India vs Ireland 2018 T20I: Virat Kohli will look to start English summer with a bang

The Indian cricket team have a full-strength squad to pick from with captain Virat Kohli back in the team after nursing a neck injury.

Sports News : India will begin their preparation for England tour by playing two T20Is against Ireland. The first of the two T20Is matches will be played at Malahide Cricket Club Ground or The Village in Dublin on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The Indian cricket team have a full-strength squad to pick from, with captain Virat Kohli back in the team after nursing a neck injury. The men in blue will use the two T20Is against Ireland to get acclimatised to the English conditions as they have struggled to counter the swing and overcast conditions in England in the past and there is no better way to prepare than get a few games under the belt, and there is no place more suitable than Ireland.

However, the Ireland Cricket team are no pushovers and have T20 specialists like Paul Stirling and Kevin O’Brien in the team. Still, India will be expected to come through unscathed before they begin their England tour starting July 3. The two teams have played just one T20I in the past, during 2009 T20 World Cup which India won by 15 runs.

How Virat Kohli and Co will look at two T20Is against Ireland

For India, the two T20Is against Ireland will mark the onset of a long English summer for Virat Kohli & co, and perhaps it was a marker of this crucial impending assignment that India decided to stay on and practice in London on Monday, reports PTI. Since the tour of South Africa, this is the first time a full-strength Indian team will be seen in action. Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah and MS Dhoni were rested for the T20 tri-series in Sri Lanka in March. The quadruple also missed the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Bengaluru recently. After a brilliant performance in IPL 2018, KL Rahul got another chance in limited over cricket and Ajinkya Rahane's omission from the ODI squad means that he is once again a contender for the number four spot when the three-match series against England begins on July 12.

Virat Kohli's concern: The middle order

With Rahul in contention for a starting spot in the middle order, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik will be left jostling for two spots. As part of the full-strength Indian side, the three had featured in the T20 series against South Africa. Raina had been used as a pinch-hitting, aggressive number three option, but the current situation might warrant a re-think.

India playing 11 Probables: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah

Ireland playing 11 Probables: Gary Wilson (c & wk), Kevin O'Brien, William Porterfield, Paul Stirling, Simi Singh, George Dockrell, Boyd Rankin, James Shannon, Stuart Thompson, Andrew Balbirnie, Peter Chase

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IPL 2018 Stats : Award Ceremony, Winning Moments, Prize Money, Team and Players records

Chennai Super Kings lift the IPL trophy for the third time in the seven finals they have played.

IPL 2018 : Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to win the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL 2018). Shane Watson single-handedly won it for CSK by hitting a magnificent century in the biggest game of the season. He made 117 runs. He had scored a century in the earlier stage of the tournament. Ambati Rayudu hit the winning runs. Coming back from a two-year suspension due to spot-fixing scandal, CSK showed utter dominance over Sunrisers Hyderabad as they beat them in all the four encounters they had in this year’s edition.

MS Dhoni gets the winners’ cheque of Rs. 20,00,00,000

Kane Williamson collects Rs. 12,50,00,000 – Runner-Up Team

Awards Ceremony:

• Sunil Narine | MVP : It has been a successful journey with the bat and ball for Sunil Narine has he is the Most Valuable Player of IPL 2018
• Orange Cap – Kane Williamson (735 runs)
• Purple Cap – Andrew Tye — 24 wickets
• Stylish Player of the Season – Rishabh Pant
• Super Striker of the Season: Sunil Narine
• Perfect Catch of the Season – Trent Boult -A brilliant athletic back-peddling catch by the Black Cap.
• IPL Fairplay Award – Mumbai Indians
• Emerging player of the season – Rishabh Pant
• Pitch and ground award – Punjab Cricket Association (For grounds who’ve hosted less than 7 matches)
• Pitch and ground award – Cricket Association of Bengal (For those grounds who’ve hosted 7 matches or more)

IPL 2018 Stats:

• – Eight players this season scored 500+ runs – the most ever going past seven from 2013.
• – This is the first time a team has beaten an opponent four times in a season.

 Teams finishing second in league phase lifting IPL title:

• CSK in 2011 & 2018
• KKR in 2012 & 2014
• MI in 2013 & 2015

– Ambati Rayudu (2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018) equals Rohit Sharma (2009, 2013, 2015 & 2017) for the most wins in IPL finals. Harbhajan Singh also makes that list though he was not part of the XI.

