Impelsys Premier League - 2011 - Dinesh Best Performance - Flash Back

Impelsys Premier League - Four Teams were participate this tournament. Each team will play other one match, every team has three matches. Top two teams will go for Final.

Challengers
Riders
Warriors
Kings

Dinesh played for the team "Challengers". He has a brilliant team mates such us Rajesh Pillai, Prabhudas, Prabin, Jagadesh, Sachin, Aravindh, Prabhu, Mahesh Nair, Vivek, Prashantha.

1st Match - Challengers Vs Riders - Challengers won the match and Krishnaraj won the man of the match for his good all-round performance.

2nd Match - Warriors Vs Kings - Prashantha & Prabin open the innings for Warriors and built a solid partnership. Both got out in a quick succession, Next in come was Dinesh, he got out very first ball of tournament, Golden duck to start his IPL tournament. Full length yorker delivery from Praveen, dinesh missed the line completely and he gone to the pavilion. Rajesh Pillai & Prabhudas played a brilliant innings which helped Warriors to score a 83 runs in their 10 overs. Dinesh missed in the batting department, but he done a great job in the bowling department. Bowled the very 2nd over and conceded only one run. He finished the brilliant spell - 2-0-4-1. In the middle over, he took the brilliant catch and more importantly done a fabulous fielding and direct hit from the deep midwicket which help Warriors to won the first game of the tournament. Rajesh Pillai won the Man of the Match award for his wonderful batting display.

3rd Match - Kings Vs Riders - Riders won the match.

Dinesh with his Solid batting

4th Match - Warriors Vs Challengers - Warriors won the toss and elected to bat first. Now, Skipper sent Dinesh to open the innings with prabin. Both started the innings solid and aggressive. Dinesh played a solid shots and at the other end prabin played a quick runs. Prabin got out and Prabhudas big striker of the cricket ball joined with Dinesh. Dinesh carries the bat and scored 26 runs in the second innings. He proved with his solid batting after the golden duck in the previous match. Warriors managed to get 94 runs in their 10 overs.
Challengers responses very brilliantly, Krishnaraj & Prasanna opens the innings and built a good opening partnership. Krishnaraj is the in-form batsman and dangerous player of the Challengers line up. Dinesh took a great catch at the deep square leg and Dinesh leg scrambled. Dinesh came into bowl the final over of the match to defend 12 runs but unfortunately Alok kumar samshed one massive six and a boundary to take away the match from Warriors to Challengers. Challengers won the match and enters into the final.

5th Match - Warriors Vs Riders - Warriors once again won the match and elected to bat first. Once again Dinesh opens the innings with Prabin. This time Dinesh played a fabulous innings but he limping with his injured leg. He smashed three nice boundaries, few deft touch shots. Dinesh was 49 at the end of 8 Overs. First ball of the 8th over Dinesh played a straight drive, ball went straight to bowler, still dinesh ran for the single run, dive to complete the single as well as he is the first man to reach a HALF CENTURY in the IPL 2011. Brilliant innings of Dinesh helped Warriors to won the match, more importantly Warriors qualified for the final against Challengers and he got the Man of the Match Award.

Final - Challengers Vs Warriors - Again Warriors batted first, but this time the whole team was not fully fit. Because they were on the field around 40 overs continuously. Now third match they are going to play continuously, Drump card of their line up Dinesh was fully unfit, he felt down. Prabhudas and Prabin open the innings but Warriors lose their wickets in the regular interval. Dinesh limping into the crease with by-runner to join Rajesh pillai. Warriors were 20-4 at 4 overs. Dinesh & Rajesh pillai survive 2 overs then Dinesh also got out top edge straight to Wicket Keeper Prasanna. At the end of the 10 Overs, Warriors managed to score 48 runs which is going to be very easy target for Challengers in the lights of Krishnaraj, Sreenath, Prasanna. As expected they chased down the target very easily in the 8th over of the match. Challengers lift the IPL 2011 cup and Krishnaraj won the Man of the Match.

Sreenath & Krishnaraj get the Winner Cup.

Prabhudas with the Runners Cup

Dinesh M Won the Man of the Series Award.

Dinesh Carreer Records:

Matches - 4
Runs - 90
Not Out - 2
Batting Average - 45.00
Fifties - 1
Highest Score - 50*
Wickets - 3
Overs - 8
Runs Given - 32
Economy - 4.0
Bowling Average - 10.66
Best Bowling - 1/4(2)
Catches - 3
RunOuts - 2
Man of the Match Award - 1
Man of the Series Award - 1