IPL 2017 Full List

The IPL 2017 tournament has been started on 5th April in Hyderabad, while the final will be Palyed in the Hyderabad on 21st May.

► Here is the full list of matches of IPL 2017:



 Match 1: SRH vs RCB, April 5 2017, 8 PM

 Match 2: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Mumbai Indians, April 6 2017, 8 PM

 Match 3: Gujarat Lions vs KKR, April 7 2017, 8 PM

 Match 4: Kings XI Punjab vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 8 2017, 4 PM

 Match 5: RCB vs Delhi Daredevils, April 8 2017, 8 PM

 Match 6: SRH vs Gujarat Lions, April 9 2017, 4 PM

 Match 7: Mumbai Indians vs KKR, April 9 2017, 8 PM

 Match 8: Kings XI Punjab vs RCB, April 10 2017, 8 PM

 Match 9: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Delhi Daredevils, April 11 2017, 8 PM

 Match 10: Mumbai Indians vs SRH, April 12 2017, 8 PM

 Match 11: KKR vs Kings XI Punjab, April 13 2017, 8 PM

 Match 12: RCB vs Mumbai Indians, April 14 2017, 4 PM

 Match 13: Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 14 2017, 8 PM

 Match 14: KKR vs SRH, April 15 2017, 4 PM

 Match 15: Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab, April 15 2017, 8 PM

 Match 16: Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Lions, April 16 2017, 4 PM

 Match 17: RCB vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 16 2017, 8 PM

 Match 18: Delhi Daredevils vs KKR, April 17 2017, 4 PM

 Match 19: SRH vs Kings XI Punjab, April 17 2017, 8 PM

 Match 20: Gujarat Lions vs RCB, April 18 2017, 8 PM

 Match 21: SRH vs Delhi Daredevils, April 19 2017, 8 PM

 Match 22: Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians, April 20 2017, 8 PM

 Match 23: KKR vs Gujarat Lions, April 21 2017, 8 PM

 Match 24: Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians, April 22 2017, 4 PM

 Match 25: Rising Pune Supergiant vs SRH, April 22 2017, 8 PM

 Match 26: Gujarat Lions vs Kings XI Punjab, April 23 2017, 4 PM

 Match 27: KKR vs RCB, April 23 2017, 8 PM

 Match 28: Mumbai Indians vs Rising Pune Supergiant, April 24 2017, 8 PM

 Match 29: RCB vs SRH, April 25 2017, 8 PM

 Match 30: Rising Pune Supergiant vs KKR, April 26 2017, 8 PM

 Match 31: RCB vs Gujarat Lions, April 27 2017, 8 PM

 Match 32: KKR vs Delhi Daredevils, April 28 2017, 4 PM

 Match 33: Kings XI Punjab vs SRH, April 28 2017, 8 PM

 Match 34: Rising Pune Supergiant vs RCB, April 29 2017, 4 PM

 Match 35: Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians, April 29 2017, 8 PM

 Match 36: Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils, April 30 2017, 4 PM

 Match 37: SRH vs KKR, April 30 2017, 8 PM

 Match 38: Mumbia Indians vs RCB, May 1 2017, 4 PM

 Match 39: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Gujarat Lion, May 1 2017, 8 PM

 Match 40: Delhi Daredevils vs SRH, May 2 2017, 8 PM

 Match 41: KKR vs Rising Pune Supergiant, May 3 2017, 8 PM

 Match 42: Delhi Daredevils vs Gujarat Lions, May 4 2017, 8 PM

 Match 43: RCB vs Kings XI Punjab, May 5 2017, 8 PM

 Match 44: SRH vs Rising Pune Supergiant, May 6 2017, 4 PM

 Match 45: Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils, May 6 2017, 8 PM

 Match 46: RCB vs KKR, May 7 2017, 4 PM

 Match 47: Kings XI Punjab vs Gujarat Lions, May 7 2017, 8 PM

 Match 48: SRH vs Mumbai Indians, May 8 2017, 8 PM

 Match 49: Kings XI Punjab vs KKR, May 9 2017, 8 PM

 Match 50: Gujarat Lions vs Delhi Daredevils, May 10 2017, 8 PM

 Match 51: Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab, May 11 2017, 8 PM

