I have no doubt about that but...
Question is who will bell the cat? Surely not Sharma ji because he's also going through tough phase at least in IPL. Dravid and Rohit should team up if necessary otherwise i don't know.
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Oh well Sharma ji ka ladka proving a point tonight.
I also don't think that Rohit Sharma is in any situation of saying something about dropping Virat Kohli from the team because obviously he is also not doing really well in the IPL and talking about such things can put him in danger. I think Virat Kohli should also think about this and make a decision otherwise he is just causing the Indian team problems than providing any solution.
Mumbai Indians are batting well today and probably this can be their second win in the IPL. But I am not so sure because it has only been 12 overs and Mumbai Indians have also started losing wickets. That happen when some players become more powerful than the board or when institute lack decisive leadership. Even Sachin didn't enjoy this much of power despite being backbone of Indian cricket for so long. |
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This is the phase where lower ranking teams could perform slightly better than the rest, might even surprise us at times. That's how it goes in the long tournament, otherwise it would be dead state of affair. We need more drama to spice things up, may be more controversy.
Well said. I never expected Gujarat to not score 10 runs from 7 balls when they still plenty of hitters remaining in their squad. Sudarshan hit wicket and a couple of run-outs towards the end made it feel like this match was fixed to some extent. Daniel Sams is an average bowler and he actually managed to give away just 4 runs in his final over which is seriously bizarre. Looks like @teosanru grabbed pole position currently. I guess no one expected that Daniel Sams could actually defend 10 runs against Miller, Tewatia and Rashid but surprisingly he did. I also had no hope when i saw Miller and Tewatia batting at the crease and went to bed early, only to check in the morning that MI won the match. I'll watch some highlights now. It seems Gujju's luck is running out now. |
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For this to happen someone need courage and backbone, so that they can approach former captain and inform him that he's dropped from the T-20 squad due to poor run. May be Rohit can pass the word but he's also not performing with the bat in T-20. Anyway i'm not worried about Virat's form in T-20 but Test format. I really want him to come back in the whites with daddy 100s. I think the youngsters that might replace Virat Kohli do have the courage to do so because we all know that young people are Fearless and that's why they can achieve great things that a lot of experienced people cannot. His being in the team at this moment with a really poor form does not make any sense at all. I have no doubt about that but... Question is who will bell the cat? Surely not Sharma ji because he's also going through tough phase at least in IPL. Dravid and Rohit should team up if necessary otherwise i don't know.
Edit Oh well Sharma ji ka ladka proving a point tonight. |
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Delhi did cross the 200 mark but this 207 score doesn't look daunting at this surface. We shouldn't forget that 200+score at this same ground is not big deal, 1 team already chased down mammoth total once so it's not impossible and SRH do have fair amount of chance. Good to see Warner scoring runs against his franchise (SRH  ), after all he was prominent face of the SRH's setup for many years. And that's another loss for me. It's becoming more and more difficult to predict the winners and the margins as we get closer to the playoffs stage. I would have bet on DC if I knew beforehand that Natarajan got injured and wouldn't be playing since he is the best bowler in their line-up currently. SRH are sinking currently while DC are rising back to the top. This is the phase where lower ranking teams could perform slightly better than the rest, might even surprise us at times. That's how it goes in the long tournament, otherwise it would be dead state of affair. We need more drama to spice things up, may be more controversy. Looks like CSK are out of the playoffs race along with MI. Crazy to think that these two heavyweights are out of the playoffs race so early. The big changes to this season were phenomenal and made a huge impact overall.
It's still tough for RCB to qualify at this point, but they have some hope now thanks to this win. Extremely entertaining season so far.
