Showing posts with label Champions League Twenty20. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Champions League Twenty20. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils Live Streaming

Watch Live Streaming Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils Online Free. Delhi Daredevils are at a slight advantage even before their first game of the league stage as their opponents, Royal Challengers Bangalore, must win to stay in the tournament. Bangalore's capitulation to Victoria on Thursday means they must beat Delhi and hope Victoria and Delhi both beat Cape Cobras. Delhi aren't all that better off, though; they have a negative run-rate, marginally better than Bangalore's, and will need to win both their games to be well-placed for the semis.

All of which means that, whatever the result of this game, it is possible no IPL team advances to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20. That should not detract from the atmosphere at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, where a large crowd is expected on Diwali night to watch the last tournament fixture in this city - and perhaps the first and last time in this tournament that two IPL teams play each other. Nothing may be going right for them but Bangalore can at least expect a partisan crowd supporting their efforts.

Delhi play their first away game of the tournament and their explosive top order will relish getting away from the sluggish Feroz Shah Kotla pitch and on to a venue where the home side scored 188 for 2 earlier this week. That said, the Chinnaswamy isn't entirely seamer-friendly so the two sides will hope their openers give them a frenetic start. Mark Boucher, the Bangalore wicket keeper, predicted that as the tournament went on the track would get slower and scores would be disappointingly smaller.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Cape Cobras vs Victorian Bushrangers Live Streaming

Watch Cape Cobras vs Victoria Live Streaming Online Free. Victoria sit on top of League B with four points after their convincing win against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday, their opening league-stage game. They will be up against South Africa's Cape Cobras, who racked up the tournament's highest score - 193 - in their previous encounter.

If the Cobras - now on two points - win tomorrow, they will knock Bangalore out of the tournament. If they lose, Victoria go straight through to the semi-finals and there is the possibility of a three-way tie for the second semi-final slot. The second match of the double-header, between Delhi Daredevils and Bangalore, and the final league game (Cobras v Delhi) will then assume added significance.

The ever impressive JP Duminy helped Cobras prevail over Bangalore in a tense chase in their opening group game and captain Andrew Puttick led by example against Otago, recording the tournament's first century. That was an all-round performance but Cobras will be up against much tougher opposition tomorrow and will be returning after a week's break, lengthy by this tournament's standards.

Cape Cobras squad

AG Puttick*, D Brand, RCC Canning†, H Davids, JP Duminy, SA Engelbrecht, HH Gibbs, CW Henderson, RK Kleinveldt, RE Levi, JL Ontong, VD Philander, FC Plaatjies, S van Zyl, M Zondeki

Victoria squad

CL White*, AC Blizzard, AJ Finch, SM Harwood, JW Hastings, BJ Hodge, JM Holland, DJ Hussey, AB McDonald, BE McGain, CJ McKay, RJ Quiney, PM Siddle, MS Wade†, DG Wright

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Deccan Chargers vs Trinidad Tobago Live Streaming

Watch Deccan Chargers vs Trinidad Live Streaming Online for Free. Deccan Chargers would not want a difference of one wicket to end their run in the Champions League. That's the margin they lost to Somerset by during a thrilling game in Hyderabad, and only victory against Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday - which, if achieved, will be their first in nine attempts in their home city - can ensure their progress to the next round. Trinidad are more comfortably placed with a healthy net run-rate of 2.20, well above the others in the Group A. Even if they lose to Deccan, they still stand a chance of making the next round; they just have to ensure they don't lose by a margin big enough to bring their current net run-rate below Somerset's -1.00.

Somerset, in a helpless situation, can only hope T&T knock Deccan out, or knock themselves out by losing heavily.

Deccan have a side packed with batsmen, but failed to build on an explosive start provided by VVS Laxman and Adam Gilchrist in their tournament opener. The main problem, though, lay with their bowling. Having reduced Somerset to 99 for 7 in a chase of 154, they failed to shut them out. But with their experience, they hold a slight edge against T&T, who caused a huge surprise against Somerset with their clinical bowling display led by Dwayne Bravo. While Deccan were left demoralised by a last-ball defeat, the West Indian champions are fresh with confidence after a comprehensive win, and the outcome could well hinge on whether Deccan can use their experience to bounce back.

Diamond Eagles vs Sussex Sharks Live Streaming

The last game of Group B will have the Sussex Sharks take on the Diamond Eagles at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Both the sides have played one game each against the New South Wales Blues and lost both the games comfortably. Hence, it has all boiled down to this game to decide on which team will go through to the next round of the competition along with the New South Wales Blues, who have not only got into the second round, but also carried their two points forward.

The Sussex Sharks were led by Michael Yardy to begin with, but he pulled out with an illness just before the game. This meant that Ed Joyce had to lead the side in the game against the New South Wales, and the side went down rather badly. In this game, Yardy should be back and fit to lead the side, and this will mean that one of the top order batsmen will have to make way. In fact, if reports are anything to go, Luke Wright is back in India after the problems with the illnesses as well and should be an easy shoo into the game. So the Sussex side will need to make two changes to their line-up.

