Live Streaming links for India vs England T20 played at Manchester on August 31. Its is a debut test match for Rahul Dravid and even Sachin might be in the team. This will be the first match win for India as they lost all test matches in Ind vs Eng test series.
LIVE TIMINGS: 10:30 PM Star cricket and SKY SPORTS Match scheduled to start at 18:00 local | 17:00 GMT | 22:30 IST.
Live Score card links http://www.espnstar.com/cricket/scoretracker/?filename=enin3108
As we saw Yuvraj straight away cut loose today. PWI Pune Warriors saw home after loosing in a row 6 matches.
For kings XI its 5 losses in a row. Except Marsh no really seemed to be in touch. Paul Valthaty was ok though he couldn’t play long as in last matches.
Royals Challengers Bangalore RCB vs Kings XI Punjab KXIP Highlights
Chris Gayle: 107 (46) and 3-21
S Aravind 4/14
>> 2nd fastest Century in IPL history and Fastest in IPL 4. Sehwag’s was in 48 balls.
>> Second Highest total by any team in IPL 4 after 231 by Delhi against KXIP itself.
Highlights of DC vs KKR match 1st innings and 2nd innings
Yusuf Pathan Highlights:
>>69 sixes hit by Yusuf Pathan in the IPL. He is now just one short of Adam Gilchrist’s record of 70
>>12 Man of the match awards won by Y Pathan in all T20 games.He now shares the record of winning most awards with Brad Hodge and David Hussey
>>10 Man of the match awards won by Yusuf Pathan in the IPL – first player to accomplish this feat
Preview written before the match
Back to the jinxed home venue of DC Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad, will KKR, Kolkata Knight Riders ease past through DC ?
Firstly lets look at how they are place in points table:
DC with 6 points in 8 matches
Kolkata with 6 points in 8 matches
DC which has 6 matches to go will give the best performance today. Knowing how Darren Lehmann deals with such must win situations, Deccan are the team to look foreword to today. Their desperation will come from a fact that if they loose today they will be placed with 3 wins in 9 matches exactly like last year when Gilchrist was captaining them. A miracle happened but they know that miracles wont happen twice. Sangakkara and Lehman must be giving inspirational lectures to their team like how we see in motivational sports classics. They have to play above their best to win this. A win will get Kochi Tuskers one position down
KKR on the other hand is placed 3rd with 5 wins of 8 matches comfortably. This state for KKR is only one win less than the maximum number they have achieved in last 3 seasons. A win today will make them equal 6 wins and they will be more confident of reaching the final 4. Its not just about reaching the final 4 they will want to take the winning momentum all along to the qualifiers. Their run rate of .542 is the best thing they have achieved other than points. It should be noted that most of their recent wins were small totals and yet they have achieved this feat, which must boost their confidence in any difficult situation they might face. A win of KKR will move the Mumai Indians and Rajasthan Royals one place down due to their run rate.
Batsman from DC 
Batsman for KKR/ Kolkata Knight riders till now crossing 200: Ghamhir (263) Kallis (244)
This clearly indicates that one more batsman has to rise for Deccan if they have to get anywhere close to the playoffs. Cameron white or JP duminy one of them have to get inspired by the young opener and start doing what they can do the best at.
For Kolkata there haven’t been much problems with ball with Balaji and other doing the job for even small totals.Yusuf Pathan’s rise in form will make it very easy for Kolkata to reach the last 4 or even if they wish to lift the cup. But Pathan has been far from his best.
On a junxied Hyderabad pitch which will be more or less flat. It will be mainly a fight of Kolkata’s exceptional bowling vs Lack lusted Deccan Batting. If they can hit the KKR bowlers cleanly Deccan bowlers will do the rest of the job for them.
Lets wait and watch the great game set up in unnatural venue which was never lucky for the host.
