Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders

Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue	Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai on 12th March 2010 (20-over match) (day/night)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Deccan Chargers won the toss and decided to field
Result	Kolkata Knight Riders won by 11 runs
Umpires	RE Koertzen (South Africa), RB Tiffin (Zimbabwe)
Third umpire	BG Jerling (South Africa)
Referee	AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe)

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Kolkata Knight Riders innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	S-Rate
MK Tiwary	c Sharma b Vaas	0	1	-	-	0.00
BJ Hodge	c Gibbs b Jaskaran Singh	13	9	1	1	144.44
*SC Ganguly	c Anirudh Singh b Vaas	0	3	-	-	0.00
CA Pujara	c Ojha b RP Singh	10	16	2	-	62.50
OA Shah	not out	58	46	3	3	126.09
AD Mathews	not out	65	46	5	4	141.30
LR Shukla	did not bat
+WP Saha	did not bat
M Kartik	did not bat
CK Langeveldt	did not bat
I Sharma	did not bat
Extras	(8 lb, 1 nb, 6 w)	15
Total	(4 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs)	161
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Tiwary, 0.1 ov), 2-0 (Ganguly, 0.4 ov), 3-31 (Pujara, 4.4 ov), 4-31 (Hodge, 5.1 ov)

Deccan Chargers bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Vaas	3	1	22	2	-	-	9.00	7.33
RP Singh	4	0	35	1	3	-	24.00	8.75
Jaskaran Singh	4	0	35	1	1	-	24.00	8.75
Ojha	4	0	19	0	-	-	-	4.75
Symonds	4	0	26	0	2	-	-	6.50
Suman	1	0	16	0	-	1	-	16.00

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Deccan Chargers innings		Runs	Balls	4s	6s	S-Rate
*+AC Gilchrist	c Tiwary b Hodge	54	35	3	3	154.29
VVS Laxman	c and b Kartik	22	14	2	1	157.14
HH Gibbs	c Mathews b Langeveldt	19	24	2	-	79.17
A Symonds	c Ganguly b Sharma	5	9	-	-	55.56
RG Sharma	c Hodge b Mathews	13	12	2	-	108.33
Anirudh Singh	c and b Shukla	14	14	1	-	100.00
TL Suman	not out	7	9	1	-	77.78
WPUJC Vaas	b Langeveldt	0	1	-	-	0.00
Jaskaran Singh	not out	4	4	-	-	100.00
RP Singh	did not bat
PP Ojha	did not bat
Extras	(4 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 5 w)	12
Total	(7 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs)	150
Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Laxman, 5.5 ov), 2-99 (Gilchrist, 11.1 ov), 3-102 (Gibbs, 12.2 ov), 4-116 (Symonds, 14.1 ov), 5-128 (Sharma, 16.2 ov), 6-141 (Anirudh Singh, 17.6 ov), 7-142 (Vaas, 18.3 ov)

Kolkata Knight Riders bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Langeveldt	4	0	26	2	3	-	12.00	6.50
Sharma	4	0	31	1	1	1	24.00	7.75
Shukla	3	0	30	1	-	-	18.00	10.00
Kartik	3	0	17	1	-	-	18.00	5.67
Mathews	4	0	27	1	1	1	24.00	6.75
Hodge	2	0	14	1	-	-	12.00	7.00

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Notes
--> Deccan Chargers powerplay 1: overs 1 to 6 (62/1)
--> Kolkata Knight Riders innings: 50 in 8.2 overs
--> Kolkata Knight Riders innings: 100 in 15.4 overs
--> Kolkata Knight Riders innings: 150 in 18.5 overs
--> Deccan Chargers innings: 50 in 4.5 overs
--> Deccan Chargers innings: 100 in 11.2 overs
--> Deccan Chargers innings: 150 in 19.5 overs
--> OA Shah 50 in 43 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes
--> AD Mathews passed his previous highest IPL Matches score of 16
--> AD Mathews 50 in 38 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes
--> AD Mathews passed his previous highest Twenty20 Matches score of 60
--> AD Mathews passed 500 runs in Twenty20 Matches when he reached 22
--> AC Gilchrist 50 in 30 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes
--> OA Shah (15) and AD Mathews (32) added 50 in 53 balls for the Kolkata Knight Riders 5th wicket
--> OA Shah (42) and AD Mathews (53) added 100 in 75 balls for the Kolkata Knight Riders 5th wicket
--> AC Gilchrist (31) and VVS Laxman (16) added 50 in 29 balls for the Deccan Chargers 1st wicket

Apollo Club beat Faran Gymkhana

LAHORE – Apollo Club has marched to the second round of 25th Muhammad Akhter Memorial Cricket Tournament when they defeated Faran Gymkhana by three wickets played at Township ground. Fine batting by Ali Zeeshan, Ayaz and all round performance by Naveed were the main feature of the match.
Akhter Abdul Rehman Colts, Servis Colts, Zareef Memorial, Shinning club, Universal Club and Lahore Gymkhana were already moved into the 2nd round.
Scores Faran Gymkhana (167).
Ali Zeshan 55, Mohsin Rasheed 31, Irfan 22, Hafiz Ishtiaq 20, Naved 3/24, Salman 2/32, Shah Rose 2/26, Azad Hussain 1/7.
Apallo club (170/7) in 19.5 overs. Ayaz 65, Naveed 32, Salman 20, Zeshan 2/30, Rauf 2/30, Imran 1/7.

