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IPL 2012 Discussion thread

  • 29-03-2012 11:28am
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    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,634 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    To prevent a proliferation of threads on the subject, and in keeping with tradition here in the cricket forum, I'm starting the discussion thread for IPL 2012. Let the discussions commence! ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    Come on RCBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.......

    Miracle to see us having such a good team after what happened in first auction. Can't wait to see Gayle, De Villiers, Dilshan, Kohli all in one team with Vettori leading them. We have good team but as usual Chennai will win imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Will be having a couple of quid on KKR again this year, surely they are due this year? Plus they are coached by the inventor of the clockwork radio and named after a show about a tallking car driven by the Hoff.


    Edit: Ah, apparently the coach didn't invent anything at all that we know of and the team aren't named after KIT, but still, Go on the Knight Riders!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Xfire Elect


    Hopeful about the chargers this year, especially if steyn takes his test ability into the shorter form. Sort of worried about aspects, like can Darren bravo play t20 like he can play test cricket, and will rusty step up, especially with Isshant out. Mishra was great last year, more of the same, and duminy and patel, aswell as chipli, have the ability. Dan christian is another great T20 player.

    Potential.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    1. Gayle
    2. Dilshan
    3. Kohli
    4. De Villiers
    5. S. Tiwary
    6. Mayank Agarwal/Pujara
    7. Vettori
    8. Vinay Kumar
    9. Syed
    10. Zaheer
    11. Mithun

    Problem with the team is Gayle, Dilshan, De Villier are very very important players and Vettori is our captain. So I can't see any other foreign players getting chances.
    We have Murali and Nannes who are very good bowlers. Might struggle to strike a good balance. Just a player or 2 (Local players) short of having very good team.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24 Anky2930


    Hey guys, Don't you think that I.P.L. is loosing it's charm? Do we have so much time to watch it for 54 days?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    It was never the be all and end all for me, I prefer English county cricket, one dayers and T20 (but thats what I was brought up on, so not surprising) and international cricket. Saying that, ANY cricket on free tv is always a winner, since Sky snapped up most cricket, ITV4 showing the IPL gives us without loads of money a chance to watch some exciting cricket. It is too long a tournament format for me but I wont look a gift horse in the mouth! Just about to start now!

    Isa Guha is fairly wooden by the way, Per...haps....she....wil......get.....bet....ter...at...read...ing...the....auto...cue.


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Xfire Elect


    Absolute mauling this afternoon, (the score makes it look closer than it actually was.) Chennai will bounce back, Mumbai should kick on.

    This young levi chap looks, well, strong. Only a matter of time (probably by the next match) that teams realise he only plays on the on side and panics at the sight of a ball outside off stump.

    Realised today that chennai and mumbai have two very different ways of approaching the game: Chennai have some quality all rounders (bravo, morkel, jadeja), while Mumbai have great specialist batsmen and bowlers. Pollard (and maybe Franklin) are exceptions, but it's interesting. Which is the better tactic? Guess it depends on how you value bowling in T20.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Knight Riders get their campaign started today, against Dehli. Not much to choose between the two going by last years average performances.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    Anky2930 wrote: »
    Hey guys, Don't you think that I.P.L. is loosing it's charm? Do we have so much time to watch it for 54 days?

    Noticed no Aussie TV broadcasters picked it up this year. Its very hit and miss. At times its a retiring cricketer pension fund more than a competition.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭booth70


    Anky2930 wrote: »
    Hey guys, Don't you think that I.P.L. is loosing it's charm? Do we have so much time to watch it for 54 days?

    Couldn't agree with you more.....if they condense it to 25-30 days it'll make for some great viewing

    Good to see the mauling India have had recently has not kept my fellow Indians away from the stadiums:)

    Go CSK....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    booth70 wrote: »
    Couldn't agree with you more.....if they condense it to 25-30 days it'll make for some great viewing

    Good to see the mauling India have had recently has not kept my fellow Indians away from the stadiums:)

    Go CSK....

    :confused: Are you from India? If so from which place..


