Virender Sehwag to step down from IPL captaincy

Indian opening batsman Virender Sehwag is the responsible captain of Delhi Daredevils is suffer from solder injury long time. He could not attend in the Twenty20 world cup championship. Even he has to give up all hope to join in champions’ league. Now he has declared that he will step down from the roll of captain of his club Delhi Daredevils. He is leading the team as a captain from the beginning of Indian Premier League. As a cause he has showed that he wants to make his mind on batting seriously.

In his twenty20 club cricket career, he played his first match on the side of the English cricket club Leicestershire and scored duck in Jun 16, 2003 and last match before injury he scored 39 for his recent club in first semifinal at SuperSport Park, Centurion where the champions’ trophy 2009 opening match was held. It hopes that he will be come back soon for is national team and for his club.

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 2009: 3rd match, Delhi Daredevils batting reviews

Delhi Daredevils will come to take on Kings XI Punjab in the 3rd match of Indian Premier League at Cape Town on Apr 19, 2009. GMR group Owners Delhi Daredevils has five top class batsmen and six all-rounders. The team will leaded by Virender Sehwag. Tow Englishmen Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah have been noticed all.

Here is the list of the batsmen and all-rounders

Batsmen: Owais Shah, David Warner, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Virender Sehwag(Captain)

All Rounders: Andrew McDonald, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Paul Collingwood, Farveez Maharoof, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas

Gautam Gambhir debuted with IPL T20 in 2008 and drew his name in the 3^rd position as most runs scorer in the total series of Indian Premier League who scored 534 runs from 14 matches. His highest score was 86 and stored 5 half-centuries out of fourteen matches. By hitting 68 fours (bounders) and sent ball 8 times over the rope.

V Sehwag the captain of Delhi Daredevils 406 runs added his IPL T20 career from 14 matches. He also crossed 50 runs 3 times and 94 was his highest score not out.

Tow English players has been included from the recent auctions.

Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab: IPL 2009 schedule of live video streaming

On 19 April 2009 Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab will meet at Newlands, Cape Town. It will be the first T20 tournament of the both teams. It is difficult to say that which team will take the double points from this match. XI Punjab was qualified for this year. 

Last year, Kings XI Punjab reached in the semi final but MS Dhoni and his teammates stopped them in semi final. Delhi Daredevils is another semi finalist that was kicked out by the Champions Rajasthan Royals. The third and fourth position holders are going to meet in the 3^rd match of IPL 2009.

 

Fixtures

Sun 19 Apr      3rd match         Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab      Newlands, Cape Town

Fri 15 May       46th match       Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab      OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein

 

Here is the two matches schedule and timetables of the mentioned teams. One is home match and other is away match of the group round.