Four new Venues for IPL3 - One extra match for Third place

Third edition of IPL will have four new venues which will start from March 12 to April 25 2009. Four new venues are the Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala hosting some games of the Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab, respectively.

IPL3 will have 60 games instead of regular 59 games tournament and one extra game will be for third place between the losing semi-finalists and that team will qualify for the T20 Champions League.

Good news for ICL players as they can participate in IPL3 and they will be valued in two categories; Indian domestic players will be paid Rs 8-20 lakh ($18,000-45,000) while foreign players will be made available through auction, depending on their demand.

Strategic timeout will also reduced from seven-and-a-half minutes to five in third edition of IPL. IPL commissioner Lalit Modi also announced 2 extra franchises for the 2010 season through an auction to be held next January, and the tournament will expand from 60 games to 94.

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Deccan Chargers won the 2009 IPL Championship, beat Bangalore by 6 runs in the Final

Deccan Chargers won the 2009 IPL Championship by 6 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a low scoring tight final on Sunday, May 24th at Johannesburg. Deccan scored 143/6 and restricted bangalore to 137/9 in 20 overs.

Deccan Chargers scored 143/6 in 20 overs after they lost skipper Adam Gilchrist in 1st over by his counterpart Kumble but Herschell Gibbs scored 53 runs off 48 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes brought back them into the match well supported by Andrew Symonds and Rohit Sharma scored 33 runs and 24 runs respectively. Anil Kumble took 4 wickets for 16 runs in 4 overs for Bangalore.

In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost Kallis early in the inning but Roelf van der Merwe scored 32 runs off 21 balls and were 99/4 in 14 overs but Symonds took the wickets of Ross Taylor and Kohli in 2 balls to brought them back in the match.

Match Summary:

Deccan Chargers - 143/6 in 20 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore - 137/9 in 20 overs.

Result - Deccan Chargers won by 6 Runs and DLF IPL Cup.

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2009 IPL Final - Deccan Chargers (DC) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Live

The final of 2009 IPL will be played beteen two bottom placed teams, Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday, May 24th at Johannesburg. IPL2 final has scheduled to start at 16.30 PM local time.

Deccan won the last match comfortably against title favorite Delhi by 6 wickets with 14 balls remaining as captain Adam Gilchrist leading from the fron and he is a big match player, contributed well in all finals he had played for world champions Australia.

Royal Challengers Bangalore removed their test team status and won the last 5 matches in a roe beaten top teams of the tournament including Deccan Chargers. Manish Pandey is a new sensation scored century in the last match against Deccan and in the semi-final scored 48 runs and won two man of the match awardsin two matches he played this season.

Deccan Chargers Playing 11 for the IPL Final Match:

Adam Gilchrist (C/WK), Heschell Gibbs, Tirumalsetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao, Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, RP Singh, Ryan Harris, Azhar Bilakhia.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing 11 for the IPL Final Match:
Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Jesse Ryder, Mark Boucher (wk), KP Appanna, B Akhil, R Vinay Kumar, Anil Kumble (capt).

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Bangalore beat Chennai by 6 wickets to meet Deccan in the Final of 2009 IPL

Mainish Pandey once again played a handful inning to take Royal Bangalore Challengers in the final of 2009 IPL, as they comfortably beat favorite Chennai Super Kings in the 2nd semi final on Saturday, May 23rd at Johannesburg.

Chennai put 61 runs for the 1st wicket by openers Parthiv Patel and Mathew Hayden, scored 36 runs and 26 runs respectively but then tight bowling by Bangalore restricted Chennai to 146/5 in 20 overs, Dhoni also chipped with 28 runs but unable to make a competetive total.

Bangalore reduced to 22/2 but 3rd wicket partnership of 72 runsbetween Manish Pandey and Rahul Dravid, score 48 runs and 44 runs respectively put Bangalore in a comfortable position and then Kohli and Ross Taylor sealed a comfortable win with 7 balls remaining.

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore - 2009 IPL 2nd Semi Final

Last year runner up Chennai Super Kings will take last year 2nd last team Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2nd semifinal of 200p IPL on Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at Johannesburg.

Chennai Super Kings is looking favorite as Michael Hussey is also available and will replace out of form Jacob Oram along with tournament highest scorer Mathew Hayden. Muralitharan is also in good form to test Bangalore's middle order.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won their last 4 matches to reach the semis and defeated Channai in their last high scoring match. Bangalore will highly depend on Kallis, Ross Taylor, Dravid and last match hero Manish Pandey in batting deparment while in bowling Pravin Kumar taking regular wicket and Kumble is very economical.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11 for Today Match:

Parthive Patel, Matthew Hayden, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, S Badrinath, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Sudeep Tyagi, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing 11 for Today Match:

Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Jesse Ryder, Mark Boucher (wk), KP Appanna, B Akhil, R Vinay Kumar, Anil Kumble (capt).

