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Yuvraj wins the World Cup…er a match for Punjab. This is a special gift, that only a few special players have – Yuvi is one of them, Yuvraj Singh another. Whenever they win a game for India it is special – when they win one for their IPL team, it is doubly special. A reverse sweep down square leg, fine leg, third man – where the ##@ did it go, yaar? Yeah, CSK didn’t know either. They were looking like the game was over, which it was. Hayden’s face and bat both shrunk. Raina walked down to midwicket, and asked – “why did you do this to me?”
But Yuvi and Yuvraj Singh – how they barked at the impertinence of the press and twitter. He rolled all the worlds MCs, BCs into one big MCBC (it was heartfelt like some Ossibissa song) – but you won’t get the point, will you?
Earlier Yuvi had rolled his MCs BCs into one when that Bisla-who-does-he-think…refused him a suicidal single for the greater good of Yuvi and Yuvraj Singh’s Punjab. Bisla shrunk, he almost curled into his uniform and vanished. He then played a dot ball.
Worth a think, which was better – Yuvi lashing Bisla, or Yuvraj Singh lashing the world in that super over? Where is Bhajji when you need him?
Yuvraj school of rock.
For Yawn T Roads
NC moment of what match was that
This feels like a job, rambling one moment after the other (esp. when they’re misnomer moments) – but that’s what wine fuel can do. The Daredevils v Punjab game, was there really a moment – it sucked the life out of moments, games such as this give the IPL a bad name. I couldn’t care less if DD lost this, but I was happy when they won it. And I can’t explain that to me, so I won’t try with you.
Ok, there was a moment, manufacturing it anyway – it was when…eh, well, you know…this is tough. Ok, when my favourite Daredevil Manhas, got his and DD’s nose in front – I’ve tweeted that one before, but it was worth a retweet. Love it when the invisible cricketer shines some; would have been happy had Kaif scored a 50 of 9 balls too.
Think the IPL has got beyond teams for me, more into playing favoutites with players now – like was I happy to see Mahroof get a game finally. I mean, how much of a honeymoon do they want him to have?
also on bored: Manhas the badass
NC moment of what match was that.
It’s only two days and it feels like second life already. This IPL can be rough, eat on sleep, eat at you, eat you up. There was Yususf Pathan, his innings was a moment – he stapled it together, not with the shots, but with the calm after the storm. If you watched him go nuts last month blanking everybody, you knew what was coming.
He’s stopped chewing gum. At least you can’t tell he’s chewing it anymore. There is no nervous energy, getting him out first ball – of course that happens when he plays for India, not for Warne or in the locals.
There is a reason MS has been backing him more than RP. When Yusuf surfaced one summer in a T20 World Cup Final, opening, replacement for Sehwag, you was thinking – who’s that guy, 6 and out. But he did open. And he will be on that flight to the Windies next month.
It’s amazing what some work on the wiring can do.
sp's moment: MI v RR
the organisers in their bid to make the game high scoring games (which they think will automatically make it interesting) have brought the boundary ropes so close that it has started to look like an extension of the 30 yards circle...
taking nothing away from pathan's blistering innings who played like a man on a mission contrary to his image... it was his first six that made me cringe...feeling for the bowler's role in t20...
the first six he attempted was clearly a miscued one... ball swirled in the air and so did his bat... the ball took an upper edge and on a normal ground would have been a straight catch down mid-on's throat...here it turned out to be a comfortable six... what followed was nothing but mayhem...
what could have been a prized wicket for murtaza turned up into a very expensive over... a cruel, cruel injustice...
sp's moment of the opening match...
what else but the sight of CHE'teshwar pujara... walking down at the fall of the first wicket...
though he has been with kolkata knight riders since the beginning... it took him three years to make his debut... such is the cricketing expertise of kkr's think tank...
though he didn't last long... but the way he played some shots covering the prodigious swing vaas was getting early on was the sign of how good a batsman he is... the bat was coming straight covering not only the line but the late inswing and still he made them count for runs!
if only he had lasted longer we would have witnessed the heady cocktail of aesthetic pleasures of sound batting mixed with the unorthodoxy of t20 cricket...
i wish now that they have selected him... kkr think tank doesn't confine him to the dugout... and would give him a fair run... and as some say... his right to fail...
Achettup's Moment of The Opening IPL Match
It was a strange match, exciting but not thrilling and almost anticlimactic towards the end. It was an upset alright, but perhaps more because Deccan threw the game away than Kolkata winning it. There were plenty of dropped catches, sixes and dot balls and excellent patient innings from Angelo Matthews and Owais Shah before they plundered 70 odd runs off the last five overs. Then there was Gilly's assault... there were the cringe-inducing strokes by the rest of the Deccan batsmen... But the moment that stood out to me is one we should all be sick of...
