The Indian Premier League 2008 Thread

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after winning a one day series in australia and without playing a single game in ipl till now, sachin is a failure ..wow.! :rofl:

dhoni is hawa.. his luck is great these days ..and he is cashing in ..
 
But Dhoni played a whirlwind innings in one of the matches...the prob with CSK is that their Top order is failing miserably that leaves Dhoni for the repair job..and frankly is role is that of a finisher come in with 6-7 overs to spare ..plenty of wickets a decent run rate of 6.5-7 runs per over and watch out how quickly he can change things and yes he needs some1 to hold fort at the other end.
 
ha ha ha @ Sehwag . he asked Malik to bowl the last over. they un-necessarily lost the game. hard luck delhi daredevils :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Chennai SuperKings FTW!
 
My point reiterated again, Super luck and CSK get their third fluke victory out of 5 :p.. Dhoni man of the match lol? he was the least among the men of the match, chennai won coz of A.morkel brilliant 30 and 2 wickets, he deserved the man of the match, or atleast ppl like Goni, what if he had faultered, all the bashing till then would have been wasted, he also got a wicket.. this clearly shows, vidyut played a brilliant innings, but still dhoni? lol.. ridiculous

Dhoni = 25% waits for loose deliveries + 75% luck

He simply cant play fluent cricket strokes, he tries to bang the ball when he doesnt wanna play in air lol, was wondering when will his bat break looking at the number of times he has banged his bat into the ground in the last few matches, and finally it broke today :D
 
Hello again. Dhoni played a very important innings today promoting himself to no.3 and batted decently. even thou he may have not got many shots right, he still kept his wicket(imagine if Dhoni had got out at the stage, then wickets would have crumbled and CSK would have lost). Btw, in the match before this or something, he played a very crucial 50 that help Superkings post from 130 to 180 or something.

Yeh, Morkel played a fanastic innings- 3 sixes and a four in one over... nice batting, Gambir :D
 
Hi...for all those who were on the other sied of the mumbai cheering squad...
MI Pwned again.....a sort of boring match yesterday..not to mention we got to worst seats..:P.......but managed to get the best ones too after that........
MI FTW
 
Tough luck Delhi... Sohaib Malik lost us the game... He hasnt helped Delhi in winning any of the games till now... It was a win which Delhi managed to loose... Almost like last game when Sehwag got out...

Yet another brilliant innings by Gambhir... He just keeps getting better... Though he was very very lucky to survive a runout call... IMHO he was out then... Delhi had a bad 19th over... And a okeyish 20th over... I guess that what made the difference... We need somebody like ghoni in those overs... Delhi is missing a good middle order batsman... We find one and we will be even more difficult to beat...
 
useless ppl man, bloody 16 over match what wickets they wanna save? now they will lick the butth*les of ppl who dint go out to bat? they did the same mistake against chen and delhi matches too.. I cant believe, with all that analysts coach etc using computers to analyze and come up with plans strategies they make such fundamental errors, come on its not lik they are defending a test match that they gotta bat till the end of the day on day 5(I guess they feel t20 is test20 obviuosly).. but still.. imagine if in the starting 7-8 overs they had got about 15-20 runs more, its not a big ask, just a matter of 2RPO more than what they did.. doesnt matter if they lost another wicket(say kohli) in their quest of attaining that extra 2RPO.. but it wud have certainly made life a lot easier for white and boucher to finish off the innings

I mean this is plain ridiculous, our local gully cricket team comes up with better plans and strategies.. thu, worst team blr.. boo..:(

Even foreign player selection, when taylor was around if they went with misbah, white, taylor and bouch combination they would have had atleast anoter 2-3 wins under their belt now.. simply they wasted misbah and white. their mindset is we got great bowling attack and we'll restrict opposition to 100runs, so we dont need spl power hitters, wt effed up thinkng, ur strike bowler may give 10-15 runs less in his 4 over spell than say a normal bowler like akhil/vinay kumar etc. so if you have a good batsman instead of ur imported strike bowler(read steyn).. he can score those extra 15 runs conceded and balance the equation.. And kumble has no spot in the team, he cant bowl, he cant bat, he cant run btwn the wickets(last match against mohali :p), he is too old and he cant dance anymore :P
 
I really think its hight time Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman should giveup thier places at IPL... Even though i am a huge fan of Ganguly but these guys just aren't suitable for this format..

