IPL

IPL


INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

IPL SPONSERS

1. DLF BUILDING INDIA

2. SONY MAX

3. PEPSI

4. KINGFISHER AIRLINES

5. CITIBANK

6. ITC-WELCOME GROUP

7. VODAFONE

8. HERO HONDA

MC GRATH HAPPY WITH IPL

Delhi Daredevils' star and former Australian paceman, Glenn McGrath has reportedly turned down a lucrative offer to play English county cricket with Surrey.

The 38-year-old Aussie has been in outstanding form in the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) despite being several months away from the game following his retirement at the 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Surrey's offer is believed to have been rather good but McGrath has been quoted as saying that there is no way he would be interested in playing county cricket or going back to the long form of the game.

The lanky speedster who has 10 wickets from 11 IPL matches with a best of 4/29 believes he has been bowling well in the IPL's Twenty20 competition and thinks he has surprised a few people with his performance. The New South Wales' veteran said he was looking forward to returning home to his wife and kids after a fairly long tournament.

The Daredevils are currently fifth in the IPL standings with three more league matches to play.

DLF DONATES 6 CRORES

Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner, DLF Indian Premier League, today, announced that the eight franchisees and five sponsors of the League would come together to donate Rs. 6 crores towards the Rajasthan Chief Minister's Relief Fund, as aid towards the victims of the terror attacks in Jaipur on May 13th 2008. This contribution towards the Chief Minister's Relief Fund will go towards the rehabilitation of the affected families of the victims of the tragic Jaipur blasts.

This contribution has been made possible because of the partners of the DLF Indian Premier League and a cheque favouring the Rajasthan Chief Minister's Relief Fund would be handed over to Ms. Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan at the game tomorrow in Jaipur between the Rajasthan Royals and the Bangalore Royal Challengers.

The eight franchises of the League have all come together to donate Rs. 50 lakh each totaling Rs. 4 crores, while the five sponsors namely DLF Ltd, Vodafone, Citibank, Kingfisher and Hero Honda have all contributed Rs. 40 lakhs each totaling Rs. 2 crores.

As a mark of respect to the victims of the terror attacks, both the teams will wear black armbands during the game tomorrow in Jaipur.

DLF DONATES 6 CRORES

Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner, DLF Indian Premier League, today, announced that the eight franchisees and five sponsors of the League would come together to donate Rs. 6 crores towards the Rajasthan Chief Minister's Relief Fund, as aid towards the victims of the terror attacks in Jaipur on May 13th 2008. This contribution towards the Chief Minister's Relief Fund will go towards the rehabilitation of the affected families of the victims of the tragic Jaipur blasts.

This contribution has been made possible because of the partners of the DLF Indian Premier League and a cheque favouring the Rajasthan Chief Minister's Relief Fund would be handed over to Ms. Vasundhara Raje Scindia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan at the game tomorrow in Jaipur between the Rajasthan Royals and the Bangalore Royal Challengers.

The eight franchises of the League have all come together to donate Rs. 50 lakh each totaling Rs. 4 crores, while the five sponsors namely DLF Ltd, Vodafone, Citibank, Kingfisher and Hero Honda have all contributed Rs. 40 lakhs each totaling Rs. 2 crores.

As a mark of respect to the victims of the terror attacks, both the teams will wear black armbands during the game tomorrow in Jaipur.

KING XI PUNJAB


Players
Yuvraj Singh
Gagandeep Singh
Karan Goel
Luke Pomersbach
Pankaj Dharmani
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Santakumaran Sreesanth
Sunny Sohal
VRV Singh
Ajitesh Argal
Irfan Pathan
Kumar Sangakkara
Mahela Jayawardene
Piyush Chawla
Rishi Dhawan
Shaun Marsh
Tanmay Srivastava
Wilkin Mota
Brett Lee
James Hopes
Kyle Mills
Nitin Saini
Ramesh Powar
Sahil Kukreja
Simon Katich
Uday Kaul
Tom Moody *(Coach)


ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE

Rahul Dravid
Balachandra Akhil
Dale Steyn
Jagadeesh Arunkumar
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor
Sunil Joshi
Wasim Jaffer
Abdur Razzak
Bharat Chipli
Devraj Patil
KP Appanna
Nathan Bracken
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Vinay Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Anil Kumble
Cameron White
Jacques Kallis
Mark Boucher (wk)
Praveen Kumar
Shreevats Goswami (wk)
Virat Kohli
Venkatesh Prasad *(Coach)


