It was indeed gr8 to c the deccan charges come back and zoom right to the top after their dismal performance in the previous IPL. Gr8 job Deccan Chargers! Keep it up!!!

Having lost captain Adam Gilchrist for a third-ball duck, Herschelle Gibbs (53 not out) and Andrew Symonds (33 from 21 balls) helped Deccan post 143-6.

And despite Roelof van der Merwe’s 32, Symonds took 2-18 and a late collapse left Bangalore six runs short.

The tournament was staged in South Africa because of security concerns.

Hmmmm, so none of the stars in the final match of the indian cricket league were indians; and the tournament had to be held in South Africa because India is incapable of providing security. How pathetic is that?

@ bulleh shah

harmeet singh bowled an awesome spell, also took a great catch under pressure. not to mention, man of the match was anil kumble, who took 4 wickets in 4 overs.

i liked that first sentence. very clever that.

googling tatum keshwar it's interesting to note that a lot of coloureds are complaining on message boards that indian publications are referring to her as indian (the fact that she's from durban makes that a reasonable position to hold) when she's really coloured, that is, mixed. tansey coetzee, the previous miss south africa, was also coloured, but had an indian mother. it seems in south africa the convention is that that if you're colored + anything else, you're coloured, so tatum got her surname from her (part)-indian father. i watched a youtube of her, and it sounds like afrikaans is her native language (mostly spoken by afrikaaners and coloureds).

p.s. coloureds as a whole are about 25% indian ancestrally even without recent mixing. many of the slaves in the early cape colony were indian.

Hmmmm, so none of the stars in the final match of the indian cricket league were indians; and the tournament had to be held in South Africa because India is incapable of providing security. How pathetic is that?

Bulleh Shah is none other than our old friend Prema.

India is incapable of providing security. How pathetic is that?

About as pathetic as the UK or Spain not being able to prevent train blasts or the US the bomb blast 8 years ago that left a hole in the Manhattan skyline. It is not an easy thing, to filter out 1 billion potential terrorists.

googling tatum keshwar it's interesting to note that a lot of coloureds are complaining on message boards that indian publications are referring to her as indian (the fact that she's from durban makes that a reasonable position to hold) when she's really coloured, that is, mixed. tansey coetzee,

They should also complain about all the people who refer to Obama as African-American. As Wanda Sykes joked, if Obama screws up, they're all going to be saying, "What's up with the half-white guy?"

Do the Deccan Chargers represent a city? If so, which one?

This edition of the IPL coincided with the national elections in India, and the govt. felt that it could not provide security for both. I suspect that most people thought that holding the elections had somewhat higher priority.

They should also complain about all the people who refer to Obama as African-American

obama isn't south african. in any case, coloured is a cultural as well a a biological group. they speak afrikaans and tend to be dutch reformed, aside from the cape malays who are muslim. in any case, as i said the average coloured as a lot of indian ancestry anyhow.

as i said the average coloured as a lot of indian ancestry anyhow.

What you said is wrong. The south african "coloureds" are primarily a mix of european and african. The indian contribution to their mix is not a "lot" by any reasonable measure. The malays in South Africa were also classified as coloureds in the apartheid system while the japanese, taiwanese and koreans were treated as "honorary whites". Indians had a separate classification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans

During ideological apartheid from 1948-1994, Indians were called, and often voluntarily accepted, terms that ranged from "Black" to "Asians" to "Indians." Some citizens believed that these terms were improvements on the negatively defined identity of "Non-White", which was their previous status. Politically conscious and nationalistic Indian South Africans wanted to show both their heritage and their local roots. Increasingly they self-identified as "African", "Black", "South African" and, when necessary, "Indian South Africans"...................Discriminated against by apartheid legislation, such as the Group Areas Act, applied in 1950, Indians were forcibly moved into Indian townships, and had their movements restricted. They were not allowed to reside in the Orange Free State, and needed special permission to enter that province. They were also, as a matter of state policy, given an inferior education compared to white South Africans.

@ CMF Post #10

The Deccan chargers represent Hyderabad.

it was so sad how bangalore lost :(

Hmmmm, so none of the stars in the final match of the indian cricket league were indians; and the tournament had to be held in South Africa because India is incapable of providing security

Well, The recent Indian election have 550 million voters, 55-58% average vote, that is more than 300 million legal votes. 2 million government officials were working especially for election, 200,000 military/CRPF were deployed in 7 phases of the election. And not all the votes were electronic. So just think how big the democratic process of India is.

I'm avid cricket fan but who cares about it. Please tell me one single un-developed country that has maintained democracy for more than 60+ years (barring 6 month emergency). May be cricket will never become soccer or NFL. But democracy is the single biggest achievement of INDIA.

Abhi, actually the number of eligible voters is about 700 million, and about 58% voted this time (approx. 410 million)...

The indian contribution to their mix is not a "lot" by any reasonable measure.

for google, this person is wrong, though they don't know as much as i do, so no worries. The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans has data on cape coloureds. jump down to figure 6, and it is clear that cape coloureds are probably as much indian as they are european. genetically if not culturally.

@razib & @bulleh shah: Being a 1.5 gen desi living and raised in south africa, i can vouch that the cape coloureds (also known as malay) have south east asian/indian blood in them. But there are also other coloureds in the rest of south africa which are typically a genetic mix of native african and european. There are differences in features between the two like the hair, the cape coloureds usually have straighter more indian looking hair than the coloureds who have more african looking hair.

Here in SA, anyone with mixed blood is referred to as coloured. And the rest is referred to as Indian, White (English or Afrikaner), Blacks. Very dynamic and awesome country to be in!!