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BCCI came up with various surprise announcements on 15th April (Monday) while declaring the 15 man squad for the World cup 2019 which is going to be held in England. The top order of India remained the same as expected with Rohit, Shikhar and Kohli , however KL Rahul got the seat booked as the reserve opener. Rahul's ability to bat in the middle order and his current form in IPL proved to be enough for the selectors to take the decision. The inclusion of Dinesh Karthik and Vijay Shankar in the squad was the big news there as the no.4 slot is still a matter of big controversy before the world cup as none of the batsman has been able to reserve the seat with their performance. Major drops  : However, the young hitting icon of India, Rishabh Pant , has been overlooked by the BCCI as the second wicket keeper inspite of Pant being the first choice wicket keeper in Tests for India and to the surprise Dinesh Karthik has been given the preference over Rishabh Pant desp...

The match no.20 of Ipl 2019 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals. Both the teams had lost their previous match but remain unchanged. Delhi won the toss and opted to ball first. Parthiv and Kohli opened the attack for RCB and Ishant Sharma for DC. Parthiv smashed a boundary on the 5th ball of the innings but gave his wicket in the 2nd over to Chris Morris. [9 runs 9 balls 1-4s] ABD and Virat to lead the scoreboard for RCB. RCB, 18 for 1 after 3 overs. ABD smashed a six on Chris Morris in the 4th over and a boundary on Ishant Sharma in the 5th over to release the pressure. But ABD lost his wicket to Kagiso Rabada on the last ball of powerplay in order to hit a six. [17 runs 16 balls 1-4s 1-6s] RCB, 40-2 at the end of six. Story of middle overs (7-15) : Stoinis and Kohli rotated the scoreboard slowly and led the total to 53-2 after 9 overs. Stoinis smashed a big six on the first ball of Lamichhane in the 10th over but lost his wic...

The match no.19 of IPL 2019 was a low scoring match played between Mumbai Indians and Sunrises Hyderabad. SRH won the toss and decided to ball first. Rohit and De Cock opened the bat for MI and the first over delivered by Bhubneshwar Kumar went with just 1 run and a drop catch of Rohit. MI went for the aggressive approach and both the openers hit a six consecutively in the 2nd & 3rd over. However, Nabi gave a break through with the dismissal of Rohit in the 4th over. [11 runs 14 balls 1-6s] Next, Sandeep Sharma sent Suryakumar Yadav back to the pavilion in the 5th over. [7 runs 8 balls 1-4s] MI ended the powerplay with just 30 runs on the scoreboard with two wickets down. Story of middle overs (7-15) : MI tried to pace up their innings as they were just on 42 runs after 8th over but unfortunately lost the wicket of De Cock in the 9th over. [19 runs 18 balls 1-4s 1-6s] After the end of half innings of MI, scoreboard showed 53-3. Nabi ended up his spe...

The match no.17 of IPL 2019 played between KOLKATA NIGHT RIDERS and ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE was a must win match for boys of Bangalore. Kolkata won the toss and decided to ball first. RCB once again started with Kohli and Parthiv and made the intentions clear from the very first over by smashing 3 classical boundaries on Prasidha Krishna. After seeing no help from the pitch, Kartik very smartly brought his spinners into the attack. But in the 4th over, ball was once again into the hands of a seamer, L Ferguson. Virat smashed 13 runs with 3 boundaries in that very over. Parthiv on the other side also contibuted well with Virat by smashing boundaries on Chawla. With the end of first poweplay, RCB stood at 53 for none. Story in the middle overs  (7-15 )  : Nitish Rana took the first wicket for RCB in the 8th over by sending Parthiv Patel back to pavilion with a straight ball LBW. Kohli completed his fifty by smashing a delicate cut shot on P Chawla in the ...

The high voltage 15th match of IPL 2019 played between Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings ended up with a victory of Mumbai Indians by 37 runs. Hardik and Pollard's powerhitting led Mumbai to the score of 170 after the first half of the game. The skinny Pandya played an interesting cameo of 25 runs in just 8 balls with 3 sixes and a four to revive Mumbai from a slow progressing total.  Pollard also scored 17 runs in just 7 balls with two skyflying sixes.  The duo added 77 runs to the total in last 5 overs for MI. Prior to that, Suryakumar Yadav (59 runs 45 balls 8 fours 1 six) built a partnership of 72 runs in 49 balls with Krunal Pandya (42 runs 32 balls 5 fours 1 six) and led the foundation for MI.   The last over of Bravo got well charged by Pandya and gave 29 runs to Mumbai Indians and that's how Mumbai reached to 170. In the run chase : Chennai lost the early wickets of Rayadu and Watson in the chase. Later on, Raina p...

The match no.14 of IPL 2019 played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore ended up with a victory of 7 wickets for Rajasthan. Right from the toss, RCB lost everything except the brilliant knock by the Chhota Gayle(Parthiv Patel) of RCB. Virat and Parthiv started well for RCB and scored 49 runs before the googly from Shreyas Gopal which thrown off the bails of Virat Kohli. Soon, the big man ABD was also dismissed on a googly by Gopal. Hetmyer once again disappointed the franchise with just one run in 9 balls. At the end, RCB reached to a defending total of 158 runs with the power hitting of Stoinis and Ali and thus put the target of 159 runs for the Rajasthani boys. In response, the Rajasthani openers, Rahane and Buttler started aggressively scoring 60 runs in 7.3 overs for the first wicket. Buttler , once again played an important knock of of 59 runs for his team and the rest was well done by Smith and Rahul Tripathi. Shreyas Gopal , the...