IPL 2020

axe2grind · 20-09-2020 10:13pm #1

At last IPL 2020 is underway in UAE and it started off with 2 fantastic matches.

Mumbai lost their first match...again! But only after Dhoni with 42 needed off 24 promoted Jadeja and Sam Curran ahead of himself and Jadhav and between them scored 28 off 11 which effectively sealed the deal for Chennai.

Todays match Delhi vs Punjab went to super over! Very topsy turvey. Stoinis plundered Jordan's final over which went for 30 runs and then defended 13 bowling the final which went 6 2 4 . W W with the final wicket being non other than Jordan!

I suppose it can only go downhill from here...

Gillespy · 21-09-2020 12:02am

Tomorrow is Sunrisers vs RCB. Warner and Jonny Bairstow should be fun to watch again.

Rabada the hero for Delhi today. Of course if the umpire did his job right, there wouldn't have been a super over. Called Jordan short on a run and it wasn't. Why is there a limit on how many can bat in a super over? Bit silly looking today with only three runs needed.

Yesterday was enjoyable too. Faf had a good game. Sam Curran 18 off 6 balls made the chase very comfortable.

Richard Hillman · 21-09-2020 6:43pm

RCBs wickets so far.
Warner - Run Out with a deflection of the bowlers hand.
Garg - ball about a meter wide, hits ball off himself, goes towards the wicket and unlodges the bails.
Sharma - Run Out after colliding with Rashid Khan

Chahal with the other 3. Bowled very well.

Richard Hillman · 21-09-2020 6:48pm

Off goes a concussed Rashid Khan and on hobbles Mitch Marsh who was injured during bowling :pac:

Gillespy · 21-09-2020 8:28pm

Bairstow will be the scapegoat but the rest of them should have seen it home. Shambolic effort. Williamson will be playing before long, they will have to find Marsh's overs somewhere.

Richard Hillman · 23-09-2020 5:19pm

Pat Cummins was battered today. 49 off 3 overs. He just kept on bowling line and length, there was no variation. He cost 3.1m in the draft.

Top bowler but I don't see a t20 bowler in him.

Inquitus · 25-09-2020 11:35am

RCB were terrible yesterday, CSK v DC should be a good game today.

Gillespy · 26-09-2020 11:17pm

Cummins a lot better today. Economical and took the big wicket of Jonny Bairstow. Gill and Morgan were very impressive knocking off the runs.

Tom Mann Centuria · 28-09-2020 11:45am

Adequately saved a few runs here. :pac:

https://twitter.com/SkyCricket/status/1310258272348274690?s=20

Richard Hillman · 28-09-2020 7:35pm

2 phenomenal games in 2 days.

Gillespy · 01-10-2020 12:33am

Rajasthan well beaten today. Archer was excellent and Tom Curran made it a bit respectable at the end with a nice 50. KKR look a good side, Gill and Morgan batted well again. Mavi finished with great figures 2-20 off his four overs. Banton in for Narine can't be far away.

Gillespy · 02-10-2020 7:10pm

Prime Dhoni would have won that game. Sad to watch him struggle like that. A lot of mistimed weak shots and looked so exhausted at the end.

Richard Hillman · 02-10-2020 8:34pm

That's 4 Not Outs for Dhoni out of 4. 3 of them in Run Chases where they waited until too late for the aggression. The stats look good for him. Strike rate decent, average perfect. But the performances have been baffling.

Gillespy · 02-10-2020 8:44pm

Baffling is the way to describe Dhoni's batting lately. I do think he tried today, just couldn't connect cleanly. And to make it worse, his mistimes went for twos so he kept Sam Curran off strike. Jadeja needed to press go earlier knowing Bravo and Curran were there. It was at a standstill at both ends for a good while.

Gillespy · 05-10-2020 5:25pm

Ashwin with the mankad again, at least this time it was only a warning. I think it's cowardly and ugly. Can't look at Ashwin after the way he dismissed Buttler. Kohli is in now, bet he won't try it with him.

