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Rook Rook Rook - Stop Stop Stop (in Hindi) and also the Castle in Chess (from Persian)
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What is Delhi smoking
It’s odd to see anyone wearing a Delhi Daredevils’ shirt
unless they want to stink it up at the gym. I know of two guys who do that.
Then I met the third – his DD jersey had a name, NEGI. I asked him if it was his – appears Pawan Negi (former DD Left arm spinner) is a friend of his brother’s and that’s how the tee got on his back. Negi is now with CSK, he’s played one, their first, went for 37.
Previously, Pawan Negi and Shahbaz Nadeem, both left arm spinners, were with the Daredevils. Often they’d both play. Then randomly, as most things are at the franchise, one or the other would play. Then neither. And then in the previous auctions DD picked Nadeem again.
In CSK, there’s a clear pecking order, Ashwin, Jadeja, Badree, then Negi. And with the first and second spots up for grabs, suspect the first we saw of Negi this season, will in all likelihood be the last.
As for Nadeem, he was one of DD’s two spinners (before Imran Tahir). He has played 9 of their 11 games: 0/32, 1/29, 1/29, 1/24, 1/19, 1/30, 0/27, 0/34, 2/35. That’s 7/259 Compare this with SRH’s Amit Mishra, who’s had a rough season: 2/26, 2/56, 0/38, 0/27, 0/54, 0/13, 2/23, 0/33, 1/32, 0/38 – that’s 7/340 (from 10 games)
DD’s second spinner, Rahul Sharma, has played two games, 1/33, 0/32 (both from 3 overs).
SRH’s third spinner, the offie, Parvez Rasool has still not played a game.
SRH’s second leggie, Karn Sharma has played all 11 games so far : 0/8, 0/37, 1/23, 1/35, 0/33, 3/17, 1/20, 0/29, 0/25, 1/46, 1/19 – that’s 8/292.
Compared to DD’s 2 wins, SRH has 4 – and a far better net run rate of -0.325 to DD’s -1.156. If anything, SRH has stuck with their limited resources.
Cut to CSK: Ashwin went for 38 from 2 overs and for 41 from 4, both vs. Punjab, mainly Maxwell. His IPL numbers so far, 13/281 from 11 games. And if CSK play in KXIP in the knockouts, we’ll see Ashwin and Maxwell spar again.
Every bowler, even Sunil Narine, has a bad day in T20 cricket, case in point 1/38 vs. DD of all teams.
Narine is fortunate to play for KKR, a team that gives even Yusuf Pathan ample leeway to discover himself through the art-of-living-failure.
DD on the other hand, drops a bowler, after his best analysis, 2/21.
After 9 defeats, DD still don’t know their worst eleven. After suffering Ross Taylor for three games in April (17, 19, 21), they picked him via rotation, again, on May 15th.
They are burdened with a captain who is at the crossroads of his cricketing life – 16, 26*, 14, 0, 6, 35, 33, 13. And he hasn’t even bowled.
While KP, along with Viru, for me, is the most watchable batsman of the 2000s, much like Viru, he rarely has a scrap or middle gear in him – it’s do or be done.
The best he can do is bench himself like his predecessor, Mahela. Play all three spinners. Pick the four South Africans, de Kock, Parnell, Duminy, Tahir.
Now I can expect DD to do the exact opposite.
Team to beat KXIP:
1 de Kock
Manoj Tiwary, skipper, one way to ensure he doesn't bowl.
12th Man: KP
Coach Kirsten, why did you first play the Kiwis and not the South Africans, was it because you didn't want to appear biased?
DD owners, what are you guys on? Remember, you build airports, leave the flying to pilots.
Thanks for reading this pointless post for a pointless team.
Then I met the third – his DD jersey had a name, NEGI. I asked him if it was his – appears Pawan Negi (former DD Left arm spinner) is a friend of his brother’s and that’s how the tee got on his back. Negi is now with CSK, he’s played one, their first, went for 37.
Previously, Pawan Negi and Shahbaz Nadeem, both left arm spinners, were with the Daredevils. Often they’d both play. Then randomly, as most things are at the franchise, one or the other would play. Then neither. And then in the previous auctions DD picked Nadeem again.
In CSK, there’s a clear pecking order, Ashwin, Jadeja, Badree, then Negi. And with the first and second spots up for grabs, suspect the first we saw of Negi this season, will in all likelihood be the last.
