Chargers Champ- On magic night, Deccan dream comes true

Adam Gilchrist and his indefatigable Deccan Chargers lived a school boy’s dream on Sunday, winning the DLF IPL trophy by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the tensest game of the 59-match tournament.

Hyderabad, the main base of the Chargers, erupted in joy and fireworks went off as Royal Challengers ended up six runs short of the target of 143. Thousands of viewers who stayed up close to midnight to cheer the Chargers, spilled out on to the streets to celebrate.

Last year’s bottom team gave its fans every chill, spill and thrill as it won seven matches and then floundered before making it to the semifinals on the run rate. If Gilchrist smashed his way to victory over Delhi Daredevils, Sunday’s final saw nail-biting excitement till the last two balls.

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Deccan to easy win - Deccan Chargers at top of Indian Premier League table

Adam Gilchrist mounted a blistering attack that completely took the spirit off the Royal Challengers and set up an easy victory for Deccan Chargers here on Wednesday.

Gilchirst made 71 off just 45 balls to take Chargers to 184-6, the highest score in the tournament. Rohit Sharma hammered a 30-ball 52 that took the game out of the Challengers’ hands even before they began to bat.

With this victory, Deccan Chargers zoom to the top of the table for IPL-2.

Gilchrist’s innings had glad tidings on another front. The Chargers captain hit five massive sixers. Each hit over the boundary meant that Amway’s Freedom Wheels programme would donate a modified bike to a child with special challenges.

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Deccan ChargersTakes Chennai

The IPL could well be a tournament decided by momentum shifts. Deccan Chargers seven-wicket win against Chennai Super Kings here on Tuesday was a tribute to their self belief.

The way the team moved in the field told the tale. There was a spring in the step that hardly indicated their tournament record thus far. This was the best chance for Chargers to stage their comeback bid.

Adam Gilchrist and his men would for a moment have thought they were in Uppal rather than in distant Chepauk as the crowd cheered every boundary or six that flowed from the blade of the Chargers.

After restricting the Kings to 144 for 7, the Chargers rode on Gilchrist’s 36-ball 54 to overhaul the target with two overs to spare. The IPL looks wide open now. Every side will now fancy their chances of making the final. Adam Gilchrist had a promise to keep. “We will do justice to the inspiring name you provided the team,” Gilchrist had said to S. Nandakumar who had won the ‘Predict the name’ contest and he did just that.

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Gilly's Danda Powers Bull Run

After lying low for three matches, the Deccan Chargers came out in full force on Sunday to maul Mumbai Indians and record their first win of the IPL tournament at the D.Y. Patil Stadium here.

After restricting the home side to a modest 154, the Chargers made mockery of the Mumbai total courtesy Adam Gilchrist’s savage 47-ball 109 not out to overhaul the target in just 12 overs without losing a wicket. The win took DC from eighth to sixth on the points table, which has Bangalore and Mumbai languishing at the bottom.

Gilchrist exploded like a dynamite, cracking 10 soaring sixes and nine boundaries to batter the Mumbai bowlers, in the process recording the fastest century in Twenty20 cricket (42 balls). The previous fastest hundred, off 47 balls, was set by Gilly’s teammate Andrew Symonds during the Chargers’ last game against Rajasthan Royals at home last week.

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Indian Premier League thrill starts today

Boundaries will matter as usual. But national boundaries will not.

As the Indian Premier League action gets underway with the match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders at Bangalore on Friday, traditional rivalries and friendships will give way to explosive new combinations.

With players from around the world crisscrossing borders with only the essential spirit of the game to guide them, a new cosmopolitanism has entered the game.

Cricket will no longer be the same after the eight IPL franchises have had their say, or play.

Newfound partnerships will matter more to the players than old loyalties as eight teams fight it out in 59 Twenty20 matches over 44 days.

Prize money worth Rs 4 crore awaits the team that would win the June 1 final. The franchises have spent bushels of money to acquire the teams and star players and have done everything to ensure that the cup of entertainment would overflow.

It promises to be an electrifying experience when the likes of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Andrew Symonds, Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne clash on the field, in different permutations this time. The Deccan Chargers, with devastating batsmen such as Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Herschelle Gibbs and Shahid Afridi in their ranks, appear to be the most menacing of the squads and should go all the way.

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