Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
The 2010 Indian Premier League season will kick off in Hyderabad. Defending champions the Deccan Chargers will kick off an expanded third edition of the Indian Premier League next March in Hyderabad against the Kolkata Knight Riders. There will be four new venues to the IPL tournament - Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Dharamsala and Vishakapatnam - which will act as home venues for Mumbai Indians, Team Jaipur, Kings XI and Team Hyderabad respectively. There will be an extra game in 2010, the third place play-off after the two semifinals.
The 'icon status' of Tendulkar, Sehwag, Dravid, Ganguly and Singh, who enjoyed the special status in the inaugural two seasons, is over, and they will be treated like any other player in the IPL. They will no more stand to earn 15% more than the highest-earning player from his franchise.
The IPL has also brought a change in strategy (time-out) breaks that were introduced in 2009. Instead of a seven-and-half minute break per innings, which equals to 15 minutes per game, there will now be two two-and-half minute breaks per innings, equaling to 10 minutes per game.
The first break will be called by the bowling captain between the sixth and the tenth over while second by the batsman at the crease between the 11th and 15th over.
Indian Premier League 3 Fixtures (IPL 2010 Schedules)
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Day / Date
IST
GMT
Teams
Venue
1
Fri :: 2010 March 12
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders
HCA – Hyderabad
2
Sat :: 2010 March 13
16:00
10:30
Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals
Mumbai/Nagpur
3
Sat :: 2010 March 13
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils
PCA – Mohali
4
Sun :: 2010 March 14
16:00
10:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers
MAC – Chennai
5
Sun :: 2010 March 14
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
Eden – Kolkata
6
Mon :: 2010 March 15
20:00
14:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils
SMS – Jaipur
7
Tue :: 2010 March 16
16:00
10:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kings XI Punjab
MCS – Bangalore
8
Tue :: 2010 March 16
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings
Eden – Kolkata
9
Wed :: 2010 March 17
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians
FSK – Delhi
10
Thu :: 2010 March 18
20:00
14:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals
MCS – Bangalore
11
Fri :: 2010 March 19
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab
Visakhapatnam
12
Sat :: 2010 March 20
16:00
10:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Ahmedabad
13
Sat :: 2010 March 20
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
Mumbai/Nagpur
14
Sun :: 2010 March 21
16:00
10:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
MAC – Chennai
15
Sun :: 2010 March 21
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers
FSK – Delhi
16
Mon :: 2010 March 22
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Mumbai/Nagpur
17
Tue :: 2010 March 23
20:00
14:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings
MCS – Bangalore
18
Wed :: 2010 March 24
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals
PCA – Mohali
19
Thu :: 2010 March 25
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils
Eden – Kolkata
20
Fri :: 2010 March 26
16:00
10:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians
MAC – Chennai
21
Fri :: 2010 March 26
20:00
14:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers
Ahmedabad
22
Sat :: 2010 March 27
16:00
10:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Delhi Daredevils
MCS – Bangalore
23
Sat :: 2010 March 27
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders
PCA – Mohali
24
Sun :: 2010 March 28
16:00
10:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings
Ahmedabad
25
Sun :: 2010 March 28
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians
Visakhapatnam
26
Mon :: 2010 March 29
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders
FSK – Delhi
27
Tue :: 2010 March 30
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai/Nagpur
28
Wed :: 2010 March 31
16:00
10:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
MAC – Chennai
29
Wed :: 2010 March 31
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals
FSK – Delhi
30
Thu :: 2010 April 01
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers
Eden – Kolkata
31
Fri :: 2010 April 02
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
PCA – Mohali
32
Sat :: 2010 April 03
16:00
10:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals
MAC – Chennai
33
Sat :: 2010 April 03
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers
