***Official*** IPL 2009

[Pratters]

Well played Mumbai and well deserved! Sachin was awesome as were Zaheer and Malinga. Looking like a well balanced unit and hopefully their middle order can come into some form.

Harbhajan's role and his bowling partership with Jayasuriya was also a key.

 

[duffer]

Hang on, isn't the second match meant to have started by now?

That dog really screwed things up for the programming.

Real interested to see how Bangalore bounce back after being rubbish last year. I see Vijay Mallya is conveniently at the Chinese Grand Prix instead of gallavanting around cricket grounds.

 

[duffer]

Need Murali Vijay at the top as well.

Yeah what the hell happened to Ashwin today? They really needed another bat.

 

[masterblaster]

If someone doesn't get MoM in T20 by sending down four overs for 15 runs and getting three wickets, a bowler never will. I would be disgusted.

He made a good case for man of the match, but I'm not disappointed with them giving it to Tendulkar. He played a vital role in this victory through his excellent batting, his great catch in the slips and his very good captaincy.

 

[pasag]

Hang on, isn't the second match meant to have started by now?

That dog really screwed things up for the programming.

Real interested to see how Bangalore bounce back after being rubbish last year. I see Vijay Mallya is conveniently at the Chinese Grand Prix instead of gallavanting around cricket grounds.

Interestingly and ironically lost Zaheer who is much better suited to these conditions.

 

[silentstriker]

He made a good case for man of the match, but I'm not disappointed with them giving it to Tendulkar. He played a vital role in this victory through his excellent batting, his great catch in the slips and his very good captaincy.

Extremely dissapointed. Slap in the face to all bowlers. It pretty much says no performance is good enough.

 

[masterblaster]

Extremely dissapointed. Slap in the face to all bowlers. It pretty much says no performance is good enough.

You take things too seriously my friend. Tendulkar made a good case for man of the match due to a good performance as a captain too. I personally would've given it to Malinga but you can't take away how important Tendulkar's performance was in the context of this match.

 

[silentstriker]

Well, I hate it when bowlers get shortchanged. It happens all the time. In all formats.

Any century pretty much gets a MoM, and a five-six wicket performance is overlooked.

 

[duffer]

Interestingly and ironically lost Zaheer who is much better suited to these conditions.

Yeah terrible trade for Indian conditions let alone these ones, although I thought last year they had the talent but they looked the most disinterested team in the comp. Hopefully they can get some chemistry going with KP as captain.

Also forgot Masheranas was in the Royals squad. Hope he can fire it up in place of Watson, they need to fill that gap big time.

 

[ret]

RR will be bowling .... Warney

BRC are a better unit than last time. i think they also have got their overseas players right in this one

 

[TT Boy]

KP's side won the toss and will bat first. Steyn, Ryder and Taylor all play.

 

[chaminda_00]

Yeah what the hell happened to Ashwin today? They really needed another bat.

Well the way their bowlers last season you probably need an extra bowling all rounder in Ashwin incase the seamers went for plenty. You don't really want Badri and Raina bowling as the 6th options.

 

[TT Boy]

Yeah terrible trade for Indian conditions let alone these ones, although I thought last year they had the talent but they looked the most disinterested team in the comp. Hopefully they can get some chemistry going with KP as captain.

Also forgot Masheranas was in the Royals squad. Hope he can fire it up in place of Watson, they need to fill that gap big time.

Pretty decent trade for mine. Zaheer is a poor 20/20 bowler and Bangalore need Indian batsman so they don't have to field the likes of Jaffer.

 

[duffer]

They should've played Tyagi then (if he was fit). He's a pretty decent bowler, better than Gony imo.

 

[TT Boy]

Surprised van der Merwe wasn't given a go considering the slow nature of the surface and the fact that he can also bat top six.

 

[silentstriker]

Squad announced - Sharma not in the game .

 

[duffer]

Pretty decent trade for mine. Zaheer is a poor 20/20 bowler and Bangalore need Indian batsman so they don't have to field the likes of Jaffer.

Yeah but it leaves them with Akhil, Vinay Kumar and Ryder as guys who need to bowl a sizeable chunk of overs. Will be what kills them imo.

 

[biased indian]

good win for us

 

[duffer]

Bloody hell, what a start for Dimi!

 

[Pratters]

Haha how brilliant is this. Mascarenhas put on first up by Warne and he delivers. Royals bat upto no. 8 in Y. Pathan, have a good bowling unit. I reckon they will reach the semis at least again.