Official thread: IPL 2009 - April 10 to May 24

[Rameshjeee]

IPL 2009 to begin on April 10: Complete Schedule

The IPL (Indian Premier League) 2009 will begin on April 10. The first match will be held between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi DareDevils in Jaipur.

Chennai will host both semi-finals, while the final will be held in Mumbai on May 24.

There will be nine venues in the IPL Season II. Vishakhapatnam is the only new venue, which will host a few matches of Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad. Rajasthan Royals will play all their matches in Jaipur. The day matches will begin at 4 PM and the night matches will begin at 8 PM.

Complete Schedule of IPL Season II (2009):

April 10 - Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi DareDevils (Jaipur)
April 11 - Kolkata KnightRiders vs Deccan Chargers (Kolkata)
April 11 - Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Chennai)
April 12 - Delhi DareDevils vs Kings XI Punjab (Delhi)
April 12 - Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals (Mumbai)
April 13 - Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings (Hyderabad)
April 14 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkta KnightRiders (Bangalore)
April 15 - Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians (Mohali)
April 16 - Deccan Chargers vs Delhi DareDevils (Hyderabad)
April 16 - Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals (Chennai)
April 17 - Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Mumbai)
April 18 - Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers (Mohali)
April 18 - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi DareDevils (Kolkata)
April 19 - Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings (Mumbai)
April 19 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals (Bangalore)
April 20 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Kings XI Punjab (Kolkata)
April 21 - Delhi DareDevils vs Mumbai Indians (Delhi)
April 22 - Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers (Jaipur)
April 23 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab (Bangalore)
April 24 - Mumbai Indians vs Kolkta KnightRiders (Mumbai)
April 25 - Delhi DareDevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Delhi)
April 25 - Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab (Chennai)
April 29 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Rajasthan Royals (Mohali)
April 30 - Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Vizag)
May 1 - Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi DareDevils (Chennai)
May 2 - Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers (Mumbai)
May 2 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Rajasthan Royals (Kolkata)
May 3 - Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings (Mohali)
May 3 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi DareDevils (Bangalore)
May 4 - Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals (Hyderabad)
May 5 - Delhi DareDevils vs Chennai Super Kings (Delhi)
May 6 - Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab (Jaipur)
May 7 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Mumbai Indians (Kolkata)
May 7 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Deccan Chargers (Bangalore)
May 8 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Chennai Super Kings (Kolkata)
May 9 - Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians (Jaipur)
May 9 - Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi DareDevils (Mohali)
May 10 - Deccan Chargers vs Kolkta KnightRiders (Hyderabad)
May 11 - Delhi DareDevils vs Rajasthan Royals (Delhi)
May 12 - Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab (Mumbai)
May 12 - Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers (Chennai)
May 13 - Kolkta KnightRiders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Kolkata)
May 14 - Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings (Jaipur)
May 14 - Delhi DareDevils vs Deccan Chargers (Delhi)
May 15 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians (Bangalore)
May 16 - Delhi DareDevils vs Kolkata KnightRiders (Delhi)
May 16 - Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab (Hyderabad)
May 17 - Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (Jaipur)
May 17 - Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians (Chennai)
May 18 - Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata KnightRiders (Mohali)
May 19 - Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings (Bangalore)

May 21 - 1st Semifinal (Chennai)
May 22 - 2nd Semifinal (Chennai)

May 24 - FINAL (Mumbai)

ooops ... rameshjee ... you beat me to this thread ... i was eyeing to create this thread as soon as the official schedule gets announced ...

Anyways ... So - This is our official Discussion thread for somw long time ahead - till the IPL 2009 finishes ...

[aashaka_gandhi]

yea....cool jee.!!!! btw r the teams out as yet or no???

[Rameshjeee]

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

yea....cool jee.!!!! btw r the teams out as yet or no???

dunno about that, but will let you know about that...

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

yea....cool jee.!!!! btw r the teams out as yet or no???

Here you go aaka:

These are the probable starting 11s for all the teams according to Cricinfo.com - The Home of Cricket

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Probable XI: 1 Jesse Ryder, 2 Robin Uthappa, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Kevin Pietersen/ Ross Taylor, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 Jacques Kallis/ Cameron White/ B Akhil, 7 Mark Boucher/ Shreevats Goswami (wk), 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Sunil Joshi/ KP Appanna, 10 Nathan Bracken/Vinay Kumar, 11 Dale Steyn.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Probable XI: 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Chris Gayle/Brad Hodge, 3 Sourav Ganguly, 4 David Hussey/ Moises Henriques, 5 Cheteshwar Pujara, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 Laxmi Shukla, 8 Murali Kartik, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Ashok Dinda, 11 Ajantha Mendis.

Deccan Chargers

Probable XI: Adam Gilchrist (wk), 2 D Ravi Teja, 3 Andrew Symonds/Herschelle Gibbs, 4 Rohit Sharma, 5 Venugopal Rao 6 Dwayne Smith/ Scott Styris, 7 Sanjay Bangar, 8 Pragyan Ojha, 9 Chaminda Vaas/Nuwan Zoysa/Fidel Edwards, 10 RP Singh, 11 DP Vijaykumar.

