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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.

Deccan Chargers won by 6 wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders in yesterday’s second match, Match No. 48 of DLF IPL 2009 held at New Wanderers, Johannesburg. It looked like Kolkata Knight Riders might break their losing steak when Deccan Chargers needed 21 of the last over. But Rohit Sharma took away little chance by scoring them without panicking. Kolkata Knight riders lost their 8th match in a row and have two more matches to make it 10 in a row.

IPL 2009 – Match 48 – Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Deccan Chargers – Full Scorecard

Hussey scored quick fire 43 in 17 balls.

Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to field on a good batting pitch. McCullum and Ganguly opened the innings for Kolkata Knight Riders. McCullum was the first man to be dismissed and top edged a slower delivery from Harris to Suman at square leg. He scored 20 runs from 18 balls. Ganguly struggled to put bat on ball. Deccan Chargers bowled well not giving away anything. Knight Riders just managed 50/1 in their first 10 overs with Ganguly on 14(23) and Hodge on 13(19). It looked like Knight Riders will be restricted to below 120. Ganguly continued to struggle and was caught at long-off by Harris of the bowling of Rohit Sharma. Ganguly took 41 balls to score 33 runs.  Hussey was the next batsman and his intentions were clear to clear the boundary. Hodge got out for 48 runs(41 balls) in the similar fashion like McCullum to a slower delivery from Harris. Kolkata Knight Riders were struggling at 118/3 after 18 overs. But the next over yielded 28runs, the maximum runs scored in an over in this IPL. RP Singh started the over but bowled 2 no balls over waist-high and he was taken out of the attack. He just bowled 1 legal delivery and conceded 8 runs. Harmeet Singh continued the over and Hussey hit him all over the park scoring 20 runs in 5 balls. The over looked like (1nb, 1, 4nb, 4, 2, 2, 6, 6) and all of a sudden Kolkata reached 146 with 6 balls to spare. Saha and Hussey got out in the last over after scoring a six each in previous ball. At the end of 20 overs Kolkata Knight Riders scored 160/5 including 42 runs in last 2 overs.

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Kolkata Knight Riders finally managed to put a good show with the bat and it didn’t lasted long as the bowling let them down. Its really heart breaking day for McCullum when he finds his efforts put into trash by his bowlers. Not for me as the result was as many expected. So do I.

IPL 2009 – Match 41 – Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Kolkata Knight Riders – Full Scorecard

Brendon McCullum playing a paddle sweep

Royal Challengers won the toss and put Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first. McCullum and Ganguly opened the innings for Kolkata. Ganguly got out early edging one to keeper, of the bowling of Vinay Kumar and he scored only a boundary in his 6 ball innings. Ghosh was the next man in and he lost his wicket scoring 7 in 7 balls. Hussey got the chance replacing Hodge, the top scorer for Kolkata in this version. Not sure what happened to him!? McCullum and Hussey played well to take Kolkata to 69/2 at strategic break. A good recovery from the bad start 21/2. Hussey was bowled by Akhil. Hussey scored 43 runs in just 27 balls and put on 70 run partnership with McCullum. McCullum scored his first fifty in this IPL and continued to strike well. He batted aggressively at the end and remained not out at 84 in just 64balls. Royal Challengers couldn’t keep the runs down at the end and they conceded 60 runs in last 4 overs, inspite of Kumble sliping in a tight over, 18th of the match, picking up a wicket just for four runs. Kolkata Knight Riders reached 173/4 in their 20 overs, their highest in this DLF IPL 2009.

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It has been a forgetful tournament so far for Sharukh Khan and his team. Kolkata Knight Riders lost their 9th league match against Delhi Daredevils yesterday.

IPL 2009 – Match 31 – Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Delhi Daredevils – Full Scorecard

Kolkatha Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper McCullum won the toss and elected to bat first. They got a good start for the first time in the tournament as the openners put on 58Runs for the first wicket, their highest in this version of IPL. Captain McCullum got the start but couldn’t capitalize it and got out for 35(29 balls). Hodge came in at no.2 but could only help Delhi Daredevils. He struggled to get bat on ball and wasted deliveries. Van Wyk played brilliantly on one end scoring his 50 in just 32 deliveries. Hodge got out at crucial stage and Henriques came in to give first maiden over for the day to Amit Mishra. This is were Knight Riders lost their way, as the previous over yielded 15Runs inspite of a Wicket. Some good clean hits from Van Wyk and late flurry from Henriques helped Kolkata reach past 150 mark ending up at 154/3 in their 20 Overs. For Delhi Daredevils, Amit Mishra bowled well just giving away 18Runs in his 4overs including a maiden over, his 4th over and 14th of the match. Nehra blowed extremely well in the depth. Nannes was the odd man out missing out his 50 as he conceded 49Runs in his 4Overs.

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