The IPL Journal

The final two games of the Indian Premier League of 2021 begins! At the Abu Dhabi Stadium the men in blue, Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians will face a struggling Orange Army. Kane Williamson's squad will look to change things around before etching into the final leg of the tournament. For today's IPL matches, the last two games will be played simultaneously at the Abu Dhabi and Sheikh Zayed stadium. At the Abu Dhabi stadium the Mumbai Indians will face Sunrisers Hyderabad. On the other side, a strong Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Rishabh Pant's Delhi Captials in the eliminator of the season. It's a power packed day filled with cricket shots, wickets and some amazing moments that fans will witness today. There will be moments of joy, jitters and so much excitement for our viewers! Sit back and find out two team that will have their final clash for the trophy this season.  In match number 55 today, Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians decides to bat after winning t

 The Rajasthan Royals go against the Kolkata Knight Riders for today's game. We witness Sanju Samson's squad winning the toss and he decides that the team will bowl first. Getting off to a good start, Shubman zgill and Venkatesh Iyer's opening pair has been a reliable factor in the second half of the tournament for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Rahul Tripathi was able to support the two knights as well. Tewatia, Philips and Sakariya gets a total of just 4 wickets. The knights put up a comfortable total of 171/4(20 overs) On the other hand, in a complete team effort, the Rajasthan Royals team anchors on Rahul Tewatia's 44 off 36 deliveries for the entire innings. Ball by ball, Shivam Mavi, Lockie Ferguson and Shakib Al Hasan send back the entire RR squad to finish off in style a match winning game with an all out score of just 85 runs.  This allows the KKR squad to win this match by 86 runs. What a team performance and clinical effort to win this game by such a great margin

 Have the Punjab Kings made a comeback there? Punjab Kings squad will be happy and so will the captain who has been trying to clinch some much needed victories in the tournament. The Punjab Kings are able to win the toss and they decide to bowl first. Faf Du Plessis of the Chennai Super Kings puts up a brave show of 76 off just 55 deliveries! After the injury scare in the beginning of the second leg, what a controlled and well timed performance. Ravindra Jadeja and Gaikwad get easy scores just enough to support Faf. Chris Jordan and Arshdeep Singh try to get the better off the middle order batsman whilst Plessis has done most of the work already.  Punjab Kings already aware that they have to do whatever they can to win this game. Captain KL Rahul anchors the game, KLassic-al knock of 98* off a brilliant 42 deliveries only. Supported barely by Agarwal and Markram. Shardul Thakur and Chahar are able to take on the middle order. A set batsmen, KL Rahul stays till the end and is able to be

 Shiekh Zayed Stadium hosted the Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore today. What a complete team effort both the teams saw. Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore saw Devdutt Paddikal and Genn Maxwell go pretty well in the innings. They were also supported by Ab De Villiers!  On the other hand, Jason Roy, Kane Williamson and Jason Holder anchor the innings for the Orange Army, but it everything went well with the batting? Was the bowling good enough? It was. Umran Malik a replacement player for T Natarajan who got COVID-19 in the IPL Bio Bubble gets his first wicket of the game! Harshal Patel and Chahal also do well for their team.  Unfortunately, towards the end, Royal Challengers Bangalore are not able to cross the finish line. SRH win this game by 4 runs.

What a comeback in the tournament has Mumbai Indians been able to make. Maybe, what kind of pitch was made available in the Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians clash here at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Everything is in the hands of thr bowlers. Rightly so, Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma opts to bowl first. What a right choice as they are able to take back to back wickets. With Nathan Coulter-Nile and James Neesham, two foreign bowlers with the fantastic effort of Jasprit Bumrah able to take a total of 9 whopping wickets! That allows the Rajasthan Royals just a score of 90/9 (20) Evin Lewis, Dawid Miller and Yashasvi Jaiswal cannot get through a total of three figures.  The second innings saw a stronger batting order. Ishan Kishan takes complete advantage of the situation. He was trolled and mocked for being out of form. Fortunately, Rohit Sharma backed the player well.  Mustafizur Rahman, Chetan Sakariya and Shreyas Gopal who were supposed to do the job with the ball didn't st

 [1:20 AM, 10/8/2021] Ushma Shah: Dubai International Stadium hosts Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings vs Rishabh Pant's Delhi Capitals. It's that time of the game where the student-teacher will face each other. Both wicket-keeper batsmen go against each other in the game. Delhi Capitals decides to bowl and what an apt decision. Axar Patel shines for the Capitals along with Ashwin and Avesh Khan in a successful attempt to reduce the Super Kings to 136/5(20)  Ambati Rayudu gets 55*(43) but a low string of scores for the rest of the squad in today's game at office!  Capitalizing on a weak performance, Delhi Capitals top order shines as Shikhar Dhawan and Shimron Hetmyer's scores are able to help the Delhi Capitals win this game by 3 wickets (2 balls left) Shardul Thakur and Ravindra Jadeja are able to get 2 wickets each. Unfortunately, it has proven to be quite a minimal effort from the squad.