Kevin Pieterson to Captain Bangalore Royal Challengers IPL team?

Well, there are news that the new recruit by Vijaya Mallya's Bangalore Royal Challengers, Kevin Pieterson might be seen as the captain for the bangalore IPL team in the 2009 season.

Kevin peiterson was bought for a whopping $1.55 million by the bangalore ipl franchisee. Now the news that peiterson can captain the bangalore side won't impress the current bangalore team skipper Rahul Dravid.

Bangalore royal challengers' performance in the last IPL season was very poor, and the team management had also sacked a few members from the management. There was some controversy on that.

Let's wait and watch if Kevin Peiterson would really end up being the captain for the bangalore IPL team, and if he proves his worth of being bought for $1.5 million.

IPL - Indian Premier League 2009 season Match Time-table Schedule

The Time-table for the 2009 IPL season is not yet released. Many websites have the 2008 time-table on the sites, and they are showing it as the 2009 IPL season time-table.

I will post the 2009 IPL season time table as soon as it is released from BCCI. You will get the time table on this website.

Auction results for IPL 2009 Season - Flintoff, Peiterson Highest Paid

Who recession? What Slowdown? The indian premier league team owners and frannchisees didn't know these terms and they came out in their bidding best for the new round of international players for IPL 2009

It all happened in Panaji, Goa, India . A total of around 50 international players were up for auction, out fof which a few players went unsold. The List of international players, by per-season salaries, who were bought at the Friday's player auction ahead of the 2009 Indian Premier League season are as follows:

England's Kevin Pietersen went to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $1. 55 million.

England' Andrew Flintoff went to Chennai Super Kings for $1.55 million.

South Africa's J.P. Duminy went to Mumbai Indians for $950,000.

South Africa's Tyron Henderson went to Rajasthan Royals for $650,000.

Bangladesh's Mashrafe bin Mortaza went to Kolkata Knight Riders for $600,000.

England's Ravi Bopara went to Kings XI Punjab for $450,000.

Australia's Shaun Tait went to Rajasthan Royals for $375,000.

England's Owais Shah went to Delhi Daredevils for $275,000.

England's Paul Collingwood went to Delhi Daredevils for $275,000.

New Zealand's Jesse Ryder went to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $160,000.

West Indies's Fidel Edwards went to Deccan Chargers for $150,000.

New Zealand's Kyle Mills went to Mumbai Indians for $150,000.

West Indies's Jerome Taylor went to Kings XI Punjab for $150,000.

Sri Lanka's Thilan Thushara went to Chennai Super Kings for $140,000.

West Indies's Dwayne Smith went to Deccan Chargers for $100,000.

Bangladesh's Mohammed Ashraful went to Mumbai Indians for $75,000.

Australia's George Bailey went to Chennai Super Kings for $50,000.


So these were some of the high paid players in the auction for 2009 season of Indian Premier league. I will post the complete players list in each teams for IPL.

So, please come back for new players in IPL teams, and New teams list for IPL 2009.

New International players for 2009 IPL Season - Kevin Pieterson, Flintoff, Clarke

This is some hottest news from the second/2nd season or the 2009 season of Ipl (Indian Premier league). There have been some international news on IPL.

Around 120 new international players' names have been put up for auction for the second and 2009 season of IPL Indian Premier League. The top names in this list are England's Kevin Pieterson, Andrew Flintoff, Australia's Michael Clark, and Bangladesh's Mohammed Ashraful.

Kevin Pieterson's base price was around Rs 6.5 crore, Flintoff and Clark's base price are close to Rs 4.5 crore

The second IPL Indian premier league season looks promising and better compared to the inaugural season in 2008.

You come back here for the latest IPL news, transfer news, player selling and buying for IPL, Live IPL scores, timetables for 2009 IPL season matches and much much more.

IPL 24th Match Highlights : Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings Highlights

IPL 23rd Match Highlights : Mumbai Indians Vs Delhi Daredevils Highlights

IPL 22nd Match Highlights : Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Kings 11 Punjab Highlights

IPL 21st Match Highlights : Deccan Hyderabad Chargers vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Highlights

IPL 20th Match Highlights : Chennai Super Kings Vs Delhi Daredevils Highlights

Brett Lee earned $80,000 per scalp in IPL

Speedster Brett Lee returned home as the richest Australian cricketer, taking home a whopping $80,000 per scalp for his four wickets from as many games in the cash-rich Indian Premier League. The pacer was bought for $900,000 at auction and earned more than $320,000 for his brief stint with the Punjab side.

