Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 Cricket Tournament

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IPL Twenty20 Final
Chennai Super Kings:
PA Patel
S Vidyut
SK Raina
JA Morkel
MS Dhoni
CK Kapugedera
S Badrinath
Extras
Total
c Akmal b Pathan
c Jadeja b Pathan
c Jadeja b Watson
c Kamran Akmal b Pathan
not out
c Asnodkar b Sohail Tanvir
not out
(b 1, lb 2, w 3, nb 1)
(5 wickets; 20 overs)
38
16
43
16
17
8
2
7
163
Rajasthan Royals:
NK Patel
SA Asnodkar
Kamran Akmal
SR Watson
YK Pathan
M Kaif
RA Jadeja
SK Warne
Sohail Tanvir
Extras
Total
b Gony
c Raina b Morkel
run out (Ntini)
b Muralitharan
run out (Raina)
c Dhoni b Muralitharan
c Kapugedera b Morkel
not out
not out
(b 1, lb 6, w 3, nb 2)
(7 wicket; 20 overs)
2
28
6
28
56
12
0
9
9
14
164

2nd Semi-Final
Kings XI Punjab: 112 for 8 (20 overs)
Chennai Super Kings: 116 for 1 (14.5 overs) Suresh Raina 55 not out & Parthiv Patel 51 not out

1st Semi-Final
Rajasthan Royals: 192 for 9 (20 overs) Shane Watson 52 (29 balls) 4 fours & 3 sixes
Delhi Daredevils: 87 all out (16.1 overs)

Wednesday May 28 2008:
Kings XI Punjab: 221 for 3 (20 overs) Shaun Marsh 115 (69 balls) 11 fours & 7 sixes
Rajasthan Royals: 180 for 7 (20 overs) Niraj Patel 57 (39 balls) 10 fours

Bangalore Royal Challengers: 122 for 9 Cameron White 26 (20 balls) 3 fours & 1 six
Mumbai Indians: 126 for 1 (20 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 54 (37 balls) 4 fours & 4 sixes

Tuesday May 27 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 147 for 8 (20 overs)
Chennai Super Kings: 148 for 3 (19.2 overs)

Monday May 26 2008:
Mumbai Indians: 145 for 7 (20 overs)
Rajasthan Royals: 146 for 5 (20 overs)

Sunday May 25 2008:
Kings XI Punjab: 174 for 6 (20 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 64 (45 balls) 7 fours & 2 sixes
Kolkata Knight Riders: 175 for 7 (19.4 overs) Sourav Ganguly 86 not out (53 balls) 6 fours & 6 sixes

Deccan Chargers: 165 all out (20 overs) Herschelle Gibbs 47 & Adam Gilchrist 46
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 171 for 5 (19 overs) Misbah-ul-Haq 37, JH Kallis 31, R Dravid 31

Saturday May 24 2008:
Mumbai Indians: 176 for 8 (20 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 66 (42 balls) 6 fours & 5 sixes
Delhi DareDevils: 179 for 5 (19.5 overs) Dinesh Karthik 56 (32 balls) 4 fours & 3 sixes

Rajasthan Royals: 211 for 5 (20 overs) Graeme Smith 91 (51 balls) 9 fours & 4 sixes
Chennai Super Kings 201 for 7 (20 overs) Albie Morkel 71 (40 balls) 6 fours & 4 sixes

Friday May 23 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 175 for 4 (20 overs) Adam Gilchrist 50 & Rohit Sharma 50
Kings XI Punjab: : 178 for 4 (19.3 overs) Shaun Marsh 60 (46 balls) 3 fours & 3 sixes

Thursday May 22 2008:
Delhi DareDevils v Kolkata Knight Riders at Delhi Match abandoned without a ball bowled 1 point each

Wednesday May 21 2008:
Bangalore Royal Challengers 126 for 8 (20 overs) Rahul Dravid 47 (39 balls) 5 fours
Chennai Super Kings: 112 for 8 (20 overs) Stephen Fleming 45 (40 balls) 3 fours & 2 sixes

