IPL 2013

booth70

Ponting and SRT in the same team......maybe Punter can give SRT some advice on retiring gracefully:)

BTW who the hell are Glenn Maxwell and Kane Richardson.....bought for a million and 700,000 apiece.....never heard of them before:(

booth70

.....and Sachithra Senanayake for 625,000:(......Never heard of him either!!

I must be more out of touch with what's going in the cricket world at present than I thought I was!

D3PO

booth70 wrote: »

BTW who the hell are Glenn Maxwell and Kane Richardson.....bought for a million and 700,000 apiece.....never heard of them before:(

You need to watch more cricket

booth70

D3PO wrote: »

You need to watch more cricket

True:)

.....and yet somebody like Martin Guptill who only last month scored a great T20 century against SA remained unsold despite having a base price of only 100,000......at that price you would have thought he would have been a bargain buy

Looking forward to Punter and SRT opening the batting for Mumbai though:)

djimi

I have to say I know absolutely nothing about Maxwell. He has only a small handful of games for Australia doesnt he? Looks like he was selected on the basis of good domestic form, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but its a bit baffling that he went for so much.

Rascasse

I've heard of Maxwell as he played for Hants in the FL t20 last year. Never heard of Richardson though and neither can be worth that. Another crazy amount was $625k for Chris Morris, a guy thats played a single t20i for South Africa. His base price was just $20k.

I just hope there's no funny business going on.

Rjd2

Morris is a good all rounder, can smash it, and very canny bowler,big money but he worth a go.

Maxwell is massive money,but he is a match winner in this format. bowling is so-so, but he can be really destructive when in.

Guptil not been signed is mental, proven world class 20/20 player and a gun in the field.

B1gft

Did any team pick Kevin o Brien?

TheDrog

no, he went unsold

D3PO

TheDrog wrote: »

no, he went unsold

he was pretty piss poor in the BPL although his bowling was good. No surprise he went unsold.

To me Stirlo is the only Irish player worthy of consideration for IPL right now.

Giggsy11

Starts tomorrow.

IMO we(RCB) have more balanced team that last season. We lacked one local bowler and that extra bowler went for too many runs so this season we sigend R.P Singh, Murali Karthik.

Would go with

Gayle
Mayank Agarwal
Pujara
Kohli
AB De Villiars
Tiwary
McDonald/Henriques/Christian (not sure who is better)
Vinay Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Muralitharan
RP Singh

Not sure whom to drop from foreign players to play Dilshan and Vettori. Gayle and AB De are undroppable. We need a genuine allrounder. So one slot and Murali was our best bowler last season.

Also we have Ravi Rampaul and Murali Karthik.

HonalD

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Starts tomorrow.

IMO we(RCB) have more balanced team that last season. We lacked one local bowler and that extra bowler went for too many runs so this season we sigend R.P Singh, Murali Karthik.

Would go with

Gayle
Mayank Agarwal
Pujara
Kohli
AB De Villiars
Tiwary
McDonald/Henriques/Christian (not sure who is better)
Vinay Kumar
Zaheer Khan
Muralitharan
RP Singh

Not sure whome to drop from foreign players to play Dilshan and Vettori. Gayle and AB De are undroppable. We need a genuine allrounder. So one slot and Murali was our best bowler last season.

Also we have Ravi Rampaul and Murali Karthik.

Spoilt for choice, not a bad position to be in.

Giggsy11

HonalD wrote: »

Spoilt for choice, not a bad position to be in.

Probably for the first time in 6 years

decies

Out of interest what station on UPC is it on, not itv 4 as that is blocked and its not on the setanta channels :-/

TheDrog

Not sure you can watch it here anymore, I'm on YouTube watching it through the Indiatimes stream

decies

Yep maybe 1tv 4 has uk rights only . Am more a test cricket man myself lol

Rjd2

Mumbai are so retarded, you are chasing a big score and you leave Pollard batting at seven? I mean how stupid can Ponting be?

LOL at that Rayudu lad, absolute mug of a player.

Giggsy11

Amazing game between RCB vs Mumbai.

Gayle was superb, scored 92. Christian did his best to lose the game but Vinay kumar bowled brilliant last over.

What a match and even better that Vinay kumar is from my hometown

Rjd2

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Amazing game between RCB vs Mumbai.

Gayle was superb, scored 92. Christian did his best to lose the game but Vinay kumar bowled brilliant last over.

What a match and even better that Vinay kumar is from my hometown

To be fair it was more due to poor captaincy by Ponting, inept batting from Rayudu then anything else.


Still can't belive that he came in before Pollard, heck even Oram as a pinch hitter would have been a better idea.


Horror shot from Rohit as well.

Giggsy11

Rjd2 wrote: »

To be fair it was more due to poor captaincy by Ponting, inept batting from Rayudu then anything else.


Still can't belive that he came in before Pollard, heck even Oram as a pinch hitter would have been a better idea.


Horror shot from Rohit as well.

Credit where it is due, it was very good last over and the over before that by Unadkat.

