IPL Season 2

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Buoyed by the success of the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), its chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said the eight-team tournament will be expanded to 10 teams in 2011.

For the second year in a row, the Indian Premier League was won by a team that had a fairytale run to the title.

If it was Team Jaipur that went from underdogs to champs last year, this time it was the turn of a squad that could do nothing right last year, Team Hyderabad, to pull off an amazing turnaround.

After five weeks of exhilarating cricket, the Indian Premier League (IPL) will draw to a close in an electrifying closing ceremony at Wanderers Cricket Stadium in Johannesburg Sunday.

“The closing ceremony is going to be spectacular,” IPL media director Trevor Jones told BuaNews Friday.

The growing clamour for more than four foreign cricketers in the playing XI notwithstanding, Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi has ruled out any such possibility for the time being.

After restoring their pride in season-II, Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to stretch their dream run when they clash with Chennai Super Kings in their Indian Premier League semi-final match in Centurion on Saturday.

Team Delhi - No. 1, 20 pts 

Strengths:  A solid middle order. Bowling has been effective despite benching McGrath

Weaknesses:  The team hasn’t been tested in close games. Sehwag and Gambhir have been patchy, though they fired in the last match

Victorious Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Anil Kumble on Thursday expressed his happiness for progressing to the semi-finals of the Indian Premier League and feels from here on it is anybody’s game as on a given day any side can outsmart the other.

It’s semifinal time and Team Delhi are on top. Their opening duo hasn’t been at its best, but that hasn’t stopped them from looking a formidable unit right through the tournament.

IPL 2009 semifinals, IPl Season 2 semi final teams and points table, Semi final & Finale live Steaming scores with Schedules.

Delhi Chennai,Bangalore and Hyderabad entered semi finals.

IPL 2009 1st Semi final will held between Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers on today 22 May 2009 at 8:00 pm at the SuperSport ParkCenturion.

With their semi-final hopes dead and buried, Mumbai Indians will play for pride as they take on table-toppers Delhi Daredevils in their last league encounter of the Indian Premier League on Thursday.

Languishing at seventh place, Sachin Tendulkar’s men will look to end their campaign on a positive note.

It was the South African connection that Vijay Mallya had backed when he chose his Royal Challengers squad. For most part of the IPL, it hadn’t worked, but now that Season Two has reached the business end, the ‘home boys’ are coming to the party.

Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni heaped praise on Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan as his side reached the IPL semi-finals on Wednesday.

Chennai, the runners-up in the inaugural tournament in 2008, led a disciplined spin attack in a 24-run win over Kings XI Punjab.

The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) round-robin clash is set for an exciting finish as Royal Challengers Bangalore meet Deccan Chargers at the SuperSport Park on Thursday to decide for a semifinal berth.