'Kicking off the IPL season with a football match has been a tradition at RCB for many years.'
Royal Challengers Bangalore continued their pathetic show in the IPL as they plunged to a humiliating 65 run defeat against Rajasthan Royals at Swai Mansingh stadium on Saturday. Chasing a challenging 198 to win, the visitors could manage just 132, largely built around skipper Rahul Dravid's brilliant unbeaten 75-run knock.
Always lovely to see Mr 360 at the heart of the action during an IPL game.
Brendon McCullum hit an unbeaten 158 off 73 balls as Kolkata Knight Riders trounced Bangalore Royal Challengers by 140 runs in the opening match of the Indian Premier League at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Friday.
A day after scoring a thumping win over Bangalore, members of the King's XI Punjab team interacted with kids at the KSCA.
Adam Gilchrist smashed 71 from 45 deliveries as Deccan Chargers beat Royal Challengers by 24 runs in the only Indian Premier League match on Wednesday. The victory took the Chargers to the top of the eight-team tournament.
Indian Premier League-II runners-up Royal Challengers Bangalore take on South Africa's Cape Cobras in the opening match of the Champions League Twenty20 [ Images ] cricket tournament that commences in Bangalore on October 8. Hyderabad will host the final, on October 23, as well as the second semi-final, on October 22, while Delhi will host the first semi-final on October 21.
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.
An unbeaten 38-ball 52 by Naman Ojha (3x4, 3x6) enabled Rajasthan Royals thrash Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match at SuperSport Park, Centurion on Thursday.
Royals Challengers Bangalore will start as overwhelming favourites against bottom-placed Kings XI.
Gautam Gambhir hit a breezy half century and Lakshamipathy Balaji bagged a four-wicket haul to enable Kolkata Knight Riders beat Bangalore Royals Challengers by 42 runs and bring their IPL campaign back on track in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Star batsman Yuvraj Singh came in for praise for his magnificent 68 not out which set up Bangalore Royal Challengers' win over Delhi Daredevils in their IPL match here with rival team captain Kevin Pietersen describing him a superstar of the game.
Following intermittent rain, the covers were brought on and the toss, scheduled for 1530 hrs, was delayed. The match though is inconsequential with both teams are out of the reckoning for a berth in the semi-finals of the tournament.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson powered Rajasthan Royals to a commanding seven-wicket victory over Bangalore Royal Challengers.
A downcast Bangalore Royal Challengers skipper Rahul Dravid admitted that his side's sixth loss in eight games of the Indian Premier League had made things difficult, but hoped that the tide would turn in the team's favour soon.
An unbeaten 38-ball 52 by Naman Ojha (3x4, 3x6) enabled Rajasthan Royals thrash Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match at SuperSport Park, Centurion on Thursday. Chasing a modest 106 to win, the defending champions romped home with five overs to spare and moved up to the top of the table with 11 points.
The players' auction for the Indian Premier League's second season got underway in Goa on Friday. A look the price list.
Bangalore Royal Challengers skipper Kevin Pietersen has been warned by the Indian Premier League for showing dissent over an umpiring decision during his side's humiliating 92-run loss at the hands of Chennai Super Kings on Monday. Pietersen received an official warning from the IPL for objecting his first-ball leg before wicket dismissal against Sri Lanka veteran spinner Muttiah Muralitharan.
A splendid opening wicket stand by the belligerent Manoj Tiwary (50) and Brad Hodge (50) ensured the Kolkata Knight Riders a comfortable seven-wicket win in their IPL match against the Bangalore Royal Challnegers at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Having bagged the man of the match with his tight bowling spell that played a vital role in the Kolkata Knight Riders' victory over the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the Indian Premier League, Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said that he had tried to bowl well keeping in mind his limitations.
Kevin Pietersen's achilles injury has ruled him out of the $6million Twenty20 Champions League in October.
England batsman Ravi Bopara scored 85 off 59 deliveries as Punjab Super Kings beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in Durban on Friday. The victory gave the Punjab team their first points in three matches.
