Tendulkar out of IPL with hand injury

Kolkata, might twenty three (IANS): urban center Indians ar hopeful of getting a match Sachin Tendulkar for his or her competition against Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens here weekday. The batting legend has incomprehensible  his team's last 3 matches thanks to a wrist joint and hand injury.
"He has recovered well and that we ar terribly hopeful that he are sure the sport (Friday)," MI baseball player Dwayne Smith told media persons here on match eve.
Tendulkar hurt his manus and wrist joint whereas batting throughout Mumbai's game against Sunrisers Hyderabad might thirteen and had to retire hurt. He then incomprehensible  the team's last 2 league games also because the initial qualifier against urban center Super Kings in urban center.


Tendulkar out of IPL with hand injury
The batting master tho', did present itself for the team's web observe weekday.
After taking part in soccer together with his teammates for a few time, Tendulkar then clothed  at the nets preferring to bowl.                  
He bowled some medium pacers from a long run up however later rolled his arm over shelling out leg and off breaks.                                                                                                                            
The master baseball player thus far has scored 287 runs from fourteen innings as well as a [*fr1] century.
Despite jactitation of many match winners within the line up, MI hope for a team performance against the Rahul Dravid-led Royals, to line up the title clash against urban center Super Kings Sunday additionally at the Eden.  
"What's the employment of a baseball player marking fifty odd if the others don't contribute. it is a team game and that we hope we are going to perform as a team," aforesaid Smith adding that the team wasn't fraught despite losing get into the primary competition against urban center.
"I suppose it's them, (Royals) World Health Organization ar fraught. we've crushed them earlier and that they can have to be compelled to beat United States of America to urge to the finals," aforesaid the Caribbean baseball player.
Smith additionally expressed his disappointment at not creating huge scores despite obtaining good starts and rued on his failure to require his team home against urban center within the competition despite putt them in a very winning position.
Chasing 193 to win, urban center were within the hunt farewell as Smith was there World Health Organization scored a blistering twenty eight ball sixty eight. urban center couldn't recover once his dismissal within the 9the over and eventually collapsible up for a hundred and forty four and losing the sport by forty eight runs.

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ICC drops tainted Rauf

Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf has been withdrawn from the independent agency Champions Trophy (to be contend in European nation in June) following reports that he was below investigation by the Mumbai police within the on-going restriction on spot-fixing. 


ICC Chief govt David Richardson aforementioned AN exceedingly|in a very} statement: “In the wake of reports that the Mumbai Police ar conducting an investigation into Asad Rauf’s activities, we have a tendency to feel that it's in Asad’s best interests in addition as those of the game and therefore the event itself, that he's withdrawn from taking part within the independent agency Champions Trophy.”

Asad Rauf is that the 1st umpire to be concerned within the spot-fixing scandal in India. Seven current and past cricketers and diverse bookies are rounded up to this point by the metropolis and Mumbai police.

Police sources have aforementioned that Rauf had been in touch with some bookies and Vindoo Dara Singh.

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Spot-fixing: Sree 420 shames Indian cricket

