IPL Season2 2009: Royal Challengers Dravid as Captain

IPL Season2 2009: Royal Challengers Dravid as Captain

RCB open to Dravid as captain

South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis is apparently not the favourite to lead the Royal Challengers Bangalore once Kevin Pietersen leaves, if their fiery coach Ray Jennings is to be believed.
Jennings felt that with Kallis struggling with both bat and ball, the issue of Bangalore’s captaincy in IPL-2 was still open and there were number of candidates to take over the job.
“It is still open. I need to sit down and discuss with the management what we need to do. If Jacques plays, obviously he might be captain. But if he doesn’t play we have other guys like Boucher, Kumble and even Dravid (when he comes back) who are capable of leading the team,” Jennings was quoted as saying.
This contradicts an earlier announcement from team owner Vijay Mallya who had said that that Kallis would take over from Pietersen. Mallya had factored in Dravid’s likely absence from the Indian Premier League second edition to attend to his baby when he named Pietersen as captain instead of the former India skipper.

LIVE Cricket: Australia vs Pakistan 2009 ODI Schedule

Read below for the reviews, updates and schedule of Australia vs Pakistan One Day International Cricket being played in UAE and starting today. Also note that some of these players are scheduled to play in the ongoing IPL Cricket - as per the latest news, they will join their respective IPL Teams after this Cricket series

Here is the complete Schedule of AUS vs PAK 2009 ODI Series

NOTE: All the matches are Day/Night and will be played under Flood Lights

Wed 22 April
14:30 local, 10:30 GMT 1st ODI - Pakistan vs Australia
Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium

Fri 24 April
14:30 local, 10:30 GMT 2nd ODI - Pakistan vs Australia
Dubai Sports City Cricket Stadium

Mon 27 April
14:30 local, 10:30 GMT 3rd ODI - Pakistan vs Australia
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Fri 1 May
14:30 local, 10:30 GMT 4th ODI - Pakistan vs Australia
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Sun 3 May
14:30 local, 10:30 GMT 5th ODI - Pakistan vs Australia
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Teams:

Australia:
MJ Clarke, BJ Haddin, DE Bollinger, NW Bracken, SR Clark, CJ Ferguson, NM Hauritz, BW Hilfenhaus, JR Hopes, DJ Hussey, B Laughlin, SE Marsh, A Symonds, SR Watson

Pakistan:
Younis Khan, Ahmed Shehzad, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar Anjum, Kamran Akmal, Misbah-ul-Haq, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Yasir Arafat

Deccan Chargers Beats Kolkata Knight Riders By 8 Wickets

Deccan Chargers Beats Kolkata Knight Riders By 8 Wickets

Pacer RP Singh four wicket haul helped Deccan Chargers to have a 8 wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders. Newly appointed captain Brendon McCullum for Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat first. RP Singh restrict Knight Riders to 101 runs in 19.4 overs. He took four wickets for 22 runs in his 3.4 overs. In reply to non-competitive total Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma taste the victory in 13.1 overs. Herschelle Gibbs was not out at 43 runs and ROhit Sharma scored 36 runs in 32 balls. It was a perfect start of season for Deccan Chargers.

Man of The Match - RP Singh

Playing XI -

DC - Adam Gilchrist (C) (W), Herschelle Gibbs, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Scott Styris, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Fidel Edwards, Harmeet Singh

KKR - Brendon McCullum (C) (W), Chris Gayle, Sourav Ganguly, Brad Hodge, Aakash Chopra, Moises Henriques, Laxmi Shukla, Ajit Agarkar, Murali Kartik, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda
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