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Re: Indian Premier League (IPL)

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My issue was with Samson and Shaw. Rohit is fine. I’m still not a fan of Hardik but that’s another matter.
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So, Hardik moves to #2 wrt SR after Jadeja and Dhawan and Kishan swap spots. Dhawan #7 and Kishan #8 (with qual avg. 25). Otherwise, the top 7 remains the same.
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So, now with yet another 0, Samson moves out of the leaderboard. The top 7 by SR (qual avg. 25) are:

Jadeja, Pandya, Mayank, Surya, Tewatia, Dhawan, Kishan, Dube, Rahul
Backup: Tripathi

It would be an interesting batting order:
Dhawan, Mayank, Rahul, Surya, Jadeja, Hardik, Tewatia, Kishan, Dube

With two more pacers. This is assuming that Jadeja, Hardik, Tewatia, and Dube will bowl 12 overs in the middle. Otherwise move Rahul to the backup and get 3 more bowlers.

It would be even more interesting if we have a Atithee-XI where everyone can bat + Bumrah

Dhawan, Mayank, Tripathi, Rahul, Surya, Jadeja, Hardik, Tewatia, Kishan, Dube, Bumrah

Even if you are five down, you can think of having five more batsmen after you. So, nobody does tuk-tuk. Go and fire off. Well, during bowling you get Bumrah, Hardik, Dube, Jadeja, and Tewatia with God serving as the backup bowler if someone has a bad day. I would not mind trying this XI and seeing what happens. The better keeper of Rahul and Kishan keeps. Is Kishan a good keeper?

In reality, Rohit and Kohli are locks due to political reasons though.
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I think we need to allow at least 5 foreign players in a team. Most of the youngsters are not ready and old guys past their prime keep playing. That just reduces the level of the league.

Of course, my preferred is to have an open IPL where as many foreign players as desired is allowed. And, a U23 league where again we allow as many foreign players to enable the youngsters to play against each other more regularly. Or make that U25. With each IPL team having a junior team in the U25 league. We are hardly developing the youngsters with the way it is now.
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Prithvi is in a rut. Which is okay. He is young. He will learn and be better because of this. He should be in the T20 India-A team though so that he gets more practice. Dhawan started well and seems to be back in form.
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Dhawan is really in splendid form. I watched his sparkling century on Sunday, although he was dropped off Jadeja twice in one over (the second chance would have been taken by a younger man than Watson), and dropped again later. But he capitalized on those, and has been batting superbly today too.

CSK are a team of old fogeys, and will have to rebuild from scratch next year -- after discarding the old guard. Jadhav shouldn't have played this year at all. Bravo (before his injury) should have batted too (not just becoming a specialist death bowler), and of course they missed Raina.
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Bizarre innings from Delhi. When you have the opener in such blazing form, you severely underachieve if you make only 164. Main culprits were Iyer , Prithvi, Pant, and Stoinis. It is like Dhawan and Gayle and the others (Hetmeyer) were playing on a different pitch (writing this after 5 overs of Punjab's inning). Crazy that Hetmeyer and Axar did not even get enough balls to tonk.
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Padikkal has fizzled a bit after a good start!

ABD is under-used by the captain, Kohli himself needs to step up his game between 7-15th over,and dominate the bowlers in the middle overs as well like he did for so many years. He is taking his role of being an anchor way too seriously.

And to complicate their batting woes and add further burden to RCB’s is that they don’t have any solid batter after either one of them so both of them are managing the work load for the entire team.
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In baseball here, they call it the sophomore slump. In the second year, people pay more attention to a player who has become a regular and has good results and work out his weak points. Then, they slump. The good ones overcome that. The bad ones are weeded out. A lot of analysts are going to look at Prithvi, Samson, Padikkal, Gill, Tewatia, Tripathi, Kishan, etc. more closely. They may have already compiled a dossier wrt Samson and Gill or Kishan, etc. But, Padikkal is very new. So, maybe he got worked out. Here's hoping he makes counter-adjustments to succeed. Just don't do it in the next game ;-)
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So Delhi Capitals have dropped Prithwi Shaw, and replaced him with Ajinkya Rahane, whose scores in the IPL this year are 15, 2, 8 and now a first-ball duck. Ponting is a dangerous guy to have as coach: he has clearly destroyed this young man's confidence (in the previous match, the commentators said he was a bundle of nerves before going out to bat). Exactly the opposite of what a coach is supposed to be doing.
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Is he trying to destroy the confidence of our test opener and get Rohit in? Already, Kohli is biased towards his buddy Rohit. Now they have done the job. Rahane is not that great in limited overs matches.

Interesting that Pant has been slow this IPL. Maybe he has been worked out as a limited player who can swipe across to the legside. Now the ball is in his court to adjust and become better. The IPL teams seem to be using a lot of analytics in the sense that I see people systematically utilizing finer-grained game plans. Great!
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Don't ever troll people for watching WWE Wrestling matches, after today’s games at IPL.
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Varun Chakravarthy is an interesting mystery spinner. He is 29 years old, and is now in his third iteration as a cricketer -- having tried to make it first as a medium-pacer, then as a 'keeper, then become a professional architect before plunging back into cricket full-time as an off-spinner who can also bowl leg-spin and googlies, plus other variations (very much like Ajantha Mendis when he started out). He took 5/20 in KKR's win yesterday. I don't think there was anything fishy about that.

I didn't watch the other match, but KXIP defending such a low score successfully may seem a tad suspicious. SRH has been involved in a few odd match outcomes, and yesterday's was one of the worst. Arshdeep Singh doesn't seem all that special -- a medium-pace swing bowler with several variations (good for T20). Chris Jordan proved the match-winner along with Arshdeep yesterday. Rajiv's allegation may have something in it...
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Not a single yorker bowled to Hardik in his last assualt, all full tosses and with lot of width, but still good clean hitting.
Earlier during the day, ABD & Kohli got admission in Tuk-Tuk Academy. :D
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Re: Indian Premier League (IPL)

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So Pandya shows that he is the biggest hitter in Indian cricket. The leaderboard (qual avg. 25, by SR cutoff 140)

Pandya 37@182, Jadeja 40@162, Samson 30@157, Mayank 40@155, Surya 31@149, Shikhar 59@148, Tewatia 45@144, Kishan 43@143, Tiwary 32@141.

I would like a hard-hitting team. Add two wicket-takers to this. Or drop Tiwary and take three strike bowlers.

The only other player whose SR is above 140 is Prithvi Shaw. But his avg. is 20.90.

The all-IPL XI batting order would be: Dhawan, Mayank, Samson, Tiwary, Surya, Pandya, Jadeja, Tewatia, Kishan, ... , Bumrah.

From this drop the newbies and send them to the A-team. So, Tewatia, Tiwary, Kishan and Surya go and we get Rohit, Kohli, and Rahul in. Not my choice but that is practically within the realm of possible. Although the selectors will also jettison Samson and possibly bring in Iyer plus an additional bowler.
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