Mumbai/Nagpur
34
Sun :: 2010 April 04
16:00
10:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
FSK – Delhi
35
Sun :: 2010 April 04
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab
Eden – Kolkata
36
Mon :: 2010 April 05
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals
HCA – Hyderabad
37
Tue :: 2010 April 06
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings
Mumbai/Nagpur
38
Wed :: 2010 April 07
20:00
14:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab
Ahmedabad
39
Thu :: 2010 April 08
16:00
10:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers
MCS – Bangalore
40
Thu :: 2010 April 08
20:00
14:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils
MAC – Chennai
41
Fri :: 2010 April 09
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians
PCA – Mohali
42
Sat :: 2010 April 10
16:00
10:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders
MCS – Bangalore
43
Sat :: 2010 April 10
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings
HCA – Hyderabad
44
Sun :: 2010 April 11
16:00
10:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians
SMS – Jaipur
45
Sun :: 2010 April 11
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab
FSK – Delhi
46
Mon :: 2010 April 12
20:00
14:30
Deccan Chargers vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
HCA – Hyderabad
47
Tue :: 2010 April 13
20:00
14:30
Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders
MAC – Chennai
48
Wed :: 2010 April 14
20:00
14:30
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Mumbai/Nagpur
49
Thu :: 2010 April 15
16:00
10:30
Rajasthan Royals vs Bangalore Royal Challengers
SMS – Jaipur
50
Thu :: 2010 April 15
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers
Dharmasala
51
Fri :: 2010 April 16
20:00
14:30
Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings
FSK – Delhi
52
Sat :: 2010 April 17
16:00
10:30
Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians
MCS – Bangalore
53
Sat :: 2010 April 17
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals
Eden – Kolkata
54
Sun :: 2010 April 18
16:00
10:30
Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils
HCA – Hyderabad
55
Sun :: 2010 April 18
20:00
14:30
Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings
Dharmasala
56
Mon :: 2010 April 19
20:00
14:30
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians
Eden – Kolkata
57
Wed :: 2010 April 21
20:00
14:30
1nd Semi :: 2010 April Final – Team 1 vs Team 2
TBC
58
Thu :: 2010 April 22
20:00
14:30
2nd Semi :: 2010 April Final – Team 3 vs Team 4
TBC
59
Sat :: 2010 April 24
20:00
14:30
Play :: 2010 April off for 3rd Place – Team A vs Team B
TBC
60
Sun :: 2010 April 25
20:00
14:30
Final of IPL 2010 – Team 1 vs Team 2
TBC
Indian Premier League Season 2
2009 DLF Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League, Live from South Africa!
March 2009
The 2009 Indian Premier League season will be the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the BCCI in 2007. The second edition is scheduled between April 10 and May 24, 2009. The format of the tournament would remain unchanged from the 2008 season format. The eight franchises will first play against one another in a league on home-and-away basis. The top four teams will then figure in the two semi-finals and a final. The number of international players allowed in any one squad was increased from 8 to 10 although the number allowed in any playing 11 remains at 4. Four new franchises will join the IPL in 2010-11.
2nd IPL 2009 Finals - Deccan Chargers v Royal Challengers Bangalore
May 24, 2009
Two teams that were at the bottom of the points table in the first IPL season, the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, will clash in the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2009) on Sunday at Johannesburg.
IPL 2009 Final: Deccan Chargers snatch IPL 2009 title in tense finish
May 24, 2009
Deccan Chargers beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by six runs in the final of the
Indian Premier League at the Wanderers on Sunday. Veteran Anil Kumble bowled four overs for 16 runs and four wickets, and kept Deccan Chargers in check at the Wanderers, but the Bangalore batsmen couldn't chase down the below-par total of 143 for 6 set by the Chargers.
Bangalore needed 27 from the last two overs, and 14 from the last, but Robin Uthappa couldn't do much, except a lone sixer. A crestfallen Kumble was at the other end watching the match and the trophy slipping away with each ball.
The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle. The media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on January 24, 2008.
The match was followed by a spectacular closing ceremony, addressed by President Zuma of South Africa.
