Showing posts with label ipl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipl. Show all posts
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Breaking news (not)
Robin Uthappa can't bat for nuts. Just batted a maiden over from Malinga when the same bowler went for 17 runs in the previous over. Uthappa is Bangalore's John Buchanan.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Robin Uthappa was
(I feel like a jackass. This post was supposed to go up long back but I procrastinated. Had I posted on time the post would've shown my cricketing acumen and foresight :) )
IPL 2 continues to be miserable for the Royal Challengers. They hardly look like a team. They are just a bunch of people out there waiting for the match to get over. Too bad for Mr. Mallya. Yes, they did beat Rajasthan Royals pretty comprehensively and in matches post that have come close to favorable results but have successfully managed to stay away from the clutches of victory.
And the one big reason for that is that dude, Robin Uthappa. He seems to have totally forgotten how to bat, field and on top of it they got him to keep wickets. Ask for a sure short recipe for disaster. Am beginning to lose faith in all these foreign coaches who would make you believe their bizarre ideas are well thought out strategies. What can possibly explain keeping Boucher out for Uthappa. I mean on one hand you have a player who's proved himself umpteen times and on the other one who can't bat for nuts.
Uthappa on bench will augur well RCBers. The sooner the better.
P.s Finally Uthappa was made to sit out and RCB won the match. Hurrah!
IPL 2 continues to be miserable for the Royal Challengers. They hardly look like a team. They are just a bunch of people out there waiting for the match to get over. Too bad for Mr. Mallya. Yes, they did beat Rajasthan Royals pretty comprehensively and in matches post that have come close to favorable results but have successfully managed to stay away from the clutches of victory.
And the one big reason for that is that dude, Robin Uthappa. He seems to have totally forgotten how to bat, field and on top of it they got him to keep wickets. Ask for a sure short recipe for disaster. Am beginning to lose faith in all these foreign coaches who would make you believe their bizarre ideas are well thought out strategies. What can possibly explain keeping Boucher out for Uthappa. I mean on one hand you have a player who's proved himself umpteen times and on the other one who can't bat for nuts.
Uthappa on bench will augur well RCBers. The sooner the better.
P.s Finally Uthappa was made to sit out and RCB won the match. Hurrah!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
IPLed
This is season 2. And I am gradually taking to monster Modi's creation, the IPL. I am from Punjab and live in Bangalore but seeing some of my favorite cricketers across teams I can't quite decide on my loyalties yet. But if I have to take sides, I'd vouch for RCB because there's Dravid, DD for Sehwag, and MI for Sachin. Also, I support Dada, but not his team owned and run by friggin turds.
The matches have been pretty interesting thusfar with the race for semifinal berth hotting up. And some fine performances from those thought of as ill-fit for this format of the game. Dhoni's frequently delivered banality, 'it depends on how you play on that particulr day', stands true in this format too.
But this is IPL it's not all about the matches and it's certainly not deprived of some of the usual irritants. The biggest being that dumb Bedi lady. She is reason good enough for you to hurl anything heavy in to your TV. I mean seriously if there are cricket fans out there who want to watch some skin they'd rather use the 7.5 mins break to find something more worthwhile on a different channel.
Who can forget the old bore team of commentators, Bhogle and Shastri. My hair stand, just like in the Anchor ad, every time Bhogle doles out another one of his crappy platitudes. Heard him say the longest 'huge' today, for a moment i thought there was some production problem. Please spare us Mr. Bhogle.
Back to the cricket Mumbai Indians just wrecked the match for themselves. They were going pretty fine till the half way mark and then began the collapse. Shikar Dhawan's really a waste, Abhishek Nayar has to be promoted up the order.
For now.
P.s. Harsh Bhogle's been up to something... sample this (verbatim)... "big, big, big, it's coming in to me.... aaaaaaahh"
The matches have been pretty interesting thusfar with the race for semifinal berth hotting up. And some fine performances from those thought of as ill-fit for this format of the game. Dhoni's frequently delivered banality, 'it depends on how you play on that particulr day', stands true in this format too.
But this is IPL it's not all about the matches and it's certainly not deprived of some of the usual irritants. The biggest being that dumb Bedi lady. She is reason good enough for you to hurl anything heavy in to your TV. I mean seriously if there are cricket fans out there who want to watch some skin they'd rather use the 7.5 mins break to find something more worthwhile on a different channel.
Who can forget the old bore team of commentators, Bhogle and Shastri. My hair stand, just like in the Anchor ad, every time Bhogle doles out another one of his crappy platitudes. Heard him say the longest 'huge' today, for a moment i thought there was some production problem. Please spare us Mr. Bhogle.
Back to the cricket Mumbai Indians just wrecked the match for themselves. They were going pretty fine till the half way mark and then began the collapse. Shikar Dhawan's really a waste, Abhishek Nayar has to be promoted up the order.
For now.
P.s. Harsh Bhogle's been up to something... sample this (verbatim)... "big, big, big, it's coming in to me.... aaaaaaahh"
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