What’s common to Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers and now Royal Challengers Bangalore? Well, they’re all led by men who have retired from all other forms of the game. And all three teams seem to have benefited from their leadership.
What Shane Warne achieved with Rajasthan Royals last year is already the stuff of sporting legend. This [...]
After Yuvraj Singh, it is Rohit Sharma who joins the Hat Trick takers club in IPL 2009.
Rohit Sharma took a hat-trick and sparked batting collapse of Mumbai Indians, which helped Deccan Chargers in winning the Match in Centurion on Wednesday.
Mumbai Indians were jolted up front when RP Singh removed Sanath Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar off [...]
Australian Simon Katich set the match for the Kings XI with some great hitting as he amassed 50 runs in just half the number of balls and built a half-century partnership in just 33 deliveries along with Karan Goel. Katich’s dismissal was significant strike for the Chennai Super Kings, as he was snaffled by Shadab [...]
An unbeaten half-century from MS Dhoni and four-wickets for Shadab Jakati propelled Chennai Super Kings to the Indian Premier League (IPL) summit after a 78-run victory over Deccan Chargers.
Chennai posted 178 for three, built on Dhoni’s 58 not out off 37 balls with six fours and a six, before Indian left-arm spinner Jakati ripped through [...]
It was some tight bowling from Ravindra Jadeja, who conceded only 22 runs in his four overs, which set up the win as the Chargers posted 141 for five in their 20 overs, with Shane Harwood claiming two wickets on debut.
Adam Gilchrist was the chief Chargers aggressor early on but Herschelle Gibbs (eight) appeared to [...]
A fine all-round performance by Yuvraj Singh was not enough to prevent Kings XI Punjab slumping to an eight-run loss against the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Friday.
Punjab captain Yuvraj took a hat-trick to help restrict Bangalore to 145 for nine at Kingsmead before blasting a superb half-century only to see [...]
The darling of Durban had struck. He may not have repeated his six-feat here, but Yuvraj Singh rolled his arm over to take a hat-trick that firmly put Kings XI Punjab in pole position.Â
But all that was turned over by the old master Anil Kumble. Leading Royal Challengers, the wily veteran took two for 25 [...]
Kolkata Knight Riders made a good attempt at causing possibly the biggest surprise of the season so far but fell short despite smart bowling for most of Mumbai’s innings and a first fifty for them by Brad Hodge, who kept together a chase that threatened to fall away early on.
Mumbai turned the game irreversibly in [...]