>> 47 Balls faced by Sehwag-longest he has batted in an IPL match. Previously he batted 41 balls v D Chargers in 2008 (94*) & also v CSK in 2008 (71)
>> 12 boundaries (9 fours & 3 sixes) hit by all Kochi Tuskers Kerala batsmen. Sehwag alone hit 13 (8 fours & 5 sixes)
>> 2.5 RPO is the Sreesanth’s economy in match vs DD – his best in a 20 - 20 match. He bettered his previous best v Australia (4-1-12-2) at Durban in 2007
>> Sreesanth (2/10) has produced his best bowling performance in the IPL 4. In the first three games this season, he had bagged most of one wicket and total of 2 wickets before this match.
>> The top two run-scorers for Kochi Tuskers are Ravindra Jadeja (216) and Brendon McCullum (203) both less than top third run scorer for Delhi Venue Gopal Rao (221)
>> Kochi Tuskers Kerala have become the third team after Delhi and Pune to register five defeats in the IPL 4.
>>Sehwag has completed his 50 sixes (53) in the IPL overall.
>> Delhi became the first team to register 50 sixes (51) in the IPL 4.
Pune Warriors and Rajasthan Royals have one thing in common. Both are young teams and have talented youngsters in them.
But another thing not common is that RR have come back from 3 match winning loosing streak with back-to-back wins against Kochi Tuskers and Mighty Mumbai Indians. While Pune warriors have just extended it even more to 5 matches. Playing 7 matches they have only won the initial 2 matches. So today its the Warriors vs Kings, battle between to contrasting sides.
Problem of the Pune Warriors has been that except Ryder and Yuvraj, all other batsman have looked out of touch. Uthappa has managed to score runs, but has not been able to contribute with long innings in spite of getting great starts. Graeme Smith’s unavailability due to Injury has left a big void to the upper middle order of warriors. Nathan Mcullum and Muthum Manshas have not been able to cover for him..Injury to South African batsman Graeme Smith has left a gap in the batting order which players like Mithun Manhas and Nathan McCullum have failed to fill.
Bowling has been decent for Pune with pacers Alphonoso Thomas and Jerome Taylor doing the trick initially while Murali Karthik and Rahul Sharma in latter part of game.
Rajasthan Royals back from a resounding victory will look to continue the winning row in this crucial phase of tournament. Their bowling looked terrific in the la
Their young players like Menaria, Siddharth Trivedi and Amit Singh have also been really useful with at least 2 of them bowling important overs in each match.
It will be key to see if the Pressure on Pune Warriors can manage the pressure on them after loosing 5 matches. So its pressure vs confidence game today and what ever the result is, the fight going to be definitely interesting. Especially looking at the help slow bowlers got in last match on the same venue
Taile piece: Delhi Daredevils, Deccan chargers both down rock bottom of the tournament have come up in their 8th Match. Will Pune repeat this feat and make the points table more interesting ?
Teams Composition:
Pune Warriors:Jesse Ryder, Manish Pandey, Harpreet Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Mithun Manhas, Nathan McCullum, Murali Kartik, Rahul Sharma, Jerome Taylor. Alfonso Thomas,
Rajasthan Royals:
Shane Watson, Rahul Dravid, Ashok Menaria, Ross Taylor, Johan Botha, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Singh, Dishant Yagnik, Sidhharth Trivedi, Stuart Binny,Shane Warne.
Match Preview KTK vs DD 30th May
After overplaying 4 matches at home, and winning only game out of them, the Delhi team who face a danger of elimination will be more than desperate to win against Kochi Tuskers. Delhi have a breather of only 2 more games out of 8 and are going to same on the same Nehru stadium, Kochi pitch which saw a batting collapse in a match vs Deccan Chargers. Kochi Tusker’s have generated both winning and loosing streak in their campaign just 7 games old. They come in with 3 straight losses and Delhi with 2. The latest loss of devils was against Kolkata.
Batting has been a major cause of concern for both teams but Delhi more. They will continue to depend on Sehwag and Waner’s contribution as they are depending all along. Warner has been in decent form and Venugopal Rao chipped in with innings that can be called great for Delhi not so actually if they had a consistent batting line-up like the previous season. Other than these 3 other’s haven’t done anything substantial. At least as yet no one even looked to. James hopes has come for rescue once but remains to be seen if he will be consistent.
