IPL 4: DAY 22 Review…
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Match 34, Classic Rivals Sachin takes on Warne on their home ground, Start wasn’t so good for Mumbai as they lost Sachin very early to Ashok Menaria, Royals bowled very tight lines and gave nothing to score runs as they came in singles mostly, As every1 tried to accelerate they went back to pavilion, which meant 17 runs from Symonds was the highest score of Mumbai’s heavy batting line up, Which really meant Mumbai finally settled for the lowest ever IPL score 94/8 in 20 overs. Chase was so simple as Watson and Botha completed the formalities to chase down 95 runs with 7 wickets and 11 balls to spare.
Match 35, From Jaipur to Bangalore, Another skipper won the toss and decided to bowl first, Warne was right to make the decision as his bowlers restricted Mumbai to a total which is the lowest of all times for them, but it wasn’t the same for PWI Skipper Yuvi as they were scattered all over by Kohli and Gayle, esp the latter played an excellent knock, he pulled, drove, and punished the Pune’s bowler. RCB ended their innings at 181/5 in 20 overs. PWI began their chase nervously but couldn’t hold on for long, as Ryder went after a well played fifty, Yuvi and Uthappa tried to come closer, but didn’t help much them to save them from heading to a straight 5th defeat in their opening season of IPL. RCB won the game by 26 runs comfortably.
Standings as on DAY 22:
Interesting facts on DAY 22:
– Ashok Menaria’s picked up his maiden wicket in IPL and who else do u think, Yes it’s Sachin Tendulkar.
– Kieron Pollard scored his first runs of IPL 4, it’s 4th innings he is playing in IPL.
– 11 out of 14 games won by Rajasthan Royals in their home ground in Jaipur.
– 57/0 is the best powerplay score by RCB in this season, previous was also the same against KKR.
– 94/8 is the lowest IPL score by Mumbai Indians, previous lowest was 116/9 against KXIP in 2008.
– AB de Villers scored a six which went long way but not long enough to beat 106 meters by David Hussey, it missed by 3 meters as it went for only 103 meters.
– Virat Kohli scored the 5th IPL fifty and also went past 1000 runs in IPL alone (excluding runs scored in Champions trophy all those)
– Johan Botha got dismissed for the first time in this season of IPL
– Virat Kohli scored the 900th Boundary and Yuvraj Singh scored the 300th Six in IPL 4.
– Jesse Ryder scored his 2nd IPL fifty.
– PWI is the second team in this season to have lost five games in a trot, first one was Delhi Daredevils.
– Munaf Patel bowled the 13th Maiden of IPL 4.
At the end of DAY 22:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 1
Total no.of Boundaries – 916
Total no.of Sixes –301
Orange Cap –Virat Kohli (294) followed by Sachin Tendulkar (276)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (17) followed by Shane Warne (10)
Most Sixes – Yuvraj Singh (13) followed Chris Gayle (12)
Most Fours –Paul Valthaty (32) followed by K.Sangakarra (31)
Longest Six – David Hussey (106 M) followed by Shaun Marsh (105 M)
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IPL 4: DAY 21 Review…
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Match 33, Bottom of the table Delhi taken on Kolkata in an important game, Delhi Bowled much better than any other game so far in the IPL, which restricted KKR to 149 in 20 overs, Without doubt Shewag was the happy man at that moment, But Shewag couldn’t keep his content for long, as his team gave wicket in regular intervals to lose the momentum and finally falling 17 runs short. Which gave KKR a imp 2 points to go up to the place 2, and unfortunately Delhi will still hung in the bottom of the table and they will be needing min of 5 wins out 7 have in hand.
STANDINGS AS ON DAY 21:
Interesting facts on DAY 21:
– Yusuf Pathan played his 50th IPL game and Travis Brit made the IPL debut.
– It took 26 overs to have a spinner bowl today… Without doubt a surprising fact and Delhi becomes the first team in this season to finish of their bowling without even bowling a spinner.
– Gambhir, Shewag, & Venugopal Rao went past 200 runs in this IPL.
– Irfan’s 4-0-16-1 is his second most economical T20 performance in 75 games, when he has bowled 4 overs. The last time he did it was in the 2007 WT20 final.
