Chris Gayle 175* Highlights RCB vs PWI in IPL

             

Watch the brutal innings of Chris Gayle who scored 175 not out in just 66 balls with 17 sixes and 13 boundaries against Pune Warriors India. This is his 4^th T20 century in IPL and 11^th in his career.

 

IPL 2012 Highlights

Indian Premier League is considered to be the greatest of all county crickets organized all over the world. With great players, umpires, referees, commentators and spectators from all over the world, IPL has achieved its maximum this year with full of greatest moments and also some flops and bad events. Let’s have a look at the statistics and some interesting facts of 5^th edition of IPL.

Under estimated KKR has bagged the IPL 2012 Trophy (Champions)

Defending champions CSK finds second spot in IPL 2012 (Runners)

DLF Golden Player of IPL 2012 - Sunil Narine (KKR) 

Citi Rising Star in IPL 2012 - Mandeep Singh (Kings XI Punjab)

IPL 2012 –Overview:

IPL 2012 has 76 matches with 22,453 runs with 732 super sixes and 12,036 boundaries in its account. This includes 96 fifties and the longest six is 112 meters by M.S.Dhoni.

From bowling perspective, 857 wickets have been taken with 6241 dot balls and 154 kmph by Dale Steyn being the fastest ball of the tournament. This tournament has seen 29 balls with 150+ kmph, most of which delivered by Shaun Tait.

Murali Vijay (CSK) has become the first Indian cricketer to score two IPL centuries.  

Orange Cap:

The highest run getter of this tournament is rewarded with Orange Cap. Chris Gayle (RCB) won this award with 733 runs off 15 matches at an average of 61. He is the highest individual scorer of IPL 2012 and also hits maximum number of sixes (59).

•  Chris Gayle (RCB) – 733 runs
• Gautam Gambhir (KKR) – 590 runs
• Shikhar Dhawan (DC) – 569 runs

Highest Strike-Rates:

• David Warner (DD) – 164.10  (256 runs)
• Virender Sehwag (DD) – 161.23 (495 runs)
• AB de Villiers (RCB) – 161.11 (319 runs)

Purple Cap: 

The highest wicket taker of this tournament is rewarded with Purple Cap. Morne Morkel (DD) bagged this cap with 25 wickets in 16 matches at an average of 18.12.

• Morne Morkel (DD) – 25 wickets
• Sunil Narine (KKR) - 24 wickets
• Lasith Malinga (MI) – 22 wickets

Best Bowling Figures:

• Ravindra Jadeja (CSK) – 5/16 (4 overs)
• Sunil Narine (KKR) - 5/19 (4 overs)
• Dimitri Mascarenhas (Kings XI) - 5/25 (4 overs)

Best Economy Rate:

• Sunil Narine (KKR) – 5.47
• Dale Steyn (DC) – 6.10
• Lasith Malinga (MI) – 6.30

Most number of maiden overs was bowled Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Praveen Kumar (3 overs each).

Fairplay Award:

• Rajasthan Royals (Rahul Dravid)

• Kings XI Punjab (Adam Gilchrist \ David Hussey)

• Deccan Chargers (Kumara Sanagakkara \ Cameron White)

CSK in IPL-2012 Play-offs

Once again Chennai Super Kings have made it to the playoffs, with a little help from Deccan Chargers. Since their 16th and final league game on Thursday, a defeat to Kings XI Punjab, Super Kings’ fate depended on three other results. Everything had gone in positive way to Chennai, but RCB remains rival till the end. It was a do or die match for RCB and it was expected to make it to playoff as the opposition team is considered to be underdog of IPL-2012. The beginning went in favour of RCB picking up all the crucial wickets of Deccan in quick session but Duminy single—handedly took the attack to the opposition and sent the bowlers for a leather hunt to rack up runs in quick time. With the strong batting line up, a target of 133 runs seemed to be so simple for RCB until Dale Steyn produced a fiery pace bowling spell of three for just eight runs which includes dangerous Chris Gayle and his opening partner Tillakaratne Dilshan. So finally in the 5^th edition of IPL, defending champions Chennai Super Kings go through the play—offs stage, along with table—toppers Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians. CSK is the only team who has made to the semi finals so far.

Rahul Dravid leads Rajastan Royals

Rahul dravid “The Wall” named captain of Rajastan Royals team in IPL after Australian legend spinner Shane Warne announced his retirement. This year has been amazing for Dravid who scored 1,258 runs in 15tests with the help of 6 centuries and also received ‘Poly Umrigar Award for India’s best cricketer of 2010-2011’ by BCCI. Dravid was congratulated by ex-captain Shane Warne on his appointment. Dravid feels Rajastan Royals squad is full of energetic and talented players who know their roles. Let us congratulate Dravid who proves himself in all formats of game and started hitting sixes often in test cricket too. He is the only cricketer in the world who faced more than 5000 overs in test cricket.

