Archive for March, 2010
2010 IPL: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore
Four wickets by Angelo Mathews and a 101-run stand between openers Manoj Tiwary and Brad Hodge helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat last year’s finalists Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets to record their second successive win in IPL 2010 at the Eden Gardens. Sourav Ganguly’s decision to bowl first paid off as Angelo Mathews [...]
2010 Bahrain GP: Alonso takes maiden Ferrari win
Fernando Alonso kicked off his 2010 campaign in style, taking victory on his Ferrari debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix (full results). Kimi Raikkonen did so in 2007 and that year he went on to win the championship. The kind of form that Alonso displayed in today’s race does indicate that he will be a tough competitor all year along. There were [...]
2010 Bahrain GP Qualifying: Vettel takes pole
Red Bull’s Sebastien Vettel took the first pole of 2010 for the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. He slotted his car, christened Luscious Liz this year, at 1:54.101 in Q3 - only 0.141 seconds ahead of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari. Massa upstaged team mate Fernando Alonso by another 0.4 seconds and that is quite an achievement for the Brazilian who [...]
Bahrain Grand Prix 2010: Friday Practice
The first Friday practice of the season turned out to be on expected lines. You can call them two sessions ‘mini-me’ versions of pre-season testing if you want, for nothing much different could be said about the times racked up by the teams and drivers. Nothing different from what we saw in those four tests atleast except maybe the odd [...]
2010 IPL Diary: Deccan Chargers trumped by Kolkata Knight Riders
As if the IPL wasn’t loud enough over the last two years, what with the likes of Ravi Shastri, Danny Morrison and company bellowing commercials into their microphones, SET MAX kicked off their 2010 coverage with Navjot Singh Sidhu back in the experts saddle, after like an eternity. The other day on Twitter I came across the channel’s [...]
Hispania Racing needs mileage: Karun Chandhok
When the Bahrain pit lane is opened for the first time in the 2010 season on Friday, a mega Formula One season awaits us. It is going to be a vintage year and that has been confirmed by the four pre-season tests, which paradoxically didn’t really reveal much. All they helped us do was speculate and anticipate what is going to happen in nineteen [...]
IPL 2010: Kolkata Knight Riders Preview
2009 Record: Eighth 2008 Record: Sixth Squad: Sourav Ganguly Sourav (captain), Varun Aaron, Iqbal Abdulla, Ajit Agarkar, Eklakh Ahmed, Ashoke Dinda, Chris Gayle, Rohan Gavaskar, Brad Hodge, Harshad Khadiwale, Murali Kartik, Charles Langeveldt, Angelo Mathews, Brendon McCullum, Ajantha Mendis, Chirag Pathak, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman [...]
IPL 2010: Rajasthan Royals Preview
2009 Record: Sixth 2008 Record: Champions Squad: Shane Warne (captain), Swapnil Asnodkar, Johan Botha, Faiz Fazal, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, Michael Lumb, Damien Martyn, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Morne Morkel, Sumit Narwal, Naman Ojha, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Paunikar, Syed Ahmed Quadri, Abhishek Raut, Amit Singh, Graeme [...]
IPL 2010: Mumbai Indians Preview
2009 Record: Seventh 2008 Record: Fifth Squad: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Dwayne Bravo, JP Duminy, Shikhar Dhawan, Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Zaheer Khan, Dhawal Kulkarni, Chandan Madan, Lasith Malinga, Ishan Malhotra, Ryan McLaren, Ali Murtaza, Graham Napier, Abhishek Nayar, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Rajagopal Sathish, [...]
IPL 2010: Kings XI Punjab Preview
2009 Record: Fifth 2008 Record: Semi-Finalist Squad: Kumar Sangakkara (captain & wicket-keeper), Yusuf Abdulla, Love Ablish, Adrian Barath, Manvinder Bisla, Ravi Bopara, Piyush Chawla, Karan Goel, James Hopes, Mahela Jayawardene, Mohammad Kaif, Brett Lee, Vikramjeet Malik, Shaun Marsh, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Bipul Sharma, [...]
