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My dear friends you all are aware from the hype which DLF Indian Premier League has created in the world of cricket, the credit goes to the Lalit Modi and his team. Here we are with the very first match of the third session of the DLF IPL. It is in between the defending champs and the last team of the IPL 2.

As expected Deccan Chargers the last year’s champions will have the high expectations, while KKR in a new look will have more expectations from the last year. Let’s see in which direction this match will go.

So Kolkata Knight Riders made 161 runs in their allotted 20 overs and Deccan Chargers will have to made 162 runs to win the first match of the DLF IPL 2010.

What a victory it is by the last years bottom up team to the champions of the last year’s IPL. Congratulations to the Kolkata Knight Riders.

Yesterday on 15th of November 2009 Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar completed 20 years of International Cricket and he became the first Indian to achieve the feat. We all wishes him best of luck for his career and we pray from God that he give us many more moment of pride.

Today the first test of the three match series begin at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad. Lankan team is very keen to win the test match so that they can create the history. Lankan team has so far never won a test match in India.

Indian skipper Mahender Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first, but Welegedara gave him some trouble at the very beginning by dismissing both the openers Gambhir and Sehwag along with the prized wicket of Sachin Tendulkar. Very Very Special Laxman too did not stand for much. He was dismissed by Prasad.

Brave performances by Rahul Dravid along with Yuvraj Singh and skipper Dhoni brought India to a great position at the end of the day one play. 385 at the end of the day one, while Dravid is still batting at 177 clearly tells that team India has now upper hand against Sri Lanka. Tomorrow if Dravid can contribute a bit while others will just need to give him company at the middle, then Sri Lanka will really feel it difficult to stop them before 500 runs mark. Once 500 runs are on the board for the first innings, team India will surely won the match.

Score at the Stumps of the First Day: India: 385/6 (90 Overs)

Rahul Dravid 177* (251 Balls, 26 Fours, and 1 Six)

Harbhajan Singh 2* (11 Balls)

Mahender Singh Dhoni 110 (159 Balls, 10 Fours, 1 Six)

Yuvraj Singh 68 (93 Balls, 13 Fours)

Gautam Gambhir 1 (10 Balls)

Virender Sehwag 16 (11 Balls, 3 Fours)

Sachin Tendulkar 4 (3 Balls, 1 Fours)

VVS Laxman 0 (4 Balls)

Extras 67 (B 2, LB 2, NB 2, W 1)

The innagural match of the Champions Trophy 2009 is between South Africa and Sri Lanka, which is a Group B match, and as both the teams are strong enough the match seems to be a tougher one.

Team India is going to meet with New Zealand in a crucial match in Compaq Cup 2009. For Kiwis it is a knock out match, a win here will probably make them to the finals, otherwise they are our from the tournament. On the other hand Team India need to win this match to reach to the finals of the tournament, while a defeat here will dim their chances.

Mean while India lost the opener Gautam Gambhir a day before the beginning of their campaign. Watch the news at: Gambhir Out Kohli In.

After a gap of two three months Team India is going to participate in a triangular series in Sri Lanka. The third team of the tournament is the New Zealand. The tournament which is commonly known as Compaq Cup 2009, is going to begin from 8th of September 2009. The first match is scheduled between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

All the matches of the Compaq Cup 2009 is a Day Night match and all of them are going to play at R Premadasa Stadium, in Colombo. The fixture of the tournament is as follow:

As we know that Team India won the first ODI and West Indies won the second one, and thus both the teams are at tie. Both of them will need to win this third ODI match so that they can grip the 4 match series, although this match is badly affected by the rain.

It was a bit of bad timing for Team India, since the team exit badly from the Twenty 20 World Cup, and then they were on a bit morale down. Playing against West Indies in West Indies is always a tough choice while India has really not so impressive records in the past in West Indies.

This time Team India need to play 4 ODI matches in West Indies. The series began on June 26th and Team India won the first ODI by 20 runs.

The warm up match between India and Pakistan on 3rd of June 2009 is the match for which crores of cricket crazy fan are looking for. This is the first time both the teams are meeting after the finals of the 2007 Twenty 20 world cup.

We have seen the two big drama in the semi finals in which Deccan Chargers outplayed the number one team of the league round Delhi Daredevils, while in the second semis Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated mighty Chennai Super Kings. The number one and number two team of the league round are now out of the tournament and the number three and four teams will now play for the top spot, remember these two teams were the teams which were at number 7 and 8 last year.

We have seen the big drama last night, it was the stunning performance by Adam Gilchrist, who stopped Delhi to reach to the finals of the DLF IPL 2009. Can Mathew Hayden or Jaques Kallis do the same for their teams? Let’s wait and watch the second semi finals of the DLF IPL 2009 between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore.