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[LosingNow]

WARNE .. TAKE A BOW.. Mr Champion

[ramshorns]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

[LosingNow]

MSD talking to his team.. what a captain .. take a bow!!!

[chinaman]

What a game!!

RR take a bow.

I was supporting RR, though I really liked CSK as well.
But as the last over was being bowled, I realized, I was egging on an Aussie and a Pakistani to put it past an Indian bowler!

IPL rocks!!

[WicketView]

Why did Dhoni not keep?Congratulations RR!

[LosingNow]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

Seriously RAMS.. shove it up yours.. dont take this moment to criticize him...after this fantastic game. SILLY for you to do this.

[armchair_critic]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

seems like u had written this down much earlier ....
I thot he did well with the resources he had ...

[LosingNow]

YP was the difference... what a player.

This is great for Indian cricket

[prfsr]

great win for RR - they deserved it. I feel sad for Balaji - nobody could have defended 8 in the final over.

[WicketView]

Well, I am out of the loop here ... totally unaware of what was going on. I checked the scoreboard and found that PP was listed the keeper. Has this been the same way throughout the tournament ... if so how has he kept?

[ramshorns]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

Seriously RAMS.. shove it up yours.. dont take this moment to criticize him...after this fantastic game. SILLY for you to do this.

To quote you ofcourse I am being super-facetious.

But still I think he should not have used Balaji for more than 2 overs as he was not at all effective.

He could have tried some like Badrinath in the middle overs so that he had more options towards the end. 

There was a time when RR were uptight around the 11-12th over.

Anyway RR are the best team as they showed and am glad they won.

[ramshorns]

I do not know what Blwe thinks of YP after today's game.

[Aloo Kashmiri Ul Haq]

sharad pawar is getting 2x the attention from ravi shastri lol

[Aloo Kashmiri Ul Haq]

LEARN HINDI RAVI SHASTRI beepER beepER beepER

[keep-it-cool]

Rams LOL

Yusuf didn't finish the match today either ...got out. He is lucky to be on the winning side.

Blwe has no time for small excuses ...only champions.

[arjunah]

LEARN HINDI RAVI SHASTRI beepER beepER beepER         

Also english..he is said better luck to shane watson when he plays for australia

[ganavk]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

Seriously RAMS.. shove it up yours.. dont take this moment to criticize him...after this fantastic game. SILLY for you to do this.

To quote you ofcourse I am being super-facetious.

But still I think he should not have used Balaji for more than 2 overs as he was not at all effective.

He could have tried some like Badrinath in the middle overs so that he had more options towards the end. 

There was a time when RR were uptight around the 11-12th over.

Anyway RR are the best team as they showed and am glad they won.

...and Badri not being used optimally in batting also!

[poondu]

Hmm....What Happended to Dhoni the captain....Bad bowling changes.....More on that later....

Great Composure by RR.

Congrats.......

Seriously RAMS.. shove it up yours.. dont take this moment to criticize him...after this fantastic game. SILLY for you to do this.

To quote you ofcourse I am being super-facetious.

But still I think he should not have used Balaji for more than 2 overs as he was not at all effective.

He could have tried some like Badrinath in the middle overs so that he had more options towards the end. 

There was a time when RR were uptight around the 11-12th over.

Anyway RR are the best team as they showed and am glad they won.

...and Badri not being used optimally in batting also!

Seriously thats the only minor complaint I have against MSD. Why do u send Kapuwhatever ahead of Badri?

[poondu]

Why do we friggin think highly of mediocre foreigners.. silly silly silly .. CSK may have lost this game because of this idiotic move

I am going through the thread now only. This is the biggest mistake...

[RicePlateReddy]

Bowling Balaji in the last over (especially based on his form in the semi-finals and in this finals) was not good strategy. Under-utilizing Badri also shows up in this game.

It is not clear that avoiding these two moves would have definitely mattered -- but my point is, when Dhoni's gambles paid off earlier some people were over the moon with saying he has an uncanny knack, intuitive read of the game yada yada, when it was mainly the luck of the draw. To his credit, Dhoni always behaved as if it were positive thinking and  fortuitous results, than imply it was the result of some great insight.

As long as Dhoni does not allow the pressure to get to his play and productive returns, he deserves to continue to be the captain and get a long run.

