IPL round up till 20th April Sunday

1st match 18th April

Bangaluru: Kolkata Knight Rider(KKR) defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers(BRC) by 140 runs thanks to the record breaking effort by Brendon Mcullum who made 158 from merely 73 balls.

Breif Score:

KKR

Batting: 222/3, Mcullum-158(10-4s, 13-6s), Ponting-20, D Hussey-12, Ganguly-10

Bowling: Agarkar-3/25, Ishant-1/7, Dinda-2/9, Ganguly-2/21, L Shukla-1/12

BRC

Batting: 82/10, Praveen-18*

Bowling: Zaheer-1/38, Noffke-1/40, Kallis-1/48

Result: KKR defeated BRC by 140 runs.

2nd Match 19th April

Mohali: Chennai Super Kings(CSK) won this match by 33 runs thanks to the Hussey's heroic effort 116 from just 54 balls as he taken only 50 balls to score fastest hundred in the league and broke the record of Mcullum 53 balls hundred that he created against BRC last night.

Breif Score:

CSK

Batting: 240/5, M Hussey-116(8-4s, 9-6s), S Raina-32, Badrinath-31*, Hayden-25
Bowling: Muralidharan-1/33, M Gony-1/42, Amarnath-1/42, Jogendar-1/47

PKXI
Batting: 207/4, Hopes-71(10-4s, 3-6s), Sangakara-54, Goel-24, Yuvraj-23, Katich-21*

Bowling: I Pathan-2/47, Bret Lee-1/35, Mota-1/24, Hopes-1/53
Result: CSK won by 33 runs

3rd Match 19th April

New Delhi: Delhi DareDevils(DD) won by 9 wickets as RajasthanRoyals(RR) put merely 129 on board, Gambhir and Dhawan made 58 and 52 not out respectively.

Breif Score:

RR

Batting: 129/8, R Jadeja-29, Salunke-26*, Watson-21

Bowling: Watson-1/31

DD

Batting: 132/1, Gambhir-58*(7-4s, 1-6s), Dhawan-52*, Sehwag-12

Bowling: Mahroof-2/11, Bhatia-2/17, Mcgrath-1/21, Vettori-1/35

Result: DD won by 9 wickets

4th Match 20th April

Kolkata: Kolkata KnightRiders(KKR) won by 5 wickets. Hyderabad DeccanChargers(DC) put only 110 runs on a rough wicket.

Breif Score:

DC

Batting: 110/10, Symonds-32(2-4s, 2-6s), Gilchrist-23

Bowling: Vaas-2/9, Ojha-2/18, RP Singh-1/15

KKR

Batting: 112/5, D Hussey-38*(1-4s, 3-6s), Ganguly-14

Bowling: Karthik-3/17, Agarkar-2/19, Hafeez-1/8, Ishant-1/9, Dinda-1/18, D Hussey-1/35

Result: KKR won by 5 wickets

5th Match 20th April

Mumbai: Bangalore RoyalChallengers(BRC) won this match 5 wickets. Mumbai Indians(MI) got weaker due to absence of Tendulkar.

Breif score:

MI

Batting: 165/6, Uthappa-48(5-4s, 1-6s), Jayasuriya-29, Pollock-28

Bowing: Harbhajan-2/36, Kulkarni-1/19, Jayasuriya-1/39, Nehra-1/45

BRC

Batting: 166/5, Boucher-39*(4-4s, 2-6s), Dravid-32, Kallis-25, R Taylor-23, Kohli-23

Bowling: Zaheer-2/17, Akhil-2/17, Praveen-1/29

Result: BRC won by 5 wickets

IPL all set to roll today in a few hours

Bangalore: History will be created here as the mutli-million dollar IPL event gets under way in just a few hours. In the past, the Chinnaswamy stadium has hosted cricket matches and Miss World pageants; but for the first time, entertainment and sport — in that order — will converge in a big way. It will be interesting to see which comes out on top at the end of the night. For their part, Bangalore fans will be hoping that their team hands out a royal defeat to Team Kolkata in the inaugural match on Friday night; the visitors will be hoping to ride on some luck and pluck to start off on a victorious note too. The organisers — thanks to the local association — have remembered to lay out a lush green outfield and a cricket pitch too; this despite the primary task of putting up a stage for the artists, along with power lasers from the rooftop and massive speakers all along the ground. People in charge have no doubts that the pitch will remain true for the entire 40 overs. But will the highly paid cricketers live up to expectations and deliver a cracker of an opener? We will have to wait and see. There is no dearth of stars in either side. Both are led by former Indian captains and contain a host of international stars, with four from each side allowed to take the field as per the rules of the tournament. The total prize money of Rs 12 crore (the winner gets Rs 4.8 crore), ensures that the players will be interested till the very end. Big money has attracted the biggest of stars and led to an international integration that will see Australians team up with New Zealanders, South Africans with Sri Lankans along with the mother of all combinations, Indians with Pakistanis. If Dravid, the Bangalore skipper, has players such as Jaques Kallis and Mark Boucher with the experience to help him out on the field, Kolkata’s Ganguly will look to Ricky Ponting for support.