– This is the first time Delhi has lost 5 games on a trot in an IPL season.
– 13th game won batting first in IPL season 4 and 19 games won batting second, hopefully trend of winning the toss and chasing is changing.
At the end of DAY 21:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 3
Total no.of Boundaries – 881
Total no.of Sixes –281
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (269) followed by P.Valhathy (261)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (16) followed by Shane Warne (9)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by K.Sangakarra (31)
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IPL 4: DAY 20 Review…
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Match 31, Chennai taking on Pune again after two days here in DY patil Stadium, Nothing much changed, just this time Pune batted first and scored just 1 run less than the CSK’s score in Chennai, 141/6 in 20 overs, And in reply Chennai lost Hussey early, But Vijay and Badri Steadied the middle innings and Badri with Raina finished the final few overs in ease to win with 8 wickets to spare, Win Which takes Chennai right on top to the second spot.
Match 32, Another game where Kochi had no answer to inspired bowling from Ishant sharma, Not much to say as Deccan’s played so poorly so that they managed to score just 130 runs and Kochi to say was taken aback by the Dumbstruck bowling of Ishant Sharma who rocked the Kochi’s in their own place, Not to leave out Steyn who picked 3 wickets to his name too. Overall a pathetic display of batting from KTK to end their innings at third ever lowest IPL score, also to add 6 ducks to their innings. DC won the match by 55 runs.
Standings as on DAY 20:
Interesting facts on DAY 20:
– Doug Bollinger bowled the 8th Maiden of this season, Last match Ashwin had a wicket Maiden and this time it’s Bollinger who has a double wicket maiden.
– Its Second time in the season we have a Double wicket Maiden , Previous one was by Praveen Kumar against Chennai.
– Yuvraj has never ever won a match in IPL against MSD!! It is currently 0-8. The only time he tied the match and won it in a super over, vs CSK, MSD wasn’t playing that match.
– 37/3 in 10 overs by DC is lowest scored in the IPL season 4.
– 74 is the overall 3rd time lowest score in IPL, 58 runs is the lowest score in IPL scored by Rajasthan Royals.
– For the first time in IPL had 5 Maiden’s bowled in a single day.
– 3-0-12-5 by Ishant Sharma is the third time best bowling figures in IPL so far, Sohail Tanvir 6/14 leads followed by Kumble’s 5/5.
– Ishant Sharma went past Malinga’s Best figure of 5/13, to be the best bowling figure of this season so far.
– 6 ducks in an innings is the highest ever in an IPL game so far, previous was 5 by Delhi and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
– Both Murali Vijay and Badrinath went past 1000 runs IPL; they are now 1023 runs and 1015 runs respectively.
– Badrinath scored the 9th IPL fifty and 3rd of this season.
– Deccan’s victory of 55 runs is the highest in terms of defending in this season, previous was 48 runs by Pune.
– Alfonso Thomas, Murali Kartik, Sreesanth, Dale Steyn bowled the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Maidens respectively.
– Gomez (KTK) becomes first player of this season to pick the third duck out of five innings he played in the other two innings he wasn’t out, LOL…
At the end of DAY 20:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 1
Total no.of Boundaries – 860
Total no.of Sixes –272
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (269) followed by P.Valhathy (261)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (16) followed by Shane Warne (9)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by K.Sangakarra (31)
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IPL 4: DAY 19 Review…
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Another single game day, thankfully too, i had to blog abt the yesterday’s one too, so bit less work to do… What to do yaar, Month end works catching up….
Another close game, thanks to Warner and Hopes, Delhi looked like they got some kind of curse, they can’t even win now in their home pitches. With Hopes getting his fifty Delhi lurked beyond 160, with late lusty blows from 1.9Mn Irfan. Gayle and Kohli looked to finish the game and get ready for the party as they went abt 10 to 12 runs per over. Few poor shot, excellent fielding all seems to have pulled back the game for Delhi, but it wasn’t so, as Skipper Vettori and Syed got RCB past the winning run with 3 wickets in hand, Which delighted the owner Sid Mallya who shared with his lady love Deepika Padukone with a gapless HUG….
