"The IPL"...Edition_6

First topic message reminder :


Lo and behold the greatest cricketing spectacle known to mankind.....starting in a couple of days.....in it's 6th edition

And the mood of the nation is good.......on the back of a good test match series win.
test cricket is healthy and we can all enjoy IPL

Jalaj saxena, Rishi dhawan, baba aparajit, manan vohra, Ishwar Pandey, Parvez Rasool...the succeses of U-19 and FC have all been handed IPL contrcats.


Poor Kaif no takers for him....he has fallen a lot in the reckoning

Delhi will miss KP and Pune will miss Clarke.

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IPL 6: What the nine teams look like

Wisden India staff · Feb 3, 2013 ·
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Kolkata Knight Riders, the defending champions, only bought Sachithra Senanayake and Ryan McLaren. © AFP

Close to $US 11.89 million were spent on 37 players, and at the end of a process that lasted almost five hours, this is how the teams look ahead of the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League:

CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, M Vijay, S Badrinath, S Anirudha, Wriddhiman Saha, Shadab Jakati, Michael Hussey, Ben Hilfenhaus, Faf du Plessis, Albie Morkel, Nuwan Kulasekara, Dwayne Bravo.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Baba Aparajith, Vijay Shankar.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: Dirk Nannes (600,000), Chris Morris (625,000), Ben Laughlin (20,000), Akila Dananjaya (20,000), Jason Holder (20,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 1,285,000

DELHI DAREDEVILS
Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Naman Ojha, Ajit Agarkar, Unmukt Chand, Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Pawan Negi, Manpreet Juneja, Mahela Jayawardene, Ross Taylor, David Warner, Kevin Pietersen, Morne Morkel, Andre Russell, Roelof van der Merwe.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Kedar Jadhav, Siddharth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Venugopala Rao, Gulam Bodi.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: Johan Botha (450,000), Jesse Ryder (260,000), Jeevan Mendis (50,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 760,000

KINGS XI PUNJAB
Adam Gilchrist, Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla, Mandeep Singh, Parvinder Awana, Siddharth Chitnis, Nitin Saini, Sunny Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Paul Valthaty, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Harmeet Singh Bansal, R Sathish, Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, David Miller, Ryan Harris, Azhar Mehmood, Dimitri Mascarenhas.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Manan Vohra.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: Luke Pomersbach (300,000), Manpreet Gony (500,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 800,000

KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Gautam Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Manoj Tiwary, Debabrata Das, Manvinder Bisla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rajat Bhatia, L Balaji, Iqbal Abdulla, Shami Ahmed, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Eoin Morgan, Brad Haddin, Brendon McCullum, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Sunil Narine, James Pattinson.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: None.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: Sachithra Senanayake (625,000), Ryan McLaren (50,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 675,000

MUMBAI INDIANS
Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Rohit Sharma, Dinesh Karthik, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha, Ambati Rayudu, Amitoze Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Aditya Tare, Pawan Suyal, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Aiden Blizzard, James Franklin, Mitchell Johnson, Dwayne Smith.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Jalaj Saxena, Rishi Dhawan.

Players bought in the 2013 auctions: Ricky Ponting (400,000), Glenn Maxwell (1,000,000), Phil Hughes (100,000), Nathan Coulter-Nile (450,000), Jacob Oram (50,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 2,000,000

PUNE WARRIORS INDIA
Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Murali Kartik, Ashoke Dinda, Rahul Sharma, Manish Pandey, Raiphi Gomez, Mithun Manhas, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ali Murtaza, Harpreet Singh, Anustup Majumdar, Krishnakant Upadhyay, Mahesh Rawat, Shrikant Wagh, Dheeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Angelo Mathews, Alfonso Thomas, Wayne Parnell, Marlon Samuels, Luke Wright, Mitchell Marsh.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Ishwar Pandy, T Suman, Udit Birla, Steve Smith, Tamim Iqbal.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: Michael Clarke (400,000), Abhishek Nayar (675,000), Ajantha Mendis (725,000), Kane Richardson (700,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 2,500,000

RAJASTHAN ROYALS
Rahul Dravid, Ajinkya Rahane, S Sreesanth, Ashok Menaria, Stuart Binny, Siddharth Trivedi, Ankeet Chavan, Shreevats Goswami, Ajit Chandila, Shane Watson, Shaun Tait, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Kevon Cooper.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Harmeet Singh, Dishant Yagnik, Owais Shah, Samuel Badree.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: James Faulkner (400,000), Fidel Edwards (210,000), Kushal Perera (20,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 630,000

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Virat Kohli, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Saurabh Tiwary, Abhimanyu Mithun, Arun Karthik, Karun Nair, S Aravind, Mayank Agarwal, Vijay Zol, KP Appanna, Harshal Patel, Syed Mohammad, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Muttiah Muralitharan, T Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Andrew MacDonald.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: Abhinav Mukund, Sandeep Warrier, Sunny Sohal, Prashanth Parameswaran.

