League or knock-out there was only one champion. It was fitting that the most consistent side in the tournament held their nerve to clinch a thriller. The Chennai Super Kings summoned every ounce of their reserves to take the match till the last ball but a calm swat from Sohail Tanvir, when one was needed […]
17th Over: WICKET! Asif grounds the bat very casually, Jaipur on the prowl, a sharp throw from short mid wicket and Rawat flashes the bails off in a jiffy. Jaiur win by 105 runs
16th Over: WICKET! Mahesh edges a Patel bouncer and Rawat finishes it off behind the stumps. McGrath is the last man in. […]
Crowd favourite: Half an hour before the first semi-final, the Wankhede was only about half full. An hour into the game the crowd, now packed to the rafters, was screaming “Watson, Watson” as he smashed Delhi’s bowlers to all parts of the ground. Mumbai has been known to cheer only their own but two neutral […]
16th Over: WICKET! Mahesh edges a Patel bouncer and Rawat finishes it off behind the stumps. McGrath is the last man in. FOUR! McGrath gets it on the gloves and the ball races away fine. Delhi are 87-9
15th Over: Warnie is ripping them off. He finishes his spell off with a tidy delivery. Delhi are […]
Match facts
Friday, May 30
Start time 20.00 (local), 14.30 (GMT)
The Big Picture
The irony of the Indian Premier League’s first semi-final is that Delhi have Rajasthan to thank for their place in the final four. Stuck on 15 points after 14 matches, Delhi needed Rajasthan to beat Mumbai in Jaipur and only after Mumbai’s final-ball choke was […]
In just over 48 hours, a team that lost nearly 50% of its league matches could be crowned champions of the inaugural Indian Premier League. A competition spanning six weeks, nearly as long as the much-criticised World Cup in the Caribbean, will finally reach its climax at two venues that none of the four semi-finalists […]
Greg Shipperd, the Delhi Daredevils coach, and Virender Sehwag, the captain, have singled out the Wankhede pitch as the deciding factor on the result of the first semi-final. Shipperd also felt the par score would be “anywhere above 150″ and had no doubt, just like the majority of the IPL games during the league phase, […]
18th Over: Jayasuriya back into the attack. Karthik punches it off the backfoot. A single. FOUR! Karthik fetches the ball from outside the off stump and uses his wrist to work it away on the on side. Karthik retains strike with a single.
17th Over: SIX! Karthik carves it over mid wicket as Kulkarni comes back […]
Match facts
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Start time 20.00 (local), 14.30 (GMT)
The Big Picture
With the IPL moving towards the last leg of league games, things are more desperate for Delhi Daredevils than they are for Mumbai Indians. A defeat will send Delhi hurtling out of the tournament, but a victory for them will suddenly put the pressure […]
No one present at the DY Patil Sports Academy just under three weeks ago could have thought of it as anything more than a huge upset. The Delhi Daredevils had journeyed west with four wins from their first five games and the label of likely tournament winners. The Mumbai Indians had barely left the starting […]
A persistent drizzle delayed the start of the Delhi Daredevils’ home game against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Feroz Shah Kotla. A rained-out match will eliminate Kolkata from the semi-final race while Delhi will need to beat the Mumbai Indians on Saturday and hope Mumbai don’t win their other two matches to make it […]
Virender Sehwag’s brief but explosive innings set the tone as the Delhi Daredevils raced to a five-wicket victory over the Bangalore Royal Challengers on Monday, winning with 10 balls to spare.
The result sees Bangalore’s hopes of progressing to the semi-finals ended, but Delhi remain on course.
After restricting the hosts to 154 for seven in their […]