Warner seeks answers on legality of switch-hit

David Warner wants the ICC to clarify its stance on switch-hitting after the umpires in Tuesday night's Twenty20 against West Indies told him he couldn't face up right-handed. The left-handed Warner tried to get in position for a switch-hit against Narsingh Deonarine but the bowler backed out and Warner exchanged words with the umpires Bruce Oxenford and Rod Tucker after the incident.

David Warner is at his best left-handed, but also likes to change it up every now and then

"It was a funny one - Ox said to me, 'You can't do it because they have to chop and change the field all the time'," Warner told the Sydney Morning Herald. "I told him, 'Well it's not hard and I'll tell them when I'm going to bat right-handed or left-handed so they can change the field'. Whatever. I have to wait for the bowler to change from over the wicket to around the wicket so what's the difference? The umpires told me I have to notify the bowler so I turned around and said, 'OK, I'm going to bat right-handed.'

"Tuck looked at me and goes, 'Nuh'. I let it go. But then I went to the square-leg umpire in the next over and I said, 'Why can't I do it?' He basically said it's too much time and it's not in the spirit of the game. I still went to bat right-handed - but he shook his head again."

A Cricket Australia spokesman said their understanding was that Warner's tactic was not against the rules of cricket and might be an issue the ICC could decide on once and for all. When Kevin Pietersen showed off his left-handed switch-hit in 2008 it was ruled by the MCC, the guardians of the game's laws, that the stroke would not be made illegal.

Warner said he batted right-handed as a child and during most net sessions he bats right-handed for the last five minutes. He does not want to abandon the switch-hit, which he believes gives him the advantage of being able to hit with the turn regardless of whether an offspinner or a legspinner is operating.

"Last year at The Oval, we had a practice out in the middle and Haury [Nathan Hauritz] was bowling," Warner said. "They were turning square and I got sick of it. I couldn't hit a ball, so I batted right-handed and I started putting him into the stands. That's when Tim Nielsen said to me, 'What's going on here?' So I thought I might as well bring it out in a game. If a spinner is working to a plan to me, why can't I try to counteract it?"

Australian players see 'positive' steps on IPL security

The Australian Cricketers' Association remains hopeful that its IPL security requirements can be

met despite Lalit Modi's blunt criticism of players' concerns this week. The ACA chief executive, Paul Marsh, said there were positive signs that the IPL's security firm was taking seriously the list of safety issues that worried players after an independent report found that a terrorist threat against the league was credible.

"Our security adviser Reg Dickason has been working with the IPL's security adviser, Nicholls-Steyn," Marsh told Cricinfo. "They've been working for a few days now on what we've identified as the issues that have come out of various player meetings.

"Nicholls-Steyn is aware of those and they are working through the issues and we're making some positive progress. It's probably looked more positive over the last few days than what it has [before]. There's still 15 days to go before the event starts and things can happen very quickly in India, we've seen that over the years."

Marsh stressed that the Australian players involved in the IPL still wanted to go ahead and take part but as it is not a national team tour, the decision remains with the individual players. Modi has been vociferous on Twitter in the past couple of days, insisting the IPL would not "be dictated by players associations where to play" and that anyone who pulled out might be placing in jeopardy their future participation in the tournament.

Modi also had a dig at Ricky Ponting and said he had heard that Ponting was encouraging players not to go to the IPL. There had been reports that Ponting had disagreed with some senior freelance players, including Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne, at an ACA meeting on Tuesday but Marsh said the reports of a rift between players were untrue.

"I presented to the players the information that we had and opened it up for discussion � like any meeting I'd have with the players," he said. "Like just about every meeting, when you're dealing with a difficult issue, there are different points of view and there were definitely different points of view in this particular meeting. The players were completely unified on the position that they wanted to go.

"However, there was one school thinking they would only go if our security adviser, Reg Dickason who we trust, believes it's safe to go. There was another school that said it's a risk-and-reward type situation, would we go regardless. We got to a position at the end of it where we all said okay, let's put back to the IPL the things that we need so that all the players can go.

"If we can resolve those issues with them, and that is our hope, then we would expect to get to a point where our security adviser recommends that it's safe for the players to go. If we can't overcome these issues then the opposite is the most likely scenario. This is a decision to be made by each individual player."

Chanderpaul keeps Durham on top

Division One

Shivnarine Chanderpaul stood firm with an unbeaten century, as Durham were made to battle to keep the ascendancy on a tough day's cricket at Chester-le-Street. Having taken control of the match by bowling Somerset out for 174 on the first day, Durham were indebted to Chanderpaul who overcame a collapse of 3 for 5 in five overs to convert his overnight 49 into a vital 117. Charl Willoughby was the pick of the Somerset attack with 5 for 56, but Ben Phillips was equally impressive with 3 for 46, including his former team-mate, Ian Blackwell, for a second-ball duck. Trailing by 98 on first innings, Somerset had hauled themselves right back into the contest by the close, as Marcus Trescothick and Arul Suppiah added 41 unbroken runs for the first wicket.