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Indian Premier League Dates

2009-04-17T14:21:00.000-07:00

Indian Premier League (South Africa) matches in April

18 - Mumbai I v Chennai SK - Cape Town 4 to 7pm
18 - Rajasthan R v RC Bangalore - C Town 8 to 11pm
19 - Delhi D v K XI Punjab - Cape Town 4 to 7pm
19 - Deccan C v Kolkata KR - Cape Town 8 to 11pm
20 - Chennai SK v RC Bangalore - Port Eliz. 8 to 11pm
21 - K XI Punjab v Kolkata KR - Durban 4 to 7pm
21 - Rajasthan R v Mumbai I - Durban 8 to 11pm
22 - RC Bangalore v Deccan C - Cape Town 8 to 11pm
23 - Chennai SK v Delhi D - Durban 4 to 7pm
23 - Kolkata KR v Rajasthan R - Cape Town 8 to 11pm
24 - RC Bangalore v K XI Punjab - Durban 4 to 7pm
25 - Mumbai I v Deccan C - Durban 4 to 7pm
25 - Chennai SK v Kolkata KR - Cape Town 8 to 11pm
26 - RC Bangalore v Delhi D - Port Eliz. 4 to 7pm
26 - K XI Punjab v Rajasthan R - Cape Town 8 to 11pm
27 - Deccan C v Chennai SK - Durban 4 to 7pm
27 - Kolkata KR v Mumbai I - Port Eliz. 8 to 11pm
28 - Delhi D v Rajasthan R - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
29 - Kolkata KR v RC Bangalore - Durban 4 to 7pm
29 - K XI Punjab v Mumbai I - Durban 8 to 11pm
30 - Deccan C v Delhi D - Pretoria 4 to 7pm
30 - Rajasthan R v Chennai SK - Pretoria 8 to 11pm

IPL (South Africa) matches in May

1 - Mumbai I v Kolkata KR - East London 4 to 7pm
1 - K XI Punjab v RC Bangalore - Durban 8 to 11pm
2 - D Chargers v Rajasthan R - Port Eliz. 4 to 7pm
2 - Delhi D v Chennai SK - Johannesburg 8 to 11pm
3 - Kolkata KR v K XI Punjab - Port Eliz. 4 to 7pm
3 - RC Bangalore v Mumbai I - Joh'burg 8 to 11pm
4 - Chennai SK v Deccan C - East London 8 to 11pm
5 - Rajasthan R v K XI Punjab - Durban 4 to 7pm
5 - Delhi D v Kolkata KR - Durban 8 to 11pm
6 - Deccan C v Mumbai I - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
7 - RC Bangalore v Rajasthan R - Pretoria 4 to 7pm
7 - K XI Punjab v Chennai SK - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
8 - Delhi D v Mumbai I - East London 8 to 11pm
9 - Deccan C v K XI Punjab - Kimberley 4 to 7pm
9 - Chennai SK v Rajasthan R - Kimberley 8 to 11pm
10 - Mumbai I v RC Bangalore - Port Eliz. 4 to 7pm
10 - Kolkata KR v Delhi D - Johannesburg 8 to 11pm
11 - Rajasthan R v Deccan C - Kimberley 8 to 11pm
12 - RC Bangalore v Kolkata KR - Pretoria 4 to 7pm
12 - Mumbai I v K XI Punjab - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
13 - Delhi D v Deccan C - Durban 8 to 11pm
14 - RC Bangalore v Chennai SK - Durban 4 to 7pm
14 - Mumbai I v Rajasthan R - Durban 8 to 11pm
15 - K XI Punjab v Delhi D - Bioemfontein 8 to 11pm
16 - Chennai SK v Mumbai I - Port Eliz. 4 to 7pm
16 - Kolkata KR v Deccan C - Joh'burg 8 to 11pm
17 - K XI Punjab v Deccan C - Joh'burg 4 to 7pm
17 - Rajasthan R v Delhi D - Bioemfontein 8 to 11pm
18 - Kolkata KR v Chennai SK - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
19 - Delhi D v RC Bangalore - Joh'burg 8 to 11pm
20 - Rajasthan R v Kolkata KR - Durban 4 to 7pm
20 - Chennai SK v K XI Punjab - Durban 8 to 11pm
21 - Mumbai I v Delhi D - Pretoria 4 to 7pm
21 - Deccan C v RC Bangalore - Pretoria 8 to 11pm
22 - Semi Final 1 - Pretoria - 8 to 11pm
23 - Semi Final 2 - Johannesburg - 8 to 11pm

INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE FINAL 24 May 2009 Johannesburg - 8pm to 11pm

*The above IPL match timings are in IST

Players List of Indian Premier League (IPL) Season 2

2009-04-14T11:19:00.000-07:00


Kevin Pietersen Abhmanyu Mithun Anil Kumble Balachandra Akhil Bharat Chipli Bhuvneshwar Kumar Cameron White Dale Steyn Devraj Patil Dillon du Preez Gaurav Dhiman Ishank Jaggi Ishank Jaggi Jacques Kallis Jagadeesh Arun Kumar Jesse Ryder	Jitendra Patil Karan Sharma Kedar Jadhav Kotarangada Appanna Manish Pandey Mark Boucher Muralidharen Gautam Nathan Bracken Pankaj Singh Praveen Kumar R. Suteesh Rahul Dravid Rajesh Bishnoi Raju Bhatkal Robin Uthappa	Roelof van der Merwe Rohit Sabharwal Ross Taylor Saurabh Bandekar Sreesanth Aravind Srivastava Goswami Sunil Joshi Tinu Yohannan Udit Patel Vinay Kumar Virat Kohli Wasim Jaffer Ray Jennings (SA) (Coach)

Sourav Ganguly Aakash Chopra Ajantha Mendis Ajit Agarkar Angelo Mathews Anureet Singh Arindam Ghosh Ashoke Dinda Brad Hodge	Brendan McCullum Cheteshwar Pujara Chris Gayle David Hussey Ishant Sharma Laxmi Ratan Shukla Mark Cameron Mashrafe Mortaza Moises Henriques	Murali Kartik Ricky Ponting Sanjay Bangar Shoaib Sheikh Sourav Sarkar Sunny Singh Wriddhiman Saha Yashpal Singh John Buchanan (AUS) (Coach)

Yuvraj Singh Ajitesh Argal Amanpreet Singh Brett Lee Burt Cockley Irfan Pathan James Hopes Jerome Taylor Karan Goel Kumar Sangakkara	Luke Pomersbach Mahela Jayawardene Piyush Chawla Ramesh Power Ranadeb Bose Ravi Bopara Ravikant shukla Ryan Ninan S. Sreesanth Shaun Marsh	Simon Katich Sunny Sohoal Tanmay Srivastava Uday Kaul Vikramjeet Malik VRV Singh Wilkin Mota Yash Gandhi Tom Moody (AUS) (Coach)

MS Dhoni Abhinay Mukund Albie Morkel Andrew Flintoff Anirudha Srikkanth Arun Karthik George Bailey Jacob Oram Joginder Sharma Lakshmipathy Balaji	Makhaya Ntini Manpreet Gony Matthew Hayden Michael Hussey Murali Vijay Muttiah Muralitharan Napoleon Einstein Palani Amarnath Parthiv Patel Ravichandran Ashwin	S Vidyut Shdab Jakati Stephen Fleming Subramaniam Badrinath Sudeep Tyagi Suresh Kumar Suresh Raina Thilan Thushara Viraj Vilas Kadbe Stephen Fleming (NZ) (Coach)

Virender Sehwag Aavishkar Salvi AB de Villiers Amit Mishra Andrew McDonald Ashish Nehra Daniel Vettori David Warner Dinesh Karthik	Dirk Nannes Farveez Maharoof Gautam Gambhir Glenn McGrath Manoj Tiwary Mithun Manhas Owais Shah Paul Collingwood Pradeep Sangwan	Rajat Bhatia Tejashwi Yadav Tillakarantne Dilshan Umesh Yadav Yo Mahesh Yogesh Nagar Greg Shipperd (AUS) (Coach)