CHENNAI SUPER KINGS



Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Arun Karthik
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Matthew Hayden
Napoleon Einstein
R Ashwin
Stephen Fleming
Suresh Raina
Abhinav Mukund
Jacob Oram
Makhaya Ntini
Michael Hussey
Palani Amarnath
Shadab Jakati
Subramaniam Badrinath
Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan
Albie Morkel
Joginder Sharma
Manpreet Gony
Muttiah Muralitharan
Parthiv Patel (wk)
Srikkanth Anirudha
Suresh Kumar
Viraj Vilas Kadbe
Kepler Wessels *(Coach)


DELHI DAREDEVILS

Virender Sehwag
Brett Geeves
Farveez Maharoof
Manoj Tiwary
Mohammad Asif
Shikhar Dhawan
Tillakaratne Dilshan
AB de Villiers
Daniel Vettori
Gautam Gambhir
Mayank Tehlan
Pradeep Sangwan
Shoaib Malik
Yo Mahesh
Amit Mishra
Dinesh Karthik
Glenn McGrath
Mithun Manhas
Rajat Bhatia
Tejashwi Yadav
Yogesh Nagar
Greg Shipperd *(Coach)


DECCAN CHARGERS


VVS Laxman
Arjun Yadav
D Kalyankrishna
Herschelle Gibbs
PM Sarvesh Kumar
RP Singh
Shahid Afridi
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Chamara Silva
Dwaraka Ravi Teja
Nuwan Zoysa
Pragyan Ojha
Sanjay Bangar
Venugopal Rao
Andrew Symonds
Chaminda Vaas
Halhadar Das (wk)
Paidikalva Vijaykumar
Rohit Sharma
Scott Styris
Robin Singh *(Coach)


KNIGHT RIDERS

Sourav Ganguly (C)
Ashok Dinda
Cheteshwar Pujara
Debabrata Das
Laxmi Shukla
Rohan Banerjee
Saurasish Lahiri
Tatenda Taibu (wk)
Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha
Aakash Chopra
Brad Hodge
Chris Gayle
Iqbal Abdulla
Mohammad Hafeez
Ricky Ponting
Siddarth Kaul
Umar Gul
Ajit Agarkar
Brendon McCullum (wk)
David Hussey
Ishant Sharma
Murali Kartik
Salman Butt
Shoaib Akhtar
Yashpal Singh
John Buchanan *(Coach)


Rahul Dravid
Balachandra Akhil
Dale Steyn
Jagadeesh Arunkumar
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor
Sunil Joshi
Wasim Jaffer
Abdur Razzak
Bharat Chipli
Devraj Patil
KP Appanna
Nathan Bracken
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Vinay Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Anil Kumble
Cameron White
Jacques Kallis
Mark Boucher (wk)
Praveen Kumar
Shreevats Goswami (wk)
Virat Kohli
Venkatesh Prasad *(Coach)



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Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Arun Karthik
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Matthew Hayden
Napoleon Einstein
R Ashwin
Stephen Fleming
Suresh Raina
Abhinav Mukund
Jacob Oram
Makhaya Ntini
Michael Hussey
Palani Amarnath
Shadab Jakati
Subramaniam Badrinath
Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan
Albie Morkel
Joginder Sharma
Manpreet Gony
Muttiah Muralitharan
Parthiv Patel (wk)
Srikkanth Anirudha
Suresh Kumar
Viraj Vilas Kadbe
Kepler Wessels *(Coach)



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Virender Sehwag
Brett Geeves
Farveez Maharoof
Manoj Tiwary
Mohammad Asif
Shikhar Dhawan
Tillakaratne Dilshan
AB de Villiers
Daniel Vettori
Gautam Gambhir
Mayank Tehlan
Pradeep Sangwan
Shoaib Malik
Yo Mahesh
Amit Mishra
Dinesh Karthik
Glenn McGrath
Mithun Manhas
Rajat Bhatia
Tejashwi Yadav
Yogesh Nagar
Greg Shipperd *(Coach)



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VVS Laxman
Arjun Yadav
D Kalyankrishna
Herschelle Gibbs
PM Sarvesh Kumar
RP Singh
Shahid Afridi
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Chamara Silva
Dwaraka Ravi Teja
Nuwan Zoysa
Pragyan Ojha
Sanjay Bangar
Venugopal Rao
Andrew Symonds
Chaminda Vaas
Halhadar Das (wk)
Paidikalva Vijaykumar
Rohit Sharma
Scott Styris
Robin Singh *(Coach)