Shane Warne bid farewell to IPL

Australian legend leg spinner Shane Warne has announced his retirement from expert cricket at the end of the IPL season. At present he is playing for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL and in his Twitter account he stated “Yes this is my last year playing Indian Premier League. It's 100 per cent my last four games of specialist cricket unless we make the finals - maybe I have 5 or 6 left. Please come down and hold up RR for the last 2 home games vs. Chennai & Bangalore! We need your help!!!! Want RR to go out on a high - we must win at least 2 if not 3 of our last 4. I will miss the IPL but it's been fun for the last 4 seasons. RR has always authorized youth and Indian cricket has been the victor - I've had a great time - but it's time to say goodbye to IPL. Warne has played 52 matches for RR so far, has head the team since IPL's opening season. Warne has chosen up 56 wickets at an average of 24.66 so far in the four IPL seasons and he led Rajasthan to victory in the opening IPL. The leg-spinner had got 708 Test and 293 ODI wickets during his international career. The IPL was the only cricket event he was playing after leaving the international stage. a quaff swims like a trash can

IPL scraps Punjab and Rajasthan

It’s been shocking news to hear two IPL teams have been ruled out of the world famous IPL Twenty20 tournament for breaching ownership rules. BCCI terminated franchises of Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab who were active participants in first three editions of the Twenty20 tournament, and of course Rajasthan Royals were the first to hold the IPL title. Also it has warned Kochi franchise to resolve their ownership issues soon to get out of trouble. BCCI gave no specific statements so far regarding the breaches and it is known that former IPL chairman Lalit Modi was earlier accused of having financial connections with these two teams. BCCI honorary secretary N Srinivasan told reporters that the decision to terminate the contract of Punjab and Rajasthan franchises were taken purely based on legal opinion we received and the breaches committed by these franchises. Rajasthan Royals was acquired by Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch and co for $67 million. Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra paid approximately US $15.4 million for an 11.7% stake later. The big faces were Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Graeme Smith, Yusuf Pathan in Royals. Kings XI Punjab was bought by Ness Wadia, Mohit Burman and actor Preity Zinta for $ 76 million. Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh, Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh were the big faces in it. Let’s wait and watch the future actions and auctions of IPL-4.

Sourav's Second Innings

Sourav Ganguly has been named captain of his franchise Kolkata knight Riders (KKR) once again for the upcoming IPL season. Meanwhile Former Indian coach John Wright has been named as the coach for the KKR. Good Luck Ganguly for his 2nd innings as a captain. This decision has been taken after a long discussion between ganguly and sharukh. Lets look at the result at the end of IPL-3

Dune Kossatz is IPL miss Bollywood

South African Model Dune Kossatz has been crowned Miss IPL Bollywood South Africa 2009 on Sunday morning. The 34 year old Kossatz beat 15 other finalists for the Miss Bollywood title at an impressive ceremony held at the Monte casino entertainment complex in Johannesburg.She won Rs.50, 000 cash, a business class trip to India and other prizes. 24 year old Johannesburg Business Marketing graduate Genna Cloud first princess and Dunay Nortje was crowned Second Princess. All three winners were white South Africans who beat several Indian contestants.

She was crowned by former Miss Universe Michelle McLean of South Africa. She received a specially made crown from Gitanjali Jewelers containing gold, silver, diamonds and other precious stones. The 34 year old Kossatz represented the Chennai Super Kings in the competition.Miss Bollywood IPL South Africa was a search to discover a DLF IPL fan with star feature, someone that stood out in a crowd. There were also two live performances one was Grammy award winner Akon sang his hit ‘I wanna make love’ and second was Eddy Grant got the audience to their feet when he girdled out his smash singles with them Electric Avenue.

The Ceremony judges were Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, Michelle Mclean, Michel Adam, Dr. Precious Moloi, Joanne Strauss, Bandana Tiwari, Editor Vogue India and Francios Pienaar. Kossatz had gathered the most Internet votes of 48 finalists selected from each of the IPL games held at several South African venues. She was delighted at the chance to do screen tests for a movie with Shah Rukh Khan as part of her prize package.Kossatz has acted in the popular HBO TV show ‘Entourage‘. She also acted in some movies including The Mind of the Married Man, Las Vegas and Venus & Vegas.