A urban center Police team swooped in onChavan and Chandila at a complicated south city building around 3am, whereas Sreesanth was multifariously reportable to possess been picked up from the tony Carter Road space of Bandra or from another five-star building wherever he had been lured by the cops.
Eleven bookmakers were additionally nabbed in urban center, city and Ahmedabad.
Those inactive face charges of cheating and criminal conspiracy and police square measure aiming to slap them with the rigorous Maharashtra management of organized Crime Act (MCOCA), that might land them in jail with solely a slim chance of bail. 
The arrests were the end result of a month-long police work operation travel by the urban center Police, that has been in dire would like of a hit once copping endless flak for its handling of crime on the Capital’s streets and therefore the high-handedness of a number of its cops.
Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar told a packed group discussion that data had been received last month that some members of the city underworld were concerned in match-fixing within the in progress T20 league with the active participation of some unidentified conduits, bookies and players, a number of whom were primarily based within the urban center region.
The suspects were, in step with the police, after unbroken beneath constant watch and half-track through technical police work that helped  investigators assemble 'hundreds of hours of taped conversations'.
These discovered that match-fixers and bookies from urban center, Gujarat, Maharashtra and geographical region among different locations were conspiring with some players taking part within the league for spot-fixing.
Chandila was found to be concerned in spot-fixing throughout the could five match against the Pune Warriors, Sreesanth within the could nine game against Kings XI geographical region and Chavan against city Indians, that was being contend in city on weekday night.  
Chandila was allegedly secure R40 hundred thousand for freely giving fourteen or a lot of runs in his second over and paid 0.5 that quantity before, however had to come it as he forgot to signal the bookmakers in time for them to put their bets.
"Chandila had to drag up his shirt and appearance at the sky before the beginning of his second over however he didn't provide the signal," aforementioned Sanjeev Yadav,
DCP (special cell).   
"Other codes were tucking during a towel, rotating a watch and sporting a wristbad."
During the sport against Kings XI geographical region, for example, Sreesanth tucked a towel in his garment right before his second over to signal the bookies and additionally did some stretching, allegedly to provide them  ample time to put significant bets.
"Sreesanth had over up freely giving thirteen runs against the in agreement to fourteen, however was still paid R40 hundred thousand," aforementioned Yadav.
"We were gift in the least 3 matches and that we moved  in on the players once Chavan gave away fifteen runs in his second over, as he had in agreement to, last evening."
Chandila, WHO hails from Faridabad in Haryana, additionally acted as a negotiant for the bookies in their dealings with Chavan, police aforementioned.
The police underplayed speculation that criminal Dawood patriarch and his henchmen in West Pakistan, city and India were concerned.
A source, however, aforementioned that a former South Asian jock could also be one in every of the kingpins.

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standings

Team	MP	MW	ML	MT	NR	NRR	Pts
CSK	16	11	5	0	0	+0.530	22
MI	16	11	5	0	0	+0.441	22
RR	16	10	6	0	0	+0.322	20
SRH	16	10	6	0	0	+0.003	20
RCB	16	9	7	0	0	+0.457	18
K XI P	16	8	8	0	0	+0.226	16
KKR	16	6	10	0	0	-0.095	12
PW	16	4	12	0	0	-1.006	8
DD	16	3	13	0	0	-0.848	6

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Sahara pulls out of IPL

Sahara India -

owner of the Pune Warriors franchise – have force out of the IPL over monetary variations with the BCCI stemming from the valuation of the annual franchise fee it’s to pay. the choice comes 3 years when it bought the Pune franchise for $370 million, the very best value obtained any of the IPL franchises.

It appears the immediate cause was the BCCI’s call to encash the bank guarantee from Sahara Desert that every franchise has got to furnish at the beginning of every season; the guarantee is such as the number to be paid annually to the BCCI and might be encashed just in case a franchise fails to honour its commitments.

In this case, Sahara Desert had provided with a bank guarantee for Rs a hundred and seventy.2 large integer (approximately $30 million). Since the point for paying the franchise fees was could a pair of, the BCCI waited until Sahara’s IPL half dozen commitments were over and encashed the guarantee on could twenty.

Reacting to the event, IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla aforesaid the board encashed the bank guarantee in line with the foundations. “Yes, it (Pune Warriors) has force out. As per the foundations and procedure of the BCCI if a franchise fails to pay the fee then we have a tendency to encash the franchise’s bank guarantee. we have a tendency to square measure very unhappy by their call to tug out. this could not have happened,” Shukla aforesaid.

Pune Warriors coach Allan Donald was caught off-guard by the choice. “This may be a huge surprise to American state,” Donald told ESPNcricinfo. “I’m aghast as a result of we have a tendency to had spoken, not in nice detail however loosely, concerning prospects for next year. The house owners were extremely upbeat for next season and therefore the next 3 years as a result of next year we’d have new contracts, new players. we have a tendency to spoke concerning the likelihood of building a culture at intervals the team.”

