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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:

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The sixth IPL match was named to Rajasthan Royals who won the match by 6 wickets against Kings XI Punjab in Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Punjab Kings elected to bat first scored 166 runs at lose of 8 wickets. Watson’s brilliant play helped Rajasthan Royals to reach the manageable target within 18.1 overs losing 4 wickets.

Watson scored highest of the team with 76 runs for 49 balls including 5 fours and 5 sixes. Jadeja scored 36 out of 25 including 5 fours and 1 six. Both led the team to victory doors.

Other players include Lehmann who scored 17 out of 16 balls while Akmal gave 15 runs. Pathan (7) and Kaif (5) couldn’t score much.

Royals’ captain Shane Warne (3-19) and pacer Sidharth Trivedi (2-25) were the main wicket-takers.

Despite of brilliant performance of Captain Yuvraj Singh who struck a half century and raced to 57 runs in 34 balls including six fours and three sixes, Kings XI Punjab have to face second successive lose.

Karan Goel (26) and Piyush Chawla (24) were the other contributors with the bat who led the team to set a target of 167.

Hopes gave 16 runs out of 16 balls while Sangakkara also scored 20 out of 8 balls.

Other players are dull today. Irfan Pathan’s batting added 12 more runs only while Brett Lee disappointed his fans and left the ground without opening his account.

Watson was elected Man of the Match scoring highest run of 76.

Australian cricket player Shane Warne has now retired to be the new face of 888.com. Visit here to see if his cricket skills match his poker skills!

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On one hand India is piling up a huge score in the third day of the first cricket test match against South Africa under the leadership of veteran and smashing opener Virender Sehwag, and on other hand Warne has decided to quit all first class cricket.

Shane Warne has announced his retirement on Thursday from first class cricket and will no longer play for Hampshire.

“I am retiring from all first class cricket but will participate in the IPL (Indian Premier League) with the Jaipur franchise as captain and coach,” the great Australian leg spin bowler told the Hampshire web site (www.rosebowlplc.com).

He was going to play for Hampshire again this season but the English county club’s chairman, Rod Bransgrove, said the two parties had mutually agreed to a parting of the ways.

“I know this will be a major disappointment to many fans of both Hampshire and Shane but, after much discussion and soul-searching, it has become clear to both of us that Shane can no longer make the commitment required to continue to lead Hampshire,” he said.

“Hampshire Cricket has been hugely privileged to have enjoyed the unstinting loyalty of this living legend since 2000. The most effective and entertaining bowler of all time, Shane Warne was also a brilliant leader and strategist.”

Warne added: “This was not an easy decision to make but due to some exciting business opportunities, and wanting to spend more time with my children, I had to make this call”

Warne took 708 wickets in 145 Tests of his career since 1992.

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Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble have beaten the top batsman of the world by snatching 600 test wickets in his 18 year long carrier. No other bowler of the country has won more test matches than him.

Board of Control of Indian Cricket (BCCI) has presented ‘Golden Ball’ to honour Anil Kumble, the Indian captain in upcoming series against South Africa. All the players from India and South Africa are present in the function. Sharad Pawar presented ‘The Golden Ball’ to the test captain.

Pawar said,” Kumble have taken away 604 test wickets till date and Board is going to present ‘The Golden Ball’ to him for this achievement. Kumble is the first Indian Player to snatch more than 600 wickets in test matches. I believe that every Indian should proud of him. Board is also happy for his achievement and hence ‘The Golden Ball’ will be presented to him. 37 year old Kumble have variety of records in his lap. In 1999, he had made a record of taking away all the ten wickets of Pakistan in test cricket in Delhi. He became the second bowler who took off all the wickets in a single turn.”

Kumble has crossed the target of 600 wickets this year while Australian tour. For the time being he is after Australian Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralidharan of Sri Lanka in top bowlers list.

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