Players bought in 2013 auctions: RP Singh (400,000), Moises Henriques (300,000), Jaidev Unadkat (525,000), Pankaj Singh (150,000), Ravi Rampaul (290,000), Christopher Barnwell (50,000), Daniel Christian (100,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 1,815,000

SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
Ishant Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Parthiv Patel, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Akshath Reddy, Akash Bhandari, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Bharath Chipli, Biplab Samantray, Dwarka Ravi Teja, Veer Pratap Singh, Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Dale Steyn, Rusty Theron, Kumar Sangakkara.

Players bought or re-signed before the auctions: None.

Players bought in the 2013 auctions: Thisara Perera (675,000), Darren Sammy (425,000), Sudeep Tyagi (100,000), Nathan McCullum (100,000), Clint McKay (100,000), Quinton de Kock (20,000).

Total 2013 Auction Spend: $US 1,420,000

You can't carry a player for his leadership skills beyond a point if there is no performance to back it up. Ponting anyways isn't great in terms of onfield tactics, and his captaincy hasn't made any significant impact for MI. So fair enough to have dropped himself. Tendulkar scored a 50 in the last game, and he has a quickish 40 as well, but it has been quite a no-show from Ponting.

MI won with a ball remaining. Sachin failed, but Dwayne Smith smashed 62, and Sharma and Pollard chipped in with handy contributions, and Ambati Rayudu and Harbhajan Singh where at the end when they needed 10 of 5 balls, a crucial 6 from Harbhajan redeeming his day somewhat, after a horrer of a first over with the ball where he gave away 26.

msp83 wrote:You can't carry a player for his leadership skills beyond a point if there is no performance to back it up. Ponting anyways isn't great in terms of onfield tactics, and his captaincy hasn't made any significant impact for MI. So fair enough to have dropped himself. Tendulkar scored a 50 in the last game, and he has a quickish 40 as well, but it has been quite a no-show from Ponting.

why was Ponting bought and brought ?
not for his batting....he wasn't much of a T20 player ever...but rather for captaincy.
perpetually chopping , changing experimenting MI....saw him as a leader.

now the Tendulkar conundrum has sacrificed him.

the win today...like most of MI's wins..comes on solo brialliances....rather than team effort

KP_fan wrote:

msp83 wrote:You can't carry a player for his leadership skills beyond a point if there is no performance to back it up. Ponting anyways isn't great in terms of onfield tactics, and his captaincy hasn't made any significant impact for MI. So fair enough to have dropped himself. Tendulkar scored a 50 in the last game, and he has a quickish 40 as well, but it has been quite a no-show from Ponting.

why was Ponting bought and brought ?
not for his batting....he wasn't much of a T20 player ever...but rather for captaincy.
perpetually chopping , changing experimenting MI....saw him as a leader.

now the Tendulkar conundrum has sacrificed him.

the win today...like most of MI's wins..comes on solo brialliances....rather than team effort

KPF, I feel a lot of MI's moves during the auction wouldn't make a great deal of sense. Glenn Maxwell is a case in point. Same with Ricky. He has been away from T-20 for some time, he had retired having suffered a form slump, and it was a poor call to make him captain.
Anyways, what do you think of IPL Sharma's captaincy?

msp83 wrote:

KP_fan wrote:

msp83 wrote:You can't carry a player for his leadership skills beyond a point if there is no performance to back it up. Ponting anyways isn't great in terms of onfield tactics, and his captaincy hasn't made any significant impact for MI. So fair enough to have dropped himself. Tendulkar scored a 50 in the last game, and he has a quickish 40 as well, but it has been quite a no-show from Ponting.

why was Ponting bought and brought ?
not for his batting....he wasn't much of a T20 player ever...but rather for captaincy.
perpetually chopping , changing experimenting MI....saw him as a leader.

now the Tendulkar conundrum has sacrificed him.

the win today...like most of MI's wins..comes on solo brialliances....rather than team effort

KPF, I feel a lot of MI's moves during the auction wouldn't make a great deal of sense. Glenn Maxwell is a case in point. Same with Ricky. He has been away from T-20 for some time, he had retired having suffered a form slump, and it was a poor call to make him captain.
Anyways, what do you think of IPL Sharma's captaincy?