Richard Hillman · 08-10-2020 8:29am

Another weird one for CSK yesterday. Were looking good for a good while got it to needing 39 of 19 but managed to come up 10 runs short.

Big Shout out to Kedar Jadhav with his plucky 7 off 12 balls, whilst Ravi Jadeja was down the other end hitting 21 off 8.

Some of CSKs performances are becoming quite questionable.

Gillespy · 08-10-2020 7:24pm

The important thing for me with CSK is how Sam Curran does. They must drive their fans mad.

Today's game was about the Sunriser's openers firing. Bairstow deserved a hundred but 97 will do. Rashid Khan did brilliantly then. Pooran played a blinder too, but they now look a side running out of ideas and look low in confidence.

Inquitus · 09-10-2020 5:58pm

Rajasthan Royals just brutal.

Gillespy · 09-10-2020 6:40pm

They deserve today for dropping Tom Curran.

Delhi are the best team in it this year.

Gillespy · 17-10-2020 7:03pm

CSK made light work of losing that game. 17 needed off the last over, thanks to a great 19th over by Sam Curran. Jadeja was given the job to bowl it and Axer Patel finished it quickly. Turns out Bravo wasn't fit to bowl but the left arm spinner?

Richard Hillman · 18-10-2020 7:22pm

A double super over in the Kings XI v Mumbai game. Never seen this before

Gillespy · 18-10-2020 7:45pm

Big drop off in the quality of bowling second time around. Bumrah and Shami only giving five runs was excellent. Trend Boult was poor in the game but I suppose you have to back him to do it in the super over. Agarwal and Gayle only needed half his over to get the runs.

Mysterypunter · 20-10-2020 4:51pm

Shikhar Dawhan has made 106* today but the Delhi all stars XI have only made 164-5 vs the Punjab XI super all stars selection, in todays exciting IPL sponsored by Slogwithaheavybat.com. For all your slogging needs. Some players stealing a living from this game.

Gillespy · 20-10-2020 5:21pm

Not sure I agree. I mean some are but bowling is of a very high quality, fielding is excellent and pitches are getting slow. Dhawan is a class player, done it for India for years and is in great form, two hundreds in two games now, first in IPL history.

Gillespy · 26-10-2020 2:33am

Bottom teams beating the top teams lately, a lot of one sided games last week but CSK are gone despite a fine win today. Brilliant hundred by Stokes keeping Rajasthan alive. It's all getting very tight to make the playoffs. Tomorrow it's Morgan vs KL. Usually always root for Morgan's team but I like Kings this year too. It really is true that anyone can beat anyone on their day in the IPL. Pure guesswork picking a winner this year.

Trampas · 30-10-2020 6:00pm

Henry Gayle showing he is still worth a place

Inquitus · 30-10-2020 7:10pm

Rajasthan Royals could still sneak into 4th spot here! Easy win over KXIP today!

Gillespy · 30-10-2020 8:48pm

It's all very tight. RR would be much better positioned in the table if they had Stokes in this form for the whole tournament. Bowling has improved every game and looks back to his best with the bat. Other than Archer, they have been too inconsistent. If they could sneak into the playoffs, I would fancy them. The other sides are all over the place at the moment.

TheDrog · 03-11-2020 1:00pm

Gillespy wrote: »

It's all very tight. RR would be much better positioned in the table if they had Stokes in this form for the whole tournament. Bowling has improved every game and looks back to his best with the bat. Other than Archer, they have been too inconsistent. If they could sneak into the playoffs, I would fancy them. The other sides are all over the place at the moment.

They got off to good starts with the ball in almost every match thanks to Archer but just seemed incapable of doing anything with them, with Stokes the whole way through he might have made the difference but it felt like they were still a bowler short too often.

Gillespy · 03-11-2020 1:16pm

TheDrog wrote: »

They got off to good starts with the ball in almost every match thanks to Archer but just seemed incapable of doing anything with them, with Stokes the whole way through he might have made the difference but it felt like they were still a bowler short too often.

