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IPL schedule 2009

From the 18th April until the 21st May 2009 the IPL (Indian Premier League cricket) is scheduled to take place in South Africa. The first matches on 18th April take place a day after the last one-day match in the series between South Africa and Australia. Here is the IPL schedule of matches and South African times when they take place.

Date	Teams		Venue	SA Time	Result
Saturday, 18 Apr 2009	Opening ceremony		Cape Town
Saturday, 18 Apr 2009	Mumbai Indians (incl. Jean-Paul Duminy)		Cape Town	1230-1530	165/7 (won)
	Chennai Super Kings				146/7
Saturday, 18 Apr 2009	Rajasthan Royals (incl. Shane Warne & Graeme Smith)		Cape Town	1630-1930	58/10
	Bangalore Royal Challengers (incl. K Pietersen & Dale Steyn)				133/8 (won)
Sunday, 19 Apr 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Cape Town	1230-1530	58/0 (won, D/L)
	Kings XI Punjab				104/7
Sunday, 19 Apr 2009	Deccan Chargers		Cape Town	1630-1930	104/2 (won)
	Kolkata Knight Riders				101/10
Monday, 20 Apr 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Port Elizabeth	1630-1930	179/5 (won)
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				87/10
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Durban	1230-1530	158/6
	Kolkata Knight Riders				79/1 (won, D/L)
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Durban	1630-1930	match abandoned due to rain
	Mumbai Indians
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Cape Town	1630-1930	160/8
	Deccan Chargers				184/6 (won)
Thursday, 23 Apr 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Durban	1230-1530	180/9
	Delhi Daredevils				189/5 (won)
Thursday, 23 Apr 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Cape Town	1630-1930	150/8
	Rajasthan Royals				150/6 (win, super over)
Friday, 24 Apr 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Durban	1630-1930	168/9
	Kings XI Punjab				173/3 (won)
Saturday, 25 Apr 2009	Mumbai Indians		Durban	1230-1530	156/7
	Deccan Chargers
					168/9 (won)
Saturday, 25 Apr 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Cape Town	1630-1930	match abandoned
	Kolkata Knight Riders
Sunday, 26 Apr 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Port Elizabeth	1230-1530	149/7
	Delhi Daredevils				150/4 (won)
Sunday, 26 Apr 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Cape Town	1630-1930	139/6 (won)
	Rajasthan Royals				112/7
Monday, 27 Apr 2009	Deccan Chargers		Durban	1230-1530	169/4 (won)
	Chennai Super Kings				165/6
Monday, 27 Apr 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Port Elizabeth	1630-1930	95/10
	Mumbai Indians				187/6 (won)
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Pretoria	1630-1930	143/7
	Rajasthan Royals				147/5 (won)
Wednesday, 29 Apr 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Durban	1230-1530	139/6
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				143/5 (won)
Wednesday, 29 Apr 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Durban	1630-1930	119/8 (won)
	Mumbai Indians				116/7
Thursday, 30 Apr 2009	Deccan Chargers		Pretoria	1230-1530	148/9
	Delhi Daredevils				150/4 (won)
Thursday, 30 Apr 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Pretoria	1630-1930	126
	Chennai Super Kings				164/5 (won)
Friday, 1 May 2009	Mumbai Indians		East London	1230-1530	148/6 (won)
	Kolkata Knight Riders				139/6
Friday, 1 May 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Durban	1630-1930	137/7
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				145/9 (won)
Saturday, 2 May 2009	Deccan Chargers		Port Elizabeth	1230-1530	141/5
	Rajasthan Royals				142/7 (won)
Saturday, 2 May 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Johannesburg	1630-1930	145/8
	Chennai Super Kings				163/10 (won)
Sunday, 3 May 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Port Elizabeth	1230-1530	153/3
	Kings XI Punjab				154/4 (won)
Sunday, 3 May 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Johannesburg	1630-1930	150/1 (won)
	Mumbai Indians				149/4
Monday, 4 May 2009	Chennai Super Kings		East London	1630-1930	178/3 (won)
	Deccan Chargers				100/10
Tuesday, 5 May 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Durban	1230-1530	211/4 (won)
	Kings XI Punjab				133/8
Tuesday 5 May 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Durban	1630-1930	157/1 (won)
	Kolkata Knight Riders				154/3
Wednesday, 6 May 2009	Deccan Chargers		Pretoria	1630-1930	145/6 (won)
	Mumbai Indians				126/8
Thursday, 7 May 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Pretoria	1230-1530	105/10
	Rajasthan Royals				107/3 (won)
Thursday, 7 May 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Pretoria	1630-1930	174/3
	Chennai Super Kings				185/3 (won)
Friday, 8 May 2009	Delhi Daredevils		East London	1630-1930	118/3 (won)
	Mumbai Indians				116/10
Saturday, 9 May 2009	Deccan Chargers		Kimberley	1230-1530	168/5
	Kings XI Punjab				169/7 (won)
Saturday, 9 May 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Kimberley	1630-1930	141/3 (won)
	Rajasthan Royals				140/7
Sunday, 10 May 2009	Mumbai Indians		Port Elizabeth	1230-1530	157/2 (won)
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				141/7
Sunday, 10 May 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Johannesburg	1630-1930	123/8
	Delhi Daredevils				125/3 (won)
Monday, 11 May 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Kimberley	1630-1930	113/10
	Deccan Chargers				166/7 (won)
Tuesday 12 May 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Pretoria	1230-1530	176/4 (won)
	Kolkata Knight Riders				173/4
Tuesday, 12 May 2009	Mumbai Indians		Pretoria	1630-1930	122/2 (won)
	Kings XI Punjab				119/9
Wednesday, 13 May 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Durban	1630-1930	173/7 (won)
	Deccan Chargers				161
Thursday, 14 May 2009	Bangalore Royal Challengers		Durban	1230-1530	132/8 (won)
	Chennai Super Kings				129/10
Thursday, 14 May 2009	Mumbai Indians		Durban	1630-1930	143/10
	Rajasthan Royals				145/7 (won)
Friday, 15 May 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Bloemfontein	1630-1930	123/4 (won)
	Delhi Daredevils				120/9
Saturday, 16 May 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Port Elizabeth	1230-1530	151/3 (won)
	Mumbai Indians				147/5
Saturday, 16 May 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Johannesburg	1630-1930	160/5
	Deccan Chargers				166/4 (won)
Sunday, 17 May 2009	Kings XI Punjab		Johannesburg	1230-1530	134/7 (won)
	Deccan Chargers				133/8
Sunday, 17 May 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Bloemfontein	1630-1930	136/9
	Delhi Daredevils				150/3 (won)
Monday, 18 May 2009	Kolkata Knight Riders		Pretoria	1630-1930	189/3 (won)
	Chennai Super Kings				188/3
Tuesday, 19 May 2009	Delhi Daredevils		Johannesburg	1630-1930	134/7
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				135/3 (won)
Wednesday, 20 May 2009	Rajasthan Royals		Durban	1230-1530	101/9
	Kolkata Knight Riders				102/6
Wednesday, 20 May 2009	Chennai Super Kings		Durban	1630-1930	116/9 (won)
	Kings XI Punjab				92/8
Thursday, 21 May 2009	Mumbai Indians		Pretoria	1230-1530	165/8
	Delhi Daredevils				166/6 (won)
Thursday, 21 May 2009	Deccan Chargers		Pretoria	1630-1930	158/6
	Bangalore Royal Challengers				170/4 (won)
Friday, 22 May 2009	Semi Final 1	Delhi Daredevils	Pretoria	1630-1930	153/8
		Deccan Chargers			154/4 (won)
Saturday, 23 May 2009	Semi Final 2	Royal Bangalore Challengers	Johannesburg	1630-1930	149/4 (won)
		Chennai Super Kings			146/5
Sunday, 24 May 2009	FINAL	Deccan Chargers	Johannesburg	1630-1930	143/6 (won)
		Royal Bangalore Challengers			137/9

