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Final, Match No. 59th Result. Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals Lift The Trophy

What a game we’ve had tonight? Its was absolutely chanceless. It was like any other International matches. Yusuf Pathan made all the difference picking up three wickets and scoring a match winning half century. The game had everything in it right from some on-field verbal fights to some brilliant run-outs.

Whatever Shane Warne touched has turned gold. Even his decision to bowl first has also proved to be a right one. Chennai Super Kings did well to post 161 on the board. Suresh Raina again played a gem of the innings and the rest was done by M.S.Dhoni. They also didwell to pick up early wickets and put the pressure on Rajasthan Royals.

Swapnil Asnodkar played a cameo and was run out by a brilliant throw by Makhaya Ntini. Yusuf Pathan had two let offs that probably changed the entire result as he got into the grooves soon after. Everyone in the ground was thrilled and no one left the game till the last ball.

When everything looked right for the Royals, a couple of wickets changed the complexion of the game. Eight were needed of the last over and it was Balaji with the ball. The first ball went for a single, the second was a dot ball. Shane Warne took a single of the third and Balaji bowled a wide in the next one. Then it was a single followed b a couple and the last ball was hit for a boundary. What a finish to this drama packed 44 day head turner?

Rajasthan Royals were celebrating and this should prove their critics wrong (even me) after they felt that the team was weak. They have played some splendid over the past 44 days and they deserved to be victors.

P.S. : The trophy looks awesome and the prize money will get everyone’s head turning. It is the costliest trophy in World Cricket. Those who didn’t get to see this match has missed something specular.

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The way Shane Warne is leading the Rajastan Royals has impressed a lot of people and this thread is about him. To quote what our fellow bloggers have said earlier about him: “Shane Warne is probably the best captain of this T20 tournament so far” - and quite right. Aussies often say he is the best captain Australia never had” is absolutely true.

He is not only a world class spinner who threw the towel a tad too early or as people call it a premature decision to retire, is being proved right after seeing him play so well and most importantly leading a young, inexperienced side so well. Mahender Singh Dhoni never played Shane Warne before and it was the first time when he faced the first delivery from him was a shocker for Dhoni, it pitched on the leg stump and zoomed away from Dhoni’s bat and the keeper collected it slightly outside the off-stump. That was some bowling and watching him play like that most people who knew Shane Warne’s ability - especially those who saw his famous “Ball of the Century” which cleaned bowled Mike Gatting must have said, Dhoni would be out the second ball. They were wrong, he was out on the third ball. The much talked about batting genius in Dhoni looked like a novice in front of the maestro of spin bowling.

Warne has inspired, motivated, gelled the team and kept telling the world not to write off their team and today he proved that by defeating the so far best team of the tournament “Chennai Super Kings.” There was no contest whatsoever, it could be due to the superb bowling of Sohail Tanvir who took 6 for 14 in 4 overs but, it was Shane Warne’s leadership who used his bowlers so well.

Going back in the times when Shane Warne was so destructive as a test bowler and what made him quit so early, there is intention of being inquisitive in his private life but, it is the main reason that he wanted to get away from the media focus and wanted to enjoy some privacy. But, its a shame that when you are a celebrity there is no privacy and no private life. You are always under the microscope and telescopes. There is a link below which shows what he wanted to do in his private life for which he had to pay heavily in terms of losing his wife, daughter and ruined his family life.

http://www.121s.com/viewtopic.php?t=7340

Whatever he wanted to do in his private life should not be anyone’s concern as long as he is not hitting someone with a bat or not slapping someone on his face it is fine. Although he had some drug related scandals or issues for which, once again he paid a price and was banned for one year. For cricket lovers its a sad thing to see a player being banned especially when he is at his prime. But, seeing him play at the IPL tournament could anyone disagree that he is not at his prime now?

