IPL Indian Premier League - General Discussion

[shravi]

Jadeja will come into his own soon enough, Dan. Don't you worry about that.

 

[King Pietersen]

Lol, Sharma. He won't get a game. If Warne won't pick him for a warm-up, he won't play in the proper tournament. Makes me wonder how good he really is, he can't have impressed in training, if he's been practising with the side anyway. Be a while till we see Sharma bowling in a game situation I think.

 

[Cricketman]

Warne rested a lot of key players. If Sharma is as good as he's hyped out to be, maybe Warne wants to unveil him as a secret weapon or something, not expose him before the tournament has even started.

I'm still keeping hope...

 

[King Pietersen]

Jadeja will come into his own soon enough, Dan. Don't you worry about that.

He's in my Fantasy XI, so he better. Was not impressed with what he showed today. Got spanked and didn't look much better than Yuvraj with the ball, and did nothing with the bat. He better improve.

Made a few changes to my Fantasy XI, it's now:

Brendon McCullum + (O)
Robin Uthappa
Yuvraj Singh
Jacques Kallis (O)
Suresh Raina
Manoj Tiwary
Albie Morkel T (O)
Ravindra Jajeda
Dale Steyn (O)
Murali Kartik
Zaheer Khan

Happy with that. Jajeda just hung onto his place, couldn't afford a better alternative.

 

[shravi]

Kallis? Are you sure about that?

 

[manee]

Lol, Sharma. He won't get a game. If Warne won't pick him for a warm-up, he won't play in the proper tournament. Makes me wonder how good he really is, he can't have impressed in training, if he's been practising with the side anyway. Be a while till we see Sharma bowling in a game situation I think.

There is a warm up tomorrow, in which I'm sure a lot of the other players will play.

manee added 2 Minutes and 6 Seconds later...

Brendon McCullum + (O)
Robin Uthappa
Yuvraj Singh
Jacques Kallis (O)
Suresh Raina
Manoj Tiwary
Albie Morkel T (O)
Ravindra Jajeda
Dale Steyn (O)
Murali Kartik
Zaheer Khan

Not bad. Not sure about Kallis, Uthappa, Tiwary, Jadeja and Kartik though.

Assuming that is the one on cricinfo, here is mine...

Gautam Gambhir
Virender Sehwag
Virat Kohli
Yuvraj Singh
Andrew Flintoff (o) T
Albie Morkel (o)
N Ojha
Amit Mishra
Dirk Nannes (o)
Harbhajan Singh
Dale Steyn (o)

Really happy with that.

 

[King Pietersen]

That one's not going to be televised though is it. It's not on the Setanta Sports listings anyway. Be gutted if Sharma plays and it's not televised!

Yeh, looking back I'm not too sure about Kallis myself, going to replace him with King Bopara, who's been tipped by Moody to play a key part in his teams tournament, so might as well get him in. Should be cheaper than Kallis as well, which could help improve another area.

 

[manee]

That one's not going to be televised though is it. It's not on the Setanta Sports listings anyway. Be gutted if Sharma plays and it's not televised!

Oh really? It is not being televised? That is a bit of a bummer!

 

[gudduthemaster]

LOL at RR today,what a loss
shilpa was disappointed

 

[King Pietersen]

Oh really? It is not being televised? That is a bit of a bummer!

Nah it's not, just checked the Setanta schedules and they've got some Premiership game on Setanta Sports 1 and some German football on SS2 =/ Which sucks quite hard. IPL > Bundesliga.

Right, made more changes to my team. This could become ongoing

Brendon McCullum + (O)
Gautam Gambhir
Robin Uthappa
Suresh Raina
Ravi Bopara (O)
Manoj Tiwary
Albie Morkel T (O)
Yusuf Pathan
Dale Steyn (O)
Zaheer Khan
Amit Mishra (has an immense T20 record!)

That better you reckon? Just a shame I had to lose Yuvraj really, wanted him in my side.

 

[stefan]

Of all the warm up games only todays is/was going to be televised here in SA. Nothing on super sport for any of the other warmup games and no other local will broadcast warmup games so pretty sure there won't be any other tv coverage for warmups.

 

[Ollie_H]

They lost!?!? It makes you wonder why they don't actually play a better strength team so they might actually win!

 

[manee]

Right, made more changes to my team. This could become ongoing

Brendon McCullum + (O)
Gautam Gambhir
Robin Uthappa
Suresh Raina
Ravi Bopara (O)
Manoj Tiwary
Albie Morkel T (O)
Yusuf Pathan
Dale Steyn (O)
Zaheer Khan
Amit Mishra (has an immense T20 record!)

That better you reckon?

Of course it is, why the hell did I show you my team, I wanna win this thing!

 

[deerkick]

How on earth is Atul Sharma going to bowl well if the last cricket match he played was when he was 16 (he's 23 now BTW)? I mean training for 3 years is fine and dandy but he probably won't have a variations or that "bowler brain" required for t20.

 

[Cricketman]

Manee, keeping Naman in there after his performance today? Looked at sea against the quick bowlers on the fast deck.