Author Archive: Gokul

Gokul is a software professional from Chennai, India. An avid sports fan, he is a keen follower of Cricket, Football, Hockey, Tennis and Formula One. He styles his articles as razor-edge analyses of all the hot and happening events in the field of sports.

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IPL 6 preview: Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils Match 67

| May 16, 2013 | 0 Comments

Adam Gilchrist, the captain of Kings XI Punjab, candidly admitted that the chances of his team making it to the play-off stage are very slim. Kings XI have to win both their remaining matches and hope that Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad lose all their remaining fixtures. Even if they were to win both their matches, [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals Match 66

| May 15, 2013 | 2 Comments

Both the teams have qualified for the knock-out stage of the tournament. Both the teams are just two points behind the table toppers Chennai Superkings, albeit having played a game less than CSK. While progress to the qualifiers is assured, both the teams would want to finish in the top two as that would give [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Pune Warriors India Match 65

| May 15, 2013 | 6 Comments

The champions of IPL 5- Kolkata Knight Riders- are engaged in a grim battle for a place in the knock-out stages. Three out of the four spots have already been taken by the Chennai Superkings, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. The battle for the final spot is a four-way contest between Bangalore, Hyderabad, Punjab and [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Pune Warriors India vs Mumbai Indians Match 58

| May 11, 2013 | 21 Comments

The race for the play-off spots is gathering steam and with CSK being the only team to have qualified, the other three places are up for grabs. Mumbai Indians, chief contenders for the second qualifying spot, take on Pune Warriors in a derby that is expected to be one-sided. Though the match is held in [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Chennai Superkings Match 54

| May 7, 2013 | 0 Comments

79 runs- the lowest team score in this edition of the IPL! and a couple of days ago, even to imagine that Chennai Superkings would be the owners of such an inglorious tag would have blasphemous. But it did happen at the Wankhede stadium two days ago and for the first time in history of [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

| May 6, 2013 | 4 Comments

In what is a must win game for the Kings XI Punjab, they are set to battle it out against a formidable Royal Challengers Bangalore outfit which is seeking to seal a spot in the qualifiers. The equation for Punjab is quite simple: they have won only four of their eleven games thus far and [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Pune Warriors India vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Match 46

| May 2, 2013 | 15 Comments

Five losses in as many matches is not exactly the run of form that any team would be proud about. Pune Warriors are rooted at the bottom of the table and desperately in need of a change of fortunes. They are up against Royal Challengers Bangalore  and the horrors of the previous match would still [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Chennai Superkings vs Kings XI Punjab Match 45

| May 2, 2013 | 1 Comment

Chennai Superkings host the men from Punjab well aware of the fact that a win here would make them the first team to seal its place in the qualifiers. With eight wins in ten games and six wins on the trot, CSK have been in such scintillating form and are surely the team to watch [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians Match 43

| May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

After suffering back-to-back defeats, the Sunrisers Hyderabad have dropped out of the top four and have little time to recover. They are up against a formidable Mumbai Indians outfit that has won all its last three matches. Incidentally, the self-imposed exile of their then captain Ricky Ponting and the arrival of Dwayne Smith as his [...]

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IPL 6 preview: Pune Warriors India vs Chennai Superkings Match 42

| April 30, 2013 | 0 Comments

The venue is Subrata P Roy stadium where Pune Warriors India welcome the Chennai Superkings for the 42nd match of the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League. In the reverse fixture in Chennai a couple of days ago, Pune Warriors pulled off an unlikely victory over the Superkings, beating them in their own backyard. [...]

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