Shane Warne is regarded as the greatest leg-spin bowler in the history of the cricket fraternity. Shane has been in the headlines ever since he stepped in way back in the 1990s. He is known, as the spin-wizard for his exceptional spinning ability. Warne made his debut in the Australian B team while it was touring Zimbabwe. Despite the fact that Shane did not have a very good start in his career as a cricketer, his mastery over leg-spin created a revolution in the history of cricket, especially when many cricketers had considered the style obsolete. This spectacular achievement by the spinner ruled out any option of him not being in the Australian A team.Shane Warne made history by taking 700 wickets in test cricket. He has also reached the 1000 milestone in bagging international wickets combining both ODIs and test matches. Warne was played approximately 143 Test matches ever since his debut against India in 1992. Shane became a world-class player in the 1993 Ashes Series.

Most of Warne’s spectacular performances have occurred in the Ashes Series against England. His bowling abilities have been highly effective in the One-Day matches also, which is quite irregular for a leg spin bowler. At times Warne has made a number of exuberant efforts at batting too. Apart from being a talented sportsman, there is yet another thing that keeps Warne in the limelight always. He has been in the news for many reasons besides his catches and wickets. He had been accused and charged in the Drugs case before the start of 2003 Cricket World Cup. He was also involved in the bookmaking scandal. His private life too has been full of scandals and rumors that fill the tabloids every now and then. Shane Warne has received a number of recognitions ever since he has made his mark in the field of Cricket. He was selected as one of the five Wiseden Cricketers of the Year in 1994. In 2005, Warne was announced as the winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year- Overseas Personality for his performance in the 2005 Ashes Series.

It was an incredibly entertaining match, going down to the wire - really down to the last ball. I was hoping for a bowl-out, actually, thought I think even if that had happened, Rajasthan would have won it.

How could have Mumbai lost this? Lost their head in the last 2 overs. Fernando messed up in the final over, Sachin blew it big time. With his cautious ODI-opening-overs-style batting and by pressurizing his team. He seemed to have slowed Jayasuriya down too. Yes, the pitch was slow, understood, but there was a sense that Sachin was waiting for something. And that something never came.

I was rather surprised to see that not much has changed in Sachin’s captaincy, after all the years. I also found it baffling that for the last ball, when the Rajasthan Royals needed 2 to win and 1 to tie, Sachin was signalling to spread out the field! Not bringing ‘em in. Panic, I guess. Nothing else can explain that. I was also rather shocked to the hear the comments from him the post-match presentation: ‘lacked common sense’, etc, etc, dissing the team. That wasn’t the forum for that!

Meanwhile, thanks to the Rajasthan Royals, the Delhi Daredevils have a place in the semis now. Mumbai will now have to beat Bangalore in tomorrow’s match and hope Chennai lose. The Royal Challengers on the other hand have nothing to lose. After having moved up the table enough so as to not end up last, they might go for the kill. Something tells that Dravid might sign off the BRCs with this match and that despite conflicting media reports on his unhappiness with Mallya’s ways and his own denying rumors of quitting. Thus the extra motivation for the consolation victory.

Emerging Media, owners of the Jaipur IPL franchise, Rajasthan Royals announced a first-of-its-kind global fan alliance by signing an exclusive relationship with BITS Pilani International Alumni Association.

With this association, Rajasthan Royals will induct over 30,000 BITS Pilani Alumni into the Rajasthan Royals support base, providing all members of the community with special offers, free tickets and discounted merchandise of the Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan Royals is also extending the benefits of this alliance to over 5000 students and members of faculty of BITS Pilani.

Manoj Badale, Chairman of the Rajasthan Royals said, “We are extremely excited about this partnership. BITS-ians worldwide are a fine representation of India, highly educated, well settled and truly global citizens, yet deeply connected by a certain bond they share. With this alliance, we hope to provide them another reason to bond: supporting a fierce team in the Royals.”

