Bringing Cheer To The IPL

Whether you are at the stadium or in front of the T.V, these cheerleaders will grab your attention. Take a look.

MS Dhoni's wife Sakshi has been a permanent fixture at all her husband's matches and IPL 6 has been no different

Sakshi Dhoni cheers on the Chennai Super Kings with her friends during the match against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata on the 20th April 2013. Photo by Saikat Das-IPL-SPORTZPICS

Gayle 175* (66b), RCB win by 130

17 sixes, 13 fours, 18 dots

Several records fell by the wayside as Pune Warriors were the hapless victims of a Chris Gayle mega-special. Here are the stats highlights of an exceptional innings

Gayle's 175 not out is the highest individual score in all Twenty20 matches, while Royal Challengers' total of 263 is the highest by any team. This is only the third occasion a batsman has scored 150 or more in an innings - the previous ones were by Brendon McCullum (158 not out in IPL's opening game in 2008) and Graham Napier's 152 not out for Essex against Sussex in June 2008. (Click here for the full list of highest individual scores in Twenty20 cricket.)

Chris Gayle's 175 that demolished Pune Warriors took only 66 deliveries, and included 17 sixes. While that may seem like the very definition of sustained hitting, and makes it hard to imagine a period where the batsman took it easy, Gayle spoke about how he paced his innings.

"I didn't want to just get the hundred and continue blasting and blasting and get out, you know how quickly this game can change," Gayle said after delivering a 130-run victory for Royal Challengers Bangalore. He reached his hundred off 30 deliveries in the ninth over, before taking it slightly easy for the next few overs.

"I wanted to stay there till the end, make sure I bat at least 18 overs, if not all, which I did, I look on that as a point of view, where I try and bat as many overs as possible, get the hundred, and then actually let Dilly [Tillakaratne Dilshan] take charge while I get a break and pick it up back in the end."

 You gotta watch this....what a inning from Jamaican MAANNNNNNN

Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), an initiative combining the two most popular forms of entertainment - cinema and cricket - is set to bring together Bollywood and the southern film industry to play a game of cricket in January.

"This is the first year. We are just bringing it together. Once it takes off and this model works, we'll make it more structured. Once we get the support, we'll make it a bigger model. We'll do proper practice and we are taking this very seriously," Bollywood star Sohail Khan told reporters here.

The match, which will take place in the last week of January, 2011, will have many known names from the southern film industry. Sohail Khan, who has named the team Mumbai Heroes, is its owner.

Suniel Shetty is the captain of the team and Salman Khan, the icon player.

The Mumbai Heroes team includes Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Kunal Khemu, Ashish Choudhary, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Makrand Deshpande, Kabir Sadanand, Apoorva Lakhia, Sonu Sood, Harman Baweja, Angad Bedi, Irrfan Khan, and Zayed Khan.

Cinema is a religion in this country and so is cricket. These two Cs are coming together now, in the form of Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), one of the biggest entertainment events the New Year 2011 is going to witness.

The organizers of the CCL said that four cricket teams from the country’s’ four biggest film industries would vie for top honors.

“Players from Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi industries will play the matches and their performance on the pitch would decide who is going to be the winner,” according to the organizers.

They said prominent actors from all the industries have agreed to support the cricket league. In all probability, Sarath Kumar, ‘Jayam’ Ravi, STR, Jeeva, Santhanu, Ramesh, Ramana, Arun Vijay, Vikranth and Abbas would be the Kollywood team. During the CCL six league matches will be conducted and one final, which will take off in January 2011

 The teams are titled as

Bollywood (Mumbai Heroes)

Tollywood (Telugu Tigers)

Sandalwood (Bangalore Stars)

Kollywood (Tamil Superstars)