IPL 2015 Thread

[OverratedSanity]

Smith has looked several classes above the other three batsmen so far.

Yep. Pretty staggering difference in quality.

 

[Gob]

man smith is crashing it.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah he was obviously struggling; should've just been looking to get Smith on strike rather than playing out seven dots and then trying to hit two huge sixes. I can't help but feel sometimes that the young Indian batsmen see the IPL more as a way to make a name for themselves by doing something amazing, as opposed to just analysing the situation and trying to contribute accordingly.

Desperate to make an impression and you can't really blame them for thinking "If I can go for everything today and it comes off, my career is made"

 

[Prince EWS]

Desperate to make an impression and you can't really blame them for thinking "If I can go for everything today and it comes off, my career is made"

Yeah exactly. Hard to be too critical of it given the circumstances but I definitely think it comes into play sometimes.

 

[Prince EWS]

Respect the Saha.

 

[Spark]

haha geez i don't i think i've ever seen that happen on an indian pitch

 

[OverratedSanity]

That first ball where Johnson cut Binny in half was crazy. This pitch is a bit stupid.

 

[nevermind]

johnson to smith

i didn't know christmas was so soon after easter

 

[Spark]

That first ball where Johnson cut Binny in half was crazy. This pitch is a bit stupid.

Is this what the FC decks are like? This would be glorious in a Test match, but in a T20 it's odd.

 

[Spark]

good work from binny in that over, getting bat on ball exactly 0 times

 

[Antihippy]

Yet somehow got 7 runs from that over.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Is this what the FC decks are like? This would be glorious in a Test match, but in a T20 it's odd.

Yep. The last few years of domestic cricket have produced these sort of wickets with alarming regularity. It sucks balls for our future because what it does is create an assembly line of 120kph green track bullies.

Edit: Like these decks from time to time in t20 tbh. Low scorers can be great fun to watch.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is this what the FC decks are like?

The FC decks can definitely be covered by grass like this one, but they tend to be seamy and slowish rather than seamy with carry like this one from what I've seen. Medium pacers run through teams. This sort of pitch would be rare.

 

[Spark]

Yep. The last few years of domestic cricket have produced these sort of wickets with alarming regularity. It sucks balls for our future because what it does is create an assembly line of 120kph green track bullies.

Yeah, same thing happened to us a few years back. Produces **** cricketers who excel at **** cricket. To be fair, though, this deck has bounce.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yet somehow got 7 runs from that over.

Actually got eight, none off the bat.

 

[Cabinet96]

Turn on IPL for the first time this year and Steve Smith is churning out the runs. Who says it's different from test matches?

 

[OverratedSanity]

The FC decks can definitely be covered by grass like this one, but they tend to be seamy and slowish rather than seamy with carry like this one from what I've seen. Medium pacers run through teams. This sort of pitch would be rare.

The haryana pitches are pretty much always like this if I'm not wrong. Don't quite know if the zip is generally this alarming but it's there.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sandeep such an obvious captain pick today for fantasy by the way. As soon as they showed the pitch, I said, yep Sandeep, you're captain.

 

[Stapel]

Seems like it. Can't get it in Germany either ftr.

Get Brussels onto it

No. I will simply accept that both of us have to bleed for your colaboration with The Hun.

 

[Spark]

Johnson probably enjoys bowling on this more than any he played on in Australia this summer.