“BITS Pilani alumni around the world are rooting for Rajasthan Royal’s victory in the IPL tournament. Go Royals!”, said Professor S.P.Kothari, Chairman of BITSAA, who is currently Deputy Dean at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“This is the foundation of what will be a huge community for us in due course. We have a number of initiatives on the anvil, both online and offline for increased interaction between our global members and of course, the Warnie Army has begun to take shape”, said Ravi Krishnan, Vice Chairman of the Rajasthan Royals

Fraser Castellino, CEO of the Rajasthan Royals said, “Of course, the fact that Pilani and Jaipur share a home in Rajasthan was the primary connection between us. This is another first for us and we look forward to support from the BITS-ians.”

Jaipur, India - May 11, 2008 | Scorecard
Match No. 33th Result. Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals

It was Shane Watson who single handedly pulled a thrilling win for Royals. Watson was in no mood no let the game slip from Rajasthan Royals hand. He scored 74 from just 40 balls and thus helped the Royals win the match by 3 wickets.

Shane Warne and teams mates from Rajasthan Royals. Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to field. Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag opened the batting for Dehli Daredevils and took the score to 47 before Virender Sehwag was catch out by Kaif. Gambhir continued to score runs and once he was out, all the other batsmen also felt cheaply and the Delhi Devils were limited to 100/6 in 16 overs. But after the 16 th over, some lusty hitting by Farveez Maharoof took them to some respectable total.

He was the top scorer for Delhi Daredevils and got 27 runs from 1 over of Shane Warne. The last 4 overs were some what better for the Delhi Daredevils and thus they managed 156/7 runs in 20 overs.

match which swung like a see saw in favor of one team to another, it was Shane Watson who single handedly pulled a thrilling win for Rajasthan Royals. Chasing a target of 157,Rajasthan Royals had a poor start and Yousaf Pathan and Kaif were run out and it looked that Delhi Daredevils had a fair chance to win.But then Smith and Watson played some good shots and it again looked that Rajasthan Royals are back in the game. Mishra got the wicket of Smith through a splendid catch.

Soon Jadeja was also bowled and it looked that Delhi Daredevils have a chance. But Watson was in no mood no let the game slip from Rajasthan Royals hand. He scored 74 from just 40 balls and thus helped the Rajasthan Royals win the match by 3 wickets.

Royals vs Daredevils Presentation Ceremony - More video’s click here

Match No. 33th Preview. Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals

This time it will not be a easy walk for Delhi Daredevils, they thrashed Rajasthan Royals last time they meet, but now Royals is the top team and there strength has increased like anyhting and they are the best team of IPL and they play there game with more than 100% passion and they play to WIN.Rajasthan Royals is unstoppable, out of 8 matches they have played for far in that they lost only 2, one was against DareDevils there first match and just recently to Mumbai Indians but they defeated Deccan Chargers royaly. There confidence is on the sky, With local lads and International players theam has jelled very well.

On the other hand Delhi Daredevils is also not so back if you see as a team and there wins. There main draw back is middle order, they are not exposed. It was exposed against Mumbai Indians but the middle order was not able to handle the pressure and they lost the match and same thing happened again agaist Chennai Super Kings.

Delhi Daredevils: Virender Sehwag (captain), Rajat Bhatia, AB de Villiers, Shikhar Dhawan, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Pradeep Sangwan, Gautam Gambhir, Brett Geeves, Dinesh Karthik, Glenn McGrath, Farveez Maharoof, Shoaib Malik, Tejashwi Yadav, Yo Mahesh, Mithun Manhas, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Asif Yogesh Nagar, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Tehlan

Shoaib Akhtar is included in 14 players for selection, we have to wait and see if he will be in playing XI. Murli Kartik may be out as he has not at all perfomed well in all the matches that he had played and in previos match in his last over he gave lots of runs which brought Challengers to come close to win the match. Brad Hodge has left to join his National side and he was not in run getters too, so its not a great loss for Kolkata Knight Riders. Salman Butt will be playing mostly, he ia very good player, watch out guys.

