IPL 5 Qualifier 1: Daredevils v KKR

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Kevin O'Brien, the Ireland allrounder who struck a record-breaking century to set up a historic win over England at the World Cup, has scored two domestic contracts that will keep him busy this summer.

O'Brien, 27, has been signed by Gloucestershire for the remainder of the English domestic season, barring approximately 18 days he will spend playing in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League Tournament between late July and early August.

''I am very excited to have the opportunity to play for Gloucestershire, and work under one of the most successful coaches in domestic one day history," said O'Brien. "I am looking forward to getting over there and hopefully helping the team to achieve its goals in all forms of the game, but especially Twenty20 and one-day cricket.

"Hopefully I can have a great season, help Gloucestershire win trophies and improve my game even further. It is going to be an honour to play with Murali, and hopefully I can learn from guys who have performed so consistently in domestic cricket for many years.''

"We are delighted to have signed Kevin O'Brien to our squad with particular reference to his one day skills," added John Bracewell, Gloucestershire's Director of Cricket. "Given his heroics in the World Cup the Gladiators have a genuine lion slayer in their midst."

O'Brien will join Gloucestershire's squad the squad later this week and should be available for the match against Glamorgan on Sunday May 15. There remains some uncertainty over who he will be playing for in Sri Lanka, where the seven teams taking part will be drawn from Basnahira, Kandurata, Nagenahira, Ruhuna, Uthura, Uva and Wayamba, but O'Brien has some clues as to who his team-mates will be.

"I'm still not 100% who I'll be playing for in Sri Lanka, although I have been told that Sanath Jayasuria will be the team's captain, and that Darren Bravo and lonwabo Tsotosbe will also be on the team," he said.

"The opportunity actually came through Phil Simmons, who forwarded me an e-mail a while back, and subsequently Somerset Entertainment Ventures approached me. It's going to be a magnificent experience, and hopefully I'll acquit myself well in what's sure to be a terrific tournament."

All the games in that competition will be played the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo and the winner of the tournament will qualify for the Champions League Twenty20. The league will be run by the Singapore-based Somerset Entertainment, which has bought the rights for five years.

O'Brien, who normally spends his summers playing for Railway Union Cricket Club in Ireland, made his one-day international debut in 2006 in Ireland's inaugural ODI, and his international Twenty20 debut followed in 2008. He played for Nottinghamshire in 2009, and in 2010 was awarded a contract with Cricket Ireland, making him one of six players with a full-time contract with the board.

He has scored 1534 runs in 58 ODIs to date at an average of 34.86 and has also taken 47 wickets, putting him near the top of Ireland's record lists for both batting and bowling in ODIs.

Kevin's brother Niall is a regular for Northamptonshire, and although the two won't have a chance to compete during Northamptonshire's trip to Bristol from May 11 to 14, they could well meet as opponents in Northants' final four-day game of the season in mid-September, or in the latter stages of one of the limited-overs

KKR:D

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww

Shank: "It's good the finals are in Chennai and not Mumbai else SRK would have to watch it on television." :lol: :lol: :pirat:



Vikram: "The IPL is a good test bed for captains. Sehwag came up a cropper. Gambhir showed his mettle. :O I have always thought that Gambhir should be the vice captain or the test captain or both for India." 8)



Achint: "Luckily delhi has got one more chance to fix their batting order, if they want to send venu and ojha ahead of taylor, then better not to have taylor at all in the line-up and include Merwe if pitch sists spinners or Russel otherwise" :x :roll:



DD Supporter: "I'd love to hear from Sehwag what his reasoning would be for some of the decisions he made today especially Venu and Negi before Taylor and Pathan, which I think costed the game for them." (Even I want to hear that )

Frankly speakng DD lost a match,that they cnuld easly won it.

Anurag wrote:

Šv wrote:

Anurag wrote:

Šv wrote:

Anurag wrote:@ sV @ Deep- Bhai sahabon, maine kab kaha ki pitch fast ho jaayegi. Main toh yai keh raha hoon ki maybe the carry thorugh to the keeper would be better.

Anway, Delhi's bowling can make good use of the conditions. And if it's overcast tab toh maze hi aa jayenge

achanak se carry through achi ho jayegi kya ? lol
Looked like Its one of the slowest pitch in India

Some grass, some rolling, some rain and some wind will help.

Ek din me grass nahi ugta
Chahne se baarish aur wind nahi hota

Dumbest post ever.

Grass ukhaad ke pitch pe spread kartey hain and then roller chalatey saktey hain.

Khud pitch tayyaar karke dekhio, tab pata chal jaayega. Mere school mein har match se pehle ham players khud pitch ready kartey hain.

Yea!!

DD

CSk vs KKR Finale

CSK wins the IPL 5

KKR vs DD final

KKR wins final

KKR VS. CSK/DD/MI :O

Result: KKR will win the Finale. :O

CSK WIL WIN IPL 5...N.SRINIVASAN IS PREPARNG STORY BOARD.MST PROABLY IN THE LAST BOWL CSK WIL DEF KKR...

I have said previously many times that CSk is a 70% of invincible aussie team of the past.

You cannot give them a chance to make a comeback.

But they have been given it now, they won't spare anyone now

@nikhil

There is a message for you in the warriors group.

Have a look

CSK AND DHOBI SUCKZ BT SAKSHI ROCKZ

Cme to CRICKET RULEZ GROUP.FI8 GOING FOR MSD VS DADA

Deep check ur inbox

Fahad wrote:Deep check ur inbox

I checked it, thats what i messaged to nikhil and aqi in fb

Deep Dey wrote:

Fahad wrote:Deep check ur inbox

I checked it, thats what i messaged to nikhil and aqi in fb

hmmm ok

Virumaniac wrote:Cme to CRICKET RULEZ GROUP.FI8 GOING FOR MSD VS DADA

No thanks.

You enjoy the fight

The first to give the answer of this question will have to give me 1000 FM from his/her account

Deep Dey wrote:

Virumaniac wrote:Cme to CRICKET RULEZ GROUP.FI8 GOING FOR MSD VS DADA

No thanks.You enjoy the fight

im jst a spectator..

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