 Match 52: Delhi Daredevlis vs Rising Pune Super Giant, May 12 2017, 8 PM

 Match 53: Gujarat Lions vs SRH, May 13 2017, 4 PM

 Match 54: KKR vs Mumbai Indians, May 13 2017, 8 PM

 Match 55: Rising Pune Supergiant vs Kings XI Punjab, May 14 2017, 4 PM

 Match 56: Delhi Daredevils vs RCB, May 15 2017, 8 PM

 1st Qualifier: May 16 2017, 8 PM

 Eliminator: May 17 2017, 8 PM

 2nd Qualifier: May 19 2017, 8 PM


 Final: May 21 2017, 8 PM

India scavenged NZ in PayTm ODI series

When team India was playing its final ODI match of the Ind-NZ series on the eve of the biggest festival of Hindu nation, Deepawali, then everyone wanted that let India win this match and save its fortress against New Zealand at home. And happened the very same as India won the final ODI by 190 runs.

Summary of Vizag ODI:
After being reached on 2-2, the series now focused on FINAL ODI which had to play at the Eastern part of India, Vizag. Indian skipper MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first with a change in his side as spinner Jayant Yadav made his  debut after receiving his ODI cap from Virender Sehwag.

Indian team made an steady start but Rahane again failed to capitalize his innings. Well, Rohit who was looking just ordinary with the bat till now, was in different league today and scored 70 runs before getting caught out. Dhoni (41) joined Kohli to keep the momentum going on, later Kedar Jadhav,  a golden-hand player of the series joined  Kohli to drive India's score further. Playing a big shot , kohli caught out at covers on his personal score of 65. Axar patel and Jadhav ensured to reach at 269/6 after 50 overs. In reply to 270, NZ's counter attack packed by India's spinners. With the ball turning and gripping, India's spinners had a better day at vizag. Mishra ripped through the batting with a 5-fer as the Kiwis had no idea to counter his spin variations. In the end, it was a no-contest. And India won the match by a huge margin of 190 runs  TO SEAL THE SERIES 3-2.
Leg spinner Amit Mishra awarded as Man of the match and Man of the Series for giving his fittest match winning performance throughout the series. He says that he is happy to contribute to the team's victory. 
Indian cricketers wore jerseys bearing their mother's names instead of their own in the final ODI against New Zealand at the ACA-VDCA Stadium, Vizag here on Saturday.

"Nayi Soch",  the first-of-its-kind initiative is part of a new campaign started by Star India in collaboration with BCCI to highlight the importance of mothers in our lives.

Paytm ODI series result:
Dharmshala ODI- Ind won by 6 wickets
Delhi ODI-     NZ won by 6 runs
Mohali ODI- Ind won by 7 wickets
Ranchi ODI- NZ won by 19 runs
Vizag ODI-    Ind won by 190 runs.

Stats:
 • Amit Mishra completed 50 wickets.
 • 15 Wickets taken by Amit Mishra in this series - the most by any bowler in a five-match ODI series.
 • India have been played 904 ODI so far, registered 457 wins.
 • VK completed 7500+ runs
 • MS Dhoni became the third wicketkeeper to score 9000 ODI runs.
 • Most 100s while chasing in ODI-
 - 17 Sachin (232 innings)
 - 16 Kohli (94 inn)

 • Most ODI 100s-
 - 49  Sachin
 - 30 Ponting
 - 28 Jayasuriya
 - 26 Kohli

 • Highest scores by Indians in odi chases
 - 183* MSD vs SL, 2005
 - 183 Kohli vs Pak, 2012
 - 175 Sachin vs Aus, 2009
 - 154 Kohli vs NZ , 2016

 • 23.1 Overs in which New Zealand were bowled out. It was their shortest ODI innings .

 • 4 Number of bilateral ODI series in which Kohli has scored 300 or more runs, which includes this series. It is the joint-most by any batsman. Rahul Dravid and Quinton de Kock have also amassed 300-plus runs in four bilateral series each.
 • Kohli's 358 runs in this series are the third-most by any batsman in a bilateral series against New Zealand and the best for India against New Zealand.

  The Kiwis have entertained for sure but India proved too good in the end.

500th Test Match: A Landmark for India

The Forthcoming Test match between India and New Zealand at Kanpur is the test match number 500th for Indian Cricket team. It took more than eight decades to India to achieve the milestone. Also, The first test host ground, Green park at Kanpur is set to host its 499th test.

