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Shoaib, Shukla help Kolkata Knightriders Romp Delhi Daredevils

Ankit — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:49:57 +0000

If ever there was a passionate game of cricket played, it was this one. Shah Rukh Khan, the owner, was jumping up and down the dugout as his team went about defending the midget-like total of 134. Yeah you heard that right. 134. Most of the batsmen had failed for the KKRs and now it was time for the debutante Shoaib Akhtar to justify his Price in the IPL.

In came Shoaib and Virendra Sehwag was out first ball he faced. Caught by the Keeper.
Then it was the turn of Gautam Gambhir as he fiddled with a wide one, just to be caught up at slip
In came ABcDe Villiers who though that Mr Steyn is the fastest of them all. Akhtar proved him wrong
Manoj Tiwary hadn’t faced anything faster than Dinda. He was caught plumb in front, one of those rarities when you don’t even have to appeal for a LBW

Shoaib’s Figures: 3-0-11-4

Another bloke, LR Shukla, took 3 in his first over (Delhi’s 18th) to end it for the Daredevils

IPL Roundup:

Laxman out of IPL
The Injury has made him be ruled out of the IPL. If I was a true Deccan fan, I would be Happy.

Ashwell Prince goes back to South Africa
His wife has had a baby and he would be back in a week. We wish him luck. BTW he plays for the Mumbai Indians. Still to make his IPL Debut.

Laters.

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Shoaib, Shukla help Kolkata Knightriders Romp Delhi Daredevils

Standard Bank Pro20 : The Titans win it

Ankit — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:29:24 +0000

The South African T20 league, I mean the P20 league has been quite a success at home, but has failed to generate any interest elsewhere, but the same can be said to a great extent about the Aussie, the English and the New Zealand T20 leagues. Poor (read Rich) Old Allen Stanford’s T20 league is followed by more people. Even the IPL would have been as dull had some interesting things and some great cricket hadn’t happened.

I had been bickering for quite some time that I am going to write about it, as it should be written about of course. So, here it is. As the tournament is over, this would obviously act as a review post.

The teams:

The prize:

R500 000-00 (about $65,446.37 right now)

The Winner:

The Nashua Titans

I just saw the Final as the other matches were not telecast in India (see, I told ya so)…. From what I saw, a lot could not be said about the popularity (though the web site claims that it was their most successful league ever. Dale Steyn shone in the final, making sure that his team won. My sincere apologies for not following this league closely, but after joining sixandout, the IPL hit me….or I hit it…whatever… I would make up for it by following it the next season for sure and yeah, proclaim on live web 2.0 that “Polly was the King”.

Till then, let’s focus on the IPL. Just to let everyone know: Gilly has just scored a 43 ball 100….

Later

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Standard Bank Pro20 : The Titans win it

Experience is what counts, mate!

Ankit — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:15:57 +0000

Watching the IPL fixture between the Deccan Chargers and the Rajasthan Royals tonight, a few things caught my eye. Lets go through them:

Afridi had a go at Warnie, Warnie said something like : “Grow up, mate”
Tendulkar’s Birthday had the crowd more excited than their home team Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chargers continued their bad form. Having arguably the best team on paper, they have lost 3 out of three now.
Warnie won the game for the ROYALS, with the bat!
Warnie hit about 15 off the last over, bowled by Roy Symonds

That’s about it. This post was a tribute to one of the most exciting IPL matches I have seen.

Laters

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Experience is what counts, mate!