Shane Warne Abhishek Raut Ahad Malek Amit Singh Anup Revandkar Ashraf Makda Atul Sharma Dimitri Mascarenhas Dinesh Salunke Gajendra Singh Graeme Smith Kamran Akmal Lee Carseldine	Mahesh Rawat Mohammad Arif Mohammad Kaif Morne Morkel Munaf Patel Naman Ojha Niraj Patel Paras Dogra Paul Valthaty Pratmesh Salunke Pushkarraj Chavan Raiphi Gomez Ravindra Jadeja	Robert Quiney Shane Harwood Shane Watson Shaun Tait Siddharth Chitnis Siddharth Trivedi Srideep Mangela Swapnil Asnodkar Tyron Henderson Yusuf Pathan Shane Warne (AUS) (Coach)

Sachin Tendulkar Abhishek Nayar Ajinkya Rahane Chetnya Nanda Dhawal Kulkarni Dilhara Fernando Dwayne Bravo Graham Napier Harbhajan Singh	Jaydev Shah Jean-Paul Duminy Jude Singh Kyle Mills Lasith Malinga Luke Mohammad Ashraful Pinal Shah Raheel Shaikh	Rohan Raje Ryan McLaren Sanath Jayasuriya Saurabh Tiwary Shikhar Dhawan Yogesh Takawale Zaheer Khan Shaun Pollock(Mentor) (Coach)

Adam Gilchrist Abhinav Kumar Andrew Symonds Arjun Yadav Chamara Silva Chaminda Vaas Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna Dwaraka Ravi Teja Dwayne Smith Fidel Edwards	Halhadar Das Harmeet Singh Herschelle Gibbs Jas Karandeep Singh Manvinder Bisla Nuwan Zoysa Paidikalva Vijaykumar Pragyan Ojha Rohit Sharma Rudra Pratap Singh	Ryan Harris Sarvesh Kumar Scott Styris Shoaib Ahmed Tirumalsetti Suman Venugopal Rao VVS Laxman Darren Lehman (AUS) (Coach)

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IPL shops for bullet-proof buses and SUVs

2009-03-20T02:49:00.000-07:00

INDIA PREMIER LEAGUE NEWS: Indian Premier League (IPL), which was in news due to unavailability of proper security forces scheduled during the election months in India is now shopping for bullet-proof buses and cars to protect the star players. The fate of the IPL tournament still remaines uncertain on Friday.

Reports in media says that a South African private security firm hired by the multi-million dollar Twenty20 league had approached a local company to buy 16 buses and 64 SUV's. The vehicles are worth approx 3.1 million dollars in all.

Additional protection issue came last week in the wake of the deadly attack against the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on 3rd of March this year. The attack killed eight Pakistanis and have also injured seven players.

News also comes that with demand high from Indian politicians campaigning for next month's Indian general elections, the IPL may not be able to buy shielded vehicles at such a short notice.

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The report comes as the Indian Premier League remained embroiled in a row with the Indian government over security issues.

The IPL scheduled opening is on April 10 and is scheduled to end up by May 24. The elections in India will take place in five phases from 16 April to 13 May and the vote counting date is 16 May.

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Indian Premier League dates not yet finalized even after meeting with Home Ministry

2009-03-16T05:49:00.000-07:00

The Home Ministry’s meeting with the Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers today did not conclude with any decision on the dates of the T20 tournament, which is scheduled to be held in April and May this year.

The fate of the second season of IPL hung in balance with the Home Ministry which bluntly said to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that providing spare central forces for the Twenty20 tournament will not be possible.

The Home Ministry expressed concerns and limitations in providing para-military forces for the IPL because of the Lok Sabha elections in April and May.

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This was conveyed in a meeting of a three-member BCCI delegation with Special Secretary (Internal Security) Raman Srivastava.

The meeting was held for 90 minutes. BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan was asked to re-work out on dates of IPL matches in consultation with the states where the IPL matches are to be played.

IPL schedule might change due LS polls

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No-one will want to face Chelsea: Frank Lampard

2009-03-13T03:14:00.000-07:00

If the coming of Hiddink at Stamford Bridge has not heralded a spectacular upsurge in form, it has certainly led to greater solidity and consistency. This is why the midfielder, Frank Lampard, believes that few foes will relish taking on Chelsea over the remaining matches of the season, especially in the Champions League.