Standings as on DAY 19:
Interesting facts on DAY 19:
– Dilshan became the second player after Gomez (KTK) to get second duck in IPL 4.
– James Hopes became the first batsmen to be out in a NO-Ball which was referred to third umpire in IPL, and eventually getting the reprieve, Abimanyu Mithun was in the receiving end. Sachin came close for this instance in the last game but some controversy got him back to pavilion.
– 18 extras given by Bangalore is the second highest in the season, table was topped by Rajasthan with 19 extras vs Kolkata.
– Virat Kohli becomes the sixth batsmen to join the 200 runs club, now he is with 227.
– Virat Kohli with his 4th IPL fifty went past Rahul Dravid’s 1132 runs to become the second top scorer for RCB. Now Kohli is with 1137 runs, still the RCB most run scorer is Now KKR’s Kallis with 1271 runs.
At the end of DAY 19:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 1
Total no.of Boundaries – 818
Total no.of Sixes –260
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (269) followed by P.Valhathy (261)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (16) followed by Shane Warne (9)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (29)
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IPL 4: DAY 18 Review…
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To say lucky in the very last moment and thanks to the unknown faces who decided not to watch the match in stadium… Myself and my team got the tickets in the very last moment, in simple an over has been bowled in stadium. Somehow made it to the stadium and without doubt its gonna go down as one of the best match of this season.
I just say that only for one reason, Chennai’s fielding… Awesome man, Diving, Flying, Rolling, Mudding, Whatever u name it to stop the ball, it was there, even 142 (a very very par score in Chennai Pitch) looked like 180 odd. I certainly have no doubt CSK could have saved abt 25-30 runs in the field, Which was the match eventually.
Last time IPL in stadium was KXIP Vs CSK, Which ended in draw, KXIP winning in the super over with yuvi’s reverse sweep. Once again Yuvi was threatening to repeat the history, but luck ran out soon… CSK won the match by handsome 25 runs…
CSKu Whisle Podu Mammmmmmu……..
Standings as on DAY 18:
Its such an important win for Chennai as they get right back themselves in Top 4….
Interesting Facts as on Day 18:
– Yuvraj Singh scored his 1000th IPL run.
– Mithun Manhas hit the 250th six of IPL season 4.
– Chennai is the only team in the league have won all the three matches in defending.
– First match in IPL 4, to have all the top four batsmen to be dismissed in the fashion of Bowled.
– Ashwin bowled the 7th Maiden of this Season.
– Jerome Taylor became the first batsman of this season to be run out of a Substitute fielder and it’s Abinav Mukund who was fielding for Murali vijay’s Leg cramps.
– Mike Hussey’s 4th IPL fifty for Chennai Super Kings, got him past Murali vijay in highest run getter for CSk this season, MK Hussey now with 193 runs and followed by Vijay at 180 runs.
At the end of DAY 18:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 2
Total no.of Boundaries – 788
Total no.of Sixes –250
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (269) followed by P.Valhathy (261)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (16) followed by Shane Warne (9)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (29)
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IPL 4: DAY 17 Review…
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Two games on a Sunday and both ended One sided…
Standings as on DAY 17:
Interesting Facts as on Day 17:
– Gomez became the first player of the tournament to be out for duck 2nd time and its overall its 37th duck in this season.
– RR Vs KTK match had almost 29.1 overs bowled without even a six and finally it came from the bat of Rahul Dravid… Would you believe it…?
– 102* runs partnership between Rohit Sharma and Symonds is their highest ever for the fifth wicket so far in IPL.
– Malinga’s wicket of his skipper was also his 100th T20 wicket.
– Victory with 35 balls remaining is the highest so far in IPL for Rajasthan.
At the end of DAY 17:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 2
Total no.of Boundaries – 771
Total no.of Sixes –244
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (269) followed by P.Valhathy (261)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (16) followed by Shane Warne (9)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (29)
!~rams~
IPL 4: DAY 16 Review…
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Surprised just one game on a Saturday evening, But i am sure none was disappointed has we had a run fest in Delhi.
