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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Cricket News and Cricket Highlights - Crichotline

Cricket News and Cricket Highlights - Crichotline

Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Highlights IPL 2013 #CSKvsRCB

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 11:29 AM PDT

Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Highlights IPL 2013 at Chennai – Apr 13th, 2013. Watch CSK vs RCB Cricket highlights ipl 2013. IPL Highlights 2013.

Bangalore Innings Highlights

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Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors Highlights IPL 2013 #MIvsPWI #MI #PWI

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 09:40 AM PDT

Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors Highlights IPL 2013 at Mumbai – Apr 13th, 2013. Watch Mi vs PWI Cricket highlights ipl 2013. IPL Highlights 2013.

Pune Warriors Innings

Mumbai Indians Innings

Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Preview – IPL 2013 #CSK #RCB #IPL

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:30 PM PDT

Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore - Preview - IPL 2013Two aggressive and in-form sides will clash in a battle of equals when former champions Chennai Super Kings face off against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a IPL clash here on Saturday.

It would be a contest on even keel as both the teams are coming off big wins. While Chennai thrashed Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets, RCB defeated defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets in their previous matches.

Although RCB and CSK seem evenly-matched on paper, the presence of Chris Gayle in the Bangalore team could prove to be the decisive factor.

Gayle yet again proved his mettle by striking an unbeaten 85 to ensure a convincing victory for RCB against KKR.

Such was the ferocity of the `Gayle storm` that RCB knocked off the target with 15 balls to spare.

It was the third win for RCB in four matches. The imposing Jamaican, who has been in prolific touch, got his runs off only 50 deliveries hitting four boundaries and as many as nine sixes.

It is therefore hardly a surprise that Gayle is leading the `Maximum Sixes` list with 14 over-boundaries. With good support from skipper Virat Kohli and South African swashbuckler A B de Villiers, Gayle makes the RCB line-up look intimidating.

Chennai`s batting also has quite a few good-hitters with opener Michael Hussey shining in their previous match.

Hussey slammed a blistering 54-ball 86 as Chennai rolled over Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets.

Also in good form is Murali Vijay, who got a fifty in the previous match. The two-time former champions have come back quite strongly after losing their opening match to Mumbai Indians.

Add to this skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who has been an asset with the ball as well, and Suresh Raina and Chennai`s batting line-up looks good enough.

The team management would also want useful contributions from S Badrinath and Ravindra Jadeja lower down the order.

There is still some suspense on whether South African all-rounder Albie Morkel, who twisted his ankle while bowling in the finals of the domestic Twenty 20 competition in South Africa, would play despite being cleared after precautionary scans.

On the bowling front, RCB`s attack has been delivering the goods despite missing pace spearhead Zaheer Khan. Vinay Kumar has led the pack admirably and the spinners, Muttiah Muralitharan and Murali Karthik, are also quite handful.

For CSK, Australian pacer Ben Laughlin and Ankit Rajpoot have been impressive but off-spinner R Ashwin would be the key bowler for the hosts.

Teams (from):

Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (c/wk), Srikkanth Anirudha Baba Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, Dwayne Bravo, Akila Dananjaya, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Imtiaz Ahmed, Ravindra Jadeja, Shadab Jakati, R Karthikeyan, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ben Laughlin, Ronit More, Albie Morkel, Chris Morris, Dirk Nannes, Suresh Raina, Ankit Rajpoot, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma, Murali Vijay.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Andrew McDonald, Chateshwar Pujara, Christopher Barnwell, Daniel Vettori, Harshal Patel, KP Appanna, Moises Henriques, Chris Gayle, Tilkaratne Dilshan, Mayank Agarwal, Daniel Christian, Karun Nair, Arun Karthik, J Unadkat, Vinay Kumar, Muttiah Muralitharan, Murali Kartik, Pankaj Singh and P Prasanth.

Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors – Preview – IPL 2013 #MIvsPWI #IPL

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:07 PM PDT

Mumbai Indians vs Pune Warriors - Preview - IPL 2013Having ended their 11-match losing streak going back to the 2012 season, the Pune Warriors will now take on state rivals Mumbai Indians in what promises to be an exciting Pepsi IPL clash here on Saturday.