Chelsea easily slipped into the quarter-finals of the competition with a draw of two goals each side against Juventus in Turin this Tuesday night and an aggregate victory of 3-2. At times, Chelsea could have been overrun. At times Chelsea even appeared a class above their Italian rivals. Frank Lampard was too encouraged.
Frank Lampard said, “The way we are playing, maybe no one will want to face us.”

Lampard also adds, “When you get to this stage, your away performances are important and it is a good sign that we scored two goals against Juventus.”

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Lampard further mentioned, “Away games may not always be the most beautiful performances and you have to be very strong at certain points in the game. You have to be very clever and we weren’t like that in the group games.”

Yes, it is true. In group A, in which Chelsea finished runners-up, they struggled to make any comfortable impression on their travels. They drew without any goals against Cluj in Romania, lost by 3-1 against Roma in Italy and drew with single goal each side against Bordeaux in France.

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England midfielder, Lampard, pays tribute to Guus Hiddink

2009-03-13T03:12:00.000-07:00

In the first few days of the month of February Luiz Felipe Scolari was dismissed. The Blues were stuttering with this dismissal and fear was that the club could miss the UEFA Champions League qualification for next season.

But it was a good news for the Chelsea team that that they have moved back up to second in the table following a run of 3 consecutive victories in the Premier League.
Chelsea has made a good progress in the FA Cup and the Champions League from the time Guus Hiddink joined the Chelsea team as a temporary managerial. To this Frank Lampard believes that Guus Hiddink deserves a lot of credit.

Lampard feels that Guus Hiddink is one of the best and finest bosses he has worked with and makes players of team Chelsea perform the best of their ability.
To the press people Lampard said about Hiddink that he has something special. Lampard adds that he commands respect but also has a certain aura.

Lampard also mentioned that all the great coaches that he has worked with gives fear and Hiddink is one of them.

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Frank Lampard admits to avoid Liverpool in Champions League

2009-03-13T03:10:00.000-07:00

Frank Lampard has recently admitted that he wants to avoid the match with Liverpool in next week's Champions League quarter-final draw after being paired with the Premier League rivals in each of the past four consecutive seasons.
In three out of the four meetings, Chelsea have met in the semi-finals, with Liverpool winning in 2004 and 2007, while Chelsea succeeded in last year's last four matches.

Frank Lampard helped team Chelsea to a draw with two goals each side against Juventus in Turin this Tuesday and 3-2 aggregate win. But yes, Frank Lampard, the England midfielder, admitted that the players were fed up with what has become an annual Champions League fight.

Frank Lampard also mentioned in his brief that when one looks around at who is left in the competition there is not a team one would say. Lampard also added, "Maybe Liverpool don't want to play with Chelsea either and, to be honest, we are all a bit fed-up of that one. If fate says it should happen then so be it, but I think we would all be happy avoiding it.”

Frank Lampard also told to the press that maybe every other team might not want to play with Chelsea, but in fact the team is thinking about them also.

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Sri Lankan cricket team attacked in Pakistan

2009-03-03T11:58:00.000-08:00

12 gunmen attacked the Lankan cricket team in a commando-style operation in Lahore on Tuesday morning. The operation by terror group killed 6 police officers and wounded 6 cricketers. 2 bystanders were also killed in this terror attack.

Sports minister of Sri Lanka, Gamini Lokuge, who was also with the team at the time of attack, confirmed that the players were injured. Media reports says that a British coach has also been wounded.

"Cricketers have never been attacked in Pakistan despite what the situation has been in the country" said Rashid Latif, a former Pakistan cricket captain, told Reuters. "Today is a black day for Pakistan cricket and a black day for Pakistan."

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Haji Habibur Rehman, police chief in Lahore, said that the gunmen opened fire as the motorcade approached Liberty Circle, a major intersection in Lahore not far from Qadaffi Stadium, the best-known cricket facility in Pakistan.

“This is terrible for the ordinary cricket fans in Pakistan. There is some uneasiness on part of other teams in coming to our part of the world,” says cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle.

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