*Official* Indian Premier League 2010

[Scaly piscine]

Really funny! Kartik's call was bad. But equally brainless of colly to run after seeing pollard fetching the ball!

Colly has no real idea where the ball is, he's just running because that clown called him through and he's halfway down the pitch. Said clown then decides to sacrifice someone who has who has heavily helped them win 2 games already in the 2-3 weeks he's been there.

 

[shivfan]

Pollard only conceded 15 runs from his four overs!

And two runouts on top of that....

He's certainly come to the party at the right end of the IPL.

 

[social]

I think 5 would be a better number with 2 more teams coming up. That way, the majority of any team is still Indian and there will be lesser dilution in quality.

I agree with everything but the highlighted section as it only stands to reason that there is more quality internationally than is available outside the top echelon of the Indian ranks

TBH, if you wanted the highest quality, you'd have something like 8 internationals in every team

 

[social]

What's the success rate of teams batting second?

Of late, the wickets seem to be dying towards the end of the match and the chasing team has struggled to hit it off the square on many occasions

 

[Sir Alex]

Colly has no real idea where the ball is, he's just running because that clown called him through and he's halfway down the pitch. Said clown then decides to sacrifice someone who has who has heavily helped them win 2 games already in the 2-3 weeks he's been there.

Fair enough, the blame was mostly Kartik's. No idea what he was doing, almost was shaking hands with colly when pollard got to the ball. Worst runout.

End of the road then for the dd?

 

[Scaly piscine]

DD should still get through with one more win, although this game will hurt their NRR a bit.

Will help when they pick the right team. Vettori is clearly a better option than McDonald. McDonald just does not seem to have good variations and regularly coughs up a large over somewhere. He's no better than Collingwood really and you don't really want two bowlers like that.

 

[Sir Alex]

What's the success rate of teams batting second?

Of late, the wickets seem to be dying towards the end of the match and the chasing team has struggled to hit it off the square on many occasions

Yes indeed. The reason being the early onset of summer this time. But the wickets for semi and finals should be okay (bang and navi mumbai) as ban is traditionally a 'temperate' region and navi has not seen many matches this season.

 

[Jayzamann]

Not only does that leave DD on 6-6, but their net run rate got a hammering from that match.

If Chennai win later tonight they can go from 3rd from bottom to 3rd from top. It's so tight from 2-7.

 

[GGG]

Ganguly opening and again no bond, they deserve to lose.

 

[Migara]

Murali and Morkel in for CSK. They missed Murali in last games IMO.

Let's see what KKR does. They should ideally drop Saha and bring Shukla in for batting and bowling cover.

 

[Athlai]

Ganguly opening and again no bond, they deserve to lose.

Tracks meant to turn, in which case Mendis > Bond. Ganguly has also been a fine opener this season, have been rather impressed considering I thought he was pretty much done and dusted. Ganguly and Dravid have easily been the biggest surprises for me this season.

 

[Athlai]

Nope Mendis isn't in the team, instead Abdulla which is a fair enough cool. Deserves his shot considering how well he has played in the past.

The Dussey call makes sense with KKR's woeful middle order. No Kartik sucks though.

 

[shivfan]

Gayle vs Bollinger....

 

[honestbharani]

I would have brought Morkel for Hussey in a straight foreign player swap and then brought in Badani for Tyagi.. That would have given us enough options in terms of bowling, even without Murali coz we need the others. Only other go would have been Murali in for Tyagi and Hayden out for maybe Parthiv

 

[Athlai]

Gayle shoots a satellite out of the sky and then gets stumped.

And Kolkata's other striker is gone.

Well at least we performed better than last year.

 

[Shri]

17/3. Geaux Csk!

Wrong forum.

 

[Shri]

19/4. Csk all over KKR.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Robbed of a hat-trick there, Mathews kinda made it easier by wringing his hand off the bat too.

 

[Nate]

Disagree, looked like it may have come straight off the pad to me.

Haha, now Dougie robbed imo.

 

[GGG]

Tracks meant to turn, in which case Mendis > Bond. Ganguly has also been a fine opener this season, have been rather impressed considering I thought he was pretty much done and dusted. Ganguly and Dravid have easily been the biggest surprises for me this season.

Apart from 2 games he has been very average, 6 out of 10 games he has been striking less than 100, for a opener in the powerplay overs thats not good enough.