"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

Chand...I have sadi before.....just doesn't hav the feet movement to play seam and pace.

Karan sharma is impressive....not quite like Mishra...but good young prospect.
Mohit Sharma......of CSK
and Sanju Samson

3 potentials emerged this IPL

The SH bowling again showing their quality. Half the DD side are back in the hut, we are into the 13th over, and the score hasn't gone too far either. 57-5.

Delhi needs to get to 110 and hope their bowlers can exert pressure

KPF, what do you think of Karan Sharma's potential in the longer formats? From the look of things, it seems he's more of a restrictive bowler than an attacking one. The other 2 can, with the right application, emerge as serious options in all formats.

72-6. Irfan and Botha at the middle. DD have 4 more overs to bat out, and put together a total of some kind.

Absolutely pathetic from DD, all out for 80 with 5 balls unused. Good chance for SH to push that net rr up.

pitch is not easy to score runs...but still it's a 120 pitch.

Delhi and Kolkata's decline is seemingly directly proprotional to the decline of Sehwag and Gambhir from the national side

A 6 wicket win for SH. And they won with more than 6 overs remaining. Crucial win for them, not only in terms of the 2 points, but also the boost in their Net RR.

CSK v MI and RR v PW today.
CSK restricted MI to only 139, but are in massive trouble at 10-3 after 3 overs in their chase. Vijay, Raina and Badri are all gone, Mitchell Johnson doing all the damage.

No Bravo goes, Suyal with the wicket. CSK 18-4. This one is slipping away so quickly. Could have been worse had it not been for the 3 back to back drops from Pollard. Yes, you've read it right!!. Pollard dropped Hussey, not ones!, not twice!! but a third time as well!!!, of successive balls!!!.

MSD or Jadeja haven't come out to bat as yet, Its yet another promotion for Ravichandran Ashwin, in at 6 this time and he does have a job to do here.

Pretty poor from CSK, all out 79, and MI win by 60.

sometimes..when he is too far lagging...dhoni and his team just gives up.
doesn't harm CSK.....bu benefits MI tremedously....not just points but big jump in NRR with a 60 run win

selectors should be embarrased to see the quality of Rahane on display today...that they left out.

Binny.....is no less a finisher than Eoin Morgan.........and he had a great Ranji and Duleep season also.....and his Papa is the chairman of selectors also....so the selectors cannot be blamed for ignoring him.
Time to give him a look in in the A tours atleast

RCB v KXIP today. Ravi Rampaul back for RCB, replacing Muralitharan, and importantly, Cheteshwar Pujara is back in action after recovering from injury. RCB are put in, and Pujara is opening the innings along with Gayle.

KXIP have brought in the Australian Michael Neser, who looks like some kind of an all-rounder.

51 of 48 for Cheteshwar Pujara on his return. Not the fastest innings, but provided solidity and stability at the top for RCB. and he has got out at a time whenAB de Villiers can come in and take charge, as RCB already have a platform, also thanks to Chris Gayle, who blasted 61 in quick time.

Well, AB de Villiers does it again, another last over murder, 21 this time of Neser, with Henriques also joining in with a hit of his own, and RCB finish with 190-3.

The KXIP chase looked going nowhere when they were down to 64-4. But David Miller, not for the first time this season, is taking the fight to the opposition. He's smashing them big here, and has rampaged his way to 67 of 28. His knock has now brought the chase within a manageable range, 53 of 30 balls. If Miller can stay through, KXIP is more than likely to chase down 190.

Just 37 of 24. KXIP's game to lose.

Well well well!!. KXIP have walked this at the end. Won with 2 more overs remaining. Miller finishes it off with a 6, and that took him to a 38 ball hundred as well!. Incredible effort from the young South African!.

Amazing game that, tend to watch a few overs of each game without getting too involved, glad I stuck with this one.

You expect Gayle to do itz.....but Gayle was at the recieving end today of an amazing Miller assault

from CI words from Miller's Dad...

Miller's father would have been a proud man, if he was watching in Durban. He gave his son an important piece of advice when he was growing up and tonight he followed it to the letter."If it's in the V, it's in the tree and it it's in the arc, it's out of the park," Miller senior said.

RR v DD and MI v KKR today. DD are batting against RR, and have already lost Sehwag and CM Gautam. Mahela and Warner with a job at hand, DD 24-2 after 4, Faulkner and Watson with the wickets.

A comfortable 9 wickets win for RR over DD. DD were restricted to 155-4 in their 20 overs with Ben Rohrer top scoring with 64, but thanks to 53 from Rahul Dravid and 63 not out from Ajinkya Rahane, RR finished off the chase under 18 overs to go to 2nd position on the points table.

