IPL 2012

 Make no mistake I just hate the IPL, still thought this is a 2 month long event and eventually we may have to post something on this.

Way too long...

My workmate's son is the physio for Pune.

Counting out Michal Clarke,Mathews and Samuels (I guess they will be doing national duties) still there are 10 foreign players

C Fergusson
J Hopes
N McCullum
J Ryder
W Parnell
G Smith
S Smith
A Thomas
T Iqbal
L Wright

Who do you play and who do you leave out ? Ganguly will have lot of problem while deciding the playing 11 (I mean they will use these guys in lower order).

Whatever , I want Uthappa,Pandey to open the batting , but I guess they will spoil it like last time. Ryder comming 1 down is a great threat for opposition.

If I had to select four overseas , then Luke,Ryder,N McCullum would be there to start with, while I try to figure out who would be the best fit for 4th spot.


Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 01 April 2012 at 3:33pm

Smith does not even need an injury to sit out methinks - he is ordinary

Graeme Smith was excellent for Rajastan in the first IPL, when Warne miraculously led them to victory. Since then he has been poor in the IPL from memory.

oh! Then Zuhair has mistaken that Steve Smith is having an ankle surgery,,, it's Graeme Smith who is undergoing an Ankle surgery! 

My bad - I only meant StevenSmith - never in my right mind am I going to call Graeme Smith ' ordinary '.

Yes Sam , the opening ceremony was as long and tedious as what I think will follow................. seventy-odd yawns over fifty-odd days.........I wish I could hibernate !

IPL is far more hyped, and involves many more international players than other leagues. It is difficult to ignore the IPL because the ICC goes out of the way to support it, if you see the FTP there is a virtual window for the IPL where mostly all other test playing nations are not having any other assignments. This is not the case for other T20 leagues, where we still have cricket going on.

Yeah it wasn't the biggest of crowds, today's match is packed though!

Yeah, brilliant from Morkel. He is just going from strength to strength in all formats, it was not too long ago that he was struggling. If he keeps up his consistency then Steyn/Morkel/Philander can be one of the all-time great Test attacks.

It really irritated me that Morkel didn't get the MoM award. It's so biased in favour of batsmen. Even yesterday with Levi getting the award ahead of the likes of Pollard and Ojha who bowled their 4 overs at around 4 RPO and took 2 wickets. Unless a bowler takes 4 or 5 wickets in his 4 overs, he never gets the award whereas all a batsman has to do is score a quick 30 and he gets it.

Only good thing about IPL is seeing some old favourites, like Gilchrist and co.

I was very happy that PW's won against MI. Steven Smith get the MOM and also enters into Ganguly's good books ... It is a two edged sword , Ganguly has tendancy to persist with a  player for long time even if they fail. 

Steven smith can be useful in shorter format , but I really think there are other players in PW team who need to play ahead... maybe , but if Steven Smith performs like this , then nothing can stop him from booking one spot in the team.