It's that bad habit! You allow yourself to go easy on a day for once, you never realise when your old habit of taking things a bit easy, is yet again sneaking in. This is the second time I have to run through few matches, on whcih I have not posted.
As I sit to update this post, we have come in term with the blasts that rocked the close vicinity of the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. This event delayed the match between the RCB and the Mumbai Indians a bit. Lets hope it was just one-off and such things do not spoil the event and in a larger scale, the image of our country in eyes of the world. Cricket, so far, here has been clear of such incidents in this country and it better stays that way.
We would skip the statistics here and just refresh ourselves with the fact of the matches as far as possible. Statistics anyway, are omnipresent these days, anywhere you like.
The first one was CSK vs the Delhi Dare Devils, in which Chennai slumped to defeat, owing to their own experiment in the top order. Suresh Raina, who was the hero other night, was dropped down the order and it quite easily back fired. Worse, it was a match which they should have won to seal a semi final berth. The DD were like wounded tigers, and such an explosive batting line up can never be taken lightly. Well, this time after another failure in the top order, it took Gautam Gambhir to bat out of his skins to get them home. This indifferent effort left the CSK in a precarious position, from where, if they were to figure in the semis, not only would they have to win against the KXIP handsomely, they would have to pray for the victory/loss of some other teams.
The second match was between the KXIP and the Deccans. Deccan had to win, KXIP had to try and spoil the party. Here, the Deccans kept things simple. Despite of facing a tough target of 174 runs, Rohit Sharma(68 not out in 38 balls) took them home, despite of a few anxious moments through the match. With this victory, the Deccans live to fight another battle.
In the third match, that I have to comment upon, the RCB slumped to a heavy defeat against the Mumbai Indians, which in fact would keep a few other teams interested. As the RCBs finish with 14 points, its now upto the other team who are or who can finish up with same number of points to grab the chance by improving their scoring rate and hoping for the best.
The fourth match was a knock out one, where KKR indeed knocked Rajastan Royals out of the competition and while doing so, gave themselves a chance to move through to the next level. Their fate of course would depend upon how Chennai and Delhi perform on Sunday.
This is the first time in the history of IPL, where such a tough battle is being witnessed till the very last moment for the line up of the semis.
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