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IPLT20 2010 Points Table – 21/03/2010

DLF IPL T20 2010 - Points table after 16 League matches

Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers moved up the table with 2 out of 2 wins, while Delhi DareDevils slipped down with 2 losses in a row.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indian and Deccan Chargers looks solid so far in IPL3.
CSK missing Dhoni and DD missing Gambhir badly.
Chennai Super Kings and Delhi DareDevils will be gaining strength when they get back Dhoni and Gambhir resp. from injuries.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match against Delhi Daredevils by 7 wickets. They still have chance to move to the semi finals provided they win their last match. All the teams now have 1 match to play each.
Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab
Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils
Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

DLF IPL T20 Points Table Tally at the end of day – 19/05/2009

IPL T20 Points table & teams standing after 52 League matches

Probability for teams to make it to Semi Finals:

For Rajasthan Royals

• They should win against Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin
• Kings XI Punjab should lose their match against Chennai Super Kings. Otherwise, Chennai Super Kings should lose their match by more than 100 runs

For Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers, Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Must win their only match

For Chennai Super Kings

• Shouldn’t lose their match by big margin. Defeat by <50 runs shouldn’t risk their semi final chance.

I love statistics and graphs a lot…

Here is an interesting table/graph showing the points progress of the 8 teams in the Leagues matches of the DLF IPL T20 2009.

Click on the image below to view full graph….

DLF IPL 2009 - Points progress of teams in League matches

If you are a fan of Kolkata Knight Riders it would be heart breaking to see the black line horizontal…

While Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore did well to recover from the worst position they were in after first 5 matches. Chennai Super Kings just had 3 points and Royal Challengers had 2 points. Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians were the teams to give away the early advantage they had. They both lost 4 matches in a row.

A good day for Chennai Super Kings as they moved to the semi finals beating Mumbai Indians by 7 Wickets in yesterday’s match held in St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth.

IPL 2009 – Match 47 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians – Full Scorecard

Duminy compiled yet another 50 to take his side to a decent score

Sachin Tendulkar captain of Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first. Sanath Jayasuriya and Bravo opened the innings. Morkel bowled a superb yorker to dislodge the off stump of Bravo in the first ball of third over. Duminy was the next man in. Poor fielding of Chennai Super Kings continued and they gave away two boundaries in two balls instead of singles. Jayasuriya break free during 5th over and hit 2 sixes and 2 fours. He lost his wicket in the last ball of powerplay trying to hit over the top after scoring quick 30 runs in 17 balls. Tyagi was the bowler and Raina pouched the catch at covers. Sachin joined Duminy to consolidate the Mumbai innings. During strategic break the score was 75/3. Raina took the wicket of Sachin immediately after the break. Muralidaran and Raina bowled some tight overs and conceded only 26 Runs in 5 overs after break. Dhoni missed an easy stumping chance of Nayar of the bowling of Raina.  Duminy played well and got yet another fifty in this IPL. He was runout by Morkel in the last over after scoring 62 runs in 54balls. Mumbai Indians just managed to score 147/5 in 20 overs. Chennai Super Kings bowled well to restrict Mumbai Indians to below 150.

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It was a day for Royal(s) - Royal Challengers and Rajasthan Royals – as they won their matches yesterday, both the matches were nail bitters and went to the last over – real thrillers.

IPL 2009 – Match 44 – Chennai Super Kings Vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – Full Scorecard

Kumble took the wicket of Mathew Hayden - turning point of the match

MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat on a good batting wicket. Vijay and Hayden opened the innings. Kumble bowled the tidy first over for just 4 runs. Hayden took the attack back to Bangalore scoring 16runs in the next over bowled by Vinay Kumar. Vijay was the first to go and he struggled for his 5 runs of 9 balls. Kallis got the wicket of Vijay in his first over and the 4th of the match, a wicket maiden over. The inform Raina couldn’t do much this time and got out in the second over of Kallis after scoring 13(10). Dhoni joined Hayden when the score was 48/2 in 5.4 overs. They played sensible cricket not giving away any chance to the opposition and took the score to 72/2 at strategic break. Dhoni got out to a stunning catch by van der Merwe and he scored 18(20). Hayden got out in the next over from Kumble to a good catch at midwicket. Hayden scored 60 runs in just 38 balls and the score was 101/4 in 13.2 overs. This wicket really turned things around for Royal Challengers as the other batsman struggled to score runs and got out in quick successions. Chennai Super Kings were bowled out for 129 in 19.4 overs. Kallis, Kumble and Vinay Kumar got 2 wickets each. Royal Challengers Bangalore fielded exceptionally well in this match.

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