kevin pietersen

IPL: Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Kolkata Knight Riders

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 ball [...]

Scorecard – Deccan Chargers beat Bangalore Royal Challengers ,8th IPL Match

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
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Adam Gilchrist (c) (wk)
c V Kohli [...]

Pietersen, Flintoff hit hard by late IPL

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 Challengers, [...]

Bangalore Royal Challengers

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, Abdur Razzak, Pankaj [...]

List of Players Sold at IPL 2nd Auction

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 to Chennai Super Kings [...]

Pietersen, Flintoff are highest paid cricketers in IPL

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 live [...]

IPL announces auction list of 43 players

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 in [...]

114 players listed for IPL auction

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 auction [...]

India v England, 5th ODI: India make it 5-0

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 136 [...]

Scorecard – India beat England – 5th ODI – Hero Honda Cup

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 Innings

Batsmen
England (270/4 in 50 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Ravinder Bopara
c Y Singh [...]

Scorecard – India beat England, win series – 4th ODI – Bangalore

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)

Man of the Match:
Virender Sehwag

Batting: India Innings

Batsmen
India (166/4 in 22 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Virender Sehwag
c J Anderson [...]

Pieterson concerned about Guwahati ODI

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 difference. [...]

Scorecard- India beat England – D/L method, 3rd ODI

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 overs

Man of the Match:
Harbhajan Singh

Batting: England Innings

Batsmen
England (240/10 in 48.4 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Ravinder Bopara
st M Dhoni [...]

Scorecard – India beat England, 2nd ODI

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: India Innings

Batsmen
India (292/9 in 50 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Gautam Gambhir
b K Pietersen
70
76
6
1
92.11

Virender Sehwag
b S Broad
1
4
0
0
25.00

Suresh Raina
c [...]

Scorecard- India thrash England, 1st ODI

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 37.4 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Ian Bell
c M Dhoni b Z Khan
25
35
3
0
71.43

Matthew [...]

Sachin in favour of switch hitting

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 lbw [...]