Mumbai Indians

Batting Woes Continue For Mumbai Indians Even As IPL’s UAE Leg Comes To An End

 May 2, 2014   R K Gupta

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Kings Eleven Punjab and Mumbai Indians are at the two ends of a spectrum in this IPL. 20 matches were played on the round-robin basis between 10 participants in different venues of UAE until yesterday. While KXIP won all their five games, MI lost all five. Every other team recorded some wins and some losses. […]

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IPL Match

19th IPL Match Between KKR and RR Goes To The Extremes of Thrill

 April 30, 2014   R K Gupta

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The game ended in a tie and had to go to the super over. Batting first, KKR made 11 in their allotted 6 balls. Following on, RR batsmen Shane Watson and Steven Smith managed 9 runs off the first 5 balls from Sunil Narine. Steven Smith had to face Narine’s last ball with KKR requiring […]

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KXIP

KXIP Score Fifth Straight IPL Victory in a Low Scoring Game against RCB At Dubai On Monday

 April 29, 2014   R K Gupta

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When Kings XI Punjab won their first three matches of IPL 2014, everyone attributed their wins to the immense fire-power of Glenn Maxwell. The big-hitting Australian truly stood above the pack and single handedly made the difference. Beginning with the patient chase that KXIP launched in the face of 206-run target set by CSK in […]

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CSK

Mumbai Lose Fourth Successive Match But CSK Show Their Mettle to Sun-Risers

 April 28, 2014   R K Gupta

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When you win the toss and elect to bat in a T20 game, the obvious purpose is you have a target in mind that the opposition cannot reach. In the case of Mumbai Indians all their targets have been so dismally low that any opposition can overhaul that without too much trouble. In a strange […]

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RCB’s Woeful Slump Against RR as KXIP Record Fourth Straight Win

 April 27, 2014   R K Gupta

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After coming out on tops in their first two matches, RCB took an about turn by snatching an unexpected defeat from the jaws of a certain victory against KKR on Thursday. On Saturday, the team did much worse, after being put into bat by RR, who won the toss. In the simmering Dubai heat, it […]

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Mumbai Indians

Sunrisers Beat DD in a Tight Finish but Mumbai Indians Disappoint Yet Again

 April 26, 2014   R K Gupta

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In Friday’s two IPL matches, played at the Dubai International Cricket stadium, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s true batting strength came to the fore. They lost just one wicket but each of the three batsmen played his part in amassing a match-winning total of 184/1 at the end of 20 overs. The victory target of 185 was stiff […]

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Jadeja

Jadeja’s All-Round Performance Helps CSK Defend a Low Score Against Royals

 April 24, 2014   R K Gupta

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The FM Gold Channel of All India Radio features a daily evening program called Sports-Scan at 8.30 PM Indian Standard Time. The narrators usually invite known experts, who specialize in various sports. These specialists air their views on past, present and future sporting events. On Wednesday the CSK were already batting, when the program began. […]

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Maxwell

Oh Boy!! KXIP’s Maxwell Fired on Al l Cylinders Yet Again to Sink Sun-risers Hyderabad

 April 23, 2014   R K Gupta

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In Tuesday night’s match played at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Shikhar Dhawan won the toss for Sunrisers Hyderabad and asked Kings XI Punjab to bat first. The decision was presumably aimed at precluding the KXIP batsmen to mount their now famous herculean chases. But little did poor Dhawan know that the Big Max was ready for […]

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IPL Updates: Mumbai’s Bad Patch, KXIP and RCB Lead and CSK Thrash Delhi

 April 22, 2014   R K Gupta

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Four IPL matches were played over the last 3 days in 3 different venues at UAE. In the first two matches at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday April 19, Mumbai Indians pathetic batting display allowed Royal Challengers to record their second straight win and in the next match on the same venue, Delhi Daredevils […]

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Rajasthan Royals

Kings XI Chase 200+ In Great Style But Rajasthan Royals Scrape Though Narrowly

 April 19, 2014   R K Gupta

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Chennai Super Kings is a feared T20 team any day and MS Dhoni is full of guile as a captain. Dhoni has been observed in recent past to send the opposition in after winning the toss. On April 18’s first match Abu Dhabi, he chose to bat first against Kings XI Punjab. The reason was […]

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