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May 26 2009

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Alok Vats

Deccan Chargers Won the Second Version of DLF IPL!

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Indian Premiere League 2009 is over now, and I am really surprised to see the winner of this tournament. Not only I but many others are also feeling in the same way. No one ever assumed that a team which went for the last place during the last year will become the champions this time.

The credit should be given to the skipper of the Deccan Chargers Adam Gilhcrist. He lead the site upfront from the very beginning and he got the support from his team members especially like Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Gibbs and finally he hold the championship.

The tournament at the initial level was very much exciting and till the very last league match it was not sure that which team is going to meet for the semi final matches. If you see the Points Table of the DLF IPL 2009 then you will see that Delhi Daredevils is at the top of the table with 20 points in 14 matches.

On the other hand Chennai Super Kings were at the second position. While the position three and four was decided after the last league match of the tournament, and the most surprising thing is that the number four team defeated the number three team in the finals and thus became the champions.

If you calculate the total points after the finals then you can see that Deccan Chargers who played 16 matches and got only 18 points is the champion of the tournament while Delhi Daredevils with 20 points in 15 matches are not the champions. How will the organizers define this?

Any ways, it the system of the tournament which actually works in the manner that the team which will perform good in the last two matches i.e. the semi final and the final will become the champions. So we should not think about the positioning of the teams in the points table.

Batting first after losing the toss, Deccan Chargers was schoked by the Jumbo. In the very first over he dismissed the danger man and the player of the tournament Adam Gilchrist. After the fall of Gilly other plyers like Suman, Symonds and Rohit Sharma along with Gibbs restored the innings of the Deccan Chargers and finally they manage to make 143 runs. A target of 144 was looking easier for Royal Challengers Bangalore and the way in which Van Der Merwe and Taylor were batting it was looking easily achievable, but they fell short of a few runs.

The main reason behind the loss of match for Royal Challengers Bangalore was the lack of the good partnership. No one even tried to stay for a few minutes on the creaze. Thus Deccan Chargers became the winner of the Indian Premiere League 2009.

Congratulations to all the members associated with the Decccan Chargers.

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May 12 2008

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Alok Vats

Why IPL is getting so much popularity?

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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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Feb 01 2008

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India Faced an Embarrassing defeat in only T20 match between India and Australia!

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India faced an embarrassing defeat in the only Twenty 20 match between India and Australia. Australia bind up the World Champions for a lowest total of 74 only.

India won the toss and elected to bat first, lost his first wicket in the very first over in the form of Virender Sehwag for a duck, who was the most experienced among all the batsman.

Then the line came up and Pathan was the top scorer by scoring 26 runs. A target of 75 in 20 overs to the ODI and Test World Chaps, was not so big.

Australia easily achieved the target by just loosing the only wicket of Adam Gilchrist. This was the last appearance of the veteran batsman wicket keeper in the form of T20.

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