Captain Ricky Ponting, who went for a relatively modest $400,000 to the Kolkata ight Riders at the auction in February, has emerged as the highest-paid Australian batsman when earnings are worked out on a rupees-per-runs-scored basis. Ponting earned $3663 for every run, or $142,000 for the four games he played.

The World Cup winning captain, who made two golden ducks and scored just 39 runs for the tournament, admitted he would have liked to have scored more runs and that his impact "wasn't that great", according to 'The Australian'. Lee and Ponting were among the six players, who return to Australia to prepare for the Caribbean tour where they will earn almost $13,000 a Test and $5000 one-day internationals.

But despite the money part, Ponting was concerned that the dollars players were earning in the IPL could drift them away from their home teams. "There's a real danger there that international players might just see the glitz and glamour of this event and not want to play international cricket any more, which I don't think would be great for the game," Ponting was quoted as saying by 'The Australian'.

All rounder Andrew Symonds was next in the line as his purse was heavier by $500,000 after playing just four appearances with the Deccan Chargers of Hyderabad. Symonds, who had a controversy-free tour of the sub-continent unlike last year, pocketed $3000 for each of his 161 runs.

Each player is understood to have been paid on a pro-rata basis for the games played and received 10 per cent of that amount for each game they did not play. Matthew Hayden ($134,000) and Michael Hussey ($125,000) both bring home more for two weeks' work than most Australians get for two years.

Simon Katich fetched only $200,000 at auction and earned just under $60,000 for his efforts. The New South Wales captain only played two matches.

Ganguly new to 20-20 captaincy, has to learn: Umar Gul

Sourav Ganguly's captaincy in the Indian Premier League is yet to impress his Kolkata Knight Riders teammate Umar Gul, who reckons the the left-hander has to learn some more before he can emulate his success as India's ODI skipper.

Ganguly's Knight Riders lost their third successive IPL match after going down by 45 runs to Rajasthan Royals and Gul felt Ganguly was struggling to cope with the new format of the game.

"This format is new for Ganguly. He is finding it difficult. He has to learn a few more tricks. We also have to find the right combination and rhythm," Gul said.

Is sachin fit to play? Decision to be taken on May 4th

The struggling Mumbai Indians team have decided to wait till the day of their next Indian Premier League (IPL) match, against Delhi Daredevils on Sunday, to see whether captain Sachin Tendulkar is fit to play or not.

"Sachin had net practice today. There are still two more days to go for the match. We will take a call on his fitness on May 4. Today he batted all right. Hopefully, he gets all right before the next match," said team coach Lalchand Rajput after a practice session at the MCA's Bandra-Kurla complex.

The champion batsman, who turned 35 on April 24, aggravated a groin injury that he sustained during the tri-series Down Under when turning out for India against South Africa in the first Test at Chennai in March, and has not played for more than a month.

In his absence from the playing XI, the Reliance Industries-owned franchise team lost their first four ties before earning a maiden victory over Kolkata Knight Riders on April 29 at the Eden Gardens, and are languishing at the bottom of the eight-team league table.

Mumbai Indians were led by Harbhajan Singh in their first three matches, which were all lost.

The team was led by ace ex-South African all rounder Shaun Pollock in their last two matches following the booting out of Harbhajan from the IPL after he was found guilty of slapping India teammate S Sreesanth.

The Mumbai outfit have lost to Royal Challengers, at home, Chennai Super Kings and King's XI, away, and Deccan Chargers, at home, before putting it across Sourav Ganguly's Kolkata team, away, for their first points in the Twenty20 league.

We have put Harbhajan episode behind, says Mumbai Indians Coach Lalchand Rajput

Mumbai Indians team coach Lalchand Rajput today said the team had put the slap-gate involving Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth behind them and was trying to continue the winning momentum after clinching their first victory in the Indian Premier League.

"We have left it behind us. As you have seen in the previous match, the energy level of the team is high and they want to win the matches by focusing on cricket," said the former India opener, who too was fined 50 per cent of his match fees by the IPL authorities following the episode.