As for Nadeem, he was one of DD’s two spinners (before Imran Tahir). He has played 9 of their 11 games: 0/32, 1/29, 1/29, 1/24, 1/19, 1/30, 0/27, 0/34, 2/35. That’s 7/259 Compare this with SRH’s Amit Mishra, who’s had a rough season: 2/26, 2/56, 0/38, 0/27, 0/54, 0/13, 2/23, 0/33, 1/32, 0/38 – that’s 7/340 (from 10 games)
DD’s second spinner, Rahul Sharma, has played two games, 1/33, 0/32 (both from 3 overs).
SRH’s third spinner, the offie, Parvez Rasool has still not played a game.
SRH’s second leggie, Karn Sharma has played all 11 games so far : 0/8, 0/37, 1/23, 1/35, 0/33, 3/17, 1/20, 0/29, 0/25, 1/46, 1/19 – that’s 8/292.
Compared to DD’s 2 wins, SRH has 4 – and a far better net run rate of -0.325 to DD’s -1.156. If anything, SRH has stuck with their limited resources.
Cut to CSK: Ashwin went for 38 from 2 overs and for 41 from 4, both vs. Punjab, mainly Maxwell. His IPL numbers so far, 13/281 from 11 games. And if CSK play in KXIP in the knockouts, we’ll see Ashwin and Maxwell spar again.
Every bowler, even Sunil Narine, has a bad day in T20 cricket, case in point 1/38 vs. DD of all teams.
Narine is fortunate to play for KKR, a team that gives even Yusuf Pathan ample leeway to discover himself through the art-of-living-failure.
DD on the other hand, drops a bowler, after his best analysis, 2/21.
After 9 defeats, DD still don’t know their worst eleven. After suffering Ross Taylor for three games in April (17, 19, 21), they picked him via rotation, again, on May 15th.
They are burdened with a captain who is at the crossroads of his cricketing life – 16, 26*, 14, 0, 6, 35, 33, 13. And he hasn’t even bowled.
While KP, along with Viru, for me, is the most watchable batsman of the 2000s, much like Viru, he rarely has a scrap or middle gear in him – it’s do or be done.
The best he can do is bench himself like his predecessor, Mahela. Play all three spinners. Pick the four South Africans, de Kock, Parnell, Duminy, Tahir.
Now I can expect DD to do the exact opposite.
Team to beat KXIP:
1 de Kock
2 Parnell
3 Karthik
4 Duminy
5 Tiwary*
6 Jadhav
7. Laxmi Ratan Shukla
8 Nadeem
9 Rahul Sharma
10 Shami
11 Tahir
Manoj Tiwary, skipper, one way to ensure he doesn't bowl.
12th Man: KP
Coach Kirsten, why did you first play the Kiwis and not the South Africans, was it because you didn't want to appear biased?
DD owners, what are you guys on? Remember, you build airports, leave the flying to pilots.
Thanks for reading this pointless post for a pointless team.
Imran Tahir's Delhi Daredevils' Interview
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Based on @IPL 's tweet - "I was changing nappies at home when I got a call to join @DelhiDaredevils", Imran Tahir tells @ShirinSadikot.
H/T Meeta for photoshop play
Delhi Daredevils take the cake
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Stuck on the door of the L’Opera bakery is a poster: ‘Delhi
Daredevils Victorious Sweet Delights...happy to share with you our new contest
supporting the Delhi Daredevils...’
It’s not a pie throwing contest at the team.
Goes on, ‘Following every Daredevil victory...’
Pull yourself together, man.
‘..L’Opera will offer cakes for the first 10 calls’
I inquire about the contest, “you must have saved a lotta
cakes??”
“Yes, only one win so far”, I do not correct him.
Another poster, Your Match is Fixed.
Ankur at the gym also informs me it’s no use watching, as
all games are fixed, and why don’t I write about it? I nod, so here, I’ve
written about it.
Back to DD. They’re not so bad, really. Two wins is far more
than I expected. Much worse are teams with big names with even bigger
expectations.
DD messed up by investing in Ross Taylor yet again, and
expecting something from KP. Their problems were at the auctions, starting with
Taylor and ending, surprisingly, with KP.
