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Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals, IPL, Hyderabad

Warne gatecrashes Symonds' party

April 24, 2008

Rajasthan Royals 217 for 7 (Smith 71, Yusuf 61, Afridi 3-28) beat Deccan Chargers 214 for 5 (Symonds 117*) by three wickets
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How they were out

Shane Warne inspired Rajasthan Royals to a thrilling victory over Deccan Chargers © Getty Images (file photo)

Shane Warne inspired Rajasthan Royals to a sensational come-from-behind win against Deccan Chargers by capping outstanding leadership and canny bowling with a 17-run charge in the last over.

The three-wicket victory - which was decided, for the second successive day, off the penultimate ball of the match - made Rajasthan the first team in the IPL to chase down a 200-plus score. They now lie fourth with four points from three games while Deccan, for whom Andrew Symonds scored a century and bowled the fateful final over, lost their third match in a row and remain at the bottom of the table.

In the penultimate over, it had seemed Rajasthan were out of the chase with RP Singh effecting two dismissals and conceding only six runs. Before that Shahid Afridi and Symonds had bowled in tandem to keep the scoring under check between overs 12 and 14, but Mohammad Kaif changed all that in the next where he hit three sixes off Symonds. Afridi dismissed Shane Watson, Kaif and Graeme Smith and conceded only 28 runs. But having exhausted his main bowlers, VVS Laxman was forced to turn to Symonds for the decisive last over.

That began with the odds stacked against Rajasthan. Pankaj Singh took three off the first two balls before giving the strike to Warne. He then hit a four over Symonds' head, leaving ten to get off the last three balls. Warne needed just two of them, off which he hit consecutive sixes to spark scenes of wild celebrations among his team-mates.

What set up the chase, though, was the 98-run partnership between Yusuf Pathan and Smith. The two were mindful of the run-rate they had to maintain right from the start and went past 100 in 8.3 overs, which made Rajasthan the fastest side to get to that figure in the tournament.

Yusuf belied his lithe frame to get the ball into the stands several times while recording the fastest fifty of the tournament. He didn't move his feet much but used all his strength as he reached out and swung his bat at everything. He fell in similar fashion, not moving his feet when he reached for a wide one off D Kalyankrishna and found Symonds at long-off. Smith was more conventional though equally attacking. He drove down the ground and cut behind third man for boundaries.

Test cricket had been unlucky not to witness Warne as captain. Before his last-over heroics, he used his bowlers effectively to dent Deccan's start. He brought on Yusuf in the third over - to replace Munaf Patel, who went for 12 in his opening effort - and was rewarded with the wickets of Adam Gilchrist and Afridi. Though Symonds more than made up for the poor start, Rajasthan's target could have been much higher had Gilchrist built on his three fours. Warne also made Yusuf bat at No. 3 for the second game in a row, after getting him to open in their first match.

Laxman's captaincy was very poor in comparison - his decision to open the innings with Gilchrist failed, as did his bowling change in the sixth over to bring on left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha, who went for 16 runs. But even Warne had no tricks against Symonds, who showed his two initial failures were blips with an innings that included powerful straight fours and sixes mostly by making room in the crease.

He did not indulge in unconventional strokes - except a short ball that he pulled tennis-style late in the innings - and stuck mostly to back-foot drives and flicks. He reached his half-century off 29 balls and then took only 18 more to get to his hundred. His 111-run partnership with Rohit Sharma, who scored a half-century in the previous match, ruined the Rajasthan bowlers' early efforts. Now Deccan will have to rethink their bowling strategies after losing a game that was firmly in their grasp.

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IPL player auction - Now That's just ridiculous
February 26th 2008 02:51
Just when you thought the whole idea of the IPL player auction couldn't get more crazy...

it has. The actual auction has taken place and is full of such bizarre contradictions and extravagent spending that you would think that there is no poverty in India and that the streets are paved with gold.

Now before we begin with the analysis of this draft let's just take a moment to consider that the all conquering Australian team are supposedly touring Pakistan during the duration of the competition meaning they would have a limited influence on the tournament.

So let's start with Andrew Symonds - the $1.47million dollat man [insert cash register noises here]. Mr Symonds has been blessed with circumstances here. The big hitting awesome fielding Australian would be the perfect 20/20 cricketer. But with Australia going on tour no one would pay that amount of money from him right? Well his own incredible stupidity actually helped up his price. He claimed that he would not go to Pakistan even if the rest of his team went as it was too dangerous. So far so good. He then went on to say that it was his undrstanding that all international tours were on an invitational basis and that he would kindly decline the Cricket Australia offer to tour. He obviously hasn't read his Cricket Australia contract and my guess on the basis of those comments is that he isn't the smartest joker in the pack (and when we are talking Australian cricketers, that's not a very smart pack to begin with). His comments were lept upon those who also can't read with glee that he would be playing in India no matter what. So Hyderabad forked out $1.47 million dollars for his talents on the assumption that he would be playing for them no matter what only to find that in his Cricket Australia contract if he refused to go to Pakistan they could (would and should) stop him playing for the mercenary money in India.