Kings XI Punjab: 189 for 4 (20 overs) Shaun Marsh 81 7 fours & 4 sixes - Luke Pomersbach 79 not out
Mumbai Indians: 188 all out (20 overs) Sachin Tendulkar (46 balls) 12 fours

Tuesday May 20 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 147 for 8 (20 overs) Sourav Ganguly 32 & Debabrata Das 31
Rajasthan Royals: 150 for 4 (16.3 overs) Yusuf Pathan 48 not out (18 balls) 5 fours & 3 sixes

Monday May 19 2008:
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 154 for 7 (20 overs) Shreevats Goswami 52 (42 balls) 7 fours & 1 six
Delhi DareDevils: 158 for 5 (18.2 overs) Virender Sehwag (19 balls) 9 fours & 1 six

Sunday May 18 2008:
Mumbai Indians: 178 for 7 (20 overs) A Nayar 38 (3 fours & 2 sixes) S Jayasuriya 36 (6 fours & 2 sixes)
Deccan Chargers: 153 for 7 (20 overs) Venugopal Rao 57 (38 balls) 4 fours & 3 sixes

Kolkata Knight Riders: 149 for 5 (20 overs) Salman Butt 73 (54 balls) 10 fours & 1 six
Chennai Super Kings: 55 for 0 (8 overs) Chennai Super Kings won by 3 runs (D/L method)


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Saturday May 17 2008:
Delhi DareDevils: 118 for 4 (11 overs)
Kings XI Punjab: 94 for 3 (8 overs) Kings XI Punjab won by 6 runs (D/L method) due to rain delay

Rajasthan Royals: 197 for 1 (20 overs) Graeme Smith 75 not out (49 balls) 8 fours & 2 sixes
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 132 for 9 (20 overs) Rahud Dravid 75 not out (36 balls) 6 fours & 6 sixes

Friday May 16 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 67 all out (15.2 overs)
Mumbai Indians: 68 for 2 (5.3 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 48 (17 balls) 6 fours & 3 sixes

Thursday May 15 2008:
Delhi DareDevils: 194 for 4 (20 overs) Gautam Gambhir 79 (48 balls) 7 fours & 3 sixes
Deccan Chargers: 182 for 9 (20 overs) RG Sharma 35 - Shahid Afridi 33

Wednesday May 14 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 156 for 6 (20 overs) Subramaniam Badrinath 53 (33 balls) 7 fours & 2 sixes
Mumbai Indians: 158 for 1 (13.5 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 114 not out (48 balls) 9 fours & 11 sixes

Tuesday May 13 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 133 for 6 (20 overs) Salman Butt 48 (44 balls) 7 fours
Delhi DareDevils: 110 all out (17.5 overs) Amit Mishra 31 (32 balls) 3 fours

Monday May 12 2008:
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 143 for 8 (20 overs)
Kings XI Punjab: 144 for 1 (15.4 overs) Shaun Marsh 74 (51 balls) 9 fours & 2 sixes

Sunday May 11 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 204 for 4 (20 overs) S Ganguly 91 (11 fours & 5 sixes) D Hussey 57
Deccan Chargers: 181 for 7 (20 overs)

Delhi DareDevils: 156 for 7 (20 overs)
Rajasthan Royals: 159 for 7 (19.1 overs) Shane Watson 74 (40 balls) 5 fours & 5 sixes

Saturday May 10 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 181 for 4 (20 overs) Mahendra Singh Dhoni 60 (43 balls) 2 fours & 4 sixes
Kings XI Punjab: 163 for 9 (20 overs) Shaun Marsh 58 (38 balls) 3 fours & 4 sixes

Friday May 9 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 140 for 8 (20 overs) Adam Gilcrist 61 (49 balls) 9 fours & 1 six
Rajasthan Royals: 141 for 2 (16 overs) Yusuf Pathan 68 (37 balls) 9 fours & 2 sixes


