Friday, May 29, 2009

The new IPL Cricindya's XI

Let me first congratulate all the players who made it to the Cricindya's XI the list is just adjacent. Let me now justify the selection, what I was looking for was a combination of 5 batsmen, 1 a very prominent all rounder, 1 wicket keeper batsman and 4 bowlers. I majorly choose the match winners in all categories based on their performances in the second edition of the IPL.
It was very tough to decide the players so I started of with the orange cap and purple cap winners Hayden & R.P.Singh. What a tournament they had, so without any question they deserve a place in the list. R.P.Singh always came up with early break through and tight last overs and comes from the team which won the title the Deccan Chargers. Hayden with his firing at the top always helped his team hit big scores.
Then it was time to decide the genuine all-rounder, I had to choose between Jacques Kallis and Andrew Symmonds.I choose Jacques Kallis for his wonderful batting throughout the tournament and for a very handy medium pace bowling. Andrew was not at his smashing best and struggled couple of time to get his big boundaries who would otherwise do it with ease, he was stumped once and caught in the deep twice, so Andrew miss was very close. for wicket keeper batsmen there were a lot of people, leading the pack Adam Gilchrist, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Brendon Mc cullum, Kumara sangakara, Dinesh Karthik & Parthiv Patel. Of course Gilly is the winner, but I could not ignore the batting form and performance of the Indian captain Dhoni and the Ex-wicket keeper Dinesh Karthik. They too were in the team for their batting. They would come low done the order, Dhoni can finish the match even if you loose wickets early and not to forget his big shots which can come very hand putting up a big total. Dinesh Karthik had an amazing tournament, he was so destructive in those final overs, I could not leave him out.
Then finish the remaining batsmen spaces are Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma. Watch out for these young guns in the upcoming T20 world cup. I am sure no one would argue on the selection of these two guys. These are highly talented boys and are big time match winners. Just to remind the 26 runs Rohit score in the last over against Kolkatta Knight Riders to take his team past the finish line. These two guys can be handy with ball big time. they bowled in almost every match and took wickets, not to forget rohits hatrick.
In the bowlers department the purple cap holder is already their, the other the ex-Indian Captain (hell no its not Ganguly) Anil Kumble, who has rediscovered himself and came up with a new strategy to bowl in T20. He bowled slower with a bit more flight. Kudos to the veteran and he is my captain too, he took the wearing Royal challenger to 8 wins in 10 matches as captain to reach the final.
Next bowler is Lasith Malinga the only player to be chosen from a non semi finalist team for his exquisite yorkers and amazing economy rates.
The last slot was difficult to choose between Praveen Kumar and the 30 year old ex paceman Ashish Nehra. Nehra after joining his home boys this year had a very good tournament. but he would miss out to praveen kumar who will be a better guy to bowl the middle overs, since RP and malinga would bowl during the power play and at the death.
others who were very close to miss out are Yuvraj in spite of his two hatricks with the bowl he had a forgettable time with the bat, Ab devillers though he was superb, the other foreign players be even better ( remember 4 foreign players only rule), The injured bowler Yusuf Abdulla whom the Kings XI Punjab missed a lot in the later part of the tournament, The new star Manish Pandey with the first centuary by an Indian @ IPL which would have been Suresh Raina if the scorers hadnot slept while doing their job and the two Indian openers Sehwag and Ghambir. The ex-Australian duo
Gilchrist and Hayden were at their devastating best and out shone the Indian pair easily for the honours this year.

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