IPL 2012

New Sahara stadium at Pune looks awsome.Simply superb under lights and jam packed crowd with wave of blue home crowd fans.

I wanted DC to win, I was hoping that Rohit gets out the last ball... ( though Rohit is my fav, not much of MI fan (coz MI is a threat to my favourite teamls  ) and moreover I want all teams to win equally and don't want few teams to race ahead ). I don't know how many here saw the match, but I guess second last ball was actually run out which umpire missed and gave benefit of doubt to batsman.The bat was clearly in air when the bails got disloged.

On the other incident, Bhajji might get fined (rightly so)... He should know that he cannot conduct like a school kid against the umpires. There is a way to show displeasure and there is a way to deal with such situation when umpire has done a blunder. You can still maintain your cool and still have a decent converstion with the umpire, can't simply barge into umpire like a school kid getting angry over a wrong decision.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 09 April 2012 at 7:52pm

Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravidboth are 40 years near by but that captaincy is excellent in ipl game,i hope dada leadership job is brilliant   

ah! one UNBELIEVABLE run chase by Chennai... 45 off 12 balls and they do it!!! Albie Morkel is so brutal when he plays for CSK, hardly see any of this when he plays for RSA.

Same nothing new in this its their habit and i will clearly say that the reason behind BD not coming to Pakistan is BCCI/India nothing else. 

Panjab  will do better today

Sam, we know the harsh reality between Pakistan and India.  Many Pakistani's are jealous of Indians and vice versa.

I know a guy who has a cricket business in Pakistan that manufacture cricket gears for a few brands.  I did commend him on his gears, as I tested some and they were good.  He then told me, he wants to prove that Pakistan makes better gears than India. 

The guy really has to be out of his mind, Pakistan definitely stand no comparison to India in cricket gears when it comes to making soft goods.  Pakistan do make some great bats, otherwise, India probably makes everything else better.  Have anyone tried an SS gloves compare to Ihsan, CA etc?  There is no comparison.  Even Gray Nichols get some of their gloves made in India, just to show the supreme skills of the Indians in making soft goods.

Just can't help but write about the spell Dale Steyn bowled today again in a losing cause, one of the best T20 spells you'd ever get to see, Dale was absolutely brilliant, his first over was as good an over as one would bowl... also not far behind is Morne Morkel who bowled a match winning over under pressure to give his side a win today, although I didn't saw that game.

Back in IPL-1 , Shane Warne projected Watson as a one of the main man for RR along with few others.He allowed him to express himself and gave opportunity and responsibility at the top.Outcome - to a great extent Watson's career simply flew post IPL-1 like never before. (No doubt he was good player even before that )

He was seen as an allrounder but not quite of a great quality, but post IPL-1 all that seemed to change. Full credit to Warne's genius in getting best out of player by motivating them.I personally feel that post IPL-1 he is achieving more than his capacity.

Why that talk now ?.....

Well , Steven Smith seems to be in similar career changing form under Ganguly here at IPL-5. Frankly I would not have given him the opportunity ahead of Luke Wright, Tamim Iqbal, Nathan Mcullum and few others.

Maybe he is hitting the ball too well in the nets to be ignored.Whatever, Smith he certainly grabbed his opportunity with both hands.

I have actually found this edition of IPL to be a below par, esp as compared to previous editions, this comment has nothing to do with my dislike towards IPL, I just feel this year we have seen a lot of predictable stuff and the games have lacked the, what do call, say the entertainment factor.

i think this has by far been the best edition, well i didn't bother much with earlier years only some superficial interest but been following this one closely not that i planned to but the matches are just too much of a treat to miss.Teams are much or less evenly matched this year with so many matches have gone down to the wire where you cant predict any of the three results before the last ball is bowled.

DADA should retire as early as possible. he can be advisor of PWI. he is no doubt a very good captain but his batting is poor. only captaincy cannot win the match. look at the sehwag, he is not a good captain but he is playing well and his team winning the match. whatever you do, ultimately the winning is the main target.

It sounds that dada is showing much of his dadagiri. Utthappa seems to be upset due to change of his position and since then just trying and purposefully playing slow. Saurav should stop all the dadagiri and just concentrate on his captaincy by taking team in confidence because that what he can do well and leave the rest to the great Pune team player.

There is something seriously special about this IPL-5. Punjab were simply cruising towards the score vs RCB today, when suddenly flurry of run outs made way for an interesting last over.... Another classic!

Originally posted by spin wizard Or another match fixing classic??? Any of you guys seriously believe that all so many games can get so close??

Greatest compliment that any cricket tournament can get.

Yes this tournament has had so many close finishes that it is hard to believe that it has not been enacted. Can't help the matches have been so close and interesting that people will speculate about it.

However I am damn sure none of the matches are fixed. It is just that teams are evenly balanced , and by now teams know the conditions and used to it now.

On a side note , this year many Test matches too had a great classic finish, don't know if someone speculated that to be fixed ... I wouldn't for sure!


Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 03 May 2012 at 4:02am

With dew factor and underlights, while trying to get a yorker there is very little margin for error.Even in international matches it has happened so many times ... Yorkers have gone horribly wrong.