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 – Second Semi final – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings – Full Scorecard

Royal Challengers won the second semi final against Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets. Batting first Chennai Super Kings just managed 146 runs in their 20 overs. Royal Challengers won the match with 7 balls to spare.

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 44 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Full Scorecard

Kumble took the wicket of Mathew Hayden - turning point of the match

MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat on a good batting wicket. Vijay and Hayden opened the innings. Kumble bowled the tidy first over for just 4 runs. Hayden took the attack back to Bangalore scoring 16runs in the next over bowled by Vinay Kumar. Vijay was the first to go and he struggled for his 5 runs of 9 balls. Kallis got the wicket of Vijay in his first over and the 4th of the match, a wicket maiden over. The inform Raina couldn’t do much this time and got out in the second over of Kallis after scoring 13(10). Dhoni joined Hayden when the score was 48/2 in 5.4 overs. They played sensible cricket not giving away any chance to the opposition and took the score to 72/2 at strategic break. Dhoni got out to a stunning catch by van der Merwe and he scored 18(20). Hayden got out in the next over from Kumble to a good catch at midwicket. Hayden scored 60 runs in just 38 balls and the score was 101/4 in 13.2 overs. This wicket really turned things around for Royal Challengers as the other batsman struggled to score runs and got out in quick successions. Chennai Super Kings were bowled out for 129 in 19.4 overs. Kallis, Kumble and Vinay Kumar got 2 wickets each. Royal Challengers Bangalore fielded exceptionally well in this match.

Praveen Kumar and Vinay Kumar managed to score winning runs

A total of 130 is not going to be enough by any way in a 20-20 match, but Chennai Super Kings bowled well to take it to the last over of the match. Again some ordinary fielding let down them and they lost the match narrowly. Morkel bowled well and took the wicket of Kallis and Uthappa while Tyagi got the wicket of Dravid leaving Royal Challengers @ 30/3 after 5 overs. Kohli and Taylor played well and they put on 56 runs for the fourth wicket and pulled back things for Bangalore. Virat Kohli scored 38 runs in just 35 balls and was caught in mid wicket of the bowling of Balaji. Murali got the better of Boucher in the next over getting him out at the slips. In the next over Dhoni pulled a wonderful run out from no where. He stood like a doll without reacting while the throw was coming to him and van der Merwe foxed by Dhoni’s reaction, ran casually but just in the nick of time Dhoni pouched the ball knocked the bails off and Merwe was short by an inch. Taylor got out in the crucial last over when they needed just 5 runs in 6 balls. Vinay Kumar and Praveen Kumar scored the needed runs assisted by poor fielding from Raina and Balaji. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match with 2 wickets and 2 balls to spare. Morkel bowled well for 2/13 in 4 overs. Taylor was the man of the match for his 46 runs of 50 balls.

With 2 more points Royal Challengers now have 12 points and opened up the table one again for the 6 teams to fight it out for the Semi Final spot.

IPL 2009 – Match 45 – Mumbai Indians Vs Rajasthan Royals – Full Scorecard

In the other match Rajasthan Royals won by 2 runs against Mumbai Indians, the second thriller of the day.

Quick cameo from Ravindra Jadeja helped Royals go past 140

Rajasthan Royals elected to bat first after winning the toss. Quiney and Smith opened the innings for Royals. Smith was dropped by Duminy when he was on 10. The opening stand lasted for 6.3 overs and gathered 43 runs. Harbhajan broke the partership picking up Smith caught by Duminy in deep midwicket. Smith scored 19 of 19. Yusuf Pathan was the next batsman and he scored quick runs, but got out just before the strategic break after scoring 17 from 14balls. At strategic break Royals were 66/2. Quiney and Jadeja played extremely well and took the score to 126 before Malinga cleaned up Quiney with a superb yorker. Quiney scored 51 in just 40 balls. Royals lost wickets in a hurry at the end trying to score quickly. Jadeja scored 42 from 32 balls. They lost 3 wickets in the last over of the match and could only manage 145/7 in 20 overs. Jayasuriya bowled the last over and got 2 wickets and gave away just 3 runs.

