Indian Cricket Team Updates |
- DD vs CSK - M24 Report & Stats: IPL 2013
- Dirk Nannes Interview: DD vs CSK
- DD are a dangerous side: Andy Bichel
- Harbhajan Singh appreciate RR spinner Ajit Chandila
- Getting Ponting, Tendulkar bigger than hat-trick: Ajit Chandila
- Still a long way to go: Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Lucky to play with Amit Mishra: Karan Sharma
- RR vs MI - M23 Report & Stats: IPL 2013
| DD vs CSK - M24 Report & Stats: IPL 2013 Posted: 18 Apr 2013 09:27 PM PDT Match Report: Delhi Daredevils' woeful run continued as they lost their sixth match of the season by a comprehensive 83 run margin to Chennai Super Kings at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Batting first, CSK put on 169 runs on the back of Michael Hussey's undefeated 65 and MS Dhoni's cameo after which their bowlers, led by Mohit Sharma, ran through the DD batting line-up.
Jeevan Mendis (12) and Kedar Jadhav consolidated before the former was run out attempting a risky second run. Irfan Pathan (12) departed soon after caught by Dwayne Bravo off Ravindra Jadeja to leave DD six down. Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Agit Agarkar (3) and Morne Morkel (2) in quick succession and Jadhav (31) followed them back. DD eventually were bowled out for 83 falling 86 runs short. Earlier CSK won the toss and elected to bat. The team started off briskly as Murali Vijay hit Umesh Yadav for two boundaries in the third over. Morne Morkel then struck, trapping Vijay (18) to give DD their first wicket. Suresh Raina, playing his 100th match for CSK, got off the mark with a gorgeous cover drive. The DD bowlers though held their own and did well to keep CSK down to 60 at the halfway stage. Raina then got into the act smashing Yadav for consecutive boundaries in the 11th over. Agarkar playing his first match of the season bowled a quiet first over before Hussey (65*) hit him for a six and a boundary in the 12th. Pathan got the wicket of Raina (30) caught behind bringing MS Dhoni to the crease. Dhoni was given a reprieve on two occasions; Mahela Jayawardene dropped him when he was on 5 and Agarkar dropped him off Yadav when he was on 17. Morkel's 17th over was taken apart for 19 runs as Dhoni (44) and Hussey attacked. With a few lusty blows CSK finished at 169 for 4 from their 20 overs.
Brief Scores: Chennai Super Kings 169 for 4 (Michael Hussey 65*, Irfan Pathan 1-30) defeated Delhi Daredevils 83 all out (Kedar Jadhav 31, Mohit Sharma 3-10) by 86 runs.
Mahela Jayawardene: Couple of days now, keep it simple, let players think of what went wrong. No shouting or anger from me, I am diplomatic, I will keep it that way. Hard to explain, everyone has to lift their game and create situations from where we can win matches. We have had enough chats and the boys are professional enough to realise what's expected out of them. MS Dhoni: 170 was not on the cards, wasn't that kind of a wicket, Hussey got off to a start and it was important to capitalise. Look at the number of overs to decide who bats where, we also look at the bowlers and their overs remaining. You got to used to the pace of the wicket, did not think it was a fast wicket, at Chennai it's difficult to hit it so important to give yourself a few deliveries. We have lost a few games but it's good to get the perfect combination by the end. Quite a few came in the yellow tees and got a lot of support and fans help you when you are not going through a great time. Michael Hussey, man of the match: I think opening's a very good place to bat, enjoying batting here. I don't think we have a clear defined role for me, it's about assessing the pitch quickly and along with the others, try and get going. Good to receive the sixes award too.
