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Zondeki handed SA national contract
Monde Zondeki looks set to tour England in July and August this year, after being awarded a national contract by the South African board for 2008-09.
Charu Sharma fired?
It is reported that, Charu Sharma, CEO of Royal Challengers was either fired or made a graceful exit to Brijesh Patel. This move might be prompted after the drubbing Royal Challengers continuous defeats. I think this is a bit late for this season. This might help them for the next season.
There is a speculation about [...]
Ravi Bopara turns down IPL offer
English cricketer Ravi Bopara turns down an IPL offer to play for his country. He is not centrally contracted by the English board and is free to play for IPL. He turned down a six figure dollar amount to continue playing for Essex and hoping to be selected to the national team. He was part [...]
IPL hall of shame
Sreesanth crying like a baby after being hit by Harbhajan. He was reprimanded.
Harbhajan hitting Sreesanth. Banned for 11 IPL matches
Ganguly, appealing to the umpire for a catch taken by Greame Smith
Shane Warne criticizing Ganguly for being late to the crease and appealing against a clean catch. Fined 10% match fee.
Umpire Amish Saheba criticizing Sreesanth’s on-field behavior [...]
Who will go to semi-finals?
Here are my predictions for the semi-finals. The 2 teams which will go to the semi-final for sure :
Rajastan Royals
Kings XI Punjab
Reason : These two teams are relying on the team performance as a whole and not on individual stars.
The 2 teams which will not go to the semi-finals are :
Royal Challengers
Knight Riders
Reason : These two [...]
Unable to blog
I am not able to blog yesterday because of some contingencies. I will try to make that up in the next two days. Some exciting matches coming up Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers today. Also Shoaib Akthar is ready to play for IPL as his ban is suspended. This is awesome. I did not know [...]
Top bowlers for Royal Challengers
S.No
Player
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
NB
Wd
RPO
1
Zaheer Khan
28
0
212
12
0
2
7.6
2
Praveen Kumar
27
1
207
8
0
2
7.7
3
Jack Kallis
23
0
22
4
0
3
9.6
4
B Akhil
7
0
51
2
0
0
7.3
5
Dale Steyn
16
0
105
1
1
7
6.7
6
Sunil Joshi
9.1
0
82
1
0
0
9.0
7
A Noffke
4
0
40
1
0
1
10.0
Top bowlers for Daredevils
S.No
Player
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
NB
Wd
RPO
1
Glenn McGrath
24
2
148
7
0
1
6.2
2
R Bhatia
13
0
96
6
0
2
7.4
3
Yo Mahesh
10
0
150
6
4
0
7.5
4
Mohammad Asif
20
0
180
6
1
4
9.0
5
Fervez Maharoof
11
0
78
4
0
2
7.1
6
Daniel Vettori
8
0
54
2
0
0
6.8
7
Shoaib Malik
6.3
0
57
2
1
3
9.0
8
Virendra Sehwag
5
0
53
2
0
0
10.6
9
P Sangwan
8
0
61
1
1
2
7.6
10
B Geeves
4
0
41
0
0
0
10.3
Top bowlers for Kings XI Punjab
S.No
Player
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
NB
Wd
RPO
1
Irfan Pathan
27.2
1
174
12
0
10
6.4
2
S Sreesanth
24.1
0
203
8
4
8
8.4
3
VRV Singh
20
0
167
6
0
3
8.4
4
Piyush Chawla
20
0
160
8
0
3
8.0
5
Brett Lee
16
1
112
3
3
0
7.0
6
Gagandeep Singh
8
0
80
2
0
0
10.0
7
James Hopes
11
0
121
2
0
1
11.0
8
Yuvraj Singh
2
0
11
1
0
1
5.5
9
WA Mota
3
0
36
1
0
2
12.0
10
K Goel
2
0
25
0
0
0
12.5
Top bowlers for Knight Riders
S.No
Player
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
NB
Wd
RPO
1
Ajit Agarkar
20
0
158
8
1
8
7.9
2
A Dinda
20
0
118
5
2
7
5.9
3
Umar Gul
8
0
58
5
2
3
7.3
4
Ishant Sharma
20.4
1
139
4
3
5
6.8
5
Murali Kartik
9.4
0
74
3
0
1
7.9
6
Mohammad Hafeez
10
0
68
2
1
3
6.8
7
Saurav Ganguly
7
0
49
2
0
1
7.0
8
David Hussey
9
0
98
2
0
1
10.9
9
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
5.1
0
57
2
1
2
11.2
10
R Vinay Kumar
4
0
41
0
0
0
10.3