Deccan Chargers: Adam Gilchrist (Capt), H Gibbs, TS Suman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao, A Bilakhia, R Harris, P Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble (Capt), Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Ross Taylor, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Virat Kohli, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, RD Merwe.
RCB v DC, Finals: Deccan Chargers 143 for 6 (Gibbs 53*, Symonds 33, Kumble 4-16) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 137 for 9 (RE van der Merwe 32, Ross Taylor 27, Ojha 3-28) by 6 runs
2nd Semi-Final - Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore
May 23, 2009
Last year's runners up Chennai Super Kings will take on their South Indian neighbour Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second semi for a spot in Sunday's final. Bangalore was a team that many had written off even before they started their campaign in South Africa, following their disastrous season in 2008. However, Bangalore started out with a bang under their new skipper Kevin Pietersen by comprehensively defeating last year's champions Rajasthan Royals. Kevin Pietersen, the highest paid player in this year's IPL, couldn't find his form, and the team too looked out of sorts, losing four games in a row to find themselves at the back end of the table. It was when Anil Kumble took over the reins that Bangalore won 6 games out of 8, culminating with three wins in a row against the three other semi-finalists.
Chennai and Bangalore have clashed twice this season with each side coming out on top once. Chennai completely demolished Bangalore in the first meeting by a whopping margin of 92 runs, but Bangalore came back in the second meeting by bundling out Chennai for 129, and winning with 2 wickets to spare.
Second Semi-Final: Royal Challengers thump Chennai by 6 wickets
May 23, 2009
Anil Kumble's bowlers restricted last year’s runners-up Super Kings to 146 for five in 20 overs and then 19-year-old Man of the Match Manish Pandey (48) and the veteran Rahul Dravid (44) played sensibly to put Royal Challengers in the finals, with seven balls to spare. Bangalore, one of the worst teams in the inaugural IPL, and dubbed "The Test Team", will now face another side that struggled in the 2008 season, Deccan Chargers, in the final at the Wanderers.
Chennai Super Kings: Matthew Hayden, Parthiv Patel, Lakshmipathy Balaji, MS Dhoni (Capt), Suresh Raina, Jacob Oram, Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Subramaniam Badrinath, Shadab Jakati, Manpreet Gony
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble (Capt), Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Ross Taylor, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Virat Kohli, Vinay Kumar, Manish Pandey, RD Merwe.
RCB v CSK, Second Semi: Royal Challengers Bangalore 149 for 4 (Pandey 48, Dravid 44) beat Chennai Super Kings 146 for 5 (Parthiv 36, 2-38) by six wickets
1st Semi-Final - Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers
May 21, 2009
After 56 incredibly entertaining matches, the semi-finals of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are about to start. Delhi Daredevils, under the leadership of Virendra Sehwag, who with 10 wins from their 14 games played are clear favourites for the title when they meet early leaders Deccan Chargers. Chargers went 4 games unbeaten to start their 2009 campaign, after finishing rock bottom in 2008. AB De Villiers was the top scorer for Delhi Daredevils in the group stage, with 439 from 12 innings with a superb average of 54.9 and a strike rate of 131.4. For Deccan Chargers, Adam Gilchrist top scored with 410 from 14 innings at an average of 29.3 and a strike rate of 142.9. He hit 24 sixes and 44 fours in the group stages.
The two times the teams met in the group stage, Delhi won both encounters. In their first encounter, Delhi won comfortably by 6 wickets with 8 balls to spare, after Deccan set them a target of 148/9. In the second match, Delhi set a target of 173, and Deccan fell short by 12 runs, after losing 7 wickets for 12 runs.
RP Singh (Deccan) and Ashish Nehra (Delhi) are the two leading wicket-takers in the tournament, with Nehra two behind RP Singh's 20.
