Match fixing returns

Friday, February 29, 2008

Indian police are experts in the investigation of match fixing in cricket. Yes, its true, match fixing has started to show its ugly face again. The man caught this time is West Indies all rounder Marlon Samuels. It has been confirmed that Marlon Samuels exchanged match information with the bookie Kochar. He leaked information about pitch condition, batting lineup etc. Kochar has a close relationship with Dawood Ibrahim. It’s not sure whether he intentionally underperformed in that match. Now ICC has asked WICB to undergo an investigation in this matter. The point to be noted in this is that last week, Marlon Samuels was suspended from bowling in international cricket matches by ICC as the off break conditions of his bowling exceeded the limit fixed by ICC.

What the hell is happening in the world of cricket????

I have told many times in my other blogs that this Indians tour to Australia is the most controversial one. Now, recently, yet another controversy has emerged. Australian opener Mathew Hayden called Indian spinner Bhajji as “obnoxious little weed”. Mathew Hayden told this statement to a radio station in Brisbane during an interview

“It's been a bit of a long battle with Harbhajan. The first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now”

After getting this news, the only question that came to my mind is that why Australians are criticizing their opponents like this. Australians are the world champions, but where is the sportsmanship in them???? A champion without sportsmanship is not actually a champion. Is this the team which was led by the great Don Bradman and Steve Waugh??? Why Ricky’s men started sledging their opponents??? This is not the sign of true sportsmanship. I am watching cricket from 1995, I have never seen a series with these many controversies. Exchanging of statements, ICC not taking any severe action against Australian players, what else??? I hope I wont see any other series like CB series in future.

Letter wrote by a cricket fan to Ricky Ponting









































IPL Match Schedules

April 2008

Fri 18
19:00 local, 13:30 GMT

IPL Bangalore v IPL Kolkata
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat 19
09:30 GMT

IPL Mohali v IPL Chennai
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Mohali

Sat 19
14:30 GMT

IPL Delhi v IPL Jaipur
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Delhi

Sun 20
09:30 GMT

IPL Mumbai v IPL Bangalore
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Mumbai

Sun 20
14:30 GMT

IPL Kolkata v IPL Hyderabad
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Kolkata

Mon 21
13:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Mohali
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Jaipur

Tue 22
13:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Delhi
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Hyderabad

Wed 23
13:30 GMT

IPL Chennai v IPL Mumbai
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Chennai

Thu 24
13:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Jaipur
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Hyderabad

Fri 25
13:30 GMT

IPL Mohali v IPL Mumbai
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Mohali

Sat 26
09:30 GMT

IPL Bangalore v IPL Jaipur
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Bangalore

Sat 26
14:30 GMT

IPL Chennai v IPL Kolkata
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Chennai

Sun 27
09:30 GMT

IPL Mumbai v IPL Hyderabad
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Mumbai

Sun 27
14:30 GMT

IPL Mohali v IPL Delhi
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Mohali

Mon 28
13:30 GMT

IPL Bangalore v IPL Chennai
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Bangalore

Tue 29
13:30 GMT

IPL Kolkata v IPL Mumbai
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Kolkata

Wed 30
13:30 GMT

IPL Delhi v IPL Bangalore
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Delhi

May 2008

Thu 1
09:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mohali
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Hyderabad

Thu 1
14:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Kolkata
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Jaipur

Fri 2
13:30 GMT

IPL Chennai v IPL Delhi
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Chennai

Sat 3
09:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Bangalore
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Hyderabad

Sat 3
14:30 GMT

IPL Mohali v IPL Kolkata
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Mohali

Sun 4
09:30 GMT

IPL Mumbai v IPL Delhi
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Mumbai

Sun 4
14:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Chennai
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Jaipur

Mon 5
13:30 GMT

IPL Bangalore v IPL Mohali
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Bangalore

Tue 6
13:30 GMT

IPL Chennai v IPL Hyderabad
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Chennai

Wed 7
13:30 GMT

IPL Mumbai v IPL Jaipur
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Mumbai

Thu 8
09:30 GMT

IPL Delhi v IPL Chennai
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Delhi

Thu 8
14:30 GMT

IPL Kolkata v IPL Bangalore
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Kolkata

Fri 9
13:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Hyderabad
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Jaipur

Sat 10
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IPL Bangalore v IPL Mumbai
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Bangalore

Sat 10
14:30 GMT

IPL Chennai v IPL Mohali
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Chennai