Thursday May 8 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 129 for 7 (16 overs) David Hussey 26 (12 balls) 1 four & 3 sixes
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 124 for 4 (16 overs) Mark Boucher 50 not out (40 balls) 5 fours & 1 six

Delhi DareDevils 187 for 5 (20 overs) Gautam Gambhir 80 (49 balls) 11 fours & 1 six
Chennai Super Kings 188 for 6 (20 overs) Stephen Fleming 44 (28 balls) 7 fours

Wednesday May 7 2008:
Rajasthan Royals: 103 all out (16.2 overs) Swapnil Asnodkar 39 (36 balls) 3 fours & 1 six
Mumbai Indians: 104 for 3 (15.1 overs) Robin Uthappa 34 (21 balls) 4 fours & 1 six

Tuesday May 6 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 144 for 7 (20 overs)
Deccan Chargers: 148 for 3 (18 overs) Adam Gilcrist 54 (36 balls) 7 fours & 2 sixes

Monday May 5 2008:
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 126 all out (19.2 overs) Rahul Dravid 66 (51 balls) 9 fours & 1 six
Kings XI Punjab: 127 for 4 (18.2 overs) SE Marsh 39 4 fours & 1 six

Sunday May 4 2008:
Mumbai Indians: 162 for 8 (20 overs) Sanath Jayasuriya 34 (16 balls) - Shaun Pollock 33 (15 balls)
Delhi DareDevils: 133 all out (18.5 overs) Virender Sehwag 40 (20 balls) 3 fours & 3 sixes

Chennai Super Kings: 109 all out (19 overs) Albie Morkel 42 runs - Sohail Tanvir 6 wickets for 14 runs
Rajasthan Royals: 110 for 2 (14.2 overs) Graeme Smith 35 (44 balls) 4 fours

Saturday May 3 2008:
Kings XI Punjab: 178 for 6 (20 overs) Shaun Marsh 40 (32 balls) 5 fours & 1 six
Kolkata Knight Riders: 169 for 6 (20 overs) David Hussey 71 (46 balls) 4 fours & 4 sixes

Bangalore Royal Challengers: 156 for 8 (20 overs) Wasim Jaffer 44 (37 balls) 6 fours
Deccan Chargers: 153 for 6 (20 overs) RG Sharma 57 5 fours & 3 sixes - WS Laxman 52 7 fours

Friday May 2 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 169 for 6 (20 overs) S Vidyut 54 (37 balls) 7 fours & 1 six
Delhi DareDevils: 172 for 2 (19 overs) Virender Sehwag 71 (41 balls) 7 fours & 4 sixes

Thursday May 1 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 164 for 8 (20 overs) RG Sharma 76 not out (42 balls) 10 fours & 2 sixes
Kings XI Punjab: 167 for 3 (18.5 overs) SE Marsh 84 not out (62 balls) 11 fours & 1 six

Rajasthan Royals: 196 for 7 (20 overs) Swapnil Asnodkar 60 (34 balls) 10 fours & 1 six
Kolkata Knight Riders: 151 all out (19.1 overs) Sourav Ganguly 51 (39 balls) 4 fours & 2 sixes

Wednesday April 30 2008:
Delhi DareDevils: 191 for 5 (20 overs) Gautam Gambhir 86 (54 balls) 11 fours & 1 six
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 181 for 5 (20 overs) JH Kallis 54 (44 balls) 6 fours & 1 six

Tuesday April 29 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 137 for 8 (20 overs) Laxmi Ratan Shukla 40 not out (22 balls) 4 fours & 2 sixes
Mumbai Indians: 138 for 3 (18.4 overs) Dwayne Bravo 64 not out (53 balls) 8 fours & 1 six

Monday April 28 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 178 for 5 (20 overs) Dhoni 65 (30 balls) 9 fours & 3 sixes
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 165 all out (19.4 overs) Ross Taylor 53 3 fours & 3 sixes Wasim Jaffer 50