Languishing in the bottom of the table Delhi certainly needed something spl to bring their sprits up and it was the day, Gilly won the coin and felt something is there for bowlers and went for chase and it did show how well they misread the pitch. Shewag and Warner amazed 146 for first wicket, before Shewag wanted 6 sixes in an over got caught in long on. Warner, Venugopal Rao, Ojha, all did their part to get Delhi to their highest ever total in IPL so far. 231/4 in 20 overs, Chasing almost 2 runs a ball right from the start is very tough but Punjab was in no mood to give up, as Gilly and Marsh kept going and found the crowd profusely, esp the latter. As said, it wasn’t easy though KXIP came very close to that, by reaching 202/6 in 20 overs, not a bad chase though. Finally Delhi will have a reason to smile after losing three games on a trot, still they are right in the bottom but not by much. Very soon this table will turn on its head. Watch out guys. Delhi won the game by 29 runs.
Standings as on DAY 16:
Interesting facts on DAY 16:
– 146 runs between Shewag and Warner is the highest ever first wicket partnership in the IPL so far for Delhi Daredevils.
– 146 runs partnership is also the highest ever fourth partnership for any wicket in IP so far. Highest was by Gilchrist & Laxman 155 runs Vs Mumbai in the first season of IPL.
– Today’s Match is the 200th IPL game game.
– 7 Aussies played the game today (Warner,Finch,Hopes, Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey and Ryan Harris) which is also the highest in terms of Foreign player taking field from a same team.
– 231/4 is the third Highest total in IPL History so far, previous others by Chennai 246 Vs Rajasthan and 240 Vs KXIP.
– 231/4 is also the personally the highest ever scored by Delhi Daredevils, as their previous best team score was 194/4 in the first season
– Gilchrist scored the 700th Boundary of IPL 4.
– 231/4 is also the highest score of this season previous was 195/7 by KXIP.
– 12 sixes scored by Delhi is the highest no.of sixes scored by any team in this season of IPL so far, previous was 11 sixes by Pune Warriors India.
– David Warner becomes the 4th batsmen of this season to barge into 200 run club, with 77 runs today, he is with 229 runs to his name.
– David Hussey first ball of this season IPL was bludgeoned by Shewag for a six, and much-touted Varun Aaron’s First ball was rocketed to boundary by Shaun Marsh.
– David Hussey Bettered Gayle in the distance travelled by a six, Hussey’s 2nd six of his innings went for 106 meters which is the longest ever for this season, next ones are 105 by Shaun Marsh and 104 by Chris Gayle.
– 443 runs aggregated by both teams is the highest ever for this season.
– 23 sixes in a match is also the highest numbers hit, bettering 20 sixes by PWI Vs DD.
– Out of 443 runs, Aussies scored 238 runs which is 53% in total score… Amazing…
At the end of DAY 16:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 2
Total no.of Boundaries – 720
Total no.of Sixes –235
Orange Cap – P.Valhathy (261) followed by Sachin Tendulkar (241)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (13) followed by Harbhajan Singh (7)
Most Sixes – Paul Valhathy (12) followed by R.Jadeja (11)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (25)
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IPL 4: DAY 15 Review…
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Its another day, Two high voltage performance sunk the opposition to dead.
First of it was Chris Gayle, Man some kind of power this man has and he tonked the KKR out of the park in no time, chasing 171 with 11 balls to spare, and scoring a magnificent century. Which paved the way for RCB to register a 9 wickets win in ease Vs KKR.
Later in the day, Rohit sharma inspired by him almost got to an hundred before falling to a aussie bad omen number 87, another one was Harbhajan who turned round the game woth a 5 wicket haul. CSK had bundled their sorts with Bhaji singing bangara, Finally Mumbai won the match by 8 runs.
Standings as on DAY 15:
Interesting facts on DAY 15:
– Chris Gayle’s 5th six of his innings went for 104 meters which is the highest ever for this season, next ones are 101 by Gayle himself and 99 by valhathy.
– 171/5 is the highest score recorded by KKR this season.
– Gayle hit the 200th six and 650th boundary of IPL 4.
– Chris Gayle scored the Maiden Century and 3rd Century of this season and overall 15th century in IPL so far.
– Chris Gayle 102* is also his personal best bettering 88 when he was with KKR.