Earlier on the Geek & Wilde podcast, I’d spoken of KP’s
IPL. This was before he’d played a game. In my unwritten book, a player whose
international career is over, somewhat prematurely and against his will (unlike
Michael Hussey) and that too, only recently, will have way too many demons to
wrestle. Maybe next season, he’ll score more, maybe next season, he won’t even
be there.
In my DD PervView, I wrote about Murali Vijay. It took
elimination, for the team to bench the opener.
At the beginning of this season, I’d promised myself not to
watch DD or CSK games. There’s way too much joyless familiarity to their
outcomes.
I don’t like to call the Daredevils my team, what, they
aren’t even their own team anymore; but when they did win those two games, I
was reluctantly pleased.
Watching an entire tournament, without a team, in addition
to the fixing clouds that continue to rain, isn’t easy. Nor is it elementary.
Still life with Amit Mishra.
This story is inspired by Amit Mishra's run out on 8th May, 2014.
Before Walter Mitty’s secret world and Mungerilal’s dreamscapes, there was Amit Mishra. A stationery object, unmoved by the futility of movement, a master of the Zen of Pause. An inspiration for artists, among others, U2’s Running to stand still.
In a way, Gauti was pleased, his friend was doing well enough to be his companion on tour. Four years after his Test debut, Amit Mishra would make his. Between them, 171 runs and 7 wickets.
Before Walter Mitty’s secret world and Mungerilal’s dreamscapes, there was Amit Mishra. A stationery object, unmoved by the futility of movement, a master of the Zen of Pause. An inspiration for artists, among others, U2’s Running to stand still.
Amit Mishra was not always like this. He was far worse. A
love for sport was discovered at an early age by accident. When he was yawning
at the boundary and a fierce flat-hit lodged itself in his outstretched arms.
Amit Mishra was cranky, the ball had broken his breathing patterns – he had
reluctantly mastered the merits of breathe-in, breathe out, during yoga. His
favourite Asan, the Shavasana (Corpse-asan) where you lie flat on your back, arms outstretched, doing nothing. As per the yoga teacher, Shavasana
was a wind-down after the somewhat more rigorous Surya
Namaskars.
Not for Amit Mishra. He wanted to start class with the Shavasana. The only time he showed any
enthusiasm was when he eyed the mat with a sparkle in his eye; soon to be
doused. 'Flat on the mat' was a rap song, Ma’ Odumbe, his Kenyan friend would
sing for him. Of course, his full name was Maurice Odumbe, but Amit’s love for
minimum-effort drove him to circumcise his name.
When everyone’s idea of a beach holiday was Goa, Amit Mishra’s
was The Dead Sea. Fearing his family would bully him into water sports, Mishra
stuck pictures of Thai beaches on the Jordan brochure. Once there, Amit Mishra even dragged his yoga
mat into The Dead Sea attempting the Shavasana.
He wrote in his diary that day, “Shavasana
& Dead Sea, these are a few of my favourite”
When the family posed for photographs, he
demanded deadpan expressions. This joke was lost on everyone including Amit
Mishra. However, deadpan was one of his favourite expressions – his buddy,
Gauti, had used it whilst ordering pan fried pizzas, saying, you guessed it, “Deadpan
pizza for Amit Mishra”. At first he
sulked, but when Gauti told him it was a joke, he laughed a tad, fast retiring
to his stupor.
There was also a misplaced love for the shot put. What drew
Amit Mishra to the sport first were the confines of the circle – yeah, I can
stay there all day, he muttered. The tough part was lifting the shot and then
hurling it. He asked if he could perch on the shot and be hurled instead? To
his credit, he was the only enlisted-athlete (forgive the expression) who was
never-fouled for leaving the circle. What
endeared him to the shot put even more was the knowledge that it had been part
of the modern Olympics since 1896 – he loved all things old, as in his mind he
equated them to immobility.
His friendship with Gauti meant cricket would soon be thrust
upon him. Gauti loved to bat, but even more than that, he loved to smash
spinners – especially left arm spinners. For a while, he made Amit Mishra bowl
left arm spin. That backfired. The ball would invariably be bowled towards mid on - the
next best thing, Gauti taught him leg spin. Gauti was ambitious, and wanted to
smash other deliveries too, the googly and the full toss were added. And post match interviews.
It took a few dismissals for Gauti to realise he had created
a Mishraenstein. Gauti asked him to concentrate on the full toss. But such was
his friend’s accidental guile, the googly would come out instead.