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Deccan beat Delhi in 1st semifinal of 2009 IPL - Gilchrist hit fastest 50 of IPL

The worst team of 2008 IPL Deccan Chargers enters the final of 2009 IPL, as they beat Delhi Daredevils in the 1st semi-final by 6 wickets as captain Gichrist hit fastest half century of IPL in just 17 balls on Friday, May 22nd.


Delhi Daredevils lost 2 wickets without a run on the board and then Seheag and Dilshan then rebuilt the inning with a 85 runs partnership contributed 39 runs and 65 runs respectively. Ryan Harris and RP Singh took 2 wickets each.



Adam Gilchrist the lead from the front hit 5 ours in the 1st over of the inning and never allowed Delhi bowlers to bounce back in his innig of 85 runs off 35 balls with 10 fours and 5 sixes to take his team in the final of IPL2 on Sunday, May 24th.



Match Summary:

Delhi Daredevils - 153/8 in 20 overs.

Delhi Daredivils - 154/4 in 20 overs.

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First IPL Semi Final - Delhi Daredevils (DD) Vs Deccan Chargers (DC) - IPL 2009 57th Match

After 56 interesting & entertaining matches, Indian Premier League (IPL) 2009 finally reaches the first semi final between Delhi Daredevils and Deccan Chargers at SuperSport Park starting from 16.30 local time (SA), [14.30 GMT, 8.00PM IST.]

Delhi Daredevils are consistent from match 1 and are only the team in IPL 2009 not to have lost two matches in a row. Delhi has beaten each team in the IPL 2009 at least once. Delhi Daredevils are very happy to see that Sehwag and Gambhir finding form at just the right time and make the Delhi team even more dangerous. AB de Villiers, Tillakratne Dlishan and Dinesh Karthik all are delivering with the bat in middle overs. Delhi Daredevils bowling is also on top led by Ashish Nehra and Dirk Nannes while Amit Mishra, Daniel Vettori and Rajat Bhatia are bowling brilliantly in middle overs.

Deccan Chargers are also having good IPL till now. They have won some matches with efforts of Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Young Rohit Sharma who is also performing well in bowling too. R.P Singh is the leading wicket taker in this IPL 2009 till now and well supported by Pragyan Ojha in middle overs.

Delhi Daredevils Playing 11 for Today Match

Gautam Gambhir, David Warner, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Virender Sehwag(C), Dinesh Karthik(WK), Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashish Nehra, Dirk Nannes

Deccan Chargers Playing 11 for Today Match

Adam Gilchrist (C/WK), Heschell Gibbs, Tirumalsetti Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao, Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, RP Singh, Chaminda Vaas, Shoaib Ahmed.

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Manish Pandey Photos - Deccan Chargers (DC) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Match Photos, Pics, Image Highlights

Manish Pandey indeed Star of the Match for yesterdays tie between Deccan Chargers Hyderabad vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Te first ton by an Indian in an IPL came through this young start of Royal Challengers, and the knock came at the perfect moment when it was most required apposition in the semifinals. Not only did Bangalore Royal Challengers qualify to the semifinals but did it in style to play the second best team and not Delhi Daredevils for any hope for the finals.

Here are some stills of the Star of last match : Manish Pandey Photos

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Manish Pandey's Century helps Bangalore to finish 3rd, Deccan 4th

Manish Pandey, an under-19 batsman became the first Indian to score a century in IPL history and the 2nd player to score a century in this years edition of IPL2 , scoring a quickfire 114 runs off just 73 balls with 10 fours and 4 sixes thus guiding Royal Challengers Bangalore to a comfortable victory against Deccan and helping them to 3rd in the IPL rankings to avoid a clash with point leaders Delhi in the semi-finals.

Bangalore lost their last match hero Jacques Kallis in the 2nd over and Manish Pandey was offer a life when he was dropped earlier in the inning's proving a costly one for Deccan who went ahead and scored his maiden ton of 2009 IPL to take Bangalore to a competitive total of 170/4 in 20 overs.

Deccan then started strongly making 68 runs in 7 overs as Gibbs made 60 runs off 43 balls with 3 fours and 4 sixes but wickets falling at regular intervals due to some tight bowling by Anil Kumble and Akhil took 2 wickets each to restrict Deccan Chargers to 158/6 in 20 overs.

Deccan Chargers finished 4th in points table will meet top team Delhi Daredevils in the 1st semifinal on Friday, May 22nd, while 2nd position Chennai Super Kings will meet 3rd place Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2nd semifinal on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009.