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭booth70


    Chennai where else:).......In Ireland since 1996:)

    Go CSK


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭booth70


    Delhi will be some team when KP and Jayawardene join them after the second test finishes


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    booth70 wrote: »
    Chennai where else:).......In Ireland since 1996:)

    Go CSK

    Oh great. I'm from Bangalore :D

    Yeah Delhi will be some team but IMO Chennai and Mumbai are easily better than any team out there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭B1gft


    Mumbai Indians are the team for me. The players they have, class and that is even after losing today. (levi, hero first day, not so good today) Like kkR because of Morgan but Mumbai is the team.
    Love the league, love 20/20, love seen legends of the game, ( I have not got Sky Sports) love the atmosphere of the games, love its free on tv, 54 days is not to long for me. Love the IPl.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Rahene is class isn't he? Lovely innings today and looking at his monster first class stats in domestic cricket, I could see him opening in all formats sooner rather than later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    I feel for anyone who missed Steyn's over. Amazing bowler.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Dale was superb today, pleased because he has never quite clicked in 20/20.

    Sadly for Dale, some poor bowling from everyone else let him down. Daniel Christian bowling the last over was always risky. Not sure why Deccan aren't playing Duminy either, much better player than White these days who despite some runs is nowhere near as destructive as he was a few years ago.

    Great innings for Rohit to win it though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭B1gft


    Who ever tells you cricket is boring, should see that game.

    Steyns was pure class. Surprised and delighted they did not keep him to bowl the last over. My man of the match

    Sharma showed his class and coolness.

    A perfect way to spend a bank holiday monday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    Interesting article about IPL fan fatigue

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17699415


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    It is so odd that almost ever team has a West Indian star player but their national team is so poor. They have got superb talent shame about the issues with board and contract issues. If they play for the team, they will up there with the best fighting for the top spot.


    Chennai
    Bravo

    Deccan
    Darren Bravo

    Delhi
    Andre Russell

    KKR
    Sunil Narine

    Mumbai
    Pollard

    Pune
    Samuels

    Rajasthan
    Cooper

    Bangalore
    Gayle

    All very good ODI players and I'm counting players playing in IPL only.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭booth70


    Will Morgs get a game at KKR:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 LewisForb


    Kevin Pietersen's first Twenty20 century taken the DD to a 5 wicket victory over DC as they moved to the top of the IPL.
    While DC suffered their 4th consecutive loss & stayed at the bottom of the table with no points. Really great match!


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭B1gft


    Giggsy

    West Indian team (please correct me if I am wrong) have talent coming out their ears, but they are from different Islands and they just dont click together as a team, (normally) as there would be no love lost between the Islands. I think its only cricket that they join together and are known as the west Indias.

    Booth
    I think if he was going to get a game, he would have by now. How different a year can make.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭Giggsy11


    B1gft wrote: »
    Giggsy

    West Indian team (please correct me if I am wrong) have talent coming out their ears, but they are from different Islands and they just dont click together as a team, (normally) as there would be no love lost between the Islands. I think its only cricket that they join together and are known as the west Indias..

    Yeah they are from different islands, even when they were dominating cricket it was same isn't it.

    Even now they will play together if not for the contract issues, it is such a shame that Gayle wont be playing international cricket.


  • Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭B1gft


    I am delighted he is not in the t20 world cup, we are in the same group as them.
    Does malinga play with them, I have an idea he does not, but could be wrong. Malinga and Gale on the same team would beat the best of them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Cardinal Richelieu


    B1gft wrote: »
    Giggsy

    West Indian team (please correct me if I am wrong) have talent coming out their ears, but they are from different Islands and they just dont click together as a team, (normally) as there would be no love lost between the Islands. I think its only cricket that they join together and are known as the west Indias.

    Booth
    I think if he was going to get a game, he would have by now. How different a year can make.

    The West Indian Team in the 1970s and 1980s was from different islands and countries too. I don't think they have a talented crop at all, one day talent who sell their skills to the highest bidder but suspect at international and Test match level perhaps. Of course the WI Board couldn't run a piss up in a brewery if they tried doesn't help. NBA is frequently blamed for there lack of fast bowlers these days but I can't think of too many famous WI basketball players.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    cant get over how HD the live stream is http://www.youtube.com/user/indiatimes

    enjoying it, ITV4 decided not to show it today so went online


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,977 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Caught the end of the Delhi game, Rajasthan made the classic mistake of leaving a little to much to do in the last few overs, Morne Morkel is not someone you really want to have to do much against.


    Delhi probably should drop Taylor and play Russell who will bulk their bowling and can smash it miles himself.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    logged on at the end myself, what an ENDING !


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