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| Dirk Nannes Interview: DD vs CSK Posted: 18 Apr 2013 04:00 AM PDT  Out-thinking your opponent is a key ingredient to winning and as a game evolves the mental aspects become as crucial as getting your basics right. Going beyond the slam bang of twenty20 cricket, staying a step ahead of the batsmen is becoming an increasingly tough job for the bowlers. As the willow wielders look to hit the ball out of the park, containing them, especially in the death is a tough job. And it is the experienced campaigners in the teams who seem to specialise in that area that requires high skills. (Also Read: DD are a dangerous side: Andy Bichel) One such bowler is Dirk Nannes, in the Yellows of Chennai Super Kings for this Pepsi Indian Premier League season. The fast-bowler, who by his own admission, once enjoyed the pressure of bowling in the death overs is still working out strategies to counter the batsmen as they try to clobber the bowling. The left-arm pacer confesses, "batsmen are getting so much better that we have to keep improving all the time". The bowler who had once kept Glenn McGrath out of the playing XI in one of the earlier editions while representing another team spoke to iplt20.com about outsmarting the batters and turning out for CSK, in a free flowing chat at the Feroz Shah Kotla, ahead of the match against the Delhi Daredevils. While discussing the team's bowling, Nannes who is impressed with the young blood in the team showered high praise on Ankit Rajpoot and especially his ability to bowl yorkers. Excerpts from the interview: Is death bowling an area of concern for CSK? We have had a couple of good games and bad games as well. It is pretty hard bowling to Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, they are freaks at what they do and it is very difficult to defend against people like that when they are going so well. In the PWI game, Steve Smith had a great day out and he hit the ball everywhere and it is difficult to plan bowling to someone like that (because) he is so inventive. You think you know exactly what to do and he finds a way to beat you. What are the plans for countering the concern? We have got to get better at execution. I think the times when we have gone for the yorkers we have not hit it properly. The times that we have gone for a wide line we have been a bit inside. When we have gone for the bouncer we haven't been short enough. Execution is one thing and that is what you have to work at training but also (need to be) thinking clearly when we are under the pump. I think we have been a bit undecided in the way we want to go about it. We have had a talk about that and I am sure everyone is going to come out there and do a lot better the next time. And then you have to realise that some days you come out there and for some reason, no matter how much you have trained, you just can't hit the yorker for the life of you and that happens. People have good days and people have bad days; you can't put a finger on why that happens. We have had a few games where the bowling unit has been exceptional. We had one or two games where we have been wayward. I still think we were okay against RCB but against PWI we didn't have a great performance going. What's your take on the young Indians pacers in the team, Ankit Rajpoot and Imtiyaz Ahmed and others? I am impressed with the guys in our squad. We played a few practice games and some of their skills have been outstanding. There are still parts of the game that they need to learn and they are learning it quickly. Particularly in a group like ours where there are so many experienced heads, they learn quickly and I am sure that if they get a chance they will do well. The guys that have come in, they have bowled pretty well. Rajpoot, in our practice games, was outstanding in bowling yorkers. It was just phenomenal how well he was bowling them. These guys have got good skill and good pace. Mohit (Sharma) bowled pretty well the other night. He has been pretty impressive with his change outs and everything. The guys are playing well and unfortunately you can't fit everyone into the team. So do they have a shot at playing for India? Why not? It's difficult to say because every squad has good players and how these guys stack up against the guys from other teams, who are not quite getting a game yet, will have to be seen. But they certainly have a lot of potential with them. Talk us through your IPL journey. For me it has been a long journey because I have been to three franchises now. I think that the overall package of the IPL has improved in terms of the professionalism in the way it is run. I think it just comes from doing it for five years. People are getting better at what they do because they are learning from their mistakes The quality of cricket has improved markedly. Some players (who have been playing in the IPL regularly) are now quality players. Where earlier they probably wouldn't have got a game with overseas competition, now they know they thoroughly deserve to be in the team. And I love the IPL and it's the best tournament of the year for me. It's great fun to be here, the people are fantastic and cricket is good. As a traveling T20 cricketer how do you cope with different conditions you encounter in the various countries? It is a difficult one to answer. Everywhere you go there is so much (cricket and so different). I think it is all about learning quickly and about how to adapt to different conditions. The more cricket you play, the more you get used to the different facilities and different wickets. For me, for example, on a slower wicket I know what works for me and I know what works on a fast wicket. And I think that is what