Internet major Google has said it has received four content censorship requests this month from the Indian Premier League, the administrative body of the Twenty20 cricket tournament.

A total of five complaints were received in 2010 about certain websites carrying “illegal retransmission of the authorised feed, copyrighted content for which IPL is the owner”, according to Google.

Out of the five, four complaints were made this month while one was made in March.

Interestingly, Google recently signed an agreement with IPL, wherein rights for live web coverage of matches have been given to YouTube, part of the internet major.

Google on Tuesday had named India is the third place among a list of nations from which it received maximum requests for censoring information. More »

Chennai Super Kings, boosted with a trilling shot led by their bowler Doug Bollinger – who turns the ball on his court by 38 runs against Deccan Chargers here on Thursday at Dr. DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai

Man of the match: Doug Bollinger

After elected to bat first, the Super Kings was pretty slow then soon it got charged up as a 52-run partnership between skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (30) and S Badrinath (37) placed them to stitched a competitive 142 for seven.

Doug Bollinger displays an amazing bowling as he just have to spot a small total to chase for the victory. Though, his spell was the foundation that lay the Super Kings built their success victory tower. He was proficiently done his job as he supported by the CSK spinners Shadab Jakati and R Ashwin.

It was unbelievable for CSK to set the tune to get back into the game after scoring 142, though, the exceptional bowling and some desperation in the field gave a brilliant note as the field placements takes  the Chennai squad to make it into the IPL final.

S Badrinath and MS Dhoni gave their full efforts and placed a 52-run partnership to keep the CSK tag –up  and somehow they managed to save the embarrassment for scoring the lowest total in an IPL semi-final.

However, Anirudha display a remarkable performance by displaying 15 balls for 24 runs – that consist of 2 sixes, which adds another 46 runs in the last five over for Super Kings to victory.

Interesting fact of the match: DC’s first fifty in the 12th over was the slowest by any team in IPL history.

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Mumbai Indians beat Bangalore by 35 runs to enter IPL final

It looks like fears expressed in Parliament by both the ruling and opposition parties that the IPL has become an underworld den of betting might, after all, be true.

Investigations by TOI show that a whopping Rs 3,500 crore has already changed hands while another Rs 1,500 crore has been pledged on the remaining matches, as the country’s rich and poor stake their money on virtually every odd being offered on the IPL. More »

With a trivial Match, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets here on Monday at Eden Gardens. From all the three edition of IPL, this is Kolkatta first victory against Mumbai Indians.

Man-of-the-Match: Murali Kartik

The Knight Riders bow down Mumbai Indians as the superbly played by Sourav Ganguly and Brendon McCollum stitched 97 runs for the first wicket to win the IPL match against Mumbai Indians.

Sourav Ganguly and Brendon McCollum began on a sensational note to chase a modest 134 to win. The duo scored 50-run stand in seven overs and were comfortably moved towards the target.

The duo partnership flow smoothly as the run move with a thick and fast, both Ganguly and McCollum were heading towards the swiftly flows of the run that ended with a 97 scores.

When electing to bat first, Mumbai Indians did not stand out as they were losing their first two wickets within the first three overs with less than 10 runs on the board. Both batsmen Aditya Tare and Shikhar Dhawan became victims of some quick bowling by Shane Bond.

However, Jean Paul Duminy and Sourabh Tiwary jolted up the Mumbai innings. With a slow pace move, Mumbai Indian scaled 69 for the loss of two wickets after 10 overs, as this was followed by the two counter attacked and the result of their attacking sorts.

The Kolkata Knight Riders finished sixth on the leader board inspite of the win basis a poor net run rate, finishing after the third placed Chennai Super Kings (+0.274) and fourth placed Royal Challengers Bangalore (+0.219).

The Delhi Daredevils (+0.021) too had a much superior run-rate than Sourav Ganguly’s Kolkata Knight Riders (-0.341), who, too, finished their league engagements with 14 points from 14 matches.

Kolkata Knight Rider’s bowlers had done a pretty their job as the performance end on a comprehensive note, though it’s too late to be in the tournament. Skipper Sourav Ganguly used seven bowlers. But Bond scored (2/24) and Kartik scored (2/20) and finished with an awesome figures.

Score board:

Mumbai Indians: 133/8 in (20)

Kolkatta Knight Riders: 135/1 in (17.3)

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