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***Official*** IPL 2009

Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Dravid was out to a horrendous shot as well. The fielder was at the boundary, so it was a high risk shot without much pay off as Gavaskar pointed out.
 
Xuhaib

Xuhaib

International Coach
honestbharani said:
gr8 stuff to see the #8 from last year win this year.



Gilchrist was amazing and his team responded brilliantly in the crunch games.


Kumble was gr8 too but they juz choked in the final stages there... Taylor got out to a stupid shot and that was that. Time to understand that Uthappa is useless unless it is a belter with lowish bounce...
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Uthappa was stuffed due to his batting position the lad should have been opening intead of Kallis.
 
R_D

R_D

International Debutant
Xuhaib said:
Uthappa was stuffed due to his batting position the lad should have been opening intead of Kallis.
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Na... Bangalore's been down that road; he only wastes balls and kills the momentum at start of the innings. They've tried him in middle order and opening... he's been useless in every position so they keep him low down as possible.
 
R_D

R_D

International Debutant
ret said:
it was a good inning under pressure. he stayed till the end, built up some useful partnerships and helped his team give the bowlers something to bowl at. he held up his end when early wkts threatened to take Deccan out of the game. I thought most folks would appreciate such an inning in the context of the game esp w/ the benefit of hindsight .... if by great you mean that he single-handedly didn't take the game away from BRC, didn't time each and every ball perfectly and so on then you are right!
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Yeah thats it... people use the word great too easily..... in hindsight it was a good innings but otherwise it would be considered an average inning.
 
Xuhaib

Xuhaib

International Coach
R_D said:
Na... Bangalore's been down that road; he only wastes balls and kills the momentum at start of the innings. They've tried him in middle order and opening... he's been useless in every position so they keep him low down as possible.
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Just watched the Semi's and the Finals so no idea how he went about the last I watched the kid he was a pretty good smacker.
 
social

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bet on Chennai next year - Hayden is next recipient of IPL Trophy under Aussie Legends rotational policy
 
pasag

pasag

RTDAS
Uthappa has to be traded.

I think the main difference between the two teams last night was Praveen, he just bottled it. The five wides he bowled was pretty much the losing margin.

Still, so many positives to come out of the tournament. They've always had capable players, but it's the team spirit that's been missing and under Kumble they've really done a complete reversal there.

Very proud of the Aussies as well. Two out of two winning IPL captains, two out of two MOTS and two out of two leading run scorers.
 
R_D

R_D

International Debutant
Xuhaib said:
Just watched the Semi's and the Finals so no idea how he went about the last I watched the kid he was a pretty good smacker.
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Yeah i remember those times..... he could whack it a fair bit. He was awesome in T20 in SA. Don't know whats happened to him. Just can't hit the ball.... was pretty awful in IPL last season as well. Ever since he started becoming all ****y onfield... his batting as gone downhill.
 
R_D

R_D

International Debutant
Uppercut said:
Hey, didn't they swap Zaheer for Uthappa? It's difficult to conceive of a worse deal...
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:laugh: so true.
Although i thought Delhi got a raw deal when they swapped Shikar Dhawan for Nehra... in hindsight it wasn't such a bad deal for Delhi. Nehra had a decent series while Dhawan barely got any chances to play at Mumbai.
 
ret

ret

International Debutant
"This one's right up there with winning World Cups."

Andrew Symonds reckons IPL 2009 ranks alongside Australia's World Cup victories

source: cricinfo
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Looks like Symo is pleased with the win :)
 
biased indian

biased indian

International Coach
chaminda_00 said:
The deal was mainly to free up money for KP though.
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how come ??? i think they had to shell out more money for Uthappa.Bangalore purchased Zaheer for a US$450,000 in last year's auction, Mumbai paid $850,000 for Uthappa.

Havent heard any where that uthappa agredd for a pay cut
 
chaminda_00

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
biased indian said:
how come ??? i think they had to shell out more money for Uthappa.Bangalore purchased Zaheer for a US$450,000 in last year's auction, Mumbai paid $850,000 for Uthappa.

Havent heard any where that uthappa agredd for a pay cut
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You kidding me Uthappa was on that much? I knew he was a Indian international at that time but **** me dead. That pretty stupid money. There goes that theory out the window. Though he does balance out the side better then when they had Khan. van der Merwe made a huge difference to that balance. But rather Uthappa and Vinay Kumar, then say Akil and Zaheer Khan. Didn't they also buy Pankaj Singh as part of the Zaheer trade, who was a some decent dosh at the other Royals. Lucky they got some cheap internationals to make up for their expensive Indian domestic players.
 
ret

ret

International Debutant
chaminda_00 said:
The deal was mainly to free up money for KP though.
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It was probably because Mallya was shopping for a 'proper' T20 batsman. He went on a shopping spree and got Uthappa, KP and Ryder too!

But unfortunately for him, none of them were that successful
 
Smith

Smith

Banned
Am still sceptical about Dravid's role as a T20 batsman. He was one of the main reasons BRC lost the finals, by dropping a sitter of Symonds first and then making a slow 9 off 13 balls when the RR was around 8. He is become a liability on the field and is of no great value than an ordinary Indian youngster as a batsman.
 
duffer

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Cried tears of joy when we traded Uthappa for Zaheer. Shame the season didn't go so well but I found my team far more likeable because of the trade.
 
ret

ret

International Debutant
Smith said:
Am still sceptical about Dravid's role as a T20 batsman. He was one of the main reasons BRC lost the finals, by dropping a sitter of Symonds first and then making a slow 9 off 13 balls when the RR was around 8. He is become a liability on the field and is of no great value than an ordinary Indian youngster as a batsman.
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his game has deteriorated but he is still competitive
 
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