Chennai's future depends on next(Gujrat Titans) top 3 teams points. They would hope that next 3 teams get stuck at 14 points along with them, that means lots of "If and Buts". They would also prefer if qualification comes down to NRR. Although seems highly unlikely scenario considering every team is playing 14 matches each and majority of them do have at least 4 more matches to go. RCB on the other hand got only 3 matches left so they are in tricky situation atm. CSK is out let's just accept that fact, creating imaginary scenarios using calculation is a sign of a true fan  however practically these miracles have a extremely low probability of happening. I do see the tournament currently too skewed, until now it looks as if GT and LSG are surely going to make it, but for the next two spots there is a big fight between 6 teams primarily, with RR in the best situation and KKR in the worst. Tomorrow's match is just a fixture has no relevance for the points table, while the match day after will be a decider if PBKS loses I think their road to playoffs will become tough Haha not a CSK fan tho but it's a shitty and funny feeling to see 2 heavyweights throwing towel just like that and i was just flirting with the idea. |
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You got it so right. Its very hard to spare a.complete day for ODI and impossible if you have a job to spare 5 days for test match. Back in 90s life was not that busy so we can spare time for ODI and test back then. T20 held at night are best to watch and enjoy. May be we have T10 taking over T20 in coming days. Big fan of T20 format here. But still I would say that T10 is not my cup of tea. When you have 11 players in each of the teams, 10 overs is just too little. That is just around 5 balls per player. I just hope that we refrain from further reducing the duration. T20 match lasts for 3 hrs on average, and that is fine with me. Slightly longer when compared to average football match, but it is tolerable. T10 needs a few changes to its format. If we want to make T10 more interesting, then there should be only 6 players per side. You can't have a 10 over match with 11 players on each team. I don't think the cricket in the world needs T10 right now, even if it is needed you should be way into the future where almost nobody has enough time to watch cricket for even three hours. I really don't think t10 is going to require too much skill as everyone will just go and smash the ball. right now the T20 format is alright and one-day internationals are a good mix of skill and smashing. but I do think that if ICC wants a lot more teams to play cricket they really need to promote t20. I'm also not a big fan of T-10 in international arena but at the same time T-10 types of tournaments are ridiculously famous in Gully/local cricket. I'm sure 99% of fans grew up playing such type of 10-12-15 overs matches, i know i did. So may be T-10 doesn't have any place right now but i do see some space for this format in future. |
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Too early to say whether Kohli is back in form or not.
This is very worrying sign for India and i hate to say that Kohli is turning out to be disaster. He did score 80ish runs in last 2 matches but it wasn't typical Kohli's knock. He's considered master in rotating strikes in any situation but that's hardly a case nowadays, just look at his recent Strike rate. I don't think India is going to worry that much because they do have players to substitute him. and as he is not in the form I really don't think there is any reason why he should be playing in the national team playing 11. he should play every match in the IPL so that he can show some light of hope but if he can not I think he should be dropped from the team. I am still hopeful about Virat Kohli and I think he is just putting too much pressure on himself and that's why his performance is not good at all right now. let's see what he can do in the IPL till the end of the tournament For this to happen someone need courage and backbone, so that they can approach former captain and inform him that he's dropped from the T-20 squad due to poor run. May be Rohit can pass the word but he's also not performing with the bat in T-20. Anyway i'm not worried about Virat's form in T-20 but Test format. I really want him to come back in the whites with daddy 100s. |
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Delhi did cross the 200 mark but this 207 score doesn't look daunting at this surface. We shouldn't forget that 200+score at this same ground is not big deal, 1 team already chased down mammoth total once so it's not impossible and SRH do have fair amount of chance. Good to see Warner scoring runs against his franchise (SRH ), after all he was prominent face of the SRH's setup for many years. |
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Test cricket is a very high skill-based cricket format and it is not entertaining at all for the viewers. I really don't see how people are going to watch test cricket at night after a long day in the office or at work. so I don't think test cricket being played at night is going to bring many viewers to the ground. Do you watch Ashes, it is one of the most viewed series and if it is not entertaining why would someone watch those. There are certain series that the fans watch and it is a battle between the bat and ball and only skillful players can be consistent and even in that regard it is entertaining for me. The Ashes is considered pinnacle of test cricket and it's surely interesting event but i would argue that it's not competitive series at all, when playing in Australia. In England yeah it's competitive one for sure. But not in Australia. The kind of show poms put up there, it's downright embarrassing. Ofc it's funny to watch Poms getting belted by Aussie but after 1-2 test it becomes boring affair. |
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Too early to say whether Kohli is back in form or not.
This is very worrying sign for India and i hate to say that Kohli is turning out to be disaster. He did score 80ish runs in last 2 matches but it wasn't typical Kohli's knock. He's considered master in rotating strikes in any situation but that's hardly a case nowadays, just look at his recent Strike rate. |
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Looks like CSK are out of the playoffs race along with MI. Crazy to think that these two heavyweights are out of the playoffs race so early. The big changes to this season were phenomenal and made a huge impact overall.
It's still tough for RCB to qualify at this point, but they have some hope now thanks to this win. Extremely entertaining season so far.
Chennai's future depends on next(Gujrat Titans) top 3 teams points. They would hope that next 3 teams get stuck at 14 points along with them, that means lots of "If and Buts". They would also prefer if qualification comes down to NRR. Although seems highly unlikely scenario considering every team is playing 14 matches each and majority of them do have at least 4 more matches to go. RCB on the other hand got only 3 matches left so they are in tricky situation atm. |
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You guys remember recent controversy, where one prominent Indian Sport Journalist (Boria Majumdar) threatened Wriddhiman Saha for not giving exclusive interview. There was fair amount of outrage from the fans in favor of Saha.
