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After fighting one hell of a series at the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) and boosting her team’s morale to the core, the Punjabi Preity is back on the Bollywood front with all her energies jam packed and so are her schedules as she is lined up with four films and the famous Bacchan world tour.

The oh so busy bee explained how the game got her so engrossed even not realizing the stuff she is missing out at the film front and informs that she has to start dubbing for two different movies titled “Har Pal” and “Heroes”.

The latter movie comprises of Salman Khan as her co-star. She has also signed a cameo in Salman’s next home production starring Kareena and the man himself. The film has been titled Mr. and Mrs. Khanna. Explaining her friendly bonding with Salman, she expresses her excitement to work for him and clarifies it not to be an ordinary item number but an interesting cameo. Another reason she states for agreeing to the stint is the director of the movie, Mr. Prem Soni being a very dear film and on the lighter note, she chuckles and reasons that as Salman has played a lot of Prems in different movies, so this cameo is for Prem.

Another prestigious director going ga-ga over Preity’s work is none other than Deepa Mehta of the Water fame who has cast her in her next Punjabi movie titled, “heaven on Earth” and claims that she is the best actress she has worked with till date.

Describing her experience of the Indian Premier League, she claimed that she has enjoyed the series to the core and learn her lessons too. Rubbishing the rumors of her sitting on a player’s lap, she claimed that it is not at all her to make a public spectacle by do8ing such a thing and denied her being of that sort.

The Mohali team co-owner also revives of the series time when she even got to realize who her real friends was, because there were a lot of her so called friends cribbing over not being called for the matches and making issues of no sense.

Learning her experiences from the series Preity admits she sure is a more mature person after the IPL and explains that there are a lot of things to be looked after for the next season of the Indian Premier League but as of now she has her commitments totally to the Bollywood front and is all set to deliver hits and recreate her magic on screen and on stage as well as she performs on stage with the Bachchan parivar on their World tour.

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Rajasthan Royals won the first IPL finals on Sunday at Dr. DY Patil stadium in Mumbai. The royals leaded by Shane Warne won against M S Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings by three wickets against the target of 164 set by CSK. Rajasthan were awarded a cheque of Rs. 4.8 crores.

The last over of the match was the deciding over and was really nail biting as the victory was undecided till the last delivery. Finally the trophy was over taken by the Rajasthan Royals. Yusuf Pathan from winning side with his 56 runs off 39 balls and taking three wickets emerged as the hero of the day. He is awarded the DLF maximum sixes as well as the man of the match award.

Lots of turning points in the match kept the viewers stick to their chairs. Graeme Smith, who is out with a hamstring injury, was replaced by Kamran Akmal in Rajasthan Royal team. After winning the toss, Shane Warne invited the Chennai Super Kings to bat. Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel gave an impressive steady start. Raina added the highest individual runs of 43 runs to the team. Dhoni remained not out with 29 runs adding to the total of 163.

Royals got his first stroke as the loss of Niraj Patel at the start of the game who made only 2 runs. Later the play swung up and the score rises. The catches dropped of Yusuf Pathan at 13 and 33 cost Chennai Super Kings a lot. The fielding aspect of Chennai Super Kings was at lowest yesterday.

Pathan hit massive sixes making the target easy for the team to hold the IPL trophy with highest individual score of 56 in the final.

Shane Warne-Sohail Tanwir partnership for the 8th wicket was also very crucial for the team.

Sohail Tanvir — the wrong-footed pacer from Pakistan, for his 22 wickets, won the purple cap while the orange cap for the highest scorer went to Shaun Marsh of Kings XI Punjab.

Australia’s Shane Watson, who played a key role in Rajasthan Royal’s title triumph, was declared as the man of the tournament with 474 runs, including four half centuries, and 17 wickets.

In spite of lots of controversies, first IPL mixed with glamour and entertainment was a grand success.

Here comes the champions of the first IPL Tournament:

Tags: Champions, Chennai Super Kings, DLF IPL, DLF IPL Final, First IPL, IPL, MS Dhoni, Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Sohail Tanvir, Yusuf Pathan

Have you seen any IPL match on Television or in the stadium? If not then you must have missed something.

