It was the 30th match of DLF – IPL today. This was a match between Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers played in the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur . Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to field first. Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs opened the batting for Deccan Chargers and took the score to 61 before Herschelle Gibbs was out. He was caught by M Rawat. After his wicket was down the next players were unable to play well, due to the changed bowling attack of Rajasthan Royals. The score of the team was 100 for the loss of 3 wickets in 14 overs. Adam Gilchrist was the top scorer for Deccan Chargers. In the end the team scored 140 runs in 20 overs.
Today is Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers and it could be one more match which could make the spec taters glued to the seats. Royals lost the last match and will now wish to come back where as Deccan Chargers won the match and would like to maintain the winning streak. So we have to wait and watch who plays better cricket today.
Deccan Chargers (probables) 1 Adam Gilchrist (capt/wk), 2 Herschelle Gibbs, 3 Scott Styris, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Shahid Afridi, 6 Venugopal Rao, 7 Sanjay Bangar, 8 Arjun Yadav, 9 RP Singh, 10 P Vijaykumar, 11 Pragyan Ojha
Hyper-active Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan seems to have turned desperate. He was on pins and needles when the Indian Premier League (IPL) started a few of weeks ago with his team Kolkata Knight Riders winning two consecutive matches. However, King Khan seems to have sensed the danger following four consecutive defeats later. Now, the news is doing the rounds that he is roping in the one-time WWE Champion the Great Khali to support his team.
It is said that King Khan is doing all he could to lift his team to a safe position. And so, he is said to have offered Rs.3 crore to the Great Khali to cheer for his team. Khali had earlier signed to act in the film Rama The Saviour, starring Sahil Khan and Tanushree Dutta.
JAIPUR: After the IPL auctions earlier this year, Rahul Dravid had wished that players were never ‘sold’ again. Strangely enough, before the next edition of the IPL, he himself could be put up for sale.When the trading window opens in February next year, icon players like Dravid and Sourav Ganguly could well find themselves on the transfer list. According to sources, some of the franchisees are unhappy with the performance of their icon players and are even exploring avenues to ‘sell’ them off.
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi informed TOI that although the icon players had been given special status, the franchises would be permitted to trade their ‘non-performing assets’.According to BCCI sources, some of the franchisees have indicated that they be allowed to trade below-par performers for those the owners feel might be quality replacements. But Modi made it clear on Wednesday that “if the franchisees want to dispose off the icon players or the underperformers in the team, the owners will have to pay off the three-year contract money to them”. Or else, they can be traded to some other teams when the IPL trading window opens next February.
“This format is quite unpredictable. The top team in the first seven matches may not be the same when the league finishes. But if some franchisee wants new players and wants to dispose off their icon, they will have to pay the three-year contract money. If some other teams are willing to buy them, then those players’ salaries will have to be paid by the new owners. In fact, the trading window opens next year in February,” Modi said.”The IPL rule is fixed for next three years. There will be eight foreign players in the team out of which four can be inducted in the playing XI. On top of this, if the franchisees want to sign up new players, they are welcome to do so. But in that case, you will have to pay that player’s salary. But the rule to have eight of them in the team and four on the field will remain,” Modi said.
There are some franchisees like team Mohali and Delhi Daredevils, though, who are quite happy with their icons Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag.
JAIPUR: Guess who are the bookies’ hot favourite in the Indian Premier League (IPL)? You don’t have to try too hard. With five wins on the trot, Shane Warne’s boys — who started off as the underdogs — are the favourite in betting circles, both in India and the UK.A day before Team Jaipur take on Mumbai Indians, desi bookies and one leading British betting agency, William Hill, are already tipping them to win IPL, while another British agency, Ladbrokes, is backing them to top the league tables.
Ladbrokes has not yet offered odds on who will ultimately win the IPL this year, but it is taking bets on which team will top the league. It is offering 11/4 on Team Jaipur, which means that for every rupee you bet on Warne and his men, you will win Rs 2.75 (you also get your rupee back). For the second spot, it is offering 7/2 on both Delhi Daredevils and Team Mohali, which means you win Rs 3.50 for every rupee you bet.William Hill is offering the same odds on Team Jaipur as Ladbrokes and is also picking Punjab and Delhi jointly for the second spot, but with slightly lower odds (10/3), which means you can win Rs 3.33 for every rupee you bet. The difference is that William Hill is talking about winning the IPL, not topping the league.
Indian bookies have a somewhat different take: they are placing equal odds on both Team Jaipur and Team Mohali to win. You could pocket Rs 3.70 for every rupee you bet on either Team Jaipur or Team Mohali to win the IPL on June 1. They have placed Delhi Daredevils in the third place.Team Chennai, which started off as one the favourites because of Twenty20 World Cup winning captain MS Dhoni, is fourth on everyone’s rate-card. They are behind Jaipur, Delhi and Mohali because they lost back-to-back matches.
Another factor that has affected their standing is the absence of Australians Matthew Hayden and Mike Hussey from the batting line-up. Lack of depth in their bowling department is another reason that has contributed to the lukewarm response of the bookies. Shah Rukh Khan’s team — Kolkata Knight Riders — is fifth on the list. With Shoaib Akhtar joining the Knight Riders, skipper Sourav Ganguly may hope the sky is the limit, but the bookies seem to believe it will take something special for this team to get into the top four.
The three worst teams so far —Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore — are, not surprisingly, at the bottom of all three lists. The odds are, of course, likely to keep changing as fresh results come in.
