New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Sourav Ganguly has denied reports of a rift between him and team owner Shah Rukh Khan over team composition and tactical matters, and said he will clear the matter soon.
Ganguly rubbished media reports which had claimed that Shah Rukh was not happy with some of his decisions in crunch matches while he himself was unhappy for not having enough say in team composition.
“It’s not true. I have seen the reports and will make a clarification soon,” Ganguly said, refusing to be drawn further into the matter.
Earlier, the team management had also described the reports of the rift between cricket icon and matinee idol as “false and baseless”.
A top team source insisted that Shah Rukh and Ganguly were in the best of relationships and said, “All these reports of a rift are false and baseless. We don’t have any problem in the team.
“It is only that our performance had not been to what we had expected. Because we are losing, people are imagining things that we are having problems in running the team,” the source added.
He said Shah Rukh himself would soon be issuing a statement in Mumbai to clarify the matter.
After their loss to Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata, Knight Riders are virtually out of reckoning for a semifinal berth save for a miracle. They play Delhi Dredevils here on Thursday in their penultimate match.
Source:cricketnext.com
mong the other top 10 batsmen on the basis of their respective MRR include: Venugopal Rao (Hyderabad), Shane Watson (Jaipur), Gautam Gambhir (Delhi), Graeme Smith (Jaipur), Yusuf Pathan (Jaipur), Adam Gilchrist (Hyderabad), David Hussey (Kolkata) and Rohit Sharma (Hyderabad).
A similar analogy can be drawn for bowlers where the top performers are ranked purely with respect to wickets. Among those who have picked 10 or more wickets, the lowest MSR has been recorded by Manpreet Gony and D Kulkarni who are representing Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, respectively.
Both the players have picked 11 wickets each at an MSR of Rs 1.09 lakh/wicket. Compare that with South African bowler Shaun Pollock who has picked 10 wickets for the Mumbai team at Rs 22 lakh/wicket. Other top bowlers include Yo Mahesh (Delhi), Ashish Nehra (Mumbai), Sohail Tanvir (Jaipur), Shane Watson (Jaipur), Dwayne Bravo (Mumbai).
Incidentally, the top five wicket takers during the first month of IPL are all specialist bowlers: RP Singh, Shane Warne, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan and S Sreesanth. However, as against those who have topped the MSR charts, these bowlers have picked wickets at a rate of more than Rs 10 lakh/wicket given their high signing amount.
Among the players who have failed to match up to their high pay packets are Herschelle Gibbs (Hyderabad), Shahid Afridi (Hyderabad), Jacques Kallis (Bangalore), Yuvraj Singh (Mohali), Suresh Raina (Chennai), among others. While MS Dhoni, the highest paid IPL player roped in for a staggering Rs 6 crore, has made his 332 runs at an MRR of almost Rs 2 lakh per run.
Among the other top 10 batsmen on the basis of their respective MRR include: Venugopal Rao (Hyderabad), Shane Watson (Jaipur), Gautam Gambhir (Delhi), Graeme Smith (Jaipur), Yusuf Pathan (Jaipur), Adam Gilchrist (Hyderabad), David Hussey (Kolkata) and Rohit Sharma (Hyderabad).
A similar analogy can be drawn for bowlers where the top performers are ranked purely with respect to wickets. Among those who have picked 10 or more wickets, the lowest MSR has been recorded by Manpreet Gony and D Kulkarni who are representing Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, respectively.
Both the players have picked 11 wickets each at an MSR of Rs 1.09 lakh/wicket. Compare that with South African bowler Shaun Pollock who has picked 10 wickets for the Mumbai team at Rs 22 lakh/wicket. Other top bowlers include Yo Mahesh (Delhi), Ashish Nehra (Mumbai), Sohail Tanvir (Jaipur), Shane Watson (Jaipur), Dwayne Bravo (Mumbai).
Incidentally, the top five wicket takers during the first month of IPL are all specialist bowlers: RP Singh, Shane Warne, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan and S Sreesanth. However, as against those who have topped the MSR charts, these bowlers have picked wickets at a rate of more than Rs 10 lakh/wicket given their high signing amount.
Among the players who have failed to match up to their high pay packets are Herschelle Gibbs (Hyderabad), Shahid Afridi (Hyderabad), Jacques Kallis (Bangalore), Yuvraj Singh (Mohali), Suresh Raina (Chennai), among others. While MS Dhoni, the highest paid IPL player roped in for a staggering Rs 6 crore, has made his 332 runs at an MRR of almost Rs 2 lakh per run.
Source:economictimes.indiatimes.com
MUMBAI: It’s Mallya trouble again for former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid.
After being flayed by Bangalore Royal Challengers’ owner Vijay Mallya for his team’s dismal show in the ongoing Indian Premier League tournament, ‘The Wall’ is now facing the boot from Bank of Baroda, headed by Mangalore Devdas Mallya.
Bank officials say they are unlikely to renew Dravid’s contract as BoB’s brand ambassador.
MD Mallya, who took charge of the bank earlier this month, told NewsWire18, “It is too early to comment on.”
Officials said Bank of Baroda is now eyeing the services of current skipper of the One-Day International and Twenty-20 cricket teams Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
“There is no question of renewing Rahul Dravid’s contract,” an official said citing the recent loss of form of the beleaguered cricketer, who was hired by the bank when AK Khandelwal was at the helm.
The glitch in seeking out Dhoni, however, is the price tag, officials say.
Dhoni, who is yet to endorse any financial services company, is asking a price about seven times that paid to Dravid.
The bank had approached Dhoni’s Delhi-based agent recently. Officials say Dhoni is asking for a whopping Rs70 million per annum, whereas Dravid got Rs40 million rupees in four years.
Bankers point out that it is the controversy surrounding the price and not the price tag per se, which is an issue for Bank of Baroda.
“For a bank, which records about Rs15 billion yearly profit, Rs70 million is nothing. However, there are other issues,” an official said.
Source :dnaindia.com
Today was a match between Chennai Super Kings and Bangalore Royal Challengers in the DLF – IPL. This was the 46 match of the league. Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and decided to bat. They gave Chennai Supers a target of 127 Scores. Beginning of Super kings was good but the second half of their inning was the worst. 3 players were out at duck, and 2 players were gone for 1 score each. The players were unable to stand against bowling of Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Today was a match between Chennai Super Kings and Bangalore Royal Challengers in the DLF – IPL. This was the 46 match of the league. Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and decided to bat. Jacques Kallis and Shreevats Goswami opened the batting for Bangalore Royal Challengers and took the score to 7 before Jacques Kallis was out. The score of the team was 76 for the loss of 5 wickets in 15 overs. Rahul Dravid was the top scorer for Royal Challengers. In the end the team scored 126 runs in 20 overs.