Story Pune Warriors India in IPL 2011 | Season Diary | Ends before it began

[Gaurav_7]

With 3 editions of IPL done, it is now time for the fourth one. This time, it is bigger, better too maybe. Two new franchisees have been added making it 10 teams in all. Also, Modi is gone. Better?

Sahara Adventure Sports Limited successfully bid for one of the two new franchisees in IPL 2011. $370 million is the highest bid by any company for any franchise in the IPL thus far. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group, a Cricket enthusiast himself, was pretty pleased after the buy. The new franchise representing the city of Pune was named 'Pune Warriors India'.

Warriors look a strong unit with the likes of Jesse Ryder, Graeme Smith, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa in their ranks. The team has some serious domestic talent in Manish Pandey, Mohnish Mishra, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and others. DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai will be the home ground for the warriors this season of the IPL.

So, keep an eye here as I keep you guys updated on Pune's progress in the IPL 2011.

 

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IPL 2011 Fixtures

IPL 2011 schedule looks as -

Round 1

Chennai Superkings v Royal Challengers Bangalore
at MA Chidambaram

Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals
at Rajiv Gandhi International

Delhi Daredevils v Pune Warriors India
at Feroz Shah Kotla

Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians
at PCA Stadium

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Kolkata Knight Riders
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Round 2

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kolkata Knight Riders
at M Chinnaswamy

Mumbai Indians v Kochi Tuskers Kerala
at Wankhede

Pune Warriors India v Kings XI Punjab
at DY Patil Stadium

Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils
at Sawai Mansingh Stadium

Chennai Superkings v Deccan Chargers
at MA Chidambaram

Round 3

Deccan Chargers v Royal Challengers Bangalore
at Rajiv Gandhi International

Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Superkings
at Feroz Shah Kotla

Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals
at PCA Stadium

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Pune Warriors India
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians
at Eden Gardens

Round 4

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians
at M Chinnaswamy

Pune Warriors India v Kolkata Knight Riders
at DY Patil Stadium

Rajasthan Royals v Kochi Tuskers Kerala
at Sawai Mansingh Stadium

Chennai Superkings v Kings XI Punjab
at MA Chidambaram

Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils
at Rajiv Gandhi International

Round 5

Delhi Daredevils v Royal Challengers Bangalore
at Feroz Shah Kotla

Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers
at PCA Stadium

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Chennai Superkings
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals
at Eden Gardens

Mumbai Indians v Pune Warriors India
at Wankhede

Round 6

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Warriors India
at M Chinnaswamy

Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians
at Sawai Mansingh Stadium

Chennai Superkings v Kolkata Knight Riders
at MA Chidambaram

Deccan Chargers v Kochi Tuskers Kerala
at Rajiv Gandhi International

Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab
at Feroz Shah Kotla

Round 7

Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore
at PCA Stadium

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Delhi Daredevils
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers
at Eden Gardens

Mumbai Indians v Chennai Superkings
at Wankhede

Pune Warriors India v Rajasthan Royals
at DY Patil Stadium

Round 8

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals
at M Chinnaswamy

Chennai Superkings v Pune Warriors India
at MA Chidambaram

Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians
at Rajiv Gandhi International

Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders
at Feroz Shah Kotla

Kings XI Punjab v Kochi Tuskers Kerala
at PCA Stadium

Round 9

Kochi Tuskers Kerala v Royal Challengers Bangalore
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab
at Eden Gardens

Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils
at Wankhede

Pune Warriors India v Deccan Chargers
at DY Patil Stadium

Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Superkings
at Sawai Mansingh Stadium

Each team plays 9 matches in all, one against each franchise. The top four then progress to the knockouts in 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 order.
In all there are 48 matches to be played.​

 

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Squads for IPL 2011

Captain - MS Dhoni

Overseas Players:

Michael Hussey, George Bailey, Doug Bollinger (Australia)
Scott Styris, Tim Southee (New Zealand)
Francois du Plessis, Albie Morkel (South Africa)
Nuwan Kulasekara, Suraj Randiv (Sri Lanka)
Dwayne Bravo (West Indies)

Indian Players:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Subramaniam Badrinath, Ravichandran Ashwin, Joginder Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Vasudeva Das, Anirudha Srikkanth, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Yo Mahesh, Ganapathy Vignesh, Shadab Jakati