IPL Champions:

• Rajasthan Royals in 2008
• Deccan Chargers in 2009
• Chennai Super Kings in 2010, 2011 & 2018
• Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012 & 2014
• Mumbai Indians in 2013, 2015 & 2017
• Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2016

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IPL 2018 Final : Shane Watson’s century helps CSK lift IPL 2018 trophy, beat SRH by 8 wickets (Scorecard)

This is the third IPL trophy for the Chennai Super Kings and also for MS Dhoni. Watson becomes 2nd batsman to hit century in IPL final after Wriddhiman Saha.

 

IPL 2018 : Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to win the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL 2018). Shane Watson single-handedly won it for CSK by hitting a magnificent century in the biggest game of the season. He made 117 runs. He had scored a century in the earlier stage of the tournament. Ambati Rayudu hit the winning runs.

Coming back from a two-year suspension due to spot-fixing scandal, Chennai Super Kings showed utter dominance over SRH as they beat them in all the four encounters they had in this year’s edition. SRH bowlers looked out of form. Barring Bhuvneshwar and Raashid, all the others leaked runs heavily. With this win, CSK lift the IPL trophy for the third time in the seven finals they have played.

Earlier, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was back in the attack and gave just 8 runs. His figures were 4-1-17-0. Rashid came back to bowl his last and Shane Watson completed his 2nd century of the season. Rashid gave 12 runs in his last over. He ended with the figures of 4-1-24-0. CSK needed 13 from 18. Kaul came to bowl the 18th over and Watson showed no mercy.

IPL 2018 FINAL : CSK vs SRH Score Board

Sunrisers Hyderabad Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings Scorecard

CSK vs SRH head to head ahead IPL final 2018

Overall: Matches: 11

• Chennai Super Kings won: 9
• Sunrisers Hyderabad won: 2

IPL 2018: SRH’s Deepak Hooda does a Houdini’s Act to defeat Mumbai Indian by 1 wicket

Sunrisers Hyderabad will look to the depth and variety in its bowling attack to counter the might of Mumbai batting which have the likes of Rohit Sharma, Even Lewis, and Ishan Kishan.

IPL 2018 : Sunrisers Hyderabad won their second match of IPL 2018 against Mumbai Indians by 1 wicket in a nail-biting encounter. Chasing a modest target of 148 in 20 overs, Shikhar Dhawan and Wridimann Saha gave Sunrisers Hyderabad a flying start as they crossed 50 run mark in the 6 overs of Powerplay. But Mumbai Indians Pulled it back by taking wickets at regular intervals. In the last two overs, Sunrisers Hyderabad needed 12 runs off 12 balls and Mustafizur Rahman gave only 1 run and took 2 wickets.

Ben Cutting came to bowl the last over for Mumbai Indians, SRH’s Deepak Hooda dispatched the first ball of the last ball for six as they needed 11 runs in last over. That brings the deficit down to 5 runs of 5 balls. Both Stanlake and Deepak Hooda held their nerve and brought the deficit down to 1 run of 1 ball. Stanlake hit a boundary over midwicket to seal the game for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

After the end of 15th over Sunrisers Hyderabad needed 27 runs in 30 balls.

Ben Cutting came to bowl his 3rd over and Hooda picked 2 runs, off the hips to deep midwicket. Hooda and Yusuf scampered across for the second. The throw is to the keeper’s end and Hooda dishes out a desperate full-length dive and just makes it. Deepak Hooda and Yusuf Pathan curbed their natural instinct and marching towards the target in singles and doubles. In the 17th over, Ben Cutting gave 5 runs in first 5 balls before hit for a boundary of the last ball. Wicketless Bumrah came to bowl the 18th over of the inning, gave 3 runs and took successive wickets of 4th and 5th ball and ends his quota of over with 2 wickets. Deepak Hooda and Yusuf Pathan added 29 runs together in 28 balls before Pathan got out while trying to pull Bumrah over midwicket.

As Sunrisers Hyderabad needed 12 runs off 12 balls, Mustafizur came to bowl the penultimate over. Deepal Hooda took a single off the first ball and Siddharth Kaul played 2 dot balls before getting out for a duck. Mumbai is right back into the game as Deepak Hooda, alone recognized batsman. Sandeep Sharma came top bat after the fall of 8th wicket. Mustafizur brought Mumbai Indians back into a winning situation as SRH needed 11 runs in 6 balls with one wicket in hand. Deepak Hooda will face the last over and Ben Cutting bowled the last over. Hooda deposited first ball o last over for a six over cover.

Cutting bowled the second ball wide now SRH needed 4 of 5. Hooda failed to score of the 5th ball. Hooda took a single off the 4th ball which brings Stanlake on strike. Stanlake managed to get single of the 4th ball. Now SRH needed 2 of 2. Hooda tries to flick Cutting over fine leg but manage to get only one run and Stanlake did it for Sunrisers Hyderabad as he hit the last ball of the innings for four. SRH won by 1 wicket

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