Yeah Pollard coming so late was just poor captaincy. We did similar thing so many times with AB De. Sending Saurabh Tiwary before him.

Rjd2

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Credit where it is due, it was very good last over and the over before that by Unadkat.

Yeah Pollard coming so late was just poor captaincy. We did similar thing so many times with AB De. Sending Saurabh Tiwary before him.

Harsh on Tiwary to compare him to Rayudu, still can't believe how bad of an innings that was.

I'd blame Ponting a little as well, as he batted to slowly, and got bogged down to easily. Really he and SRT should not be opening together, not even sure both should be in same team.

Vinay bowled well and Gayle was awesome especially as he was barely able to bat.

Christian though? No just no!

Giggsy11

Rjd2 wrote: »

Harsh on Tiwary to compare him to Rayudu, still can't believe how bad of an innings that was.

I'd blame Ponting a little as well, as he batted to slowly, and got bogged down to easily. Really he and SRT should not be opening together, not even sure both should be in same team.

Vinay bowled well and Gayle was awesome especially as he was barely able to bat.

Christian though? No just no!

IMO Rayudu >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tiwary. Rayudu was very good talent and he played well in previous IPLs. This game he didn't though. Whereas Tiwary is just awful. He can't clear the boundary unless he puts everything into the shot.

I don't think there is any foreigner who is loved as much as Gayle. It was Ross Taylor before but now it's all Gayle and AB De. I remember him playing few innings when he did his hamstring and was not arsed to run. He just kept clearing the boundaries. Amazing pick up by RCB.

booth70

TheDrog wrote: »

Not sure you can watch it here anymore, I'm on YouTube watching it through the Indiatimes stream

It's available on ITV4 in Ireland but you have to be a SKY customer

It's not on the regular EPG......you have to manually tune into ITV4 through the 'add Channels' option

Rjd2

Must say Delhi have looked really poor this year,if they expect Sehwag to save them,oh dear.

Impressed with Banglaore yesterday,still worry about the lower order but they look very dominant at home. Pune finally clicked as well, way to good of a team to keep losing.

Giggsy11

Rjd2 wrote: »

Must say Delhi have looked really poor this year,if they expect Sehwag to save them,oh dear.

Impressed with Banglaore yesterday,still worry about the lower order but they look very dominant at home. Pune finally clicked as well, way to good of a team to keep losing.

This time our local bowlers are very good. RVP, Vinay Kumar, Murali Karthik, Unadkat and we still have Zaheer to come back. Our mail problem is the all rounder. Not impressed with Daniel Christian, Henriques or McDonald. I think its about time we drop them and play specialist Batsman. Gayle, Dilshan and AB De should do but biggest problem is Dilshan's form.

Rjd2

Giggsy11 wrote: »

This time our local bowlers are very good. RVP, Vinay Kumar, Murali Karthik, Unadkat and we still have Zaheer to come back. Our mail problem is the all rounder. Not impressed with Daniel Christian, Henriques or McDonald. I think its about time we drop them and play specialist Batsman. Gayle, Dilshan and AB De should do but biggest problem is Dilshan's form.

Henriques is ok, probably should stick with him.



Also watching Pune, this Dinda lad what a mug!

Rjd2

Ravi batting way to high here.


Monster hitting from Christian as usual.:P

Up to Ab here to get them to a big score, chennai bat very deep.

Lovely Bloke

Smashing innings for Morgan today for KKR, 47 off 21 balls

booth70

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Smashing innings for Morgan today for KKR, 47 off 21 balls

Great to see Morgs getting a good run in the IPL:).....KKR won the IPL last year more or less without Morgan so was wondering whether he would be given any chances this year

He is too good a T20 player to sit on the bench

booth70

Rjd2 wrote: »

Ravi batting way to high here.


Monster hitting from Christian as usual.:P

Up to Ab here to get them to a big score, chennai bat very deep.

The interminably long IPL this year like all years will be all about who plays CSK in the final;)

Rjd2

LOL at RP Singh, what a useless bowler!:D

Giggsy11

This IPL has been amazing. So many close games already and most of them involved RCB.

Finally good to see us having some luck in tight games but tbh we should have won it easily. AB De run out changed the game..

Rjd2

Giggsy11 wrote: »

This IPL has been amazing. So many close games already and most of them involved RCB.

Finally good to see us having some luck in tight games but tbh we should have won it easily. AB De run out changed the game..

You need runs from someone outside the top 3, not sure where they are going to come from. Agarwal is ok, but crude, Kartik is in poor form and the tail is awful. Mc Donald hopefully will step up, he is a very underrated player, but I wouldn't be shocked to see Christian back next game.:(

Giggsy11

Rjd2 wrote: »

You need runs from someone outside the top 3, not sure where they are going to come from. Agarwal is ok, but crude, Kartik is in poor form and the tail is awful. Mc Donald hopefully will step up, he is a very underrated player, but I wouldn't be shocked to see Christian back next game.:(

We need one batsman. Pujara is injured, with him in the team we can play him as opener and Agarwal in the middle order.