Rajasthan Royals : Shane Warne (captain), Aditya Angle, Swapnil Asnodkar, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Kaif, Kamran Akmal (wicket-keeper), Sumit Khatri, Taruwar Kohli, Mahesh Rawat, Darren Lehmann, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Parag More, Morne Morkel, Pankaj Singh, Munaf Patel, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Anup Revandkar, Jaydev Shah, Graeme Smith, Sohail Tanvir, Siddharth Trivedi, Shane Watson, Younus Khan, Justin Langer, Dinesh Salunke.

Jaipur, India - May 09, 2008 | Scorecard

Match No. 30th Result. Rajasthan Royals defeated Deccan Charges by 8 wickets and 24 balls remaining.

Rajasthan Royals has won the 30th match. This victory has increased the expectation to play in the Semi-Final of Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament (IPLT20). It has been played 8 among the 14 selected matches and got six prestigious victories. If the team just wins one match it will be confirmed for semi-final. At least seven victory need to be qualified for semi-final.

The team has acquired the 1st position of Points Table.

The match 30th is has an interesting similarities. Both the teams have held the second position in the point tables. Rajasthan is on the second top and Deccan Chargers in standing in the second from the bottom. Rajasthan Royals Captain Shane Warne won the toss and invited Deccan Chargers bat first. The Deccan Chargers is leading by Australian wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist.

Deccan Chargers batsmen Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs come to face Rajasthan Royals bowlers. The opening batsmen started well. The first batsman got out in 61 runs. The second batsman SB Styris got out just adding 13 runs. Gilchrist got out acquiring 61 runs personally.

Deccan Chargers lost 3 wicket just adding 10 runs. From 100 to 111 it has lost three important wickets. When the total runs come 127, Deccan Chargers already has lost its 7 wicket. DC lost is 8th wicket at 130 when RP Singh got run out by S Tanveer.

At the end of 20 overs Deccan Chargers cashed 140 runs by losing 8 wickets. To win the match Rajasthan Royals will have to acquire 141 runs.

Among the Rajasthan bowlers only Shane Warne acquires 2 wickets. He has taken 2 wickets just giving 19 runs. The bowling figures of the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals were well. SK Trivedi has taken 1 wicket just spending 8 runs. For a strong bowling Rajasthan Royals has booked Deccan Chargers 140 runs. This will increase its standing rate in the Point Tables.

VIDEO: IPL 30th Match Rajasthan Royals Vs Deccan Chargers

Rajasthan Royals booked Deccan Chargers in 140 runs. Aiming to reach 141 form 20 overs and making heavy in the point table, South African Captain Graham Smith and YK Pathan came to the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur ground to dominate Deccan Chargers bowlers. Like Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals drove its score board with four. Graham Smith and YK Pathan batted with cool mind and reached the team in a strong position. If Rajasthan Royals could win just next matches then they will be reached semi-final easily.

Rajasthan Royals lost first wicket when its score comes 109. The wicket was none but YK Pathan. He acquired 68 runs from 37 balls with 9 fours and 2 sixes. Although he has given many chances to Deccan Chargers fielders but they did not use opportunities properly.

Another losing wicket of Rajasthan Royals is Graham Smith who acquired 40 runs from 43 balls and hit just 4 furs. He was holding the wicket strongly that was a positive thing for RR.

The result already has declared. Rajasthan Royals has won by eight wickets. To cash 141 runs they had to play just 16 overs. It is prestigious victory for Rajasthan Royals.

After the result of the eight matches Rajasthan Royals acquired the top position of the Points Table and Deccan Chargers is on the 7th position of the Points Tables. Rajasthan Royals got 2 from the match.

The maximum sixes award and the Man of the Match awards goes on YK Pathan.

After his wicket was down the next players were unable to play well, due to the changed bowling attack of Rajasthan Royals. The score of the team was 100 for the loss of 3 wickets in 14 overs. Adam Gilchrist was the top scorer for Deccan Chargers. In the end the team scored 140 runs in 20 overs.