Pune Warriors crush Kings XI Punjab for a 7 wicket win

Yuvraj Singh led the new franchise (Pune Warriors) to a great win against his old foes Kings XI Punjab. Gilly the new Kings XI Punjab captain won the toss and elected to bat. The early fall of captain himself was a big setback and the players who followed him never applied their minds and fell like a pack of cards.R McLaren was the star and stand out player of Kings XI Punjab. He scored a 50 of 43 balls which helped them to reach to some respectable total. They ended up scoring 112 runs in their alloted 20 overs.

In came Pune Warriors with a easy target to chase. The early dismissal of Grame Smith gave some ray of hope of Kings XI Punjab but some nice cameos by Ryder , Robin Uthappa , Yuvi and M Manhas saw the Pune Warriors home with a 7 wicket victory with 7 overs to spare. This is the first match for Pune Warriors in IPL 4 and they have opened their account in style.

IPL 2 : Points table before semi-finals.Delhi Daredevils top the table

The IPL2 has gone up very well and we have seen some very close matches even this year.The josh is still there for cricket.Only team in this IPL has cemented its dominance so far in this IPL and it is Delhi Daredevils.Sehwag and Gambir have not performed much and still Delhi have topped the table.Still one match to go for each team before semi-finals.Two teams have confirmed their Semis berth.One being the best team so far none other than the Delhi Daredevils and the second team being the Chennai Superb Kings.The main reason for CSK to make it to the semis is mainly because of Mathew Hayden and the cool captaincy of M.S.Dhoni.



The rest of the teams who are in contention for semi-finals are Deccan Charges , Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab.These three teams are in contention while Rajasthan Royals have slipped slightly.The two teams who are out of the tournament are Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders.I guess the finals will be between Delhi Daredevils and Chennai Superb Kings.They are the two best teams in this IPL so far.We have to wait and see who will be the winner.Since predicting a winner is a very tough job.

IPL 2 : Yuvraj gets the first hatrick of IPL 2009

Yuvraj Sing the captain of Kings XI Punjab did it this time with both bat and ball. He scored 50 runs with the bat and took the first hat-rick of IPL 2009.The match was between Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore.Yuvi bowled really well to get three wickets.the players that Yuvi got are

1) Robin Uthappa

2) Jacques Kallis

3) Piyush Chawla

Out of these 3 wickets his 2nd and 3rd wicket was mainly because of his arm ball.He is maturing as a player and he can be a potential all rounder for India.Seeing his heroics Bishan Bedi keen to work on Yuvraj's bowling.He said he could give tips to Yuvraj to fine tune his bowling so that he can be really handy for India

IPL 2 : Highest individual scores

So far in this second edition of the IPL we have only one century from A.b.deVilliers ( 105 ).Very good innings from him.The next best was from Raina in the math against Rajasthan Royals.The scoreboard showed that he was 100 when he got out.But he was only 98 . I rate the way he played that is one of the best innings in this IPL so far.

IPL 2 : Highlights of Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.They could not score at great pace and managed only very little in the allotted 20 overs.This was mainly because they lost wickets at regular intervals. All the batting big guns of Punjab had to go early except Sangakkara who played well for his unbeaten 45.Punjab scored 119 in their allotted 20 overs.In reply Mumbai Indians scored 116 /7 in their allotted 20 overs.

Picture 1 : Yuvraj is very dejected and looks at his bat



Picture 2 : Sachin and Malinga celebrate the fall of Mahela's wicket



Picture 3 : Malinga celebrates after the fall of Ravi Bopara's wicket



Picture 4: Pathan is congratulated after dismissing dangerous Jayasuriya



Picture 5: Dumminy played a great innings before he was foxed by Abdulla



Picture 6 : Abdulla runs towards Yuvraj after a breath taking final over


Scoreboard

Kings XI Punjab

119/8 in 20 overs ( Kumar Sangakkara 45* )

Malinga 4-0-12-2

Mumbai Indians
116/7 in 20 overs ( Dumminy 59 )

Abdulla 4-0-19-2..

RESULT : Kings XI Punjab win by 3 runs and gain 2 points

IPL2 Match 3: Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab RESULT: Delhi Daredevils won the match by 10 wickets

The third Match of the IPL was between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab.both the teams are very good on paper and extremely strong.So we all expected a great match.Preity Zinta was cheering the Kings XI Punjab.But the rain had the last laugh.The shortened version o the game was much more shortened.Kings XI Punjab scored for 104 in the allotted 12 overs.

Rain interrupted again and The Delhi Daredevils won the match by 10 wickets.Great on onslaught by Sehwag and Gauti.Delhi Daredevils where home comfortably.They scored 58 runs in 5 overs.

Parade by all team before the IPL 2009

IPL 2009 in South Africa started in grand style.All the teams had a parade and the whole scene was really colorful.There where many programs that was there and most of them where very entertaining.Out of all the programs the teams had a parade which looked very colorful and the noise that the crowd made looked how crazy the South African people where for cricket.

I am adding some of the pics which look very colorful.Waiting for your comments.If you like this post leve a comment.I will come with more updates.

I'm not afraid of terrorists, says Brett Lee

Brett Lee is very resolute and wants to prove a point in this IPL season 2 and get back his place in the Australian side.He terms that IPL is the correct platform for him to get back to form.Since in IPL the best players even of the same team compete against each other.

Brett Lee is very happy that the IPL 2 takes place.He feels that it would have been better if matches were conducted in India and he has full faith in the security provided by India.The only thing for which Brett Lee and other Australian players feel said is that if IPL was in England it would have been idle preparation for the Ashes for them.

Any way lets hope the Brett Lee makes huge contribution to his team Kings XI Punjab and gets back his place in the Australian Team.

Sreesanth to miss IPL 2

S Sreesanth will miss the Indian Premier League's (IPL-2) due to a stress fracture in his lower back.This is information was announced by the Kings XI Punjab spokes person.
Sreesanth is right now in Sydney receiving treatment from the Kings XI Punjab physio Patrick Farhart.When Sreesanth was asked abouth thi she told that he was immensly disappointed to miss the IPL since he had thought this could be a very good platform to get back to the Indian Team but he has to wait until the next season.this time around he will be acting as Kings XI Punjab's fan mentor and communtiy face.