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Welcome for the match between the King xi Punjab and Kolkata Knight ridres from Mohali. It is a very special day for the IPL. On this day exactly five years ago, the first match of the IPL will be played between the Bangalore and Kolkata at the Chinnaswamy stadium.This will be remembered as the day Brendon McCullum will be smashed the highest individual score of the history of T20s. He will be smashed an unbeaten 158 and got the IPL off to a dazzling start.

Nowaday, five years later, Kolkata were struggling for consistency. Will they manage to win against Punjab today? Stay tuned for the toss and the team updates.Kings XI Punjab have won the toss and elected to bat

Gilchrist: We have trained hard and we're played the same opponent twice in a row, which will be good. Looks like a really nice track at the moment. Nothing will be over until the last ball, the last few results have been extraordinary. It's an even battle now between all the teams. More grass on this than the other wickets in India, but it's not as much as a couple of games back. It's was not a traditional Indian wicket. Valthaty will be returns for Bipul Sharma.

Gambhir: The last game in history and we have to be move on. We have the potential in the dressing room. We can't end up losing such matches as we did recently. We have to be strong at the times and have to be turn it around. We would have bowled first. Hopefully we do well in the first 6 overs. We were not played as a unit. Sometimes the bowlers have to be done a good job but the batsmen have not complemented them. I thought we should have won the previous game but hope to turn it around. McCullum and Lee replace Shakib and ten DOeschate.

McCullum: It was an amazing day and to get the result for the team was fantastic, hopefully can do that again today. It's about momentum which can builds up through the innings. Many of the people around the world have played such innings, there are a lot of match winners in this tournament who have done that. We have expected to win the previous game and we were in it for 95% of the game. It's important to take positives from the game and we spoke about it. Happy for the other New Zealand players who are doing well in the tournament.

The Indian Premier League [IPL 2012] will be easily won by Delhi daredevils, beating Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets.

The match will be played at the Wankhede Stadium was a one sided match, as Delhi Daredevils will be dominated in all parts of play yesterday.

It was not Mumbai’s day yesterday; Sachin ,once again did not played the match.

The Skipper of Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwag will be won the toss and he asked Mumbai Indians to bat first. His decision was soon proved to be right, as Mumbai managed just 92 runs in their limited for 20 overs play.

Bowlers for Delhi daredevils, UT Yadav, AB Agarkar, M Morkel and S Nadeem will be got two wickets each and Irfan Pathan will be got 1 wicket but his bowling was very economical, he gave out just 12 runs in his 4 overs spell.

In the meantime, Rohit Sharma and Harbhajan Singh will be the only two batsmen from the Mumbai teams who have managed to get into double figures, Rohit Sharma hit 29 runs from 27 balls with 5 fours and captain Harbhajan Singh hit 33 runs from 22 balls with 5 boundries and one huge six.

Chasing a total of 93 runs in T20 is very easy, Delhi daredevils will be started well though lost their both the openers. Ojha was the first to go, he made 13 runs. The Skipper Virender Sehwag have looked in good touch, he hits 32 runs from 36 balls with 2 fours and one six.

The Man of the Match is Shahbaz Nadeem. Loosing captain Harbhajan Singh,hr said “A total of 140-150 on this track will have been competitive.
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Pune Warriors will be roared back for that winning ways, that’s beating Chennai Super Kings by which at seven wickets at Pune on to the top of the Indian Premier league 2012 .Their victory were takes them to the top once again having won three out of four games, while Chennai will be have lost an equal number out of five matches so far.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni were won the toss and decided to the batting first. Murali Vijay’s horrible run with the bat continued as he was out for only eight runs. Francois du Plessis, though, which carried on with his superb touch to that smack 43 off 33 balls, including five fours and two sixes, its giving the innings an early impetus. Pune Warriors kept things tight with an incisive bowling and sharp fielding, never allowing the batting side to that run away with the game.du Plessis were second out in the tenth over, which were stumped immediately after the strategic break and the score at that time was 67 for two.

Suresh Raina, he had come out at number of three and after much criticism about his batting position, Dhoni were promoted himself to the number four. They were both got starts, scoring 20 and 26 runs each, but it wasn’t enough to give a platform to the rest of the batsmen.

But thankfully they had enough runs on board at that time to counter any sort of collapse and fightback from Chennai super kings. This was all thanks to Jesse Ryder who has played a blinder of an innings to win them the match.Uthappa was out for ten while Ganguly were gone for 16. The score read 65 for two in the ninth over and it brought out Marlon Samuels to the crease.

Throughout his stay of 15 balls, off which he scored only eight runs, West Indian batsman seemed at loggerheads with his partner and the team heaved a sigh of their relief when he was back in the hut.Ryder was carried on in sight of the victory and was aided by Steve Smith who hits the blitzkrieg 44 off 22 balls, within four fours and three sixes, just as the match will be seemed to be getting away from them.

