Zinzan
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Pretty crumby over apart from the 1st ball though
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*Official* Indian Premier League 2010
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Athlai
Not Terrible
Enjoyed that last ball as well. The six was mostly just a great bit of batting. Love seeing a good player go on the charge against a top bowler, nothing better.
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I can understand when it's a specific tactic- a batsman who doesn't start well against spin, for instance. Yusuf Pathan opened the bowling against KKR last year and bowled back-of-a-length to Gayle and McCullum- two players who love to play spin on the front foot were tied down brilliantly for crucial powerplay overs.
But sometimes I think captains just do it for the sake of it, or so they look smart when it comes off. Spin to Gibbs first up is just playing into his hands.
Horribly timed innings that- you'd never expect a big Gibbs/Symonds partnership to cost you the match by scoring too slowly.
Prad100w
U19 Cricketer
Think it was a fair idea to open with a spinner. Still wrong choice of bowler though. Kartik would have been a better choice.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
What do the disinterested members of CW think of Jaskaran Singh's bowling? I think he is one of the more promising Indian bowlers in the IPL, probably just behind Umesh Yadav and Gony. Got a good action, up to 135kph and swings the ball pretty late. Yet to play FC cricket (oh, the horror), but yeah, looks pretty good.
Sir Alex
Banned
Sorry I don't rate him that highly as well as the hyper rated gony as well, who for me Is the worst supposedly fast bowler to don the Indian colors in more than a decade.
Yadav on the other hand is an exciting prospect. He is still very raw but if he can generate such pace from a relatively small run up and action with such a frame, imagine what he might be able to bowl with some supervised bulking and refining.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Gony is perhaps not yet international class, but his last FC season shows that he is improving. With his natural attributes of bounce, a solid action and good accuracy, he stands out from most of the Indian fast bowlers.
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
He was good but Ojha was bowling tripe. I have not seen someone bowl so poorly in a while. Oh and I am happy that KKR won.
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
Well it did look big and probably would have been a 6 if not for the wind.
Edit :- My bad I thought you were talking about Ganguly's out. It seems it was Hussey.
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Jayzamann
International Regular
It would have paid off if Gilchrist took strike. I'm surprised it took him 2 ducks before he let Gibbs face the first over.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
I've seen little of Jaskaran, with so little time these days for the IPL (and I'm no fan of Deccan anyway), but let's just see how well he does in a team where the batting isn't quite as strong. Let's see how well he'll do in the forefront, without help from the batsmen or a prominent strike bowler in his side. When the team isn't doing too well, they can steer clear of him. Umesh Yadav, a bit of a scattershot at first, seems to be finding his feet in the IPL, and should definitely figure in an IPL starting lineup for the next few seasons, and open the bowling for India A regularly. As for Gony, I thought he'd make a good T20 specialist, but now he's got owned in this form of the game too.
That apart, rather than look for new names, they need to revert to some of those dropped and get them back in the fold, like they did Nehra and Sreesanth. And of course, keep them in the team for extended periods, form notwithstanding.
Arjun
Cricketer Of The Year
Can someone explain why Luv Ablish is on the bench so often, while the not-so-suited-to-T20 Shalabh Srivastava gets so many games? Ablish has a superior T20 record, and has done well even in mainstream T20 games. Shalabh has hardly been as impressive, and has so far been merely lucky.
I know I've asked the question on Graham Napier a few times, but when he's on the bench with the less spectacular Ryan McLaren getting the games, I have to bring it up again in another form- Would ou pick McLaren over Napier?
I know I've asked the question on Graham Napier a few times, but when he's on the bench with the less spectacular Ryan McLaren getting the games, I have to bring it up again in another form- Would ou pick McLaren over Napier?
Zinzan
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Not 100%, but the Kolkata Observer seems to think Ross Taylor's likely to play tonight
Teams Probable:
Kings XI Punjab: Shaun Marsh, Ravi Bopara, Kumar Sangakkara(w/c), Yuvraj Singh, Karan Goel, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Brett Lee, Love Ablish, Sreesanth.
Bangalore Royal Challengers: Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Kevin Pietersen, Ross Taylor, Robin Uthappa(w), Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid, Balachandra Akhil, Dale Steyn, Anil Kumble(c), Vinay Kumar.
kolkataObserver DLF IPL 2010 Schedule: Kings of Punjab vs. Royal Challengers Bangalore...
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Gony strikes me as someone more suited to the longer forms of the game as it allows him to probe at a line and length without anything too spectacular required like extreme pace or several variations. I'm not sure Umesh Yadav should have a place in India A, atm, he has to surely be performing better in the Plate League before earning such a spot.