Kings XI Punjab

Probable XI: 1 Shaun Marsh/ Luke Pomersbach 2 James Hopes/ Sunny Sohal, 3 Kumar Sangakkara/ Uday Kaul (wk), 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Ravi Bopara/ Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Tanmay Srivastava/ Sohal 7 Karan Goel 8 Irfan Pathan, 9 Piyush Chawla, 10 Sreesanth, 11 VRV Singh/ Brett Lee.

Chennai Super Kings

Probable XI: 1 Matthew Hayden, 2 Michael Hussey/ S Vidyut, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), 5 S Badrinath 6 Albie Morkel, 7 Andrew Flintoff/ Jacob Oram/ Joginder Sharma, 8 Manpreet Gony, 9 L Balaji 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Makhaya Ntini/ P Amarnath.

Delhi Daredevils

Probable XI: 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Tillakaratne Dilshan/ Owais Shah, 4 Manoj Tiwary/ David Warner, 5 AB de Villiers/ Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Rajat Bhatia/ Paul Collingwood, 7 Daniel Vettori 8 Amit Mishra/ Ashish Nehra, 9 Farveez Maharoof/ Yo Mahesh, 10 Dirk Nannes/ Pradeep Sangwan, 11 Glenn McGrath.

Rajasthan Royals

Probable XI: 1 Graeme Smith/Niraj Patel/ Justin Langer 2 Swapnil Asnodkar, 3 Mohammad Kaif,, 4 Shane Watson/ Tyron Henderson/ Dimitri Mascarenhas 5, Yusuf Pathan, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Mahesh Rawat (wk), 8 Shane Warne, 9 Shaun Tait/ Morne Morkel, 10 Siddharth Trivedi, 11 Munaf Patel.

Mumbai Indians

Probable XI: 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Shikhar Dhawan, 4 & 5 Dwayne Bravo/ Ryan McLaren/ JP Duminy/ Graham Napier, 6 Abhishek Nayar, 7 Yogesh Takawale (wk), 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Dhawal Kulkarni, 11 Lasith Malinga/ Dilhara Fernando/ Kyle Mills.

Source: Cricinfo - How the teams stack up


And also according to cricinfo - the schedule is only a tentative one - not final

[dunadain]

I think this would be the starting 11 for Mumbai if all the players are available.( My home team)
1) Sanath Jayasurya (+)
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Shikhar Dhawan
4) J P Duminy (+)
5) Dwayne Bravo (+)
6) Abhishek Nayar
7) Harbhajan Singh
8) Zaheer Khan
9) Dhawal Kulkarni
10) Yogesh Takawale
11) Lasith Malinga (+)
I have marked the 4 foreign players (+). This team will have a nice balance.
With 4 Batsmen, 2 allrounders, 1 wk, 4 bowlers. with 2 batsmen (Jayasurya and Duminy) who can turn their arms over if required.
If Malinga is not available then i think they should play Kyle Mills and not Fernando definitely not Fernando. Man that guy is a total waste.
I think this years team is a big improvement over the one from last year what with Zaheer khan coming in (although that has been offset by the big loss of Pollock deciding to not play), Lasith Malinga fit and J P Duminy added to the ranks.
If they can somehow convince Pollock to play then the team will be totally complete but there is very little chance of that.
Thats my 2 bits towards this thread.

[Logik]

hey have 6 months passed for last IPL??
or they are taking 2 IPLs in a year?

[aashaka_gandhi]

its once in a year....only...the last one was in april may 2008 & this yr its gonna b in april -may too!!!

well theres no parthiv in chennai team....geez i need to call him to check ......

hmmmmm looks like i ll b supporting rajasthan royals....for sure....as thy were my fav last yr too n chennai if parthivs there

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

n chennai if parthivs there

why? is parthiv ur fav?

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

n chennai if parthivs there

So parthiv still have some fan following

[aashaka_gandhi]

hez a fren u c.....

was my junior n siddharth was my batch mate....

[Rameshjeee]

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

hez a fren u c.....

was my junior n siddharth was my batch mate....

[aashaka_gandhi]

dey jus asked me......

nyways u r being rude....!

not talkin to u!

[Rameshjeee]

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

dey jus asked me......

nyways u r being rude....!

not talkin to u!

Hey sorry Ak.....

[Logik]

Originally Posted by gothic_coder

So parthiv still have some fan following

lol...well said

Originally Posted by aashaka_gandhi

hez a fren u c.....

was my junior n siddharth was my batch mate....

whos siddharth....sorry but my gk abt cricket is horrible......but AFAIR is there anyone Siddhartha in indian team?

[dunadain]

I think its Siddarth Trivedi. He is a right arm medium pace bowler who played for Rajasthan Royals in the last IPL

[Logik]

^^
thanks.....i never knew that

[aashaka_gandhi]

yep.....hez really good at bowling.....

[Rameshjeee]

The dates of few matches may be changed due to the election.

[Logik]

i think they shud postpone(rather i wanna ban) the thing......i mean election is such a serious thing & what kind of attitude these IPL jokers having.....hell with the cricket it happens on regular basis, election once in 5 yrs.