PEPSI IPL 7 Timetable – Match List (revised)

IPL 2014 Schedule and Timings / Fixtures for the first leg of tournament in UAE has been announced by BCCI today. Matches will be held in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai. 1st leg starts on April 16 and ends on April 30, 2014. First match will be between defending champions Mumbai Indians and Kolkata knight riders.

PEPSI will be the Sponsors for 5 years after winning it the rights. This is the confirmed schedule of IPL 2014 match timings and schedule with venue.

The Governing Council also confirmed that around 20 matches of the IPL 2014 will be played in the United Arab Emirates. Three cities — Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai will host the matches.

“20 matches will be played in 3 stadiums: Sheikh Zayed Stadium- Abu Dhabi, Sharjah CA Stadium, Dubai International Cricket Stadium,” IPL’s official page announced on Twitter.

Look at IPL-7 (Leg 1) 2014 Time table/Schedule:

Date, IPL Match Venue	Fixture Details ( Time table)	Indian Match Timing
April 16, Abu Dhabi.	Mumbai Indians vs. Kolkata Knight Riders	8. p.m. IST.
April 17, Sharjah.	Delhi Daredevils vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore	8. p.m. IST.
April 18, Abu Dhabi.	Chennai Super Kings vs. Kings XI Punjab	4. p.m. IST.
April 18, Abu Dhabi.	Sunrisers Hyderabad vs. Rajasthan Royals	8. p.m. IST.
April 19, Dubai.	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs. Mumbai Indians	4. p.m. IST.
April 19, Dubai.	Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Delhi Daredevils	8. p.m. IST.
April 20, Sharjah.	Rajasthan Royals vs. Kings XI Punjab	8. p.m. IST.
April 21, Abu Dhabi.	Chennai Super Kings vs. Delhi Daredevils	8. p.m. IST.
April 22, Sharjah.	Kings XI Punjab vs.Sunrisers Hyderabad	8. p.m. IST.
April 23, Dubai.	Rajasthan Royals vs. Chennai Super Kings	8. p.m. IST.
April 24, Sharjah.	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs. Kolkata Knight Riders	8. p.m. IST.
April 25, Dubai.	Sunrisers Hyderabad vs.Delhi Daredevils	4. p.m. IST.
April 25, Dubai.	Chennai Super Kings vs. Mumbai Indians	8. p.m. IST.
April 26, Abu Dhabi.	Rajasthan Royals vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore	4. p.m. IST.
April 26, Abu Dhabi.	Kings XI Punjab vs. Kolkata Knight Riders	8. p.m. IST.
April 27, Sharjah.	Delhi Daredevils vs. Mumbai Indians	4. p.m. IST.
April 27, Sharjah.	Sunrisers Hyderabad vs. Chennai Super Kings	8. p.m. IST.
April 28, Dubai.	Royal Challengers Bangalore vs. Kings XI Punjab	8. p.m. IST.
April 29, Abu Dhabi.	Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Rajasthan Royals	8. p.m. IST.
April 30, Dubai.	Mumbai Indians vs. Sunrisers Hyderabad	8. p.m. IST.

This will be the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League prior to this five different teams have won the tournament, Chennai Super Kings been the team who has lifted the trophy for two times. Winners were;

•  1st IPL ( 2008 ) – Rajasthan Royals ( RR vs CSK )
• 2nd IPL ( 2009 ) – Deccan Chargers ( DC vs RC )
• 3rd IPL ( 2010 ) – Chennai Super Kings ( CSK vs MI )
• 4th IPL ( 2011 ) – Chennai Super Kings ( CSK vs RCB )
• 5th IPL ( 2012 ) – Kolkata Knight Riders ( CSK vs KKR )
• 6th IPL ( 2013 ) – Mumbai Indians ( CSK vs MI )

Next series of T20 league of 2014 will be updated here soon.

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World T20 squad, updates and more!!!

