IPL 2009 Day 33 Match Review

Match 53:

Rajasthan Royals Vs Kolkata Knight Riders

A very very important game for Rajasthan, as this win will put them in the semi’s and on the other hand we have wounded Bengal tigers to spoil the party for defending champions. It all started as McCullum won the toss and decided to field first, but he would have felt his decision is bad, as Brad hodge bowled the first over, Naman Ojha took the over for 22 runs which had 3 sixes in it. If McCullum felt bad, then its just for one over, his remaining bowlers came like gold, as they started striking right lengths, wickets kept on felling one by one. None seems to hold the crease more than 15 mins, all kept a very short duration as they were in a hurry to pack up. Not only to blame them KKR bowled and esp fielded brilliantly, they have effected 3 run outs which are really crucial and the one of Yusuf was the turning point of the game. Shane stayed for a while, but couldn’t do much as he perished for 18, which is also the second highest score in the team’s performance. RR scored 101 for 9 in 20 overs. First match for Charl Langeveldt came really good, picked up 3 wickets, it seems all came good for KKR but little more late to act to the opportunities.Looking down a easy score, McCullum looked so confident as he started the proceeding with a boundary, but tats  all the momentum they had,  very soon , KKR players too followed the suit of RR,  as one after the other kept walking back to pavilion, until the gr8 partnership of 57 came between Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Agarkar was the turning point of the match, as these two batted very sensibly to take the game away from RR. In the end, KKR won the match by 4 wickets, Two persons who took it from the champions are the last two who batted out for KKR. Bowling, ya pretty impressive, they made a game out of 100 runs score and it went to wire till 19.3 overs.  Hats off to their efforts.

CSK Vs RCB – IPL 2009 44th Match Summary

Chennai Super kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

Chennai would love to win their sixth game in a row, but it much more important for Jumbo’s men to see themselves in finals. Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first, to a big surprise Kumble himself bowled the first over. Later went to take vinay kumar for 3 boundaries and proved why he is still wearing the orange cap. Vijay departed early without making much, (guess he ll be out of squad for next match) then raina had an another short stay of 13 to his name. Dhoni and hayden stayed down till the break time with score is 72/2 in 10 overs. Back from break hayden looked so aggressive and completed yet another half century. as dhoni departed, hayden followed him, when score was 101 and its just 13 overs. But after this every one would have lost faith on the Chennai’s hopeless middle order batting, not even to the mark of 6 runs an over. which in the end resulted just the total of 129 in 19.4 overs. (which means they scored 28 runs in 40 balls and lost 6 wickets after hayden departed).

To tell abt bowling, excellent comeback, Kumble sud be very much happy to Marshall his boys well in right time to put back Chennai to a paltry score of 129. And another point to note, no catches were dropped by RCB and their fielding also looked so good.

Chasing a low score of 130, RCB had a terrible start losing to key players in the top, Kallis and Dravid for 0 and 8 respectively. Uthappa too didn’t stay much longer. But its the man in form Ross taylor and Virat kohli joined hands together for RCB, they found boundaries when they were needed and kept the run rate in control all the time. Kohli gave a chance to Hayden which he misjudged completely (shud say he missed the match) tat time he was just 16. later he went on to score 38 before caught in deep midwicket by oram. RCB wouldn’t have struggled a lot, if not Dhoni is captain.

Yep a spl note for the brilliant captaincy by Dhoni, who really made a match out of no where, he marshaled his troops well and made RCB always thinking. he even had 3 close in fielder(slip, silly point and leg slip) for Boucher while murali is bowling in a T20 game. Hats off to his efforts and he is a gr8 asset for india no doubt in it.

In the end, Kumar’s made the RCB to take beyond the target safely with 2 wickets and balls to spare. Bowling, Morkel looked effective in the  top, later on murali and balaji did the best they can, but it all too much to blame with a par less score.