Indian Cricket Team Updates

Match Report: Delhi Daredevils’s woeful run in the Pepsi IPL 2013 continued with the Sunrisers Hyderabad defeating them by three wickets at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi on Friday night. The win was set up for the Sunrisers by their bowlers who restricted DD to just 114 before their batsmen huffed and puffed their way with DD putting up an inspired fight. (Also Read:  Young Daredevils Manpreet Juneja Interview ) Delhi Daredevils captain Mahela Jayawardene and Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kumar Sangakkara shake hands after the toss during match 14 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League between The Delhi Daredevils and the Sunrisers Hyderabad held at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi on the 12th April 2013  Chasing a meager 115, SRH lost Akshath Reddy (1) to a spectacular run out by Shahbaz Nadeem. Kumar Sangakkara and Parthiv Patel got a partnership going as the two added 44 runs before Patel (19) was dismissed caught and bowled by Nadeem to give DD their sec...

Sunrisers Hyderabad have caused a few flutters with their performances in Pepsi IPL 2013. Although they go into the match against Delhi Daredevils with a loss they will be drawing on confidence from their two victories earlier in the tournament.  Ahead of their match at the Feroz Shah Kotla, team mentor, former India cricketer VVS Laxman addressed the media and reflected on the team’s prospects and composition.  Asked of the impending game, Laxman told the media, “We are very pleased with the way we started the tournament, winning two games especially against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in Hyderabad where it went into the super over. When you win such tight matches it always gives a lot of confidence to the team. In the last match in Bangalore (which the Sunrisers lost) Virat Kohli played a superb knock.”  “We like to concentrate on our game. We don’t think about what Delhi has done in the last few matches. We just want to improve on our own per...

Yet to get points on the table in the Pepsi Indian Premier League 2013, the Delhi Daredevils trained hard at the Feroz Shah Kotla ahead of their clash against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on Friday evening. Although they have suffered losses in all three of their matches leading up to the game on Friday the team is positive in their minds.  “It is not the best start in the tournament but luckily we have identified the areas where we have gone wrong. And it is just one of those things that you need to get better and hopefully now, from tomorrow we can get the momentum that we need going to go forward in the competition. The mood is very, very good the guys are still in very good spirit. We saw last year with Chennai Super Kings, they lost the first few games in a row and then they made it to the final. We are fully positive and we believe that tomorrow in front of the home crowd we can deliver something special,” Morne Morkel told the media on the eve of the match.  Wi...