Mumbai Indians squad

BATSMEN		ALL ROUNDERS
Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa	Ryan McLaren	South Africa
Mohammed Ashraful	Bangladesh	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
Shikhar Dhawan	India	Dwayne Bravo	British West Indies
Sachin Tendulkar(Captain)	India	Graham Napier	England
Saurabh Tiwary	India	Kyle Mills	Australia
Ajinkya Rahane	India	Abhishek Nayar	India
Jaydev Shah	India	Jude Singh	India
BOWLERS		WICKET KEEPERS
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	Pinal Shah	India
Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	Yogesh Takawale	India
Harbhajan Singh	India	Luke Ronchi	Australia
Dhawal Kulkarni	India	COACHES
Rohan Raje	India	Pravin Amre (head coach)	India
Zaheer Khan	India	Sameer Dighe (assistant coach)	India
Chetanya Nanda	India	Shaun Pollock (bowling coach)	South Africa
Rahil Sheikh	India	Jonty Rhodes (fielding coach)	South Africa
		Nitin Patel (physiotherapist)	India

Chennai Super Kings

BATSMEN		BOWLERS
George Bailey	Australia	Palani Amarnath	India
Matthew Hayden	Australia	Lakshmipathy Balaji	India
Michael Hussey	Australia	Manpreet Gony	India
Subramaniam Badrinath	India	Sudeep Tyagi	India
Ankit Gupta	India	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
Arun Karthik	India	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
Abhinav Mukund	India	ALL ROUNDERS
Murali Vijay	India	Jacob Oram	Australia
Suresh Raina	India	Andrew Flintoff	India
COACHES		Ravichandran Ashwin	India
Roney Parry (masseur)	Australia	Napoleon Einstein	India
Tommy Simsek (physiotherapist)	Australia	Shadab Jakati	India
Russel Radhakrishnan (manager)	India	Viraj Kadbe	India
Stephen Fleming (coach & player)	New Zealand	Selvam Suresh Kumar	India
Gregory King (physical trainer)	South Africa	Joginder Sharma	India
WICKET KEEPERS		Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	India
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain)	India	Albie Morkel	South Africa
Parthiv Patel	India	Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka

Rajasthan Royals squad

The Rajasthan Royals are the defending champions.

