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The Punjab administration has asked Mohali older Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ranbir Singh Khatra to go on one month go away following his public spat with Ness Wadia, industrialist and owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) side Kings XI Punjab. Khatra and Wadia argue openly on May 23 at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) sports ground near Chandigarh after Wadia accused the police of black-marketing tickets and theft liquor bottles and team T-shirts.Khatra had enthused an official complaint against Wadia’s “misbehaviour” to the Punjab government and police top brass, bring the spat on record.

The district keep watch over chief claimed that Wadia misbehave with him and even shouted, “I don’t talk to little and mean people like you.”Police sources said that Khatra had been asked to go on one month leave from Monday due to the disagreement. He had applied for go away to go to the US and was immediately granted that.Khatra is careful close to ruling Akali Dal head Sukhbir Singh Badal, the son of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Mohali, a newly shaped district, is careful a prize posting for police and civil officer in Punjab.Khatra had also record a grievance against IPL official Lalit Modi for smoke in a community area of the PCA sports ground last month.

As the Indian Premier League mechanism up for the semifinal phase the last only some matches have been strong with three teams hostility for two semifianl spots. Here’s what worked in favour of Delhi and Chennai - and why Mumbai got the boot.Chennai beat Hyderabad by 7 wickets in a do-or-die match, and reached the semi-finals with a victory in the previous league encounter. It was a now or never for Chennai; They had no option but to beat the Deccan Chargers in their last group diversion to proceed to the last four, and it was task accomplished for MS Dhoni’s boys. They succesfully chase down Hyderabad’s paltry 147 behind Adam Gilchrist win the toss and elected to bat - but more highly, they are through to the semi-final nudging out Mumbai.With this win over Deccan Chargers, Chennai are on 16 points and get back their third slot on the points tally. …Delhi are fourth on 15 points while Mumbai, which was in the reckoning for a semi-final slot is now out of controversy. Mumbai, however, has a match in hand but the maximum it can garner is 14 points - which leaves it behind Chennai and Delhi.

Chennai’s win also wrecked the tension over the semi-finalists as it done the last four line-up. Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab had by now sealed their place with true to life results. Delhi manage to sneak in and make sure its place as Viru’s side set aside its nerve while Chennai and Mumbai failed to win their matches at crucial junctures.Meanwhile, for Mumbai it was complete displeasure - after four successive losses, they bounced back with 6 consecutive wins, but choked when it matter the most. And Sachin Tendulkar’s side won’t be pleased to be in a state of affairs where they can also end up no better than 6th on the points tally. At least a win in the last match next to Royal Challengers will save some arrogance for them.

Jacques Kallis’s fit effort to dismiss S. Vidyut reflect the focus and strength of mind that Royal Challengers Bangalore showed in the morale-boosting win against Chennai Super Kings on Wednesday.Chennai: Winning cricket is a lot about handling pressure. When a semifinal place beckoned, Chennai Super Kings dig a hole for itself at Chepauk on Wednesday.A awful ruin saw the side slumping from 60 for no loss in the ninth over to 111 for eight when the final over commenced. Sixteen runs were necessary off the ending six balls.Then, Suresh Raina managed just a single run off the first three balls from Praveen Kumar. Makhaya Ntini usual three dot balls and Royal Challengers Bangalore romped home by 14 runs.

While Royal Challengers display huge spirit on the field, it still was a match that Super Kings contrived to lose. When percentage batting was required after a solid opening stand of 60 in 9.1 overs between Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel, Super Kings batsmen perished to unmemorable lofted shots. deliberately, it was poor cricket.Dhoni’s dismissal, after he promoted himself to No. 3, was the turning point. He took a intended risk of paceman Vinay Kumar and holed out to long on.

Sparkling bowling

Anil Kumble’s four overs — he scalped three for 14 — were all about skill, mind and commitment. The champion leg-spinner stump to stump line and variations of pace and angles induced mistakes from the batsmen.Jacques Kallis roar in to hustle the batsmen with lifting delivery. His four overs for 15 runs — he was very much unlucky to see a skier from Parthiv Patel being put down at mid-wicket — pegged back the Super Kings’ run-rate.And Dale Steyn, sharp and straight, struck in his second spell. From nowhere, Royal Challengers was eying a win. They manage to close out the competition.

Flawless line

Manpreet Gony, extract bounce from short of a good length and bowling an perfect off-stump line impressed. His spell with the new ball — Dhoni bowled him out — of 4-1-11-2 indicated his control and accuracy.He open up Jacques Kallis with a delivery that straightened and bounce more than the batsman predictable and establish the rim of Sreevats Goswami’s blade.The young Goswami found Makhaya Ntini hot to handle — he was put down at slip by Fleming and survived a sure shout for caught behind — but displayed great spirit in ‘walking’ after nicking Gony to Parthiv at the back the stumps.

Misbah-ul-Haq attempt to glide a delivery leaving him from L. Balaji and Parthiv Patel pluck a diving catch behind the stumps. Dravid composed his runs with some crisp strokeplay on either side of the wicket the side continued to lose wickets. Morkel won a leg-before result alongside Mark Boucher, who bent to play crossways the line.