Yes it's a case of Ambani having too much money....and bad advisors...and the entire Mumbai team unable to shrug off the forced greatness of "Bharat Mata ka Laal" tendulkar
they will continue to produce only flashes of brilliance......individual captains won't matter a lot I think

CSK v SH today. SH won the toss and are batting. Shikhar Dhawan returns after injury, to play his first IPL game of the season. Darren Sammy is also getting a game. CSK are unchanged.

SH are 12-2. Shikhar is still there, but Quinton de Kock and Hanuma Vihari are gone. Quinton to a fine catch from Murali Vijay, attempting a big shot before he got set, and Vihari was slow to respond to a call for a quick single and was run out by Raina.

Shikhar has restarted from where he left off, but SH have lost another, captain White is gone, Mohit Sharma gets another. And we have Amit Mishra in at 5!. SH 38-3 in the 6th over.

SH are playing someone called Thalaivan Sargunam today. He has joined Shikhar Dhawan at the wicket following the end of a frustrating innings from Amit Mishra. Mishra scored 15 of 21 and hold out of Ashwin in the end. Sargunam seems to have played some club cricket in Tamil Nadu as well as in Sri Lanka.

Dhawan hit on his privates, and is retired hurt. and Sargunam goes, SH 99-5.

Dhawan eventually came back to score 63 not out of 45, and young all-rounder Ashish Reddy smashed 36 of 16 to put up a challenging for SH. Chasing 159 won't be easy against Steyn, Mishra, Sammy and co.

CSK having a good, quick start. Hasn't happened often this season. 46 without loss after 5.

Mishra is doing it again for SH, he has no pocketed both the CSK openers. Hussey in particular, was looking very dangerous indeed. 76-2 in the 10th over now, SH are pretty much back in it. Dale Steyn has bowled just the one over as of now.

Dale Steyn had MS Dhoni absolutely rattled throughout the over, and he should have had him there, but Amit Mishra dropped a sitter. Mishra was lucky with that Hussey wicket, nevertheless he had brought SH back into the contest, but that drop might undo all that work.

Karan Sharma has bowled 3 overs for 8 runs. MSD is really struggling out there, 4 of 13 as of now. CSK 86-2 after 12. 74 of the last 8 overs.

They take 12 of Sammy's next over and the pressure built up has come down considerably. Dhoni managed a couple of boundaries there, and he seems to have got going at last.

Mishra is bowling as well as I have seen Mushtaq Ahmed ever bowl.....classical leggie with all the guiles

i feel Ishant is "helping " his captain with some easy no balls and long hops

Mishra gets Raina to turn the balance again. Bravo with Dhoni. MS hasn't quite looked his usual self today despite those couple of boundaries of Sammy. Looks like someone else will have to do the job for CSK today, and yet again, they are building up to those last 4 over drama. 112-3 now, 48 of 33 at the moment.

Ishant has been bowling rubbish in this over. short of length at 121 KMPH, and Dhoni obliges by pulling it away for 4.

msp83 wrote:Ishant has been bowling rubbish in this over. short of length at 121 KMPH, and Dhoni obliges by pulling it away for 4.

he did that deliberately.....i think.
meanwhile karan sharma is turning the ball square off the face of the bat

CSK are just being CSK. 46 of 5 overs looked not that dramatic, so Bravo hasn't scored of the first 4 balls of Karan Sharma's last over and he survived a stumping appeal as well in the process.

Would you believe it, Bravo plays out a maiden from Karan Sharma, the 16th over of the innings. Dale Steyn has 2 more overs, think this might come back to haunt CSK. Bravo has been leaking plenty of runs with the ball, and he hasn't had much of an impact with the bat so far in the tournament. Will he force the team management's hands?

karan sharma bowls the 16th over of the inning a maiden...with a stumping denied I think....the umpiring is biassed in favor of home team owned by IPL and BCCI chief

4 over sof 8 runs for sharma take...a bow.

and the two leggies mishra and sharma have bowled 8 overs for 34 runs and 3 wickets.......amazing

Aw well, MSD is bringing out his full range of shots, first a pull for 6, and then a forehand for another one. And its Dale Steyn with the ball!.