Bowling has been just a little less terrible because of Morne Morkel initially and James hopes has helped him a little in last 2 matches. Irfan’s performance with bowl in previous match against KKR must have give him confidence to believe that he can deliver. However he needs to do much better for Delhi to turn around things
The pitch at the Nehru Stadium will give him support as it looked like a bowler’s heaven when Tuskers were out for small total. That can go against them, with bowlers like Sreesanth and Vinay who can be very dangerous on such tracks. Delhi’s has got to know of their weakness quite a lot in past few games. They will only do different if they learn from the mistakes, especially the batsman.
Tuskers also will taken this as a golden opportunity against the seemingly weak Delhi to get out the loosing streak which are in. Their three wins were against Mu
Both sides have strong opening batsman who can single handedly change the match irrespective of the pitch. While Sehwag and Warner form one of the most feared opening combinations, Kochi have Brendon McCullum and captain Mahela Jayawardene are no less dangerous. In fact complementing each other have been more consistent.
Delhi and Kochi looking for win desperately might put their best performance till now in IPL 4. And this makes this encounter both crucial and interesting.
IPL 4 Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians Match 34
RR won and in 3rd position of points table
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Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata knight Riders Full Match highlights
Delhi Daredevils elected to field
Kolkata Knights Innings 148/7
Tiwary 61(47) S Goswamy 22(20)
Umesh Yadav 2/29
Delhi Daredevils Innings 131/9
V Sehwag 34 (23) J Hopes 25 (30)
Iqbal Abdulla 3/25
KKR won by 17 runs against DD
Statistics:
1. When Irfan Pathan caught Yusuf Pathan, it was the first instance of any of two Pathan brothers playing a role in other’s dismissal in IPL.
2. First win for KKR in Feroz Shah Kotla against the home team, Delhi.
3. It was 5th loss for Delhi Daredevils, 2nd in a row.
4. Jacques Kallis is the leading run-scorer for Kolkata - 244 (averaging 40.66), with 3 half centuries, in seven matches in the IPL 4. Its third highest after Tendulkar (264) and Velathy (249)
5. Manoj Tiwary hit his first 50 in IPL 4 and third overall with an innings of 61 (47)
6. Virender Sehwag (34 off 23 balls) has become the second Delhi player to sum up to 200 runs in the IPL4 : 208 runs at an decent average of 29.1 in seven matches.
7 .David Warner, with 238 runs averaging 34.00 in 7 matches is the leading run scorer for Delhi Daredevils.
8. Venugopal rao is only the third DD batsman to score more than 200 in this IPL 4. He did so during his innings vs KKR of 19(18). Is this the greatness of Rao or indicates the weak delhi batting.
KTK vs DC – Match 32- Kochi Tuskers Kerala vs Deccan Chargers Full Match Highlights
Deccan Chargers won the match by 55 runs
Some statistics in this match dominated by bowlers.
> Maximum ducks by any team in T20 /IPL = 6 ducks by Kochi Tuskers Kerala. Was the 4th such instance in 2156 Twenty20 matches played so far. This is a new IPL record, beating five ducks by Royal Challengers v KXIP in 2008 and Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians in this IPL
> 60 of 99 balls faced by Tuskers were dots – a dot percentage of 60.6 – fourth worst performance by any side in IPL history
> 3 ducks collected by Raiphi Gomez in the tournament – most by any batsman. All three have been golden (first-ball) ducks
> 4th time where a partnership has outscored entire opponent’s total in IPL (where all 11 players batted). Sangakkara & White added 90 runs for the 4th wicket
> Tuskers lost their 6th wicket with only 11 runs, equalling worst performance by any side in Twenty20 cricket at the fall of 6th wicket.
