IPL 2014: Official Thread

[Carbine Chaos]

Tambe hattrick to follow up Watto. Crazy stuff.

 

[Ducky Tie]

Go you Royals.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

Surely that game last night was fixed???

 

[Zach Package]

went to bed when KKR were 0-91...

one of the better collapses you're ever likely to see. 6/2 in 8 balls, the 2 being a wide and an overthrow.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Collapses happen, even those as crazy as last night. Doesn't mean it was rigged.

 

[Pralaya]

Eh?

All the cases so far are for spot fixing, and not for match fixing.
Also, even if they are fixing matches, they wouldn't do obvious stuff like that.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

A naïve question but what did the likes of Sreesanth actually do? Front foot no balls?

 

[Pralaya]

A naïve question but what did the likes of Sreesanth actually do? Front foot no balls?

Spot fixing, yes. Give X runs in a specified over.

 

[Miqar_Baqfhied]

No place more deserving for that Sreesanth f*ckwit than a jail cell

 

[Carbine Chaos]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2014/content/story/742301.html

Sucks that NCN is out, but Imran Tahir is a great signing in his place for Delhi. We clearly lack class in the spin department and this will help immensely.

 

[Wallaby]

Maxwell is in insane form right now.

 

[JasRulz63]

Started a bit slow with 12 from 11 balls. Then proceeded to hit 78 off 27, average of 2.9 per ball which is crazy.

You know you're going well when Sehwag says he wasn't as destructive as you.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Pretty amazing form from Maxwell at the moment, I turned it off once he got out. Bailey must have played a decent knock as well.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

He's seeing it like a basketball. Got stuck into Ashwin good and proper.

Brilliant run-out from Johnson to get McCallum if you get a chance to see it.

 

[alfy!]

Jesus the timing of that shot at 3:20 is ridiculous.

 

[Cleavy]

can't get tired of watching Maxwell take down Ashwin and Jadeja

 

[Cleavy]

why would you rely on Pollard to bowl the last over of an innings? am I missing something here?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

why would you rely on Pollard to bowl the last over of an innings? am I missing something here?

I guess they had to bowl out their better bowlers before the last one even to give themselves a chance to win the game. Had to take the gamble.

 

[Cleavy]

I guess they had to bowl out their better bowlers before the last one even to give themselves a chance to win the game. Had to take the gamble.

Anderson (from NZ) isn't a better bowler than Pollard? Or pretty much the same?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Anderson (from NZ) isn't a better bowler than Pollard? Or pretty much the same?

Would be about the same. I'd go Pollard ahead of Anderson if it were up to me.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

So my pre-season moan about Viru was not on the money. He hasn't scored loads of runs but he hasn't wasted any balls either. Must be nice for Bailey to know that at least one of the openers will have a go from ball one.

 

[Zach Package]

hilariously bad death bowling by the bangers last night. Bowling length and width to smitty and faulkner is never going to end well

 

[The_Reaper]

Kohli is having a shocking tournament with bat and as captain

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Ashwin sent out in the middle of the innings to bat before Dhoni and Jadeja, interesting.

 

[Phone]

there are probably people out there who think MSD isn't the best at finishing which is nuts