Indian Premier League - General Discussion

[AliB]

There were articles about that but no official confirmation.

MI Pre-Season PC had the discussions on it, where Mahela and Rohit confirmed that they are looking forward to it.

 

[zwarrior]

Khejroliya has to be dropped from next match. He got enough chances and he has no control whatsoever. In every over he bowls at least 2-3 freebie in the leg side which will go for boundary. Not acceptable at this level.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Sanju Samson! What a talent! So pleasing to watch when gets going reminds me of Mahela Jayawardene + has a bit of calypso flair in his batting.

 

[zwarrior]

Lol.
Annoying as hell to be RCB fan. Kohli has no expression on his face. It's a uphill task. Kohli needs to bat throughout innings while others play around him.

 

[Gopal123]

Kohli Is a terrible captain. When kejroliya got buttler. He was still angry. Atleast he could admire his effort. but No, He always make that angry face like the match is over. With that mindset,If RCB lose Today. I wouldnt be suprised.

 

[Gaurav_7]

What a pleasure it was to watch this innings by Samson, top class stuff tbh. RCB really have a task, a huge one in their hands now. I wish RR play this XI from now on -

R Tripathi
A Rahane
S Samson
H Klaasen
B Stokes
J Buttler
K Gowtham
S Gopal
D Kulkarni
J Unadkat
B Laughlin

 

[Ashutosh.]

Seems that Umesh Yadav is playing for RR.

 

[zwarrior]

Kohli Is a terrible captain. When kejroliya got buttler. He was still angry. Atleast he could admire his effort. but No, He always make that angry face like the match is over. With that mindset,If RCB lose Today. I wouldnt be suprised.

Woakes got Buttler. Not khejroliya.
And you missed the replay. After the ad break they showed that, kohli did go to woakes with a big smile and congratulated him.

 

[Targaryen]

I don't know why Sarfaraz, Negi were retainined, they do not serve any purpose. Negi didn't play the domestic circuit and I don't understand in what basis he was brought back using RTM card. Rahul was a much better option even if he costed 10+ crores. We could've managed with good 18 players rather than 24 players who don't perform.

On the other hand all the teams have batting strength down to no. 8 but RCB has just 5 lol. Too overconfident with the top 4. And the day like this, both 6 bowlers and 5 batsmen fail altogether. Samson was too good a player. With an ease he was clearing the boundary, that was magnificent. On the other hand Local bowlers in RR are doing the magic. All 4 batsmen fell to same length ball with similar dismissal. Hope we bring in better batsmen in the next game.

 

[Targaryen]

Fantastic batting by Washington Sundar and Mandeep Singh. They were awesome, Sundar has all the qualities of becoming an pure all-rounder and a finisher too. He needs the some guidance from some experts and he'll surely be an asset for national side.

We did lack some runs from top order, Baz and De Villiers' scoring 40 runs each would've been more than sufficient. Unfortunately they failed. Nothing wrong in batting department. The bowlers gave away more than 25-30 runs in death overs which turned out to be turning point of the match. Reminds me of finals between RCB vs SRH, Watson was the culprit there.

 

[SaiSrini]

A very very flat batting wicket here and CSK's bowling is looking very poor. Weird that Dhoni has not given Watson a go in the Powerplay overs so far. Chahar, Thakur and Harbhajan have all been below ordinary so far (rubbish most of the time). Looks like another brace for a huge total which CSK will back themselves to chase (and that too, taking it as deep as they can?).

Already Rajasthan have started defending totals. Will KXIP be the 2nd team today to do so? CSK need a miracle here to concede less than 200. A good thing in history was that, Gayle rarely got going against CSK (he used to be picked out early by the likes of Ashwin, etc.). Not the case today.

 

[Jalen]

With finch mayank Stoinis yuvi and miller that can come down the order with Gayle and Rahul opening proves my point with KXIP the most explosive batting lineup this year

 

[Jalen]

A very very flat batting wicket here and CSK's bowling is looking very poor. Weird that Dhoni has not given Watson a go in the Powerplay overs so far. Chahar, Thakur and Harbhajan have all been below ordinary so far (rubbish most of the time). Looks like another brace for a huge total which CSK will back themselves to chase (and that too, taking it as deep as they can?).

Already Rajasthan have started defending totals. Will KXIP be the 2nd team today to do so? CSK need a miracle here to concede less than 200. A good thing in history was that, Gayle rarely got going against CSK (he used to be picked out early by the likes of Ashwin, etc.). Not the case today.

Watson is a medium pace bowler, won't do anything different than chahar

 

[Gopal123]

i Hope yuvraj gets out quickly instead of playing dot balls.

 

[Jalen]

i Hope yuvraj gets out quickly instead of playing dot balls.

I wanted finch to come in, yuvraj is going to score 11 off of 18 balls[DOUBLEPOST=1523806387][/DOUBLEPOST]Anything lower than 200 is unacceptable