Harbhajan led the team in the first three games before being booted out of the tournament for slapping India teammate and King's XI Punjab bowler S Sreesanth after the third tie and Shaun Pollock took over the captaincy mantle with Sachin Tendulkar yet to recover full fitness.

Rajput felt that the team would now focus on maintaining the momentum achieved after winning against Kolkata Knight Riders two days ago at the Eden Gardens, their maiden victory in the Twenty20 league after four straight losses.

"When the starts are not good the end is generally better. That the team is gelling together is important. There are many games left. We have just started winning and the momentum will keep us going," he said.

On the inclusion of Manish Pandey, who batted at number three and made a duck against Kolkata, Rajput said that there would be some experimentation "with new players as the tournament goes on".

The Kiwi Kings depart

New Zealand begin their tour of England on May 15. A direct repercussion of this tour is that all the New Zealanders participating in the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) will have to forfeit the rest of the tournament and head back for national duty. However, they will not be the only ones leaving the party prematurely as their neighbours, the Australians will also be leaving in order to prepare for their upcoming tour to the Caribbean.

Jacob Oram is one such member leaving his IPL squad, Chennai Super Kings, as he heads back to New Zealand. The loss may be more for Oram as he was on a winning streak with the Super Kings who are having an undefeated run in the series so far.

Talking about his final match against the Bangalore Royal Challengers on Monday, the New Zealander was elated that his side won the match convincingly after being in a spot of bother at one stage. He gave credit to his bowlers and rated the match as the team's "best win out of the four so far."

Skipper MS Dhoni will miss Oram's all-round services with the bat and ball. The tall Kiwi had words of praise for his teammates especially Michael Hussey who steadied the innings when wickets were falling all around him against Bangalore.

"He is an outstanding batsman and he has got a great head on his shoulders as well," said Oram about the Australian middle-order batsman.

He praised the performances of Bangalore bowlers, Zaheer Khan and Dale Steyn for the dilemma they put the Chennai side in early on, but said that it was the Dhoni-Gony duo that he would rate as the two factors that turned the match in favour of the Super Kings.

The IPL has clearly made a big impact on him and he is one player who will be eager to be back next year.

"It has been unbelievable, it really has! I know that we have heard that from a lot of people but it isn't just lip service from players around the world. The IPL has really blown away my expectations; the hype and the excitement around it, the crowds that we are getting, and the things that are being pumped into the tournament have been first class. I am a little disappointed that I have got to go now. I am on Test tour to England now but I am looking forward to playing in the IPL next year!" concluded Oram.

The Chennai Kings sans Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey and Jacob Oram next face the Delhi Daredevils on March 2 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium at Chennai.

Harbhajan SIngh overstepped his line: Steve Waugh

Former Australia captain Steve Waugh feels that Harbhajan Singh paid the price for overstepping his line and was fortunate to have got a light punishment for that.

Ripping apart Harbhajan Singh for courting controversies regularly, former Australia captain Steve Waugh today said the offie was fortunate to have escaped with a minimum 11-match ban for slapping his India teammate S. Sreesanth. Terming Harbhajan Singh's indiscretion during an Indian Premier League match last week as 'unfortunate', Waugh said the offie paid the "price for overstepping the line".

"It's very unfortunate and not what you want to see. I think Harbhajan overstepped his line. He paid the price. I think he is a lot fortunate to have got 11 games," Waugh told newspersons on a visit to 'Udayan', a home for children of leprosy patients which he has been funding for the last eight years.

Waugh also had a word of advice for Harbhajan. "He has been controversial on a number of occasions. Now he should look at his own game and start playing cricket and not worry about other issues." He said the ongoing IPL, despite being a business venture, had the potential to help spread the game in unchartered territories like China and Malaysia and praised Board of Control for Cricket in India for drawing new spectators to cricket.

Waugh, however, felt Test cricket was 'supreme', as "at the end of the day, cricket is a game one wants to play for the country. Test cricket will survive the onslaught of market economy." On the England and Wales Cricket Board not allowing their players to take part in the cash-rich IPL, Waugh said no cricket board could afford to ignore the Twenty20 game. "I think the ECB will find a way so that their players are able to play in the IPL."