If Symonds is a little dim then perhaps he gets some of it from his captain Ricky Ponting. In a press conference after the auction Ricky P claimed he was 'dissappointed' with getting 'only $400,000 ' in the auction. He wondere why that was - maybe his poor form around the time of the auction but he wondered aloud that maybe it was the Harbhajan Singh incident at the Sydney test though he noted his international teamate at the centre of it was now Mr $1.47million. Punter did some more pontificating on the reasons - he sais he's always been good at endorsements (A fact that I cannot deny as I have seen him whore hiimself out for ads for vitamins, deodurants, cars, phones, banks, fried chicken and oils - you know what I mean). BUT RICKY, baby, DO YOU HONESTLY THINK ANYONE IS GOING TO FEEL SORRY FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE ONLY GETTING $400,000 to play 40 days of cricket????? I tell you cricketers are going to get a bad name.

That is with the exception of Michael Clarke - A man who did put some level of principle above the money when he decided to spend time with family and go fishing with an aging father over the IPL. Someone has some morals. Also in that category is England's Andrew Flintoff who showed his true sportsmanship (not for the first time) by saying the England Cricket Board has always done 'alright by him'.

This is money driven madness and the stupidity of it can be seen when you take a look at young Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma - he has played in a handful of tests and one day internationals - sure the kid shows enormous promise BUT the 19-year old has been signed up for $1.01million!!!!!!!!! Stop and think about that folks - as a 19 year old he is going to make in 40 days of cricket what some entire villages in India make in a decade!! This is insanity and someone has to stand up and speak out about it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if somoene in the IPL showed they were only playing for the love of the game by donating half of their income to charity in the developed world??? Of course this is unlikely to happen, I'd like to see a program maybe where the relative cricket boards in each country take some of the players money and re-invest it into the game. So a new generation of Pontings, Tendulkars and Jayasuriyas can come through and endorse hamburgers and high calorie soft drinks for years to come.
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IPL player auction
February 21st 2008 14:21
So it's come to this

In what has to be a move for the detriment of the game cricketers are today being auctioned off to the new Indian Premier League - made up franchises, with made up uniforms playing a made up game to make cricket look and feel like football. The net result is going to be an end to international cricket

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The Benefit of Tailenders who can bat
February 4th 2008 11:48
Only ten to fifteen years ago if the tail scored between fifty to a hundred runs, it was considered a successful wag. After all, the bowlers are meant to to bowl sides out and the batsmen score the runs. Right?!

Not so in today's game. You have batsmen who think they can bowl and bowlers who reckon they're batsmen. The demarcation of roles has become obscured. I'm no fan of batsmen assuming the role of a bowler, howerver, I don't have an issue with bowlers contributing valuable runs to the team's total. It gives a captain a sense of peace knowing if his side is five out it's not necessarily all out. The tail's contribution can mean the difference between a mediocre total, a competitive score and a winning one. We saw this evidenced in the recent Test series between Australia and India. The respective tails, at times, scored heavily

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Cricket Tips #9: Bowling toward the end of an innings
August 11th 2006 07:45
The extraordinary one-dayer between Australia and South Africa not so long ago has definitely shown how far one-day cricket has come since being introduced since the 70s. Today, to be the best bowler in the world you need to know how to bowl an impeccable line and length, but also to know how to bowl to batsman who wants to belt you over the fence no matter what. This is where a lot of bowlers get into trouble these days... Always being taught to bowl short of a good length, outside off stump has caused bowlers to find it awkward to deliberately bowl elsewhere, and therefore they get punished when the batting side are looking for some quick runs at the end of an innings. You might be like... 'So what?'. But when you the other team scoring 70 odd runs off just 6-10 overs you'll be wishing you'd bowled a bit tighter.

So how do you stop batsmen from scoring so quickly?

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Cricket Tips #8: Calling
August 3rd 2006 08:09
Being run out is probably one of the worst ways you can be dismissed - why? It's because the fielding team has just scored a free wicket by just doing what they're supposed to be doing... stopping the ball. Run outs can be easily avoided - that is why they're annoying, especially when you're on the receiving end of a shocking call, or a non-existent one.

With cricket being a team game, it's no surprise that teamwork is an essential facet in winning matches. Not only is team work fundamental in the field, it is also definitely a massive factor when you're out there with one other team member with the bat. If you've got a batsman at the other end who either: a) Doesn't call whether to run or not properly or b) Doesn't call at all (so you just see him/her ran at you in silence) you're definitely asking for it. And if you're one of those batsmen yourself, I'm not surprised if every one else hates batting with you.