Mumbai Indians changed their opening pair. Bravo and Takavale opened the innings. But the move turned against them. Bravo got out for just 1 run of the bowling of Munaf Patel. Rahane came after the fall of first wicket. Takavale and Rahane struggled to score runs and they both got out for 18 and 3 resp. Mumbai lost 3 wickets and were struggling at 26/3 at the end of powerplay. Jayasuriya and Tendulkar joined together to consolidate the Mumbai Innings. They took the score to 54/3 at strategic break. Warne struck in the 11th over by taking the wicket of Jayasuriya who tried to clear the mid wicket but just managed to hole out to Yusuf Pathan who took a good catch diving forward. Duminy got out slicing the bouncer from Trivedi on to his stumps. Mumbai got themself into a difficult situation needing 66 runs from 6 overs. Jadeja came to bowl and conceded 18 runs including three concecutive straight drives by Sachin yielding 4 each. Warne took the crusial wicket of Sachin in his last over leaving Mumbai @ 103/6. Abishek Nayar played some blistering strokes and looked to take the game away from Royals. Mumbai needed just 14 runs in 12 balls. Nayar got himself runout at this point and he scored quick 35 in just 18 balls. Mumbai needed 4 runs in last 6 balls. They lost remaining three wickets in five balls and lost the game by 2 runs. Munaf Patel bowled exceptionally well to keep down the runs. Smart captaincy from Warne prevented Mumbai from winning the match.

Munaf Patel disturbing the bails to run out Malinga to win the match

Rajasthan Royal moved to third position with this thrilling victory and Mumbai Indians must will both their remaining matches to dream about semi finals.

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.

Ross Taylor and Mark Boucher

Royal Challengers Bangalore started off slowly chasing a huge total of 174. Kallis and Ryder opened the innings. They kept their wickets in tact but just managed 46 Runs in the powerplay. McCullum brought an end to the opening stand as he latched a stunning catch to send Kallis back. Ryder followed his opening partner and fell in the next over top edging to Ganguly at third man. At the strategic break Royal Challengers were struggling at 70/2, requiring 104 runs in 60 balls. Uthappa got out the very first over after break for 7 runs in 9 balls. It was Taylor who did the magic to take Royal Challengers to an unbelievable victory. Royal Challengers needed 94 runs in 48 balls and Taylor scored 70 of them in just 26 balls. He was assited by Dravid who scored 12 in 12 and Boucher scoring 13 in 9. Taylor was also helped by poor bowling from Agarkar and Ishant Sharma. They bowled 17th, 18th and 19th over and conceded 47 runs in 18 balls when the opposition needed 52 of 24. Royal Challengers chased down 174 with 4 balls to spare and 6 wickets in hand. A high scoring match with lots of boundaries and sixes, a real treat to watch.

IPL 2009 – Match 42 – Mumbai Indians Vs Kings XI Punjab – Full Scorecard

Sachin Tendulkar and Dwayne Bravo celebrating their victory

On the other match, Mumbai Indians won by 8 wickets. Power failure prevented me from enjoying the good batting by Bravo and The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar. Kings XI Punjab posted a low score of 119/9 in 20 overs, thanks to their poor batting. I was shocked to see Sangakkara, a batsman in good form, giving away too many dot balls in a 20-20 match. He scored 8 runs in 19 balls, not fair from a player of his standards. Mumbai Indians assited by good batting from Bravo and Sachin chased down the little target in 16.2 overs just losing 2 wickets.

IPL T20 Points table after 42 League matches

IPL T20 – Points table:

This victory pulled back things for Mumbai Indians and they moved to 4th position in the table. They now have 11 points and ahead of Rajasthan Royals only due to better run rate. Bangalore added 2 more points to their tally and move above Punjab with a better run rate.

Todays Match:

Delhi Daredevils Vs Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers must win this game to keep them in the top four, otherwise they will be forced to compete with other 4 teams for a place in Semi Finals. Delhi Daredevils would want to retain their winning streak and hence the top position.