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Pietersen announces move to Delhi Daredevils in time for 2012 IPL
Category: Cricket News,IPL,IPL 2012 News,IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Royal Challengers BangaloreKevin Pietersen was celebrating a lucrative windfall on Sunday night when he switched teams in the Indian Premier League to join Delhi Daredevils for a reported $2million.
Pietersen, who banked $1.5million when he first signed up for the Twenty20 cashfest by joining Bangalore in 2009, saw his IPL earnings plummet last year when he joined the Deccan Chargers for $650,000.
In the event he was unable to play a game in India last year because of a double hernia operation but has now increased his workload and also his bank balance during one of England’s busiest years by joining Dehli after becoming England’s most expensive IPL player.
Pietersen would only earn all the money if he played in the full six-week competition but the closing stages clash with the start of England’s Test summer in May so he will be paid on a pro-rata basis for however long England agree to release him for.
Andy Flower, the England team director, would rather his players take advantage of any opportunity to rest from the crowded international calendar but he is also realistic about the vast sums on offer for cricketers in the IPL and will not stand in Pietersen’s way. (more…)
Delhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors – IPL 4 – 68th Match – Result
Category: IPL,IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Match Results,IPL Pune WarriorsMay 21st, 2011 : Today was a match between Delhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors in the IPL Cricket Season 4 2011. This was the 68th match of the league. The match was played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Team Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat.
Match Notes
Toss – Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat.
Rain thwarts the DareDevils and Warriors
The Delhi DareDevils hopes of avoiding a last place finish were thwarted by persistent heavy rain which forced their clash against the Pune Warriors to be abandoned at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.
Having won the toss the DareDevils had reached 56-3 at the start of the 11th over when persistent drizzle forced the players to leave the pitch fall at 20.48 local time.
The rain got gradually heavier as the night when on leaving the umpires with no choice but to abandoned the game at 22.32 local time; both receive one point which leaves the DareDevils in last place just behind the Warriors who also finish on 9 points.
With nothing to play for the DareDevils innings never really got going with only David Warner playing any significant role scoring 19 runs before the ran started to fall.
Warner hit 1 boundary and 2 sixes which proved to be the only highlight of dull innings from a side with absolutely nothing to play for before the rain thankfully brought a premature end to the game.
Delhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors – IPL 4 – 68th Match – Scorecard
Category: Indian Premier League Scorecards,IPL,IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Pune WarriorsDelhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors
Match: 68th IPL Match 2011
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Date: May 21st,2011 (Saturday)
Toss: Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat
Result: Rain Stoppage
Scoreboard : Delhi DareDevils Innings
| Delhi Daredevils Innings | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| Naman Ojha (W) | c R Sharma b S Mundhe | 8 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 42.11 | |
| David Warner | b James Faulkner | 19 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 190.00 | |
| Matthew Wade | b Mitchell Marsh | 11 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 55.00 | |
| Colin Ingram | Not Out | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 108.33 | |
| Venugopal Rao | Not Out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Yogesh Nagar | |||||||
| James Hopes (C) | |||||||
| Irfan Pathan | |||||||
| Varun Aaron | |||||||
| Umesh Yadav | |||||||
| Ashok Dinda | |||||||
| Extras | (b 0,lb 3,w 1, nb 1) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets; 10.1 overs) | 56 | (5.50 runs per over) | ||||
Fall of wickets (Delhi Daredevils):
1-24 (Warner, 3.4 ov), 2-32 (Ojha, 5.5 ov), 3-47 (Wade, 8.6 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |
| Alfonso Thomas | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.00 | |
| James Faulkner | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 4.50 | |
| Shrikant Mundhe | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6.00 | (w 1) |
| Mitchell Marsh | 2.1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 5.08 | |
| Rahul Sharma | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 | |
| Yuvraj Singh | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | (nb 1) |
Powerplay: 1-6
Scoreboard : Pune Warriors Innings
Rain Stoppage
Delhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors – IPL 4 – 68th Match
Category: IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Pune WarriorsMay 21, 2011 : For both these teams, the IPL-4 experience has been a forgettable one. After thirteen matches and seven weeks of grueling cricket, Delhi and Pune find themselves at the bottom of heap. They have had somewhat identical campaigns, losing nine out of thirteen matches, thus one last chance to take the number of wins to five. Plus, there is the ‘wooden spoon’ on the line, the loser in todays match at the Feroz Shah Kotla would finish the tournament as the last placed team.
