************Official IPL 2020******

[honestbharani]

KKR always thought of Morgan as a captaincy option. But the fact that the ECB won't give a clear window for IPL always meant the availability of the English players for the entire season was always a question mark. I remember how much RR sucked once Stokes and Buttler left last year or maybe the year before. Which is the reason they went with DK in the first place. I really do think going for an overseas player as captain is a risky proposition in any regular season unless its someone retired like Warne or Gilchrist were in the first two editions. I guess CA have mostly allowed their players to play full seasons and so Warner is not a tough choice, plus they have KW to replace him even if he does have to leave, NZC almost never schedule any games during the IPL season.

Unless this is a genuine short term strategy, I dont see it being a good move. Mid season captaincy changes never boost any team's morale but almost all the time do take it down a peg.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Karthik is such a stand-up guy though. I wouldn't be surprised if he suggested the swap of his own accord. Morgan is similarly level-headed and would have been in the leadership group anyway. Hopefully, it's just the optics (and their respective batting contributions) that are changing.

 

[honestbharani]

Sure but then...

Siddharth jain: "Ghosh! Remembered the tweet by Gambhir saying that Morgan should be the captain and mavi liked it, now mavi in nagarkoti out."

 

[Arachnodouche]

lol now if Karthik continues struggling, what's to stop him from getting dumped on his ass

 

[Daemon]

lmao Karthik

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That was unnecessary from DK.

Another start wasted by Shubman. They don't that the impetus on good foundation making...

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

They should have put Pollard under the bat at Forward short leg for the hattrick ball.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I hope to see a Russell 100

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Running hard singles and twos with Russell is risky business.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Never seen Russell played a shot like that before. Top class!

 

[Arachnodouche]

That was as good a bouncer as you can bowl to an aggressive batsman in T20. Quick and snaking in at the head.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

CumDog killing it now

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chahar has bowled at a nice pace all throughout his spell.

 

[Pratters]

Thank god Karthik is out as captain. Hopefully we can regroup and get our act together.. still few matches left.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Cummins has made some kind of mental adjustment to his batting surely. He wasn't looking too flash in the ODI series in Eng, but he's a legitimate attacking lower-order bat here.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This is a great knock from the CumDog.

 

[Nintendo]

If you told me that Cummins would out at Russell and that Russell would outbowl Cummins this ipl I would have called u crazy but here we are.

 

[Pratters]

148/5. Epic recovery.. probably not good enough but we will see..

 

[Daemon]

Cummins has made some kind of mental adjustment to his batting surely. He wasn't looking too flash in the ODI series in Eng, but he's a legitimate attacking lower-order bat here.

Strike rate of 200 in the last 2-3 overs of the innings since 2018 apparently

His IPL numbers are 20 @ 150+

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Chris Green has been pretty economical for us (Guyana Amazon Warriors) with the new ball.