First Semi-Final: Gilchrist blasts Chargers into the final
May 22, 2009
Chasing 153 set by Delhi, Deccan captain Adam Gilchrist blazed away, hitting the fastest IPL half century in 17 balls, to set up his team a comfortable victory. Dirk Nannes, one of the best bowlers of this IPL, was clobbered for five consecutive boundaries in the first over. Gilchrist fell for 85 from 35 balls one delivery before the strategic break, but the damage had been done by then. Deccan won with six wickets in hand and 16 balls to spare. They will meet the winners of the second Semi between Chennai and Bangalore.
Delhi Daredevils: G Gambhir, DA Warner, V Sehwag (capt), TM Dilshan, AB de Villiers, KD Karthik, R Bhatia, A Mishra, DP Nannes, P Sangwan, A Nehra.
Hyderabad (Deccan Chargers): AC Gilchrist (capt), HH Gibbs, TS Suman, RG Sharma, A Symonds, Y Venugopal Rao, AA Bilakhia, RJ Harris, PP Ojha, Harmeet Singh, RP Singh.
DD v DC, First Semi: Deccan Chargers 154 for 4 (Gilchrist 85) beat Delhi Daredevils 153 for 8 (Dilshan 65, Sehwag 39, Harris 3-27) by six wickets
RR v CSK, IPL Final, Mumbai: Rajasthan win inaugural IPL
June 01, 2008
Yusuf Pathan inspired Rajasthan Royals to a three-wicket defeat of Chennai Super Kings in a thrilling Indian Premier League final on Sunday.
He took three wickets to reduce Chennai, who lost the toss and were put into bat, to 163 for five, and then smashed 56 - including four sixes and three fours - in a 39-ball innings.
Needing eight runs off the final over, Shane Warne (nine not out) and Sohail Tanvir (nine no) kept their cool to reach the target, with the latter grabbing the one run needed for victory off the final ball of the match.
The Royals suffered a double blow as in the same over Kamran Akmal (six) went for a suicidal single after nudging to mid-on and was run out by Makhaya Ntini's direct hit.
Pathan proved he was just as capable with the bat as with the ball, although he was lucky to be dropped by Raina in the 11th over on 13. Raina's error proved costly as Pathan went on to smash Muttiah Muralitharan for back-to-back sixes.
Shane Watson chipped in with a quickfire 28 off 19 balls but succumbed when he came down the track to Muralitharan but missed and was bowled.
Needing 52 off the last five overs, Pathan launched Lakshmipathy Balaji for 12 off one over and then dished out the same treatment to Muralitharan, hoisting the spinner over midwicket to bring up his half century. But Mohammad Kaif then lobbed Muralitharan to Mahendra Singh Dhoni at cover and Ravindra Jadeja followed next ball when he pulled Morkel straight to Kapugedera at mid-on.
Rajasthan's hopes were knocked when Pathan was run out by Raina's superb direct hit but Warne and Tanvir steered the Royals to victory.
Earlier, Chennai openers Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan and Parthiv Patel put on 39 before the former was dismissed in the sixth over. He tried to pull Pathan over deep midwicket but mistimed it and was caught by Jadeja sprinting in from the boundary.
Aiming for a flurry of runs in the final few overs, Raina tried one shot too many and was caught on the long-off boundary by Jadeja off the bowling of Watson, and Chamara Kapugedera did not last long, adding just eight runs before lofting to Asnodkar at long on off Tanvir.
RR v CSK, IPL Final, Mumbai: Rajasthan Royals 164 for 7 in 20.0 ovs beat Chennai Super Kings 163 for 5 in 20.0 ovs by 3 wickets
The league is scheduled to start in April 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).
Each team will have a pool of 16 players, of whom four will be international and four from the Under-19 level or from the catchment area where the team is based.
The governing council consists of Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi, Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley.
Although it is going to be a franchise system, some foreign players have already been contracted by the BCCI to play in the IPL.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
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Two teams that were at the bottom of the points table in the first IPL season, the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore, will clash in the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2009) on Sunday at Johannesburg.
