The Chennai Super Kings qualified for the play-offs with their seventh win in a row at home,beating the Kochi Tuskers Kerala by 11 runs.
Chennai scored 152 for five,thanks to Wriddhaman Sahaa who 46 not out in 33 balls,hitting one four and three sixes.Michael Hussey scored 32 in 37 balls.
In Reply,Kochi could manage to reach 141 for five.Brendon McCullum made a flashy 33 in 37 balls. Brad Hodge remained an unbeaten 51 in 42 balls,hitting three fours and two sixes .
Brad Hodge took four wickets and scored an unbeaten 33 to guide the Kochi Tuskers Kerala to an eight-wicket victory over the Rajasthan Royals.Brendon McCullum stroked 29 in just 12 balls,including one four and four big sixes.
Earlier,The Royals were dismissed for just 97 in 18.3 overs.Ashok Menaria was the top scorer with 30 runs,hitting three boundaries and one six.Kerala achieved their target in just 7.2 overs.Brad Hodge took 4 for 13 in his four overs, while Sreesanth and Parammeswaran took two wickets each.
The Kings XI Punjab registered a much-needed victory over Kochi Tuskers Kerala by six-wickets in Kochi. Dinesh Karthik hammered 69 runs in just 33 balls,smashing five maximums and seven boundaries to guide Punjab to a win with seven balls to spare.Shaun Marsh contributed with 42 in 30 balls.
Earlier,Mahela Jayawardene scored an excellent half-century to guide Kochi to 178 for seven.He hit eight fours and two sixes in his 76 off 52 balls.He was well supported by opening partner Brendon McCullum,who smacked 32 runs and Owais Shah, who hit 23 in 12 deliveries. Bipul Sharma picked up two wickets for Punjab.
Tillakaratne Dilshan scored an unbeaten half-century as the Royal Challengers Bangalore registered a victory over the Kochi Tuskers Kerala at Bangalore.Dilshan smashed 52 off 31 balls.Chris Gayle smacked 44 runs off 15 balls with five sixes and three fours.Virat Kohli who was unbeaten on 27 runs off 33 balls.
From Kochi,McCullum made 24 runs and Klinger got 22.Ravindra Jadeja played contributed by making 23 runs off 22 balls,with two fours.But eventually they finished at 125 for nine.Daniel Vettori picked two wickets as also did Sreenath Aravind.
The Kochi Tuskers Kerala registered a fantastic over the Kolkata Knight Riders by 17 runs at home.Batting first,Tuskers posted 156 for five,thanks to captain Mahela Jayawardene who led by example with 55 runs in 41 balls,hitting two fours and two sixes.Michael Klinger made 29 while Parthiv Patel made 21.Brad Hodge hammered 35 not out in just 18 balls to drive his side to a winning total.
Knight Riders were restricted to 139 for seven in reply, despite Eoin Morgan's maiden IPL half-century(66 in 51 balls),hitting eight fours and two sixes.Jacques Kallis hit 45 in 41 deliveries.
The Kochi Tuskers Kerala beat the Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets at Delhi,with the help of a key innings by Brendon McCullum who smashed all over the park,making 37 runs off 19 balls,hitting five fours and two sixes. Parthiv Patel played a crucial knock of 37 not out off 31 balls,hitting five fours and steered his side home,chasing 141 runs for victory. Brad Hodge remained unbeaten on 24 runs off 13 balls.
Earlier, Delhi were put into bat first,but they lost their openers Virender Sehwag and David Warner cheaply.Rao top scored with 40 runs off 36 balls, including five fours. Travis Birt played a cameo inning,hitting 27 runs off only 15 balls with five boundaries.But it was not well enough to beat Kochi. Delhi eventually finish with 140 for 6 in their twenty over.
Delhi Daredevils managed to beat the Kochi Tuskers Kerala in their home town,thanks to Virender Sehwag,who was clearly the outstanding performer as he smashed eighty runs from only forty-seven balls,with eight fours and five sixes.Delhi posted the total of 157 runs.Sreesanth took two wickets.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala’s response was not strong enough as they lost three for twenty-eight.Brad Hodge and Ravindra Jadeja tried to stabilize the innings.But it was difficult with Morne Morkel and Roelof van der Merwe,each of them picking up three wickets for the Delhi Daredevils,packing off the Kochi innings at 119 to registered a much-deserved victory by thirty-eight runs.
