IPL match thread - Page 11

Rabz · #**251** May 22, 2009, 12:42 PM

DC won!!!
what a game for them!! Go Gilchrist!!
Wooden spoon last year and they are one game away from lifting the trophy this year!!

Congrats to them!

BD-Shardul · #**252** May 22, 2009, 12:56 PM

I am just speechless. 85 of just 35 balls? I sometimes wonder why Gilly, Hydo, McGrath, Warne retired.

Sovik · #**253** May 22, 2009, 12:58 PM

mcgrath is really pissed off. won't be back next year

Purbasha T · #**254** May 22, 2009, 01:00 PM

C'mon Kolkataaaaa!

BANFAN · #**255** May 22, 2009, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BD-Shardul
I am just speechless. 85 of just 35 balls? I sometimes wonder why Gilly, Hydo, McGrath, Warne retired.

To play all games in IPL, Money.

The same reason of ICLers.

Ajfar · #**256** May 22, 2009, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BD-Shardul
I am just speechless. 85 of just 35 balls? I sometimes wonder why Gilly, Hydo, McGrath, Warne retired.

they retired just at the right time..they knew when to call it quit..they left with their heads high unlike our best test player

Nadim · #**257** May 22, 2009, 01:18 PM

to be honest Delhi deserve to be in the final.

*AsifTheManRahman* · #**258** May 22, 2009, 01:31 PM

So do the Chargers.

BD-Shardul · #**259** May 22, 2009, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BANFAN
To play all games in IPL, Money.

The same reason of ICLers.

Khater tola ar agor tola soman koiren na bhai. The Australians retired at the top of their form so that they can leave with their head high. IPL was not in their mind. Ar amader ICLer ra chorer moto retire korsey. Atleast they could have first asked BCB if they could play in the national team and ICL simultaneously instead of tendering resignation all on a sudden.

Sovik · #**260** May 22, 2009, 04:56 PM

did anyone hear what shewag said after the toss? it was the best response from gilly. he said they have beaten deccan four times in a row and 170 would be a good score cause deccan couldn't chase that last night

Murad · #**261** May 22, 2009, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rabz
DC won!!!
what a game for them!! Go Gilchrist!!
Wooden spoon last year and they are one game away from lifting the trophy this year!!

Congrats to them!

Bottom ranked teams of last year are semifinalists this year.

I liked the IPL this year. Lot of close games and lot of contests among the top 7 teams.

Tigers_eye · #**262** May 23, 2009, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by muradnyc
Bottom ranked teams of last year are semifinalists this year.

I liked the IPL this year. Lot of close games and lot of contests among the top 7 teams.

Just imagine if Haydous, McGrath and Gilly comes back and plays for Aus. Eendia'r hatey harikaan pura. Je kono ekta'rey jodi citizenship dewa jeto...

Zeeshan · #**263** May 23, 2009, 12:40 AM

Havent seen the game, but saw snippets of videos and all the hype surrounding him already convinced me he should be bought at any cost for our coach!

Clearly shows why I am convinced:

Quote:

Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils, IPL semi-final, Centurion
No holds barred
Sriram Veera in Durban
May 2009

Adam Gilchrist: Brilliant and brutal © Associated Press

It was once said of Brian Lara's batting that the opposing captain's only hope was to place his fielders in the gaps. Roughly the same thought would have gone through Virender Sehwag's mind today as he watched his bowlers being taken apart, brilliantly and brutally, by Adam Gilchrist . To reduce a Gilchrist knock to statistics is a crime but one number today tells a story: There were five dot balls in his 85. Just five. Within 17 balls, by when he had reached his fifty, he had killed the game and knocked out Delhi, the strongest team in the competition.

Gilchrist in full flow has to be one of the most pleasing sights in cricket. There is not a single ugly shot; the smooth arc of the bat swing and the clean hitting is what you take away. Through his career he has done the improbable - made happy both the purists and those who seek instant gratification.

Tonight, he exhibited his best, which was lapped up by a strong Centurion crowd. The white ball kept flying everywhere but the shot of the day was the one that never left the ground. He leaned forward to time a full length delivery from Ashish Nehra and it raced away through wide mid-off. Not that any of the other shots, barring a drag-pull, were anything but gorgeous.

The thing that most catches the eye is his extension of the arms. Where the traditional batsmen stop their arm-swing, Gilchrist's arms go cleanly through the line of the ball. You can only marvel at the absence of any self-doubt that allows him to play like that.

For, rest assured, any self-doubt in the mind would inevitably raise questions. What if the ball cuts away fractionally? What if it keeps slightly low or higher than what one expected? What if the length is fractionally shorter or fuller than what one thought? What if the pace is slower than anticipated? This is where it gets fascinating. Gilchrist has admitted that he is a very sensitive type prone to doubting himself in life; you can only gasp at the transformation when he has bat in hand. He is not a Keith Miller; with Miller or Sobers or Richards, the batting seemed a logical extension of their personality. Not so with Gilchrist. Perhaps it's the release from himself that he seeks while at the crease.

Gilchrist himself put it eloquently after the game. "All I have asked my team in the tournament is to make whatever is happening in that moment [while you are in middle] the most important moment in your life. The next delivery is the most important thing in your life because there is nothing else going around at that moment."

Nothing else but the sound of nerves shredding among the Delhi bowlers as they ran in. Yet you couldn't blame them. There weren't too many bad balls in the conventional sense; just a couple of full tosses, nothing wide or too short or too full. Even the two full tosses came at the free hits. The pressure to bowl the yorker or the unhittable ball must have eventually strangled them.

Only high-quality spin could have saved the day, as it did the other when Ramesh Powar bowled a magical ball to dismiss Gilchrist. Pace plays to his strength; to force the error, you have to make the adrenalin rush to his head by slowing it up and making him go after it. Delhi, though, didn't dare use Amit Mishra during the Powerplays. It was their only chance but Sehwag didn't want to take that risk. Perhaps it's a trick he missed; there's no guarantee it would have been effective - he could have disappeared for plenty - but given the seamers were so shell-shocked they didn't try a single slower one, that's the only thing he could have done.
...
But when Gilchrist is such a mood, who can say what is a match-winning total? There is no shame in losing to a dazzling act like this. It doesn't happen every day. Or could it? We have to wait for the final to find out whether Gilchrist has more fuel left in his tank.

Sriram Veera is a staff writer at Cricinfo

© Cricinfo

Highlights plz!

One World · #**264** May 23, 2009, 01:03 AM

Gilly the beast

One World · #**265** May 23, 2009, 08:53 AM

Getting ready for spin action.

One World · #**266** May 23, 2009, 09:53 AM

Parthiv Patel it is!

One World · #**267** May 23, 2009, 09:54 AM

The way chennai going they might reach 180+

One World · #**268** May 23, 2009, 09:56 AM

Kallis almost got Hayden

One World · #**269** May 23, 2009, 09:57 AM

Better bowling by Kumble though.

One World · #**270** May 23, 2009, 10:00 AM

The funny banner saying " We also need IPL in Zambia"

nycpro96 · #**271** May 23, 2009, 10:05 AM

can u gimme a link?

One World · #**272** May 23, 2009, 10:06 AM

Runs slowed down after Hayden got caught by Pandey. Now playing most bizarre cricketer of the world MSD.

nycpro96 · #**273** May 23, 2009, 10:07 AM

hope this becomes a good match

One World · #**274** May 23, 2009, 10:11 AM

Kallis got Patel. CSK in trouble now.

One World · #**275** May 23, 2009, 10:12 AM

Now Raina and Dhoni - almost like Indian Middle Order.