Indian Premier League

Both Delhi & Bangalore will be itching to get their revenge on Chennai & Kolkata in tonights IPL twenty20 games. Delhi lost their home game against Chennai while Bangalore lost the first home game against kolkata. Delhi has got their top three batsman in premium form while they’ve also got a deadly opening bowling attack in the form of McGrath and Asif. Both these bowlers have also got good support in Yomahesh and Rajat Bhatia, the local players who performed very well in most of the Delhi matches. On the other hand Chennai SuperKings are struggling both with bat and ball at this very important stage in the IPL tournament.

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IPL Kolkata won the first IPL Twenty-20 match against IPL Bangalore. The Riders out performed the challengers in all departments of the game and much to the delight of the Riders boss Shahrukh Khan they won the game comfortably by 140 runs.

Rahul Dravid captain of Challengers team won the toss and elected to field, but Riders opener Brendon McCullum had different plans. He trashed the Challengers bowling attack to all parts of the park scoring 158 n.o which included 10 fours and 13 sixes. His 158* is the highest individual score in twenty-20 and most likely will remain untouched at least in this tournament.

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After a not so exciting second time bidding for players ended on tuesday, its clearly IPL Jaipur that emerged as a statistical team buying a few exciting players around the Twenty20 circuit. Here’s the table of players and franchises that bought them.
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Praveen Kumar the all rounder currently playing CB series in Australia has signed up a contract with Bangalore IPL team for an amount of $300,000. Bangalore and Delhi were in the race to snatch Kumar with a better offer than bangalore. Though its now confirmed that Praveen Kumar will play for Bangalore Royal Challengers.

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