***Official*** IPL 2009

[Jono]

CARN BANGALORE!

Kumble should leave Praveen Kumar to the death, where he bowled brilliantly vs. Chennai. He didn't bowl a good over with the new ball, so they should utilise him at the death, and bowl van der Merve and Kallis now.

 

[Smith]

Problem with Deccan chargers is that they depend heavily on Gilchrist. Gibbs is a huge risk and Sharma is not Gilly. Symonds is the only reliable nut for them.

 

[Pratters]

Symonds, Gibbs and Sharma can do the job.

 

[Jono]

This has a real AFL grand final feel to it in that there are lot of nervous players. Those shots from Suman were really quite itstl.

Yep!

What a difference it makes when you have one day to perform, and that's all you've got (World Cup finals (both cricket and football), Champions League final, AFL Grand final, and now IPL Final).

That assurance of being able to come back another day and have make up for any errors is gone.

As Duffer said, you've gotta be clutch. If you choke you can cost your team the championship.

 

[ret]

DC 18/2 after 4

things are cut out for Gibbs, Symmo and Rohit. they have 15 overs to do something special, let's see how they measure up to the challenge

 

[alternative]

Get Roelof into the bowling IMO.

 

[Jono]

Problem with Deccan chargers is that they depend heavily on Gilchrist. Gibbs is a huge risk and Sharma is not Gilly. Symonds is the only reliable nut for them.

So what if Rohit is not Gilly? Rohit has been superb in both the 2008 IPL and 2009 IPL.

They still have plenty of batting. Gibbs, Rohit and Symonds can win them the game for sure. And really, Rao can bat, it just depends where they want to bat him. If its at the death it'll be stupid.

 

[Pratters]

Dropped!

 

[pasag]

Dravid, wtf man?

 

[Howsie]

Symonds droped by Dravid.

 

[biased indian]

why rahul has become such a poor catcher...he used to grab them all

 

[alternative]

Loving Vinay's enthusiasm.

 

[pasag]

Yep!

What a difference it makes when you have one day to perform, and that's all you've got (World Cup finals (both cricket and football), Champions League final, AFL Grand final, and now IPL Final).

That assurance of being able to come back another day and have make up for any errors is gone.

As Duffer said, you've gotta be clutch. If you choke you can cost your team the championship.

And now Dravid drops a sitter! Even the experienced heads are letting it get to them.

 

[Smith]

So what if Rohit is not Gilly? Rohit has been superb in both the 2008 IPL and 2009 IPL.

They still have plenty of batting. Gibbs, Rohit and Symonds can win them the game for sure. And really, Rao can bat, it just depends where they want to bat him. If its at the death it'll be stupid.

Rohit has had an average tournament. He was good to start with, but flopped in the middle even though came good in the last 3 games. He is still better when chasing than batting blind. Agreed, he can change a match. They all can, cant they?

 

[Jono]

****!

That bastard Symonds too

Rahul would swallow those 99 times out of 100 Even though he hasn't been as good as he used to be, that's still a sitter!

 

[alternative]

Devo.

 

[Jono]

Loving Vinay's enthusiasm.

Yeah cool bowler

 

[Smith]

And watch out for his hang dog body language for the entire match.

 

[Pratters]

Symonds! He is looking in good touch. Watch him punish the Challengers for the miss.

 

[ret]

did Dravid drop the cup?