Today, Chennai’s team looked different .... Brendon McCullum has returned home for the birth of his child. He,
Badree, Hilfenhaus, Ishwar Pandey are all out.. Pandey was not given the ball at all in the
match against Bangalore and against Kolkatta, he had figures of 4-0-31-1. Dwayne Smith had a new partner in Faf du Plessis as his new partner. Left-arm spinner Pawan Negi, David Hussey came in, so did John Hastings, who ? - I have not heard of him... my son immediately said he has played one Test
A search revealed
that John Wayne Hastings hails from New South Wales and appeared in Test no.
2064 at Perth in Dec 2012 ~ that test is better remembered for the heroics of
Amla who helped SA make 569 in the 3rd innings and SA winning the test by 309
runs.
In the IPL, Morne
Morkel (6), Dale Steyn (3) are the
bowlers who have bowled at more than 150
kmph... but perhaps speed alone is not enough ......... Steyn has been taken
apart in a couple of matches and today had the ignominy again.. in the last
over he was taken apart by MS Dhoni.... it was 6-4-2-6-2-4 as he leaked 24 .. SRH leaked 68 off the last 5 overs
..........and set a target of 186....
In the earlier match
KKR made 195/4 (Uthappa 83*, Shakib 60)
and beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 165 for 5 (Takawale 45, Narine
4-20) by 30 runs. 3 players have made
more than 500 runs – Robin Uthappa today earned the Orange cap leading with 572
runs in 13 innings with 47.66 as average and SR of 137.50; below him are Glenn
Maxwell (533-12); Dwanye Smith (501-13); David Warner (434-12); AB de Villiers
385 (12)
Uthappa has been a
revelation ..... he mustered only 96 in 5 innings , at an average of 19.40 and
a strike rate of 108.98 in the first leg at UAE as KKR did rather badly....
back in homeland Uthappa is on a roll scoring
392 runs in the India, when no other batsmen has managed to score even
300 runs.
photo credit : iplt2o.com
KKR has done a great
turn around and captain Gautam Gambhir is quoted as stating he was satisfied but not surprised over his
Kolkata Knight Riders' six-match winning streak which powered it to the
playoffs of the Indian Premier League.
Firstpost states that the
southpaw also admitted that he wasn't superstitious but changed his jersey
number thrice to get the rub of the green. "I am not a superstitious guy but
still changed my jersey number thrice. Umesh (Yadav) told me to wear 77, Robin
(Uthappa) told me to wear 23, though I used to wear number 5. But it is not
about superstitious rather we sweated out for it," he said.
Chennai got another
defeat .. as SRH grounded them - powered by a 45 ball 90 by David Warner, unbeaten 64 by Shikhar Dhawan and their 116
partnership.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
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