Ishant Sharma took five for 12,demolishing the Kochi Tuskers Kerala batting line-up to bowl the Deccan Chargers to a 55-run victory. Dale Steyn took three for 16.
Chasing 130 to win, Kochi were bowled out for just 74.
Earlier,from the Chargers,Sangakkara stroked an half-century, making 65 in 47 balls,hitting ten fours. Cameron White scored 31.
The Rajasthan Royals finally broke their losing run with an excellant eight-wicket win over Kochi Tuskers Kerala at Jaipur.
Winning the toss, Shane Warne elected to field first.Kochi managed to build up only a total of 109. Ravindra Jadeja scored 22 runs off 23 balls. Parthiv Patel scored 32 runs,hitting two boundaries. Shane Warne returned with three wickets.
Rajasthan didn’t have much problems in chasing 110,thanks to Dravid who smacked 44 off 37 balls with four fours and one six and Shane Watson who scored 49.
The Kochi Tuskers Kerala registered their third successive IPL-2011 win beating the Kolkata Knight Riders by six-runs at Eden Gardens. Ravi Jadeja starred once again with the bat and the ball.
Ravi Jadeja scored vital 29 runs to help Kochi to put up a total for seven.Openers Brendon McCullum (23) and Mahela Jayawardene (25) provided a good start. Pathan took three for 20 and Shakib took three for 28.
In reply, Kolkata then made a poor start, losing Manvinder Bisla for 16, Jacques Kallis for six and Gautam Gambhir for three.Manoj Tiwary steadied the ship, making 46 in 51 balls, hitting two fours and two sixes.But it was not enough and Kolkata were restricted to 126 for nine.RP Singh and Jadeja both taking two wickets.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala registered a second successive victory in a rain-affected match beating Chennai Superkings by seven wickets.
In reply to the Super Kings' 131 for four in 17 overs,From Kochi openers Brendon McCullum and Parthiv Patel gave a superb start. McCullum hit a quickfire 47,including three huge sixes and four fours. Parthiv Patel made 34.Kochi finished the game in style with Jadeja providing the fireworks,making an unbeaten 16 in just six balls and Brad Hodge made an unbeaten 19 in 14 balls.
Chennai reached the score of 131,thanks to a fine knock of 50 in 40 balls from Suresh Raina. Murali Vijay smacked 28 in 18 balls.Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit 15 not out in 13 balls.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala stun Mumbai Indians,by registering an eight-wicket win to get off the mark in the IPL 2011.
Tendulkar made a maiden marvelous century in IPL,making 100 not out in 66 balls,hitting 12 fours and three sixes.He played couple of Mahendra Singh Dhoni special 'helicoptor' shots in his inning.He was supported well,once again by the promising batsman Ambati Rayudu, who blasted his second consecutive half-century in making 53 in just 33 balls.
In reply,from Kochi- Jayawardene made 56 in 36 balls with nine fours while McCullum strucked 81 in 60 balls,smashing ten fours and two sixes. Jadeja made an unbeaten 25 in 11 balls and Hodge made 11 in seven to steer the Kochi side to a first victory in IPL.
Wayne Parnell’s three wickets for 35 for Pune helped to register a four-wicket win over Kochi Tuskers Kerala in Mumbai.
Mohnish Mishra's unbeaten on 37 in 21 balls help his side to reach 151 for six in reply to Kerala's 148 for eight. Uthappa hit three fours and two sixes, in his 31 in 12 balls.
Earlier, Kochi had a worst start,as score read 24 for four,loosing Brendon McCullum , VVS Laxman, Mahela Jyawardene and Parthiv Patel cheaply. Hodge steadied the ship with Jadeja by making 39 in 36 balls.Jadeja made 47 in 33 balls.
Royal Challengers Bangalore kicked off IPL-4 campaign with a six-wicket victory over IPL debutants Kochi Tuskers Kerala at Kochi.
They easily chased 161-run target set by Kochi thanks to an aggressive unbeaten half-century from AB de Villiers hitting the 18th over for 20 runs, smacking three huge sixes.20-year-old opening batsman Mayank Agarwal smacked 33 runs off only 24 balls and Kohli scored 23 runs off 18 balls with four fours for Royal Challengers.
Earlier, Kochi Tuskers made 161 with the help of the crucial partnership between Brendon McCullum and VVS Laxman.
Laxman scored 36 runs off 29 balls and McCullum scored 45 runs off 32 balls.
