*Official* Champions League Twenty20 2011

[Howe_zat]

Haha, nuts.

Was supporting T&T, but don't mind NSW winning, they're a proper club after all.

 

[Nate]

Not cricket.

 

[Spikey]

We've got a pretty good history with T&T don't we?

 

[adub]

Not cricket.

Yeah pretty much how I feel. I'm interested because it's the Blues in their last go at 20-20, but it's a bit of a farce really isn't it. Feel sorry for T&T as they were the better team for most of the game, but some luck at the end got us home. More lottery than cricket.

 

[Howe_zat]

The ongoing T&T vs NSW thingy, whatever it is, shows how this could be a pretty good tournament if it weren't for franchises.

 

[Spikey]

Funny thing about this is that Moz actually has a contract with the Mumbai Foreigners iirc

 

[mono]

Yeah pretty much how I feel. I'm interested because it's the Blues in their last go at 20-20, but it's a bit of a farce really isn't it. Feel sorry for T&T as they were the better team for most of the game, but some luck at the end got us home. More lottery than cricket.

Call it whatever you like, but it pretty good entertainment.

 

[Daemon]

It's like nearly every game has had a close finish

 

[Scaly piscine]

Albie Morkel's bowling still part-time mid 80s stuff. I find it pretty funny that captains still bowl him. I mean he's played a huge number of matches and the stats speak for themselves. 8 an over in T20 and a rubbish bowling average. Even part-timers generally have better figures than that. Coincidentally one of the few players with a worse economy rate is also playing for Chennai - Dwayne Bravo.

 

[Howe_zat]

G'wan Owais!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Great spell from J-PD. 4/20 from his 4. Gave the ball some proper air too; wasn't just darting them in.

Dhoni the key now, stating the bleedin' obvious as that is.

 

[Howe_zat]

Pretty underrated as a bowler, isn't he? Every time I've watched him bowl he's got some nice flight on it. I remember him comfortably outbowling Paul Harris in the Tests a couple of years ago.

Anyway, baddies in trouble again. Dhoni goes and it's basically game up.

 

[Howe_zat]

Kemp bowling now seems unnecessary.

 

[nsniks]

This drop could prove decisive

 

[BoyBrumby]

Nadgers. J-PD blots his copybook there rather.

Steyn suitably non-plussed.

 

[Howe_zat]

Sigh. Chennai should be dead and buried by now.

Wonder how you must feel as a captain, bringing on your strike bowler an over early for the exact purpose of getting one guy out, and then that.

And now a six, this is balls.

 

[BoyBrumby]

God, what a way to go. Drags on a very wide slower ball.

 

[Howe_zat]

If he'd left that, it'd probably have been wided.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Who'll get the last? Hoepfully Dale will leave 'em plenty to work with.

EDIT: That didn't help. Juicy full toss duly carted.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Typical IPL team situation. Two foreigners trying to save the evil ones by chasing 23 off the last two overs.