2008 Indian Premier League Twenty20 - Cricket

[Dougie]

NSW TAB FIXED ODDS
21911 BANGALORE 8.00
21912 CHENNAI 5.00
21913 DELHI 8.00
21914 DECCAN (HYDERABAD) 4.00
21915 RAJASTHAN (JAIPUR) 11.00
21916 KOLKATA 6.00
21917 PUNJAB (MOHALI) 7.00
21918 MUMBAI 7.00


Royal Challengers Bangalore

Abdur Razzak Bangladesh All rounder LHB
Anil Kumble India Bowler RHB
B. Arun Kumar India RHB
Balachandra Akhil India RHB
Bharat Chipli India RHB
Cameron White Australia Bowler RHB
Dale Steyn South Africa Bowler RHB
Devraj Patil India RHB
Jacques Kallis South Africa All rounder RHB
K. P. Appanna India RHB
Mark Boucher South Africa Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Misbah-Ul-Haq Pakistan Batsman RHB
Nathan Bracken Australia Bowler RHB
Praveen Kumar India RHB
Rahul Dravid India Batsman RHB
Ross Taylor New Zealand Batsman RHB
Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies Batsman LHB
Sreevats Goswami India LHB
Sunil Joshi India All rounder LHB
Vinay Kumar India RHB
Virat Kohli India RHB
Wasim Jaffer India Batsman RHB
Zaheer Khan India Bowler RHB


Chennai Super Kings

Abhinav Mukund India LHB
Albie Morkel South Africa All rounder LHB
Anirudha Srikkanth India RHB
Arun Karthik India RHB
Jacob Oram New Zealand All rounder LHB
Jaydev Shah India LHB
Joginder Sharma India All rounder RHB
Lakshmipathy Balaji India Bowler RHB
Makhaya Ntini South Africa Bowler RHB
Manpreet Gony India Bowler RHB
Matthew Hayden Australia Batsman LHB
Michael Hussey Australia Batsman LHB
MS Dhoni India Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Muttiah Muralitharan Sri Lanka Bowler RHB
Napoleon Einstein India RHB
P. Amarnath India
Parthiv Patel India Wicket keeper/Batsman LHB
Ravichandran Ashwin India RHB
S Suresh Kumar India RHB
S. Vidyut India LHB
Shadab Jakati India LHB
Stephen Fleming New Zealand Batsman LHB
Subramaniam Badrinath India RHB
Sudeep Tyagi India RHB
Suresh Raina India Batsman LHB
Viraj Kadbe India RHB


Delhi Daredevils

AB De Villiers South Africa Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Amit Mishra India RHB
Brett Geeves Australia RHB
Daniel Vettori New Zealand Bowler LHB
Dinesh Karthik India Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Farveez Maharoof Sri Lanka All rounder RHB
Gautam Gambhir India Batsman LHB
Glenn McGrath Australia Bowler RHB
Manoj Tiwary India Batsman RHB
Mayank Tehlan India RHB
Mithun Manhas India RHB
Mohammad Asif Pakistan Bowler LHB
Pradeep Sangwan India RHB
Rajat Bhatia India RHB
Shikhar Dhawan India LHB
Shoaib Malik Pakistan All rounder RHB
Tejeswi Yadav India
Tillakeratne Dilshan Sri Lanka All rounder RHB
Virender Sehwag India Batsman RHB
Yo Mahesh India RHB
Yogesh Nagar India RHB


Hyderabad Deccan Chargers

Adam Gilchrist Australia Wicket keeper/Batsman LHB
Andrew Symonds Australia All rounder RHB
Arjun Yadav India RHB
Chaminda Vaas Sri Lanka Bowler LHB
Haldar Das India RHB
Herschelle Gibbs South Africa Batsman RHB
Kalyan Krishna India RHB
Nuwan Zoysa Sri Lanka Bowler LHB
Pragyan Ojha India LHB
Ravi Teja India RHB
Rohit Sharma India Batsman RHB
RP Singh India Bowler RHB
Sanjay Bangar India RHB
Sarvesh Kumar India RHB
Scott Styris New Zealand All rounder RHB
Shahid Afridi Pakistan All rounder RHB
Venugopal Rao India RHB
Vijay Kumar India RHB
VVS Laxman India Batsman RHB