UPCA set to welcome team India for 500th test.

Credit: UPCA twitter handle

Team India have been played 499 test matches so far, in which 129 matches were won by them with 47% success rate and 157 lost and 212 were drawn.

     From 1932 to Sep 2016, a few major achievements of team India have been enumerated here. Where in 1932, India started to play test cricket. In 1999, veteran leg-spinner Anil Kumble who is now the chief coach of Indian team took 10 wickets in an innings with broken Jaw. In 2000, 'The wall' Rahul Dravid and wrist master VVS Laxman , together made a record shuttering partnership against Australia and Turbunator Harbhajan singh took a Hat-trick. In 2004, Sehwag best known for his attacking-batting-attitude, became the first Indian to make a triple century in a test and tagged as "Multan ka Sultan" after his compelling batting performance against Pakistan. In 2013, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar called it a day from Test cricket after playing 200 test matches. The 200th test was against West Indies and in 2016, India set to play 500th test.

India's test cricket journey.

courtesy: Times of India(pic)

If we talk about the Captaincy, Some stats about the Indian test captains,

Without spinner one can't imagine the shape of test cricket. Spinners always make test cricket more interesting. Here are some greatest spinners from India,

     Moreover, to make the 500th test memorable, BCCI instructed the hotel in which both the teams stays  that it will serve 500 types of dishes to the players and management for all the five days according to the schedule.

Apart from this, Among those who will be present at Kanpur's Green Park Stadium are Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Ravi Shastri, Kris Srikkanth, Azharuddin, Anil Kumble, Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag and MS Dhoni.
Good Luck TEAM INDIA for 500th test !

Has Gambhir 'Forcefully' ignored ?

Four consecutive half-centuries as captain with the scores of 77, 59, 90 and 94 in the 2016 edition of Duleep Trophy can describe the hunger of making runs in the left-hand southpaw Gautam Gambhir. The unsung hero of the 2011 world cup final, who is turning 35 years-old next month still have the same strike on the ball, is currently out of the national squad ever since he made 3 runs versus England in his last test which was played two summers ago.

Gambhir did not consider for test series against NZ

The selection committee led by Sandeep Patil, who has now been left selection committee, chose following squad for test series against New Zealand which kicks start from 22 September :

Squad: Virat Kohli (Capt), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav

There were quite a few eyebrows raised after the selectors announced their 15-member squad, Apart from Stuart Binny and Mumbai uncapped pacer Shardul Thakur who were in the squad for west indies tour, rest team is same. After being not considered for test squad, disappointed Gambhir post a quote on microblogging website twitter to express his view.

Some might raise fingers on the selectors' decision to award another chance to Rohit sharma and Shikhar Dhawan! They can ask questions to selectors because they (Rohit & Shikhar) both are considerably failed to show what they have been done in shorter format of the cricket after performing well in thier initial stage of test cricket. But, even after repeated failure, selection committee again showed their Blind-belief  upon these two openers.
Given the fact, both these openers are enjoying backing of Virat kohli in test cricket. One can assume that, in this whole scenario there is a name behind the existence of Gauti from test side may be or may not be of Virat Kohli ! Who was involved in a rift that was taken place in between him and Gautam Gambhir during an IPL match that too was not last forever between them. His relations with MS Dhoni is also not so good either. Which might cost him to secure a place in the national side even after a successful domestic journey as he garnered 488 runs in Ranji Trophy and more than 500 runs in IPL, which made him fourth-highest-run-getter in this season of Indian Premier League.
The road ahead looks not much smoother for Gambhir, who will now have to come up with something extraordinary in the Ranji Trophy that starts on 6 October to gain the attention of new selection chief.

Untill that happens, fans have to support him in this rough phase of his career and let him have a little hope.

No More Whistle-blowing for CSK, Dhoni set to leave !

Stalwart of Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni all set to end his eight years long association with CSK. Currently, CSK has been faced a two years ban for alleged involvement in match-fixing by it's officials.





He association with CSK is from 2008, which was the very first edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) where CSK franchises bought him for the highest price of  $1.5 million for the first edition. His involvement in CSK brought a lot of fan following from different states of India specially from Bihar and Jharkhand. He was also not disappointed his fans and owners by winning IPL trophy in 2010 and 2011 & CLT-20 edition in 2010 and 2014.


