"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

well 137 target is defendable given the strength of Hyderabad...and I'd like to see them go throuhg to knock outs today

3 semifianlists decided......

Mumbai and Chennai are top 2 and Rajastahn will finish either 3rd or 4th

good to see Hyderabad win today.....one of the few sides come so far on the strnegth of bowling

Mumbai go down in a dead game....whihc will be remebred as the last game of Gilchrist....and he struck with his first ball as a bowler and hangs his boots with a stupendous win.
The man after a slow start......pulled his weight...scored runs and Gilchrist goes out on a high

RCB take the title 'flat track bullies' to the next level...

RCB hammered the chennai bowling...and Dhoni messed up the chase when he opened with Vijay and Hussey.
The moment they played 2 quite overs...maztch was lost.

they needed to put Raina, Bravo, Dhoni and Jadeja in the top4

anyway....hyderabad's game tomm is their quarterfinal knock out...if they win they are through.....simple..and I'd like to see them go throuhg

hardworking hyd through i am glad to see them and rajasthan in sf....totoises beat the hares

CSK thrashed MI by 48 runs, and makes their 5th IPL final. Thanks to fine, unbeaten 80s from Mike Hussey and Suresh Raina and their 140 run partnership, CSK posted a huge 192-1 in their 20 overs. Dwayne Smith took the attack to the CSK bowlers at the beginning of the chase, but ones Ravindra Jadeja took him out and followed it up with the big wickets of Dinesh Karthik and Kiron Pollard, MI's challenge got over rather quickly. Bravo too proved very hard to get away and picked up 3 wickets as well.

goodybye Mumbai- again.

RR defeated SH by 4 wickets in the eliminator to set up a final qualifying game against MI. SH posted 132 in their 20 overs, with handy contributions from Shikhar Dhawan, White and Sammy. Their quality bowling unit made it difficult for RR with the chase, with the top half of the batting lineup getting dismissed within the first 10 overs. But Brad Hodge summoned all his experience, maintained a cool head and stayed through to finish the chase off. He received from solidity from Sanju Samson and James Faulkner, and Shane Watson had some quick fire runs. Hodge finished it off with 2 back to back 6s of Sammy and RR won with 4 balls remaining.

Mumbai choked....expectedy...and they might go down the drain against Rajsthan.
I feel for hyderbad...who went a long way proving sum of parts is greater than individuals...and also reaffirming faith that good bowling can superceded batting prowesses

Really enjoyed the RR-SH match. Although I find the celebrations of the likes of Sammy/Bravo/others sometimes a bit silly (it's fine to do it the odd time, but...). I agree with KP_F (which is happening more and more often...) that it's nice to see a side rely primarily on their bowling. But for a very good innings from Hodge, they would have pulled it off, no doubt about it.

Commentators claimed that the umpire's poor call on the Steyn leg-side wide cost them the match, which I found frankly insulting. Steyn bowled a poor over, that was nothing to do with the umpire. And then Sammy bowled a long-hop with fine-leg up and a short leg-side boundary. Ditto. Sure, it was a bad call, but by no means the worst display of skill we saw in the last few overs.

I think the semi-final between Mumbai and Rajasthan is an interesting match-up. My gut feeling is RR lack a genuine quality bowler (Faulkner has done pretty well, but he's not world class yet by any means). On the other hand they have a few batsmen who can win matches on their own.

N. Srinivasan is under serious pressure to resign and the final is in doubt after a senior CSK official - Gurunath Meiyappan - who also happens to be Srinivasan's son-in-law was arrested in connection with the ongoing fixing investigation.

IPL rules suggest that if the owners of a team are shown to be corrupt the team should be withdrawn with immediate effect.

Srinivasan is sinking by every minute...he was so far protected by sharad pawar.....a powerful union minsiter....wo had the backing of sonia gandhi.

so we've gotta see how long these powers above continue their support to srinivasan and risk their own image being tarnished.....now that his son in law is arrested.

