Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Kolkata Knight Riders at Durban to win their second match of the IPL in the battle of the two lowest placed teams in the IPL. Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat first. Kevin Pietersen himself opened the bowling and picking up the wicket of McCullum off the first [...]
Indian Premier League, 2009 Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Deccan Chargers, 8th match Newlands, Cape Town, April 22, 2009 Match Information Toss: Deccan Chargers (Elected to bat) Match Status: Deccan Chargers won by 24 runs Deccan Chargers Innings | Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings | Batting: Deccan Chargers Innings Batsmen Deccan Chargers (184/6 in 20 ovs) Runs [...]
The costliest players on the Indian Premier League roster, England’s Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff stand to lose as much as 150,000 pounds (USD 219,511 approx) due to the organisers’ decision to push back the event’s start by a week as their work has been cut to 14 days. Pietersen, who will captain Bangalore Royal [...]
Team Owner: Vijay Mallya 2008 Record: Seventh Coach: Ray Jennings Squad: Kevin Pietersen (captain), Jacques Kallis (vice-captain), Rahul Dravid (ICON), Shivnaraine Chanderpaul, Ross Taylor, Wasim Jaffer, Gaurav Dhiman, Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Shreevats Goswami, Dillon du Preez, Jesse Ryder, Cameron White, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Balachandra Akhil, Ranganath Vijay Kumar, Dale Steyn, Nathan Bracken, [...]
Seventeen slots were filled in over two hours of the 2009 IPL auction in Goa. Here is a list of the players who have been bought at the auction (base price in brackets; all numbers in US$): Pool A Shaun Tait to Rajasthan Royals 375,000 (250,000) JP Duminy to Mumbai Indians 950,000 (300,000) Andrew Flintoff [...]
Star England players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff on Friday emerged as the world’s most expensive cricketers after being sold for a whopping $1.55 million (approx Rs 7.35 cr) in the Indian Premier League auction, surpassing Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who had fetched Rs six crore in the inaugural edition. In an auction telecast [...]
England’s dethroned captain Kevin Pietersen and Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke are to command the top two reserve prices of 1.35 and one million USD, respectively, during the second Indian Premier League players’ auction to be held in Goa on February 6. England’s charismatic all rounder Andrew Flintoff’s base price has been pegged at USD 950,000 [...]
The second player’s auction of the DLF Indian Premier League will witness 114 cricketers from abroad under the hammer in Goa on February 6. From South Africa’s new batting sensation JP Duminy to Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke and England’s Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, the auction will see an array of stars up for the [...]
Virender Sehwag helped India win the fifth one-dayer with a scintillating 91 as India thumped England by six wickets to stretch their lead to 5-0 at the Barabati Stadium on Wednesday. Chasing a victory target of 271, openers Sehwag (91) and Sachin Tendulkar (50) made it look like a stroll in the park and raised [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 5th ODI Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, November 26, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) & Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Third Umpire: S K Tarapore (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: India (Elected to field) Match Status: India won by 6 wkts Man of the Match: Virender Sehwag Batting: [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 4th ODI M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, November 23, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) & Amiesh Saheba (Ind) Third Umpire: S K Tarapore (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: England (Elected to field) Match Status: India won by 19 runs Match State: Rain reduced game (22 overs) [...]
England captain Kevin Pietersen has raised concerns about the possibility of a similar problem in Guwahati, the venue for the sixth one-dayer on November 29. “The authorities will have to do something about Guwahati,” Pietersen said. “We are going to start there at 8.30 am but that will still not make too much of a [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 3rd ODI Green Park, Kanpur, November 20, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Amiesh Saheba (Ind) & Russell Tiffin (Zim) Third Umpire: Suresh Shastri (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: England (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 16 runs (D/L Method) Match State: Match reduced to 49 [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 2nd ODI Maharani Usharaje Stadium, Indore, November 17, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Amiesh Saheba (Ind) & Russell Tiffin (Zim) Third Umpire: Suresh Shastri (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 54 runs Man of the Match: Yuvraj Singh Batting: [...]
England in India, 2008 India vs England, 1st ODI Madhavrao Scindia Ground, Rajkot, November 14, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Amiesh Saheba (Ind) & Russell Tiffin (Zim) Third Umpire: Suresh Shastri (Ind) Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (SL) Toss: England (Elected to field) Match Status: India won by 158 runs Batting: England Innings Batsmen England (229/10 in [...]
Sachin Tendulkar believes Kevin Pietersen’s controversial switch-hitting technique should not be banned but said cricket’s laws needed clarifying. He also feels that such an approach needs more thought. “I think they will have to look at it far more closely than has been done; it changes the laws,” he said on Sunday. “It’s about the [...]