Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Anil Kumble is hoping a cohesive approach will help his team go one better than last year.
Kumble is hoping his side will win the third edition of the Indian Premier League, which begins in Mumbai on Friday.
Last season the Royal Challengers produced a remarkable turnaround following a shaky start to a [...]
DD would look to salvage some pride with a consolation win against Cape Cobras in an inconsequential Airtel CLT20 match today.
Delhi’s hope of making it to the final-four crashed yesterday after Gautam Gambhir’s men suffered an eight wicket loss to Bangalore Royal Challengers in a League B Super Eight encounter.
The home team though will have [...]
The opening game of the Champions Twenty20 League, between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Cape Cobras, will be held in Bangalore while the final will be played in Hyderabad on October 23.
The 12 teams will be divided into four groups of three each with IPL runners-up Bangalore grouped with Cape Cobras and Otago, while [...]
Royal Challengers Bangalore will face South Africa’s Cape Cobras in the opening Champions League T20 tie in Bangalore on Oct 8.
Hyderabad will host the final on October 23 as well as the second semi-final on October 22, while Delhi will host the first semi-final on October 21, as per the draw and match schedule announced [...]
Deccan Chargers beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in Johannesburg in the final of the second season of the Indian Premier League.
Having lost captain Adam Gilchrist for a third-ball duck, Herschelle Gibbs (53 not out) and Andrew Symonds (33 from 21 balls) helped Deccan post 143-6.
And despite Roelof van der Merwe’s 32, Symonds took [...]
The IPL final could have gone either way but Andrew Symonds’ back-to-back strikes tilted the balance in favour of Deccan Chargers, according to captain Adam Gilchrist and his Bangalore counterpart Anil Kumble.
Chasing a modest 144, Bangalore looked on course for victory until Symonds struck twice in the 15th over, removing both Ross Taylor and Virat [...]
Hyderabad beat Bangalore in a thrilling final in Johannesburg to win the second season of the Indian Premier League.
Adam Gilchrist’s men, who finished last at the inaugural tournament in 2008, posted a below par 144-victory target, but scraped home thanks to the slow left armer’s three wickets as well as good performances from Andrew Symonds [...]
On a day that two dreams collided, Anil Kumble repeated the formula that Bangalore used to beat Chennai in the semi-final: win the toss and field. Both Bangalore and Deccan have tended to chase under lights in the lead up to the final and both captains stressed on the need to enjoy the occasion and [...]
After a disastrous start to the season, Royal Challengers Bangalore have reached the final on the back of a five-game winning streak, and captain Anil Kumble has asked for one more victory to cap their resurgence.
“One more win will be nice,” he said after Bangalore outclassed Chennai Super Kings in the semi-final on Saturday. Kumble [...]
And, so, after 36 days, it has to come to this. Royal Challengers Bangalore v Deccan Chargers. The nightmare of 2008 has turned into a dreamy 2009. It’s a contest between Bangalore, a disciplined team that has begun to add flair, and Deccan, a team that has reduced its flair to add discipline.
The Bangalore story [...]
Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni felt they were some 15-20 runs short after going down to Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Chennai Super Kings lose by six wickets in the second semifinal of the Indian Premier League on Saturday night against Bangalore Royal Challengers.
“We were looking at around 160″
After a good start provided by Parthiv Patel and [...]
1 - The number of batsmen, from either team, who have scored more than 350 runs in the tournament. No one other than Adam Gilchrist has managed this.
78 - The number of runs Gilchrist needs to go past Matthew Hayden’s aggregate of 472, and become the highest run-getter of IPL 2009.
6 - Number of wins [...]