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Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have lost the Indian Premier League final but every run he scored in the 44-day tournament was worth nearly Rs 1.5 lakh

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Roller-coaster ride		Skipper praises his boys
	The Indian Premier League turned out to be a 44-day roller coaster ride for the fans who enjoyed the game's new avatar		"It's the performance of the Indian youngsters like Swapnil Asnodkar and Yusuf Pathan which I am very proud of," Warne said

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It was the perfect script, says Warne

Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne was ecstatic after clinching the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) title in a nail-biting finish against Chennai Super Kings. He said the script in the final could not have been any better.

IPL will change the way cricket is governed
At the end, everyone agreed on one thing — the Indian Premier League will change the way cricket is governed and consumed around the world. Is that good? Is it the worst thing ever? Time will tell, but it’s crystal clear that change is here.
National duty brings more pressure: Malik
Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik feels that pressure of representing one's national team is far greater than playing for any team in the ongoing Indian Premier League. "There is more pressure when you are playing for your country," he said.
We did not have T20 batsmen in our team: Crowe
After their poor showing at the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League, Bangalore IPL team's chief cricket officer Martin Crowe has admitted that the lack of specialist batsmen was the major reason behind their lacklustre performance.

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Royals stop Riders		Riders vs Indians
	Action from the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur on May		Action from the match between Kolkata Kinght Riders and Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens

Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals		Indians vs Daredevils
	Images from the match between Warne's Rajasthan Royals and Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings in Jaipur		Images from the match between Sachin's Mumbai Indians and Sehwag's Delhi Daredevils at Navi Mumbai

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Hockey, in which India has an impressive record with eight Olympic gold medals, is officially the national sport. Other popular games are football, cricket, basketball, volleyball and badminton. Cricket has become a very popular game and India, once one-day cricket champions, staged the World Cup in 1987 and co-hosted it with Sri Lanka and Pakistan in 1996.

Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 test centuries remains unbeaten though his aggregate of 10,122 test runs was surpassed by Allan Border of Australia. Many argue that Sachin Tendulkar is today's best batsman with his flamboyant stroke play and heap of runs he has accumulated in all forms of the game.

In games like tennis and billiards, which are played by a very small percentage of the population, Indians have nevertheless made a mark in the international arena. At the young age of 17, Vishwanathan Anand became an international chess grandmaster. Today he is seen as the only tough challenger of the world champion, Gary Kasparov. Following Anand, a large number of pre-teen Indians have emerged with a lot of promise. Geet Sethi has won both the world amateur and professional billiard championships, while in 1990 Leander Paes became the third Indian Wimbledon junior champion. Leander Paes won the bronze medal at the tennis singles competition in the 1996 Olympics. The recently held Commonwealth Games at Manchester, UK, produced many new sports stars in shooting, weightlifting, athletics, and Women's field hockey.

After the IX Asian Games in New Delhi in 1982, the capital city now boasts of some very modern sports facilities. Such facilities are also being developed in other parts of the country. With the introduction of new equipment and techniques of coaching and training, there is hope that India will show a marked improvement in various disciplines of sports. Besides sports and games included in the international sporting agenda, there are many other that have developed indigenously and are played by people in the villages. Among these is wrestling, a sport that has developed many local styles and schools. It is taught for the most part in traditional gymnasia with packed mud floors. There are also several indigenous systems of martial arts.

Among the indigenously developed games, the most popular are kabaddi and kho-kho. National competitions are held in these two games. Among equestrian sports, tent-pegging has a uniquely Indian flavour. Camel races and elephant races are also uniquely Indian. Among the indigenous water sports, the snake-boat race, which takes place in the backwaters of Kerala during the Onam festival, has now become an international tourist attraction.

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