In a way, Gauti was pleased, his friend was doing well enough to be his companion on tour. Four years after his Test debut, Amit Mishra would make his. Between them, 171 runs and 7 wickets.
Two years’ later on Independence Day, Amit Mishra combined his love for
flying kites, shot put and flighting the ball by doing this:
From 2008-2010, he was chasing Harbhajan Singh. Seeing as it
was becoming increasingly difficult to replace him, he decided to become him.
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In spite of himself, Amit Mishra has
represented India, Deccan Chargers, Delhi Daredevils, Haryana, India
Blue, Sunrisers Hyderabad. So much flux and changing of jerseys has scarred
Amit Mishra. He still turns up for SRH matches in DD jerseys. However, he has
stopped turning up for DD matches. The change in jerseys and logo was the last
straw. A traditionalist, Amit Mishra once said, in the long run, it’s
the short run that counts.
However plausible this might sound, this is a work of
fiction.
Delhi Daredevils – #IPL7PervView
Forget this years’ squad or those in the last 6, they have
little to do with the results.
The problem’s with the DD management and whoever’s been
advising them, at the auctions and on the ground.
In IPL-7, they have arrived once again at their worst
overseas’ buy ever – Ross Taylor. DD spent an entire season playing him into
form, what they got in return was less than nothing.
Then they buy Murali Vijay, a player that CSK/BCCI/India
Cements/MSD in spite of their unwavering commitment to, did not retain. Seems
obvious why, Vijay has a strike rate of 66 (in ODIs) and 98 (in T20Is). In the
previous season, he did enough to be benched instead of Saha but continued to
play.
Buying Vijay, like Taylor, is a gamble of Caesars Palace
proportions, even poor Valthaty would’ve fancied his chances.
And just when you think they can’t funk anymore, they pick
Saurabh Tiwary. And Dinesh Karthik for an arm and a leg and a breast.
Like Taylor, BossDK was part of DD, once upon a time. As was
Parnell, he just never played for them.
And didn’t Manoj Tiwary start with the Daredevils
too? Why didn’t they go after Shikhar Dhawan and Gautam Gambhir? Retention
sucks.
When all of T20 is going orthodox legspin, they go Rahul
Sharma and Nadeem, and expect Duminy to be the offie. There’s Jayant Yadav, who
goes at 4.5 rpo but when did this bunch take a leap of faith with a rookie – oh
right, they did once, and that was also Murali Vijay’s Big IPL audition with a
hundred.
Two games, Duminy is yet to be dismissed – 52*(35) vs KKR,
67*(48) vs RCB, bowled 5 overs for 35.
Before this for SA, Duminy scored 39,
86*, 12, 5, 45* in the World T20, bowling in every match. Duminy bats for both South
Africa and Delhi at five.
Duminy, de Kock, Ross Taylor, Parnell, Neesham,
Nathan Couter Nile and Mohammad Shami are all part of their country’s T20I
squads.
Add to that, Vijay, Karthik, Unadkat, both the Tiwarys,
Rahul Sharma, Shukla, all who have played for India in some format, and you
have a team that would’ve done well in a spinless IPL.
Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor, with a name like that, would’ve
been better suited in the SLPL. Two pointless knocks, the odd drop, he seems as
distanced from the cricket (and entertainment) as Lalit Modi.
And by now DD should know better, no Kiwi ever did them any
good, not Ross Taylor nor Daniel Vettori.
But with a win after 7 defeats, stranger things could happen. Like a Kiwi winning it. When’s the DD vs RCB game in Bangalore?
13th May.
Squad
1 de Kock
2 Mayank Agarwal
3 Dinesh Karthik
4 Duminy
5 Ross Taylor/Neesham/Parnell
6 Manoj Tiwary
7 Kedar Jadhav
8. Nathan Couter Nile
9 Rahul Sharma / Nadeem
10 Unadkat
11 Shami
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KKR – #IPL7PervView
This team has more baggage than Louis Vuitton. Most of the
Final XI are no longer part of their
national squad.
Skipper, Gambhir, has a team of amazing has-beens. The very reason for this team is the nostalgia they serve at the post match party.