In India these days some thing which is rocking in the evening is the DLF Indian Premiere League. Whether you are sitting in your drawing room or you are on road, you can easily see the cricket match is going on in Television and some of your near dear one are watching it.

Now my question was why IPL is getting so much popularity?

First thing first, it is cricket. Does not matter that it is a cricket of 40 overs only. India is especially crazy for cricket, so why not IPL will get the popularity?

Second thing, there is a bit of Bollywood involved in it. The second most popular thing, after cricket, in India is the glare of Big Screen. The stars like Shahrukh Khan, Prety Zinta etc. are making this IPL more and more interesting.

Third Thing is that it take less time, around three hours and people can assume that they are going to watch out a movie. So IPL is pulling the families to see matches.

Fourth thing is the involvement of some big big face in the match. Cricketers like Gilchrist, McCullum, Smith etc. are making it more interesting.

Fifth thing which is more valuable in my point of view is the involvement of some junior and unknown players with some of the big names of the cricket. It really looks quite satisfactory to watch players like Niraj Patel or Trivedi to play along with Shane Warne.

So overall these five reasons were making IPL a hot cake to eat. Please share some more reasons, which you consider, with our visitors.

(Watch the proceedings of DLF IPL online Live at cricket updates).

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Deccan Chargers once again lost the match against Rajasthan Royals by 3 wickets in spite of Andrew Symonds fastest hundred at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad.

Deccan chargers set a solid target of 215 to win. Symonds remain unbeaten hit the fastest hundred of the tournament scoring 117 runs of 53 balls including 7 huge sixes and 11 fours. Rohit Sharma gave his hand well to Symonds and the partnership went good. Rohit made 36 runs. However Afridi (10) and Gilchrist (13) were out soon at the start.

Rajasthan Royals replied to the huge target through Yousuf Pathan (61) Greame Smith (71) and Mohammad Kaif (34).

Finally Shane Warne helped royals to reach the target and gave an unbeaten 22 run knock in 9 balls including 2 sixes and 2 boundaries.

Although Deccan chargers have performed well in the match, Symonds gave his best to win but they have to face defeat once again. Earlier they lost the match against Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils.

Tags: Deccan Chargers, DLF IPL, IPL, Rajasthan Royals

The glamorous cheerleaders in short skirts and short blouses might have made their place among the film stars and the ongoing IPL cricket matches but their presence has started a moral debate among the political leaders.

The Maharashtra government said it will not allow the specially hired girls to go on with their ‘vulgar and obscene’ performance during the April 27 league match at Navi Mumbai.

The semi-nude girls entertain the viewers by dancing when players hit boundaries and six or anybody gets out without scoring. Some of the ministers have told the girls ‘worse than bar dancers’.

Minister of State for Home Siddharam Mhatre described the cheerleaders and their dancing at the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches as ‘absolutely obscene’.

“We live in India where womanhood is worshipped. How anything obscene like this cans can be allowed?” he asked.

Mhatre wondered why the organizers require ’semi- nude’ women to entertain people at cricket matches.

“The organizers may have invested crores of rupees organizing such matches. But this does not mean that they make semi-nude women dance in front of people,” he said.

Mhatre suggested organizers can use animated characters when players hit boundaries and six or anybody gets out without scoring.

Some cricketers also gave comments regarding the issue. Pakistan Cricketer Shahid Afridi said that the semi-nude girls are diverting the attention of batsmen, hence they should be banned.

On the other side, BCCI president Rajiv Shukla said that there is nothing wrong in the dancing of cheerleaders to enhance the magic of the cricket. He said that the girls dance at sixes and fours only and this is only for a little amusement.

However, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan favors the cheerleaders and he did not find anything vulgar about them.

“What’s wrong with cheerleaders? I am also a family person, I do not see anything negative in it,” the actor, who owns the Kolkata Knight Riders, said.

Tags: Bollywood, Cheerleaders, DLF IPL, Entertainment, IPL, IPL Matches, King Khan, Shahrukh Khan