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Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match against Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets. They still have chance to move to the semi finals provided they win their last match. All the teams now have 1 match to play each.
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

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.

I love statistics and graphs a lot…

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.

Yuvraj Singh took yet another hat trick, his second in this IPL T20. He’s the only bowler to have two hat tricks in IPL. Kings XI Punjab clinched yesterday’s nail bitter winning by just 1 run against Deccan Chargers.

Gilchrist won the toss again and elected to field first. His strategies are clear to restrict the opposition and chace down the target. His strategy didn’t work as his batting power house consisting of himself, Gibbs, Rohit Sharma, Symonds, Suman and Rao couldn’t do the trick today.

IPL 2009 – Match 49 – Kings XI Punjab Vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

RP Singh bowled well to get back the Purple cap

Sohal and Katich opened the innings for Kings XI Punjab. Sohal tried to be aggressive but couldn’t do much and got out trying to scoop the ball over short fine leg. He scored 9(12) caught by Rohit Sharma of the bowling of RP Singh. Pomersbach was the next man in and retuned back quickly, run out by Gibbs for 1 run. Katich was the next wicket caught by Ojha at mid on of the bowling of Symonds and the Kings XI were struggling at 26/3. Yuvraj and Sangakkara joined in the middle to steady the innings. They managed to add 26 runs for the fourth wicket before a straighter deliver from Venugopal Rao disturbed the middle stumps of Yuvraj. Yuvraj looked settled with 20 runs in 18 balls. Kings XI Punjab scored 55/4 in their first 10 overs. Mota and Sangakkara took the score to 105/4 at the end of 16 overs. Suman got the better of Mota who was looking to break free, caught at mid wicket by Harris. Sangakkara also got out at crucial stage for 56 runs of just 43 balls. Irfan Pathan scored quick 17 runs in 11 balls. Lee played 5 balls and couldn’t manage a single out of that. Kings XI Punjab ended their innings scoring 134 for the loss of 7 wickets. RP Singh was the pick of the bowler took 3/26 and got back the purple cap.

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In today’s match, 36th Match of IPLT20 2009, Kings XI Punjab pulled a thriller to keep their hopes high to make it to the Semi finals.

IPL 2009 – Match 36 – Deccan Chargers Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

Kings XI Punjab choose to bowl first winning the toss. Deccan Chargers scored 168runs losing 5wickets. Symonds was the star with the bat, scoring 60Runs in just 36balls. Venugopal Rao scored 35(25). Lee played his first match of this IPL and bowled well for his 1/24 in 4overs. Sreesanth and Chawla got a wicket each.

Jayawardene scored quickly to keep Kings XI Punjab in contest

Kings XI Punjab chaced down 169 with 1 ball to spare, a thrilling end to the match. Kings XI Punjab started well with openers putting on 41 in just 4.3 overs. Both the batsman got out of the same over of Rohit Sharma, who is getting wickets at ease. Yuvraj and Sangakkara put on a partnership and scored at good rate. But both of them got out just like the openers in a span of 3 balls, just before strategic break. All of a sudded Deccan Chargers were back in the game. The score was 86/4. Jayawardene played really really well yet again and scored quick runs and got himself runout when the score was 149. He scored 43runs in 28balls at a strike rate of 153.57. At this stage Kings XI Punjab needed 20 runs in 13 balls. Chawla and Lee kept themselves cool and reached the target with a ball to spare.

Awaiting for the next game…. Clash of TITANS !!!

Match No. 34, Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab in SuperSports park, Centurion. The clash between Kings started 45min after the end of low scoring match between Royals. Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first, a tricky decision considering the very previous match in the same venue. Chennai Super Kings won in all the previous three games these teams met.

IPL 2009 – Match 34 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

MS Dhoni - the Captain Cool

Wicket of the first ball of the innings yet again! Badrinath opened the innings with Mathew Hayden and played the first ball into the hand of the third man try to slice it for a six. Irfan Pathan, the bowler, couldn’t belive and was extremely delighted, so as his team members. The excitement didn’t lasted long as Suresh Raina, the next batsman joined in the middle with Hayden and they started the fire works. Raina was dropped at point when he was 14, tough chance though. They put on 57 runs in the powerplay. Sangakkara missed a simple stumping chance of Hayden, who stepped down the track trying to hit Goel over the boundary, as he failed to collect the ball. Rain interrupted the play with the scorecard reading 68/1 in 7.3 overs. Play resumed after about 100min and the overs were reduced to 18 due to delay. Raina was caught at deep midwicket of the bowling of Chawla and he scored quick 32 runs in 20balls. Captain Dhoni came in and started scoring straight away. Hayden hit some huge sixes and scored his 50 in 44 balls. Dhoni on the other end played some splendid shots and they put on 100 for the third wicket in just 47balls. Hayden was caught at long on after hitting 3 sixes of the over of Shreesanth. He scored 89 runs in 58 balls. Hayden is now way ahead of other orange cap contenders. Dhoni went on to score his second fifty in two matches and remained not out on 56 of just 27 balls. Chennai Super Kings scored 185/3 in 18 overs.

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