you learn with experience and playing in some of these different conditions all the time. You just know your game better and that is probably the biggest thing you learn of all those different environments. After impressing with raw pace initially, you have developed other aspects in your bowling. How has that come about? I think the problem is that the batsmen are getting so much better that we have to keep improving. I remember back in the first year of the IPL, I always used to think, 'give me nine overs to defend to the death and I will win it every time'. Now 15 (odd runs) is suddenly easily gettable in the last over so. It is just a completely different mentality now and the batsmen have got better at playing all sorts of bowling. I remember the first time I came here, the sort of the younger Indian players would be the 9th, 10th and 11th to be picked. You would be able to come and just bowl short at them but now the Indians are getting so much better at playing short bowling that no longer is that a weapon that you can use all the time. Regardless (of everything) you have to adapt, and some bowlers are doing it differently now. Some bowl slower bouncers, some people are great at bowling a lot of different variety, some just try and use real pace. The batsmen are getting better so the bowling is getting better as a result and it is hard work. What makes the IPL so good is that you are playing in front of so many people, from so many walks of life though we are all working on the game in a different way. Do left-arm pacers have a distinct advantage? We still have an advantage for sure, but not as big as it used to be? Maybe not, but like I said batsmen are getting better. How often how you experienced batsman shuffle in modern day cricket to negate swing? All the time! You get people moving around all the time. That's another thing that batsman are getting better with as well. It used to be so, batsmen always move one way and you follow them and then you bowl a dot ball. That has changed now. People move both ways on the crease and they are getting better and as result we have got to get better as well. Now that even the yorker doesn't guarantee to be an unplayable delivery, has the pressure on bowlers increased? The big thing is to come up with some new way to try and bowl a dot. If you bowl one you are winning the battle so the whole idea is to try and find a way that you can bowl and win each ball and then try to string a lot of those together. What is the key in blending pace and swing? That is just purely your bowling action. It is natural. You either swing it or you don't. It is pretty difficult to teach someone to swing a ball if they haven't got the natural action ... Sometimes you can try and bowl too quick and it doesn't swing, But then a lot of people who can swing the ball are often guilty of trying to swing it too much and get clobbered as a result because they bowl too full, they try and get greedy. It is just a matter of hitting the pitch and for me as a fast bowler my job is to hit the pitch as hard as I can and that's all I try and do. If I hit the pitch hard with the thought process of trying to break in a hole in the wicket, every time then that's kind of work for me and if you can try and bowl swing in the mean time… great. Do you bowl to pick wickets or contain runs? They are very different bowlers. They have a very different mentality. I have never actually gone for wickets. I am always a bowler who has always tried to bowl a dot or one that's my mentality the whole time and wickets come as a result of that. I am not trying to blast a batsman out on first ball, I am trying to bowl a dot, dot, dot and then try and get them to play a stupid shot. What's the secret to bowling successfully in death overs? There is no secret to it. I am just trying to think one step ahead of what the batsman is trying to do. My idea is to get the batsman to hit where I want him to hit it. That's all I am trying to do. If I know that a batsman is great at hitting the ball to the leg side I am not going to bowl him a ball that he can hit to the leg side. It is all about knowing what the batsman is trying to do at the other end and trying to keep one step ahead of him. That is especially important to me as a left-arm fast bowler, Generally speaking I will bowl with my mid-on up because I know that is damn hard to hit me over mid-off and I will bowl balls to make sure that I don't get hit there. A lot of people think what kind of a bowler wants to bring the man in from the outfield, but for me it is automatic; mid-off is always up for me generally speaking. That is something that had worked for me. As a young fast bowler you have to work out what your strength is, and most importantly, what the batsman's strength is and bowl the ball to make sure that the batsman is hitting it the way you want him to him to. It's not about trying to bowl your best ball all the time. If your best ball is the bouncer but the batsman's best shot is the hook you are not going to win that battle, particularly on small grounds here in India. Maybe in Australia where they have got an 80-meter boundary, you can do that. You just have to do what is best for the team at the time that you are bowling to that particular batsman. Until people know their game inside out it is very difficult to use a cookie-cutter approach and say everyone should try and do this. 