To me srinivasan is gone.......we've gotta see how fast...tomorrow...or can he drag this for a week or so ?

and we've gotta see wether he will resign or will be fired or in the worst case arrested.

So Is the IPL sport or sports entertainment

Is the IPL in tatters? Match-fixing rumours rife, and a very one-sided final.

well Mumbai win finally.....in the end......coming of age for Rohit sharma........pay back for the millions that Ambani has pumped into the team.....

on the other story........it seems srinivsan traded horses with the rival Dalmiya faction and save his back...at least for now

and Tendulkar announces his retirement from IPL.......a bit late...he did well to sit out under the guise of injury in the last leg of the tournament.

From 58/8... This IPL is either the greatest event in the history of sports in terms of unexpected twists, or weve been had...

kingraf wrote:From 58/8... This IPL is either the greatest event in the history of sports in terms of unexpected twists, or weve been had...

By thta notion every revival / any lower order partnership can be doubted.

Neverthlss IPL with liquor flowing, women, glitterati from bollywood, socialites mixing with the players in the after parties of IPL.......is a perfect breeding ground for bookies n brokers...esepcially given that betting is not legal in India.
and the easy to catch are the fringe players form the domestic circuit....lowly paid......aspiring to live the "hiigh life" all around them.
neverthless I don't think it is possible to fix the over all outocmes of the games.

that said there is too much of filth at the management level of IPL...that needs to be cleaned up...and in the interest of the Billion dollar brand sustenance ......it will be cleaned up.

Has it finished?

KP- My problem is not the 58-8 in isolation, its the fact that IPL6 seemed to stagger from remarkable feat to remarkable without a pause. Look, Gayle scoring 175 vs Pune is believable, he is the best t20 bat in the world, and most Pune bowlers shouldnt be anywhere higher than club cricket. But, when it happens in concert with all these other dodgy events, I need to start doubting. Imagine watching EPL, one week Chelsea comes back from 4-0 down to win 6-4, thats pretty cool. But then the next week David de Gea saves three penalties in a row. Then Rosicky scores twice from the halfway line in the same match. Then v Persie misses an open goal sitter against West Ham, if these shocking anomalies, which we should be lucky to see once a season are what happens week in week out, especially if there was a match-fixing bust, then doubts need to be raised.

kingraf wrote:KP- My problem is not the 58-8 in isolation, its the fact that IPL6 seemed to stagger from remarkable feat to remarkable without a pause. Look, Gayle scoring 175 vs Pune is believable, he is the best t20 bat in the world, and most Pune bowlers shouldnt be anywhere higher than club cricket. But, when it happens in concert with all these other dodgy events, I need to start doubting. Imagine watching EPL, one week Chelsea comes back from 4-0 down to win 6-4, thats pretty cool. But then the next week David de Gea saves three penalties in a row. Then Rosicky scores twice from the halfway line in the same match. Then v Persie misses an open goal sitter against West Ham, if these shocking anomalies, which we should be lucky to see once a season are what happens week in week out, especially if there was a match-fixing bust, then doubts need to be raised.

I agree....if one or two matches are found to be fixed...then you doubt the whole series.

But so far it has only been proved that there was spot fixing.....whihc was also proved in some county games and the Eng-Pak test series.
we don't starting doubting the whole county championship.....nor the entiire Eng-Pak test series.

so by the same rationale we should not doubt the whole IPL.

That said.....Mumbai Police has found that ICC knew of involvement of srinivasan's SIL with bookies....and questions are being asked whey ICC did not come out in the open......

there is a lot of rot still to be exposed...sad...but good that a thourough cleansing is on the horizon

the secretary, the treasure of BCCI have resigned on moral grounds...and 5 VPs of the board have threatend to resign.......it's a matter of time before Srinivisan goes......a major phenomenon if it goes throuhg.

I alos strongly believ that when ( and not if anymore) srinivasan is gone...he will be criminally prosecuted