IPL Update

[Specky McGee]

Boof has been drafted into the Rajasthan Royals squad to replace Graeme Smith for the first couple of matches.

Wonder what the pay packet must be for 2 games? Must be alright considering he is flying half way across the world for around 7 hours of cricket!

[magpie in the 80's]

1ST GAME ABOUT TO START

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS
Rahul Dravid (capt), Balachandra Akhil, Mark Boucher (wk), Wasim Jaffer, Sunil Joshi , Jacques Kallis, Zaheer Khan, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Ashley Noffke, Cameron White.

VERSUS

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Sourav Ganguly (capt), Ajit Agarkar, Debabrata Das, David Hussey, Murali Kartik, Brendon McCullum (wk), Mohammad Hafeez, Ricky Ponting, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Ratan Shukla.

[magpie in the 80's]

HOW the eight teams in the Indian Premier League have signed up so far following the two player auctions:

Local players will be added to complete the 16-man squads.

BANGALORE
Rahul Dravid (Captain, Ind)
Jacques Kallis (Sth Af)
Anil Kumble (Ind)
Cameron White (Aus)
Zaheer Khan (Ind)
Mark Boucher (Sth Af)
Nathan Bracken (Aus)
Dale Steyn (Sth Af)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIS)
Wasim Jaffer (Ind)
Misbah-ul Haq (Pak)
Virat Kohli (Ind)
Abdur Razzak (BAN)
Ross Taylor (NZ)
Shreevats Goswami (Ind).

CHENNAI
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain, Ind))
Jacob Oram (NZ)
Suresh Raina (Ind)
Albie Morkel (Sth Af)
Muttiah Muralidaran (Sri)
Matthew Hayden (Aus)
Michael Hussey (Aus)
Stephen Fleming (NZ)
Parthiv Patel (Ind)
Joginder Sharma (Ind)
Makhaya Ntini (Sth Af)
Napoleon Einstein (Ind)
Abhinav Mukund (Ind).

DELHI
Virender Sehwag (Captain, Ind)
Gautam Gambhir (Ind)
Manoj Tiwary (Ind)
Mohammad Asif (Pak)
Daniel Vettori (NZ)
Dinesh Karthik (Ind)
Shoaib Malik (Pak)
Glenn McGrath (Aus)
Abraham de Villiers (Sth Af)
Tillekeratne Dilshan (Sri)
Farveez Maharoof (Sri)
Pradeep Sangwan (Ind)
Brett Geeves (Aus)

HYDERABAD
VVS Laxman (Captain, Ind)
Andrew Symonds (Aus)
Rudra Pratap Singh (Ind)
Rohit Sharma (Ind)
Adam Gilchrist (Aus)
Shahid Afridi (Pak)
Herschelle Gibbs (Sth Af)
Chaminda Vaas (Sri)
Scott Styris (NZ)
Nuwan Zoysa (Sri)
Chamara Silva (Sri).

JAIPUR
Shane Warne (Captain, Aus)
Yusuf Pathan (Ind)
Graeme Smith (Sth Af)
Mohammad Kaif (Ind)
Munaf Patel (Ind)
Younis Khan (Pak)
Justin Langer (Aus)
Kamran Akmal (Pak)
Dimitri Mascarenhas (Eng)
Shane Watson (Aus)
Morne Morkel (Sth Af)
Sohail Tanvir (Pak)
Taruwar Kohli (Ind)
Ravindra Jadeja (Ind).

KOLKATA
Sourav Ganguly (Captain, Ind)
Ishant Sharma (Ind)
Chris Gayle (WI)
Brendon McCullum (NZ)
David Hussey (Aus)
Shoaib Akhtar (Pak)
Murali Kartik (Ind)
Ricky Ponting (Aus)
Ajit Agarkar (Ind)
Umar Gul (Pak)
Tatenda Taibu (ZIM)
Salman Butt (Pak)
Mohammad Hafeez (Pak)
Siddarth Kaul (Ind)
Iqbal Abdullah (Ind).

MOHALI
Yuvraj Singh (Captain, Ind)
Irfan Pathan (Ind)
Brett Lee (Aus)
Kumar Sangakkara (Sri)
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (Ind)
Mahela Jayawardene (Sri)
Piyush Chawla (Ind)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (WIS)
Simon Katich (Aus)
Ramesh Powar (Ind)
James Hopes (Aus)
Luke Pomersbach (Aus)
Kyle Mills (NZ)
Tanmay Srivastava (Ind)
Ajitesh Argal (Ind).

MUMBAI
Sachin Tendulkar (Captain, Ind)
Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri)
Harbhajan Singh (Ind)
Robin Uthappa (Ind)
Shaun Pollock (Sth Af)
Lasith Malinga (Sri)
Loots Bosman (Sth Af)
Dilhara Fernando (Sri)
Ashwell Prince (Sth Af)
Saurabh Tiwary (Ind)
Manish Pandey (Ind).

[jackpot jim]

KKR 3/222 (20 overs)

Brendon McCullum 158* (73 balls) 10 x 4, 13 x 6

Bangalore 3/23 (5.1 overs)

GAME OVER.