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| DD are a dangerous side: Andy Bichel Posted: 18 Apr 2013 12:19 AM PDT  With two wins and two losses under their belt the Chennai Super Kings, surfing in the lower half of the points table will be keen to register a win against the Delhi Daredevils. The Daredevils who are yet to win a game in the Pepsi Indian Premier League 2013 and are desperate to get across the line in their sixth match, after a few close finishes when they take the field on home turf. Although they have lost five games on the trot, the hosts comprise of a line-up capable of turning the team's fortunes around. Speaking about the Daredevils, CSK's bowling coach Andy Bichel said, "I think they are still dangerous, they have nothing to lose from now on and probably and they will come out hard tomorrow. When you have a line-up like David Warner and Virender Sehwag at the front, you want to be on your game, because one of them can come off in situations like this." Reflecting on CSK's run in the tournament so far and their loss to the Pune Warriors India, he said, "We haven't played that well at home, that's where we have lost our games, which is our fortress really. Conditions have varied a little bit to last year and we haven't probably dealt with that. And in the last one we just did not executed our plans the way we have done in the first three matches. There is lot of room for improvement and (we are) obviously a new group as well. So we are sort of gelling together and getting used to each other which is an important thing as well." Speaking about one of the important cogs in the Kings' line-up, Albie Morkel and his return to bowling, the bowling coach said, "(He will) hopefully (bowl) soon. He is a key player for us in our squad and brings with him a lot of experience. He had a great tournament in the domestic circuit in South Africa, so he is a player in form and he is a hard man to leave out of your team and that is probably why he came into side in the last game." And though they are missing out on Morkel's bowling and Ben Hilfenhaus' services one of the new additions to the bowling attack, Chris Morris has contributed for the team. Speaking about the South African recruit, Bichel observed, "He has been exciting for us and he has delivered the way we expected him to do. He has done well for the Lions and he did bowl in the Champions League T20, 2012. He has been a good asset for us to replace a guy like Ben Hilfenhaus. So for building a nice platform for us upfront, someone to come in and do their job, Chris has turned out to be that man." After Micheal Husseys' magnificent innings against Kings XI Punjab, but a low score against RCB, Srikkanth Anirudha who replaced him in the previous game was out for a duck. While speaking about the young Indian opener, the coach said, "He played well last year for us against Rajasthan, came in and played and excellent role for us. He is a guy who is being developed for that role. He has got a good opportunity, he got a good ball the other day, you are going to get that but he is definitely a player for our future and he has definitely got the skills to do it at this level. " "It is about doing the basics of the game and sticking to the basics. This is what these young blokes are learning. I am sure Sachin Tendulkar is still doing the basics very well," he added while speaking about performing in the tournament. "This tournament is all about confidence and I think as you go through the tournament, some teams are good at the moment, playing well while other teams are trying to search for that and DD you know are lacking that now. This tournament is going to change throughout as we go on but I just see that more the confidence players get as the tournament goes on, that's where you will see the best teams at the end," he mentioned. Asked about young talent that has caught his eye in the current edition of IPL so far, he said "One thing with this tournament is that it is getting better and better every year and we are seeing that with the young talent coming through. To name the players this early in tournament would be highly risky for me to do that but I do see good talent coming through. The way Virat Kohli is leading RCB that is something he has done before but I think he is doing a great job with that. Young leader in Indian cricket I think is important, it is an exciting tournament, the skills are getting better and better every year and it will only benefit Indian cricket." source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| Harbhajan Singh appreciate RR spinner Ajit Chandila Posted: 18 Apr 2013 12:08 AM PDT  For the first half of the first innings, you could feel the Rajasthan Royals were well and truly playing at home. The Mumbai Indians bowlers were carted all over the park; if they bowled length, they were massacred straight down the ground or over mid-on or mid-off for boundaries and maximums. On a day when the MI bowlers had an off day on the field, Harbhajan Singh proved to be the side's lone bright star with the most economical bowling figures and a wicket to his name. In an exclusive chat with IPLT20.com, Habhajan talks about his approach towards bowling in the shortest format of the game and expresses his appreciation for Haryana spinner Ajit Chandila. (Also Read: Getting Ponting, Tendulkar bigger than hat-trick: Ajit Chandila) Is bowling in T20s the biggest challenge for a bowler? Bowling in T20s has always been a challenge. Since we are playing in India, it is even more difficult where the pitches are batting friendly and the boundaries are quite small. But these are things that every bowler has to go through. I believe at the end of the day, you got to believe in yourself and give it your best shot when you are about to bowl under such circumstances." How important have slow bowlers become in this format of the game? Look, bowlers are going to go for runs in this format of the game. But you have to think that, when the batsmen are looking to go after you, you have a chance to pick wickets