World T20 2014 is just 3 days away to get a kick-start on March 21^st and this league is so challenging that each of the top eight teams in the ICC rankings are the contenders for the title. It is one of those tournaments where there is no distinct favourite going into the competition. This makes this edition of the world t20 more thrilling and open tournament. So we look upon the participatory teams squad and what they can come up in the t20 challenge.

INDIA

MS Dhoni (capt.&wk), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Stuart Binny, Amit Mishra, Mohit Sharma, Varun Aaron

• Challenge/ Verdict: Winners of the inaugural World T20, but India is treated as most under achievers at International level since they have failed to make it to the semis of the last three editions. Still return of Dhoni, Yuvraj and Raina will improve Indian team performance in World T20. Batting needs to make up for their weak bowling attack if they have to go all the way and win.

PAKISTAN

Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Saeed Ajmal, Umer Gul, Sherjeel Khan, Sohaib Maqsood, Junaid Khan, Bilawal Bhatti, Sohail Tanvir, Umer Akmal, Zulfiqar Babar, Mohammad Talah, Kamran Akmal, Ahmed Shehzad

• Challenge/ Verdict: One of the most successful teams in the tournament's history - finalists in 2007, winners in 2009 and semi-finalists on the last two occasions, but they remain as unpredictable side  they are capable of beating anyone and even losing to anyone.

SOUTH AFRICA

Francois du Plessis (capt.), Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, Farhaan Behardien, Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Beuran Hendricks, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

• Challenge/ Verdict: SA is the team which enters any tournament as favourite but they fail to claim their place in any of the finals. They had received names like "chokers" but faf’s team has the capacity to turn the tables. Potential semi-finalist.

AUSTRALIA

George Bailey (capt.), Daniel Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Haddin, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Doug Bollinger, Glenn Maxwell, James Muirhead, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson, Cameron White

• Challenge/ Verdict: A powerful batting line-up but their weak link may be the spin department, where a lot rests on the shoulders of 43-year-old chinaman bowler Hogg and 20-year-old leg-spinner James Muirhead. They were runners-up in 2010 and semi-finalists in 2007 and 2012; this is the only International ICC trophy to be claimed.

ENGLAND

Stuart Broad (capt.), Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Chris Jordan, Michael Lumb, Moeen Ali, Eoin Morgan, Stephen Parry, Ian Bell, Chris Woakes, James Tredwell, Luke Wright

• Challenge/ Verdict: England have a strong group to overcome to make it to super eight this time and their team performance, confidence and team combination doesn’t looks good at the moment but this format makes everyone surprise.

NEW ZEALAND

Brendon McCullum (capt.), Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Anton Devcich, Martin Guptill, Ronnie Hira, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Colin Munro, James Neesham, Luke Ronchi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Kane Williamson

• Challenge/ Verdict: Semi-finalists first time out in 2007, but have not made it past the Super Eights since then. They remain the ultimate under-dog and they appear as potential semi-finalists.

SRILANKA

Dinesh Chandimal (capt.), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Rangana Herath, Mahela Jayawardena, Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Kusal Perera, Thisara Perera, Seekkuge Prasanna, Kumar Sangakkara, Sachithra Senanayake, Lahiru Thirimanne

• Challenge/ Verdict: They have a core of experienced batsmen, bowlers in Lasith Malinga, Mendis who are unplayable on their day. Srilanka is playing cricket in Bangladesh for past 2 months and they are more familiar to the conditions now, Asia Cup win is prime example. Potential finalist.

WEST INDIES

Darren Sammy (capt.), Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Andre Fletcher, Chris Gayle, Sunil Narine, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Marlon Samuels, Krishmar Santokie, Lendl Simmons, Dwayne Smith

• Challenge/ Verdict: They are the defending champions and they will be feeling pressure. They have the players to repeat last year’s performance and get the title again. Their key is their team formulation, the amount of all-round players in the team, batsmen like Gayle at the top order and bowler in Narine make the differences.

