IPL took all the front page space and news headlines in the country with very little space left for other sports and also for other format of cricket - Test Cricket. Two good matches involving England vs NewZeland and Australia vs West Indies ended last week with some spectacular performances. England chasing 290+ in the fourth innings to win over NewZeland and Australia as usual starting the series with a win.
Strauss match winning hundred in the 4 th innings overshadowed RussTaylor's 158 and Vettori's 5 wickets in the England 1st innings. Ponting scored a brilliant 150+ and Symonds came up with scores of 70+ in both the innings to win the game for Australia. Chanderpaul's fighting hundred in the 1st innings went in vain as Clark bowled his heart out to take 5 wickets in the 2nd innings to secure victory for the Australians.
Shaun Marsh Find of IPL
Coming back to IPL, Shaun Marsh going great guns with 500+ runs in 10 matches, KXIP has benefited immensely with his dream run. He has played some brilliant knock and what makes him so special is, he did not slog but played some superb shots from the book. IPL was meant to bring out the best young talent in the country, I am not sure if india has gained much but Australia found a great batsmen in Marsh. He is already in the Australian one day squad and hope veteran Hayden will make way for the youngster in other format of the game (Test Cricket). Its just amazing that, he bats lower middle order for his state (Western Australia) and has just been comfortable opening and got adjusted to the sub-continent conditions.
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Vasu,
Yep, I don't think that the Indian cricket got benefited in terms of finding new talents(except a few). There is only one Indian in the top five run getters. There has been 6 centuries so far and none by an Indian. Even after the Australians & the kiwis left in the early stages of IPL this is the state. Cant imagine what the scenario would have been if they had played the entire series.
As of now both the Orange cap & the Purple cap is out of the Indians hands. Hope our boys try to get them back in the remainder of the series.
Yep, you are correct our youngsters have shown glimses of character but has not yet matched the sheer class or performance of the Australians in the IPL.
Hope we identify talent from the next edition.I think of few new faces who have done well like Goni,S.Dhavan,R.Jadeja,
Trivedi.
Vasu ...
We want analysis of each team in the IPL from you... and your prediction for the IPL champs among the four teams.....
Let's see how ur prediction works......
Hi Gajju,
Yes i will write my views on the favorites based on the past performance and strengths of the semi-finalist line up.
Sorry Gajju i am not an astrologer to predict fortunes :-)
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