Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab Highlights IPL 2010 Cricket Highlights

Match No 12: Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab
Date: – Sunday, 19th March, 2010, TIME: – 20:00 IST
Venue: – Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

Watch Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers Live Score IPL Cricket Highlights 2010 here. Deccan Chargers will be holding their ground against King XI Punjab on Friday, 19th March, on Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. Deccan Chargers will be looking forward to thrash King XI Punjab, as the win would improve their standings in the series.

Deccan Chargers captained under Gilchrist have shown better presentation in the last match against Chennai. It was good to see players like Symonds, and Gibbs back in form. As well as a pretty decent knock by the captain himself, helped the team to stand tall. Bowlers like Vaas and Ojha have really executed well in the matches.

King XI Punjab would be on the field on Friday with their confidence on the lower side. They haven’t won a match in the series till now. Though, the players Bopara, Manvinder Bisla, and Piyush Chawla showed some potential in their performances. The team is yet to show some achievement and this game will be another chance for them.

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Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings Highlights IPL 2010 Cricket Highlights

Match No 11: Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings
Date: – Sunday, 19th March, 2010, TIME: – 16:00 IST
Venue: – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Watch Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils Live Score IPL Cricket Highlights 2010 here. We will be a spectator of yet another exciting match on Friday, 19th March on Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, where Delhi Dare Devils will be standing against Chennai Super Kings.

In the previous match all the strategic planning has failed due to the injury of the captain Gautam Ghambhir. Dinesh Karthik as replaced the skipper. Though the Delhi Devils failed to stand their ground against Mumbai but they will be coming up with a different planning and strategy against Chennai.

On the other hand, Chennai Super Kings’s captain was also injured during the previous encounter with Kolkata. Suresh Raina will be replacing Dhoni for the mean time but the past matches shows that Dhoni himself has been playing captains knock so it is understandable that the team will feel his absence. Whereas, Players like Matthew Hayden and Raina haven’t been in good knock in the previous matches. These are the key players to the side and their performances are much important for the team to win.. DD vs CSK Live Score

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Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights IPL 2010 Cricket Highlights

Match No 10: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals
Date: – 18th March, 2010, TIME: – 20:00 IST
Venue: – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore – Karnataka

Watch Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score IPL Cricket Highlights 2010 here. Royal Challengers Bangalore will play against Rajasthan Royals on Thursday, 18th March in M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. There will be obviously high hopes for Royal Challengers as their previous performance was a rocking one.

The players like Kallis, Uthappa and Pandey adds some class to Royal Challengers Bangalore as suggested from the previous match. Their performance made the task of chasing 200 runs an ease. Moreover, players in the middle order like Kohli, Morgan and others can add up to make this team a better one.

Rajasthan Royals, after loosing 2 consecutive matches will have their confidence on the lower side. But they need to perform well as they hold their name as the Champions of very first IPL. It depends on their opening pair Asnodkar and Smith, to deliver their best to survive in the series. RR vs RCB Live Score: Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals Live Score, Highlights 2010 will be placed below.
Watch Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals live streaming Online IPL 2010 Score

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Even Delhi Daredevils fans salute the mastery of Sachin Tendulkar

The two counties sit cheek by jowl on the map of England while Mumbai and Delhi are 1000 kilometres apart, leading to a divergence in culture and mindset that can only be experienced, not explained. Let’s just say that Mumbai is Mumbai, and Delhi is Delhi and never have the twain met.

For more than six decades, players from the two cities have hissed and growled at each other behind the façade of fair play on the field; occasionally they dropped the façade to come to blows even though they played for the same India team! The venerated Wisden Almanack reveals that India lost the 1974 to England 0-3, but the root of that whitewash could be traced to Mumbai versus Delhi.

You might wonder why and how all this has relevance in the IPL which has players drawn from all over the world, as indeed local cross-over players. Like Delhi lad Shikhar Dhawan who plays for Mumbai Indians and Mumbai’s Avishkar Salvi who assists Delhi Daredevils. Of course there is no relevance, but why should that matter? In the hype around the IPL, anything that adds to the hoopla goes.

So much so that Kieron Pollard, the 22-year-old giant from Jamaica who set the cricket world abuzz by being sold to Mumbai Indians for an undisclosed sum in a secret tie-breaker after several franchises had been deadlocked over the maximum permissible pay-out of $750000, was sucked into the Mumbai-Delhi tug-o-war shortly after he landed. “Huh! What? Yes, big deal,” he said – or words to that effect – looking bewildered when asked how he felt about this celebrated rivalry.