Sunday April 27 2008:
Mumbai Indians: 154 for 7 (20 overs) DJ Braovo 34 3 fours & 1 six AM Nayar 34 1 four & 3 sixes
Deccan Chargers: 155 for 0 (12.4 overs) Adam Gilchrist 109 runs (48 balls) 9 fours & 10 sixes

Delhi DareDevils: 158 for 8 (20 overs) Manoj Tiwary 39 (34 balls) 6 fours
Kings XI Punjab: 162 for 6 (19.3 overs) Simon Katich 75 (52 balls) 11 fours & 1 six

Saturday April 26 2008:
Bangalore Royal Challengers 135 for 8 (20 overs) Ross Taylor 44 (20 balls) 6 fours & 3 sixes
Rajasthan Royals: 138 for 3 (17.1 overs) Shane Watson 61 n.o. 8 fours & 2 sixes Graeme Smith 49

Kolkata Knight Rider: 147 for 9 (20 overs) Laxmi Ratan Shukla 42 (33 balls) 4 fours & 1 six
Chennai Super Kings: 152 for 1 (17 overs) Michael Hayden 70 not out (49 balls) 6 fours & 3 sixes

Friday April 25 2008:
Kings XI Punjab: 182 (all out) (20 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 94 (56 balls) 13 fours & 1 six
Mumbai Indians: 116 for 9 (20 overs)

Thursday April 24 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 214 for 5 (20 overs) Andrew Symonds 117 not out (53 balls) 11 fours & 7 sixes
Rajasthan Royals: 217 for 7 (19.5 overs) Graeme Smith 71 9 fours & 2 sixes & Yusuf Pathan 61 (28 balls)

Wednesday April 23 2008:
Chennai Super Kings: 208 for 5 (20 overs) Michael Hayden 81 (46 balls) 12 fours & 2 sixes
Mumbai Indians: 202 for 7 (20 overs) Abhishek Nayar 45 not out; Robin Uthappa 43

Tuesday April 22 2008:
Deccan Chargers: 142 for 8 (20 overs) Rohit Sharma 66 (36 balls) 6 fours & 4 sixes
Delhi DareDevils: 143 for 1 (13 overs) Virender Sehwag 94 not out (41 balls) 10 fours & 6 sixes

Monday April 21 2008:
Kings XI Punjab: 166 for 8 (20 overs) Yuvraj Singh 57 (34 balls) 6 fours & 3 sixes
Rajasthan Royals: 168 for 4 (18.1 overs) Shane Watson 76 not out (49 balls) 5 fours & 5 sixes

Sunday April 20 2008:
Mumbai Indians 165 for 6 (20 over) Robin Uthappa 48 (38 balls) 5 fours & 1 six
Bangalore Royal Challengers 166 for 5 (19.4 overs) Mark Boucher 39 not out (19 balls) 4 fours & 2 sixes

Deccan Chargers: 110 all out (18.4 overs) Andrew Symonds 32 (39 balls) 2 fours & 2 sixes
Kolkata Knight Riders: 112 for 5 (19 overs) David Hussey 38 (43 balls) 1 four & 3 sixes

Saturday April 19 2008:
Rajasthan Royals: 129 for 8 (20 overs)
Delhi DareDevils: 132 for 1 (15.1 overs) Gautam Gambhir 58 not out (46 balls) 7 fours & 1 six

Chennai Super Kings: 240 for 5 (20 overs) Michael Hussey 116 not out (54 balls) 7 fours & 10 sixes
Kings XI Punjab: 207 for 4 (20 overs) James Hopes 71 (33 balls) 10 fours & 3 sixes

Friday April 18 2008:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 222 for 3 (20 overs) Brendon McCullum 158 not out (73 balls) 10 fours & 13 sixes
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 82 all out (15.1 overs)


IPL TEAMS

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad
Captain: Rahul Dravid
Most expensive player: Rahul Dravid, US$1,035,000

Team: Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn (South Africa), Nathan Bracken, Cameron White (Australia), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies), Misbah-ul Haq (Pakistan), Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Praveen Kumar, Sunil Joshi, B Akhil, Vinay Kumar, Devraj Patil, Bharat Chipli, KP Appanna, B Arun Kumar, Virat Kohli, Sreevats Goswami.


