Bangalore Royal Challengers will play in IPL final along with Deccan Chargers

At last, Bangalore Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers will meet in the final encounter of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 second season. With the final match between DC and RCB the closing ceremony will be staged after the final match. After a nail beating match Bangalore Royal Challengers confirmed their position on the final that will be held at Johannesburg on May 24, 2009.

 

If you look back to the last couple of matches then you could understand the improvement and their performances. The young man has secured player of the match Manish Pandey on the side of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The 19 years old boy shows back to back successes that bring them to the final.

Kings XI Punjab dreams to semifinals: Yuvraj’s second Hat-tick IPL 2009

Kings XI Punjab gears up by beating Deccan Chargers in their 13^th match. It just has one match left and must have to win against Chennai Super Kings to be qualified for the semifinals. CSK is the second highest points holder till now. The team is doing very well than past year.

 

IPL Punjab had no possibility reach in the top four this year. But, the wins against Deccan Charger and the only competitor Rajasthan Royals’ defeat has open the door.

 

Punjab’s Captain is considered as one of the hard hitter batsmen in Twenty20 formatted cricket tournaments. He proved in different stage too. But the IPL edition 2 presents another Yuvraj as a bower. He has achieved two time hat-tick records this season.  

46th match | Kings XI Punjab must be beat Delhi Daredevils at Bloemfontein

The 46th match is very important for the bollywood doll Preity Zinta owners Kings XI Punjab. Could KXI Punjab be qualified for the semifinal of the ongoing Indian Premier League second edition? Yes, it can bring the opportunity to reach at the top four. But they must have to win rest of the three matches. On May 15, 2009, it is going to take the Delhi Daredevils and rest three two matches will be played along with Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings.

 

The match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab will be taken place at Kingsmead, Durban. In the fist leg match DC beat KXI Punjab for 10 wickets with D/L method. IPL Punjab has very good wining record in the ongoing season so they can beat any teams. Brett Lee has joined with the team after completing the tour of Dubai along with Pakistan in the neutral host. Kings XI Punjab has a back-to-back wining record that secured 4 wins in a row.

 

No doubt that IPL Delhi is performing very well and securing the top position of the points table. They already have perused 16 points that may be enough for to be capable for the semifinals. It just has played 10 matches out of 14. A single win must be thrown them to the semifinals.

IPL season 2 points table: Who will play IPL semifinals in 2009?

IPL points table is trembling with the competition of wins. Just a single win pulling any teams up and lose threw in bottom. Among the eight teams only Kolkata Knight Riders have to opportunity to be qualified in the semifinals of the IPL T20 second season. May be Kings XI Punjab is playing the same roles in the point tables, although it secured 5 wins out of 11. With the similar victories and a single point, Mumbai Indian is leading the 6^th position one point ahead of KXI Punjab.

 

Rajasthan Royals was in 6^th position but just one win pulled them up to the 3^rd position. The champions have to secure more that one wins rest of the two matches to be qualified for the semifinals. Yes, they have opportunity to because the rest two matches they have to play alongside Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils the bottom and top scorers this year. In the first leg match, Rajasthan Royals won on alongside KKR in super-over but beat Delhi Daredevils five wickets and reached to the target 143 runs 5 balls remaining. 

 

It seems to me that Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should pay for the point divide matter. Every thing will be depend on time and the performances. Only Delhi Daredevils is out of competition but rest of six teams are waiting by sitting back to back.

 

Hockey Asia Cup 2009 | Pakistan Vs Malaysia| preview and Live Score

With the match Pakistan Vs Malaysia the semifinal round will be end and The two times title holder, Korea, for the Pool A of the ongoing Hockey Asia Cup 2009 is going to take on none titled China in he second semifinal will be take place in the host’s ground of Malaysia today. Malaysia is meeting in an encounter in along with most time title holder Pakistan now. From the two sides the winner will meet in the final match on May 16, 2009 and the winner will be qualified for the Hockey World Cup 2010 in New Delhi, India. Korea already has qualified for the final and china is ready take on the loser between the semifinal2 for 3^rd or 4^th position.

 

Semifinal 2: 14.05.2009 Asia Cup Hockey Malaysia vs Pakistan

Thursday 14 May 2009

19:30 Hrs Local Time

 

After being draw with the most time winner Pakistan and second highest winner India, China is going to play in Asia Cup Hockey tournament first time along with two times winner Korea. It is big improvement from the China sides.

 

Similarly, Korea is dreaming to be the title holder this year and aim is to play in the world Cup hockey in 2010 season. There are from the Pool A with two wins and a draw along with the host Malaysia.

 

Pakistan the group champion will take one other Pool’s runner-up, host Malaysia tonight. 

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings IPL 2009 away match

In the home match, the RCB and CSK meet in an encounter at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on 20 April 2009 when Chennai Super Kings won by 92 runs. The second leg match will be held at Durban on May 14, 2009. Kumble’s will be eager to take the 6^th wins and the Dhoni’s side will try to hold it wining sequence and be excited for 7^th win.

 

The 10 wickets taker in an innings of test cricket, Anil Kumble’s team is doing well this year than 2008. The RCB was skipped by the South African born former English captain Kevin Pietersen earlier this year. Now, the responsible was continued by the Anil Kumble instead of Rahul Dravid, the former captain who leaded the team in first season of Twenty20 designed Indian Premier League. The team is not able to satisfy their fans as expectation.

 

Indian Captain MS Dhoni is leading the Chennai Super Kings as well. They do not want to remind their previous painful memories that was kicked out form the semifinals but playing very attentively to be the title holders. It could say in a word that they are performing very well.

 

Now, it is the main question to the fans which are going to play semifinals? Royal Challengers Bangalore or Chennai Super Kings can be qualified for the semifinals? Most important information that there will not be any super eight matches in the series. Four teams will be qualified who will be the top of the standings table.

England vs West Indies 2nd Test: Some changes in England squads

England has declared a squad for the second and final test along side West Indies at Chester-le-Street on May 14, 2009. England already has taken the series wining the first test. Now, the host is leading the series 1-0. Earlier of the year when England visited West Indies and beat to the Caribbean 1-0 of the five matches series.

 

The first test was come to end just after 3days. England has taken all facilities as a host. It showed totally a opposite performances in the home series as they showed the performances in the last visit in Jan-Apr 2009.

 

In the 2^nd test quads, England has included the name of Bell and Sidebottom who were not on the list at Lords. In last visit, Ian Bell who played a single match against West Indies.

 

England squad: Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wk), Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, James Anderson, Graham Onions, Ryan Sidebottom