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3rd Edition IPL - 2010

Indian Premier League 3rd Edition is scheduled from 12th March 2010 to April 25th 2010

Further Updates - IPL 3rd Edition

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Squad for DLF Indian Premier League

A total of 268 cricketers will participate in IPL season 2. With the playing squads of each of the franchises ranging between 24 to 56 players, there are a total of 188 Indians participating in the league.

Season 2 will see a host of additional Indian cricketers that have been drafted into the teams by the respective franchises from their individual catchment areas, the talent available from the Under – 19 and Under – 22 squads and Ranji Trophy players as per the statutory guidelines drawn up by the DLF IPL. Not to forget the 80 international cricketers that will represent the finest international talent from teams like the West Indies, Australia, Bangladesh, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and England.


List of Teams and Players

Bangalore Royal Challengers
Kempegowda – The Imperial

International players: Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Dillon Du Preez, Cameron White, Nathan Bracken, Ross Taylor, Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder and Roelof van der Merwe.

Indian players: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Virat Kohli, Wasim Jaffer, Manish Pandey, Srivastava Goswami, R. Suteesh, Pankaj Singh, Vinay Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Karan Sharma, Saurabh Bandekar, Tinu Yohannan, Bharat Chipli, Bhalachandra Akhil, Devraj Patil, Jagadeesh Arun Kumar, KP Appanna, Sunil Joshi, Gaurav Dhiman, Jitendra Patil, Udit Patel, Abhimanyu Mithun, Sreesanth Aravind, Kedar Jadhav, Muralidharen, Gautam, Raju Bhatkal, Rajesh Bishnoi, Ishank Jaggi and Rohit Sabharwal.


Chennai Super Kings
Cold’nWarm

International players: Muttiah Muralitharan, Matthew Hayden , Michael Hussey, Albie Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Jacob Oram, Stephen Fleming , Thilan Thushara, Andrew Flintoff and George Bailey.

Indian players: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Parthiv Patel, Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Murali Vijay, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Viraj Vilas Kadbe, Shadab Jakati, Ravichandran Ashwin, Abhinav Mukund, Anirudha Srikkanth, S Vidyut , Palani Amarnath, Arun Karthik, Napoleon Einstein and Suresh Kumar.


Delhi Daredevils
Defy the Nawabs

International players: AB De Villiers, Daniel Vettori, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes, Glenn McGrath, Farveez Maharoof and Tillakaratne Dilshan.

Indian players: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Aavishkar Salvi, Ashish Nehra, Yo Mahesh, Pradeep Sangwan, Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar, Tejashwi Yadav and Amit Mishra.


Rajasthan Royals
Rajputs Majesty

International players: Shane Warne, Graeme Smith, Shane Watson, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Morne Morkel, Robert Quiney, Tyron Henderson, Shaun Tait, Shane Harwood and Lee Carseldine.

Indian players: Mohammad Kaif, Munaf Patel, Yousuf Pathan, Siddharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Niraj Patel, Mahesh Rawat, Anup Revandkar, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Salunke, Naman Ojha, Siddharth Chitnis, Paras Dogra, Amit Singh, Ahad Malek, Raiphi Gomez, Kamran Khan, Ashraf Makda, Paul Valthaty, Srideep Mangela, Mohammad Arif, Gajendra Singh, Atul Sharma, Pratmesh Salunke, Pushkarraj Chavan and Abhishek Raut.


Mumbai Indians
Mumbaikers Slam

International players: Lasith Malinga, Jean Paul Duminy, Graham Napier, Ryan McLaren, Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Dwayne Bravo, Mohammad Ashraful, Kyle Mills and Luke Ronchi.

Indian players: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Shikhar Dhawan, Abhishek Nayar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jude Singh, Jaydev Shah, Rahil Shaikh, Yogesh Takawale, Pinal Shah, Ajinkya Rahane, Chetnya Nanda, Rohan Raje and Saurabh Tiwary.

Kings XI Punjab
Singh ka Puthar

International players: Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich, Kumar Sangakkara , Mahela Jayawardene, Burt Cockley, Ravi Bopara and Jerome Taylor.

Indian players: Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, S. Sreesanth, Ramesh Powar, VRV Singh, Piyush Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Argal, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal, Ryan Ninan, Yash Gandhi, Ravikant Shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Vikramjeet Malik, Taruwar Kohli and Amanpreet Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders
Hoogly’s Googly

International players: Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Brad Hodge, Ricky Ponting, David Hussey, Angelo Mathews, Moises Henriques, Mark Cameron, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza and Ajantha Mendis.