The memory chest overruns with Gambhir and Kallis on top. Manish Pandey was the first Indian to score an IPL 100. Uthappa hasn’t done much since he doffed his imaginary hat vs. Pakistan in 2007. Yusuf Pathan. Where do you start with Yusuf? You could ask his dad? Or Irfan? Or speak to his chewing gum. They all will have a tale to tell.
“..and what a time it was, it was...”
And if this wasn’t enough, there’s the Blast-from-the- Piyush Chawla.
If only these guys could play in sepia.
But all play they will, for Gambhir has to prove them wrong. The Avengers come to mind. Only KKR does not have an A in it.
But there is thought to this team, and it challenges Gambhir, Yusuf, Uthappa, Chawla – to start thinking, from has-beens to wannabes to will-bees, to who knows, maybe even a Beatle. Chawla would be Ringo. Gambhir, Lennon. Uthappa, Paul. And Yusuf, George.
Vinay Kumar would be the 5th Beatle.
But what will Umesh Yadav be? From being India’s go-to bowler, he’s either injured or benched, even Varun Aaron’s beamers play before him. Yadav has played only 1 T20 international. Ishant Sharma has played 14, going at 8.63 runs per over, 8 wickets, average 50. Their IPL numbers though are woefully similar. As are most Indian medium fast types.
Other firangs have their own baggage: Shakib, KKR barely play him, not foreign enough for them. Should be their first overseas’ player. Kallis started with Wasim Jaffer and Chanderpaul in RCB’s famous Test Playing IPL team. Since then, he’s retired from Test cricket. Kallis can bat, bowl and grow hair. But in spite of all his greatness, there’s way too much method in his batting to be your go-to-T20 batsman top of the order. Can’t you see that dot played straight to cover with that beautifully angled bat?
Andre Russell inhabited the DD bench more than Tiwary, India’s. And when Russell did play, he bowled that one over, that invariably was his last. Morne Morkel was dropped by DD for a qualifier/semi-final/Eliminator ; yeah, one of those things, when he was their top bowler. And he’s seen some bad days in the IPL, bowls length, almost as readily as Ishant. Gets hammered, like Ishant. But can run through the batting, unlike Ishant. But if you watched him slide and sort-of-field, your heart with bleed for the turf and his limbs in equal measure.
And then there’s Sunil Narine, who doesn’t quite fit into this team but won them the tournament, outsourcing it’s called.
Likely Playing XI (batting order)
Skipper, Gambhir, has a team of amazing has-beens. The very reason for this team is the nostalgia they serve at the post match party.
The memory chest overruns with Gambhir and Kallis on top. Manish Pandey was the first Indian to score an IPL 100. Uthappa hasn’t done much since he doffed his imaginary hat vs. Pakistan in 2007. Yusuf Pathan. Where do you start with Yusuf? You could ask his dad? Or Irfan? Or speak to his chewing gum. They all will have a tale to tell.
“..and what a time it was, it was...”
And if this wasn’t enough, there’s the Blast-from-the- Piyush Chawla.
If only these guys could play in sepia.
But all play they will, for Gambhir has to prove them wrong. The Avengers come to mind. Only KKR does not have an A in it.
But there is thought to this team, and it challenges Gambhir, Yusuf, Uthappa, Chawla – to start thinking, from has-beens to wannabes to will-bees, to who knows, maybe even a Beatle. Chawla would be Ringo. Gambhir, Lennon. Uthappa, Paul. And Yusuf, George.
Vinay Kumar would be the 5th Beatle.
But what will Umesh Yadav be? From being India’s go-to bowler, he’s either injured or benched, even Varun Aaron’s beamers play before him. Yadav has played only 1 T20 international. Ishant Sharma has played 14, going at 8.63 runs per over, 8 wickets, average 50. Their IPL numbers though are woefully similar. As are most Indian medium fast types.
Other firangs have their own baggage: Shakib, KKR barely play him, not foreign enough for them. Should be their first overseas’ player. Kallis started with Wasim Jaffer and Chanderpaul in RCB’s famous Test Playing IPL team. Since then, he’s retired from Test cricket. Kallis can bat, bowl and grow hair. But in spite of all his greatness, there’s way too much method in his batting to be your go-to-T20 batsman top of the order. Can’t you see that dot played straight to cover with that beautifully angled bat?