Kolkata Knight Riders

Aakash Chopra India Batsman RHB
Ajit Agarkar India All rounder RHB
Brendon McCullum New Zealand Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Cheteshwar Pujara India RHB
Chris Gayle West Indies All rounder LHB
David Hussey Australia All rounder RHB
Debabrata Das India RHB
Iqbal Abdullah India LHB
Ishant Sharma India Bowler RHB
Laxmi Ratan Shukla India RHB
Mohammad Hafeez Pakistan All rounder RHB
Murali Kartik India Bowler LHB
Ranadeb Bose India Bowler RHB
Ricky Ponting Australia Batsman RHB
Rohan Banerjee India LHB
Salman Butt Pakistan Batsman LHB
Shoaib Akhtar Pakistan Bowler RHB
Siddarth Kaul India RHB
Sourasish Lahiri India RHB
Sourav Ganguly India Batsman LHB
Tatenda Taibu Zimbabwe Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Umar Gul Pakistan Bowler RHB
W. P. Saha India RHB
Yashpal Singh India RHB


Kings XI Punjab

Ajitesh Argal India RHB
Brett Lee Australia Bowler RHB
Irfan Pathan India All rounder LHB
James Hopes Australia All rounder RHB
Karan Goel India LHB
Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka Wicket keeper/Batsman LHB
Kyle Mills New Zealand Bowler RHB
Luke Pomersbach Australia Batsman RHB
Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka Batsman RHB
Mohammed Mudasir India
Nitin Saini India RHB
Pankaj Dharmani India Batsman RHB
Piyush Chawla India Bowler LHB
Ramesh Powar India Bowler RHB
Ramnaresh Sarwan West Indies Batsman RHB
Rishi Dhawan India RHB
S Sreesanth India Bowler RHB
Sahil Kukreja India
Simon Katich Australia Batsman LHB
Sunny Sohal India RHB
Tanmay Srivastava India LHB
Uday Kaul India LHB
VRV Singh India Bowler RHB
Wilkin Mota India RHB
Yash Gandhi India
Yuvraj Singh India Batsman LHB


Mumbai Indians

Abhishek Nayar India LHB
Ajinkya Rahane India RHB
Ankeet Chavan India RHB
Ashish Nehra India Bowler RHB
Ashwell Prince South Africa Batsman LHB
Dhaval Kulkarni India RHB
Dilhara Fernando Sri Lanka Bowler RHB
Dominic Thornely Australia Batsman RHB
Gaurav Dhiman India RHB
Harbhajan Singh India Bowler RHB
Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka Bowler RHB
Loots Bosman South Africa Batsman RHB
Luke Ronchi Australia RHB
Manish Pandey India RHB
Musavir Khote India RHB
Pinal Shah India RHB
Rajesh Pawar India Bowler LHB
Robin Uthappa India Batsman RHB
Rohan Raje India RHB
Sachin Tendulkar India Batsman RHB
Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka All rounder LHB
Saurabh Tiwary India LHB
Shaun Pollock South Africa All rounder RHB
Siddharth Chitnis India RHB
Swapnil Singh India RHB
Vikrant Yelligeti India RHB
Yogesh Takawale India RHB


Rajasthan Royals

Aditya Angle India All rounder
Anup Revandkar India RHB
Dimitri Mascarenhas England All rounder RHB
Dinesh Salunkhe India RHB
Graeme Smith South Africa Batsman LHB
Jaydev Shah India Batsman
Justin Langer Australia Batsman LHB
Kamran Akmal Pakistan Wicket keeper/Batsman RHB
Mahesh Rawat India RHB
Mohammad Kaif India Batsman RHB
Morne Morkel South Africa Bowler LHB
Munaf Patel India Bowler RHB
Neeraj Patel India LHB
Parag More India All rounder
Pankaj Singh India Bowler RHB
Ravindra Jadeja India LHB
Shane Warne Australia Bowler RHB
Shane Watson Australia All rounder LHB
Siddharth Trivedi India RHB
Sohail Tanvir Pakistan All rounder LHB
Sumeet Khatri India LHB
Swapnil Asnodkar India RHB
Taruwar Kohli India RHB
Younis Khan Pakistan Batsman RHB
Yusuf Pathan India All rounder RHB

Fixtures
Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders

Friday Apr 18 (20:00 - IST)

Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings

Saturday Apr 19 (17:00 - IST)

Who do you think will win the IPL?
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Chennai Super Kings
Delhi Daredevils
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai Indians
Rajasthan Royals

[Punter]

hope Warnie got his supply of baked beans sent over. He could be up for a few more pitch reports to

[Dougie]

Brendon McCullum scored a unbeaten 158 runs from 73 balls. It was a super display of batting giving this tournament a real boost.