Kinda funny story. Initially Saha didn't name the Journalist but he shared the screenshots of chat on Twitter. Twitter/Fans found one interesting typo "ypu" instead of "you" . Boria had a habit of writing "you" as "ypu" and well haha Some of the journalists in India have a habit of behaving like emperors. Perfect examples are Suhasini Haidar and Barkha Dutt. The NDA government has managed to cut them down to size, but some exceptions remain, such as Boria. He is not just a journalist, and his influence is spread over the political and movie circles as well (similar to some of the other journalists mentioned earlier). In the end, Wriddhiman decided that enough was enough and came out with a complaint. Boria got a two year ban from the BCCI as a result. He can't enter cricket stadiums or contact players for a period of 24 months. I am sure this guy might not be the only one doing such things. There might be others too but other players might not be like Saha. This incident and action taken by BCCI will give courage to other players too. Journalist now know their limit and would avoid such incidents. Problem is these kind of journalists get backing from the BCCI officials/Politician, just to tighten their grip on system. There should be serious repercussion for those officials too, otherwise another journalist is going to replace the Boria. In near future we might not hear such cases in public domain but hardly anything is going to change when in closed rooms. |
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You guys remember recent controversy, where one prominent Indian Sport Journalist (Boria Majumdar) threatened Wriddhiman Saha for not giving exclusive interview. There was fair amount of outrage from the fans in favor of Saha.
He started his career if I am not wrong with NDTV and was last seen working for India today. A sports journalist threatening a cricketer, LOL. BCCI doing it right for a change by banning him for two years. This will end his career as he was majorly was into cricket and every sports journalist in India is into cricket as it generates revenue for media channels. Idk much about his past but he does have such a punchable face. I've never liked his coverage because he always come as jerk who think that "i know everything" and looked down upon other journalists and fans. He's the same who kept leaking the inside stories of selection committee and dressing room (3-4 years) because he was very close to Dada. Would be great if BCCI extend this ban to 5 years and complete boycott to this moron, this include ICC tournaments/ipl exclusive interviews. |
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You guys remember recent controversy, where one prominent Indian Sport Journalist (Boria Majumdar) threatened Wriddhiman Saha for not giving exclusive interview. There was fair amount of outrage from the fans in favor of Saha. Kinda funny story. Initially Saha didn't name the Journalist but he shared the screenshots of chat on Twitter. Twitter/Fans found one interesting typo "ypu" instead of "you" . Boria had a habit of writing "you" as "ypu" and well haha  |
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I am sure the English board would have discussed his mental health and would have also discussed it with doctors and then only they had given him this responsibility. If still he losses his mind during the upcoming match then he might lose his career at this time. I think they will either choose Stuart Broad or Jos Buttler as the vice captain. I am not sure whether the England Cricket board evaluated and consulted his doctors before giving him the captaincy. The upcoming series will determine whether Ben Stokes will be able to perform well as a captain and whether he will be able to deliver his performances and if he is able to do that it is well and good. Jos Buttler could be the Vice Captain. There is no high profile series on the roaster. (Ashes is considered High profile there)  - 1 off test against India ( India is leading series 2-1 atm) - Then they have home season i guess. South Africa, NZ and yeah away tour of Pakistan if everything goes well. |
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@Royse777 good on you and Bitlucy.com Btw what about those, who are touching new heights on consecutive loses repeatedly and keep honing their skills? 1st : Little Mouse
 me Well it's very much possible in a parallel universe or may be some of us already topped the table and RCB won the title with Kohli winning the Orange Cap, followed by Rohit the next top scorer .  Anyhow my name isn't on the top list in terms of point as well as scoring. So, i was not gonna get the compliment announced by @Royse777 Again I've ordered for an orange cap, I want to check if I can be on the top once after wearing the cap. This is current standing in recent round. We still have 2 matches to go in this round, you leading the point table is possible if you manage to hit the bull's eye in both matches with bonus points. Given other participants abstained both the matches or lose. Easy peasy  |
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ICC very much interested in increasing the revenue that's why they lobbied hard for at least one ICC tournament every year. Problem is they only want to milk the Indian market, for example deliberately trying to push ICC media rights auction before IPL's media auction.
Simply handing over Test status to countries is not solution. Test format is a dead cow except for few countries. Limited overs cricket, especially T-20 is the future. IMHO They should make qualification process easy and go ahead with 16-20 countries T-20WC tournament.
At start there is a possibility that it won't be profitable because you have to subsidise new participants. Also it could turn into financial disaster (like 2007), plus bit dull tournament at times due to mis-matched fixtures but in a longer run it could solve many problems because cricketing market would mature in those new countries, given ICC playing its cards right (like involving locals, publicity etc) but for this to happen ICC have to bite the bullet.