The Warriors` stock, low after successive defeats in their opening two games of this season, has risen following a clinically-executed seven-wicket victory with more than an over to spare against the Rajasthan Royals.

The struggling Pune franchise, which had previously tasted a victory in the cash-rich league on April 21, 2012 at Delhi against the Daredevils, would be eager to continue their new-found touch against formidable rivals MI in the Maharashtra Derby clash.

More importantly, the under-performing batting line-up clicked for the Warriors against the Royals. A little tweak in the team`s composition, forced by the groin injury sustained by Marlon Samuels in the previous match, did the trick.

Opener Robin Uthappa, who made a quick-fire 32, and the sheet-anchoring Aaron Finch, who made a crucial 64 in 53 balls in his first game, laid the platform for impact player Yuvraj Singh to finish off the match in style with a belligerent 28 not out.
Uthappa, who has got the starts in all three games so far without going far, and Finch gave the innings a flying start by rattling up the 50 in the fourth over itself.

Such a start would be the need of the hour against the battle-hardened MI attack boasting of slinger Lasith Malinga, who played his first game against the Daredevils on April 9 after missing the first two games because of a back strain.

The Warriors can take heart from the fact that when the two teams previously met at the Wankhede Stadium in 2012, it was they who had the last laugh by restricting the strong MI line-up to 101.

Ashok Dinda was the star performer with a four-wicket haul.

The bowlers have done well for the Warriors in all three games though Bhuvaneshwar Kumar went for a lot of runs against the Royals.

They would enjoy the bounce that the Wankhede track offers, especially leg-spinner Rahul Sharma, to keep the star-studded MI batting line-up at bay.

MI, on the other hand, are also on a high boosted by their back-to-back victories over two-time champions Chennai Super Kings away and Delhi Daredevils in their backyard three days ago after losing their opening tame to Royal Challengers Bangalore by two runs.

Wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Karthik has been the batting mainstay in these three games logging 183 runs thus far and also played a blinder making 86 off just 48 balls.

Karthik`s excellent knock helped MI recover from a sorry-reading 1 for the loss of two great players — captain Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar — who are opening the innings.

MI would be pleased with the commitment shown by Karthik, who top-scored with 32 when the two teams met last year at this venue in a low-scoring game.

Rohit Sharma — who put behind two poor displays to finish off the game with a typically dashing 74 and also added 132 runs for the third wicket with Karthik — while Ambati Rayudu (24 in 8 balls) too chipped in to bring all-round cheers to the MI camp.

Kieron Pollard, after a superb innings of 57 against CSK and a match-turning catch to send back Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also played a cameo to ensure MI crossed the 200-mark that virtually ended the Daredevils hopes.

The lack of big scores from skipper Ponting and Tendulkar, who has been run out twice in three games, would be a slight worry for the hosts ahead of their second home game of the season.

Their bowling looks in top form, especially with the return of Malinga to pitch in with what he does well, splendid death bowling.

MI, who capped the virtually unknown Jaspreet Bumrah in the game against RCB before benching him, and then Rishi Dhawan in another game, are expected to go in with virtually the same squad that whipped the Daredevils.

A victory over the Warriors would take MI to the top of the league table currently occupied by the Challengers who clash with CSK some time later in Chennai.

Teams (from):

Pune Warriors: Angelo Mathews (Captain), Yuvraj Singh, Abhishek Nayar, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Ajanta Mendis, Manish Pandey, Marlon Samuels, Mitchell Marsh, Mithun Manhas, Parveez Rasool, Rahul Sharma, Ali Murtaza, Anustup Mazumdar, Ashok Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dheeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Harpreet Singh, Ishwar Pandey, Kane Richardson, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Luke Wright, Mahesh Rawat, R Gomez, Shrikant Wagh, Steve Smith, T Suman, Tamim Iqbal, Udit Birla, Aaron Finch.

Mumbai Indians: Ricky Ponting (Captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, Pragyan Ojha, Rishi Dhawan, Glenn Maxwell, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jaspreet Bumrah, Akshar Patel, Jalaj Saxena, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Aditya Tare, Aiden Blizzard, Amitoze Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dwayne Smith, Jacob Oram, James Franklin, Javed Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Phil Hughes, Pawan Suyal, Surya Kumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe.
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