[Dougie]

Cricket
McCullum smashes 158 in IPL opener
From correspondents in Bangalore, India
April 19, 2008 THE controversial Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition kicked off in Bangalore with Australia captain Ricky Ponting's side scoring a crushing opening night win.

Captained by Sourav Ganguly, Kolkata Knight Riders amassed a huge 3-222 from their 20 overs, with New Zealander Brendon McCullum smashing 158 from just 73 balls.

Ponting hit 20 from 20 deliveries and fellow Australian David Hussey 12 from 12.

In reply, Bangalore Royal Challengers - featuring Australians Cameron White and Ashley Noffke - were all out for 82.

A crowd of 55,000 in Bangalore were also treated to a huge fireworks display and an appearance by cheerleaders from NFL team Washington Redskins.

[Dougie]

Hussey guides Kolkata to IPL win
05:48 AEST Mon Apr 21 2008

Australia's David Hussey produced a match-highest score of 38 on a minefield of a pitch at Eden Gardens to guide the Kolkata Knight Riders to a five-wicket victory in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament.

Hussey's 38 off 43 balls helped his side to 5-112 in reply to the Deccan Chargers' total of 110 all out.

The low scoring affair was ensured by a pitch which spun sharply and produced puffs of dust as the pacemen's deliveries at times exploded off the deck.

Australian Test skipper Ricky Ponting made a first ball duck in his second IPL outing, trapped LBW by Sri Lankan veteran Chaminda Vaas.

The competition's highest paid player, Australian Andrew Symonds, made 32 from 39 balls for the Chargers while team-mate and compatriot Adam Gilchrist made 23 from 22.

In Sunday night's other match, the Bangalore Royal Challengers beat the Mumbai Indians by five wickets in Mumbai.

Mumbai suffered a setback before the match when superstar Sachin Tendulkar was ruled out with injury.

Things only got worse, though, with Australian all-rounder Dominic Thornely forced to retire hurt on nought when he was struck on the helmet grill by a Zaheer Khan bouncer

[Dougie]

Aussie Shanes reign in Royals IPL win
06:24 AEST Tue Apr 22 2008

Shane Watson and Shane Warne have produced sovereign performances to catapult the Rajasthan Royals to a six-wicket victory in the Indian Premier League.

The blond Australian pair reigned supreme at Sawai Mansingh Stadium as the Jaipur-based team chased down Kings XI Punjab's total of 8-166 with 11 balls to spare.

Captain-coach Warne (3-19 off four overs) pulled out all of his old tricks to put the brakes on Brett Lee's side before Watson (76no off 49 balls) edged his skipper out for man of the match honours.

Not even a faulty bat could slow down Watson's assault on the bowlers, the allrounder clobbering a six despite his bat snapping in half during the impact of striking the medium-pace of compatriot James Hopes.

Watson cleared the boundary five times in all with one savage blow landing on top of the low stands at the ground before he scored the winning runs by crunching the impulsive Shantha Sreesanth for four.

However the reason that Watson and the Royals faced such an achievable target was almost entirely down to Warne.

The Twenty20 format is supposed to be a graveyard for bowlers but Warne showed that class counted in any form of the game with a masterful little spell.

With the Kings XI Punjab having cruised to 1-54 off six overs, Warne thrust himself into the attack and struck with just his third ball by removing Kumar Sangakkara (20 off eight balls).

The damaging Sri Lankan slapped a sharp return catch into the spin wizard's big hands.

Warne continued to turn the heat up on the opposition in his very next over, having Hopes (16) trapped in front as the visitors slipped to 4-73.

And they should have been in even deeper trouble but Darren Lehmann dropped an absolute sitter off Yuvraj Singh (57 off 34 balls) in Warne's third over.

Yuvraj was on 15 when he skied a Warne delivery but the ball somehow slipped through Lehmann's fingers.

Warne pulled himself out of the attack before returning in the 17th over to remove Yuvraj, who by that time had produced a half century.

The displays of Warne and Watson continued the strong influence that Australian players are exerting in the inaugural competition.

The Royals improved their record to 1-1 after losing their opening match to the Glenn McGrath's Delhi Daredevils while the Kings XI Punjab have dropped their first two matches.

[neverpromise]

I heard briefly on the news there was a bit of slapping going on ?

[Dougie]

And a bit of crying

[Dougie]

Harbhajan banned over slapping row
07:22 AEST Tue Apr 29 2008

India spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for the remainder of the domestic Twenty20 league after he was found guilty of slapping compatriot Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.

Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi told a news conference that the cricketer would be fined all of his match fees from the tournament.