as well at the same time. You have to keep believing in yourself as a bowler that even if you go for runs, you can pick up wickets. You have to back yourself and bowl accordingly. IPL is such a tournament where there are a lot of unknown batsmen. How tough is it to bowl to such kind of batsmen? It is the toughest to bowl against batsmen who you do not have an idea about. You do not know their style of play and what kind of strokes they play to score their runs, hence it is challenging. Whatever videos I get to see of such batsmen, I try to analyse that part of it and bowl my best balls to them when I face them. How important are dot balls in T20s? Dot balls are obviously vital in the game. You put a lot of pressure on the opposition when you bowl a lot of dot balls. They are important to the game, but I believe you can only survive in this format of the game by taking wickets. Taking wickets have to be of more importance than trying to just bowl dot balls. What is your approach before every T20 game? I try to keep things as simple as possible. I take the game one step at a time. I always feel I have to bowl according to the situation of the team. I back myself whether I am bowling up front or bowling in the middle of the innings or bowling at the death. I try to give the best services to my team whenever I represent my team. Tell us about your new found camaraderie with Ricky Ponting. (Smiles) I am playing for a team. For me the team comes first, no matter whom I am playing with or whom I am playing against. If I am playing for one team, whether it is playing with Ricky Ponting or Keiron Pollard, I will still run and hug my team mates. Your take on Ajit Chandila? Ajit Chandila is a different bowler. Not many people have seen much of him. He bowled really well. He bowls slowly in the air which has been the key to his success today. This performance by him today will boost his confidence as getting the wickets of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting is no joke. I wish him good luck and he deserves the appreciation. Hope he makes it to the top level. source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| Getting Ponting, Tendulkar bigger than hat-trick: Ajit Chandila Posted: 18 Apr 2013 12:00 AM PDT  VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina. Now, let us add Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting to that list of Ajit Chandila's list of victims with the ball. He has claimed the wickets of some of the biggest names in the game by weaving his magic with the ball in first class cricket; but on Wednesday night in front of a huge crowd at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Chandila lived a dream. A dream that, every bowler dreams of while growing up and watching cricket. Chandila got the priced wicket of Sachin Tendulkar in the very first over of the match, and to top it up in his very next over pouched Ricky Ponting, walking back to the pavilion looking at the sky in dismay. Chandila, walking by the boundary ropes after the win; still reminiscing his moment of glory spoke to IPLT20.com. From taking pride of dismissing Tendulkar and Ponting to treating his RR captain Rahul Dravid like God to idolising Saqlain Mushtaq, Ajit Chandila says it all. Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting are big names to have in your bag of wickets? It does not get better than this, does it? It is like a dream come true for me. Taking the wickets of two legends of the game is like a double hat trick for me. I still cannot believe this has happened, I feel I am in some sort of dream. I just cannot express how I feel. My hands and feet are cold at the moment. As a bowler, I cannot ask for anything more. Were you nervous when you walked in to bowl to Sachin Tendulkar in the first over? Yes, I was really nervous when I had that ball in my hand. Before the match, I was advised by Narendra Hirwani Sir to stick to my line and length and vary my pace. He told me I am bowling to players of really high caliber, but asked me to be confident in my approach. I did as he said and I got the wickets of two of the world's best batsmen. I have no clue what magic his words have on me, but I always do well when he talks to me and boosts my confidence. What did your captain Rahul Dravid have to say when he tossed the ball in your hand? Rahul Dravid Sir is like God for me. He just placed his hands on my head before the first over and said, "Ajit, you will bowl well. Just be confident when you are bowling and the rest will take care of itself." Those words were in my head as I went to bowl. I am glad it worked today and I hope it works whenever I get a chance to play. Going into this game, had you planned how you would bowl against a strong MI batting line up? When our batsmen were scoring freely, I thought the wicket was really good for batting and sitting at the dug-out I was planning how to approach the game. I had planned to bowl slowly and vary my pace. It worked as I got the biggest scalps from the Mumbai Indians batting line up. Do you think you have an added advantage because of your height? Yes, I feel my biggest advantage is my height. Whenever I talk to any of the batsmen during the net sessions or during domestic tournaments, they always say that it is tough to read me from that kind of height. The biggest compliment I have got in my life is from Rahul Dravid when he said, that he has played the world's best spinners throughout his career, but when he bats against me, it is tough to read my grip and read me through my release. Those compliments are still etched in my mind. Which bowler do you idolise in world cricket? I have always admired Pakistan's legendary off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq