Batting: Deccan Chargers Innings

Bowling: Bangalore Royal Challengers

Batting: Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings

Bowling : Deccan Chargers

Today is the 22nd match in DLF IPL between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata Knight Riders are loosing the matches in a row and now need to break that jinx where as Kings XI Punjab are riding on success and will go all over to maintain the winning streak. So we can expect a good battle on the ground between these two teams.

Kings XI Punjab (probable) 1 Shaun Marsh, 2 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Gagandeep Singh, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh.

Kolkata Knight Riders (probable) 1 Sourav Ganguly (capt), 2 Salman Butt, 3 Brad Hodge, 4 David Hussey, 5 Debabrata Das, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Ratan Shukla, 8 Umar Gul, 9 Murali Kartik, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Date – 22nd Match May 3, 2008
Venue – Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali
20:00 India time.

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Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers is going to be a very crucial match for both the teams. Both the teams have lost 4 matches out of the 5 they played so far and are therefore in a hunt to prove themself.

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probables) 1 Praveen Kumar, 2 Wasim Jaffer, 3 Misbah-ul-Haq, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Rahul Dravid (capt), 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Virat Kohli, 8 Zaheer Khan, 9 Dale Steyn, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 R Vinay Kumar.

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (probables) 1 Adam Gilchrist, 2 VVS Laxman (capt), 3 Hershelle Gibbs, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Arjun Yadav, 7, Sanjay Bangar, 8 Nuwan Zoysa, 9 D Kalyankrishna, 10 RP Singh, 11 Pragyan Ojha.

Date – 21st Match May 3, 2008
Venue – Hyderabad
16:00 India time.

Update: Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field first.

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Melbourne (PTI): Australian Cricketers’ Association President Darren Lehmann, who came out of retirement to play in the cash-rich Indian Premier League, believes the Twenty20 venture would be “bigger and better” in its second season in next April and May.”They have another 12 months to get it right and there will be even greater interest,” said Lehmann, who had replaced South African captain Graeme Smith in the first two games of Rajasthan Royals in the cricket extravaganza.

The 38-year-old former Australian player also suggested expansion of international quota in the playing XI of IPL teams and said the competition should be played as a “boutique” tournament.
“They could add another overseas player to rosters and open up the window for all international team including England to play,” Lehmann was quoted as saying by ‘The Advertiser’.

“We need the best possible outcome so this can happen. I feel a bit sorry for the English boys but think we can work around it to help get things across the line. The IPL should be played as a boutique tournament for international players.”

The charged IPL atmosphere and the chance to work with young Indian players has made Lehmann ambitious to coach.”I am really looking forward to getting into the coaching side of things now,” said Lehmann.”The Royals were keen for me to stay on but I had attend to some things at home. It may happen next IPL season,” Lehmann said.He claimed IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi told him the owners of the eight franchises were happy with the inaugural version of the competition.”I have had good discussions with Lalit Modi and they can’t believe the success of the IPL,” Lehmann said.

However, Cricket Australia Chief executive James Sutherland has questioned the long-term prospects of the IPL and its impact on the game.”It’s nice to pay the players well and get big money from television rights and sponsorships, but ultimately you’ve got to provide a return for the owners or in this case the franchises,” Sutherland said.”As I understand it, the franchisees are starting to ask questions already.”

Source:hindu.com

NEW DELHI: Rival skippers Sourav Ganguly and Shane Warne were on Friday fined 10 per cent of their match fee and reprimanded for their conduct as the Indian Premier League continued to crack the whip on on-field indiscipline.

A day after the two veteran cricketers engaged in a public spat following the IPL match between their respective sides, the IPL was quick to punish the two captains and said it would not tolerate any indiscipline.

While Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Ganguly was penalized for forcing the on-field umpire to refer a contentious catch to the third umpire, Rajasthan Royals’ captain Warne was punished for lambasting Ganguly’s conduct in the post-match press conference.The IPL also decided to suspend the on-field umpire in question, G Pratap Kumar, for a match.

“It has been informed by Farokh Engineer, the Referee in the IPL game between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur on May 1, that he has issued an official reprimand to Sourav Ganguly, and fined him 10 per cent of his match-fee for showing dissent on the field,” IPL commissioner and chairman Lalit Modi said in a statement today.

“The Referee has also suspended Pratap Kumar for one match, on the grounds that there was no reason for him to accede to Ganguly’s request to consult the TV umpire,” Modi added.

Source:newindpress.com