DLF IPL T20 2010 - Points table after 16 League matches

Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers moved up the table with 2 out of 2 wins, while Delhi DareDevils slipped down with 2 losses in a row.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indian and Deccan Chargers looks solid so far in IPL3.
CSK missing Dhoni and DD missing Gambhir badly.
Chennai Super Kings and Delhi DareDevils will be gaining strength when they get back Dhoni and Gambhir resp. from injuries.

IPLT20 2010 Points Table – 17/03/2010

DLF IPL T20 2010 - Points table after 9 League matches

Results – 17/03/2010

Match 9: Mumbai Indians won the match against Delhi Daredevils by 98 Runs

IPLT20 2010 Points Table – 16/03/2010

DLF IPL T20 2010 - Points table after 8 League matches

Results – 16/03/2010

Match 8: Chennai Super Kings won the match against Kolkata Knight Riders by 55 Runs

Match 7: Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match against Kings XI Punjab by 8 Wickets

IPL T20 – First Semi final – Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

Gilchrist won the toss and elected to field first, as he always does.

Delhi Daredevils lost 2 wickets without any runs on the board. Gambhir and Warner got out for a duck each and the score was 0/2. Sehwag and Dilshan batted well to get Delhi to a reasonable score. At the end of 20 overs Daredevils managed to score 153 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.

Gilchrist played a bliztering innings to take Deccan Chargers to the finals of IPL T20 2009

Gilchrist and Gibbs opened the innings for Deccan Chargers. Nannes opened the bowling and he was hit for 5 fours in the first over by Gilchrist. Gibbs got out the next over for a duck. Gilchrist continued hitting all over the park and scored the fastest IPL half century in just 18 balls. He got out the last ball just before strategic break and he scored 85 runs in just 35 balls. Deccan Chargers reached 154 runs in the 18th over and won the match comfortably by 6 wickets.

Deccan Chargers will play with the winner of the Second Semi final to be held today.

DLF IPL T20 Points Table Tally at the end of day – 19/05/2009

IPL T20 Points table & teams standing after 52 League matches

Probability for teams to make it to Semi Finals:

For Rajasthan Royals

• They should win against Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin
• Kings XI Punjab should lose their match against Chennai Super Kings. Otherwise, Chennai Super Kings should lose their match by more than 100 runs

For Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Must win their only match

For Chennai Super Kings

• Shouldn’t lose their match by big margin. Defeat by <50 runs shouldn’t risk their semi final chance.

Here is an interesting table/graph showing the points progress of the 8 teams in the Leagues matches of the DLF IPL T20 2009.

Click on the image below to view full graph….

DLF IPL 2009 - Points progress of teams in League matches

If you are a fan of Kolkata Knight Riders it would be heart breaking to see the black line horizontal…

While Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore did well to recover from the worst position they were in after first 5 matches. Chennai Super Kings just had 3 points and Royal Challengers had 2 points. Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians were the teams to give away the early advantage they had. They both lost 4 matches in a row.

IPL 2009 – Match 50 – Delhi Daredevils Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

AB de Villiers fifty took Delhi to a good score

Sehwag the captain of Delhi Daredevils won the toss and elected to bat first. Gambhir and Sehwag opened the innings for Delhi. Both the openers got out in the 3 over of the match bowled by Munaf Patel. Gambhir was caught and bowled for 8(8) while Sehwag got out lbw for 2(8). AB de Villiers and Dilshan joined to steady the innings and they took the score to 66/2 at strategic time out. They both played well and put on 87 runs for the third wicket. Dilshan scored 33 runs in 41 ball and got out bowled by Botha. Delhi Daredevils were struggling at 115/2 after 18 overs. Munaf came to bowl and conceded 25 runs in the 19 over and this turned out to be the turning point of the match. They scored another 10 runs in last over and reached 150 just losing 3 wickets. AB de Villiers played well for his 79 not out of just 55 balls. Shane Warne used 8 bowlers but none of them could really put any pressure on Delhi batsman.

Delhi Daredevils looking strong to take home DLF IPL 2009

Rajasthan Royals needed 151 runs to win the match @ 7.55 runs per over. Smith and Quiney opened the innings and they both got out early without scoring much. Smith didn’t opened his account andd Quiney managed 6runs of 10balls. Ojha scored 9 runs in 17 balls and was caught by Sehwag of the bowling of Salvi. Botha and Jadeja played well and scored runs quickly. They put on 55 runs in 36 balls. Salvi provided the much needed break through for Delhi, inducing Jadeja to edge one to keeper Karthik. Yusuf Pathan couldn’t do much and nicked one to Karthik in the next over bowled by Maharoof. He also got the wicket of Botha in his next over. Botha scored 37 runs in 31 balls. Rajasthan Royals kept losing wickets in regular intervals and they could only manage 136 runs in their 20 overs for the loss of 9 wickets. Munaf played a little cameo at the end scoring 23 runs in 10 balls, the highest by a 11th batsman in all IPL matches.