Indian Premier League (IPL)

[prasen9]

New pace bowling talents is fully bulldozed in this IPL season, not a single one is looking impressive for international level.

Unfortunately. But, this is also only a few games. Among the ones who have got games, how have they done?

[prasen9]

Going by Impact/Match (at least 3 matches), the Indian leaders are:

Rahul, Kuldeep, S. Iyer, Piryansh Arya, Sai Sudarshan, Siraj, Hardik, Shardul, Vipraj, Rathi, Harshal Patel.

Interestingly, lots of bowlers now.

Sai, Rahul, S. Iyer, Priyansh Arya,

Hardik, Siraj, Shardul

Kuldeep, Vipraj

Rathi and Harshal can't bat at top 7 level. So, need a couple of batters. The next batter is Abhishek Sharma, who can bowl and thus is the sixth bowler. And then, Ajinkya Rahane! Rahane has actually been reasonable and batted fast ... Rahul keeps.

Among the young fast bowlers, Ashwani Kumar got chances and did very well. Although only in 2 matches. Hope he develops. He is left-armed. So, would be good to have.

Vipraj Nigam could be groomed to be a bowling allrounder.

[Rajkumar Sharma]

Where is Nitesh Reddy, Raj Bawa, Shivam Dube, Shankar....
the bowler ? Where are new pace bowling allrounders....like Arsin Kulkarni? It seems except Pandya all pace bowling allrounders has been chewed up by impact player rule.

[PKBasu]

I must admit I haven't watched a single IPL match on TV from start to finish this year. Only occasionally watched even replays. But noticeably, the bowlers have done a lot better after the first week or so, in which the batsmen were totally dominant. KKR has been complaining about pitches at the Eden Gardens not helping their spinners -- but curiously the GT spinners thrived on it in their latest match while the KKR ones struggled!

[PKBasu]

The on-again, off-again Prasid Krishna is having a banner season, leading the wicket-taking column with 16 wickets -- well ahead of everyone else.

[prasen9]

I must admit I haven't watched a single IPL match on TV from start to finish this year. Only occasionally watched even replays. But noticeably, the bowlers have done a lot better after the first week or so, in which the batsmen were totally dominant. KKR has been complaining about pitches at the Eden Gardens not helping their spinners -- but curiously the GT spinners thrived on it in their latest match while the KKR ones struggled!

KKR dished out a terrible batting lineup. Narine and Powell are regressing as expected. Ramandeep is not doing well and we should look at dropping him. Raghuvanshi is also on and off. They dropped a boat-load of catches off Rana.