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Virender shewag will be heading back to India after suffer shoulder injury in the recent IPL.He is sent back failing to recover from the injury and will be replaced by Dinesh Karthik who was in good knick in the IPL.

Rohit Sharma can fit into the shoes of Shewag in the opening slot as he is doing well as a opener.But missing player like shewag is always a blow to any team and in any format of the game.

Dinesh karthik can do well and this is his chance to prove to the selectors he can do well at a given chance.

World champions Australia knocked out of world T20 championship, this is surely a poor performance for the class team.

Losing to west Indies after gayle firing all cylinders,then again losing to Srilanka after posting 160 runs on the board.

Dilshan and Sangakara played classical knock to see through the victory. Mendis and malinga bowled splendidly both picking up 3 wickets a piece.

Netherlands out played England in every department of the game, Netherlands won the toss and asked england to bat first.

England played well to get to a total of 162 losing just 5 wickets, openers Bopara and
Wright smashed the bowlers all round the park, Bopara scoring 46 in 34 balls and Wright scoring 71 in just 49 balls with 8 four's.

After the opening partnership no one could continue as they apart quickly and managing just 162 on the scoreboard.

Netherlands did not start well as they lost early wickets, Anderson was the pick of the bowler for England bowling 4 over's giving away just 23 runs and picking up 3 wickets.

Later in the innings Netherlands middle order batsmen played sensible cricket to get to the historic win against England.

It's a historic day in Dutch cricket.

Symonds will be returning home this weekend, after he was found breaking the team management rules with alcohol related issues.

This will be a big blow to Australian team, he is a good all round player while he was in good form during the recent IPL tournament.This the not the first time that symonds has been sent back home by cricket Australia.

Symonds even did not found his place in the team for this year's Ashes series,this January he has been fined 400 Australian dollars for abusing New Zealand wicket keeper McCullum in an radio interview.

Deccan chargers beat Delhi dare devils comfortably with 6wickets to spare. Gilchrist smashing daredevil bowler's all over the park,hitting 5 super sixes and 10 four getting 85 of just 35 balls fastest in this ipl.

Delhi daredevils batting first lost the early wickets and managing to post just a total of 153.

Dilshan playing his part by knocking 65runs in 51balls with 7fours and a six,contributing along side him was the captain of Delhi daredevils getting 39runs of 31balls.

The only bowler with good figures was amit mishra giving away just 19runs in 4over and picking up 3wickets.

Harris of Deccan chargers bowled well to restrict the batsman by giving away just 27 runs in 4over and picking up crucial 3 wickets.

Man of the moment and Man of the match was Adam Gilchrist with his blitzing knock.

Srk's rider's bad run continues again with Deccan charger's,after they batted well to get to a total of 160.

Batting first knight riders key players played well with Hodge scoring 48 and super knock by David Hussey scoring 43 in just 17 balls 4 massive sixes and 2 four's.

Deccan starting off to a brilliant start with to strike hitters gilchrist and gibbs smashing all park until Gilchrist got out and Gibbs to departed after that.

Kartik bowled superly for kolkatta giving away just 12runs in 4over and picking up a crucial wicket that of Gibbs.

Turner of the match at last was Rohit sharma with 32not out in just 13balls with 2 huge sixes and 3 four's....Was also declared the man of the match.

Winning this match deccan charger's are almost to the semifinals.

Kings11 Punjab beat in a close match with Delhi daredevils, Kings restricted Delhi to just 120 with super bowling by lee taking 3 wickets and one was that of danger shewag.

As the match was do or die for kings11 punjab,they bowl well and played sensible to win a close contest.

Sangakara played a good knock of 43 and was till the end to see his team get to the victory, along with him was Irfan Pathan with 21 notout.

B.lee was the man of match with his 3 wickets giving away just 15runs in 4 over.

Mumbai indians losing this match to Rajasthan royals,it was down to the wire till the last over and royals won it by just 2runs.

Last match mumbai played against banglore challengers won by just 16runs.this time around it was just touch and go.

For Rajasthan royals Quiney played his knock of 51runs and also contributing was jadeja with 42runs,pathan and smith just knocked around few runs.

Mumbai indians with there captain scoring 40runs along with Nayar support'g him with 35runs were the only two batsmen for mumbai to come along.

Magical moment of the match was when the ball was the leggie Shan Warne with 3 classical wickets which turned the match, the wickets which he took was Jaysuriya,Tendulkar and Rahane.

Rajasthan Royals with this win is in no3 slot in points table of IPL season 2.

Man of the match: Warne with 3 crucial wickets.

Bengaluru royals beat chennai king's to 2 balls to spare,chennai won the toss and elected to bat first and posting a total of 129. Only batsmen to score well was Hayden with 60 in 38 balls.

The bowler's doing well to restrict king's to 129. Kumble,Vinay kumar and Kallis pick'g 2 wickets each.

For royals taylor and kohli played well to get a victory to there team..

Mumbai indians just had its edge by beating royal challenger's by 16 runs.The only positive for b'lore team was Mark boucher again coming out with a cameo 48 not out.

JP Duminy was again the star batsmen for mumbai team scoring again 50+ runs, harbajan was pick of the blower for mumbai blowing excellently.

Royal losing this game will also be in position to almost droping out with only few number of games left.

Today----->7-5-09--> (1) Royal challengers VS Rajasthan royals at 4:00 IST
(2) Kings11 Punjab VS Chennai super kings at 8:00 IST
8-5-09--> (1) Delhi daredevils VS Mumbai Indians

England captain is worried about his personal security to participate in upcoming IPL, after the deadly attack on sri lanka team in pakistan, as this was first ever attack on international cricketers.

At this point of time i have decided not to take part, after consulting as many people as i can and then take a final decision he quoted, after the final test against west indies i speak to banglore royal challenger,Ecb, security advisors.

After speaking to them i will be geting a clear view to decide upon as of now my thoughts are not clear,after the attack on Mumbai it has been tuff for cricters to think of security.


In India at this point of junction i hope there will be no issue in regard with security. If every player starts to pull out from IPL then it will be a disaster for cricket around the world.

I was shocked when i heard there was an attack on lankan team at pakistan,i don't think anyone at present will be thinking to tour pakistan.

Royal challengers will be hoping to make a good comeback in this season of IPL, as they brought england captain at huge price of USD 1.55 million, which is the highest bid paid to a player in IPL till now.

Graeme smith is almost uncertain to be out of action for 2-3 weeks, he got injured while playing against Australia at Kings mead.He has gone through the check up and was told that its a undisplaced fracture at the base of his little finger.

He got hit when bowler Mitchell Johnson bowled a quick one at 150kph. This led the dressing room to think of to who should lead the side in the second innings of the match, as Ashwell Prince not in the team.

Almost the same incident took place at Sydney Test in January, unluckily it was the same bowler where he was out of action for 1 month,same as that test Smith may have to come on field and bat for his team if it has a chance to win the match or at a situation to save the match.

The last test is on march 19 he is almost unlikely to make it and for South African's its a big blow at this point of time.The only thing he can do sit in the dressing room and boost the morale of the team which he always does.