Group A, Qualifiers:

BANGLADESH

Mushfiqur Rahim (capt.&wk), Abdur Razzak, Al-Amin Hossain, Anamul Haque (wk), Farhad Reza, Mahmudullah, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mominul Haque, Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Shamsur Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Tamim Iqbal.

NEPAL

Paras Khadka (capt.), Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budhaayer, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Avinash Karn, Subash Khakurel (wk), Gyanendra Malla, Jitendra Mukhiya, Sagar Pun, Basant Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma.

HONG KONG

Jamie Atkinson (capt.&wk), Tanwir Afzal, Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed, Najeeb Amar, Haseeb Amjad, Waqas Barkat (vice-capt), Mark Chapman, Munir Dar, Babar Hayat, Aizaz Khan, Nizakat Khan, Roy Lamsam, Ehsan Nawaz, Kinchit Shah.

AFGHANISTAN

Mohammad Nabi (capt.), Aftab Alam, Asghar Stanikzai, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Hamza Hotak, Karim Sadiq, Mirwais Ashraf, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Najibullah Taraki, Najibullah Zadran, Nawroz Mangal, Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran.

Group B, Qualifiers:

NETHERLANDS

Peter Borren (capt.), Wesley Barresi (wk.), Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tom Cooper, Tom Heggelman, Vivian Kingma, Ahsan Malik, Stephan Myburgh, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Eric Szwarczynski, Logan van Beek, Timm van der Gugten.

ZIMBABWE

Brendan Taylor (capt.&wk), Tendai Chatara, Elton Chigumbura, Tafadzwa Kamungozi, Timycen Maruma, Hamilton Masakadza, Shingi Masakadza, Natsai M'shangwe, Tinashe Panyangara, Sikandar Raza, Vusi Sibanda, Prosper Utseya, Brian Vitori, Malcolm Waller, Sean Williams.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE)

Ahmed Raza, Amjad Ali (wk), Amjad Javed, Asadullah Shareef, Faizan Asif, Kamran Shahzad, Khurram Khan (capt), Manjula Guruge, Moaaz Qazi, Rohan Mustafa, Rohit Singh, Shadeep Silva, Shaiman Anwar, Swapnil Patil, Vikrant Shetty.

IRELAND

William Porterfield (capt.), Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Andrew McBrine, Tim Murtagh, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien (wk), Andrew Poynter, James Shannon, Max Sorensen, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson (wk), Craig Young.

Replacements:

* Doug Bollinger replaced the injured Mitchell Johnson (AUSTRALIA)

* Ian Bell replaced the injured Joe Root (ENGLAND)

* Chris Woakes replaced the injured Ben Stokes (ENGLAND)

* Tom Cooper replaced the injured Tim Gruijters (NETHERLANDS)

* Aftab Alam replaced the injured Hamid Hassan (AFGHANISTAN)

News:

·      Stuart Board is injured but he is confident of captaining the side for complete tournament.

·      Sangakara and M. Jayawardene announce their retirement from t20 after current edition.

·      Narine: spin will play a bigger role in bangladesh

·      Afridi: India is stronger batting side

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Australia Wins….But Cricket is Victorious!!!

What a game of cricket it was between two formidable sides. It was a clash of titans were each team had its moments, players had their moments of glory and it can be said, Australia did win the game but even South Africa didn’t lost (morally).

On Mar 12, 2014: 2nd T20I: South Africa v Australia at Durban was scheduled but it was the rain that struck the first blow to everyone and its see-saw game was making it more difficult for the ground staff to make the game happen. After a delay of over two and half an hour finally the match got under away. Australia won the toss and will bowl first, not sure what's a good enough score in a seven over rain affected shortened match.

