Deccan Chargers march on as they beat Royal Challengers
Rohit Sharma and Adam Gilchrist hit ferocious knocks as Deccan Chargers beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by 24 runs in an Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match here Wednesday. Electing to bat, Gilchrist (71 off 45 balls) and Sharma (52 off 30 balls) powered Deccan Chargers to 184 for six, the highest total in the tournament so far.
Bangalore Royal Challengers recovered from a disatrous start through Rahul Dravid (48) and Virat Kohli (50) but were restricted to 160/8. Scott Styris took three wickets.
Royal Challengers slumped to their second consecutive defeat, having started the tournament with a sensational 75-run win over defending champions Rajasthan Royals.
Gichrist and Sharma brought the crowd to their feet, smashing five sixes each. Altogether, 16 sixes were hit in the match, 12 coming from Chargers' batsmen that included three by Sharma in one Anil Kumble over.
Fast bowler Fidel Edwards gave a perfect start to the Chargers' defence of the formidable total, knocking down opener Jesee Ryder's stumps with an express yorker with his first ball. Jacques Kallis and Robin Uthappa did not last long as Chargers slumped to 38 for three. Skipper Kevin Pietersen and Rahul Dravid tried to stem the rot, but Pietersen was decieved by left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha as he danced down the track only to be stumped.
Dravid, who has been the Chargers's best batsmen, played another brilliant knock, stroking five fours and two sixes in 27 balls. But pressure finally got the better of him as he holed out to Venugopal Rao. Kohli gave his best but could not see the team through.
Earlier, Praveen managed well to get rid of Herschelle Gibbs (13) after being smashed for a six. V.V.S Laxman did not stay at the crease for long. Rohit Sharma rotated the strike, allowing in-form Gilchrist to take charge. He cut loose in an audacious manner, taking on the expereinced Kumble, who had taken five wickets against Rajasthan Royals, for three huge sixes. They added 61 off 36 balls before Gilchrist was dismissed by Pietersen. Sharma kept the scoreboard moving with some sweetly timed boundaries.
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Indian Premier League History
The DLF Indian Premier League (DLF IPL) is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman Lalit Modi. The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008 and ended on 1 June 2008. Lalit Modi announced that the tentative dates for the second season of the DLF Indian Premier League will be from April 10th 2009 to May 29th 2009.
IPL Franchises/Teams
The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008. The auction fetched US $723.59 million. The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.
- Mumbai Indians (Mukesh Ambani Reliance - $111.9 million)
- Royal Challengers Bangalore (Vijay Mallya - $111.6 million)
- Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (Deccan Chronicle - $107 million)
- Chennai Super Kings (India Cements (N Srinivasan) - $91 million)
- Delhi Daredevils (GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao) - $84 million)
- Kings XI Punjab (Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Mohit Burman Karan Paul - $76 million)
- Kolkata Knight Riders (Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jai Mehta - $75.09 million)
- Rajasthan Royals (Emerging Media (A.R Jha, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram) - $67 million)
IPL Players Auctions
The official rules for the tournament are here. Some of the Team composition rules are:
- Total squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
- No more than 8 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.
- A minimum of 4 local players must be included in each team.
- No fewer than 4 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each team.
The players accorded "icon" status are: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag . The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $5m. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $20,000 while for others it is US $50,000. Icon players are to be paid 15% more than the highest paid player in their respective teams.
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