*Official* Champions League T20 2012

[Scaly piscine]

Kallis ftl.

 

[The_roc]

Yousless Pathan strikes again

 

[Cabinet96]

Kallis ftl.

Kallis FTW. Performing badly for the greater good. WAG!

 

[Spikey]

so is MS in debt to book makers or something

 

[Daemon]

Raina the ultimate suck up, giving his captain two overs to bowl. Can't get any worse.

 

[Cabinet96]

Big wicket that. Yorkshire have a real chance here.

 

[Daemon]

Yorkshire's done well in the tournament imo. They did win both qualifiers to get here with a young team. Compared to CSKs 958 international caps they've just got 34 between two guys as well.

 

[Cabinet96]

I don't know why they always feel the need to overarm throw it back to the keeper when the batsmen aren't attempting to run. Just underarm it back to him FFS!

 

[Prince EWS]

Saha at 8 and Ashwin at 9 is just ridiculous over-kill when it comes to a T20 batting lineup, so if Jadeja's bowling is in that bad a place at the moment that he'd come on after Raina and then be yanked after one over while even Dhoni was shown more faith, one of the batsmen should've been left out here. Probably Jadeja himself actually.

There's absolutely no need to have to try and make up a fifth bowler out of part-timers when you've got Albie Morkel and Ravi Ashwin in the side.

 

[Daemon]

Badri WAG

 

[grecian]

Ouch, right on the knee-cap.

 

[Cabinet96]

9 runs through overthrows then.

 

[theegyptian]

9 runs through overthrows then.

it's like both teams are trying to lose.

 

[Spikey]

so i guess i may as watch the sixers match.

 

[Spikey]

Michael Lumb, Peter Nevill, Nic Maddinson, Brad Haddin, Moises Henriques, Steven Smith, Steve O'Keefe, Nathan McCullum, Patrick Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood

well i can truly say i'm shocked. haddin opening, rohrer in for watson and down to 6 and then mccullum/super dom/moran fighting it out for number 7 was my expectation

still it means i can go to bed at 3:30am after Nev has knocked up 267*

and they'll still be 5 overs left in the innings that i'll be missing

 

[Prince EWS]

Dropping Thornely is stupid, even if it's for Nev.

 

[Spikey]

Well I take the view it's not for Nev, it's for McCullum, and it's fair enough if they expect the guy at number 7/want the insurance of him being able to bowl. But with that said, Nev and Lumb is hardly the greatest opening combo, and we might need number 7 to be able to bat more than we need him to bowl. Personally, given it's a dead rubber, I would have rolled with Thornely and maybe try to get some overs into Smith. And obviously if it doesn't work out who cares it's a dead rubber. They've sorta gone the wrong way around.

also the very first sentence of this post is a giant moot point

 

[Prince EWS]

Well I take the view it's not for Nev, it's for McCullum, and it's fair enough if they expect the guy at number 7/want the insurance of him being able to bowl. But with that said, Nev and Lumb is hardly the greatest opening combo, and we might need number 7 to be able to bat more than we need him to bowl. Personally, given it's a dead rubber, I would have rolled with Thornely and maybe try to get some overs into Smith. And obviously if it doesn't work out who cares it's a dead rubber. They've sorta gone the wrong way around.

also the very first sentence of this post is a giant moot point

I'd rather have Thornely playing than Nev though, just as a batsman. That was my point.

McCullum basically had to come in because Watson was a frontline bowler, so even though he's going to bat seven/eight I consider him coming in for Watson as such.

 

[Spikey]

watson's bowling is covered by SOK now actually having to bowl though.

 

[Spikey]

it's tough being me - the mitchell johnson story