Franchises’ troubled history

Deccan Chargers – Terminated on Sept fourteen, 2012 thanks to monetary issues because the house owners were unable to service their debt obligations to lenders, eventually resulting in its tried sale and dissolution.
Pune Warriors- house owners Sahara Desert India had cut its ties with the BCCI on Feb four, 2012, retreating support from the Indian team and possession of the franchise. However, the 2 patched up later, ending the dispute by supplying a joint statement.
Kochi Tuskers Kerala – Terminated on Sept nineteen, 2011 for breaching the terms of agreement – their inability to furnish a brand new bank guarantee for 2011.
Donald was conjointly a region of the team once the house owners set to tug the franchise out of the IPL before the auction last year.

Pune Warriors finished eighth within the current IPL season, winning four out of their sixteen matches.

This is the second time Sahara Desert have force out of the IPL; they quit on the day of the 2012 auction and withdrew from support of the Indian team.

This time, though, Sahara Desert can continue its support of the Indian team till the top of Dec 2013, once their gift contract expires. “We share a superb relationship with the players and can not need such dedicated and smart men UN agency serve the country therefore committed to induce injured financially thanks to unsportsmanlike perspective of BCCI. therefore we’ve got given time to BCCI to induce the new support in situ from January 2014.”

Sahara’s actual franchise fee has been a contentious issue ever since they bought the Pune franchise for Rs 1702 large integer ($370 million) in March 2010. Sahara Desert had been strict that the franchise fee from their original agreement ought to be recalculated since the minimum matches p.a. are reduced to fourteen from the eighteen secure to them.

In a extended statement, Sahara Desert careful its dispute with the BCCI over franchise fees. It aforesaid it had been “disgusted” by the BCCI’s perspective towards it and wouldn’t rejoin the league although the complete franchise fee was waived.

“In 2010, Sahara Desert had bid Rs 1700 large integer for the IPL franchise on the premise of revenue calculation on ninety four matches. however we have a tendency to got sixty four matches solely,” it added.

“We and therefore the Kochi team [also bought at the 2010 auction] like a shot protested and requested the BCCI to cut back the damage proportionately for viable IPL proposition. Nothing was detected. we have a tendency to waited confidently that such a sports body ought to have equity spirit,” it said.

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Indian Premier League, Eliminator: Rajasthan Royals v Sunrisers Hyderabad

Rajasthan Royals
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Match scheduled to begin at 20:00 local time (14:30 GMT)

Current time: 10:06 local, 04:36 GMT | Match begins in: 9:54

	Rajasthan Royals squad
R Dravid*, S Badree, STR Binny, KD Boresa, K Cooper, FH Edwards, JP Faulkner, SP Goswami, Harmeet Singh, BJ Hodge, GB Hogg, VS Malik, AL Menaria, MDKJ Perera, AM Rahane, Sachin Baby, SV Samson, OA Shah, R Shukla, SW Tait, PV Tambe, SK Trivedi, SR Watson, DH Yagnik

	Sunrisers Hyderabad squad
KC Sangakkara*, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, A Ashish Reddy, Q de Kock, S Dhawan, JP Duminy, CA Lynn, NL McCullum, CJ McKay, A Mishra, PA Patel†, NLTC Perera, P Prasanth, V Pratap Singh, S Rana, DB Ravi Teja, PA Reddy, BB Samantray, DJG Sammy, I Sharma, KV Sharma, DW Steyn, X Thalaivan Sargunam, S Tyagi, GH Vihari, CL White

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Chennai Road Into Final Beat Mumbai Indians……

       Chennai Super Kings Easily defeat mumbai Indiand in playoff and become the first Team to Reach Into The Final .