I really don't see the point of increasing the number of tournaments instead of trying to increase the number of teams that are playing cricket regularly. The same amount of fans is going to be bored of cricket if the same thing was on again and again. And yes test status is just not an option and if the revenue is needed to be made bigger I think ICC needs to introduce more and more countries to ODI and T20 cricket. Not safe investment at start but imo it should be reasonable solution if you're looking at big picture or focusing on long term goal (spreading the game). Sure some fixtures are going to be dud but that's part of the deal. Also fans have the loudest voice regarding why aren't there more teams in the WC. |
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@Royse777 good on you and Bitlucy.com Btw what about those, who are touching new heights on consecutive loses repeatedly and keep honing their skills? 1st : Little Mouse
me Well it's very much possible in a parallel universe or may be some of us already topped the table and RCB won the title with Kohli winning the Orange Cap, followed by Rohit the next top scorer . |
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- Virat scoring runs, finally! At ridiculously slow pace but we're still celebrating.  - MI won finally! But birthday boy Rohit was found guilty of eating Vadapav again. - Ashwin treating IPL as his experiment lab, he did new funny thingy yesterday. - Jadeja gave up on captaincy already due to his poor run, indeed big setback for him. CSK went back to Dhoni. Even though Virat Kohli scored at a slow pace he finally had a break through after two ducks which questioned his place in the Indian team. Rohit Sharma is yet to find his touch and it is good to see Mumbai breaking its jinx . The change in captaincy somehow changed the complexion of the team as the opening partnership scored 182 runs and they score above 200 runs and it looks like the change in captaincy will change their fortunes. I hate to say but no one has backbone to replace out of form Rohit at top and Kohli at number 3. Fair amount of young blood putting up good show for everyone, despite limited opportunity. I just hope that they get some chances in upcoming bilateral series for more exposure, if not in T-20 WC. Let's see who finishes on top soon people.
1st : Little Mouse 2nd : eaLity 3rd : Me - Virat scoring runs, finally! At ridiculously slow pace but we're still celebrating. - MI won finally! But birthday boy Rohit was found guilty of eating Vadapav again. - Ashwin treating IPL as his experiment lab, he did new funny thingy yesterday. - Jadeja gave up on captaincy already due to his poor run, indeed big setback for him. CSK went back to Dhoni.
 This really had me laughing when I saw the replay, if a fast pacer would have done this thing, It would have made sense that he wants to deceive the batsmen with the pace, but a spinner bowling from so behind doesn't makes a lot of sense to me atleast. But despite this you can't deny the Ashwin is the most innovative bowler in the world currently. Even if the track is not turning he can deceive you with the pace or with the pause in the action or with an offspin in between those carrom balls or the worst case could be he will just mankad you Innovator, exploiter, Reformer, Chainbreaker. This is India's response to ICC dumb rule book. |
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Simply handing over Test status to countries is not solution. Test format is a dead cow except for few countries. Limited overs cricket, especially T-20 is the future. IMHO They should make qualification process easy and go ahead with 16-20 countries T-20WC tournament.
You cant simply create quality T20 team from no where. Unless you have a domestic setup where test and odi is played only then you can create a T20I team. The problem is new countries are not willing to join in and teams of usa, uae, germany are made up of immigrants from South Asia. Fair amount of associate nations have some sort of domestic setup. Not perfect but set up is there, which facilitate different types of Amateur leagues. Test and T-20 format are completely different beasts and requires different types of skillset. Shorter format is easier to adapt in comparison to Test format, that's why random countries regularly play T-10 or T-20 instead of 4day test match. |
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DanWalker's query was related to ICC (international stage) vs IPL revenue.
I wanted to point out that ICC earn less amount of money due to this main reason (based on ICC tournaments like T-20 WC, WC).
- Only BIG 3 fixtures generate enough money in ICC tourney, mainly India.
- Rest of the fixtures in the ICC Tourney are not profitable, barring few.
- IPL revenue only depends on the local market, which is already big.
Thanks for clarification. You are right in saying that ICC revenue is far less then what IPL is generating. ICC these days is not much interested in increasing its revenue by adding more countries to cricket pool. ICC can't earn huge unless he has atleast 30 to 40 countries as regular test teams. ICC very much interested in increasing the revenue that's why they lobbied hard for at least one ICC tournament every year. Problem is they only want to milk the Indian market, for example deliberately trying to push ICC media rights auction before IPL's media auction. Simply handing over Test status to countries is not solution. Test format is a dead cow except for few countries. Limited overs cricket, especially T-20 is the future. IMHO They should make qualification process easy and go ahead with 16-20 countries T-20WC tournament. At start there is a possibility that it won't be profitable because you have to subsidise new participants. Also it could turn into financial disaster (like 2007), plus bit dull tournament at times due to mis-matched fixtures but in a longer run it could solve many problems because cricketing market would mature in those new countries, given ICC playing its cards right (like involving locals, publicity etc) but for this to happen ICC have to bite the bullet. |
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