Official thread: IPL 2009 - April 10 to May 24

[Rameshjeee]

The schedule is (All times IST):

April 18: Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore (4 pm) at Cape Town; Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings (8 pm) at Cape Town

April 19: Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers (4 pm) at Cape Town; Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab (8 pm) at Cape Town.

April 20: RCB V CSK (4 pm) at Port Elizabeth. April 21: RR v MI (4 pm) at Durban; KKR v KXIP (8 pm) at Durban

April 22: DD v CSK (4 pm) at Durban; RCB v DC (8 pm) at Cape Town

April 23: KKR v RR (4 pm) at Port Elizabeth April 24: KXIP v RCB (4 pm) at Johannesburg April 25: KKR v CSK (4 pm) at Cape Town; DC v MI (8 pm) at Durban.

April 26: RR v KXIP (4 pm) at Cape Town; RCB v DD (8 pm) Port Elizabeth

April 27: KKR v MI (4 pm) at Cape Town; CSK v DC (8 pm) at Durban.

April 28: DD v RR (4 pm) at Pretoria April 29: MI v KXIP (4 pm) at Durban; KKR v RCB (8 pm) at Durban

April 30: DD v DC (4 pm) at Pretoria; RR v CSK (8 pm) at Pretoria.

May 1: RCB v KXIP (4 pm) at East London; MI v KKR (8 pm) at Durban

May 2: RR v DC (4 pm) at Johannesburg; CSK v DD (8 pm) at Port Elizabeth

May 3: MI v RCB (4 pm) at Durban; KXIP v KKR (8 pm) at East London.

May 4: DC v CSK (4 pm) at Port Elizabeth May 5: DD v KKR (4 pm) at Durban; KXIP v RR (8 pm) at Durb

May 6: MI v DC (4 pm) at Pretoria May 7: KXIP v CSK (4 pm) at Pretoria; RCB v RR (8 pm) at Pretoria

May 8: DD v MI (4 pm) at East London May 9: DC v KXIP (4 pm) at Bloemfontein; CSK v RR (8 pm) at Port Elizabeth

May 10: KKR v DD (4 pm) at East London; RCB v MI (8 pm) at Johannesburg

May 11: DC v RR (4 pm) at Bloemfontein May 12: RCB v KKR (4 pm) at Pretoria; KXIP v MI (8 pm) at Pretoria.

May 13: DC v DD (4 pm) at Durban May 14: MI v RR (4 pm) at Durban; CSK v RCB (8 pm) at Durban.

May 15: KXIP v DD (4 pm) at Kimberley May 16: CSK v MI (4 pm) at Johannesburg; DC v KKR (8 pm) at Port Elizabeth.

May 17: RR v DD (4 pm) at Kimberley; KXIP v DC (8 pm) at Johannesburg

May 18: CSK v KKR (4 pm) at Pretoria May 19: DD v RCB (4 pm) at Johannesburg

May 20: CSK v KXIP (4 pm) at Durban; RR v KKR (8 pm) at Durban

May 21: DC v RCB (4 pm) at Pretoria; MI v DD (8 pm) at Pretoria

May 22: Semi Final 1 at Pretoria

May 23: Semi Final 2 at Johannesburg

May 24: Final at Johannesburg.

[aashaka_gandhi]

looks like thy ve reshuffled lot of matches.......

[Rameshjeee]

looks like thy ve reshuffled lot of matches.......

Yup, there are 2 matches on some of the week days...which is of no use....I am sure most of the people would miss the 4 pm match as they will be in office...

[aashaka_gandhi]

i knooo......but it wud ve beeen similar as even when in India ....matches were @ 4 pm n 8 pm....but there were more matches @ 8 pm ....

[Rameshjeee]

In the last season, there was only 1 match during the week days i.e. 8 pm.
& there were 2 matches in the weekend i.e. 4 pm & 8 pm..

[aashaka_gandhi]

ooops didnt mark tht much!

[Rameshjeee]

This year IPL is a flop....Almost all the matches had a delayed start...
Lalit Modi said that they choose South Africa ahead of England because of the weather condition....What do Lalit Modi have to say now...IPL-2 a total flop...

[aashaka_gandhi]

prolly i feel the weather check wasnt done properly.....

[Preeti_20]

Thanks for this thread Ramesh, knew you would keep us all updated on something like this!

[Rameshjeee]

Yesterday the best day of the IPL-2. We had 2 close matches. IPL at its beat. This is what we all have been waiting for.

Delhi beat Chennai by 9 runs. A wonderful century by ADB & a Half Century from Dilshan....Chennai had a good start, but after the dismissal of Raina & Hayden..they wobbled a bit & at the end it was Delhi who held their nerves.

The match between KKR & RR was just superb...Rajasthan had a good start beacause of Yusuf but after his dismissal, the runs just dried up & the last over which costed around 16 runs helped them a post a pretty competitive score of 151.

Once Gayle was dismissed, Rajasthan knew that they had the game in control. One over from Munaf which costed over 20 runs brought the KKR back in to the match.

Atlast it was a tie. & Rajathan won in the Super over.

Warne marshaled his troops well.

[Raghav_K]

CSK lost again :'(

One win from five matches boooooooooooooooooo

[Rameshjeee]

It was a treat to watch both the ICONS (Sachin & Sanath) bat they know the best. It was a amazing display of batting..There were no slog hits...It was all proper cricketing shots...Mumbai Indian just blew away the KKR...

[Rameshjeee]

This year IPL is a flop....Almost all the matches had a delayed start...
Lalit Modi said that they choose South Africa ahead of England because of the weather condition....What do Lalit Modi have to say now...IPL-2 a total flop...

I take back my words. This edition of IPL has been really good. Almost all the matches have gone to the last over. There have not been big scores scored. But all the matches have been very exciting.