Just how much cricket have India and Sri Lanka played in recent times? I've lost count but "too much" seems like a fine alternative. And then when Chaminda Vaas dismissed Tiwari, it seemed we were seeing Ind vs SL all over again... retro this time with Vaas bowling to Ganguly in the first over of the match... and three balls later Vaas got his man for a duck... but for a change I didn't feel like kicking the tv or the sofa or whatever... it didn't matter, and it was nice in a way to see Ganguly dismissed by Vaas and not feel affected one little bit by it... maybe even letting a small smile break on my lips.
K's fav moment of IPL 2009
My favourite moment in IPL 2009:
RR staging a remarkable comeback in the dying moments of their first encounter against KKR and then going on to win in the Super Over. Images of Yusuf Pathan taking them to that famous win will stay with me forever.
Raj moment of the Finals
by Raj
Q moment of IPL Final
Anil Kumble bowling Adam Gilchrist.
Manish Pandey taking that awesome catch or diving across the field to stop a boundary.
Adam Gilchrist stumping Virat Kohli.
Harmeet Singh's catch at fine leg.
Anil Kumble dishing it out to Robin Uthappa.
There were many, as should have been, in the final.
One moment though was not called for - Modi shaking his leg with Katrina Kaif, Shiamak Davar, and Akon.
That was surely not needed.
But one that was and stood above all for me.
Adam Gilchrist, arms wide open, looking up at the skies, and screaming away!
Go Chargers Go!
Geek Gods did not shine on Anil Bhai
The final was divided into two parts: Gilli's wicket and the rest of the winding road. BRC won it too early, and slacked it out after that. Not Jumbo, he was like the man on the moon who wanted to be on Jupiter. But the Geek Goods did not shine on him. And for once, Jumbo looked more a dude than a geek. On the ball, button, but how long can you carry a team on your shoulders, even on those broad shoulders.
B the moment of the match
Semifinal 2, Bangalore playing Chennai
I was watching the match at a pub owned by a Kannadiga, surrounded by redshirts who invariably see you as a Chennai supporter because you picked your phone and said "Seri naa appuram pesaren" (OK, I'll call you later, in Tamil).
If sitting at a venue where you were outnumbered 1 to 8 was worse, the abyss of the day came during over number 20 of Chennai.
Robin Uthappa finally catches one and overacts as usual, and you have a whole bunch of redshirts around you shouting "Go Robin Go".
Do they want him to go back to Coorg, leaving cricket alone ??, I wonder.
Save all these, B the moment of the match was reserved for the end of the match banter between the fans of both teams.
"What poetic justice !! Both the last placed teams of 2008 are in the finals of IPL 2, brilliant right ??"
It is not dude, please...
Don't even mention this statistics again.
I don't want a John Buchanan and Sharukh Khan to hear this and continue with their disastrous experiments.
Let Kolkata Knight Riders have a life at least the next year.
"We didn't really bowl well"
Expected no less from you MSD. If only you bowled, or if Parthiv Patel could bowl, open, keep and captain for you too. It doesn't matter you toss the batting order around, call the toss wrong, or that your batting goes for a toss - striking at less than 100, "we didn't really bowl well", gimme another.
Why Uthappa Caught Oram?
Because he came into the match after deciding that he will not salute or bow down after taking a a catch.
Raj Moment of the Semi Final - 1
End of Match. Just before ceremony. A man in Red and Blue is engaged in deep conversation with the Deccan Chargers' captain. Smiles all around. Animated R&B man is all teeth as he seems to be saying "You did it for me, mate."
R& B is Glenn McGrath. How he must have laughed at jatman when Gilly smoked Nannes in THAT over. P.S: Is it true that Andrew Hilditch conducted a human sacrifice on Thursday night to attain a certain objective in the IPL semis?
by Raj
NC moment of what match was that
Q Moment of IPL Semi Final 1
Adam Gilchrist running down the steps like a bollywood actress running to meet her long lost love!
Wonder if he's been getting tips from Priety and Shilpa.
Forget that shit.
What a knock!
That first over of the innings from Nannes was the moment to savour.
If Jumbo wins that ugly trophy
B the moment of the match
Bangalore playing Deccan
Such an important match it was touted to be. Many people wrote many things about what these two teams should do to qualify. And most importantly keep Punjab at bay.
But then as luck would have it, Mangal Pande... err.. Manish Pande scored an amazing century and the so called test team, reached a (what seems like winning) 170. This not withstanding a scrum half-like fielding performance by Deccan's Gibbs assisted by Symonds.
All that said, my moment of the match would be that second when Kumbles called Virat Kohli to bowl.
Having seen Mr Kohli's record just when he had hit RP all over the park in over no 20, I was amazed he was called in to bowl.
Is it arrogance ?
Or wisdom ?
So far it looks like wisdom, but who knows...
In T20 I am told the wisemen speak after 40 overs and 15 minutes
Have they won yet??
Why Uthappa Dropped Gibbs?
He was thinking whether to do the salute or the bow to the crowd after he caught it.