and I have followed him since I was a kid. He has been a great inspiration for me. If you were to choose between your hat-trick last year and the two wickets today, what would you choose? You can take my hat-trick. These two wickets matter a lot more to me than my hat-trick last year! source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| Still a long way to go: Bhuvneshwar Kumar Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:54 PM PDT  Despite starting their home game against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on a high note, a familiar climax greeted Pune Warriors India on Wednesday evening at the finish line. Their bowlers, led by India quick, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, restricted the opposition for a sub-par total, but their middle-order woes continued to haunt them, and yet again they fell short of a modest target. (Also Read: PWI v SRH - M22 Report & Stats: IPL 2013) Thanks to this heartbreaking defeat, Bhuvneshwar Kumar's stellar effort with the ball (4-0-18-3) was overshadowed by the agony of another loss. However, the PWI pacer sounded optimistic during his post-match chat with IPLT20.COM and he expressed faith in his team's batting to bounce back. Excerpts from his interview: What turned the game around for PWI? Actually, there's no doubt that we bowled well and kept things under control. But yes, we lost (the game) when we lost our middle-order batsmen quickly. Still, you had a good day with the ball earlier The wicket was helping swing bowling initially. So, the plan was to put pressure on batsmen and try and restrict them to a low score. And it worked. Speaking of things that work, is there anything special you've been doing to prepare for the Twenty20 format? You know, it doesn't matter what the format is… you always back your strengths and do the basics right. That is what I'm doing. But you need variations in Twenty20. You bowl slow; you bowl yorkers and things like that. What influence has a coach like Allan Donald had on you? Yes obviously, he's helping a lot. He tells us to keep things simple and uncomplicated. He even asks our opinions and tells us to back our strengths (as bowlers). So what lies on the road ahead for PWI? We should have won this match; that would have been good. But there are still plenty of matches to go this season. So, everyone in the team has to back each other moving ahead and pray for the best. What about PWI's batting, especially while chasing? Well we lost two matches from a winning position. But the last two matches, we played well. It is all part of the game – sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I believe our batsmen are capable of turning things around for us. source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| Lucky to play with Amit Mishra: Karan Sharma Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:41 PM PDT  In a low-scoring thriller at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, a Sunrisers Hyderabad leg-spinner swung the game in his team's favour with one magical over. While Amit Mishra – the most successful spinner in IPL history – grabbed all the headlines, a quick glance at the scorecard will reveal another leggie, whose contribution was quite substantial in exerting pressure on the Pune Warriors India batters. All-rounder, Karan Sharma was playing in just his second IPL game and clocked the most economical figures of the night – 3-0-13-1 – and was the Sunrisers' best bowler till the 19th over of the PWI innings. The 25-year-old from Uttar Pradesh has thus far made a steady impact since he made his IPL debut against the Kolkata Knight Riders a few days ago. He credits the likes of Mishra, Dale Steyn and bowling Coach Waqar Younis for giving him helpful tips to bowl in the shortest format of the game. Excerpts from his chat with IPLT20.COM: Congratulations on this win. What do you reckon was the turning point today? The turning point was Mishy Bhai's second last over (when he bagged four wickets, including a hat-trick). He bowled really very well and took those three wickets in three balls. And he bowled well during the middle overs too. What were your plans after PWI got off to a comfortable start while chasing? When they started, we just decided that we have to put pressure on them. As far as applying pressure goes, you bowled very economically. Are you getting any tips from Amit Mishra, who also happens to be a leg-spinner? Yes, he is giving me various tips. It's very helpful, because he is the most successful bowler in the IPL. So, I am lucky that I am playing along with him. And even all the seniors in our team have supported us (newcomers) a lot. So do you have a stock delivery? The main delivery is the googly. I'm working on my googly right now. Does having world-class bowlers in the SRH ranks help you out too? Yes, it certainly helps a lot. Mainly, because they have told me how to bowl in the death and early on in the innings. This has really helped me out. What are your personal goals for IPL 2013? I want to continue this kind of performance. But I need to make some runs also in the coming games. I just hope to play good cricket. source: iplt20.com | ||||||||
| RR vs MI - M23 Report & Stats: IPL 2013 Posted: 17 Apr 2013 11:14 PM PDT Match Report: Rajasthan Royals inflicted the biggest loss over Mumbai Indians and kept their fans at home happy with a superlative performance for an 87-run win at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Batting first Rajasthan Royals posted 179 for 3 on the back of Ajinkya Rahane's unbeaten 68, before their bowlers put on a magnificent performance to rout the MI batting. The 87-run defeat was Mumbai Indians' biggest defeat in IPL history!
