainship on Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik.
Eventually Karthik lead Delhi Daredevil and Suresh Raina Chennai Super Kings.
Delhi Daredevils batted first to file up a total 185 for six wickets. Sehwag breezed with ten fours, three sixes in 38 [...]

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Praveen is the first to take hat trick in IPL III and credited win for BCR against RR on 18th March 2010. It is a great achievement. According to Praveen he had an earlier intuition that he will have this achievement on that day.
What is hat trick?
When a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries, [...]

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Played Between Deccan Chargers (DC) Vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Lucky Pair (Two) of Ducks:  
As per the Dictionary of cricket, it is wrong to say a ‘Pair of Ducks’ when an opening and a one down batsman get out for zeroes. As per the cricket terminology when a player is dismissed while facing
- The third ball, it [...]

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The Lankan tour of Pakistan has been called off and the player will be returning home shortly. The players who were injured include – Kumar Sangarakka, Mahela Jayawardene, Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera, Chaminda Vaas, Tharanga Paranavita.
All the players have been discharged after receiving treatment.
The Lankan team was attacked by men with automatic weapons and rocket [...]

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Latest news reports suggest that the Sri Lankan cricket team touring Pakistan instead came under a well-coordinated attack from terrorists. The tour bus of the Sri Lankan team was attacked as it approached the Gaddafi stadium. Several security personnel were killed in the attack. Details are awaited. Lahore is hosting the second match between Sri [...]

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Stanford last year was threatening to derail the IPL. By throwing in lots of money he wanted to every body to get on to his bandwagon. The Indians  and South Africans refused.
England though were smarting. Their precious invention the T20 format was hijacked by the IPL and a potential gold mine was lost. Stanford was [...]

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At one stage of the game it looked like all was lost in the India-Sri Lanka t20 match. But with Yusuf Pathan and Irfan Pathan on either end, it wasn’t a lost cause after all. India hammered home with balls to spare.
Yusuf Pathan won the the man of the match with superb hitting that saw [...]

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Thanks Sachin for dropping the catch.
From spectators & TV viewer’s perspective, Sachin dropping the catch of Thilana Kandamby was a great boon for both spectators and viewers.  If Sachin would have taken the catch and if all the Sri Lankan Batsman would have fumbled, as they did, the match would have been uttering boring and [...]

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