The Bangalore police have released the sketch of a man suspected of carrying out the recent blasts near Chinnaswamy stadium on April 17. Fourteen people were injured in two blasts near the stadium barely an hour before the IPL match between Mumbai Indians Bangalore Royal Challengers. The police later found two live bombs near the stadium, which were promptly defused. The suspect is 5.5 feet tall, lean and has a wheatish complexion, said Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen will not be available for the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the upcoming Twenty20 Champions League.
Australian all-rounder Cameron White is facing a major dilemma of sorts when he takes part in next month's Champions League in South Africa as a member of the Bangalore Royal Challengers squad.
The Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders will lock horns in the lung-opener of the Indian Premier League in Bangalore.
Five foreign players, including West Indies opener Chris Gayle figure in the 14-member Kolkata Knight Riders squad for the Indian Premier League lung-opener against Bangalore Royal Challengers on April 18. The squad announced on Wednesday has New Zealander Brendon McCullum, Australian captain Ricky Ponting, David Hussey and Pakistani Mohammed Hafiz.
Despite not claiming a single wicket in the semi-final, Anil Kumble is still the top wicket-taker for Bangalore in the IPL 2009, scalping 17 at 19.47 runs apiece.
Bangalore Royal Challengers, spurred by an unbeaten 114 by opener Manish Pandey, beat Deccan Chargers by 12 runs in the final group match of the Indian Premier League at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Thursday.
Mumbai Indians beat the Bangalore Royal Challengers by 16 runs in their Indian Premier League match at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on Sunday. Chasing 158 to win their second straight game against Mumbai, Bangalore could only muster 141 for seven. The fact that none of their main batsmen could make a significant contribution, as well as the lack of any sizeable partnership, proved to be the bane of Bangalore's batting.
Jacques Kallis and Robin Uthappa smashed unbeaten half-centuries to lead Bangalore Royal Challengers to a thumping nine-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League match in Johannesburg on Sunday night.
Jacques Kallis and Robin Uthappa smashed unbeaten half-centuries to lead Bangalore Royal Challengers to a thumping nine-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League match in Johannesburg on Sunday. Bangalore's third straight victory took them to fourth in the standings with eight points from as many games. Mumbai's dropped to sixth with seven points from seven matches.
IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi has donated R100,000 (Rs five lakh) to a high school in Port Elizabeth as part of the IPL's Help Educate and Teach (HEAT) initiative.
The retired Australian batsman scored 65 from 35 deliveries and the Sri Lankan spinner claimed 3 for 11 as Chennai Super Kings beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by 92 runs in the Indian Premier League.
The induction of England batsman Kevin Pietersen and New Zealand's Jesse Ryder, besides Banaglore lad Robin Uthappa, has helped Indian Premier League franchise Bangalore Royal Challengers shed its tag of 'Test outfit' in Twenty20 cricket, says team owner Vijay Mallya. 'Last year our team was called a Test team, but with players such as (Kevin) Pietersen, (Robin) Uthappa and (Jesse) Ryder in the squad now, no one calls it a Test team anymore,' Mallya said.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament committee said it will reschedule the matches that coincides with the Lok Sabha elections. The dates for the general elections were announced on Monday and it was observed that the Kolkata Knight Riders' home match against Bangalore Royal Challengers on May 13 falls on the same day the city goes to polls.
England's talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff and deposed captain Kevin Pietersen on Friday became the highest priced auctioned cricketers in the Indian Premier League when they were bought for an identical amount of $ 1.55 million by Chennai Super Kings and Bangalore Royal Challengers, respectively.
Mumbai Indians, led by Sachin Tendulkar, have swapped Karnataka Ranji Trophy captain Robin Uthappa for left-arm pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, who represented Bangalore's Royal Challengers in the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League last year, at no cost to either franchise.
Australian cricketers in state side New South Wales continue to be hot property in the Indian Premier League (IPL)and young opener David Warner has become the latest to take the IPL plunge, signing a two-year deal with the Delhi Daredevils. The 22-year-old hit a NSW one-day record score of 165 not out against Tasmania in a Ford Ranger Cup game last month.
Already out of contention for a semifinal berth, Delhi Daredevils would look to salvage some pride with a consolation win against Cape Cobras in an inconsequential Champions League Twenty20 match at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi on Monday.
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