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Chennai Super Kings beat Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets – Hyden and Badrinath take the center stage in batting

Neha Aggarwal — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:12:22 +0000

09-05-09: Mathew Hyden opined in an after-match Interview that the trick in 20/20 is minimizing risks and maximizing your efforts to win matches. Exactly that’s what both he and S. Badrinath did in the battle between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals on Friday. Chasing a meek total of 141 to win, CSK batsmen played the game cautiously at first and exploded at the appropriate time. Hyden added 48 more runs to his talley to make it 426 (the highest) in IPL Games 2. S. Badrinath was not out at 59 when the team won – making best use of his bat to strike 9 fours and 1 six.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bat. CSK bowlers Shadab Jakati, Muthaiah Muralidharan and L. Balaji restricted them squarely from batting freely. Greame Smith was the only batsman to score the highest – 30 runs and the rest of the team failed miserably to end with a total of 140/7 at the close.

Badrinath was the Man of the Match for his superb batting.

Rajasthan Royals beat Bangalore Royal Challengers comfortably with 7 wickets

Neha Aggarwal — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:39:58 +0000

07-05-09:

The defending Champions Rajasthan Royals are going great guns in IPL Game. In their last essay they smashed a record 211 to beat Punjab Kings XI and today they bundled out Bangalore Royal Challengers for a mere 105 runs to win the match without much sweating. Under the able guidance of Shane Warne, himself a top bowler, the field placements are brisk and consistent. Rotation of bowlers is done cleverly according to situation warranting, by Shane Warne always on the move. Amit Sing claimed 4 valuable wickets conceding just 19 runs. Wasim Jaffer (8); RD Merwe (15); D Preez (10) and Vinay Kumar (12) were the victims fallen for his bowling performance. R. Jadeja was another star bowler to claim 3 wickets for just 15 runs – Robin Utthappa (17); Virat Kohli (15) and Mark Boucher (6) – at short intervals. Thus the batsmen of Bangalore Royal Challengers could not break the stiff bowling and ended up at 105/10 after 20 overs.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field. Chasing the easy total of 105 was made effortless by Naman Ohja (not out 52); Greame Smith (20) and Yusuf Pathan (22) by their fine display with the bat. There was an umpiring error in declaring Naman Ohja run out when actually the TV display showed that it was Lee Carseldine coming from the non-striker’s end as the batsman out. Ohja was called back and Carseldine sent to the pavilion.

Rajasthan Royals achieved top place with 11 points in the Talley with this win.

Amit Singh for his 4 crucial wickets was adjudged Man of the Match.

Rajasthan Royals squarely beat Punjab Kings XI by brilliant batting, to win by 78 runs

Neha Aggarwal — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:09:13 +0000

05-05-09: If each of the batsmen play to his true potential the total goes up automatically. This is what was proved in today’s encounter of Rajasthan Royals against Punjab Kings XI. Fine display with the bat by Openers Greame Smith (77 runs in 44 balls – 12 fours and 1 six); Naman Ohja (68 runs in 51 balls – 5 sixes and 4 fours); Ravindra Jadeja (33 runs in 12 balls – 5 fours and 1 six); Lee Carseldine not out for 16 in 9 balls was enough to put up the highest total of 211/4 in this IPL Game 2009 so far. Yusuf Pathan, who the team has been depending upon for their wins, made only 12 runs this time, but in 7 balls with 1 four and 1 six. The platform for hitting big was well laid by Greame Smith and Ohja, who made 135 runs within 15 overs.

Earlier Punjab Kings XI won the toss and put Rajasthan Royals to bat first. After their bowlers bungled with the ball in gifting lot of runs, the chase by Punjab Kings XI started disastrously. Opener Sohal edged the first ball to Shane Warne to take the catch at first slip and even before the Innings began there was a duck. From then on it was a parade of batsmen to the pavilion one by one – Karan Goel (1); Simon Katich (10); Kumar Sangakkara (11) and Mahela Jayawardane (9) to face deep trouble with 53/5 at 10 overs. Yuvaraj Singh fought a losing battle with 48 in 37 balls before falling to Amit Singh. The team could thus gather only 133/8.

Greame Smith for his fine knock with the bat was rewarded Man of the Match.

Disastrous start turned into delightful win by Rajasthan Royals in beating Deccan Chargers by 3 wickets

Neha Aggarwal — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:03:11 +0000

02-05-09: Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne are team mates in Australian Cricket team. But they crossed swords as opposite Team Captains, when Deccan Chargers fought against Rajasthan Royals in IPL Game on Saturday. What could have baffled any team Captain – 3 wickets down for 3 ducks – Openers Greame Smith; Asnodkar and Naman Ohja were sent out when the score board showed only 3 runs – did not ruffle Warne. The team was chasing a big total of 141, but Warne had an ace up his sleeve. He had reserved Yusuf Pathan to bat in the last overs at 8th bat and his strategy turned the tables at Deccan Chargers in winning a nerve-wrecking finish of the match. Lee Carseldine (39) fell for a poor umpiring decision; Shane Warne scored 21 with two sixes; Abishek Raut scored 36 and the saviour Y. Pathan changed the match into a winning one, by his thunderous 24 runs to finish a thrilling 142/7 beating Deccan Chargers by 3 wickets.

