Pietersen, bowlers set up Royal win for Bangalore

Kevin Pietersen blasted his way back into the team with a 29-ball 62 as the Royal Challengers Bangalore ran over the Rajasthan Royals with a five-wicket victory at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on Wednesday.

Dropping Sachin’s catch cost us the game: Shane Warne

Captain of the Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne, singled out the dropped catch of Sachin Tendulkar as the turning point in his team’s 37-run defeat at the hands of Mumbai Indians in Jaipur, the first time that Rajasthan has lost at the venue in nine games.

Tendulkar guides Mumbai into the semi-finals

If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that the Mumbai Indians are completely dependent on Sachin Tendulkar, they were laid to rest! Sachin notched up yet another half-century, his fifth in this IPL, as the Mumbai Indians not only became the first team to reach the semi-finals of IPL 3 but also the first team to beat the Rajasthan Royals on their home ground. This was the fifth Man of the Match award performance for Sachin in the eight games that Mumbai has won which, in itself, tells the story of how heavily the Mumbai Indians are relying on Sachin and they would be hoping that if Sachin has to misfire, which he probably will at some point, it isn’t in the semi-finals or the finals.

Sreesanth fined 20 percent of match fee for mocking umpire

S Sreesanth has found himself in trouble again with the Kings XI Punjab pacer being fined 20 percent of his match fee for clapping at the umpire when he was no-balled twice during Punjab’s Indian Premier League against Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday.

The momentum is with us now: Shane Warne

Skipper of the Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne, credited his side’s comprehensive victory over the Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday in the Indian Premier League to young fast-bowler Aditya Dole’s two wickets in three balls and Michael Lumb’s brilliant 43-ball 83.

Lumb stars as Rajasthan drub Punjab by 9 wickets

The Sawai Mansingh Stadium continued to be an unconquered fortress for any team as the Rajasthan Royals made it eight out of eight wins at the venue in Jaipur, thrashing Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets, with five overs remaining.

“Modi has made cricket truly international”

Ranjit Barthakur, Vice-Chairman of the Rajasthan Royals, feels that Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi has done a commendable job by introducing the franchise-based Twenty20 event, which is proving to be an “excellent business model”.

IPL is the bestselling brand of cricket: Shane Warne

Legendary Australian leg-spinner and skipper of the Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne, on Monday, backed IPL’s decision of adding two more teams for the 2011 edition and said that the move will only bring more sheen to the “bestselling brand of cricket”.

Bowlers need to perform much better in remaining matches: Dhoni

After clinching a thrilling one-run win over South Africa in the first match of the three ODI series, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said that he had not expected his bowlers to be thrashed around by the South African tail-enders and that the bowlers need to improve a lot if India has to do well in the remaining matches.

India clinch last-ball thriller, win by one run in 1st ODI

It went down to the last ball with the South African tail-enders nearly gatecrashing India’s party but in the end it was the home team that held its nerve to eke out a thrilling one-run win over South Africa in the first ODI to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

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