I think KKR was badly affected by exodus of FORIEGN players their poor performance. Macullum, Ponting & then Hodge left after playing few matches. Chris Gayle could not play a single match. Preformances of Hafeez,Taibu,Hussey are poor as per T20 standards. DADA too has failed with the bat but he has still got 2 Man of Match awards out of 5 wins for KKR. Performance of Ishant Sharma is also poor - only 6 wickets in 12 matches.
HARD LUCK for DADA & SRK. They have fought hard but team lacks T20 firepower.
I think apart from giving a chance to earn heafty amounts the IPL has done a lot more good to the Indian cricket in terms of exposing the paper tigers and the hidden gold. Though it is only a 20 over display, it has shown that it is time for seniors like Dravid, Ganguly, and Kumble need to make way for other far better players that have come into the forefront.
It is time that selectors kept their eyes open and do not go on with favoritism this time when they select the team for one days and test matches.
RE:Fake Heros and Zeros Exposed
by Atul kashikar on May 22, 2008 09:24 AM Permalink
let us wait for things to get a bit more serious..& BTW, all the seniors that are mentioned above are already out of contentions in One-Dayers.
RE:Fake Heros and Zeros Exposed
by AHMAD SULAIMAN on May 22, 2008 10:45 AM Permalink
I believe IPL has done too good for Sports in general & Cricket in particular. Sports binds people, nations together and IPL has done just the same by involving players from all over the globe to play as a team in the best spirits of sportsmanship. Best way adopted to bring some nations together.
Get the Batting order right V Kohli and Goswami should open Dravid should come at No 3 Kallis White Boucher should be the batting order. Drop the miserable Misbha... I have a feeling white will click soon.
If their batting clicks together... and supported by reasonably good bowling... BRC have chances not to be at the bottom ...
If they make it 10 points with good run rate and Stupid KKR team looses badly...
God save Deccan Chargers... The real hero of Hyd 'RAYUDU' is playing in ICL..They deserve to be in last place for backstabbing such a great talent...Shivlal Yadav has messed up local Hyd talent.. He only concentrated on his Son's(Arjun Yadav)career compromising every1 else's..B'cos of Transparent league People have come to know which player is talented better than Selectors.. Good for Indian cricket...
RE:Disgraceful Deccan Chargers!!
by Redif is great on May 22, 2008 09:52 AM Permalink
ooh .. buddy cool down .. so u know how many records they hold till now ..
1)highest partner ship 2)highest # of runs scored in power play 3)purple cap (most possibly) 4)DC is the only which has never won a match in the home ground . . .. ans many more to come ..
With the lose againt Bangalore, the chance for Chennai reaching semi goes down a log. Of the Four team contending (Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata) for last two in Semi, Chennai is having a very low runrate. Unless Chennai beat Rajasthan and Deccan, then cant move up with the number of wons to select for semi. With they loosing to Bangalore this bad, I believe they are going to loose to Rajasthan. Being that case, it will be Mumbai and Delhi in semi. Unless Delhi and Mumbai did something very wrong.
RE:RE:CSK might not reach semi.
by Arun on May 22, 2008 08:11 AM Permalink
I think Csk loss and mumbai's loss gives a good chance for Kolkata team.Ganguly would be happy seeing the matches.I think CSK have to win very convincingly(with good run or over margin)against RR and DC.
RE:CSK might not reach semi.
by THIYAGARAJAN NAVANEETHAKRISHNAN on May 22, 2008 07:56 AM Permalink
chanceless chennai will be in semis withour doubt i beleive sachin's team will be the 4th one viru and dada will go down
If Chennai and Delhi lose all the matches (apparantly only 2 each are left) and Kolkata win both the matches ... then Kolkata straight forward will get into Semis ...
But it isn't as simple as it seems on point-table!
Lets see what's written in fate for all the teams!!!