– 7 sixes in an innings by Chris Gayle is the highest ever.
– Albie Morkel bowled the first first over maiden and sixth Maiden overall in this season of IPL.
– This is third time RCB has chased down a down target with 9 wickets to spare in IPL.
– 71* is the best score for Badrinat, his 2nd fifty in IPL 4 and overall 8th in IPL career.
– 87 by Rohit Sharma is also his personal highest, bettering 76* scored when he was with Deccan Chargers.
– Harbhajan picked up the maiden 5 wicket haul, other than Malinga he is another to pickup 5 wicket haul by a Mumbai Indian.
At the end of DAY 15:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 3
Total no.of Boundaries – 679
Total no.of Sixes –212
Orange Cap – P.Valhathy (247) followed by Sachin Tendulkar (241)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (13) followed by Harbhajan Singh (7)
Most Sixes – R.Jadeja (11) followed by Paul Valhathy (10)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (25)
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IPL 4: DAY 14 Review…
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Full Aussie flavoured Match as, Two Aussie veterans face each other, Warne won the coin from Gilly and decided to chase, which has been a trend in IPL in this season so far. Nothing much to do by Warnie bowler, as they were massacred by KXIP batsmen and RR bowlers picked two wickets in two no balls, and both of the openers. In simple nothing went right and its de day for Preity to be all smiles and dimple, which see was able to keep it all de day till the end, As KXIP won the match by 48 runs.
Standings as on DAY 14:
Interesting facts on DAY 14:
– KXIP scored their first fifty runs in just 2.5 overs, which is the fastest ever in the IPL history, and i think its gonna be as long as IPL stays.
– Shaun Tait bowled the fifth Maiden of IPL 4.
– Shane warne picked up his 50th IPL wicket and its Paul Valhathy.
– Sid Trivedi figures 4-0-59-0 is the worst bowling figures tied down with RP singh.
– 195/7 is the highest score by any team this season , previous was also by KXIP 193/5 vs CSK.
– Sunny Singh scored the 600th Boundary of IPL 4.
– Both Tait and Trivedi picked the wickets of Gilchrist and Valhathy in the first and second over respectively, but to see them continue to smash them all over the park, because they both did overstep on both the occasions, which is also the first instance in this season of IPL.
– Shaun March scored the first fifty of this season and his 8th one overall in IPL.
At the end of DAY 14:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 4
Total no.of Boundaries – 616
Total no.of Sixes –189
Orange Cap – P.Valhathy (247) followed by Sachin Tendulkar (236)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (11) followed by Yusuf Pathan (7)
Most Sixes – R.Jadeja (11) followed by Paul Valhathy (10)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (32) followed by S.Tendulkar (24)
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IPL 4: Day 13 Review….
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Finally two games lasted for all the forty overs, actually Mumbai game should not have taken them till the last ball, but however, it was. Mumbai’s last ball victory take them to six point to be tied with the KKR for the top spot.
Second game had its effect till the very last ball, Kochi having nothing to defend, defended with some superp bowling and fielding, and not to forget poor batting from KKR to lose the match. KTK 6 runs victory gets them to 6 points in the league table and be the third team to be tied for the top spot.
Standings as on DAY 13:
Interesting facts on DAY 13:
– James Franklin’s first ball in IPL this season went for 8 runs, highest by any bowler for a single ball.
– Mumbai Indians becomes the first team of this season to win the game in the last ball of the match.
– Tendulkar gets out after three consecutive not out innings, his batting average is 236 as of now.
– Yuvraj Singh picks up his first duck for this season and as well its de first with Pune Warriors
– Kochi defended the lowest total of this season so far, its 132, previous was 153 by Chennai.
At the end of DAY 13:
No.of Catches Dropped for the day – 0
Total no.of Boundaries – 581
Total no.of Sixes –180
Orange Cap – Sachin Tendulkar (236) followed by P.Valhathy (201)
Purple Cap – S.Malinga (11) followed by Yusuf Pathan (7)
Most Sixes – R.Jadeja (11) followed by AB de Villers (8)
Most Fours –Paul Valhathy (28) followed by S.Tendulkar (24)
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