Pune warriors will be won with four balls to the spare and Ryder had finished at 73 not out off 56 balls, including seven fours and one six.
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Mumbai Indians will be smashed 21 off the final over to snatch a thrilling of the five-wicket victory from the jaws of defeat against with the Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League 2012 on Monday.

At the Chasing of Deccan chargers will be of 138 for nine, Mumbai will be looked like falling shorted by when they needed 18 off the final six balls to be bowled by the Daniel Christian.

James Franklin, just in, took six off the first two deliveries before the sneaking a bye that brought his established partner Rohit Sharma on strike with of 11 needed off three.

Sharma will be reduced that the target of three off one with a six and the quickly scampered two before he sealed a stunning victory by clubbing the Christian full toss over the boundary for his fifth six for the day.

Sharma having led the run chase almost single-handed, finished unbeaten on 73 off 50 balls. Kieron Pollard, whose that 24 included three sixes, and Ambati Rayudu (19) were the only other Mumbai players which to reach the double figures.

Earlier the Deccan charger opener Shikhar Dhawan has helped his side recover from a poor start to the post a reasonable total with a 24-ball 41, while the Australians Christian (39) and Cameron White (30) also made decent contributions against with an impressive Mumbai bowling attack.

Munaf Patel will be the pick of the Mumbai bowlers, finishing within four for 20 off his four overs, while the Lasith Malinga were took three for 27 and Harbhajan Singh went for only 18 off his quote.

South Africa's star paceman Dale Steyn will be also outstanding with the ball for Deccan charger , that taking three for 12 off four overs, and he will be looked to have put his side on the verge of victory after the conceding only five off their penultimate over as well as taking the wicket of Dinesh Karthik.

However, his efforts have proved in vain as Sharma and Franklin will be steered Mumbai, the 2010 runners-up, to their second win in three IPL matches and the left Deccan charger still searching for their opening triumph.

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The two opening matches for this Indian Premier League 2012 has set the ball rolling for the tournament.and Reigning champions of the Chennai Super Kings will be well beaten by the Mumbai Indians before Kolkata Knight Riders was beaten by the Delhi Daredevils.

The Two wins for the away sides and the wins for the sides that went into the game as the underdogs of Mumbai because of Chennai’ strength at the home and Delhi because they were without their star batsmen in Mahela Jayawardene, David Warner and Kevin Pietersen.

Irfan Pathan were wrote his own script and in his innings of 42 in 20 balls was my highlight for the first two games. As well as Richard Levi will be played in spanking 50 in 35 balls for Mumbai, Pathan were under pressure. He will be no chance but to the accelerate when he did but the grace with which he lifted three sixes into the crowd showed how well he managed that situation.


The 12 overs will be game turned out to be something a thriller as at the halfway point, Kolkata’s will be score of 97 will be never looked enough but after Virender Sehwag and Aaron will be Finch fell within six balls of one another, he had a game on our hands.

Delhi will be missed one chance in the field but we were otherwise outstanding. Kolkata will be needed everything to stick and get early wickets and once they failed in the latter, Delhi will be always likely to come through.

Chennai have also not at their best in this field while Mumbai was excellent. Any team that loses three wickets to run outs will struggle, particularly if key players such as Francois du Plessis and Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be depart in this fashion.


Both sides will be likely to bounce back but should Mumbai win today’s game against the Pune Warriors, they will quickly emerge as everyone’s favourites for the title with in two wins out of two under their belt.

It will be the sensible to remember that they have started well in the past and faded as the tournament will be went on. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Rajasthan Royales middle-order batsman will be Ashok Menaria said that he is eager to make a mark for his franchise, Rajasthan Royals during the fifth edition of the IPL, commencing in the Chennai on April 4^th , that push his case for the national team.

“IPL provides that a big platform for all the players and I too wish for perform well in this season and get the ticket to the Indian cricket team," said by Menaria.

"I was not aiming for slot of the Indian team for the upcoming World T20 (in Sri Lanka) but it may be my dream, like all other young cricketers to play for the country," he added.

Menaria, a former of India Under-19 skipper, had be scored a double hundred against Railways at Ranji Trophy before that he was forced to sit out of the tournament in this later half of the season due to the groin injury.

The left-hander,, said he did not rue missing out on the few matches in the domestic season.

"It may be unfortunate that I was forced out due to my groin strain and have to undergo an operation in Germany at February. But I am 100 per cent fit now and raring to go. While missing out of on matches when I was in good form may be unfortunate, I don't feel it was bad luck too. In fact, it may taught me how to cope with in this bad times," that he said.

if his double hundred against Railways on a difficult track during at the Ranji Trophy had established him as a seasoned batsman and that whether he would be eager to build on that image, the 21-year-old may be said that he preferred to play his natural game.

"I will like to bat in an aggressive manner. My double hundred also had come in 200 balls. Whatever is the format, I bat may be in my natural style.

"Even my (Rajasthan Royals) skipper Rahul Dravid has to told me to play my natural game," that he said Menaria, who idolises by Virendra Sehwag.