IPL4 Auction

[Spudsy2061]

Spudsy i think you missed my point or i've missed yours. I agree with you that i would like to follow a club but with the players shuffling it defeats the purpose so im left supporting players not clubs.

I think warnie said he wasn't playing this IPL didn't he? Just coaching i heard.

Warne announced via his twitter 2 days ago that he will play in IPL 4.

 

[weed wizard]

nz rocks

I hope cricketers voluntarily opts out of this ipl.
As what happened last year, broad anderson etc did.
And the english won their first tournament.

 

[Spudsy2061]

I hope cricketers voluntarily opts out of this ipl.
As what happened last year, broad anderson etc did.
And the english won their first tournament.

That's more because Andy Flower knows exactly what he is doing more than the IPL. The IPL is a brilliant league, filled with it's own riveting cricket. You cannot tell me that 34 games in last year, with all but the Mumbai Indians and the King XI Punjab sitting at 4-4 or 4-5, 6 teams fighting for 3 spots, it wasn't the least bit exciting. If you don't like T20 just come out and say so and move out of this thread.

 

[marc71178]

WIll be interesting but the way their making teams clean house just shows to me how much of a farce the whole comp is.

Champions Trophy much more of a farce.

 

[marc71178]

That's more because Andy Flower knows exactly what he is doing more than the IPL. The IPL is a brilliant league, filled with it's own riveting cricket. You cannot tell me that 34 games in last year, with all but the Mumbai Indians and the King XI Punjab sitting at 4-4 or 4-5, 6 teams fighting for 3 spots, it wasn't the least bit exciting. If you don't like T20 just come out and say so and move out of this thread.

I'm not anti-T20, but I wouldn't call the IPL a brilliant league by any stretch of the imagination. In the main it was full of mediocre at best cricket I found.

 

[honestbharani]

I'm not anti-T20, but I wouldn't call the IPL a brilliant league by any stretch of the imagination. In the main it was full of mediocre at best cricket I found.

But it is not just about the quality of cricket though.. And I agree that quality of cricket is mediocre, it is still higher than most other domestic T20 stuff and it was interesting to say the least this year..

 

[kingpin]

Have to say IPL kept me more entertained than WC.......

Shame on me....

 

[Jayzamann]

Personally i don't support any team in the IPL i just follow the players individual performances that i like.

This, in a big way. I love being able to appreciate a good innings, as well as the delivery or fielding work that ends it, and at the end of the day, care little about which team wins. As long as it isn't Delhi

 

[Nate]

Will it be a tomato or Yuvraj?

 

[brockley]

With a 120 overseas players ( i see many aussie,saffie,english domestic pros) county cricket is going to find it hard to find 18 overseas pros for both april and may which wil be full of a 2 month ipl.

 

[Spudsy2061]

I'm not anti-T20, but I wouldn't call the IPL a brilliant league by any stretch of the imagination. In the main it was full of mediocre at best cricket I found.

Alright well, maybe it's not bloody county cricket but the league was well well entertaining. You can't say not seeing the Royals going from 4-2 to collapsing to 6th and having a 3-4 Chennai pull themselves up to the championship was blimely brilliant! If you support a team, which I know is hard to do in the IPL, then it becomes quite the scorcher. I thought how tight IPL 3 turned out to be in who advanced and who didn't was massively entertaining. Besides, why not watch Gilchrist and Warne play a little more cricket? What's wrong with that?

 

[tombarlow123]

I hope someone snaps up Tamim - he is a special talent. Whoever gets him will be lucky.

 

[brockley]

3 international tours when ipl4 on,aust- bangladesh april/may,west india-pakistan may,england srilanka may.
May limit their choice.

 

[four_or_six]

They'll surely move at least the first two of those?

Some guys are about to earn themselves a shedload of money by playing well in the champions league thingy.

 

[brockley]

West indies and pakistan to go ahead,pakistan players unlikely in ipl and windies far few ipl players.
Srilanka well it would be a huge outcry if they pulled out,remember the sky deal of 7 tests.
Australia and bangladesh cancelled before haven't we,and straight after the world cup too,players will be exhausted.
West indies and india,its a given that will be cancelled,the other 3 its harder.
Srilanka and australia face big fines if the tours do not take place.

 

[brockley]

Auction pushed back to october/november to after the clt20,wonder who would be picked up there,another pollard.

 

[brockley]

Reasd ipl 4 may go to mid june /end of june big tournament,sucks for county cricket doesn't it.

 

[kingpin]

Waiting for the auction.....and CLT20

 

[brockley]

qld/vic/sa are having a warm up to the clt20 in darwin starting the 27th,qld almost qualified,came 3rd in the playoff.

 

[Edged&Taken]

New Aussie coaches for IPL4 teams : Michael Bevan (Kings XI Punjab), Geoff Lawson(Kochi) and Geoff Marsh (Pune Warriors)