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IPL (Indian premier league) – A Glimpse

The Indian Premier League is also known as the “DLF Indian Premier League” and is abbreviated as IPL. It is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi.

The bidder’s of the IPL are as follows.

Mumbai Indians – Mukesh Ambani Royal Challengers Bangalore – Vijay Mallya Deccan Charges -  Deccan Chronicle Chennai Super Kings – India Cements Delhi Daredevils – GMR Holdings Kings XI Punjab – Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta, Mohit Burman (Dabur) and Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) Kolkata Knight Riders – Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta) Rajasthan Royals – Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and Suresh Chellaram), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra.

The first season of the Indian Premier League was commenced on the 18 April 2008, and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

The tournament started on 18 April 2008 in Bangalore and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. Rajasthan Royals emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.

In India, IPL has become very popular and the 2nd Session of it was scheduled in the year 2009 in South Africa as the IPL coincided with the general elections of India. Deccan Charges were awarded as the winner of the tournament.

The List of Hat tricks of the IPL of 2008 and 2009 are as follows:

2008 IPL – Lakshmipathy Balaji  and Victims – Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, VRV Singh For Chennai Super Kings against kings XI Punjab – 1 Hat trick (10th May 08) 2008 IPL – Amith Mishra and Victims – Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha For Delhi Daredevils against Deccan Charges – 1 Hat trick (15th may 08) 2008 IPL – Makhaya Ntini and Victims – Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das, David Hussey For Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata Knight Riders – 2 Hat trick (18th May 2008) 2009 IPL – Yuvraj Singh and Victims – Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis For Kings XI Punjab against Royal Challengers Bangalore – 1 Hat trick (1st May 2009) 2009 IPL – Rohit Sharma and Victims – Abhishek Nayar, Harbhajan Singh, JP Duminy For Deccan Charges against Mumbai Indians – 1 Hat trick (6th May 09) 2009 IPL – Yuvraj Singh and Victims - Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao For Kings XI Punjab against Deccan Charges – 2 Hat trick ( 17th May 09)

The 3rd Session of IPL is scheduled for 12th March 2010 and continues up and till 25th April 2010.

You can find the IPL-3 Schedule by clicking this link “IPL SCHEDULE”

http://www.cricandcric.com/news/IPL-III-schedule.html

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, nick name Mahi, Also abbreviated as MS Dhoni, is currently Indian captain and wicketkeeper. Mahi born on July 7, 1981 in Lavali Village Almora, Uttarakhand is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian One day and Test team. Initially recognized as an profligately colorful and vicious batsman, Mahi has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian side. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007-08 and IDEA Cup India-Sri Lanka ODI Series of 2008, the first ever bilateral ODI series win of India in Sri Lanka and The Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 in which they beat Australia 2-0 thus letting India regain its spot at No.2 in world test rankings.

MS Dhoni personal life

Mahi was born in Ranchi,Jharkhand to Pan Singh and Devaki Devi. His paternal village Lvali is in the Lamgarha block of the Almora District of Uttarachal. Mahi’s parents, moved from Uttarakhand to Ranchi where Pan Singh worked in junior management positions in MECON. Mahi has a sister Jayanti and a brother Narendra.

MS Dhoni Achievements

Mahi have been choosen the Wisden team captain and wicketkeeper for the year 2009.

* Mahendra Singht Dhoni – Mahi have been chosen for the Padma Shri awards for year 2009.

* Mahi was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country’s highest sports honour, for his contribution to India’s success in the 20-20 world championship.

* MS Dhoni has won the ODI Player of the Year 2008 award at the LG ICC Awards ceremony in Dubai,becoming the first Indian player to get this particular award.

* MS Dhoni also received nomination for the inaugural International Twenty20 Performer of the Year 2008 award, for leading his team to victory at the ICC World Twenty20 2007 in South Africa.

* Mahi was selected for the ICC World ODI Team of the Year 2008.

* MS Dhoni was voted as MTV Youth Icon 2006 and he also joins cricketers Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar in winning the award.

* MS Dhoni is the amazing icon of the Pogo TV amazing kids awards.

* Mahi has been picked up by the Australian newspaper Herald Sun as a member of the world team of the year 2008 along side Sachin Tendulkar.

* MS Dhoni was selected by the Australian daily Sydney Morning Herald in its World Dream XI Test team of 2008 as the captain and wicket keeper.

* MS Dhoni has been adjudged as the player of the year 2008 along side Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan in a poll conducted by an Indian News Channel Samay. For more information see here

http://khel24x7.blogspot.com/2009/01/ms-dhoni-mahi.html

It is cricket craze that dominates all sports. And it is the world of cricketers and cricket-fans. Well, no other sport has gained much fanfare as this eleven-player per team game. An approaching international match or 20-20 or test match will see booking of tickets till the concerned stadium gets jam-packed and cricket fans glued to the television to watch the game and view cricket score live. Office goers who cannot take an off, browse through the Internet every now and then to have a glimpse of the live cricket scoreboard in addition to watching cricket news live in an online news platform.

The origin of the game of cricket can be traced back to the 16th century London (England); test cricket started from 1877 and international level matches from the year 1944. The status of cricket reached its zenith with the introduction of the World Cup in the year 1975; the game became an obsession for many. Today the popularity of the game can be noticed more in the sub-continent nations rather than England. Be it world cup or a state level match, the web is the busy fan’s source to viewing live cricket scores and cricket news live. It was under the captaincy of Kapil Dev that India won the World Cup in the year 1983.

As per cricket news live, the third day of the second test match between Sri Lanka and India witnessed the former country being bowled out for 229 at Kanpur. The cricket scores live were displayed with India (first innings) perched at 642 (G. Gambhir 167, V. Sehwag 131, R. Dravid 144; R. Herath 5-121) and Sri Lanka at 229 (S. Sreesanth 5-75). Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, the 26-year old Indian fast bowler, exhibited his best skills by grabbing six wickets on his comeback against Sri Lanka, helping India clinch a 413-run lead. Cricket news live, two days back, also featured Rahul Dravid, completing his 28th test century that positioned him in the 4th place on the all-time scorers list. This was after he made a splendid 144 – the third to score a hundred in the Indian team before India were all out for 642 on the second day.

Even if one is on a tour, the mobile Internet or a laptop enables one to view cricket scores live. One can also get live cricket scores via SMS on a cell phone.