No doubt short in the bowling. Tyagi wasn't bad and Tewatia was good too. No consistency with the bat at all. On paper as good as anyone, Robin, Samson, Tewatia along with the big overseas stars. And Smith is copping a lot for his captaincy too.

So, last place to be decided today. MI vs SRH. SRH win will be enough for them and that knocks KKR out. Hoping MI play a full team and do KKR a favour.

Inquitus · 03-11-2020 9:47pm

SRH win today to make it into the final 4, having won 4 out of 5 of their last 5 matches. MI v DC, loser plays the winner of SRH v RCB, winner of that goes into the final against the winner of the 1st game.

Strumms · 05-11-2020 5:05pm

Boult, with a double wicket maiden in his first over for the Mumbai Indians..... capitals now 0/3 as Bumrah strikes, fûckin hell.. 8 balls 3 wickets 0 runs.

Gillespy · 05-11-2020 6:29pm

Dream start for them. DC have a partnership with Stoinis and Axar and some hope of pulling off a miracle and he brings back Bumrah to finish that. Too strong in the batting too. No right getting to 200 today. Hardik is a hell of a no. 7 batsman to have.

Strumms · 05-11-2020 7:29pm

Yep, Not often you see an ipl game or indeed any T20 game won by 57 runs too...

The average first innings score at Dubai is 144... Mumbai 56 runs over that average. Delhi weren’t great but would have needed to chase down the 12th highest ever IPL total....

https://www.mykhel.com/cricket/highest-run-chase-in-ipl-rs98/

Mysterypunter · 05-11-2020 7:49pm

Strumms wrote: »

Boult, with a double wicket maiden in his first over for the Mumbai Indians..... capitals now 0/3 as Bumrah strikes, fûckin hell.. 8 balls 3 wickets 0 runs.

Comment of the day, I didn't watch, but was following text commentary. Cricbuzz. At 0/3 off 1.2 overs chasing 201, they said, "This may have tilted in favour of the Mumbai Indians" may have tilted in favour of mind.

Gillespy · 05-11-2020 8:40pm

DC get another chance but have big problems in the batting. Shaw and Pant look so low in confidence. Shreyas Iyer the captain isn't getting runs either. Bowling is still strong even though Rabada is gone off the boil a bit. No wickets again today.

Fancy Sunrisers tomorrow. Peaking at the right time, the opposite of DC. Can't write off a team with Kohli and AB I suppose.

Gillespy · 10-11-2020 4:00pm

Anyone watching the final? DC fighting back well after MI got off to another brilliant start thanks to Trent Boult. Pant and Shreyas Iyer turning their form around at the right time.

Mysterypunter · 10-11-2020 4:45pm

Gillespy wrote: »

Anyone watching the final? DC fighting back well after MI got off to another brilliant start thanks to Trent Boult. Pant and Shreyas Iyer turning their form around at the right time.

Watching it OK, Delhi just finished on 156, looks a little bit short, they didn't start well or finish well, 96 for the 4th wicket, but not much else.

Gillespy · 10-11-2020 6:39pm

Mumbai way too strong. They have the best Indian players of all the sides, Bumrah, Rohit, Hardik and his brother, Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav. What a classy batsman he is by the way yet can't get in the India squad. Not so reliant on the overseas players but they are brilliant too, de Kock, Pollard and Boult all world class.

Richard Hillman · 11-11-2020 12:32am

Wasn't much of a final. Delhi are were goosed after the early wickets. I think the tournament this year lost a bit of momentum towards the end. You're definitely missing the crowds for the big games at the end.

Gillespy · 11-11-2020 5:32pm

Too many one sided games in the latter half of the group stage. Started off so well, tight finishes, superovers to big swings in performance every game. Crowds a factor no doubt and also players cooped up in the bubble too long. India off the Australia now so the players get no respite from it. First ODI is the 27th.

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