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IPL 2009 Semifinals Schedule and Teams, IPL semifinal matches

The puzzle is almost solved of are which teams who will qualify for the semifinals of IPL 2009 Championship.

Teams who are sure to qualify for the semifinals are:

1. Delhi Daredevils, with 18 points and a match to play
2. Super Kings, with 17 points
3. Deccan Chargers, 14 points and 1 match yet to play
4. Bangalore Royal Challengers, 14 points and 1 match yet to play

These are the 4 most likely teams which should play the semifinals of this years edition of IPL.

Today’s matches will not hamper much of the top 4 teams unless Bangalore Royal Challengers loose with an utterly miserable run rate ( a loss with a deficit of 80 runs) against Deccan Chargers in tonight’s fixture.

The semifinals are going to be action packed with this years 4 top teams fighting hard to win the championship. Amazingly last year IPL 2008 bottom ranked teams - Deccan Chargers and Royal Challenger Bangalore made it to the semifinals of this year’s IPL2009

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Muralitharan Photos - Chennai Super Kings (CSK) vs Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) Match Photos, Pics, Image Highlights

Kings XI Punjab must have thought it was their day to make it to the semifinals as

Chennai Super Kings scored badly giving a meager target of 116 runs to chase.

Enters Muralitharan with his bag of tricks and he takes two vital wickets and gives away just 8 runs in his stipulated 4 overs.

Defending such a low score of below 6 runs an over was well handles by the spin department led by Murali, R Ashwin and Suresh Raina who scalped the important wicket of Yuvraj Singh.

The star of the match indeed is none other than Muralitharan

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Punjab crashed out of 2009 IPL, lost to Chennai by 24 runs in a must win game

Kings XI Punjab missed an easy chance to qualify for the 2009 IPL semis as they were unable to chase a low target of 116 runs and bowled out on 92/8 in 20 overs thus giving a 24 runs to Chennai Super Kings, finished 2nd spot in IPL2 points table with 17 points on Thursday, May 19th at Durban.

Chennai similar to Rajasthan Royal's inning in their innings failed to score a big score and managed only 116/9 in 20 overs even though they got a good start by Parthiv Patel and Bailey up the order with 40 runs in 5 overs.

Punjab started cautiously in tough condition's and were never allowed to score heavily by spinners Muralitharan, Ashwin and Suresh Raina, who shared 6 wickets only for 38 runs in 12 overs with 2 wickets each. Pomersbach was the highest scorer for Punjab scoring 26 runs.

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Vs Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) - IPL 2009 54th Match

In the 54th match of 2009 Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab will play an important match to qualify for the semifinals on Wednesday, 20th May, 2009 at Durban starting from 16.30 local time (SA), [14.30 GMT, 8.00PM IST.]

Chennai Super Kings was defeated by Kolkata Knight Riders who are already out of the race to the semifinals. Mathew Hayden will most likely comeback into squad in this match. The bowling is point of concern for Chennai Super Kings because none of their bowlers are performing consistently.

Kings XI Punjab caught good form by defeating two top teams Delhi Daredevils and Deccan Chargers in last consecutive matches. Kumar Sangakkara and Irfan Pathan are in great touch through the IPL. Piyush Chawla and Ramesh Powar have been impressive in the middle overs while Yuvraj who already has two hat tricks in this IPL 2009 is a black horse.

Chennai Super Kings Playing 11 for Today Match

Parthiv Patel, Matthew Hayden, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (C/WK), Albie Morkel, Jacob Oram, S Badrinath, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Sudeep Tyagi, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Kings XI Punjab Playing 11 for Today Match

Sunny Sohal, Simon Katich, Irfan Pathan, Kumar Sangakkara(WK), Yuvraj Singh(C), Wilkin Mota, Karan Goel, Mahela Jayawardene, Brett Lee, Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth

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Rajasthan Royals (RR) Vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) - IPL 2009 53rd Match

Rajasthan Royals takes on Kolkata Knight Riders to keep their hope alive for the place in semis.
Match will start at 12.30 pm (10.30 am GMT, 4.00 pm IST) in Durban, Kingsmead (Sahara Stadium).

The game of IPL is changing like politics and sensex of India, there are so many speculation's going around on who will qualify.


Kolkata Knight Riders has nothing to loose but gain some pride for the team and Shahrukh Khan the owner of KKR. But Rajasthan Royal who is striving hard to regain the championship will want to win this one to remain ahead. The major chink in the armour for Rajasthan Royals is their batting. Batsmen like Yusuf Pathan and Graeme Smith has not been consistent and dependable in several matches. If they have to keep the ray of hope alive they will have to perform like champions as they were in the last IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders seems to have gained some form but their attack is very poor. Pace baller like Ishant Sharma and Ajit Agarkar has perform below par.

