First Semifinal :

Rajasthan Royals Vs Delhi Daredevils :

This Match was blown away by Rajasthan Royals in both the aspects of the game.. be it bowling or batting

Rajasthan did not find any new match-winners at all. it is the same batsman who batted and the same bowlers who bowled well..

Batsmen being Smith, Asnodkar, Pathan and Watson
Bowlers being Tanvir, Watson, Warne and Munaf.

Delhi just couldnt handle the pressure of chasing the 200 score and when their awesome trio left , the game was as Much as over

Second Semifinal

Chennai Superkings Vs Kings XI Punjab

This Match was just over after an hour it started.
Chennai being the underdogs just rattled the best batting team in the IPL.
Shaun Marsh just couldnt handle Gony and Ntini. and none of the other batsman as well.

The batting of Chennai eventhough it was a bit weak finished the match with Parthiv and Raina half centuries. Raina's Awesome form continued

The Final

Rajasthan Royals Vs Chennai Superkings

For Whosoever thought it before IPL started, no one would have expected this kind of a final.
Rajasthan ( The Unexpected ) and Chennai ( Whose Mana potion had deserted them)

Anyway,

The finals started off well with chennai batting.
The looked a worthy opponent to Rajasthan with their controlled aggression but they should have got 10-20 runs more in the 10 -15 overs range.

Eventhough they had posted some 170 runs on the board which could be very good.

When Rajasthan started batting.. they just kept losing wickets as chennai stuck to a plan and were really determined to win it by their cool nature. It was Yusuf Pathan who just couldnt bat when he came as he was fully tensed and still got the man of the match. Everyone talks about his 4 sixers but no one talked about how he struggled early in the match. If pathan got out in the start then Chennai would have won definitely.

Even the last over climax could have been good had Balaji not bowled that wide and Parthiv being more attentive. Anyway no one expected Chennai to win.
Still they were as good as Rajasthan in all departments

Also this one point i do want to stress

Chennai didnt get a free day after their semi finals.. if you do see the fielding standards in all the games, they were good. but you could see a difference in their fielding in the semifinal and final itself. It may well be because of their much needed rest after their wonderful Semifinal.

Anyway people keep telling the deserved won. Maybe .. But if Chennai had won then there would have been controversy on the nature of 20-20 itself that it is unpredictable and would have brought down chennai's stature. Who Knows what would have happened..

The Four Teams that Qualified for the semifinals are :=

1. Rajasthan Royals

Performers :

Swapnil Asnodkar : No Fear
Graeme Smith : Hell
Shane Watson : Can hit six at will
Yusuf Pathan : No Need to tell
Shane Warne : Captaincy Captaincy
Sohail Tanvir : Leading Wicket Taker
Munaf Patel : Can be lethal sometimes

2. Kings XI Punjab

Performers :

Shaun Marsh : Leading Runscorer
James Hopes : Australian import
Lukes Pomersmach : Scorer bigtime
Sangakkara : as we all know
Jayawardana : Tactics
Yuvraj Singh : Six Sixers
Sreesanth : King after the slap
Piyush Chawla : Indian Shane Warne
VRV Singh : Can be lethal at the end
Irfan Pathan : the indian all rounder


3. Chennai Superkings

Performers

Stephen Fleming : But may not play
Suresh Raina : maturity
M S Dhone : Captain and hitter
Albie Morkel : Best All Rounder
S Badrinath : Strong Middle Order
MS Gony : Find of IPL
Makhaya Ntini : SA Express
L Balaji : Hat Trick Smiler
Muralitharan : Magician


4. Delhi Daredevils

Virender Sehwag : Double Triple Century
Gautum Gambhir : Highest Indian Run Scorer
Shikhar Dhawan : 4 Century Patnerships
Glenn McGrath : Lethal Weapon
Amit Mishra : Yet Another Spinner

The Much Awaited match - Chennai Superkings Vs Deccan Chargers is done and Chennai have arrived victorious.. this makes them one of the semifinalists in the inaugural indian premier league.

So the List of Semifinals are

Rajasthan Royals Vs Delhi Daredevils.

First Match : Delhi Won By 25 balls to spare
Second Match : Rajasthan Won by 5 balls to spare.

So this match would be good with the result going either way.

Kings XI Punjab Vs Chennai Superkings

First Match : Chennai won by 30 Runs.
Second Match : Chennai won by 15 Runs almost getting Punjab all out.

The second match being so tight could mean that semifinal is going to be electrifying.