There is much more than just pride at stake. Delhi have been hit hard by the absence of star batsman and Captain Virendar Sehwag after he went for medical treatment; the stand-in man for him, James Hopes has not been an inspirational leader thus far as Delhi were crushed in both matches under his leadership.
Match Details
Match – IPL 2011 68th Match
Date – May 21st,2011 (Saturday)
Time – 14:30 GMT (20:00 IST)
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
He would be looking to salvage something out of the last tie, even if it is a dead-rubber without any consequence for the teams. Also, Delhi can mend their dismal home record if they overcome Pune who have been equally woeful in the field if not more.
Talking about dismal performances, Pune have more than once demonstrated an unmatched ability to make decisions that make no sense on a cricket field. Why on earth does Yuvraj Singh, the man-of-the-tournament in the recent 2011 world cup, come out to bat with just very few overs left in the innings? Pune have made this monumental blunder for majority of their first season in the IPL. It is a baffling tactic especially when their batting has the propensity to combust in the middle overs. Even the return of ‘Dada’ hasn’t lifted the batting effort in three matches Sourav himself has looked rusty and scratchy. It may be a battle between the ‘also-rans’ of the IPL-4, but for sure would be an intense cricket match given the fact that the winner would avoid the title of ‘weakest team’ in this year’s IPL.
Delhi DareDevils vs Pune Warriors – IPL 4 – 68th Match – Highlights
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Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi DareDevils – IPL 4 – 60th Match – Result
Category: IPL,IPL Delhi DareDevils,IPL Kings XI Punjab,IPL Match ResultsMay 15th, 2011 : Punjab seems to be making a late surge into the IPL after they won their third successive game of the competition at HPCA stadium in Dharamasala. Delhi Daredevils, who needed to score 171 as their target, were restricted to 141 to give Punjab their sixth victory in the IPL this year.
In the end, it was on expected lines. The Delhi Daredevils batting, by Virender Sehwag’s own admission relied too heavily on his batting and his absence from the tournament has taken the sheen away from the side.
In any case, 171 was always going to be a tough ask but after a steady start, the Daredevils would have entertained some hopes of putting it across Punjab.
Match Notes
Toss - Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to field
Result - Kings XI Punjab beat Delhi Daredevils by 29 runs
Then Shalabh Srivastava, who had conceded 17 in his first over, grabbed a couple of wickets off successive overs to trigger the beginning of the end for the visitors.
The Delhi openers had scored only 18 after the fourth over before Dave Warner finally smacked a six in the fifth. Srivastava was carted for a couple of sixes by Naman Ojha to take the side to 42 without the loss of any wickets at the end of the sixth.
Both openers, however, perished to the same bowler, caught by the wicket-keeper. Ojha nicked one behind while a top-edge from Warner lobbed up to Adam Gilchrist.
The run-rate slowed to an extent that the side now needed more than 100 in the last ten overs and that only assisted in the further clatter of wickets.
Playing his first game this season, S Sriram top-edged a sweep shot and Venugopal Rao followed him soon after, caught in the deep off the same bowler, Piyush Chawla.
Rao, Irfan Pathan and James Hopes fell within five runs of each other and the defeat seemed imminent.
Despite having Travis Birt in their line-up, he was sent in only at the number seven position, by which time, the Daredevils had lost half their side for 92. Birt hit a couple of fours and then a six off Praveen Kumar but was superbly caught by Ryan Harris when he was bidding to pull another to the fence.
Harris jumped up at the edge of the boundary and plucked the catch out of thin air to come up with arguably the best catch of this season.
Punjab lost Gilchrist early but were rescued through a second wicket century stand between Shaun Marsh and Paul Valthaty. Delhi, who had won the toss and set themselves up to chase, got Gilchrist to Morne Morkel, but were thwarted by an extremely superb century-stand between the two that came off less than 11 overs.
In the process, Valthaty also edged ahead of Chris Gayle in the top run-getters’ chart this season.
Valthaty smashed two boundaries in the fifth over off Varun Aaron before taking on Aavishkar Salvi with a four and a six. Marsh bided his time at the start of his innings before turning on the heat at the end of the strategic time-out that was taken after nine overs.
It was during this time that the Punjab side scored 59 runs off a five-over period and got Punjab back into the game. Valthaty crossed his half-century and Marsh looked good to get to his, but both fell off successive balls from Irfan Pathan.
Punjab were 128 for three at that stage and while they were prevented from blowing their opponents apart, Dinesh Karthik’s 19-ball 27 helped them get to 170 for six in their 20 overs. It proved to be 29 runs too many in the end.