[Rik E Boy]

What's this 5hit doing in the Cricket forum?



I refuse to contribute to Indian cricket's bid for world domination.

THIS is Cricket.



Don't forget it. It's under threat.

BOYCOTT THE 5HIT!!

regards,

REB

[cripple]

158 off 73 balls. apparently it was a small ground but some of those sixes almost hit the space station. mccallum in the next couple of years could fulfil his potential and dominate sides, be good to watch him go like that in an ODI

[Interceptor]

CHENNAI
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain, Ind))
Jacob Oram (NZ)
Suresh Raina (Ind)
Albie Morkel (Sth Af)
Muttiah Muralidaran (Sri)
Matthew Hayden (Aus)
Michael Hussey (Aus)
Stephen Fleming (NZ)
Parthiv Patel (Ind)
Joginder Sharma (Ind)
Makhaya Ntini (Sth Af)
Napoleon Einstein (Ind)
Abhinav Mukund (Ind).

Very Indian sounding name that one!

[rod_rooster]

What's this 5hit doing in the Cricket forum?



I refuse to contribute to Indian cricket's bid for world domination.

THIS is Cricket.



Don't forget it. It's under threat.

BOYCOTT THE 5HIT!!

regards,

REB

[jackpot jim]

What's this 5hit doing in the Cricket forum?



I refuse to contribute to Indian cricket's bid for world domination.

THIS is Cricket.



Don't forget it. It's under threat.

BOYCOTT THE 5HIT!!

regards,

REB

Why Boycott it when most of the Aussie Players wearing the above cap are playing in it?

I Suppose you's said the same about WSC in 1979.

[Dog_ger]

This is the Cricket of the Future.

Come out of the dark.

The Light Bulb has been invented.

Walk towards the light.

Cricket as we have known it has died...!!!

This format is here to stay.

It brings the world together as one...!

[rod_rooster]

This is the Cricket of the Future.

Come out of the dark.

The Light Bulb has been invented.

Walk towards the light.

Cricket as we have known it has died...!!!

This format is here to stay.

It brings the world together as one...!

If this is true cricket is dead to me.

[Dog_ger]

Isn't cricket entertainment for the masses...?

[Dog_ger]

One Day...

God Forbid...

All sport will disappear from free to air...

Fact or Fiction...?

WHY?

[RustyCage]

One Day...

God Forbid...

All sport will disappear from free to air...

Fact or Fiction...?

WHY?

Because compared to pay TVs coverage, free to air coverage of EVERY sporting event during the year is crap.

[Rik E Boy]

Isn't cricket entertainment for the masses...?

No, you're thinking of Pop music and have a listen to that crap. There's no friggin baggy greens in the Costcutta line up. Wake up to yourselves. For the record, I was a big fan of WSC. It was good for cricket, not just Australian Cricket and therin lies the fundamental difference.

regards,

REB

[brod]

Global news and photograph agencies will carry out their threat to boycott coverage of the Indian Premier League because of the restrictions on the distribution of photographs. Agencies are prohibited from providing photographs of the Twenty20 tournament to cricket-specific websites.

The News Media Coalition (NMC), the umbrella body that comprises global news and photograph agencies Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images, called the restrictions "discriminatory".

"It is discriminatory for the accreditation terms to prohibit international news agencies from being able to serve a specific group of users, such as cricket websites," the NMC said in a statement. "The interests of the IPL are protected by the fact that its accreditation terms limit news content generated by the news agencies to be used for editorial purposes only. The NMC calls upon the IPL to remove remaining obstacles in the way of full editorial coverage of the tournament."

The Editors Guild of India also called for the withdrawal of "unacceptable conditions" while the Press Trust of India, India's leading news agency, had said it would cover the event "under protest".

The tournament's initial media guidelines which, among other constraints, gave the IPL the right to use all pictures taken at its grounds for free and without restrictions, had met with severe criticism from media bodies. The IPL then removed some of the limitations imposed but news agencies, stand-alone cricket websites and news channels were still unhappy. News channels dropped their boycott threat after their two main issues - accreditation and access to match footage - were resolved.

[brod]

Game One
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Bangalore Royal Chellengers

Kolkata 3/222
McCollum 158* (73 balls) MOM 13 sixes
RT Ponting 20 (20 balls)
Dj Hussey 12 (12 balls) c White b Noffke
AA Noffke 1/40 (4 overs)
CL White 0/24 (1 over)

Bangalore 82 (15.1 overs)
Kumar 18*
Sharma 1/7 (3 overs)
Agarkar 3/25 (4 overs)
Ganguly 2/21 (4 overs)
CL White 6 (10 balls)
AA Noffke 9 (10 balls)

If you were to say Ponting was to have the second highest score in the match, youd believe that, you just think that it was more than 20!!

[spell_check]

I didn't think Greg Chappell would dare go back to India again - must have paid him some a fair slice.

[hearts on fire]

Mike Hussey has just scored a 100* off of 50 balls.

[GWW]

What a pointless competition! Are we supposed to pick a team to barrack for?? I couldn't care less about any of these franchises!!