Pollard was the cynosure of all eyes when he took the field, and by the end of the evening, his franchise owners, India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, may have been convinced that the money had been well spent even if he did not quite rattle the Qutb Minar with either bat or ball. There have been several high priced-duds in the IPL yet – Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, at upwards of 1.5 million USD per year among the more notable – but Pollard just might be able to even things out a bit because he comes with no prima donna baggage.

But to get back to the match, For the second time in succession, Mumbai topped 200, this time exceeding it by 18 runs to make Delhi’s task of running down the target seem like running up a 218-storey New York skyscraper in one breath. The breath, alas broke, when Tillekratne Dilshan was bowled by a swinging Yorker from his teammate `Slinga’ Malinga, and when Sehwag fell shortly after, Delhi were not just broken for breath, but had gone bust, losing by a whopping 98 runs.

Mumbai’s total was built around a masterly 63 from Sachin Tendulkar, with useful support from young tyros Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu. If these names don’t ring a bell now, remember you read them here first when they become stars. Nobody, of course, was a patch on Tendulkar who didn’t hit a single six in the innings, yet had the best strike rate of all, showing that mere big hits is no substitute for genius.

Even Delhi’s partisan crowd went into raptures at this performance from the Little Master, who must remain the only cricketer from Mumbai to be accepted wholeheartedly in Delhi. In that sense, Tendulkar unites India like perhaps nobody before.

Since I am also from Mumbai, I would have liked to end this piece with a hurrah, except for one niggling worry. There have been four major casualties already in the IPL. Graeme Smith and Dmitri Mascarenhas have gone home because of injury, M S Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir could be out of commission for a week and more. And there are still six more weeks remaining in the tournament. The workload on cricketers and the frequency of injuries must alert administrators that itineraries need to be better planned.

The funny part, of course, is that within a fortnight of the IPL finishing the T20 World Championship starts in the West Indies. This was supposed to take place once every two years, but this will be the third edition since the first one in South Africa in September 2007.

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Warne describes Yusuf’s whirlwind knock the best ever

The third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) came alight with a magnificent 37-ball century from Yusuf Pathan of Rajasthan Royals against the star-studded Mumbai Indians, featuring two of the most lethal fast bowlers of the world, at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, on March 13.

It went to the credit of Mumbai Indians, captained by Sachin Tendulkar, to have still managed to win the game despite the crack Yusuf had at their bowlers.

Yusuf’s superb knock was acknowledged by his skipper Shane Warne who described it as the best innings he's seen in his 21-year career.

"I have played cricket for 21 years and I have seen Sachin Tendulkar as the best batsman against whom I have played as he has murdered attacks and hit them all over the park. But today was the best innings I have ever seen," Warne, the greatest spin bowler of all-time, observed.

"From a situation of 37 for 3 in seven overs and chasing 213 and come so close thanks to a 37 ball-100. It's a special innings. We believe we can win from anywhere. We just have to sort out our batting in the first six overs. In the last two IPLs we have won more games than anyone and we have won more close finishes," the legendary Warne remarked.

Another genius, Tendulkar, who himself recently rewrote history by scoring the first-ever double century in One-day Internationals, also hailed Yusuf's knock as very special and said he was aware of his ability to spark such a turnaround.

"It was a special innings from him, but even the effort from Sathish to get him run out was special. Before he came in and played that knock, I thought we would win this match with ease, but that's the beauty of this great game. You can never take anything for granted. I knew Yusuf was in great form and if he connects the ball well, the target was achievable," the master complimented.

Yusuf was still disappointed for not having secured a win for his side but he was gladdened by the comeback staged from a precarious position.


"I made an error because of which we lost, else we would have won. We're sad right now but we are also very happy that we played good cricket apart from the extras we conceded. When such flat wickets get made, records get broken and runs get scored. We will learn a lot from this loss and there is not a lot to worry as this is a long tourney," he said.

Yusuf, with his lusty hitting, was chiefly responsible for bringing his team back into the game after they had looked dead and buried while chasing a formidable total of 213 in 20 overs. When they needed something around 150 from the final 10 overs the odds heavily favoured the fielding side.

By having blasted nine fours and eight sixes he turned the tide and his team held the upper hand when the target was down to 19 off 12 balls. But his run out in the closing stages proved decisive and Mumbai won the dramatic encounter by four runs.

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