***Official*** IPL match discussion thread

[Athlai]

Sanath going wild.

 

[Arjun]

Sanath gone...

Now Tendulkar carries on...

 

[unccricket]

gilly is amazing...bring in the cannon fodder (rao) to do the trick, wow

 

[Arjun]

Pollock is out of the game...didn't feel too good, so he's sitting out

 

[ret]

Venu seems to be inspired by Symmo .... not only is his hairstyle somewhat like Symmo but he also played like him today

 

[pasag]

Mumbai can't buy a game, Harbi gets banned for the rest of the tournament and they go on to win six on the trot, any connection?

 

[ret]

how unlucky is Nehra .... 3 catches dropped off his bowling

and what a game, his last one, Bravo had .... 30 odd runs and 3 wkts .... he will be missed

MI has shaped up well .... the lower middle order got a decent hit today .... Tendulkar appears to be getting into the right gears. He looks to be one decent inning away from finding match-winning form

how abt giving Bosman, who is in decent form, a look in in the next game .... Jayasuriya, Bosman, Pollock and Nel as overseas players should be interesting

 

[Arjun]

how unlucky is Nehra .... 3 catches dropped off his bowling

and what a game, his last one, Bravo had .... 30 odd runs and 3 wkts .... he will be missed

MI has shaped up well .... the lower middle order got a decent hit today .... Tendulkar appears to be getting into the right gears. He looks to be one decent inning away from finding match-winning form

how abt giving Bosman, who is in decent form, a look in in the next game .... Jayasuriya, Bosman, Pollock and Nel as overseas players should be interesting

Interestingly, Bravo was utterly awful with the ball in the first three games he got, but from that one match in Kolkata, his bowling has improved significantly. He'll surely be missed now. A lot will hence depend on Nayar's bowling as well as Raje's batting- Nayar is a regular all-rounder for Mumbai while Raje is supposed to be a hard-hitting batsman (and he's surely a lot better than Musavir Khote, but Rajesh Pawar is still a lot better than both).

Ideally, however, we'd like to see a bowling attack of Pollock, Dilhara, Nehra, Nel and Rajesh Pawar. However, if Pollock's injury doesn't get better, we'll have to settle with Bosman as the fourth overseas player (no place for Prince?) and a lot will be needed with the ball from Abhishek Nayar.

 

[ret]

Ideally, however, we'd like to see a bowling attack of Pollock, Dilhara, Nehra, Nel and Rajesh Pawar. However, if Pollock's injury doesn't get better, we'll have to settle with Bosman as the fourth overseas player (no place for Prince?) and a lot will be needed with the ball from Abhishek Nayar.

i think Pollock would be available for the next game and they will play either Nel or Fernando

Pollock will replace Bravo, Nel will probably replace Fernando, while it will be a touch and go for the 4th place b/w Thorney and Bosman .... I would try out Bosman and see how he goes as he has shown some good form in domestic T20 in SA

 

[Silver Arrow]

IPL have offered to pay NZ Cricket $1 million dollars to release Brendon McCullum between the 2nd & 3rd test matches so he can play in the semi-finals.

 

[Sanz]

IPL have offered to pay NZ Cricket $1 million dollars to release Brendon McCullum between the 2nd & 3rd test matches so he can play in the semi-finals.

That is if KKR make it to the semis. Right now their chances are pretty slim.

 

[sirdj]

Mumbai can't buy a game, Harbi gets banned for the rest of the tournament and they go on to win six on the trot, any connection?

Good Karma?

 

[biased indian]

Go CSK and MI......happy if one of them wins....

 

[weldone]

A lot will hence depend on Nayar's bowling as well as Raje's batting- Nayar is a regular all-rounder for Mumbai while Raje is supposed to be a hard-hitting batsman (and he's surely a lot better than Musavir Khote, but Rajesh Pawar is still a lot better than both).

Ideally, however, we'd like to see a bowling attack of Pollock, Dilhara, Nehra, Nel and Rajesh Pawar. However, if Pollock's injury doesn't get better, we'll have to settle with Bosman as the fourth overseas player (no place for Prince?) and a lot will be needed with the ball from Abhishek Nayar.

I think they would pick only 2 overseas bowlers since Kulkarni, Raje, Sanath and Nayar are OK with the ball...I think the 4 overseas players are gonna be Sanath, (Bosman or Thornely), Pollock (if he is fit) and Dilhara (or Nel)...Pollock and Dilhara will bowl 8 overs...They've too many to bowl the other 12 overs...Nehra, Kulkarni, Raje, Sanath, Nayar, Thornely and even Sachin...

 

[honestbharani]

haha, B'lore getting thrashed, a familiar thing .... not surprising as many had predicted this before the start of the tourney by seeing the team

Mallya has the right to be upset. He should have backed his instinct rather than following some bad advise

I can't believe that someone like Boucher is sitting out for Kallis .... thats what you get by having a dunderhead like Dravid at the helm

ret calling someone a dunderhead.....

 

[honestbharani]

any link where it says Boucher is injured? .... below is the probable line up in the preview on cricinfo

Bangalore Royal Challengers (probable): 1 J Arunkumar, 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Misbah-ul-Haq, 4 Rahul Dravid (capt), 5 Jacques Kallis, 6 Mark Boucher (wk), 7 Praveen Kumar, 8 B Akhil, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn

link

or are you making the comment by assuming that I m suppose to wake up early to see a game involving B'lore and find out whats happening to them

do u even watch the games?



Boucher was miked up and he himself said he had an injury and they were asking whether it will affect his England tour.....

 

[honestbharani]

I wouldn't classify Sehwag and Warne as 'test only' player .... isn't it quite clear that we are talking about players who are versatile enough to play all the 3 formats .... Dravid, along with Kallis, comes across as someone who is 'test only' player to me, while guys like Sehwag, Gambhir, Warne, Jayasuriya are more versatile and suitable to more formats

and that innings by Dravid means little when his side was totally out of the game

His 10,000 ODI runs and the number of times he has bailed us out in that format means nothing to you too?????????????????

 

[Pratters]

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

IPL have offered to pay NZ Cricket $1 million dollars to release Brendon McCullum between the 2nd & 3rd test matches so he can play in the semi-finals.

I wouldn't mind him doing this, won't happen tho

 

[honestbharani]

I wouldn't mind him doing this, won't happen tho

tbh... I don't think it is fair on anyone's part to do that. I understand money is important but FFS, International Test cricket should be important too.