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