Its TWO run win for the ROYALS

Deccan Chargers have been abject with the ball towards the end of the innings all tournaments but Shane Warne produced the old magic and handed the ball over to Siddharth Trivedi for the last over of the match against Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad at the VCA Stadium, Nagpur on Monday. This was the first ever IPL match on this ground and what a match that was. Rajasthan Royals, in the end, won the match by just two runs and earned TWO points too.
This was the only fourth occasion when a team won the match by less then 2 runs. Interestingly Rajasthan won 2 of them and Hyderabad have lost three times by 3 or less runs in IPL.
One more interesting thing is that five matches were won by the team in three or less runs and five of them were in the month of May. See the table.
Winner margin loser venue date

Punjab,1 run, Hyderabad,Wanderers,17/5/2009
Punjab,1 run,Mumbai,Wankhede,21/5/2009
Rajasthan,2 runs,Hyderabad,Nagpur,5/4/2010
Rajasthan, 2 runs,Mumbai,Kingsmead,14/5/2009
Bangalore, 3 runs,Hyderabad,Bangalore,3/5/2008
Chennai,3 runs,Kolkata,Kolkata,18/5/2008
Punjab, 3 runs,Mumbai,Kingsmead,29/4/2009

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Four wicket in IPL as captain

Shane Warne’s match winning performance of 4 for 21 against Hyderabad at the VCA stadium, Nagpur on Monday gave him an aggregate of 43 wickets in IPL and he now stands second in the list of most wicket taker in IPL. RP Singh of Hyderabad leads the table with 47 wickets. Shane Warne is the fourth bowler to capture 40 plus wickets in this tournament.
However Warne registered his best bowling performance in IPL when he took 4 for 21 against Hyderabad on Monday and he became the second captain to capture four wickets after Anil Kumble of Bangalore. Anil Kumble had taken 4 for 16 against Hyderabad at Wanderers on 24 May 2009, the finals of the second edition of IPL held in South Africa.
There are 27 occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wickets in IPL. The break up of 27 occasion read thus- 11 in 2008 edition, 12 in 2009 edition and 4 in this season.
Shane Warne is the third Rajasthan bowler to capture four wickets in an innings after Sohail Tanvir (twice) and Amit Singh.
Here is the list.
Sohail Tanvir, 6/14, Vs Chennai, Jaipur, 4/5/2008
Sohail Tanvir, 4/14, Vs Mumbai, Jaipur, 26/5/2008
Amit Singh, 4/19, Vs Bangalore, Centurion, 7/5/2009
Shane Warne, 4/21, Vs Hyderabad, Nagpur, 5/4/2010

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Easy to score 1000 runs against India

Australian player Mike Hussey needs only 45 runs to complete 1000 runs against New Zealand. When he will play a 3rd ODI of the series on 9 March at Hamilton Australian middle order batsman will try to scored those 45 runs. He will be the 21st batsmen in ODI history and 4th Australian to complete 1000 runs against the KIWI team.
Australia’s Ricky Ponting is on the top of the table by scoring 1840 runs in 47 matches against New Zealand while India’s Sachin Tendulkar is at No.2 of the overall list of the same player by scoring 1750 runs in 42 matches.
While searching more the out put came with some interesting facts. Sachin Tendulkar scored 1000 or more runs against most countries (8) but the fact is there are 40 players have scored 1000 or more runs against India.
This is a record, though dubious, as there are 162 players have scored 1000 or more runs against any nations and 40 of them have done it against India.
Here are the details.
40 players vs India
22 vs Pakistan
20 vs New Zealand
20 vs Australia
18 vs Sri Lanka
16 vs South Africa
15 vs West Indies
10 vs England
1 vs Bangladesh

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