With the squad we have, I think best thing to do is play Dilshan as these all rounders are not really good with the ball. Play Vinay Kumar, Unadkat, Murali Karthik/Syed, Rampaul/Murali and RP singh so that we will have at least decent batting line up with good bowling.

Wouldn't mind Vettori in the place of McDonaldo. At least he can bat and bowl.

Rjd2

Giggsy11 wrote: »

We need one batsman. Pujara is injured, with him in the team we can play him as opener and Agarwal in the middle order.

With the squad we have, I think best thing to do is play Dilshan as these all rounders are not really good with the ball. Play Vinay Kumar, Unadkat, Murali Karthik/Syed, Rampaul/Murali and RP singh so that we will have at least decent batting line up with good bowling.

Wouldn't mind Vettori in the place of McDonaldo. At least he can bat and bowl.

Don't rate Pujara in 20/20 sadly.


Mumbai really have to ask why are they opening up with two has beens every game? Ponting has never gave a damn about 20/20, as he has hardly played it over his career and Mumbai for reasons unknown go and sign him and make him captain. Lunacy.
Rohit is a bit pointless in tough chases, and Rayudu looks totally clueless.

Giggsy11

Gayle is the best T20 batsman ever. What a player. The best innings I have seen in a T20.

Skid X

Chris Gayle was unbelievable today. Reminded me of Viv Richards destroying the England bowling in an ODI in 1984.

Rjd2

Rjd2 wrote: »

LOL at RP Singh, what a useless bowler!:D

Watching Bangalore v Mumbai, RP Singh is so bad its unreal.

Rjd2

Pune are so bad, Dinda especially what a truly useless excuse of a bowler!!!!:P

Rjd2

Is Dinda the worst bowler to ever play for India ?


What a mug!

Moaning to the umpire now after Henriques smashed him, not his fault you are useless fella.

Rjd2

LOL


The mug Dinda is bowling the final over, this is always good for a laugh, go on you mug disgrace yourself for my amusement!:D


EDIT....Went for 28. actually not a bad effort from him to be fair! Although what a mismatch ABDV v Dinda!!!

Giggsy11

Rjd2 wrote: »

Is Dinda the worst bowler to ever play for India ?
.

No. Mohanty and Harvinder singh will take that place for sure. Clueless bowlers.

Rjd2

David Miller take a bow son:)

Mint Sauce

Rjd2 wrote: »

David Miller take a bow son:)

Watched IPL for the first time last night, after following(ish) Ashes matches and previous WCs. It truely was some amazing batting from Miller.

Currently have Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders, great catch form Morgan right on the boundary towards the end of Mumbai Indians innings, hopefully he can perform some of that great batting I have heard/read now. Will be watching again tomorrow night if ITV4 have a match on.

Rjd2

irish-stew wrote: »

Watched IPL for the first time last night, after following(ish) Ashes matches and previous WCs. It truely was some amazing batting from Miller.

Currently have Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders, great catch form Morgan right on the boundary towards the end of Mumbai Indians innings, hopefully he can perform some of that great batting I have heard/read now. Will be watching again tomorrow night if ITV4 have a match on.

Morgan failed with the bat, to be fair he has done well this campaign, just not many others have.

Tomorrow's/Todays! game is Chennai vs Sunrisers, could be fun indeed.:)

B1gft

Do you really think Morgan has done well. I dont think so. Saw him have 2 ok sessions thats it. I would be surprised if He is back next year for kkr.

Rjd2

B1gft wrote: »

Do you really think Morgan has done well. I dont think so. Saw him have 2 ok sessions thats it. I would be surprised if He is back next year for kkr.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=7720;team=4341;type=tournament

Not been amazing, but scored the 2nd most runs for the team and overshadowed quite a few players. If I was a KKR fan I would be more annoyed with the likes of Pathan Tiwary and especially Kallis for contributing **** all.

Morgan will be fine if KKR don't want him, highly rated in 20/20.

B1gft

Kallis all rounder Morgan only has the batting and todays match proved again he is not playing well. Also they moved him up the batting order like itv were saying should happen but it made no differance. Agree with you about Pathan has not scored over 50 for a long time.

dirtyden

B1gft wrote: »

Do you really think Morgan has done well. I dont think so. Saw him have 2 ok sessions thats it. I would be surprised if He is back next year for kkr.

I felt he has done very well this year overall. He has scored consistently enough. He has come in a number of times with a lot of pressure on and delivered big innings. The rest of his team has underperformed particualrly their top order. He has gone out cheaply a couple of times but in almost every innings he has come in with his team under a lot of pressure.

Rjd2

Bangalore maybe you should sign some decent bowlers for a change instead of relying on emdiocre all rounders and Indian duds like Vinay, Unadakt, RP Singh and Zaheer?

booth70

booth70 wrote: »

The interminably long IPL this year like all years will be all about who plays CSK in the final;)

See.....what did I tell you......

Perhaps next year they should give CSK a bye direct to the final and let the other teams battle it out......that way we might have an IPL that doesn't go on forever;)