Indian players: Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashoke Dinda, Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Murali Kartik, Iqbal Abdullah, Cheteshwar Pujara, Yashpal Singh, Aakash Chopra, Anureet Singh, Rajesh Verma , Aditya Dole, S Niyaz , Ishwar Chaudhary, Mohnish Parmar, M Sanauth, Sheldon Jackson, Amit Das, Sanjib Sanyal, Avik Chowdhury, Sachin Rana, Sunny Singh, Gaurav Chabbra, Nataraj Behara, Shatrunjay Gaekwad, Shoaib Sheikh, Rohan Prem, Sanjay Bangar, Gnaneswara Rao, Bhavin Thakkar, P Prashant, Prashant Parmeshwar, Kshemal Waingankar, Murtaza Hussain, Sourav Sarkar, Arindam Ghosh, Ameya Shrikhande, Chetan Suryavanshi, Abhishek Banerjee, Anushtup Mazumdar, Dhiran Salvi, Sanju Samson and Vinit Indulkar.

Deccan Chargers
Nizam’s Flare

International players: Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs, Scott Styris, Andrew Symonds, Ryan Harris, Fidel Edwards, Dwayne Smith, Chamara Silva, Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Zoysa.

Indian players: VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Rudra Pratap Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Tirumalsetti Suman, Arjun Yadav, Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna, Paidikalva Vijaykumar, Abhinav Kumar, Manvinder Bisla, Jaskarandeep Singh, Harmeet Singh, Halhadhar Das, Shoaib Ahmed and Sarvesh Kumar.

DLF-IPL 2008 an Overview

With the start of DLF-IPL 2009 in South Africa at Cape Town shortly, let’s recall the stupendous event held last year.


Man of the Series 2008
Shane Watson with 472 runs and 17 wickets from 15 matches


Man of the Match 2008 and Batsman of the Series
On 5 occasions Shaun Marsh earned Man of the Match with a run aggregate of 616 runs from 11 matches to be Batsman of the series


Bowler of the Series
Rajasthan Royal's Sohail Tanvir for his 22 wickets aggregate from 11 games including the best bowling figures of the tournament - 6 for 14


Team for Fair Play Award
Chennai Super Kings


Player of Under-19
Bangalore Royal Challenger's Srivats Goswami


Aggregate of 500 plus runs in the Tournament
Marsh 616
Gautam Gambhir 534
Sanath Jayasuriya 514


Most Fours
Gambhir 68
Marsh 59
Jayasuriya 57
Graeme Smith 54
Adam Gilchrist 51


Most Fifty's
Marsh 6
Gambhir 5
are the batsmen who made five or more half-centuries in the tournament
Marsh’s six fifties included a hundred


Most Catches in the Tournament
Suresh Raina with 10 catches from 16 matches, the only fielder (excluding wicket-keepers) to take 10 or more catches


Most Catches in an Innings
Sachin Tendulkar with four catches against Kolkata Knight Riders


Most Wickets
Tanvir with 22, was the only bowler to capture more than 20 wickets


Most Dismissals
Y.V.Takawale 11 dismissals, with 10 catches and 1 stumping in 7 matches


Most Dismissals in a Match

Y.V.Takawale with 4 dismissals (3 catches and a stumping) against Rajasthan Royals


Most Stumpings in the Tournament
Kamran Akmal with 4 stumpings


Most Runs and Most Wickets respectively as Captains
Mahendra Singh Dhoni aggregated 414 runs from 16 matches
Shane Warne had a tally of 19 wickets from 15 matches

Sunday, March 29, 2009

DLF Indian Premier League Season 2 in SouthAfrica

Game of Passion, Aspiration and Triumph heading towards its Centenary celebration is Cricket. Change, which is permanent immaterial of ends did strike the game last year giving new facet and re-life in the form of T20.

Gaining its momentum more than expectation at its launch Indian Premium League witnessed huge hype with players exhibiting immense talent towards The Game of Cricket. Price for the effort was paid off to the Commissioner of IPL Mr.Lalit Modi and his team. With the success of IPL Season I being fresh in the minds of Cricket Enthusiast yet another reason to rejoice is on cards with successful foundation for IPL Season 2 being laid, laid strong.

India being a Multi-dilemmatic Country irrespective of Sectors, it is not shocking news for the drama to end inappropriately as the decision on conducting the Indian Premier League Season 2 to be hosted in South Africa.

IPL Season II 2009 will kick off at The Newlands in Cape Town on April 18th while the semi-finals are to be held on May 22nd and 23rd at Pretoria and Johannesburg. Grand Finale takes its position at The Wanderers in Johannesburg on May 24th.

The league will showcase a grand total of 59 matches providing broadcasters and in-stadia spectators with 177 hours of live “family entertainment”, targeting international audience as well.

All matches will be telecasted by Sony Entertainment at 4pm and 8pm IST the official broadcaster for IPL to coincide with prime time for television audience in India.

Season 2 of the Indian Premier League will feature eight Franchises battling for over a month in South Africa continuing to play on a home and away basis. The top 4 Franchises in the league will contest the semi-finals and the victorious semi-finalists will meet in the Grand Final all over one weekend.

In a double header on the first day, First edition’s winners Rajasthan Royals will take on the Bangalore Royal Challengers while Mumbai Indians would clash with the runners-up Chennai Super Kings at Cape Town.


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