Diamond Eagles squad :
HH Dippenaar*, RT Bailey, J Coetzee, CJD de Villiers, D du Preez, D Elgar, RR Hendricks, AK Kruger, AP McLaren†, R McLaren, PV Mpitsang, RR Rossouw, T Tshabalala, SC van Schalkwyk, MN van Wyk

Sussex Sharks squad :
MH Yardy*, WAT Beer, BC Brown, PP Chawla, JS Gatting, RJ Hamilton-Brown, AJ Hodd†, EC Joyce, CB Keegan, RJ Kirtley, RSC Martin-Jenkins, CD Nash, DR Smith, LJ Wright, Yasir Arafat

Monday, October 12, 2009

Victoria vs Wayamba Live Streaming

Wayamba went into their opening game against Delhi with nine international players but still found themselves short. The batting was largely responsible for that 50-run defeat; they needed a sound start but the top order found life difficult against the Australian duo of Dirk Nannes and Glenn McGrath. Their bowlers did well to dismiss Tillakaratne Dilshan and Gautam Gambhir before they could get away but lost the plot thereafter. Their spinners failed to contain Delhi, who powered to 170 and shut them out of the match

Current time: 11:27 local, 05:57 GMT

Victoria squad

CL White*, AC Blizzard, AJ Finch, SM Harwood, JW Hastings, BJ Hodge, JM Holland, DJ Hussey, AB McDonald, BE McGain, CJ McKay, RJ Quiney, PM Siddle, MS Wade†, DG Wright

Wayamba squad

J Mubarak*, MKDI Amerasinghe, RSSS de Zoysa†, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, KPSP Karunanayake, HGJM Kulatunga, KS Lokuarachchi, MF Maharoof, BAW Mendis, NLTC Perera, I Udana, ML Udawatte, MG Vandort, UWMBCA Welegedara

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Otago Live Streaming

Watch Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Otago Live Streaming Online for Free - Champions League Twenty20 between RCA vs Otago. The winner of Monday's day-night clash at the Chinnaswamy Stadium will join Cape Cobras in the second round from Group C. It's as simple as that. Both the Bangalore and Otago bowling attacks were bruised by the South African domestic champions in their opening matches leaving them with a lot to do even if they make it past the first round of elimination.

Bangalore have a net run-rate of -0.356, Otago's is -2.70, and no points will be carried forward no matter who wins tomorrow. Bangalore have the home advantage - they will be familiar with conditions and a strong crowd will back them - but they had that against the Cobras and couldn't finish on top. Kumble was critical of his team's fielding in the opening game and another loose performance against Otago could give the underdogs the room they need to cause an upset. Otago started the competition with an outside chance but an inspirational performance, emulating Daniel Vettori's team, could eliminate the first IPL team from the Champions League.

Praveen Kumar was a handful with the new ball, troubling the Cobras top order with lateral movement under lights. He picked up two early wickets and finished the game with 3 for 32. Similar success against Otago could prove decisive for they do not possess the batting depth that the Cobras did.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Delhi Daredevils vs Wayamba Live Streaming

Watch Delhi Daredevils vs Wayamba Live Streaming Online for FREE. This match will be played at Delhi on Oct 11 2009.Delhi Daredevils' first game didn't go to plan and they are left needing to hit their stride against Sri Lanka's champions Wayamba to stay in the tournament.

Their batting is studded with fearsome Twenty20 hitters, but it was blunted by the accurate Victoria seamers and the slow-and-low pitch. Already without AB de Villiers, Paul Collingwood and Daniel Vettori, they could also lose Mithun Manhas after he pulled a hamstring during the first game. On Sunday, they are up against opponents who have 11 players with international experience in their squad.

Mahela Jayawardene is the biggest name in the Wayamba squad but their strength is likely to be their bowling. Isuru Udana was the best bowler in Sri Lanka's domestic tournament, Ishara Amerasinghe adds firepower to the pace department, and Ajantha Mendis and a much-improved Rangana Herath provide spin options. They also have Farveez Maharoof, who will use this tournament to try re-capture the allrounder's spot in the Sri Lankan team from Angelo Mathews.

Delhi Daredevils squad

G Gambhir*, R Bhatia, TM Dilshan, KD Karthik†, M Manhas, A Mishra, Y Nagar, DP Nannes, A Nehra, AM Salvi, PJ Sangwan, V Sehwag, OA Shah, MK Tiwary

Wayamba squad

J Mubarak*, MKDI Amerasinghe, RSSS de Zoysa†, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, KPSP Karunanayake, HGJM Kulatunga, KS Lokuarachchi, MF Maharoof, BAW Mendis, NLTC Perera, I Udana, ML Udawatte, MG Vandort, UWMBCA Welegedara