Mindless Swings and Power shots are main prerequisite for this format and above three are technical players as in good at playing textbook shots or occaisonal bad balls. But ask them to swing it every ball and they are not going to do it.

After all it took 15yrs to develop a strong technique and how can they forget everything and start hitting madly.
 
Chennai Superkings are the real superkings :hap2:
Remember , team lost 3 irreplaceable recourses, yet they are pulling it off.
Dhoni took a brave decision and made some changes in the playing 11 and it paid off.
Delhi, Rajasthan, Bangalore, Mumbai have not lost any of their foreign imports. Deccan lost only one in Symonds(but thats a big one)

But this man Gambhir is really rocking
World 20-20, CB series and now IPL (till now) - top scorer

I am inching to see a super India squad when the play the Asia cup.
I hope the cry baby Sreesanth and clapper Bhajji is nowere near the future India squads.
 
Ganguly still has what it takes to be in IPL, but he is for some reason seems to be restraining himself from playing those big shots even to spinners.

This format is surely not for Dravid and Laxman. They both are fine players but honestly its too fast for them and Dravid has made his captaincy look like a child's mess in IPL.

I dont mind when team looses. I dont even support Bangalore. But the way they are loosing their matches makes me mad and angry at times.

About Harbhajan and Srisanth. Both will play for India. We dont have another off spinner of the Harbhajan's caliber at the moment.

Utility players are there, but noone as gifted as him. Both these players need anger management therapy though :P

ABout team loosing players, thats no excuse for anything. Buckle up and play hard. Some of the teams never had the firepower that teams like Chennai and Delhi have.
 
hmm.. dravid can do it ..seen him hit brett lee at scg on 2003 tour, and it was a site to see and how can one forget he and sachin scoring 100 in 11 something overs against donald and co.in sa. Clearing his front leg and hitting lee over to midwicket .. and that is what call a classic slog .. he just need a change of mindset ..and yeah ..he still deserve a place in odi team ..he is gem of a player ..

ganguly deserve to be in 20-20 .. no question about it .. i only have doubt about laxman ..

and also the way dhoni digs out those mcgrath yorkers is a site to see :rofl:
 
yogi7272 said:
and also the way dhoni digs out those mcgrath yorkers is a site to see :rofl:
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Dhoni is not born with the talent and technique which Dravid and Sachin has.
Yet with his limited talents, he is fighting it out in the middle and has won many matches for India
 
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what i meant to say that its a extraordinary shot .. digging out those deep yorkers from mcgrath is not a easy thing to do ..
 
Funky said:
About Harbhajan and Srisanth. Both will play for India. We don't have another off spinner of the Harbhajan's caliber at the moment.

Utility players are there, but noone as gifted as him. Both these players need anger management therapy though :P
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India backed Bhajji after the Sydney incident, but he kind let everyone down and i am sure, he would have called Symo as ******

Sreesanth is a real stupid and does all antics instead of performing...he is just lucky that we didn't loose WC finals b'coz of his stupid 19th over, Sohail Tanveer knocked him all over the park.

Else he would have chucked out immediately.

Piyush Chawla is an exciting prospect who should get nod over harbajan
 
pcgamer said:
India backed Bhajji after the Sydney incident, but he kind let everyone down and i am sure, he would have called Symo as ******
Sreesanth is a real stupid and does all antics instead of performing...he is just lucky that we didn't loose WC finals b'coz of his stupid 19th over, Sohail Tanveer knocked him all over the park.
Else he would have chucked out immediately.

Piyush Chawla is an exciting prospect who should get nod over harbajan
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Piyush still does not have absolute control.

Bhajji can bowl maidens after maidens in Tests. Piyush gives away atleast 1 bad ball an over.
He is a prospect for future for sure. but he is still not there yet. And a good off spinner is priceless with amount of lefties we have in International cricket these days.
 
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