***Official*** IPL 2009

[social]

Yeah exactly. Rajasthan's bowling is worse than Punjab's on paper.

Warne, Harwood, Yusuf, Morkel and Munaf is infinitely better

 

[Evermind]

Given these performances, who would make the Indian team for the world T20?

Gambhir
Sehwag
Raina
R Sharma (don't like 'im - would have Sachin in there instead)
Yuvraj
Yousuf
Dhoni
Irfan
Harbhajan
P Kumar
RP Singh

 

[Arjun]

Warne, Harwood, Yusuf, Morkel and Munaf is infinitely better

Abdulla's reasonably better than Harwood, Munaf and Yusuf are comparable to Irfan and Sreesanth, Warne is reasonably better than Powar and Chawla, but Morkel isn't playing- his replacement, Trivedi, is way behind the spinners.

 

[Arjun]

Given these performances, who would make the Indian team for the world T20?

Gambhir
Sehwag
Raina
R Sharma (don't like 'im - would have Sachin in there instead)
Yuvraj
Yousuf
Dhoni
Irfan
Harbhajan
P Kumar
RP Singh

Not Praveen Kumar. He's been patchy. Pick Ishant or Zaheer. Ishant adds value on good form and also bowling ability, while Zaheer is a lot more experienced, and smarter.

 

[pasag]

Half way through, would rank the teams like this:

Delhi
Chennai
Deccan
Mumbai
Rajasthan
Bangalore
Punjab
Kolkata

 

[Jono]

Warne, Harwood, Yusuf, Morkel and Munaf is infinitely better

They're not all playing though.

I meant this game.

 

[Arjun]

Amit Singh getting away with rubbish bowling...

 

[social]

They're not all playing though.

I meant this game.

200 for not many plays 94 for 6 - pretty obvious

 

[Nate]

Amit Singh getting away with rubbish bowling...

He was fantastic at the start though.

 

[social]

If ever there was a totally useless 48 @ 130, Yuvi's just played it - batted miles too low and didnt accelerate until the game was absolutely impossible to win

 

[Nate]

McCullum always looks to hit the ball too hard. It looks ridiculous.

 

[Days of Grace]

Nehra gets wided for a short ball that passes over middle and leg. Now THAT is riduculous.

 

[Nate]

It was poor.

McCullum has completely transformed after the first over. Playing with some deft touch for singles and generally isn't trying to overhit the ball. Go son.

 

[four_or_six]

Well the 'strategy break' isn't going to kill KKR's momentum, that's for sure.

They're making it sound like McCullum creamed it around, but he scored 35 at a SR of 120?

 

[TT Boy]

van Wyk doing the business once again. Think he was picked up for around $25,000. Bargain.

Not a great start by Moises. Wasted one over already.

 

[four_or_six]

Is Mortaza not fit? I would have thought he was a better all-round package then Henriques.

 

[TT Boy]

Fit but Kol obviously feel they need the batting. Not much comes after Ganguly and his record in 20/20 is pretty poor (average and strike-rate).

Mendis really should be in the side but if you take out one of their international batsman, they would really feel it.

 

[TT Boy]

The left-armers are having a bad day at Kingsmead.

 

[four_or_six]

Fit but Kol obviously feel they need the batting. Not much comes after Ganguly and his record in 20/20 is pretty poor (average and strike-rate).

Mendis really should be in the side but if you take out one of their international batsman, they would really feel it.

I was going by the my thinking that Mortaza probably has a better batting record than Henriques. Anyway, Henriques had a good over there. Nannes having a total shocker.

 

[Evermind]

Disastrous day for KKR. Feel kinda sorry for them. Absolute train-wreck of a game, this.

Every time a catch went in the air, it just felt like there'd be a greater chance of it not being taken.