Archer might just make it to the WC squad.. but my word he is an absolutely rubbish fielder.
IPL 2019
- Thread starter Edgar Allan Pillow
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What the feck does Ben Stokes do?
Yeah agree about Stokes completely. He should be batting three in the RR side and given time to build an innings. He's not a slogger at all.
Also, as you say, should never be a death bowler as he doesn't have the composure.
You seem not to have read the brackets?
' has not had a terrible tournament with the bat'
No doubt he hasn't bowled well (again though, Im baffled why he's being asked to bowl at the death), but he's only faced 81 balls in the entire tournament, and although his strike rate and average aren't amazing, they are fine. He's a top order player, rather than a Russell type player, but he's coming in too low and being asked to hit from ball one. It's not his game.
I think for the price he was purchased at, you'd expect more. His best innings was at number 6. He's had ample time in the recent games to build an innings but both times (today and against CSK), he's failed.
Yeah, no doubt, but he's not batted that badly to suggest that he's horrifically out of nick, so I think it's worth preserving with getting him up the order.
Don't disagree with you either about Stokes. I wouldn't have paid the money they did for him, and he wouldn't be in my top four foreign players if I was building a dream IPL side, but once you have you might as well play him in his best role. I can only think of Buttler amongst the RR batsmen who are more destructive than Stokes in full flow.
Their biggest issue is the lack of good Indian players. Rahane is the only one to have played for India - that's really bad.
Well quite, and Rahane is a player – like Boycott in ODIs – that people will look back on in twenty years time and be baffled that he represented his country in this format. Needs to adapt, and quickly, to the scoring rate of modern T20 cricket.
I have to say - there are good commentators and bad commentators - but KP comes across as a terrible human being.
Seems like a bully - always effusive about the well established legends, and viciously critical of what he perceives as weaker players.
It's not hard to see why he got chucked out of the team.
Seems like a bully - always effusive about the well established legends, and viciously critical of what he perceives as weaker players.
It's not hard to see why he got chucked out of the team.
Shreyas Iyer is batting beautifully.
I don't think the selectors did anything wrong by leaving Pant out.
He just doesn't seem to have a mid-range tempo to his game.
He just doesn't seem to have a mid-range tempo to his game.
Delhi collapse again? 
Surely not..
E: Iyer just about holds his nerve.
Surely not..
E: Iyer just about holds his nerve.
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This is exactly why Pant has been left out the WC squad, he has one way of playing and totally disregards the match situation. Delhi have had 4/5 matches where they’re cruising in a chase and Pant just gave his wicket away. Had he been there at the end in 3/4 of those matches he would’ve hugely increased his chances of WC selection. Does himself no favours at all.
Good job we picked completely out of form DK for the world cup.
So my local team KKR lost by 9 wickets and Manchester United is losing 3-0 . This Sunday can't get any worse 
A series of wild shots by Kohli, finally knicking one. Poor from him. Whatever RCB get, CSK chase with ease
Steyn not getting picked up in the auction is classic IPL management.
Morris has played well over the years in the IPL though, both with ball and bat, so I can understand why they stayed with him.
To be fair he has been poor in previous IPL seasons. Think teams were burnt by him one too many times and didn't feel that the investment was worth it. Clearly, Steyn is motivated now and is showing his ability.
He's the most dangerous player you've got though. Crazy not to pick him imo.
His base price was pretty low though, his T20 record is great, and he's one of the ATG fast bowlers.
Definitely worth a gamble from someone.
He’d be a wild card for sure. On his day he’d destroy any attack, the question is when will it be his day? He’s a 2 in 5 five player for me, he’d be a match winner in a group game then do something stupid in a knockout game. You need consistent, reliable players to win tournaments
What a finish!
What a finish. And people call Dhoni finished?!
This is insane
Umesh Yadav.. thank god this man is not in our 15
What a finish
What an anti climax of run out to one crazy finish . Never thought it would end like that .
IPL is the greatest thing in the world. Holy shit.
What a fecking finish! We all agree Dhoni’s completely finished? Umesh Yadav is a run (giving) machine
Umesh Yadav is a run (giving) machinedidnt see the match but saw the cricinfo ball-by-ball. what happened in the 19th over? was the bowling good and so dhoni wasnt hitting them, or was he just waiting for the last over?
He was horrible choice for the final over. His record at death is terrible. Kohli has simply given up on captaincy for RCB. He did not come once to talk to Yadav about any plans.
Hats off to Dhoni as well, that last over onslaught was absurd.
Bowling was good, he refused singles.
The only fast bowler in the world whose stock ball is a full ball on leg stump
Smashed it to the boundary but refused singles despite having Bravo on the other end.
That six from went 111m and still travelling.
Navdeep Saini looks like a class bowler btw.
Those singles have come to bite him in the end . He refused 3 of them if only he had taken one of them .