Earlier Deccan Chargers won the toss and Gilchrist and Gibbs smashed over 30 runs in the initial 3 overs. Rohit Sharma (38) and Suman (41 not out) kept the game going in the right path to finish at 141/5. They could have won the match, but for the team spirit of Rajasthan Royals in concentrating their efforts.

Yusuf Pathan the fine finishing batsman was Man of the Match.

Suresh Raina with bat and L. Balaji with ball help Chennai Super Kings beat Rajasthan Royals by 38 runs

Neha Aggarwal — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:43:51 +0000

It is a sweet revenge taken by Chennai Super Kings on Rajasthan Royals, who won in the last IPL 20 Games final last year, relegating them to the runner-up place. Chennai Super Kings was in a “must win” situation to stay in the contest. Suresh Raina rised to the occasion with his brilliant batting performance of 98 runs, just denied the ton when he hit a huge six, caught by Greame Smith, off Munaf Patel. But for this tremendous batting, the total of 165 runs could not have been accumulated. Particularly when the usual striker, Mathew Hyden failed with his bat for just 1 run, bowled cleanly by Y. Pathan. Laxmipathy Balaji shined with his purposeful bowling, to restrict Rajasthan Royals at 126/9 with 4 wickets, giving away just 21 runs.

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and put Chennai Super Kings to bat first. When their turn came to chase the big score, their batsmen failed miserably. Falling like a pack of cards, including Yusuf Pathan (20) who won their last match, put up a pathetic show. R. Jadeja was the best scorer with 37 runs.

Suresh Raina for his wonderful performance with the bat was rewarded with the Man of the Match award. He also took Quiney’s wicket and caught Yusuf Pathan. Chennai Super Kings have registered their second victory in 5 matches with this win.

Yusuf Pathan does it Dramatically to steer Rajasthan Royals to Victory over Delhi Daredevils in Adverse Conditions

Neha Aggarwal — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:04:12 +0000

28 March: 20/20 Cricket has the thrill and uncertainty. Repeatedly it has been proved. Tuesday’s match between Delhi Daredevils and Rajasthan Royals is a fine example. No ordinary follower of IPL games would have ever believed that Rajasthan Royals would win the match by 5 wickets, after Shane Warne, Captain of RR fell for a duck. RR was in deep trouble at 64/5. Yusuf Pathan struck six sixes and three fours in his 30 ball essay of 62 not out, ably assisted by Greame Smith (44) to turn the tables against Delhi Daredevils. In reply to Delhi Daredevils 143/7 Rajasthan smashed 147/5 in 18.3 overs to win most comfortably.

Earlier, winning the toss Delhi chose to bat first. Captain Shewag with some fireworks (16) and Gambir (8) were sent out early by Mascarenhas. AB deVillers bravely challenged RR bowlers to score 50 runs, supported by Daniel Vettori (29), M. Manhas not out 23, to reach a fairly good total of 143/7 in 20 overs. Warne, Mascarenhas and Munaf Patel took 2 wickets each. In all fairness Delhi players were feeling comfortable when they trounced RR to lose 5 wickets when the score board was showing only 64 runs. But they have been defeated squarely by the splendid performance of Y. Pathan, adjudged as the Man of the Match.

With this win Rajasthan Royals have won two matches in their five outings.

Rajasthan Royals was squarely beaten by Punjab Kings XI by 27 runs

Neha Aggarwal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:49:59 +0000

Captain Shane Warne was very confident that Lady Luck will smile this time also as was the case in their last encounter with Colcatta Riders, where Yusuf Pathan won the match in a tie. But the turn of events proved otherwise on Sunday.

Punjab Kings XI won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Karan Goel and Ravi Bopara did not expect that even before the Innings started, Goel will be run out unfortunately at the non-striker’s end. Kamran Singh was the bowler. Captain Yuvaraj Singh flicked to a catch behind with 2 runs. With Bopara packing off with 11 runs the score was 38/3. However Sankakara (60) and Irfan Pathan (39) steadied the Innings to score a reasonable total of 139/6.

Chasing 140 Rajasthan Royals opened with Asnodkar and Greame Smith. Wickets fell like a pack of cards by batsmen scoring in single digits. Bowler Abdulla struck the blow with 3 wickets and Irfan Pathan 2 wickets. The efforts of Jadeja (41) and Captain Shane Warne by a bold 34 not out did not yield fruit. At the end of the 20th over, they were able to score only 112/7 and defeated by Punjab XI by 27 runs.

Kumar Sankakara for his highest score was adjudged the Man of the Match. Punjab Kings XI posted their second victory in 4 matches.