*Official* Indian Premier League 2011

[Cevno]

What a finish to the KKR match.

21 needed off the last over and 4 fours in a row by James Franklin to start.

 

[vcs]

Why do captains keep giving Balaji the last over while defending totals? There's no position from which he cannot lose matches for his team.

And he does it again!

 

[Cevno]

And a six of the last ball by Rayudu to win it.

KKR vs Mumbai Semi final without second chance now.

 

[Jayzamann]

Wowser.

 

[Cevno]

Why do captains keep giving Balaji the last over while defending totals? There's no position from which he cannot lose matches from his team.

And he does it again!

So True.

 

[Dissector]

Just turned on the game for the last few minutes. That was a stunning finish and an incredibly crappy over by Balaji. That last ball was pretty much a repeat of Miandad's last ball six at Sharjah.

 

[Cevno]

Would KKR have gone through had they won?

Their net run rate in any case dropped below Chennai ,i think.

 

[honestbharani]

Obviously he wanted Chennai to finish in the top 2 and took it upon himself when CSK couldn't get the job done earlier in the day!!!

 

[vcs]

So the semifinals will be a repeat of today's matches? Hoping for a repeat of last year's final, but there's no way that's happening, given the way Mumbai are playing right now.

 

[Cevno]

Don't want to see Chennai in the final.

Hate that Srinivasan.

 

[nsniks]

Siddhu's dance in studio after MI victory made my day

 

[Cevno]

AWTA

 

[vcs]

Yeah. But Mallya's a prick as well. So is SRK. What to do? I wouldn't mind seeing Dhoni, Hussey, Badrinath etc. doing well.

 

[Cevno]

They don't play Mukund as well,and ruined his chances for the West Indies ODI tour, which balances out the Badrinath factor for me.

And i don't really hate Mallya or SRK

Rather them than Srinivasan ,tbh.

 

[Bun]

wow, switched off after pollard exited... surely this is incrdulous....

mi might after all be peaking at the wight time

 

[chicane]

Bala had a ****ty day! He's bowled pretty well in the tournament. Rayudu=awesome!

 

[Blaze 18]

Wouldn't say Balaji's bowling was horrible in the last over. He could have bowled better, but three of those fours were quite lucky. Full credit to Franklin and Rayudu for keeping their head though.

 

[Blaze 18]

And Tendulkar saying the Harbhajan move worked is ridiculous. He made a run-a-ball thirty. If Rayudu - the in-form player for Mumbai - had faced those thirty balls, they might have been chasing ten-twelve runs else in the last over. To send Harbhajan at three was dumb, to suggest the move worked is worse.

 

[ankitj]

And Tendulkar saying the Harbhajan move worked is ridiculous. He made a run-a-ball thirty. If Rayudu - the in-form player for Mumbai - had faced those thirty balls, they might have been chasing ten-twelve runs else in the last over. To send Harbhajan at three was dumb, to suggest the move worked is worse.

Any doubts on Tendulkar's incompetent captaincy have been removed by his stint in IPLs.

EDIT: MI needs 3 wins to win IPL. I think they will do something silly like this ("saving" in form batsmen and sending "pinch hitters" in T20) in at least one of them, and crash out.

 

[Jono]

Balaji should be banned for cricket.

**** he is absolutely horse ****.