The Mumbai Indians Vs Royal Challengers match has become a dead rubber which they would play only for pride.

Mumbai which is currently in 6th position might come to 5th if wins.
Bangalore if wins, would make it 5 wins totally retaining 7th position.

If Mumbai lose, they would make an interesting trend - 4 Losses 6 Wins and again 4 Losses.

Signing Off
Charith

The Race for the semifinals in the Inaugural Indian Premier League is getting heated up..

Rajasthan and Mohali have already booked their seats..

and the 3 contenders for the 2 slots are :

Mumbai Indians : On 12 Points with 2 matches left.
Chennai Superkings : On 14 Points with 1 match left.
Delhi Daredevils : On 15 Points with no match left.

So the Result of the Match
Mumbai Indians Vs Rajasthan Royals was crucial for all the three teams..

So the Result was Mumbai Indians lost and Rajasthan Royals won by hitting 15 Runs Off the Last over..

So the semifinal dynamics has changed..
Now it is Certain that Delhi Daredevils are going to the semi finals..

So it'll be Mumbai Indians and Chennai Superkings who are going to battle it out for the last seat in the semifinals train.

Both Mumbai and Chennai now have one match left with chennai having 2 points lead.. but Mumbai has a better run rate than chennai almost more than by 0.8

So the match Chennai Superkings Vs Deccan Chargers is of atmost importance to both teams..

So the Result
1. If Chennai Wins, then its all over for Mumbai.. Chennai goes to semifinals.
2. If Chennai Loses, Mumbai should win against Bangalore Royal Challengers to reach the semifinals.. If Mumbai loses, Chennai go through..

So watch out for Chennai Superkings Vs Deccan Chargers Today..

Signing Off
Charith

The Point table looks like this..

Rajasthan and Mohali already qualified..

Chennai needs 1 win to qualify off 2 matches.
Delhi needs to win 1 win an also hope that Chennai or Mumbai doesnt qualify
Mumbai needs 2 wins off 3 matches to qualify.

So the Result of this weeks is like

Chennai Vs Jaipur == Chennai Lost.
Mumbai Vs Delhi == Delhi Won and Mumbai Lost.

so this makes the situation interesting..

Delhi is on 15 points
Chennai is on 14 points ( 1 match remaining)
Mumbai is on 12 Points ( 2 matches remaining)

So if chennai lose the next match it'll be like Delhi is qualified and Mumbai has to lose both the matches or just lose one very badly to get a lower run rate than Chennai..

Mumbai needs to win one or two depending on Chennai's result.. if chennai wins they'll have to win both otherwise they'll have to win one.. bcos chennai has a very bad run rate..

So this week will tell all the results which would be very entertaining for the the least..

it is Mumbai Vs Jaipur and Chennai Vs Deccan for the next 2 days..

You dont want to miss these..

Signing Off..
Charith

You surely dislike when you conduct a search on Google and the search engine returns a number of good results, but when you try to open the ones that looks the most interesting you get a registration page. The reason is that there are some websites that allow Google but not unregistered or you. The solution is to disguise yourself as Google changing your browser's identity (named user agent) to Googlebot.
Internet Explorer

Copy this code into notepad and save it as a .reg file (name it googlebot-useragent.reg for example) or download and un-zip this file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

Now double-click the .reg file you've created (or downloaded) to merge it into Windows registry. In order to restore the default user agent copy this code into notepad and save it as a .reg file (name it standard-useragent.reg for example) or download and un-zip this file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Now double-click the .reg file you've created (or downloaded) in order to change back to the default user agent.
Firefox

Type in about:config in the address bar and down to find "general.useragent.extra.firefox".
Double click on it and type in "Googlebot 2.1".
This will change Firefox user agent to the google bot. To change the user agent back to the original click Reset to restore the property to its default value.

How to disable dumprep.exe:
1. Right click on “My Computer,” choose “Properties” from that menu.
2. Click on “Advanced tab,”
3. Click the “Error Reporting” button.
4. Check the “Disable error reporting” box. You may choose to uncheck the the box below it, “But notify me when an error occurs,” if desired.
The Annoying dumprep.exe tool is disabled now..

You can safely disable this largely useless feature (and thus speed up your computer in crash-situations)

Microsoft provided tool called “Windows Error Dump Reporting,” or “dumprep.exe,” is creating a file containing information about the error that can later be sent back to Microsoft, where it will be summarily ignored along with millions of other error reports.(atleast it seems like that)...