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Sourav Ganguly (C)
Ashok Dinda
Cheteshwar Pujara
Debabrata Das
Laxmi Shukla
Rohan Banerjee
Saurasish Lahiri
Tatenda Taibu (wk)
Wriddhiman Prasanta Saha
Aakash Chopra
Brad Hodge
Chris Gayle
Iqbal Abdulla
Mohammad Hafeez
Ricky Ponting
Siddarth Kaul
Umar Gul
Ajit Agarkar
Brendon McCullum (wk)
David Hussey
Ishant Sharma
Murali Kartik
Salman Butt
Shoaib Akhtar
Yashpal Singh
John Buchanan *(Coach)


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Sachin Tendulkar
Ankeet Chavan
Dhawal Kulkarni
Dwayne Bravo
Lasith Malinga
Manish Pandey
Rajesh Pawar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Siddharth Chitnis
Y Vijay Takawale (wk)
Abhishek Nayar
Ashish Nehra
Dilhara Fernando
Gaurav Dhiman
Loots Bosman
Musavir Khote
Robin Uthappa
Saurabh Tiwary
Swapnil Singh
Ajinkya Rahane
Ashwell Prince
Dominic Thornely
Harbhajan Singh
Luke Ronchi
Pinal Shah (wk)
Rohan Raje
Shaun Pollock
Vikrant Yeligati
Lalchand Rajput *(Coach)


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Shane Warne* (Coach)
Darren Lehmann
Graeme Smith
Kamran Akmal (wk)
Morne Morkel
Pankaj Singh
Shane Watson
Swapnil Asnodkar
Younus Khan
Aditya Angle
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Jaydev Shah
Mahesh Rawat
Munaf Patel
Parag More
Siddharth Trivedi
Sumit Khatri
Yusuf Pathan
Anup Revandkar
Dinesh Salunke
Justin Langer
Mohammad Kaif
Niraj Patel
Ravindra Jadeja
Sohail Tanvir
Taruwar Kohli


MUMBAI INDIANS



Sachin Tendulkar
Ankeet Chavan
Dhawal Kulkarni
Dwayne Bravo
Lasith Malinga
Manish Pandey
Rajesh Pawar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Siddharth Chitnis
Y Vijay Takawale (wk)
Abhishek Nayar
Ashish Nehra
Dilhara Fernando
Gaurav Dhiman
Loots Bosman
Musavir Khote
Robin Uthappa
Saurabh Tiwary
Swapnil Singh
Ajinkya Rahane
Ashwell Prince
Dominic Thornely
Harbhajan Singh
Luke Ronchi
Pinal Shah (wk)
Rohan Raje
Shaun Pollock
Vikrant Yeligati
Lalchand Rajput *(Coach)


RAJASTHAN ROYALS

Shane Warne* (Coach)
Darren Lehmann
Graeme Smith
Kamran Akmal (wk)
Morne Morkel
Pankaj Singh
Shane Watson
Swapnil Asnodkar
Younus Khan
Aditya Angle
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Jaydev Shah
Mahesh Rawat
Munaf Patel
Parag More
Siddharth Trivedi
Sumit Khatri
Yusuf Pathan
Anup Revandkar
Dinesh Salunke
Justin Langer
Mohammad Kaif
Niraj Patel
Ravindra Jadeja
Sohail Tanvir
Taruwar Kohli


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HUNGRY FOR VICTORY.....

The Mumbai Indians further fortified their position in the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) as they defeated the Deccan Chargers by 25 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on May 18. Coach Lalchand Rajput has every reason to be thrilled with his wards' performances and appreciated his team's resurgent form after their sixth consecutive victory in the Twenty20 competition.

Initially, the most expensive team of the IPL had a poor start in the tourney with four consecutive losses. As the League proceeded, the Mumbai team had a steady climb and now occupies the fourth spot on the points table.

While speaking to the media at the post-match press conference, Rajput said, "I have repeated quite a few times that the first two games were quite close matches. The verdict would have been either way too. The most notable thing about the team is that we have overcome the setbacks and we hope to continue performing in the same way."

He signified that his team has been sporting an apt mental approach and attitude, further specifying that they will not be smug about their success.

"We will not be complacent. We will take one match at a time," he stated.

When quizzed about the secret of their stupendous comeback in the League, a merry Rajput replied, "There is no secret. But what is important is that the team is very hungry for winning. You can see the energy level on the ground and the intensity with which they are playing. They are playing as a team."

Rajput did not seem to be relaxed even though his team has been winning matches on the trot.

"The journey is certainly not easy as there are quite some matches to go. As I said earlier, we are taking one match at a time. The verdict is never predictable in a game like cricket. We are certainly confident and not overconfident," he stated.

Mumbai Indians still have four games to play before the knock-out phase begins. They will face Kings XI Punjab, Delhi Daredevils, Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore Royal Challengers.