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Post by newby on Mar 26, 2024 10:27:33 GMT
It might be a bit more subtle than that.
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Post by newby on Mar 27, 2024 17:19:12 GMT
Sunrisers managed a mere 277 in their 20 overs this afternoon. Mumbai Indians currently 182/3 off 14 overs. This might be a good pitch.
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Mar 28, 2024 7:36:20 GMT
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Post by karma on Mar 28, 2024 7:36:20 GMT
Over 500 runs scored in an IPL game , now that is something. I'm sure for the crowd it was fabulous, exciting ,one boundary ,massive six, nearly run-out-going-for-the-suicidal-second-run etc etc.
I don't regard T20 as my favourite cricket ( some don't regard it as cricket at all) but I come to Headingley (and sometimes Notts) ignore the loutish behaviour, the excesses around the game and enjoy the tempo and magnificent catches, clean bowling , manufactured shots from nothing and if it's a Yorkshire win, especially,I go home happy.
A bit like some meals though , really tasty but over too quickly and leaving me hungry for cricket. But that IPL game with a feast of over 500 runs in 40 overs , that's almost gluttony,
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Post by slowleftarmer on Mar 28, 2024 8:17:43 GMT
Not for me - sorry.
I suppose in a round about way it highlighted the value in paying mega bucks for good bowlers with only Cummins and Bumrah going at under 10 an over but the bit I heard on the radio summed it up when the commentator was blaming the Mumbai defeat on Pandaya for only scoring at a rate of 120 and if he had scored at 200 it would have been a closer game. No mention of losing the game due to the bowlers going at over 15 an over then
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Mar 28, 2024 10:12:57 GMT
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Post by karma on Mar 28, 2024 10:12:57 GMT
I've yet to watch an actual IPL game SLA, as I tend not to watch televised games. I'll go to Headingley and occasionally Trent Bridge (daughter lives in Nottingham) for T20 as I do like live sport.
Given a choice I'd prefer Championship games and the One-Day Cup over T20 and I've really fallen out of love with Test Cricket as I think the supporters are being short-changed on expensive everything, short games and disappointing team selections
But as I've paid for T20 in my membership and I live near Headingley, I'll go to watch the 20 overs a side game rather than TV.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Mar 28, 2024 11:15:30 GMT
As the rest of the world starts to move towards increased use of Artificial Intelligence, the IPL will surely go down a similar route and rather than Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Rabada, Boult etc costing them huge salaries, they will move towards developing better bowling machines that can do the job of the bowlers, without the mega buck salaries, risk of injury or withdrawal on a whim when a national board decides their player needs to rest and recuperate for a tournament 4 months away.
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Post by newby on Mar 28, 2024 19:14:44 GMT
9th game today and the 9th straight home win, Rajasthan Royals, featuring Jos Buttler getting not many, beat Delhi Capitals.
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Post by newby on Mar 31, 2024 11:14:21 GMT
Grinding on, some runs for YJB yesterday which will have come at some relief. I actually started watching it when I saw he had made a good start but he was out soon after. He looked to be struggling in the half a dozen or so balls I saw him play and got himself out. His team fell away badly from 101-0 at the half way stage and lost convincingly.
Former player David Willey has withdrawn himself from the IPL for personal reasons. Buttler, Salt, Livingstone, S Curran and Bairstow playing the rest of the England contingent warming the bench.
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Post by newby on Apr 16, 2024 18:38:49 GMT
I was tempted to watch the last couple of overs of a run chase today, first time for a while. Josh Buttler bringing it home for the Rajasthan Royals for an improbable win. My wife watches it, I put it on the radio in the kitchen and now and again, less often these days, go to watch a close finish.
I'm pleased the BBC are sticking with the County Championship on R5SX most of the time over the 4 days it's on. I expect when the IPL gets close to it's conclusion they might be tempted to change that policy.
Anyway, point of bringing it up is that Glenn Maxwell has pulled out to concentrate on his well being and mental health. Watching just that bit today it does seem to get more and more manic as the years roll by and I don't blame him.
One consequence of the game paying silly money to the players is that the very top earners will increasingly feel able and financially secure enough to take decisions like this.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 17, 2024 7:55:20 GMT
the Buttler knock was fantastic - he was dead on his feet, but his quality of clean hitting, his experience in those situations, and his fearlessness at not being phased by having to chase a huge total were all phenomenal.
There were more dot balls in the last 3 overs than the rest of the innings put together (well nearly!) as Buttler bravely and correctly turned down singles to keep the strike, but then smashed the boundaries needed.
Was probably one of the best IPL games I have watched, although some of the bowling continued to resemble pie chucking
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Post by newby on Apr 17, 2024 9:17:20 GMT
It turned out well but I'm not a fan of players turning down runs. Brave call though, he would have looked silly if they had lost or missed a Super over by 1 run. But they didn't and another Hollywood ending. If Rajasthan had been the home side I'd have been suspicious.
The competition does seem a bit short of decent bowlers this year, perhaps 2 per team with the rest pie chuckers. Maybe that's the recipe they have come up with in order to create maximum excitement.
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Post by newby on Apr 26, 2024 18:01:08 GMT
After being dropped and then told he ought to come home, of course Jonny Bairstow has found a way to answer his critics.
Chasing 261 to beat the Knight riders, YJB smashed 108 off 48 balls, 8 fours and 9 sixes to pull it off easily, Punjab Kings ended up 262/2 with 8 balls to spare. Just got back to catch the last couple of overs.
I'd taken my wife to York Hospital eye clinic for an appointment and got there about the same time as the heavy shower that probably arrived at Headingly about 45 minutes later. It certainly chucked it down and I feared it was heavy enough to cause some disruption to Yorkshire. Didn't think it would end play for the day though.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Apr 29, 2024 7:35:32 GMT
and then a ton for Will Jacks, so thats Buttler, Jacks and Bairstow all with IPL centuries this season
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Apr 29, 2024 7:47:04 GMT
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Post by karma on Apr 29, 2024 7:47:04 GMT
Well that looks good for some of the potential England players for the T20 World Cup which starts in just over a month.
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Post by newby on Apr 29, 2024 8:19:44 GMT
Yes initial 18 man squad picked tomorrow Tuesday. I expect those 3 plus Salt, Livingstone and Curran (S) who are also at the IPL. I can't remember if Mooen Ali has retired from International cricket or not, but if he hasn't him too.
Brook of course, who should have been there, and I hear mutterings that Jofra Archer may get into the 18, before another niggle in his shoulder drops him out.
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