IPL Match Results
Chandila, Watson help Rajasthan Royals register big win over Pune Warriors: IPL 2012
Category: Cricket News,IPL,IPL Match Results,IPL Pune Warriors,IPL Rajasthan RoyalsAjit Chandila claimed four wickets, including the first hat-trick of the season, in a sensational spin-bowling spell as Rajasthan Royals crushed Pune Warriors by 45 runs in a lop-sided Indian Premier League match on Sunday.
Little-known Chandila claimed his four wickets for just 13 runs from four overs as he single-handedly demolished Pune, who were already out of play-offs contention. The Haryana off-spinner needed just 17 balls to grab his four wickets.
Chandila, who was playing in only his second match of the IPL, was though not getting prodigious turn from the Sawai Man Singh Stadium pitch and the batsmen were also partly to be blamed for their poor shots.
With the win today, Rajasthan remained in contention for a play-offs spot with 14 points from 14 matches.
Set to score a challenging 171 for a win, the match was as good as over for Pune by the fifth over when they were down four wickets for just 26 with their top-four failing to reach double digit.
Captain Sourav Ganguly, who was embroiled in a controversy over his place in the team, scored two while Jesse Ryder, Robin Uthappa and Anustup Majumdar made one, six and nine respectively.
Steven Smith top-scored with 37 while Callum Fergusson and Angelo Mathews made identical 23. Smith and Mathews shared 39 runs from four overs for the sixth wicket to give a semblance of a fight before the former was out in the 15th over.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3), Mathews and Rahul Sharma (0) were out in the space of 11 balls with the latter two falling in the 18th over, both victims of Watson as Pune could only score 125 for nine in the end.
Other than Chandila, Watson and Johan Botha bagged two wickets each while pacer Shaun Tait took one wicket to complete the humiliation of Pune.
Pune made a disastrous beginning in their run chase with two wickets falling in the very first over bowled by Chandila.
Struggling Jesse Ryder (1) was out in the fifth ball of the innings. The New Zealnader failed to connect the delivery properly and he skied it to Watson at the mid-on region. He faced two balls.
Royal Challengers Bangalore crush Pune Warriors by 35 runs: IPL 2012
Category: IPL,IPL Match Results,IPL Pune Warriors,IPL Royal Challengers BangaloreHalf-centuries from Chris Gayle and Tillakaratne Dilshan combined with an excellent bowling effort helped Royal Challengers Bangalore crush Pune Warriors by 35 runs and to go fourth in the IPL Points Table.
While Bangalore are now placed third in the table with 15 points, the Warriors slumped to their seventh straight defeat to continue to languish at number eight.
Gayle (57 off 31) and Dilshan (53 off 44) helped Royal Challengers to a challenging 173 for three after they were asked to bat by new Pune skipper Steven Smith.
Regular Pune skipper Sourav Ganguly ‘rested’ himself in the match and the side made as many as five changes but nothing helped them as they swallowed yet another defeat.
Chasing 174, the hosts made the worst possible start as paceman Zaheer Khan removed Mohnish Mishra (4) and Manish Pandey (0) in the very first over.
Australian skipper Michael Clarke (13) yet again came a cropper as all Pune managed was 138 for nine in 20 overs.
R Vinay Kumar (3/32), Muttiah Muralitharan (2/16) and Zaheer (2/21) all contributed in Pune’s rout by striking intermittently.
Robin Uthappa’s fiery 38 before being stumped off Muralitharan and Anustup Majumdar’s sensible knock of 31 was the only resistance that came from the home side.
Earlier, Gayle and Dilshan laid a very strong platform for a big score and later Saurabh Tiwary (36 not out off 30) also contributed in team’s total.
The visitors had a fiery start, yet again thanks to Gayle’s pyrotechnics with the bat. Gayle and Dilshan put on 80 runs for the first wicket in just 51 balls.
Gayle was his usual attacking self as he smashed six sixes, four in one over of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, to score the fastest fifty of the season in just 24 balls.
Dilshan played second fiddle to Gayle but later on took the responsibility to guide the side to a decent total.
Chennai Super Kings beat Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets: IPL 2012
Category: Cricket News,IPL,IPL Chennai Super Kings,IPL Match Results,IPL Rajasthan RoyalsChennai Super Kings kept alive their chances of qualifying for the play-offs by eking out a four-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in a crucial Indian Premier League match on Thursday.
With this win, Chennai are now placed fourth in the IPL Points Table.
After restricting Rajasthan to 126 for six, CSK rode on Albie Morkel and Srikkanth Anirudha’s late bursts to romp home with 11 balls to spare.
However, CSK’s run chase were off to a bad start as they lost wickets at regular intervals to totter at 84 for six at one stage.
Chasing a modest total, CSK were dealt an early blow when Shane Watson went through the defence of a struggling Murali Vijay in the first over.
New man in Suresh Raina (23 off 17) played a cameo before he was brilliantly caught by Ajinkya Rahane off Pankaj Singh.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s decision to promote Dwayne Bravo up the order failed to yield the desired result after the West Indian was caught at deep square-leg by Stuart Binny off Siddharth Trivedi in the 12th over.
To make matters worse for CSK, Michael Hussey fell victim of an uncessary mix up with Dhoni in the next over.