Luke Pomersbach did the starring role intended for Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday, scoring a punishing half-century.MUMBAI: Sachin Tendulkar left his mark on T20 cricket with a well-crafted 46-ball 65 (12 fours), his first half-century of the DLF Indian Premier League.His run-out at the non-striker end after life form sent back by Robin Uthappa, Mumbai Indians 41 runs away from victory at 159-4, triggered off a wave of panic down the ranks.Instead of picking up the cue from the skipper’s composed batting, four more run-outs follow as the residence squad was bowled out for 188, two tantalising runs away from a probable victory.Kings XI Punjab won by one run, with captain Yuvraj Singh bringing down the curtain on a grand game with a dive to scuttle out the last male. He had earlier tart the knife into Mumbai with two vital wickets (Uthappa and Shaun Pollock) just when Mumbai Indians was inching towards 190 needed for victory.

Run outs

Five run-outs (Tendulkar, Dwayne Smith, Siddharth Chitnis, Ashish Nehra and Vikrant Yeligetti) turned the match in favour of the visitors.Pollock’s attempt scoop to fine leg off the first ball from Yuvraj landed in Chawla’s hands, operation in from short third man.Uthappa drag his team further down with a reckless heave to long-on, Pinal Shah followed next the same way and then the run-out madness set in.Hopes earlier got a taste of the Pollock management, drawn advance but beaten by movement and managing to rim into an alert Shah’s gloves. Marsh almost become his after that victim, a diving Uthappa arriving late.Luke Pomersbach got fast against Nehra as Punjab’s 50 came in 40 balls. The two hard-hitters settled into a rhythm against the slower bowlers, when Pollock created a scare with a one-handed throw from the border line.Pomersbach kept attacking, smacking the ball with such power that fielders within array, even umpires in the line of fire, risk wound.

reduce of wkts: 1-36, 2-81, 3-127, 4-159, 5-159, 6-163, 7-170, 8-183, 9-186

Kings XI bowling: Sreesanth 4-0-35-2, Pathan 4-0-37-0, V R V Singh 4-0-56-0, Chawla 4-0-22-1, Hopes 2-0-13-0, Yuvraj 2-0-12-2.

The Rajasthan Royals have been on a revolve in the Indian prime minister League. At the Eden on Tuesday, they steamrolled. The six-wicket victory over the Kolkata Knight Riders confirmed their semi-final berth.Korbo, lorbo, jeetbo re has been a fading anthem for long and following their seventh loss in the tournament on Tuesday it sounded almost farcical. The Kolkata Knight Riders’ hopes are fading fast as they dug themselves a little deeper into a hole with 10 points from 12 matches. Technically though, they are still in with a chance of moving ahead in the rivalry if they win the remaining two matches.

Once Ajit Agarkar gave missing 16 runs in his first over, the stage was set for the burial. Umar Gul brought some cheer with two wickets in the then over, Wriddhiman Saha’s brilliant diving effort sending back Graeme Smith. But that was merely a flicker of hope.The Rajasthan Royals, pegged back slightly in their chase at 69 for four in the 10th over, carried on gallantly through Mohammed Kaif (34 off 31 balls) and Yousuf Pathan (48 off 18 balls). Once Sourav Ganguly gave away 17 runs in the 12th over, the curtain had been drawn. The visitors never looked back.Pathan, who hit five fours and three sixes, took the fight out of the opposition with a brutal innings. It ended all lingering hopes for the Knight Riders. The unbroken fifth wicket pair added 81 runs in 40 balls.Something seemed to be amiss at the Eden on Tuesday evening. This was like Diego Maradona without his No. 10 jersey or Roger Federer missing from Wimbledon action. The rumour doing the rounds since hours of daylight that Shah Rukh Khan would give this match a miss turned out to be true.

If that was not enough, the injured Shoaib Akhtar was compulsory to sit out. After a prolonged discussion it was decided that Gul would play. The Knight Riders, having already been pushed to the wall, needed an inspirational performance at the top of the order to find the right momentum.The modest crowd turnout in comparison to previous matches, though, could have been prompted by the uncertain weather. Shane Warne also didn’t wish to take any chances, prefer to chase a target in the event of a curtailed match.The Knight Riders needed a solid contribution from either Sourav or David Hussey, two of their most consistent performers, to set the ball rolling. Salman Butt provided the first ray of hope when he seemed to carry on with his form from the previous game.

Butt (24 in 20 balls) doesn’t bat in the square Twenty20 mode but has still been successful. Relying more on his conventional cricketing instincts, his 33-run stand in 30 balls with Sourav for the subsequent wicket had things going in the right direction.

Sourav (32 in 34 balls) was circumspect at the start. He was his usual self once he settled down, picking Warne for special treatment. Shielding Hussey from the wily leg-spinner, he took the responsibility of carrying the momentum.Mind games were also being played out in the middle, Warne delaying the deliveries to upset the batsman’s rhythm, especially when Sourav was on strike, by changing field placings and interacting with teammates.Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Wriddhiman Saha tried to step up the scoring rate towards the end but the usual fall of wickets restricted their score to 147. But the surge in the middle overs help them get well from 59 for two after 10 overs. In the end, though, they fell short by at smallest amount 20 runs.