Captain - Kumar Sangakkara

Overseas Players:

Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Daniel Christian (Australia)
Michael Lumb (England)
Dale Steyn, JP Duminy, Juan Theron (South Africa)
Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

Indian Players:

Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Pragyan Ojha, Shikhar Dhawan, Akash Bhandari, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Arjun Yadav, Ashish Reddy, Bharat Chipli, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Harmeet Singh, Ishan Malhotra, Ishank Jaggi, Jaydev Shah, Kedar Devdhar, Sunny Sohal

Captain - Virender Sehwag

Overseas Players:

Travis Birt, Matthew Wade, Andrew McDonald, Aaron Finch, James Hopes, David Warner (Australia)
Morne Morkel, Colin Ingram, Robert Frylinck, Roelof van der Merwe (South Africa)

Indian Players:

Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Ashok Dinda, Ajit Agarkar, Yalaka Venugopal Rao, Sridharan Sriram, Aavishkar Salvi, Umesh Yadav, Naman Ojha, Vikas Mishra, Unmukt Chand, Robin Bist, Varun Aaron, Rajesh Pawar, Yogesh Nagar, Vivek Yadav, Ajit Chandila, Prashant Naik, Tejashwi Yadav, Shahbaz Nageem

Captain - Adam Gilchrist

Overseas Players:

Adam Gilchrist, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Ryan Harris Nathan Rimmington (Australia)
Ryan McLaren, David Miller (South Africa)

Indian Players:

Dinesh Karthik, Abhishek Nayar, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Love Ablish, Mandeep Singh, Nitin Saini, Paras Dogra, Paul Valthaty, Shalabh Srivastava, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh, Vikramjeet Malik, Amit Yadav

Captain - Mahela Jayawardene

Overseas Players:

Brad Hodge, John Hastings, Steven Smith, Steve O'Keefe, Michael Klinger (Australia)
Owais Shah (England)
Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
Mahela Jayawardene, Muttiah Muralitharan, Tissara Perera, (Sri Lanka)

Indian Players:

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ravi Jadeja, VVS Laxman, Ramesh Powar, RP Singh, Parthiv Patel, Ranganath Vinay Kumar, Kedar Jadhav, Tanmay Srivastava, Deepak Chougule, Vincent Gomez, Sushant Marathe, Balachandra Akhil, Chandan Madan, Y Gnaswara Rao, Yashpal Singh, Prashant Padmanabahan

Captain - Gautam Gambhir

Overseas Players:

Brett Lee, James Pattinson, Brad Haddin (Australia)
Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Eoin Morgan (England)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
Jacques Kallis (South Africa)

Indian Players:

Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Manoj Tiwary, Jaydev Unadkat, Iqbal Abdullah, Laxmi Shukla, Shami Ahmed, Shreevats Goswami, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarabjit Ladda, Manvinder Bisla, Rajat Bhatia

Captain - Sachin Tendulkar

Overseas Players:

Aiden Blizzard, Andrew Symonds, Moises Henriques (Australia)
James Franklin (New Zealand)
Davey Jacobs (South Africa)
Dilhara Fernando, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
Kieron Pollard (West Indies)

Indian Players:

Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Munaf Patel, Rohit Sharma, Abu Nechim, Aditya Tare, Ali Murtaza, Ambati Rayadu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pawan Suyal, Rajagopal Satish, SK Yadav, Sarul Kanwar, T Suman, Yuzvendra Chahal

Captain - Yuvraj Singh

Overseas Players:

Tim Paine, Callum Ferguson, Mitchell Marsh, (Australia)
Nathan McCullum, Jesse Ryder (New Zealand)
Graeme Smith, Wayne Parnell, Alfonso Thomas (South Africa)
Jerome Taylor (West Indies)

Indian Players:

Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Murali Kartik, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Bhuvenshwar Kumar, Dheeraj Jadjav, Ekalavya Dwivedi, Ganesh Gaikwad, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Harshad Khadiwale, Kamran Khan, Manish Pandey, Mithun Manhas, Mohnish Mishra, Rahul Sharma, Sachin Rana, Shrikant Wagh, Shrikant Mundhe, Imtiaz Ahmed

Captain - Shane Warne

Overseas Players:

Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Shaun Tait (Australia)
Ross Taylor, Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
Johan Botha (South Africa)

Indian Players:

Rahul Dravid, Pankaj Singh, Siddharth Trivedi, Faiz Fazal, Abhishek Raut, Amit Paunikar, Anitya Dole, Ajinkya Rahane, Deepak Chahar, Dishant Yagnik, Aakash Chopra, Ashok Menaria, Samad Fallah, Nayan Doshi, Pinal Shah, Stuart Binny, Amit Singh, Dinesh Salunkhe, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Narwal, Ankeet Chavan

Captain - Daniel Vettori

Overseas Players:

Dirk Nannes, Luke Pomersbach (Australia)
Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
AB de Villiers, Charl Langeveldt, Johannes van der Wath, Jonathan Vandiar, Rilee Rossouw, (South Africa)
Nuwan Pradeep, Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)

Indian Players:

Abhimanyu Mithun, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Saurabh Tiwary, Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan, Arun Karthik, CM Gautham, Abar Kazi, Mayank Agarwal, Bharath Narayan, Raju Bhatkal, Sreenath Aravind, Ryan Ninan, Asad Khan Pathan​

 

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Match 1

at MA Chidambaram

Lineups:​

Chennai Superkings: Murali Vijay, Michael Hussey, Suresh Raina, Subramaniam Badrinath, MS Dhoni (c) (wk), Albie Morkel, Aniruddha Srikkanth, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shadab Jakati, Tim Southee, Doug Bollinger

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers (wk), Saurabh Tiwary, Luke Pomersbach, Daniel Vettori (c), Asad Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Abhimanyu Mithun, Sreenath Aravind

Indian Premier League 2011 is finally underway and it was one hell of an opening ceremony. We're all set for match number one of this tournament between defending champs Chennai Superkings and Royal Challengers of Bengaluru.

It was Chennai who won the toss and elected to bat first on the home turf. That decision though didn't look too good as they managed only 130 runs in their 20 overs. Suresh Raina and Murali Vijay both crossed 40 run mark helping CSK post that total. Sreenath Aravind was the pick of the bowlers for RCB as he picked up 3 crucial wickets.

With just 131 runs needed for a win, Bangalore batsmen weren't in any hurry. Openers provided a solid start with 60 runs on the board while others chipped in with small contributions to finish the job off. Both Dilshan and Mayan Agarwal played handy knocks. The defending champs have a poor start to the tournament.

Sreenath Aravind got the Man of the match award.

Match Summary:

 

[Aditya]

Nice start to the story mate, good luck for this story. Surprisingly, you got good result there, I reckon you simulated that match. If you did so, that is a really good result in fact.

 

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Match 2

at Rajiv Gandhi International

Lineups:​

Deccan Chargers: Sunny Sohal, Shikhar Dhawan, Kumar Sangakkara (c) (wk), Cameron White, Daniel Christian, Bharat Chipli, D Ravi Teja, Amit Mishra, Dale Steyn, Pragyan Ojha, Ishant Sharma

Rajasthan Royals: Shane Watson, Rahul Dravid, Johan Botha, Ross Taylor, Ashok Menaria, Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Paunikar (wk), Shane Warne (c), Amit Singh, Pankaj Singh, Siddharth Trivedi

We quickly move onto match two between Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals. Kumar Sangakkara put RR into bat after winning the toss.

It proved to be a poor batting pitch combined with some unusual batting from Rajasthan. They could only post a total of 122 runs with Ross Taylor (22) being the top scorer. Ishant Sharma bowled well at the start but was rewarded right at the end getting two wickets and giving away just 16 runs in his 4 overs.

All thought 122 runs will be easy and Deccan batsmen will do the job. RR bowlers had different ideas though as they reduced Deccan to 11 for 2. Cam White and Dan Christian managed to stick in there but none of them could go on and push the team across the winning line. They ended up losing by 10 runs.

Ishant Sharma won the Man of the match.

Next up is match number three. Yes, the one we are all waiting for. Delhi Daredevils take on the new franchise, Pune Warriors India. Stay tuned for all the action!

Match Summary:

 

[The Rock]

So you will be simulating all the games?

Very good start mate, looking forward towards this one!

 

[Gaurav_7]

I'll be simulating all the games which do not involve the Warriors.