Needing 30 off the last three overs, Morkel and Anirudha scored identical six-ball 18 and stitched undefeated 43 runs for the seventh wicket to guide CSK to the vital win.
Morkel and Anirudha tore apart the Australian duo of Watson and Shaun Tait to notch up the required runs in 18.1 overs.
By virtue of this win, CSK moved up to the fourth position in the standings with 13 points from as many games, while Rajasthan have slipped to the sixth spot with 12 points from 13 games.
Earlier, CSK produced a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Rajasthan to 126 for six.
Sent into bat, Ben Hilfenhaus (2/8) produced a stunning opening spell to dent Rajasthan’s prospects at the start.
Warner powers Delhi Daredevils to a thumping win over Deccan Chargers: IPL 2012
Category: IPL,IPL Deccan Chargers,IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Match ResultsDavid Warner produced a powerful performance as he slammed 109 to power Delhi Daredevils to an emphatic nine-wicket victory over Deccan Chargers in IPL 5 match at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Chasing 188-run target, David Warner notched up 52-ball fifty to lead Delhi Daredevils after losing Virender Sehwag early against Deccan Chargers in IPL 5 match at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.
Naman Ojha also found his form with smashing the first half-century of the season to ensure Daredevils victory. Ojha hammered four huge sixes and a four.
Warner powered Daredevils past100 runs in just nine overs to set the tone for Delhi. Warner, who smashed seven fours and three sixes in his quick-fire fifty, added unbeaten 100 runs stand with Naman Ojha in just 55 balls to put Delhi on top.
After smashing 84 with the bat, Deccan Chargers’ Shikhar Dhawan struck in the first over to remove Virender Sehwag and give Delhi Daredevils huge blow.
Sehwag started off the innings with a boundary on the first delivery and he looked for another one, went for a slog over long-on, got an outside edge and Cameron White took a marvelous catch. Interestingly, the pair who steered Chargers to the mammoth total, was involved in Sehwag’s dismissal
Earlier, Dhawan (84 off 49 balls) and White (65 off 40 balls) helped Deccan Chargers post a stiff 188-run target for Delhi Daredevils.
Varun Aaron ended White’s scintillating knock in the last over of the innings when keeper Naman Ojha took high running catch at the square-leg region.
JP Duminy hit two fours in a row on the last two deliveries to take Chargers to 187 in the stipulated 20 overs. Dhawan and White stitched 126-run stand to put Delhi Daredevils on backfoot.
Bangalore crush Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets: IPL 2012
Category: IPL,IPL Match Results,IPL Mumbai Indians,IPL Royal Challengers BangaloreChris Gayle smashed his way to an unbeaten 82 as Royal Challengers Bangalore crushed Mumbai Indians by nine wickets in their Indian Premier League match on Wednesday. The emphatic win takes RCB to fourth position in the points table while Mumbai occupy the third spot.
Gayle remained quite in the early part of RCB run chase of 142 but exploded later on, hitting five fours and six sixes as the visitors romped home with two overs to spare after the visiting bowlers produced a disciplined show by restricting the home side to 141 for six at the Wankhede Stadium.
Gayle’s 59-ball blitz was his fourth 80-plus knock this IPL season.
The West Indian reached his fifty with a huge six of Pragyan Ojha in the 11th over. He struck Ojha for three successive sixes in that over which saw the bowler conceding 22 runs. That over virtually changed the complexion of the game after Mumbai kept it tight, not allowing the match run away quickly to RCB’s favour.
Gayle was though lucky early in his innings as he was dropped by Dwayne Smith off the bowling of R P Singh when he was on 21 in the sixth over and Mumbai paid a heavy price for that costly mistake.
Kings XI Punjab thrash Deccan Chargers by 25 runs: IPL 2012
Category: IPL,IPL 2012 News,IPL Deccan Chargers,IPL Kings XI Punjab,IPL Match ResultsKings XI Punjab rode on a smashing half-century by Mandeep Singh and a superlative performance by their bowers to notch up a comfortable 25-run victory over Deccan Chargers in a lop-sided Indian Premier League match on Tuesday. By the virtue of this win, Punjab have now moved to No 5 position in the Points Table.
Invited to bat, Mandeep cracked a strokeful 75 off 48 balls to help Punjab post a challenging 170 for five in their stipulated 20 overs.
The visitors then returned to restrict the Chargers to 145 for eight to keep their hopes alive of reaching the play-off stage by reaching the fifth position in the IPL points table.
Chasing 171 to win, opener Daniel Harris (30) gave Deccan some hope initially but they failed to build partnerships and kept losing wickets in regular intervals.
For Punjab, Praveen Kumar, Parvinder Awana and David Hussey took two wickets each to emerge as the peak of the bowlers. They were supported well by Azhar Mahmood (0/31) and Piyush Chawla (1/33).
The chargers had a tottering start as they lost inform opener Shikhar Dhawan (8) and first down Parthiv Patel (17) cheaply to slip to 31 for two in the first five overs.
In the seventh over, Harris picked up a six off the first ball by Chawla and Cameron White played an inside-out shot in the last delivery to end the over with a boundary.
In the next over, Harris picked up a four off Ramesh Powar at the square leg area before whacking one at the mid-wicket area for another boundary.
Punjab then tightened things up with seamers Awana and Mahmood giving away just four and two runs in the next two over respectively.