Greg Chappell and Andrew Symonds may have had bitter-sweet relationship with the Indian fans but the Australian duo said cricketers should not have any safety concerns about playing in India.
The big boost for Sussex Sharks came a few months back when West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Smith announced that he would play for them ahead of IPL champions Deccan Chargers.Captain Michael Yardy has led from the front with the bat, while young Indian leg-spinner Piyush Chawla will be useful given his knowledge of conditions at home.
Reader Abhinay Sharma sent us this picture from Hyderabad.
The disarming smile was replaced by a somber look and Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag simply cannot believe that he has been stoned at his home ground of Ferozeshah Kotla, of all places. His team had just tamed the Deccan Chargers by 12 runs to snap the string of defeats but instead of looking upbeat, Sehwag looked thoroughly upset in the post-match press conference late on Thursday night.
"I had full confidence in Amit Mishra, and that is why, I was saving him for the last over. He was bowling well and he proved my decision correct," Sehwag said at the post-match conference.
Delhi Daredevils beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs in their Indian Premier League match against Deccan Chargers at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Thursday.
Match Referee Talat Ali of Pakistan fined the Knight Riders USD 1,000 for slow over rate in the match which they won beating Hyderabad Deccan Chargers at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium by 23 runs.
Shaun Marsh sizzled on his Indian Premier League debut and blasted unbeaten 85 off 62 balls as Kings XI Punjab thumped Deccan Chargers by seven wickets with seven balls to spare to coast to their third win of the tournament in Hyderabad on Friday night.
"We have issued a show cause notice to Harbhajan for which he has been given time till Monday evening to reply. He can play in the match," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah told PTI. The match between Mumbai Indians, which has been captained by Harbhajan due to the groin injury to Sachin Tendulkar, and Hyderabad's Deccan Chargers is to be held at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.
Captain Shane Warne hit the fourth and fifth ball of the final over for two huge sixes to ensure Rajasthan Royals a three-wicket win over the Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League match at Hyderabad on Thursday.
Kolkata Knight Riders won their second straight match beating Deccan Chargers (Hyderbad) by five wickets in the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Four new venues and a third place playoff match will be introduced in the third Indian Premier League which will get underway in Hyderabad on March 12, 2010 with a game between IPL II winners Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Three Indian teams -- IPL II champions Deccan Chargers Hyderabad, runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Daredevils, the top finishers after the league phase -- will figure in the tournament, matches of which will be played at three centres.
Sunday's final of the Indian Premier League yielded average ratings of 8.3 per cent, compared with 8.7 per cent in last year's final.
Twelve teams will contest the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20, to be held in India from October 8 to 23. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers, the finalists in the second edition of the IPL, and Delhi Daredevils, the top team of the league stage, will compete against the top two domestic T20 teams from South Africa, England, Australia and the domestic T20 champions from New Zealand, West Indies and Sri Lanka.
After becoming the first Indian batsman to slam a century in the IPL, Manish Pandey is convinced that he is made to fire with bat in cricket fields than firing bullets in the battlefield.
"I didn't know because Herschelle Gibbs was out off the last ball of one over. So I was thinking I have a hat-trick ball, so I had a slip and a silly point in. Then I bowled a bad ball and I thought I missed my hat-trick, it didn't matter. Then I read on the screen that I had got a hat-trick," he was quoted as saying in IPL's official website.
The Deccan Chargers meet the Rajasthan Royals in a IPL match in Kimberley on Monday, in a head-to-head joust between the two Australian captains in the tournament, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne. Rajasthan have a 60 percent win record from their last five matches, whereas the Deccan Chargers have only a 20 percent success rate in their last five outings.
A superb all-round effort from man-of-the-match Rohit Sharma 38 and four for six of two overs, including a hat trick enabled Deccan Chargers beat Mumbai Indians by 19 runs in their Indian Premier League match in SuperSport Park, Centurion on Wednesday.
A superb spell from Shadab Jakati (four for 22) helped Chennai Super Kings thrash Deccan Chargers by 78 runs in their Indian Premier League match at Buffalo Park, East London, on Monday.
Statistical highlights of the IPL match between Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals. Yusuf is the fourth batsman to amass 600 runs in the IPL, joining Gilchrist (646), Suresh Raina (621) and Shanu Marsh (616).
The players' auction for the Indian Premier League's second season got underway in Goa on Friday. A look the price list.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said his national team-mates playing in the Indian Premier League will have to abide by their cricket board's decision asking them to return home midway into the Twenty20 league for the tour of England.
I just love playing cricket, be it any format, says Hyderabad spinner Pragyan Ojha, talking about his selection to India's ODI and Test squads.
Chennai Super Kings beat Deccan Chargers by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match in Hyderabad on Tuesday to book the final berth in the semi-finals.
Mumbai Indians have been bolstered by the inclusion of Barbadian all-rounder Dwayne Smith in the squad following the departure of fellow-West Indian Dwayne Bravo, who has returned home after the team's victory over Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League match in Hyderabad on Sunday.
The serial blasts in Jaipur may have left Shane Warne and Shane Watson in absolute panic but fellow Australian Adam Gilchrist refrains from any knee-jerk reaction and hopes the show --the Indian Premier League-- will go on.
Deccan Charges captain VVS Laxman told reporters in Delhi that his injured right wrist will take two weeks to heal completely, which virtually gives him no chance to play in the remaining matches. His team's last league tie is on April 27.
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Deccan Chargers Hyderabad by 23 runs in an Indian Premier League match at Hyderabad on Sunday.
Rajasthan Royals moved to the top of the table after an eight-wicket victory over Deccan Chargers.
Eden Gardens curator Kalyan Mitra went to the Kolkata Knight Riders' dressing room and apologised to the players for the poor strip in the IPL match against Deccan Chargers.
All the figures from the previous editions of the Indian Premier League.
Deccan Chargers captain Adam Gilchrist and Chennai Super Kings batsman Suresh Raina are locked in a keen tussle at the top of the run scoring charts in the Indian Premier League. Currently, Gilchrist with a tally of 1090 runs in 37 matches leads Raina by just one run.
Much before hitting his "best ever Twenty20 knock" to power Deccan Chargers into the final of the Indian Premier League, Adam Gilchrist knew his side would win by six wickets. In fact, he had written this prediction on a piece of paper on the morning of the semi-finals.
A look at Royal Challengers Bangalore's IPL record over the years.
In Warner's absence, Shikhar Dhawan being a certainty in the playing eleven and the senior-most player in the set-up is likely to lead the side.
Delhi Capitals on Tuesday announced former Australian fast bowler Ryan Harris as their new bowling coach for the upcoming 13th edition of IPL, starting next month.
During his 10 years as an England player, from 2004 to 2014, Pietersen was one of the world's most explosive batsmen -- particularly in limited-overs cricket.
Veteran Lucknow Super Giants spinner Amit Mishra credited his success in the five-wicket victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Friday's IPL match in Lucknow to making a careful assessment of the wicket and taking mental notes of the shots that batters are likely to employ against his bowling.
Parthiv Patel will work closely with the Mumbai Indians coaching staff and scouts' group
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