[gouravk]

mm .. yes .. i was thinking for a moment .. dhoni might bowl himself !!!

[Blwe_torch]

I do not know what Blwe thinks of YP after today's game.

He did make a difference to the fortunes of the RR team for sure.
Great hands-eye coordination........reminded me of another of his earlier state mate Atul Bedade. Poor Atul must have played his cricket in the wrong age.
Also Shahid Afridi in his prime was like Yusuf Pathan.
I hope and wish, YP can carry on playing just the way, he is playing now.

[achutank]

congrats RR that was a great game for 20-20 circket and the spirit shown by warne throuhg out the tournament and making ateam out of the lowliest priced individuals surely will become legendary as this tournament grows in stature

and of course dhoni for showing his skills to the full

[gouravk]

mmm .. i agree ... he needs to prove himself at international level ... altho this opens up the question as to what qualifies as international level ... i envision a future not too far off where 50 over cricket will be extinct ... t20 will be in this format - clubs - and international cricket will be restricted to test cricket.

so where will yusuf fit in all this in the indian scheme of things ?

[LosingNow]

Why do we friggin think highly of mediocre foreigners.. silly silly silly .. CSK may have lost this game because of this idiotic move

I am going through the thread now only. This is the biggest mistake...

BTW, I can think of 2 other instances where other captains exhibited this malaise and suffered the consequences - SG's over-reliance on Hafeez's batting ahead of promising local talent like Saha and VVS' use of Symonds in that fatal final over against RR when he was clearly having a bad day. I am sure there are other instances.
One thing the RR's success and KKR/DC/BRC's (and CSK in the final) non-success showed is that one ignores local talent at their own peril. I think the franchises will dig deep into the local talent pool next year.

Also, Dhoni (and CSK) knew all along that their bowling was thin.. he should have developed/tested this aspect of SB/Raina (the regulars) during the league phase by giving them opportunities..so that he could go to them, if needed, at crunch time.
--
BTW, the opposite scenario played out in Mumbai.. making HS a captain ahead of SP was again a decision influenced by non-cricketing reasons.

[LosingNow]

I do not know what Blwe thinks of YP after today's game.

He did make a difference to the fortunes of the RR team for sure.
Great hands-eye coordination........reminded me of another of his earlier state mate Atul Bedade. Poor Atul must have played his cricket in the wrong age.
Also Shahid Afridi in his prime was like Yusuf Pathan.
I hope and wish, YP can carry on playing just the way, he is playing now.

I disagree with your comparison of YP with a younger Afridi. The 2 sixes he hit of MM and couple of other 4s were classical shots.

In the spectrum of current fast scorers .. I would put a Marsh on one extreme (say left) - classical, orthodox, technically correct shots with more timing than reliance on power ...and an Afridi on another extreme (say right) - blindly swinging at everything and relying more on power than timing/technique. In this spectrum I would put yuvi left of center, Yusuf Pathan right of center and current-day Viru slightly right of Yusuf.

[kban1]

Yusuf Pathan right of center and current-day Viru slightly right of Yusuf

slightly left of Yusuf, me thinks

[gouravk]

agree with kban

[LosingNow]

Yusuf Pathan right of center and current-day Viru slightly right of Yusuf

slightly left of Yusuf, me thinks

I think current-day, ODI opener VS is more of a slogger ..even more than YP. In tests, i agree

BTW, i think Asnodkar is a bigger slogger than YP.. more to the right of YP

[Blwe_torch]

The younger Afridi too looked like a genius many a times....u may have forgotten. .......................very similar stand and deliver action, just as YP is exhibiting now.

[cricinfo]

Yusuf Pathan right of center and current-day Viru slightly right of Yusuf

slightly left of Yusuf, me thinks

I think current-day, ODI opener VS is more of a slogger ..even more than YP. In tests, i agree

BTW, i think Asnodkar is a bigger slogger than YP.. more to the right of YP

Asnodkar reminds me of the SL W/K Kaluwithawarna,same kind of shots he plays

[gouravk]

exactly

shane warne said he has it in him to open for india in ODIs and TESTS !!!

[keep-it-cool]

exactly

shane warne said he has it in him to open for india in ODIs and TESTS !!!

lol if warne had his way, all the indians in jaipur will play for india .. jadeja and salunkhe are also champions according to him ... whatever, he must be making them feel like a million bucks