BATSMEN		BOWLERS
Robert Quiney	Australia	Shane Warne(Captain/coach)	Australia
Lee Carseldine	Australia	Shaun Tait	Australia
Yusuf Pathan	India	Shane Harwood	Australia
Mohammad Kaif	India	Munaf Patel	India
Swapnil Asnodkar	India	Sumeet Khatri	India
Ravindra Jadeja	India	Anup Revandkar	India
Dinesh Salunkhe	India	Morné Morkel	South Africa
Raiphi Gomez	India	WICKET KEEPERS
Graeme Smith	South Africa	Mahesh Rawat	India
COACHES		ALL ROUNDERS
Darren Berry (director of coaches)	Australia	Shane Watson	Australia
Jeremy Snape (high performance coach)	England	Dimitri Mascarenhas	England
Harish Joshi (assistant head coach)	India	Siddharth Trivedi	India
Mohsin Sheikh (performance analyst)	India	Tyron Henderson	South Africa
Darren Berry (director of coaches)	Australia

Bangalore Royal Challengers

BATSMEN		ALL ROUNDERS
Prince Surana(Captain)	England	Cameron White	Australia
Kevin Pietersen (2 weeks only)	England (born South Africa)	Balachandra Akhil	India
Wasim Jaffer	India	Virat Kohli	India
Manish Pandey	India	Praveen Kumar	India
Pankaj Surana	India	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
Robin Uthappa	India	Roelof van der Merwe	South Africa
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	Dillon du Preez	South Africa
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	WICKET KEEPERS
BOWLERS		Shreevats Goswami	India
Nathan Bracken	Australia	Mark Boucher	South Africa
Vinay Kumar	India	COACHES
Anil Kumble	India	Vijay Bharadwaj (assistant head coach)	India
Pankaj Singh	India	Ray Jennings (head coach)	South Africa
Tinu Yohannan	India
Dale Steyn	South Africa

Delhi Daredevils

BATSMEN		ALL ROUNDERS
David Warner	Australia	Andrew McDonald	Australia
Owais Shah	England	Paul Collingwood	England
Gautam Gambhir	India	Rajat Bhatia	India
Virender Sehwag(captain)	India	Mithun Manhas	India
Manoj Tiwary	India	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
BOWLERS		Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka
Glenn McGrath	Australia	WICKET KEEPERS
Dirk Nannes	Australia	Dinesh Karthik	India
Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh	India	AB de Villiers	South Africa
Amit Mishra	India	COACHES
Ashish Nehra	India	Dennis Lillee (bowling consultant)	Australia
Pradeep Sangwan	India	David Saker (assistant head coach)	Australia
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Greg Shipperd (head coach)	Australia
		Adhishwar (selector)
		Justin Steer (physiotherapist)

Kings XI Punjab

Emirates Airline are the title sponsors of the Kings XI Punjab, who are based in Mohali (India).

BATSMEN		ALL ROUNDERS
Simon Katich	Australia	James Hopes	Australia
Shaun Marsh	Australia	Ravi Bopara	England
Luke Pomersbach	Australia	Piyush Chawla	India
Yash Gandhi	India	Wilkin Mota	India
Karan Goel	India	Ryan Ninan	India
Sahil Kukreja	India	Irfan Pathan	India
Sunny Sohal	India	Ramesh Powar	India
Tanmay Srivastava	India	Yuvraj Singh (captain)	India
Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	WICKET KEEPERS
BOWLERS		Uday Kaul	India
Burt Cockley	Australia	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
Brett Lee	Australia	COACHES
Ajitesh Argal	India	Tom Moody (head coach)	Australia
Vikram Raj Vir Singh	India	Trevor Penney (1st assistant coach)	Zimbabwe
Sreesanth	India	Dave Nosworthy (2nd assistant coach)	South Africa
Yusuf Abdulla	South Africa	Patrick Farhart (physiotherapist)

Here's a photo of a Kingfisher Airlines plane in a Safair hangar at Cape Town Airport:

Now for SPL cricket

The success of the Indian Premier League in South Africa has accelerated plans for SPL cricket - a proposed Southern Premier League cricket competition, between 4 teams from Australia, 4 from South African and 2 from New Zealand.