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***Official*** Indian Premier League 2018

Prince EWS

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Narine the opening batsman is literally the best meme in cricket. He could probably get picked at least in the Caribbean Premier League as a specialist batsman even if he was banned for chucking at this point. That's amazing.
 

TheJediBrah

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Narine gonna make it as a batsman, he knows he's not going to keep getting away with chucking. There's only so many times you can "fix your action" and come back before it becomes obvious to everyone that you're not actually fixing anything (personally I think that has already passed but obviously not).
 

ankitj

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What the **** is up with Narine? The guy has grand total of 1 fifty in tests, ODI, t20Is, first class and List A cricket combined. How can he be an option as an opener?
 
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Daemon

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I think it started in the BBL and slowly caught on. Hasn't done it for the Windies though.
 

TheJediBrah

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What the **** is up with Narine? The guy has grand total of 1 fifty in tests, ODI, t20Is, first class and List A cricket combined. How can he be an option as an opener?
I've only seen him do it 3 times and he's made a quick 25, a 70-odd and an 18-ball 50.

He's doing ok
 

ankitj

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He could be the next Steve Smith but with those stats I feel cheated.
 
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weldone

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Remember listening to one of the West Indian players (Pollard? Bravo?) say that Narine made a promise to his dad on deathbed 2 years ago that he will take batting seriously
 

Prince EWS

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it’s on fox sports
Yeah, not all the games though. The first one wasn't on for like another eight hours or something after they played it even though at least one of the Fox Sports channels was replays/highlights of various sports throughout the entire game for some reason. Games 2 and 3 were on live, but I'm not sure how many of the others are. I think I read all the finals are.
 

Prince EWS

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Weird, you should drop them an email or something because they did claim they'll show every single game
Yeah I think they are eventually, but sometimes not until long after it's over for some reason, even if they have sports channels without live sport on them at the time. It's weird.

And yeah Yupp have the digital rights here, they have for the last few seasons I think. I don't care enough about the IPL to pay extra for it though, especially when some of the games (incl. all finals) are live on Foxtel anyway.
 

weldone

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Who is this Short? They should have opened with Tripathy and and use Klaasen in the middle-order against spin.
 

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