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IPL – 2008 Top Batsman and Bowlers
Here’s the list of Top batsman and Top bowlers of 2008 to remind us of what happened last year. Waiting for 2 rounds to get over before we start publishing the Top 10 list of 2009.
Top 10 batman of 2008
Player
Innings
Runs
Top score
Strike rate
S Marsh
11
616
115
139.68
G Gambhir
14
534
86
140.89
S Jayasuriya
14
514
114*
166.34
S Watson
15
472
76*
151.76
G Smith
11
441
91
121.82
A Gilchrist
14
436
109*
137.1
Y Pathan
15
435
68
179.01
S Raina
14
421
55*
142.71
MS Dhoni
14
414
65
133.54
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Strategic breaks: Gets thumbs down and spark debate
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The second edition of Indian Premier League has been insured for US $286 million. It’s more than double the amount of last season — US $125 million. Reason: Terror threats.
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In the earlier match prediction post, I mentioned that Challengers should edge out Chennai Kings. I had not bothered to check team composition. Thinking winning team combination would continue.
Well Challengers went against it. Dropped Jesse Ryder and included Kallis. You can’t get worse than it. Halfway through they are looking down the barrel.
Jacques Kallis [...]
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He prised out Bopara, Kumar Sangakkara [...]
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IPL launches scholarship – Worth 8 million rand!
The Indian Premier League is really taken to South Africa. Its helping adopted country’s education system. IPL announced a eight million rand scholarship program for schools and individual learners.
Lalit Modi announced the program named as ‘Help Educate And Teach’ (HEAT) on Friday. Event was organized at Alexander Sinton High School in Athlone in Cape [...]
IPL Charms its way into Prison!
If anyone had any doubts on popularity and reach of IPL, this should shut them for good
AFP reports that hundreds of inmates in Kolkata prison are on hunger strike after they were not denied watching Indian Premier League cricket matches, officials said Monday.
B.D. Sharma, the inspector general of West Bengal prisons, said the [...]
The man for all moments - Rahul Dravid
If there is one thing that Rahul Dravid does brilliantly then it is this - steady the innings. It really doesn’t matter if it is a 1 over game or a endless test match, he always does that.
Maybe it is a good thing that IPL has moved to South Africa. It is not all bam-bam-boom. [...]
For all the money involved in IPL they couldn’t catch a dog
What good is the money if you can’t catch a dog? IPL moved out of India citing security reasons. It moved to South Africa and look what happened. A dog interrupted the play. I was thinking like - they spent billions and they couldn’t catch a dog? Even better they couldn’t guard against a dog?
I [...]