Watch this game and expect a thrill out of it.

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Who will win IPL 2009 ?

It does not look like last years Champion’s Rajasthan Royal stand a chance this year. Or is it that they pull up their socks in the dying moments of the qualifying rounds of the championship.

Delhi Daredevils had a very good start of this IPL season and looks like to be the number one contender of taking the championship. But there is tough opposition by teams gunning for the championship as the likes of Chennai Super Kings who were last time runners up consistently performing and Deccan Chargers and the 4th place is still wide open based on the days performance.

Who do you think will qualify for the IPL semifinal’s?

Your comments are welcome.

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Jacques Kallis Photo - Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) vs Delhi Daredevils (DD) Match Photos, Pics, Image Highlights

Jacques Kallis was the Star of yesterdays match between Delhi Daredevils & Royal Challengers bowling an exceptional line and length to take a wicket and just giving away 17 runs in 4 overs restricting Delhi to a chaseable score. He did not stop there but ended the match with a good knock of unbeaten 58 runs in 56 balls with 2 boundaries and 2 sixes, holding the batting from one side leading the team to victory.

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Kallis keeps Bangalore hope alive in a must win over Delhi by 7 wickets

Jacques Kallis bowled a brilliantly taking 1 wicket and being economical giving away just 17 runs in 4 overs then also scored an unbeaten 58 runs to help Royal Challengers Bangalore beat title favorite Delhi Daredevils by 7 wicket with 6 balls remaining on Tuesday, May 19th at Johannesburg.

Delhi restricted to 134/7 in 20 overs as Pravin Kumar took 2 crucial wicket of Sehwag and Manhas in 1st over and then regular fall of wickets did not allow Delhi Daredevils to achieve a high score. Dinesh Kartik scored the highest with just 28 runs.

Bangalore slowly but steadily along with Dravid(38 runs) and Kallis 58 took control of the chase and a quickfire 25 of 13 balls with 3 big sixes towards the end by Ross Taylor saw Bangalore Royal Challengers through keeping alive the hope to make it to the semifinals. of IPL2009

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Delhi Daredevils (DD) Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - IPL 2009 52nd Match

In the 52nd match of 2009 Indian Premier League, Today’s match at Johannesburg, 16.30 local time (SA), 14.30 GMT, 8.00PM IST is a must win for the Royal Challengers Bangalore who find themselves at sixth position with 12 points but can still go through to the semi finals if they win their last two matches.

The Delhi Daredevils were completely dominant in their last match against the Rajasthan Royals. AB De Villiers, Dilshan and Dinesh Karthik are in great touch through out the tournament. Ashish Nehra is just two wickets away from the Purple Cap. Farveez Maharoof, Dirk Nannes and Amit are doing well and able to pick up wickets.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore have been playing pretty good cricket in the last few matches and won last match against Chennai Super Kings. Ross Taylor has been in great form with two consecutive match winning knocks. Royal Challengers are lacking in bowling compared to Delhi Daredevils.

Delhi Daredevils Playing 11 for Today Match

Gautam Gambhir, David Warner, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Virender Sehwag(C), Dinesh Karthik(WK), Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Pradeep Sangwan, Ashish Nehra, Dirk Nannes.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing 11 for Today Match

Anil Kumble (C), Jacques Kallis, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Jesse Ryder, Mark Boucher (WK), KP Appanna, B Akhil, R Vinay Kumar.

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Match Photos, Pics, Image Highlights - Brad Hodge Photo

Brad Hodge and Brandon McCullum were the stars of the match as they together put the finest chase of 2009 IPL with unbeaten 71 runs off 44 balls and 81 runs off 48 balls respectively.

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McCullum and Hodge thrashed Chennai in a last ball thriller for Kolkata

In an one of the finest chase of 2009 IPL, out of the tournament Kol chased down 188 runs on the last ball of the match against Chennai Super Kings and finally take some pride in the dissmal show so far in the tournament on Monday, May 19, at Centurion.

Chennai Super Kings batted 1st made 188/3 in 20 overs thanks to well contribution by Raina made 52 runs, Bailey 30 runs, Parthive Pate 25 runs, Dhoni 40 not out and 10 balls 21 runs Saha.

IPL then witnessed one of the thrilling chase with Brandon McCullum and Brad Hodge put 90 runs for the 2nd wicket in 10 overs contributed 81 runs off 48 balls and unbeaten 71 runs off 44 balls with four sixes respectively to registering a stunning win and brought some smile and pride for SRK and Kolkata fans. Saha also contributed 13 balls 25 runs in the last ball thriller.

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