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In a chat with Subhash Rajta, Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni said he would rather use his energies into field placements and bowling changes rather than trying to get someone's focus back into the game.

In a chat with G Krishnan, Delhi Daredevils' Tillakaratne Dilshan says he is in very good form at the moment and have been scoring consistently for Sri Lanka in the last six or seven months.

In a chat with G Krishnan, Mumbai Indians captain said the Daredevils have been playing really well. Their batting looked pretty solid and bowling is balanced.

Kings XI Punjab skipper Yuvraj Singh blamed batsmen for letting the team down after his side failed to progress to the semi-finals, losing yesterday's must-win IPL match to Chennai Super Kings.

Jacques Kallis, who was initially the favourite to lead the Bangalore Royal Challengers after Kevin Pietersen's departure, said appointing Anil Kumble as the team's skipper was a very good decision.

In a chat with Subhash Rajta, Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara says as far as I am concerned, Test cricket is the number one format. It’s the ultimate test of your ability, technique, mental capacity, endurance, fitness and everything.

Shane Warne tipped Chennai Super Kings to go all the way and said Rajasthan Royals were let down by batsmen far too often to have any realistic chance of defending the title, reports Subhash Rajta.

"You know he is a legend in bowling. I have always known that. But to work with him, you know it's been an eye-opener for myself," says Bangalore Royal Challengers' coach Ray Jennings.

As I’ve said, our bowling and fielding has been good but the batting has let us down consistently, and this has affected our progress in the tournament.

The Rajasthan Royals have stood out for their mental toughness. In a chat with Jeremy Snape, the Royals’ high performance coach and psychologist, HT finds out what keeps the team going, reports Subhash Rajta.

"During this tournament I've spent more time on the ocean than I have on a cricket field. I love kayaking and surfing and then if there's a time when I like doing some fishing, " says Chennai Super Kings' batsman Matthew Hayden.

Fleming says Chennai are obviously disappointed at going down to a team that had lost eight consecutive matches before last night.

Everyone was talking about brother Yusuf before IPL II. Quietly, the junior Pathan has come up the ranks and played a big role in the survival of Kings XI Punjab so far, reports Atreyo Mukhopadhyay.

With Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir failing to fire at the top, AB De Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan had been the batting bulwark for Delhi Daredevils and the Protea attributed his and Sri Lankan's success story to sticking to their own game plans.

Yuvraj Singh obviously couldn't stop blushing after registering his second hat-trick of the Indian Premier League, but the Kings XI Punjab skipper said winning the matches means more to him than achieving personal milestones.