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Cricket Tips #7: Sledging
July 26th 2006 00:39
Probably one of the best parts of the game is sledging. Actually, it can be a huge factor in the dismissal of a batsman, especially if he/she has a very low tolerance and a poor temper. Sledging has been around for ages, and is found in almost every team sport in the world. You only have to look at this year's World Cup Final to see how effective it is - sledging makes even the best players crack, especially whilst under pressure.

On the lighter side of things, sledging is fun, especially when you're playing against friends (either on the opposing side or the same as yours). However, at a professional level, sledging is an important skill to master as it could mean an easy wicket of a key batsman

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Cricket Tips #6: Psychology
July 12th 2006 09:27
With cricket being such a technically oriented game, many of us play down the necessity and fundamentality of having a strong mental game. It does surprise me than not many people associate sports psychology with cricket due to the fact that cricket is a game whihc requires so much concentration and focus, that any slip up can result in a mistake - which may mean that you will be dismissed or drop a catch, etc. Like all professional sports these days, sports psychology is a fact which is rarely not focused upon and fine tuned, but for the budding amateur playing on the weekend, one's mental game is normally neglected, but rather technique and physical play is accentuated.

Arousal is a concept which greatly affects performance in cricket (it is definitely a word not only confined to the bedroom). Under-arousal (low stimulation) pretty much means that you're disinterested and careless, thus opening yourself to mistakes mainly due to the fact that you 'couldn't care less' or 'couldn't be bothered'. This is someone a team normally dislikes. One over-aroused can be overly aggressive and excessively 'amped' up, and is caused by too much stress or pressure placed upon an individual. It typically results in nervousness, and in extreme cases, shivering, vomiting and restlessness. Optimal arousal is a point on the 'Inverted U Hypothesis' which suggests that with the right amount of stress (yes, we actually do need it otherwise we'll fall into under-arousal) and frame of mind, this level of optimal arousal can be achieved, and thus, we are at peak mental status.

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Cricket Tips #5: Catching
July 7th 2006 04:11
Everyone's heard the phrase: 'Catches win matches'. And you found out whoever told you that phrase whether it be your coach or your Dad, were right. Cricket is about scoring runs and taking wickets, that's how you win. So what's the most common way batsmen get out? Caught. If you drop em you don't win - that's pretty much it.

So in my next cricket tips blog I'm going to cover the basics on catching.

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Cricket Tips #3: Batting stance
June 19th 2006 10:13
A facet of batting which is often neglected, is the stance. Not many people realise that batting stance is one of the most basic and essential techniques in batting - batting doesn't merely involve just standing there at the crease. Where your feet are, how they're positioned, where your centre of gravity is all have an effect on the effectiveness of your strokeplay, and determines your balance at the crease.

What you're looking for:

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Cricket Tips #2: The Captain
May 25th 2006 14:19
Like all team sports, the captain is responsible for the function of their side both on and off the field. In cricket, the captain plays a very active role in the 'playing' of the game - their decisions on the field can directly affect the outcome of the innings, thus bad decisions will lead to disaster and good ones will often lead to victory. Cricket captains, whether it be Ricky Ponting or your local club side usually have the most experienced and extensive knowledge about the game, as decisions must be made on the spot according to particular circumstances in the game. For instance, the captain must be able to determine when a field change is required, or to be able to set the right field for the particular batsman on strike. Also, the captain plays an active in selecting bowlers and the batting order of the innings - which again is another intergral facet in the game of cricket.

The captain must know when to attack or defend, and set appropriate fields or send in an appropriate batsman for the given situation. For example, a captain may send in a powerful hitter ahead of a more conventional batsman in order to increase the run rate. Also, he/she must be able simultaneously perform at a high level consistently, whilst also monitoring the progess of the team and opposition and make changes accordingly.

May 4th 2006 14:19
Cricket is a game of precision and elegance, yet for a lot of people starting out there are a lot of things that make them associate cricket with words like: boring, confusing, what's going on? what kind of game is this? BORING!. So, I've decided to start a few posts specialising as a kind of 'Dummies Guide to Cricket' for those who are either new or just not 100% sure about some of the concepts of the game.

The first 'playing the game' post deals with fielding positions. A lot of people laugh when they hear the word 'gully' and 'silly', especially when they find out they are associated with cricket. Sure, it must be a Pommy thing maybe, but I was never around to actually find out why the inventors of the sport decided to give such ridiculous names to fielding positions, but at least it gives people like me the chance to refer to myself as a kind of landform. Anyway, I hope this table here explains a bit for you...

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