Sun 11
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IPL Hyderabad v IPL Kolkata
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Hyderabad

Sun 11
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IPL Jaipur v IPL Delhi
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Jaipur

Mon 12
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IPL Mohali v IPL Bangalore
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Mohali

Tue 13
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IPL Kolkata v IPL Delhi
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Kolkata

Wed 14
09:30 GMT

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Mumbai

Wed 14
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IPL Mohali v IPL Jaipur
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Mohali

Thu 15
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IPL Delhi v IPL Hyderabad
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Delhi

Fri 16
13:30 GMT

IPL Mumbai v IPL Kolkata
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Mumbai

Sat 17
09:30 GMT

IPL Delhi v IPL Mohali
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Delhi

Sat 17
14:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Bangalore
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Jaipur

Sun 18
09:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mumbai
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Hyderabad

Sun 18
14:30 GMT

IPL Kolkata v IPL Chennai
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Kolkata

Mon 19
13:30 GMT

IPL Bangalore v IPL Delhi
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Bangalore

Tue 20
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IPL Kolkata v IPL Jaipur
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Kolkata

Wed 21
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IPL Mumbai v IPL Mohali
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Mumbai

Wed 21
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IPL Chennai v IPL Bangalore
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Chennai

Thu 22
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IPL Delhi v IPL Kolkata
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Delhi

Fri 23
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IPL Mohali v IPL Hyderabad
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Mohali

Sat 24
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IPL Delhi v IPL Mumbai
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Delhi

Sat 24
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IPL Chennai v IPL Jaipur
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Chennai

Sun 25
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IPL Bangalore v IPL Hyderabad
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Sun 25
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IPL Kolkata v IPL Mohali
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Kolkata

Mon 26
13:30 GMT

IPL Jaipur v IPL Mumbai
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Jaipur

Tue 27
13:30 GMT

IPL Hyderabad v IPL Chennai
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Hyderabad

Fri 30

1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Sat 31

2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

June 2008

Sun 1

Final - TBC v TBC
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

IPL team details

IPL Chennai

  • MS Dhoni
  • Stephen Fleming
  • Matthew Hayden
  • Michael Hussey
  • Joginder Sharma
  • Albie Morkel
  • Muttiah Muralitharan
  • Makhaya Ntini
  • Jacob Oram
  • Parthiv Patel (wk)
  • Suresh Raina

IPL Bangalore

  • Mark Boucher (wk)
  • Nathan Bracken
  • Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  • Rahul Dravid
  • Wasim Jaffer
  • Jacques Kallis
  • Zaheer Khan
  • Anil Kumble
  • Dale Steyn
  • Cameron White

IPL Delhi

  • AB de Villiers
  • Tillakaratne Dilshan
  • Gautam Gambhir
  • Dinesh Karthik
  • Glenn McGrath
  • Farveez Maharoof
  • Mohammad Asif
  • Virender Sehwag
  • Shoaib Malik
  • Manoj Tiwary
  • Daniel Vettori
  • Greg Shipperd

IPL Hyderabad

  • Herschelle Gibbs
  • Adam Gilchrist (wk)
  • VVS Laxman
  • Shahid Afridi
  • Rohit Sharma
  • Chamara Silva
  • Rudra Pratap Singh
  • Scott Styris
  • Andrew Symonds
  • Chaminda Vaas
  • Nuwan Zoysa

IPL Jaipur

  • Mohammad Kaif
  • Kamran Akmal
  • Justin Langer
  • Munaf Patel
  • Yusuf Pathan
  • Graeme Smith
  • Shane Warne
  • Younis Khan

IPL Kolkata

  • Ajit Agarkar
  • Sourav Ganguly
  • Chris Gayle
  • David Hussey
  • Murali Kartik
  • Brendon McCullum (wk)
  • Ricky Ponting
  • Ishant Sharma
  • Shoaib Akhtar
  • Umar Gul
  • John Buchanan

IPL Mohali

  • Mahela Jayawardene
  • Simon Katich
  • Brett Lee
  • Irfan Pathan
  • Piyush Chawla
  • Ramesh Powar
  • Kumar Sangakkara
  • Ramnaresh Sarwan
  • Sreesanth
  • Yuvraj Singh
  • Tom Moody

IPL Mumbai

  • Loots Bosman
  • Dilhara Fernando
  • Harbhajan Singh
  • Sanath Jayasuriya
  • Lasith Malinga
  • Shaun Pollock
  • Sachin Tendulkar
  • Robin Uthappa