The incident happened on Friday, minutes after the Mumbai team captained by Harbhajan lost to Mohali. Television cameras showed opposition paceman Sreesanth sobbing.

"As a penalty for the level 4.2 offence committed by Mr Harbhajan Singh, we hereby order that Mr Harbhajan Singh be banned for the rest of the remaining matches of the first IPL event," Modi announced after the committee viewed the footage of the incident and interviewed the parties.

"We also order that Mr Harbhajan Singh be fined 100 per cent of any player fee that may have been paid or may hereafter be paid to him in respect of the remaining matches only. That does not take into account any of the two earlier matches (prior to Friday) that he may have played," Modi added.

Harbhajan and Sreesanth were presented at the news conference and hugged each other and posed for the cameras.

"I have made a big mistake and have got the punishment," Harbhajan said. "The (Indian) board has always supported me and I hope they will continue to do it.

"I want to return from the ban in a happy frame of mind."

Match referee and former India player Farokh Engineer added that Sreesanth, 25, has also been warned to be on good behaviour.

Under the ICC code of conduct rules, a 4.2 offence refers to a physical assault and carries a minimum ban of 10 games and a maximum life ban from play.

Modi said TV footage not aired live showed Harbhajan slap Sreesanth when both teams queued up to shake hands.

Mumbai team manager Lalchand Rajput was found guilty of conduct contravening the spirit of the game and fined 50 per cent of his match fee.

Rajput, the former India assistant coach, was found guilty for not trying to restrain Harbhajan despite being right behind him when the incident happened, Modi said.

Harbhajan can appeal against the decision, though that appeared unlikely following his comments.

The Indian board also ordered an independent investigation into the slapping incident.

In January, the spinner escaped with a fine after appealing against a three-Test ban by the International Cricket Council match referee for alleged racial comments against Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds during India's Test tour.

[Dougie]

Mumbai Indians shrugged off the loss of off-spinner Harbhajan Singh to claim their maiden Indian Premier League win against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens.

Just 24 hours after Harbhajan was ruled out of the remainder of the IPL by an 11-match ban handed down for slapping India team-mate Sreesanth in Friday's encounter with Kings XI Punjab, the Indians posted a seven-wicket win to kick-start their campaign.

West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo shone for the Indians with an unbeaten knock of 64 from 53 balls - the first individual half-century for the franchise in five IPL outings.

The Knight Riders' total of 8-137 never looked like it would be sufficient after Sanath Jayasuriya ran roughshod through the hosts' order with a tournament-best 3-14 from four overs.

Bravo and Robin Uthappa duly took the visitors beyond their victory target in 18.4 overs with an unbeaten 113-run fourth-wicket partnership.

The hosts made a miserable start to their innings and found themselves two wickets down inside the first over.

Captain Sourav Ganguly fell for just four runs, caught by Jayasuriya at first slip off the bowling of Shaun Pollock, who was skippering the Indians in the absence of the injured Sachin Tendulkar and the disgraced Harbhajan.

The third-choice captain was clearly thriving in his new role and struck again to remove Brendon McCullum just two balls later, the opener trapped lbw on his final appearance before he joins up with the New Zealand squad in England.

Debabrata Das joined Ricky Ponting in the middle and the pair put on 34 runs before the former's brisk 29 from 20 deliveries was brought to an end when he lofted Bravo's delivery to Uthappa at point.

Ponting, himself contesting his final IPL game before linking up with Australia, hit 19 before he was run out, while David Hussey (17) and Mohammad Hafeez (two) both fell to Jayasuriya in the 14th over to leave Kolkata wobbling on 6-77.

Laxmi Ratan Shukla brought some semblance of respectability to the hosts' total as he hit two sixes and four fours on his way to an unbeaten 40, but he ran out of overs before he had chance to set the Indians a truly challenging victory target.

The Indians' response got off to a stuttering start when Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed for four in the third over, Hussey taking the catch at mid on off the bowling of Ajit Agarkar.

Jayasuriya added 18 runs before he was bowled by Ishant Sharma while home hopes were raised further when Manish Pandey edged Ashok Dinda's delivery onto his stumps having failed to trouble the scorers.

But the quality of Bravo and Uthappa ensured the visitors claimed their first points of the inaugural IPL campaign as the pair dug in to frustrate the home attack.

Bravo hit nine boundaries on his way to a long-overdue first fifty for the hosts, while Uthappa survived being dropped on five by Das as he compiled a run-a-ball 37 before his strike partner hit the winnings runs with eight balls to spare.