If Dhoni continues to play after two years, then CSK will most probably try to buy him back. "We won't say Dhoni's association with CSK is over, but for now, he will play for some other team," the source added. He also revealed "Dhoni will definitely feature in the IPL for a new team. There is absolutely no pressure from CSK to stop him".


It may be possible that we might seen two new teams in IPL-9. So it is going to be interesting to see which franchise will make this 'synonymous of the CSK'  a part of their team. 
With inputs from agencies

A roar against South Africa

Since, starting of a long tour of South Africa for India, nothing went in favour of team India and its management as BCCI and cricket world lost its one of the greatest administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya few days earlier who made BCCI to richest cricket board. later, two back to back defeats in T-20 international matches and one in First ODI match of current on going Paytm series ; in which first t-20 was a real nerve wracking encounter as both teams were played their heart out but at the end Africa had its upper edge. And If talks about 2nd t-20, which brought a black day for Indian cricket as dejected fans at Cuttack had thrown bottles in the ground after seeing worst performance from their beloved cricket team which caused a serious issue. Match referee had to intervene to complete that match. A very similar performance was seen in first ODI at Kanpur where Indian bowlers conceded almost 50 runs in last 5 overs and later on slow batting in those crucial overs again made Indian fans unhappy as another defeat was conglutinated on the card and a brilliant knock from Rohit Sharma went into vain. Then Indian skipper started receiving some serious allegations for being slow in that match. Well, Young pacer from Africa, Rabada was the difference between that match who escaladed over Indian batsmen with his fire-power bowling and kept our batsmen in check.  Nonetheless everyone was waiting for a win and that came into 2nd ODI  today.



At Indore stadium, India, that played 3 matches and never lost and exactly same happened there, India have a victory over Africa in a low scoring total.




=> Summary of 2nd ODI: 




After winning the toss, Indian skipper MSD decided to bat first in this match. Once his decision seems went wrong as more than half of Indian team tumbled-down like winter fall on 124 runs. None of us thought India would cross 200 but thanks to MSD for his brilliant batting of unbeaten 92 runs and a bit of resistance from lower order helped to reach upon a sacred total of 247 runs after losing 9 wickets at the end of the innings. Although India were never look competitive in this match even after scoring 247-runs as this wicket was a flat track and as other matches, this match was also look like going away from India. Only a miracle could have saved to India. For all that everyone was  waiting impatiencely for remaining match.
Now it was turn of our bowling department to do something that which never happened before like to take all those ten wickets of SA but it never seems easy though as African openers has started to peeling runs from Indian bowlers after they went off a brisk start. But all of a sudden, from 134/2, they amassed to 142/5. Very soon Kohli who couldn't contribute with the bat after an awful run out , took a blinder to evacuate  Ab De Villiers who had a-last-ball-century in Kanpur odi. Lower order of SA were also displayed some resistance but could not withstand in front of indian bowling attack and curse of bad umpiring. Bhubaneswar Kumar ripped out remaining last two wickets to ensure a 22 runs victory in favour of team India and winning streak for India at Indore remains continued and also gave a chance to all cricket lovers to rejoice after a long time.
At the end of the match , MS Dhoni elected as Man of the Match for his excellent knock. He was also playing his 100th one day match at home.
Honestly, this one would be one of the greatest victory for India in terms of performance. But all in all, this victory will boost the energy level of both team India and its fans.

Happy birthday MSD, turned 34 !

India ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni aka MSD best known for his those incredible Match finishing knocks and being calm even under tensed situations on and off the field, is celebrating his birthday today as he turned 34 yrs old today.
And wishes poured in on the social media like twitter, facebook , Instagram from the cricket fraternity all over the world. Fans are celebrating his birthday in different ways and sending their lovely wishes on social sites.
A veteran of 90tests and 265 odis, Dhoni has been established himself as one of the most successful odi captain in cricket world. He retired from test cricket in December last year to focus on ODI career.




Some feathers from his cap are listed below that will make you feel proud as a cricket fan :


1. World T20- 2007
2. Asia cup 2010
3. World Cup 2011
4. Champions Trophy 2013
5. ICC odi player of the year- 2008 & 2009.