South African Innings: To get a surprise Amla-de Kock pair started off the innings in a traditional manner. It can be argued that in a 7-over game SA would have been better placed if they had someone like Faf, Albie or Miller opening instead of Amla. At the end of 3 overs SA score was reflecting not so good runs on the board i.e. 11-1 were Amla was the to be dismissed by Coulter-Nile  on 4 in the second over and his first in the match catching him onto his own bowling resulting in a caught and bowled Amla c & b Coulter-Nile 4 (9). Then the captain entered the arena and started to get confidence with de Kock hitting some furious shots but it was de Kock’s night. Q de Kock started off from Watson’s over where he stuck a boundary followed by a huge Six straight back pass the bowlers head, then it was Faf’s turn to join the party and D. Christian was at the receiving end getting hit for a boundary and two Sixes in an over. Over by over both got comfortable at the crease and bowlers were getting just the opposite of it. Scoring at a brisk and steady pace, hitting a six in each over thereon from either of  the batsmen, South Africa managed to put up a challenging total on the score-board of 80/1 in 7 overs. Q de Kock 41*(20) and Faf du Plessis 27*(13).           

After a scratchy start, SA recovered to 80. Will that be enough against Australia's power hitters was the question before Australian innings?

Australian Reply: Bang-Bang pair of Finch and Warner went into their innings with all guns blassing scoring 21 runs in the opening over bowled by Tsotsobe. But Finch miscued a shortish ball to midwicket where Amla backpedals and takes it. Finch c Amla b Abbott 5 (5). Watson took over but he too quickly fell scooping straight to cover to a low full toss. Watson c Abbott b Parnell 2(3). But it didn’t had any effect on the Warner carrying on his business of trashing the opposition bowlers all over the park. He was well in control over the game till the golden arm of Duminy did the trick for the SA in the 4th over of the innings. Warner lbw b Duminy 40 (16). Warner blasted with five 4’s and two 6’s in his 22min tenure. Then Duminy struck second blow in the same over getting better off Maxwell. Maxwell c du Plessis b Duminy 1 (3). Australia were off the track with two new batsmen on the pitch but then again captain got run-out at a crucial juncture, confusion in the calling caused the downfall. Bailey run out Miller-de Kock 2(2). At the end of six overs Austraila were 66/5, 15 runs required from 6 balls to win. Parnell took the charge of bowling the decisive over. He started off extremely well giving two runs from two deliveries. But again B. Hodge blistered with two back to back sixes to call it for the Australians with two balls remaining.

• Brad Hodge is the Man of the Match
• Australia leading the series at 1-0 going into Centurion on Friday.

Just to mention, match was played on Memorial Day of 438-game 8th year anniversary.

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IPL-7 In Three Different Nations!!!

Due to the upcoming General Elections and the Indian government refusing to provide security for IPL 7 during that period, the BCCI has decided to hold the initial part of the tournament at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and possibly Bangladesh, with the tournament returning to India post Elections.

The BCCI confirmed that the tournament will begin on April 16 in the UAE that will host matches until April 30. However, venue for matches in the period between May 1 and 12 is still undecided. In case the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) doesn't allow the BCCI to host matches in Indian cities where the polling has concluded, then the tournament will move to Bangladesh between May 1 and 12. After that, from May 13 to the final on June 1, all the matches will be played in India only.

"BCCI is very grateful to the Emirates Cricket Board, its chairman, HH Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, and the government of the UAE for their offer of wholehearted support to host the Pepsi IPL for this period."

The United Arab Emirates will stage the opening matches of this year's Indian Premier League, which will begin on April 16.

"For the period from Thursday 1st May to Monday 12th May, BCCI has approached the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, seeking permission to play IPL matches in India in cities where the polling has concluded in the respective state. BCCI is extremely conscious of the various complexities involved, but hopes for a favourable consideration. BCCI will abide by the decision of the authorities in this regard. If it is not possible to play in India during this period, IPL matches will be held in Bangladesh and BCCI is thankful to the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the government of Bangladesh for their support.

"From Tuesday 13th May (once polling has concluded in all states), the remaining league matches plus the play-offs will be played in India," the statement added.

