It's Jaipur raj

TNN / May 5, 2008, 19:52 IST

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We are the world and it just can't get better than this. Team Jaipur soared to the top of the IPL table on a super Sunday and did it in style too!

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SIXY SPELL: Sohail Tanvir and teammates celebrate the dismissal of Stephen Fleming JAIPUR: We are the world and it just can't get better than this. Team Jaipur soared to the top of the IPL table on a super Sunday and did it in style too!
The Sawai Man Singh Stadium was painted blue - Team Jaipur's colour - when Shane Warne's boys mesmerised fans and pulverised Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Team Chennai to record a thumping eight-wicket win.
Even chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia was there in blue, cheering for the home team, which on Sunday won its fifth match on the trot and with it, a million hearts all across India.
The chief minister talked about team effort at the TOI office earlier in the day. Perhaps this is the best example. Almost everyone has chipped in at some stage or the other in this tournament so far.

Haryana

Jammu & Kashmir

Haryana

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Party View

Seats: 90

Results

Majority: 46

BJP

CONG

INLD

AAP

OTH

Results: 90/90

BJP WON

Source: PValue

The man who made it possible on Sunday was an unassuming Pakistani with a quirky action. Sohail Tanvir was nobody's hero till this day. A six-wicket burst was all that was needed to show Dhoni's men's who's the boss. "We have a great team and we are really playing like a unit," the modest fast-bowler said after the victory. In his moment of glory, he was deflecting some of it towards his teammates.
And one man was surely smiling away quietly. Warne has always believed in his team, which was once dismissed as no-hopers. On this day, when Team Jaipur is on top of the world, he would be a happy man. So would, everyone in Rajasthan. It is indeed a day to celebrate, and soak in the victory.

Shoaib can play IPL
Speedster Shoaib Akhtar heaved a huge sigh of relief as the appellate tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday decided to suspend the five-year ban on him for a month, paving the way for his participation in IPL. Shoaib and his lawyers had asked for the ban to be suspended so that he can earn his livelihood in IPL.
Ishant pays for kick
Kolkata Knight Riders spearhead Ishant Sharma was on Sunday fined 10% of his match fees for kicking down the stumps in Saturday's IPL match against Team Mohali at Mohali. IPL match referee Clive Lloyd found the speedster guilty of a Level 1 offence (clause 2) as per the ICC's Code of Conduct.
HOW THE BATTLE WAS WON...
TOSS: Team Chennai won the toss on a pitch that had moisture and elected to bat. That turned out to be a bad decision.
FIRST BALL FIRST WICKET: Parthiv Patel was dismissed by Sohail Tanvir with the very first ball of the match. CHENNAI could never recover from there. It was also the first of Tanvir's six wickets.
DHONI'S DISMISSAL: Shane Warne trapped Dhoni and that effectively was the end of Team Chennai's resistance.
OPENERS GET GOING: Team Jaipur openers Graeme Smith and Swapnil Asnodkar set up the perfect platform for a fairly easy win, with a 78-run firstwicket partnership.

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