The batsmans And bolower Make Path More easier For Dhoni To Make history and Become the Most                          secueesful captain to Make There Team Road to final……………

Chennai Super Kings 192/1 (20/20 ov)

Mumbai Indians 144 (18.4/20 ov)

Chennai Super Kings won by 48 runs

• Indian Premier League - Qualifier 1
• Twenty20 match | 2013 season
• Played at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
• 21 May 2013 – day/night (20-over match)

	Chennai Super Kings innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	MEK Hussey	not out	86	58	10	2	148.27
	M Vijay	c Smith b Pollard	23	20	2	0	115.00
	SK Raina	not out	82	42	5	5	195.23
	Extras	(lb 1)	1
	Total	(1 wicket; 20 overs)	192	(9.60 runs per over)

Did not bat MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, S Badrinath, DJ Bravo, JA Morkel, CH Morris, R Ashwin, MM Sharma

Fall of wickets 1-52 (Vijay, 7.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	MG Johnson	4	0	40	0	10.00
	MM Patel	3	0	32	0	10.66
	Harbhajan Singh	4	0	26	0	6.50
	SL Malinga	4	0	45	0	11.25
	PP Ojha	2	0	20	0	10.00
	KA Pollard	3	0	28	1	9.33

	Mumbai Indians innings (target: 193 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	DR Smith	c Raina b Jadeja	68	28	6	5	242.85
	AP Tare	c Vijay b Morkel	7	7	1	0	100.00
	KD Karthik†	lbw b Jadeja	11	18	1	0	61.11
	RG Sharma*	c Bravo b Morris	8	15	0	0	53.33
	KA Pollard	c Hussey b Jadeja	24	16	1	2	150.00
	AT Rayudu	c Morris b Sharma	15	14	1	0	107.14
	Harbhajan Singh	c Vijay b Bravo	0	4	0	0	0.00
	MG Johnson	c Raina b Bravo	6	7	0	0	85.71
	SL Malinga	c Hussey b Bravo	0	2	0	0	0.00
	PP Ojha	c Bravo b Sharma	0	2	0	0	0.00
	MM Patel	not out	0	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(lb 3, w 1, nb 1)	5
	Total	(all out; 18.4 overs)	144	(7.71 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-12 (Tare, 1.4 ov), 2-87 (Smith, 8.2 ov), 3-95 (Karthik, 10.3 ov), 4-101 (Sharma, 11.6 ov),5-127 (Pollard, 14.5 ov), 6-128 (Harbhajan Singh, 15.5 ov), 7-139 (Johnson, 17.3 ov), 8-140 (Malinga, 17.6 ov),9-144 (Rayudu, 18.2 ov), 10-144 (Ojha, 18.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	MM Sharma	3.4	0	32	2	8.72
	JA Morkel	3	0	26	1	8.66	(1w)
	CH Morris	3	0	26	1	8.66	(1nb)
	R Ashwin	2	0	17	0	8.50
	RA Jadeja	4	0	31	3	7.75
	DJ Bravo	3	0	9	3	3.00

Match details

Toss Chennai Super Kings, who chose to bat Series Chennai Super Kings advanced

Player of the match MEK Hussey (Chennai Super Kings)

Umpires NJ Llong (England) and RJ Tucker (Australia) TV umpire S Ravi Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire CK Nandan

Match notes

Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 47 runs, 0 wicket) Chennai Super Kings: 50 runs in 6.4 overs (40 balls), Extras 1 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 40 balls (MEK Hussey 27, M Vijay 22, Ex 1) MEK Hussey: 50 off 40 balls (7 x 4) Chennai Super Kings: 100 runs in 12.4 overs (76 balls), Extras 1 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 33 balls (MEK Hussey 22, SK Raina 32, Ex 0) SK Raina: 50 off 29 balls (2 x 4, 4 x 6) Chennai Super Kings: 150 runs in 16.5 overs (101 balls), Extras 1 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 59 balls (MEK Hussey 39, SK Raina 62, Ex 0) Innings Break: Chennai Super Kings – 192/1 in 20.0 overs (MEK Hussey 86, SK Raina 82) Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 6.0 (Mandatory – 56 runs, 1 wicket) Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (34 balls), Extras 3 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (DR Smith 41, KD Karthik 7, Ex 3) DR Smith: 50 off 21 balls (5 x 4, 4 x 6) Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 11.3 overs (69 balls), Extras 4

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