"There will be no matches scheduled on the counting day of Friday 16th May. BCCI will take the advice of the authorities if any further restrictions are required around the counting day." the release further read.

The MHA had informed the BCCI that it has no objection if the Indian cricket board wants to hold the IPL 7 matches in India post the Elections. However, the ministry also made it clear that the BCCI has to first take green signal from the respective state governments for security provisions. The second season of the IPL in 2009 was also held out of India, in South Africa, for the same reason after the government refused to provide security.

"The BCCI is pleased to announce that the 2014 Pepsi IPL season will start on Wednesday 16th April 2014, and conclude on Sunday, 1st June 2014. A detailed match schedule for the Pepsi IPL 2014 season will be sent out soon," the official release from the Indian cricket board read.

However, a statement on the IPL website revealed that the tournament would run until June 1, with the final matches to be played in India.

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Tags: IPL 7, UAE, Bangladesh.

IPL 7 will be 50-50 in India!!!

Don’t worry readers IPL won’t be for 50 overs but it’s been confirmed that most of the matches will be held in India. Prior the meeting on Wednesday 05th of March 2014, the committee had to decide whether the league can be conducted in India or it had to be shifted to other venue like it did in 2009 in South Africa (partially or completely). The decision has been made, IPL will be conducted in India however complete league is not possible to be held due to election dates are clashing with the dates of IPL-7.

With the dates of the General Elections been finalised, Indian Premier League chairman Ranjib Biswal on Wednesday said matches of seventh edition of the Twenty20 tournament will be 50-50 or 60-70%  held in India.

The decision to host "bulk of the matches" in India was taken after a meeting of BCCI bigwigs, including its president N Srinivasan, senior vice-president Rajeev Shukla, secretary Sanjay Patel, Biswal and IPL CEO Sundar Raman at a city hotel. Biswal insisted that since IPL is a domestic event, their main objective is to conduct majority of the matches in India.


"Now that the elections dates have been finalised, we are working towards hosting bulk of the matches in India. Since it is the Indian Premier League we need to accommodate as many matches in India," Biswal told reporters after coming out from a meeting of the IPL governing council at a city hotel.

"Today, we discussed about foreign venues but we haven't decided yet as we need couple of days more to finalise the offshore venue," he said.

The election commission today announced the dates of the 16th Lok Sabha polls, which will be held on nine days from April 7 to May 12 in the highest number of phases so far.
The counting of votes in all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies involving an 81.4 crore voters will be done on May 16.

According to sources in the BCCI, the Twenty20 event -- the window of which has been kept from April 9 to June 3 -- will be shifted to India after the counting of votes.

"After May 16 IPL 7 matches will be held in India. But South Africa as an alternate venue has effectively been ruled out since South Africa wanted to host the entire tournament," a source said.

Besides South Africa, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bangladesh were the other countries which are in fray to host part of IPL 7.

Points to be in lieu of deciding the venue:

·      Srilanka as a venue had been dropped earlier due to climatic reason as it will rain most of  the dates of the t20 league

·      South Africa been ruled out as they wanted to host complete tournament and not partial

·      Other options left with BCCI are UAE and Bangladesh.

¨      Now, as we all know India had stopped touring to UAE after match fixing saga in 2000 and it will be no different as it will be difficult to track players from 8 different franchises.

¨      On the other hand, Bangladesh pitches will be rough and be exhausted from back to back International tournaments like Asia Cup & ICC Twenty20 World Cup. And how Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match fixing can be forgotten.

¨      Bangladesh has limited five-seven star hotels too.

It’s upto BCCI and IPL committee how they deal with the conditions and security of the players in context of fairness on the ground and more importantly off the field.

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Tags: IPL 7, Relocating IPL, N Srinivasan, Rajeev Shukla, Sanjay Patel, IPL CEO Sundar Raman, RanjibBiswal.