"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

CF wrote:COME ON SUNRISERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can we progress?

sadly i dont think we can, we have a fantastic bowling attack, but our batting line up is awful

WE MISS DHAWAN AND JP!!

you mean JP Duminy ?

where is he this season ?

yup we miss Shikar Dhawan

and JP duminy!

he's injured..he ruptured his achilles tendon against the aussies

CF wrote:yup we miss Shikar Dhawan

and JP duminy!

he's injured..he ruptured his achilles tendon against the aussies

Ohh OK ..It seemed long time back.
also surprised Graeme smith is not plaing IPL...but rather in county cricket this time

Dhawan should be available pretty soon. Disappointed to see Quinton de Kock failing in the 2 chances he got. Hopefully he'll get a few more opportunities.

Not sure T20 is necessarily De Kock's style.

I'm enjoying White's captaincy, which I think has been a cut above the rest so far, but he needs runs with the bat.

I was however disappointed with Mahmood's bowling to Perera. ON that pitch back of a length was the hardest to hit, but he looked for the blockhole and bowled length.

Also, why was Chawla at long-on in the closing stages? Poor captaincy by Gilly there...

Sporting pitches are making for much better and more interesting cricket overall though.

Mishra has been fantastic so far you have to say, and I've enjoyed Morris's bowling for CSK as well.

your joking abou DuKock mike?!

did you not see him in CLT20?

Mike, de Kock has scored over 1000 T-20 runs from 39 matches, 35 innings at a superb average of 35.46 and a brilliant strike rate of 139.44. His highest T-20 score is 126 not out. His first class record is superb, but his T-20 record is equally good. If anything, he hasn't done as well as expected in 50 over games. I hope SH would give him more game time and he'll come good.

Couple of big games today. CSK v KKR, and then RR v RCB.

IMO KKR AND RR will win

KKR won the toss and are batting. They have replaced wicketkeeper opener Manvinder Bisla, but not with Brendon McCullum. Laxmi Ratan Shukla comes back in, and Debabrata Das will be keeping wickets. CSK are unchanged.

Well, interesting from KKR, they have promoted Yusuf Pathan to open along side skipper Gambhir.

I stand corrected re De Kock. Having watched him first play for South Africa and now in the IPL I've thought his strokeplay seems a bit limited for T20, but obviously he's got by so far very well. Possibly he's been nervous and so afraid to play his more expansive strokes, or possibly he'll be found out by the step up in quality (the CL was awful).

Pitch looks slow and will only get slower. Good toss for KKR to win given their plethora of spin bowling options. New ball probably the best time for batting, surprised not to see any spin yet. I suspect yorkers won't be the way to go at the death, back of a length slower balls will be tougher to get away.

I like the idea to open with Pathan, IMO his most effective there

he made his IPL ton with Rajasthan, by opening.

3 quick wickets for CSK, and from 46 without loss, KKR are now down to 50-3. Gambhir, Kallis and Morgan are all gone.

Mike Selig wrote:I stand corrected re De Kock. Having watched him first play for South Africa and now in the IPL I've thought his strokeplay seems a bit limited for T20, but obviously he's got by so far very well. Possibly he's been nervous and so afraid to play his more expansive strokes, or possibly he'll be found out by the step up in quality (the CL was awful).

Think it has to be the case of being a touch too nervous with de Kock. Its not just in the CLT 20 that he did well, he did very well in the South African domestic T-20 tournament as well. Can't really say he is found out, he never got a decent time out in the middle, 10 balls for 2 runs so far. I hope its just starting trouble, and he'll come to his own in the near future. He and Chris Morris are the 2 players I had set to watch out for, Morris has been good so far though his opportunities with the bat have been rather limited. Among the Indian emerging players, I wanted to look out for Siddharth Kaul and Sandeep Sharma, as well as Sanju Samson. But they aren't getting much game time as yet.

Criminal from KKR, the 2nd run out. First Kallis, and now YKP!. CSK won't mind that at all!. 57-4 after 9.

KKR middle order is very poor, I think they need shakib, drop the sri lankan spinner,

KKR finish with 119-9 in their 20 overs.

Shakib won't be available for now, he's with his national side in Zimbabwe and would be available only during the end stages.

Well, if KKR and Gambhir surprised a bit by opening with Yusuf, Dhoni counterpunched better, its Ravichandran Ashwin opening the innings with Michael Hussey!!.

Ashwin can certainly bat, and he used to be an opener during his U17 days for his state side, but this certainly is surprising!.

Hussey has to be very careful with the running between the wickets!. That's one thing Ashwin doesn't particularly like!.

CSK are losing their way, the run rate is pretty poor, and they've lost 3. 40-3 after 9.

CSK have gone about this is the wrong way. Should have gone after the new ball a bit more. Ashwin was an interesting call, but I'd have gone with one of the more established hitters, maybe a Morkel or a Bravo, who may struggle to time it as it gets slower.

