2nd IPL Match - Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals

This was a match between the team that won and came 7th. Rajasthan were the clear favourites going into this match and were very confident and they had every reason to be: they have a very good team, so good that they were champions last year. I personally wanted Bangalore to win because it has Dravid in it and he is my favourite player. Bangalore won the toss and decided to bat.

Rajasthan got a brilliant start by taking 2 wickets in the first over. But Bangalore managed to recover, thanks to Dravid's 66, to 133/8. Quite a competitive score.

Bangalore got an equally good start taking 2 wickets in the first 3 overs. Thanks to some excellent bowling from Kumble, who took the best figures in T20 - 5 for 5, Rajasthan only got to 58 and were all out.

So another surprise - Bangalore win by 75 runs. Dravid got the man of the match award.

Table as it stands:

Team	Match	Won	Lost	NR	Pts	RR	Run For	Run Against
Bangalore Royal Challengers	1	1	0	0	2	+3.750	133/20.0	58/20.0
Mumbai Indians	1	1	0	0	2	+0.950	165/20.0	146/20.0
Chennai Super Kings	1	0	1	0	0	-0.950	146/20.0	165/20.0
Rajasthan Royals	1	0	1	0	0	-3.750	58/20.0	133/20.0

1st IPL Match - Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians

A very exciting match that went down to the wire. I wanted Mumbai to win because I like Tendulkar a lot. Chennai won the toss and chose to field. On paper Chennai should have won/

It was a good effort with the ball but Flintoff got hammered for over 20 runs in one over of Abhishek Nayar which I thought was poor. They manged to restrict Mumbai to 165 for 7. Hayden dropped a vital catch which meant that Tendulkar managed to make a great score of 59 off 49 balls which proved important at the end.

Then Chennai batted. There was a wicket in the first over but they recovred and started to bat well. But wickets were falling at regular interval and at the end thanks to some good bowling the Mumbai team were able to restrict Chennai to 146 for 7.

So Mumbai won by 19 runs, a surprise result. Tendulkar got the man of the match award.

Here is how the table looks now:

Team	Match	Won	Lost	NR	Pts	RR	Run For	Run Against
Mumbai Indians	1	1	0	0	2	+0.950	165/20.0	146/20.0
Chennai Super Kings	1	0	1	0	0	-0.950	146/20.0	165/20.0

The DLF IPL Season 2 has begun!

Cricket is another one of my favourite sports. This is not very surprising as most Indians do like cricket. The IPL is a great idea developed by Lalit Modi (same first name as me by the way) and it is a great tournament. The first season was a great success. But the second season was threatened by security concerns as it clashed with the elections. But by moving the tournament to South Africa all these concerns have gone and the IPL has started with the same energy as last year.

SpaceTech Info will keep everyone posted on all the teams that I am following in the IPL that play on weekends!

These teams are:

1. Deccan Chargers - Home Team
2. Bangalore Royal Challengers - Lived in Bangalore for a long time and DRavid is my favourite player
3. Mumbai Indians- Tendulkar is in it.