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Champions League 2011 CL T20 Preview: Kolkata Knight Riders Vs Somerset

| September 25, 2011 | 0 Comments

KKR clash with Somerset at Hyderabad on Sunday, September 25, in a match that will give them the Indian side an opportunity to wreak revenge on the English squad. Somerset beat KKR in the qualifiers by 11 runs, and while KKR failed to chase 167 to win, they managed to get three runs more than [...]

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Champions League 2011 CL T20 Preview: Chennai Super Kings Vs Mumbai Indians

| September 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

Chennai Super Kings will clash with Mumbai Indians in a much awaited clash in Champions League 2011, on Saturday, September 24, in what could turn out to be the most thrilling match of Group A. In their CL T20 opener, MI are without Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and Munaf Patel, and that’s a dampener, as [...]

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Champions League 2011 CLT20 Preview: Schedule & Match Updates

| September 23, 2011 | 5 Comments

The third edition of the Champions League International T20 tournament is all set to begin on Friday, September 23, 2011, when Royal Challengers Bangalore clash with Warriors, at their home venue of Bangalore. The defending champions are Chennai Super Kings, who are also the reigning IPL champions. CSK are drawn in Group A, along with [...]

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Champions League 2011 (CLT20): Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Team Preview and Match Updates

| September 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

Kolkata Knight Riders began IPL 1 with a bang, registering a thumping 140 run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore but ended the tournament with a proverbial whimper. Failure assisted by inconsistent performances succeeded failure and was followed by controversies, with experimentation with the captaincy and Ganguly’s sacking drawing media attention. The squad got rolling at [...]

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Champions League CLT20 Match Preview: Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Warriors

| September 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

After the completion of the qualifying round, the main event begins in Bangalore on Friday, September 23, when Royal Challengers Bangalore take on The Warriors, in a Group B opener. Warriors were runners up to CSK in the last edition of the tournament, while RCB reached the semi-finals, and this promises to be a hard-fought [...]

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Top 5 Reasons For India’s Pathetic Performance In England Tour

| September 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

The Indian Cricket team is known to swing to either extremes and the recent tour to England is no exception. They had made the nation of India proud by winning the world cup and shooting up to number 1 ranking, but just in a few  months they have undone most of their achievement and have [...]

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Champions League 2011 (CLT20): Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Team Preview and Match Updates

| September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Chennai Super Kings open their Champions League defence with a potentially mouth-watering clash against traditional rivals Mumbai Indians, on September 24, 2011. CSK are placed in Group A of the Champions League; the other teams of the group are Mumbai Indians, Cape Cobras, New South Wales, and Qualifier Two of the ongoing qualification tournament. Nobody [...]

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Champions League 2011 (CLT20): Mumbai Indians (MI) Team Preview and Match Updates

| September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Cricket’s T20 Champions League begins on September 24, with an explosive match between defending champions Chennai Super Kings and title aspirants Mumbai Indians. MI are placed in Group A, alongside Chennai Super Kings, South Africa’s Cape Cobras and Australia’s New South Wales. This group will also have qualifier 2, Trinidad & Tobago,  from the ongoing [...]

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US Open 2011 Semi-finals Preview: Nadal Vs Murray

| September 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

World number two, Spain’s Rafael Nadal is set to meet world number four, Britain’s Andy Murray in the semi-finals of the US Open, on Saturday, September 10, 2011. These players have met each other on a tennis court, on 16 past occasions, with Nadal winning 12 times to Murray’s four. Their last meeting came in [...]

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US Open Round Of 16 Preview: Murray Vs Young

| September 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

World number four, Britain’s Andy Murray will face world number 84, USA’s Donald Young, in the fourth round of the US open on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 (postponed from Tuesday, owing to rain). The match has since been postponed to September 8. Murray trailed by two sets and fought back against Haase in the second round; [...]

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