Bravo should understand that he's not Mahendra Singh Dhoni!. He has wasted another couple of balls, and took the single of the last ball for good measure!!. 32 of 18, CSK still in control, but if Bravo fails to turn the strike over, then they could be in trouble here.

Hell, Bravo's pathetic, atrocious, sub-standard innings is over now!!. Has Ishant done CSK another favor?

Dhoni is playing a blinder here, a 4 and then a 6 of Steyn. 15 of 8 now.

Steyn comes back with Jadeja's wicket and then a dot of the last ball. 15 needed of the last over. Morris is with MSD.

Ashish Reddy it is, with the last over, needing to protect 15. He started with a wide, but then prevented MSD from scoring of the 1st legal ball. 14 of 5, Dhoni on strike.

Now 8 of 4 as Dhoni goes over the boundary.

Oh, Reddy has lost it there, big wide, the keeper didn't collect, just 3 of 4 for CSK.

And Dhoni finishes things off with a boundary. Not out 67 is MSD, and he has won the game for his side. What a costly drop that was, from Amit Mishra. After being rattled by Steyn, Dhoni just took him apart subsequently!.

Dhoni was 4 of 13 and he ended up with 67 notout of 37.

KKR v KXIP today. KXIP are batting having won the toss. Azhar Mahmood back for them.

KXIP finished on 149. handy contributions from Vorah, Gilly, Mandeep, and now Azhar Mahmood has nipped out Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan of successive deliveries to reduce KKR's chase to 14-2 after 2 overs. Kallis and Bisla at the crease.

KKR attack looks better with Bret Lee in it IMO....Balaji isnt good enough on his own as part of a seam attack..

Jacques Kallis, who ones again proved his worth with the ball, seems to be putting behind his struggles with the bat this season, he's leading the KKR charge towards 150. KKR are 75-2 after 10 overs, and Kallis is on 37.

Now Kallis goes, goes for 37. Eoin Morgan walks in, with KKR still needing another 73 runs of 9 overs.

Morgan playing the dashing finisher.....a small powerhouse he is

After losing their way in the last few matches, KKR are back to winning ways, win by 6 wickets, reaching the target of 150 with 10 balls remaining. Bisla remained unbeaten on 50 and Morgan provided the finishing touches with a 26 ball 42, although he wasn't exactly there at the end.

RR v SH and MI v RCB are the games of today. SH have set RR a total of 145 to chase. SH didn't look like reaching anywhere near that as their top and middle order failed badly, but Darren Sammy scored 60 of 41 and he got valuable support from Mishra and Steyn. In response, RR are 13-1 after 4. Dale Steyn provided them an early breakthrough when he got Ajinkya Rahane for 1.

An unbeaten 98 from Shane Watson with solid support from Rahul Dravid has seen Rajasthan through against Hyderabad. They did it rather easily in the end, the last 45 runs coming in 14 balls for Watson. RR had a dominant start with the ball with James Faulkner ripping out the SH batting lineup with 5 wickets, but then they slipped up a bit and provided SH a decent total, on a lively track, with Dale Steyn in the attack, SH had a chance, but Watson and Dravid didn't give them an opening.

MI won the toss and are batting against RCB. Ponting continues to sit out and Rohit Sharma leads MI. Dhawal Kulkarni gets a game in place of Yazvendra Chahal and for RCB, J Syed Mohammed in for Murali Kartik.

Sachin Tendulkar provided a quick start for Mumbai with a 13 ball 23, and after a slowish start, Dwayne Smith has got going in the company of Dinesh Karthik. MI are 97-1 after 10 overs, looks like a big chase on the cards for RCB.

Vinay Kumar is a highly underrated bowler in T20s by opponents...neverthless Banglaore know his value and paid a Million + for him

MI have ran up a massive score of 194-7. 50 for Smith, and handy contributions from Karthik, Pollard, Tendulkar, and Harbhajan at the end.

Gayle won't be winning this one for RCB, he's gone, Harbhajan with the big wicket. Everything down to AB and Kohli.

Now Kohli gone, RCB 42-3. AB is still there, but looks like the making of a huge defeat here for RCB.

i am surprisded by the pace dhawal kulakrni is generating...140+
looks like these otehr wise 125kph Ranji bowlers do not hold anything back in the 4 over spells...to maximize their prices for the next auctions.