Andre Russell inhabited the DD bench more than Tiwary, India’s. And when Russell did play, he bowled that one over, that invariably was his last. Morne Morkel was dropped by DD for a qualifier/semi-final/Eliminator ; yeah, one of those things, when he was their top bowler. And he’s seen some bad days in the IPL, bowls length, almost as readily as Ishant. Gets hammered, like Ishant. But can run through the batting, unlike Ishant. But if you watched him slide and sort-of-field, your heart with bleed for the turf and his limbs in equal measure.
And then there’s Sunil Narine, who doesn’t quite fit into this team but won them the tournament, outsourcing it’s called.
Likely Playing XI (batting order)
1 Gambhir
2 Kallis
3 Manish Pandey
4 Uthappa
5 Shakib
6 Yusuf Pathan
7 Ryan Ten Doeschate / Chris Lynn / Cummins / Morne Morkel
8 Piyush Chawla
9 Narine
10 Vinay Kumar
11 Umesh Yadav / Bisla
KKR could make the playoffs, either for the top four or the
bottom two: depends how far can one man’s belief in his jaded army can take them?
From MI to MIK - Mumbai Indians (Keepers) #IPL7PervView
Why Dinesh Karthik was not retained by the Indians is a
mystery – he could have been the standby wicketkeeper for the other five in the
squad.
Ben Dunk(26), CM Gautam(27), Ambati Rayudu (28), Aditya Tare(26),
Sushant Marathe (28) are the five keepers on board.
At 28, Karthik also falls into the favoured age grouping of
MI keepers, 26-28.
But Karthik was picked by his old team, the Delhi Daredevils,
who prefer buying their discards (Ross Taylor’s in too) just so that they
remember why they didn’t retain them in the first place.
But this is not about Delhi and Mumbai, this is Mumbai vs.
Mumbai.
As always, Mumbai’s dugout outclasses those off the bench –
SRT, Kumble, John Wright, Anita Ambani and the numerous kids she will pose with.
What does MI have other than their five wicketkeepers?
Rohit Sharma. Captain. Defending Champion. Pout-face. Dot
balls on top will be vital in playing out the power play without taking undue risks.
Followed by a brainfade in over 6.2, batting on an accomplished 28 (26), 1 6, 3
4s. Is best suited for four, but will open. But he’s captain, should bat at
four, this is not Team India.
There’s Pragyan Ojha, who is now resigned to not playing for
India again, yet again.
Ojha has played 6 T20Is – how he squeezed those many can
only be attributed to Bhajji taking off for his recording duties.
He played these games between June 2009 – June 2010.
The rise of Ravindra (a.k.a Jadeja) ended whatever faint
hopes Ojha might have had; and unless he can quickly acquire a tag as flash as
Sir, say Menial, this could be it.
Also, ever since VVS retired, Ojha has lacked the same
deranged motivation in his running.
Ojha, who should be MI’s strongest spinning link, could go
missing this season.
Which leaves us with Harbhajan Singh. Yes, he’s still
playing cricket.
Michael Hussey will open the batting, and I envisage, the
Mathew Hayden of old (make that very old) in his last season making a guest
appearance – he could also be possessed by Ponting’s last Waltz last year.
There’s Malinga, who if he’s not captaining, and not taking
orders from others, will not be able to dish out Yorker-Fries outside off that
even The Greatest IPL Player Of All Time, Dhoni, was unable to counter. To err
is Divine.
Zaks, if he’s back from the French Riviera again, will look
leaner yet again. He will play initially, and half way through the season he
won’t.
Corey Anderson and Keiron Pollard of reputations so great,
the IPL will bow before them.
How Corey Anderson goes will decide MI’s season, or maybe it
won’t, but I think it could. He should bat no lower than four, ideally at
three.
MI though, has in the past been reluctant to bat Pollard
anyway higher than eight, though I recall he did come in at seven once, but had
to return for a photo-shoot.
Hell, Santokie may not get a game. But Bumrah could, and
with that mad-hatter action, will be the best thing for MI this season.
The Playing XI: (batting order)
1 Michael Hussey
2 Rohit Sharma
3 Corey Anderson
4 Ambati Rayudu
5 Pollard
6 Tare / Gautam / Marathe*
7 Wankhade*
8 Zaks / Bumrah / Shreyas Gopal
9 Bhajji
10 Malinga
11 Ojha
*Could play away games too.
MI won't win this season. They don't have a reason.
*Could play away games too.
MI won't win this season. They don't have a reason.
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