They may still get there, but they've made it tougher than it should have been.

Narine's final over may prove to be the key. Hussey and Jadeja rightly have decided they need to make the other overs count. Great blow by Jadeja.

Brilliant brilliant innings from Jadeja to see CSK home. Absolutely outstanding.

CSK made it tough for themselves to chas such a paltry score.
In the otehr game Rajasthan crashed to 117....

what a low scoring IPL this one is where 160 seems BIG like 200 used to be a in previous IPLs

Very happy to see Ravindra Jadeja do it again for CSK. He really is earning the respect, much deserved this season.
In the other game, RR failed to post a substantive total, but this time there was no royal messing from the Royal Challengers, Gayle took charge of the innings with a restrained and mighty effective innings, and despite no-shows from Virat and AB, they went through without much trouble. Gayle showing he can also play in such a different tempo, just 49 not out of 44 balls!.

MI v DD was the first game of the done and its just got done.
What a result for Delhi. They absolutely thrashed MI in a run chase of 161. 50s from Sachin Tendulkar(54) and Rohit IPL Sharma(73) saw MI score 161 -4 in their 20 overs.
Mahela Jayawardene promoted himself up the order to open, and the move worked wonders for DD, the skipper blasting 59 of 43, and Virender Sehwag also had one of those days and he smashed an unbeaten 95 of just 57, and the chase was done and dusted in just 17 overs.
I have always felt that Mahela is at his T-20 best while opening. DD had brought in Roelof van der Merwe and Venugopal Rao and the changes worked.

PW v KXIP is the other game of today, getting underway in half an hour.

Sehwag and Delhi are back with a bang.
Mumbai are being sunk by the forced greatness of Tendulkar upon them.....whose 50 odd at run a ball after 5 failures...wasn't good enough.

Pontoing and Bhajji are also liabilities...and MI will sink if they carry all 3 on reputation of old days

Luke Wright went beserk at the end of the inning for Pune

from the time I saw him hitting 5 SIXES in a yuvraj over....and that he can bowl at 130kph seam up has alwys made him my favourite for shorter form.

made 34 off 8 deliveries...and within a few inches of clearing for a SIX when he was caugth

what an innning....IPL throws up amazing display of talent

good to see Tendulkar finally make some runs for Mumbai, however Sehwag and Delhi blew them away in the 2nd innings!

It was sensational batting from Luke Wright, and Finch, who is captaining in place of Angelo, Yuvraj, Uthappa all chipped in, and PW has a huge score. 185. But KXIP are giving a spirited chase, Mandeep Singh and David Miller both have completed their 50s, and KXIP need 40 of 20. Easy if you are CSK, but lets see how KXIP will do.

29 of the last 2 overs. Miller and Mandeep still there. Bhuvneshwar Kumar finishes off with 1-31 in his 4 overs.

Now its come down to 21 of 10 as Miller finds the boundary of the first 2 balls from Dinda.

Good comeback from Dinda there, just 5 of the last 4 balls. KXIP need 16 of the last over. Miller on strike on 65, Mandeep is on 76. 2 set batsmen, 16 runs. Luke Wright it is with the last over, his efforts with the bat during the death overs were quite special, what has he got with the ball?

Just 2 singles of the first 2 balls, PW strong favorites now.

And now a 6 of the 3rd, its not over yet.

KXIP need 6 of the last 2 balls, David Miller on strike.

And Miller does it!!. Another 6 and the game's in the bag with one ball still remaining!.

So Wright was quite brilliant with the bat for his side, but he got it wrong with the ball!.

I have always felt that South Africa haven't given Miller a fair chance in the T-20I side despite showing lots of promise, hopefully he'll be able to make a stronger case for the national side through some good showing in the IPL.

And brilliant from young Mandeep Singh, he's only 20, but has already shown an ability to take up responsibility, captained Punjab for many games during the domestic season when Harbhajan was with the national team, and he has played with greater responsibility than any other KXIP batsmen in this IPL so far.

KXIP were 5-2 and 58-3, but they've managed a 7 wicket win in the end, terrific partnership that between Mandeep and Miller.

yes IPL is begining to see big scoring games

CSK v RR today. RR won the toss and are batting. Kevon Cooper and Rahul Shukla back for them, CSK brings in Jason Holder, in place of the injured Albie Morkel.

Watson's running away with it. 54 of just 29 at the moment, and RR are 71-0 after 7.
Ashwin strikes, Rahane gone. 71-1.

185-4. Huge ask for CSK. RR haven't lost many matches after putting up 160 +. A test of CSK's batting depth and power.

The CSK chase has been going on well, Hussey and Raina putting together a 90 run partnership in quick time, but now James Faulkner has taken out Suresh Raina. Is that the opening for RR? CCSK need 72 of 42. Dhoni joining Hussey.