KKR v MI just about to start. Balaji and Ryan McLaren back for KKR. Abu Necham Ahmed gets a game for MI in place of Pawan Suyal. MI won the toss and are batting.

msp83 wrote:A comfortable 9 wickets win for RR over DD. DD were restricted to 155-4 in their 20 overs with Ben Rohrer top scoring with 64, but thanks to 53 from Rahul Dravid and 63 not out from Ajinkya Rahane, RR finished off the chase under 18 overs to go to 2nd position on the points table.

Didn't Rahane bat superbly ?....he is not slogging and can handle the highest quality bowling thriuhg his technically correct play.....shame he is not going to CT
that square-driven SIX of Morne Morkel was a treat.......pure timing and a lot of class.

Dravid....boy he can still walk back into the Indian team

Shame indeed that Rahane is not really going to England. Also unfortunate he had a quiet early half to IPL 2013.

Sachin has got off to a quickish start, 23 of 12, but Smith hasn't got going as yet. He's 15 of 24. MI are 41 without loss in the 7th over.

kKR has disinetgrated......as has Delhi this year...the fortunes of these sides have faedd as their stars gambhir and Sehwag have faded

Another huge win for MI. Sachin Tendulkar led their batting charge with a 28 ball 48, and he was well supported by Dinesh Karthik with 34 of 18, and Dwayne smith with 47, all be it a touch too slowly, of 53 balls. Then KKR found the going tough right from the beginning, Gautam Gambhir failing to score at the top, and no batsman managing a substantial contribution and they were eventually bowled out for 105, handing MI a 65 run win.

now with one MoM he will hang on one more dead seaosn of ipl

Massive 77 win for CSK against SH today. After hitting quite a low in the last game, the CSK batting stromed back to top form, and put up 223 in their 20 overs, with Suresh Raina remaining not out on 99, and Mike Hussey smashing 67. SH where never in the chase, and eventually ended up with 146-8.

CSK are heads and shjoulder abaove the rest.......and the K.O format has been changed so a single bad game acnnot knock them out

RR v KXIP, a crucial game for the playoffs, and KKR v PW for today.
RR won the toss and are fielding.

A good innings of 77 from Shaun Marsh and a handy 42 from Adam Gilchrist helped KXIP set RR a chase of 147. Ajinkya Rahane continued his fine form of recent times, guiding the chase with an unbeaten 59. Sanju Samson, who was playing as a specialist batsman today, again made a valuable contribution, remaining not out on 47, playing some fine shots on the way. An 8 wicket win for RR, and they stay pretty much in contention for the playoffs.

KKR won the toss against PW and are batting. KKR have brought in Manoj Tiwary and Ryan ten Doeschate. And the impressive J&K all-rounder Parvez Rasool is making his IPL debut for PW.

First IPL wicket for young Rasool. Not a bad one at all, its Jacques Kallis.

Good debut performance from Rasool, 1-23 in his 4 overs.

msp83 wrote:A good innings of 77 from Shaun Marsh and a handy 42 from Adam Gilchrist helped KXIP set RR a chase of 147. Ajinkya Rahane continued his fine form of recent times, guiding the chase with an unbeaten 59. Sanju Samson, who was playing as a specialist batsman today, again made a valuable contribution, remaining not out on 47, playing some fine shots on the way. An 8 wicket win for RR, and they stay pretty much in contention for the playoffs.

Rahane is on the roll..in a purple patch.

samson establishing himself as the best new-comer in this tournament

Kallis angry and breathing fire.......bowling at 145kph

Well, another defeat for PW, KKR won by 46 runs. 50 from Gautam Gambhir, and a quick-fire 31 from Ryan ten Doeschate helped KKR to 152, and the PW batting folded for only 106, only Robin Uthappa and Angelo Mathews offering a little bit of resistance.

Pune is an embarrasement as Donald is finding out......it's one thing to be a solo super-perfomer....and anotehr to be a leader and get the best out of average to good players

DD v RCB today. DD won the toss and are fielding. Mahela Jayawardene is playing, but DD are led by David Warner in this game.

warner isnt captaincy material IMO...however Delhi are out so i s'pose it cant hurt to try him..

Virat Kohli had reached his 50 at almost run a ball, of 44 balls, but he ended up with 99 of 58, and AB de Villiers doing his usual stuff in the end overs, RCB scored 84 in the last 5 to end up with 183-4.
Sehwag and Mahela have got off to a decent start though, 24 without loss in 2.2 overs has to be quite good for DD, considering their recent performances.

DD are still in it. They need 55 of the last 4 overs, Unmukt Chand is well set, and he'll be key for their chances. Though RP Singh though, and that makes RCB the favorites.

Double strike from Unadkat, and both Chand and Jadhav are gone. DD 131-6.

Irfan and Morne haven't quite given up as yet. 17 came of Vinay's over, the 18th of the innings. 17 each of the next 2, and DD are through!.

It has come down to 14 of 4 balls.