Needing 180 to win, MI got off to a bad start as Ajit Chandila dismissed the two legends Sachin Tendulkar (1) and Ricky Ponting (4) in quick succession. Tendulkar fell top edging a sweep to short fine-leg while Ponting lobbed the ball straight back to Chandila attempting to work one to the leg side. Siddharth Trivedi then struck removing Rohit Sharma (2) caught by Shane Watson to have MI reeling at 26 for 3 in 6.1 overs. It only got worse for MI as Kieron Pollard (1) had his stumps in disarray attempting to drive Stuart Binny without any footwork. At the halfway stage MI were 42 for 4, still requiring 138 runs. Dinesh Karthik (30) trying to break the shackles fell caught by Brad Hodge off James Faulkner. Wickets continued to fall as Rishi Dhawan (0) was caught at short mid-wicket. Harbhajan Singh was the next man to be dismissed; he was involved in a mix-up with Ambati Raydu, with both batsmen ending up on the same end of the pitch. Mitchell Johnson (11) and Ambati Raydu (27) fell in the space of six deliveries and MI were eventually bundled out for 92 – their second lowest total in the IPL. Earlier RR won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Watson and Rahane (68*) started off well with two boundaries off Mitchell Johnson before Watson whacked Dhawan for a six over square leg. Rahane also came down the track and hoisted Pragyan Ojha for a six in the fifth over. Watson continued his assault with three boundaries off Lasith Malinga as RR made 58 runs in the power play. Pollard got the vital breakthrough having Watson (31) caught behind. Rahul Dravid sprang a surprise when he had Dishant Yagnik bat up the order; the wicket-keeper batsman played fearlessly hitting Pollard for a six, as RR raced to 88 for 1 at the halfway stage. Rahane and Yagnik together put on 53 run for the second wicket. Harbhajan Singh finally got Yagnik (34) caught by Tendulkar at short fine-leg. Stuart Binny (4) departed soon after he was run out by Johnson. Brad Hodge (27*) slogged Harbhajan Singh for a six as RR got a move on in the final overs. Some hefty blows at the end including 19 runs from the last over off Malinga helped RR reach 179 for 3 in 20 overs. Rahane carried his bat to remain undefeated on 68.
Man-of-the-Match: Ajinkya Rahane Brief Scores: Rajasthan Royals 179 for 3 (Ajinkya Rahane 68, Kieron Pollard 1-24) defeated Mumbai Indians 92 all out (Dinesh Karthik 30, James Faulkner 3-16) by 87 runs.
Presentation Ricky Ponting: Fair to say we were outplayed in all three departments. The pitch looked very good but it held up a little when we batted, full credit to RR for the way they batted. We need to address a few areas of our game that we need to talk about. I don't think the conditions were too bad, we needed to adapt quicker. The way they bowled a lot of slower balls, took the pace off it, they did well. It's better to lose these games early in the tournament than later. Rahul Dravid: It was brilliant, couldn't have asked for better. Wanted our A game to come out, I think our A+ game came out. We discussed it during our meeting to get Yagnik out and try to unsettle the spinners. Demoting myself wasn't a big deal, had we lost a wicket early I would have come out to bat. We believe we are a good side and can beat teams, but it's early days in the tournament. Gives a lot of confidence. Ajinkya Rahane, man of the match: Again I wanted to bat till the last over. We all know that Mumbai is a big team and we did a good job. That's my natural game, even last year I was doing the same thing and will love to continue doing that. Watson's a crucial player, Yagnik and Hodge did their job very well too.
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