DC 6th in Updated Latest IPL 4 2011 Points Table
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1st and 2nd innings separate Highlights of PW vs CSK Match Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super kings Match 31
Pune Warriors vs Chennai Super Kings Match 31 Review: Badri’s 2nd half ton eases Chennai Past Pune to a 1st home win
Score Updates
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Pune 141/6
Yuvraj 61*(41) (3x4; 4x6)
Bollinger 21/3
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> End of Innings with a single PWI 141/6 from 20 overs.
> SIX again .. 140 / 6 with 2 balls remaining
> Dot ball by Southee
> Big six by Yuraj
> First ball couple for a shot over mid off
> 0,W,1,0,1 1 Yuvraj not able to cut loose 19 overs 126 /6
> Jerome Taylor with Yuvraj who is on strike
> Wicket !!!!!!!! Marsh falls for bollinger.
> PWI 123/5 from 18 overs,. 10 runs in this over of Southee
> 1 more single Yuvraj on Strike this over Wd Wd 1 4 1 till now
>Single and Marsh Hits it for a boundary
>18th over starts with 2 wides … Yuvi on strike
>PWI 113 for 5 after 17.0 overs (Yuvraj Singh 43*, Mitchell Marsh 5*)
>PWI 113/5 from 17 overs..
>Lucky! Lucky! Lucky! Yuvi is too lucky today..
>PWI 101 for 5 after 16.0 overs (Yuvraj Singh 34*, Mitchell Marsh 3*)
>100 comes up for PWI ! PWI 100-5(15.5 overs)
>PWI 84-5 after 14 overs
>Mitchell Marsh comes to the crease
>OUT !!! Caught ! Uthappa gone caught by Anirudha off Ashwin for 31. Big wicket for CSK
>SIX !!! Uthappa hits it over the rope off Ashwin
>PWI 77 for 4 after 13.0 overs (Yuvraj Singh 20*, Robin Uthappa 25*)
>PWI 73-4 off 12.3 overs
>FOUR !!! Uthappa hits a nice boundary off Jakati ! and that brings up 50 for PWI as well. PWI 50-4 (9.0 overs)
>PWI 44 for 4 after 8.0 overs (Y Singh 11*, R Uthappa 1*)
>OUT !!! Caught ! Pandey gone caught by Ashwin off the bowling of Southee for 10. PWI 4 wickets down.
>PWI 37 for 3 after 6 overs
>Yuvraj Singh is the new batsman at the crease
>OUT !!! Bowled him ! Kukasekara strikes! Manhas departs ! OUT for a duck. PWI lose their 3rd wicket
>PWI 27 for 2 after 5 overs ( Manish Pandey 5*, Mithun Manhas 0*)
>Double Wicket Maiden for Bollinger ! PWI 22-2 off 4.0 overs
>OUT !!! Caught ! Another wicket down for PWI. Mohnish Mishra gone caught by Jakati off Bollinger.
>OUT !!! Caught ! Brilliantly taken by Anirudha ! Ryder departs ! caught by Anirudha off Bollinger for 19. PWI lose their first wicket
>FOUR !!! and onother one, 3rd consecutive boundary off the over so far for Ryder.
>FOUR !!! Second consecutive boundary for Ryder off Kulasekara, moves on to 14
>FOUR !!! Ryder hits a boundary off Kulasekara, moves on to 10
>PWI 8 for no loss after 2.0 overs (Jesse Ryder 6*, Mohnish Mishra 2*)
>FOUR !!! Ryder gets a boundary off Bollinger ! to third man. First boundary of the innings
>2-0 off 1.0 Over (Jesse Ryder 1*, Mohnish Mishra 1*)
>Ryder and Mohnish Mishra are at the crease. Ryder on strike. Kulasekara will open the attack for CSK
IPL 2011 Match 30: RCB vs DD: Highlights :28 mins
Performer for DD: James Hopes
Performers for RCB: Virat Kohli
For Big Six hit by Chris Gayle Seek to 18:10
Match 30: Royals Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils: Full Match 4 hours