Rajasthan Royals go riding on their 4th Win in IPL

The home crowd at the Sawai Man Singh stadium had every opportunity to cheer for the native team. Kolkata Knight Riders chasing a total of 197 had a shaky start. With 3 wickets falling in first six overs, Royals showed their best in trying to break Kolkata's batting order. Royals' tasted thier fourth consecutive win, the first one where they batted firstand won the game by a subsatantial margin of 45 runs.

It was Sohail Tanvir who gave the Royals their first breakthrough when he bowled out fellow countryman Salman Butt by blowing his off-stumps.

The exit of stalwarts like Brendon Mc Cullum and Ricky Ponting had led to some changes in the batting order. Ajit Agarkar came at 3rd down, to add to the total's chase. After hitting 2 sixes and a single boundary, he was caught by keeper Rawat on Shane Watson's delivery. He made 20 runs. The next man in Hodge was simply unlucky as he was run-out when bowler Trivedi's hand touched the ball and hit the stumps while he was standing out of crease.

The last ball of twelfth over bought some controversy with it. Ganguly was caught by Smith off Pathan's ball, but he didn't leave the crease and pressurised the on feild umpire to refer the decision to the third umpire. Finally, the decision went in favor of the batsman. But, that was not of much help to Dada, as shortly, afetr completing his half century off 38 balls, was caught at long-on by Mohd. Kaif on Royals' captain Shane Warne's delivery. He contributed a total of 51 runs off 39 balls.

And after Saurav's departure, the downslide started for the Kolkata team. They started throwing their wickets to Royals' bowlers superb bowling.

One by one the wickets came tumbling down with the last wicket of Ashok Dinda being caught by Asnodkar on Watson's delivery. The rush to make the victory thiers as soon as possible was evident in the way, Warne and Asnodhkar raced and clashed to take the final catch. And,the Kinght Riders lost their third consecutive game by a big margin of 45 runs.

The Rajasthan Royals’ batsmen assaulted every bowler of Kolkata Knight Riders to the fullest and put a huge total of 197 for them to chase.

In the sweltering afternoon in Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh stadium, Shane Warne, captain and coach of Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bat. To his disappointment, in his very first over, Ishant Sharma showed his mettle. With a great pace (145kmph), he clean bowled Graeme Smith, in the last ball of the second over. Smith faced 7 balls and could make only 2 runs. This was an early blow to the Royals who started slow . The score was 11-1 after two overs.

However, Mohammad Kaif (21), who came after the fall of Smith, tried his best to push the score further and hit some splendid shots; one of them was a huge six, he hit off Agarkar in the seventh over. Unfortunately, he was caught and bowled by Ajit Agarkar on the last ball of the same over. Together with opener Asnodkar he added 40 runs to the scoreboard.

Umar Gul double struck in the 12th over to put a break on Rajasthan’s run riot. He sent S Asnodkar (caught Hussey) and S Watson (LBW) back to pavilion giving the much awaited respite to Sourav Ganguly. While Asnodkar hit 60, Watson could not even open his account. The score at this point was 111/4.

The 24-year old right hand batsman from Goa, Swapnil Asnodkar (60), was the pick of the player today for the Rajasthan Royals. The batsman scored a superb half century in his first IPL match. He did not respect Ishant’s pace or Agarkar’s Yorkers (he hit Agarkar for three consecutive boundaries in the ninth over). He completed his 50 in 29 balls in the 10th over of the inning. The half century included eight fours and one six. Hussey took an easy catch off Gul’s bowling to end Asnodkar’s inning. He also had a 50-run partnership with Yusuf Pathan,

After Asnodkar’s departure, Pathan and Jadeja took the reins of the team. Jadeja added crucial 33 runs in 19 balls (three fours and one six), while Pathan completed his fifty in style hitting a six off Shukla’s bowling. He made 55 that included six fours and two sixes. Gul clean bowled him in the 20th over when the team’s score was 190 for 6.

Shane Warne made 7 and was cleverly run out by Umar Gul in the 20th over. Sohail Tanvir (2) and M Rawat (1) remained unbeaten.

Earlier Kolkata brought in Salman Butt, BJ Hodge, and Umar Gul while Rajasthan made two changes- they included SA Asnodkar and Sohail Tanvir as new faces