IPL 11th Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab

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Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab, at Durban

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Bangalore: (probable) 1 Robin Uthappa, 2 Praveen Kumar, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 5 Rahul Dravid, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Karan Sharma, 9 Vinay Kumar, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 Dale Steyn

Punjab: (probable) 1 Karan Goel, 2 Ravi Bopara, 3 Yuvraj Singh (capt), 4 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 5 Mahela Jayawardene, 6 Irfan Pathan, 7 Taruwar Kohli, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Vikramjeet Malik, 10 VRV Singh, 11 Yusuf Abdulla

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[Pranav]

Hard one, But I'll go with Bangalore. I feel they are a much more stronger side than Punjab.

 

[King Pietersen]

!!!RV KING OF SIXERS!!!KING OF PRO40!!! is gonna smack Steyn about today. KP and Ryder are due some runs though, so my money's on Bangalore. If Ryder plays anyway.

 

[Howsie]

This is the team I would select for the Bangalore Royal Challengers:

1.R.Dravid
2.J.Ryder
3.R.Taylor
4.K.Pietersen
5.R.Uthappa(WK)
6.V.Kohli
7.P.Kumar
8.D.Steyn
9.V.Kumar
10.A.Kumble
11.K.Sharma

I think Dravid should open the innings, he has been playing really well and giving him as much time as possible would be good. If Ryder gets dropped I will be angry lol, i'm not staying up to two in the morning for nothing. You have to give him more games, you can't just play somebody and then drop them. Just give him a Kookabarra bat, he should be fine

Taylor should come back in too, he is alot better then he has shown and I feel he is a better 20/20 batsmen then Kallis. I don't think bringing in Boucher will do anything, he isn't going to bat in the top five.

 

[King Pietersen]

I'd go for that as well, but with Pietersen at 3 and Kallis at 4. Pietersen's the better player so should have more time to make an innings and if he gets going and bats till the end he'll make more of an impact than Kallis. Tough choice between Taylor and Kallis though, would probably go for Kallis due to his runs in the last game.

 

[Howsie]

I'd go for that as well, but with Pietersen at 3 and Kallis at 4. Pietersen's the better player so should have more time to make an innings and if he gets going and bats till the end he'll make more of an impact than Kallis. Tough choice between Taylor and Kallis though, would probably go for Kallis due to his runs in the last game.

It is a tough choice at the moment because Taylor hasn't made any runs in two innings, I just feel that Taylor is better. Maybe I'm a little biased. And it's not like they need Kallis for his bowling, if you include Ryder they have six bowlers. And with Kevin Pietersen taking wickets that makes seven bowlers. Kallis isn't really needed in my opinion.

 

[siddharth2002]

Depends on Yuvraj and Ryder. Whoever fires will win it for their respective teams.

 

[King Pietersen]

Hmm, interesting team selection from Bangalore. Dropping Steyn and picking the extra batsman in Taylor. Pietersen better bat at 3 or 4 at the lowest.

 

[Akash00]

Once again Uthappa fails. I expected a good innings from him.

 

[siddharth2002]

I think Bangalore got this one wrong, they should have gone for Roelof van der Merwe instead of Ross Taylor. Ross has been struggling for form of late and didn't really do much in the last IPL either whereas, Merwe is a decent spin bowler and strikes it clean.

siddharth2002 added 1 Minutes and 22 Seconds later...

Once again Uthappa fails. I expected a good innings from him.

He is a doofus mate, more worried about his hairstyle. I don't see him playing too many games for Bangalore after these early failures.

 

[King Pietersen]

Ryder finally starting to come good for Bangalore. I agree with Siddarth as well, Van Der Merwe would be a far better choice. Home conditions, useful spinner and a decent enough batsman. Spinners have been doing the business in the competition, so get Van Der Merwe in!

King Pietersen added 15 Minutes and 49 Seconds later...

LOL. Nice work KP. Bangalore are really getting their money's worth.

 

[Howsie]

Yay Jesse Ryder finally made some runs, he actually looked pretty good today. Don't know why Taylor is batting so low, he isn't going to make any runs batting at six. KP showing he is worth 1.5 million, he is a good player and all but paying that much for one player is stupid.

Dravid out.

 

[ZexyZahid]

Is there is a random system going on in the Bangalore team, that after each match someone different has to collect a duck?

 

[King Pietersen]

RV!!!KING OF PRO40!!! joined at the crease by UV!!!!KING OF T20!!!!. Money's on KXI from here, unless one of these 2 get out in the next 3 overs.

King Pietersen added 12 Minutes and 54 Seconds later...

!!RV!!!KING OF SIXERS!!! KING OF PRO40!!!! to the rescue. Superb over for KXIP, great hitting from Ravi. RV and UV ftw.

 

[ZexyZahid]

We mayby heading towards another exciting finish.

Punjab need 40 runs from 23 balls. Previous over Bopara mainly hit 19 runs.