Chennai Super Kings

Coach: Keppler Wessels
Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Most expensive player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, $1.5m

Team: Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey (Australia), Stephen Fleming, Jacob Oram (New Zealand), Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel (South Africa), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Napolean Einstein, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Rashwin, Viraj Kadbe, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, P Amarnath, S Sresh Kumar, Arun Karthik and Shadab Jakati (India).


Deccan Chargers

Coach: Robin Singh
Captain: VVS Laxman
Most expensive player: Andrew Symonds, $1.35m

Team: Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds (Australia), Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Chamara Silva (Sri Lanka), Hershelle Gibbs (South Africa), Scott Styris (New Zealand), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), VVS Laxman, RP Singh, Rohit Sharma, Venugopala Rao, Pragyan Ojha, Halhadar Das, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Arjun Yadav, Paidikalva Vijay Kumar, Kalyan Krishna, Sarveesh Kumar, Sanjay Bangar (India).


Delhi Daredevils

Coach: Greg Shipperd
Captain: Virender Sehwag
Most expensive player: Virender Sehwag, $833,750

Team: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof (Sri Lanka), Daniel Vettori (New Zealand), Glenn McGrath, Brett Geeves (Australia), Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), AB de Villiers (South Africa),Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Pradeep Sangwan, Yo Mahesh (India).


King's XI, Punjab

Coach: Tom Moody
Captain: Yuvraj Singh
Most expensive player: Yuvraj Singh, $1,063,750

Team: Simon Katich, Luke Pomersbach, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh (Australia), Kyle Mills (New Zealand), Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies), Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Yuvraj Singh, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Sunny Sohal, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Pankaj Dharmani, Nitin Saini, Wilkin Mota (India).


Kolkata Knight Riders

Coach: John Buchanan
Captain: Sourav Ganguly
Most expensive player: Sourav Ganguly, $1,092,500

Team: David Hussey, Ricky Ponting (Australia), Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan), Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Akash Chopra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohan Banerjee, Yashpal Singh, Debabrata Das, Sourav Ganguly, Wriddhiman Saha, Brendon McCullum, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ishant Sharma, Shoaib Akhtar, Murali Kartik, Umar Gul, Siddarth Kaul, Ranadeb Bose, Sourashish Lahiri (India).


Mumbai Indians

Coach: Lalchand Rajput
Captain: Sachin Tendulkar
Most expensive player: Sachin Tendulkar, $1,121,250

Team: Loots Bosman, Ashwell Prince, Shaun Pollock (South Africa), Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Luke Ronchi, Dominic Thornely (Australia), Sachin Tendulkar, Abhishek Nayar, Ajeenkya Rahane, Ankeet Chauhan, Ashish Nehra, Dhaval Kulkarni, Gaurav Dhiman, Harbhajan Singh, Manish Pandey, Musavir Khote, Pinal Shah, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Uthappa, Rohan Raje, Saurabh Tiwary, Sidharth Chitnis, Swapnil Singh, Vikrant Yelligeti, Yogesh Takawale (India).


Rajasthan Royals

Coach: Shane Warne
Captain: Shane Warne
Most expensive player: Mohammad Kaif, $675,000

Team: Graeme Smith, Morne Morkel, (South Africa), Justin Langer, Shane Watson, Shane Warne (Australia), Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan), Dimitri Mascarenhas (England), Mohammad Kaif, Anoop Revandkar, Taruwar Kohli, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Siddharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Khatri, Munaf Patel, Pankaj Singh (India).