IPL: Lets say bad things about it....

Players like Adam Gilchrist who retired from international cricket 5 years ago and still continue to play (at a mediocre level).

Scorecard from Azhar Mahmood's team's match looks quite strange as well. Some Faulkner guy won the man of the match award despite being very expensive with the ball, one of his 2 wickets was a number 11 batsman.

This to me is even more suspicious than RP's no ball...

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2013/engine/current/match/598014.html

Chris Gayle(lhb) 156 off 57 balls.

30 ball century.

furriner wrote:Chris Gayle(lhb) 156 off 57 balls.

30 ball century.

Jesus forking chroist! That's something.

AB with 31 off 8 balls.

Brass Monkey wrote:

furriner wrote:Chris Gayle(lhb) 156 off 57 balls.

30 ball century.

Jesus forking chroist! That's something.

Yeah was something to see.

****** hell. Crazy....

Kumar and Wright 8-0-49-1
the rest 12-0-211-3

Well. Just seen it. Took about a half hour to play it all. That was something else. Savage doesn't begin to describe it. It's quite a tall stadium and he canned the rooftop a couple of times and ploughed one miles out of the stadium. Most of his sixes went to the top tier, in a variety of areas. His leading edges were going for six. What a mental innings.

T-ball.

Take it for what it is. Credit where it's due. You have to hold your hands up. In all fairness. If wishes were horses the beggers would ride. If my auntie had big hairy bollocks she'd be Uncle Kevin. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Don't feed them after midnight. Dammit Chief, this is our investigation! If you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas. It's always darkest before dawn. I'm a loner, Dottie, a rebel. Go ahead, make my day. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied.

T20 is always about witnessing a freaky performance rather than caring about the result.

154 out of 175 in boundaries may count as freaky

Stunning innings!!

"Pitch is nice and hard" says Srikkanth, "So it should be great for de Kock".

That'd be the best thing to come out of T20 this year.

Virat Kohli on the Mumbai crowd wrote:"I don't know what is wrong with people in this venue. It feels a bit weird because at the end of the day you play for India and you don't come here to be hated," Kohli said. "It has happened to a few players in the past as well. I don't know why they get so worked up during IPL. IPL is not the end of the world. They forget that the players they are booing for also play for their country.

"It is only creating hatred among the players. When I come back and play for India, they are going to cheer for me. It doesn't work that way."

'Sook'? Prem players get vile hatred every week then (sometimes) don't get vile hatred when they play for England the next week.

Watson & Faulkner show some decent form. I guess the English are really worried now.






Or not.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Virat Kohli on the Mumbai crowd wrote:"I don't know what is wrong with people in this venue. It feels a bit weird because at the end of the day you play for India and you don't come here to be hated," Kohli said. "It has happened to a few players in the past as well. I don't know why they get so worked up during IPL. IPL is not the end of the world. They forget that the players they are booing for also play for their country.

"It is only creating hatred among the players. When I come back and play for India, they are going to cheer for me. It doesn't work that way."

'Sook'? Prem players get vile hatred every week then (sometimes) don't get vile hatred when they play for England the next week.

Could learn a bit from Gayle in the be a c*my and don't give a fark stakes.

tricycle wrote:
Could learn a bit from Gayle in the be a c*my and don't give a fark stakes.

Or just stop acting like a sherbert.

Or get f*cked in the face by a transsexual. Couldn't do any harm

tricycle wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:

Virat Kohli on the Mumbai crowd wrote:"I don't know what is wrong with people in this venue. It feels a bit weird because at the end of the day you play for India and you don't come here to be hated," Kohli said. "It has happened to a few players in the past as well. I don't know why they get so worked up during IPL. IPL is not the end of the world. They forget that the players they are booing for also play for their country.

"It is only creating hatred among the players. When I come back and play for India, they are going to cheer for me. It doesn't work that way."

'Sook'? Prem players get vile hatred every week then (sometimes) don't get vile hatred when they play for England the next week.

Could learn a bit from Gayle in the be a c*my and don't give a fark stakes.

http://www.firstpost.com/sports/ipl/fans-who-jeered-kohli-went-too-far-gayle-736975.html

i wonder what happened to the 'we are all indians' speech when kohli and gambhir did their twats-at-twenty-paces routine in one of the earlier matches. you're playing ipl, not for india. you play for bangalore. not bombay. get over it

Heh, funny stuff from Gayle.

It is one of the few IPL matches I have seen this season and I didn't see anything wrong wit the run out.

I didn't, tbh. Just found the whinging at jeering soft. I did watch yesterday's match and it was shite.

when are the finals? feels like it has been going forever...

Nath wrote:when are the finals? feels like it has been going forever...

26/05/2013.

Yes, that's right - they've hosted the tournament from 03/04/2013 to 26/05/2013.

Yes, that's right - they think it OK that almost all international cricket is stopped for a domestic tournament for 53 days.

53 days.

Yes, they think the cricketing world at large wants to watch 53 days of sub-standard cricket. They think, in a country where the most avid of fans get sick of this tournament, that the whole entire world will be interested in this insignificant tournament which consists of some pretty poor cricket for 53 days.

Over 70 matches - yes, that's right, over 70 matches played.

I, personally, find it a really, really huge disgrace.