Excerpts from TOI article - On his own innings, he said, "It is well known that I rely more on power. I am not a technically refined batsman so I used my strength on a small ground to clinch the issue."
Re: Dhoni admitted his limitations
by Jay on Apr 19, 2010 08:55 PM
It is well known that he uses raw power. It is surprising that he does not even try that in some matches and scores at less than 100% strike rate and finishes his team's chances. Also he did well to come at no.5 rather than no.3.
Teams that overcome do or die matches has every chance of winning the title like Pakistan did in the last T20 WC.So i think Chennai who chased down a big total and Deccan who defended a moderate total in a crunch game can be underdogs.All credit goes Dhoni whom i remember played a similar innings in WC against the same team finishing off the match with a six against Jerome Tayler.Hope his batting and captaincy skills r at best in the T20 WC.
what a match yesterday between CSK Vs Kings X1 Punjab. Its really heart breaking match man. When team need 15 RPO. How cool Dhoni playing. He knows well about him self and he have a confident on himself. Traffic batting stuff from Dhoni. And what a great Leader leading in the front, Mr Match Finisher... Finally CSK enters in Semi final. Now CSK have to Face Deccan Chargers in thusday. Dhoni Boys have a ability to defend the 2010IPL title. Interesting to see the viewer Choice IPL awards.
Best Batsman S Tendulkar leading with 54,944 votes Best Captain S Tendulkar with 30,917 votes Best Catch Sourav Ganguly with 5,399 votes(Remarkable perfomace from legend Both with bat and fielding.4 times he Got Kamaal Catch award in this serious) Best Bowler P Ojha with 28,567 votes(I dont think Ojha deserves to be the best bowler) IPL Commentators Ravi Shastri with 14,256 votes (I love ravi commenting in match) Most Stylish Player Robin Uthappa with 20,907 votes(Obviously he deserved to be stylish Player) Most Friendly Cricketer Adam Gilchrist with 34,217 votes(Its really shocking for me) Best Fielder SK Raina with 30,848 votes(Raina always best in field)
Re: CSK
by x on Apr 19, 2010 10:41 PM
Best Batsman is M.Vijay... his strike rate is tremendous. He has power with timing. Best Captain is Dhoni Best Catch Bollinger IPL commentator SRK (sivaramakrishnan) most stylish player vijay
It is better Irfan Pathan should retire from all forms of cricket, becuase now-a-days he is fit for nothing. Once upon a time he was my favourite Cricketer every body predicted him as true replacement of Kapil Dev. He lost his pace, Swing everything. He gave 16 runs in one over, okay batsman is Dhoni, against Deccan chargers he gave away 12 runs in one over. In his below medium pace about 125 Km.ph. if he bowls overpitches and short pitches evey Manoj Tewari in one IPL Match took 21 runs in one over of Pathan. So to save himself from further embrassement it is better for Irfan Pathan to retire from Cricket, because as a great fan of Irfan Pathan it deeply hurts me to see one of my favourite bowler and crickter is butchered in that manner.
Re: Irfan Pathan should retire now?
by volcano on Apr 19, 2010 06:43 PM
he gave 16 in just 4 balls.. if he had bowled another 2, would have been 28 in an over (assumming no wide, no balls).. hahahaha...
CSK becomes the only team in IPL to feature in all 3 semis so far. Shows the consistency they have been achieving till date.Hope we can see a MI VS CSK final this time.
Re: CSK the most consistent
by C W on Apr 19, 2010 01:28 PM
And hope we can see CSK win over MI in finals considering the fact that CSK is in for the 3rd time. Hope we have a bit of luck this time around, its been pure hard work so far.
Re: Re: CSK the most consistent
by santosh shetty on Apr 19, 2010 02:11 PM
have faith in CSK Becoz my predections says that CSK willlll WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Re: Re: CSK the most consistent
by Subho Basu on Apr 19, 2010 01:36 PM
CSK has been lucky.During their batting maximum catches has been dropped.The matches where those catches were taken they have lost.Yesterday Dhoni has survived twice,so luck is with CSK.
Re: Re: Re: CSK the most consistent
by C W on Apr 19, 2010 01:44 PM
Boss those catches which were dropped were frankly difficult ones. Sanga atleast got a hand to the rising ball, our Indian keepers would have left it for a boundary by jumping just after the ball go by.
Chennai fielders have dropped lollies and dollies and that too by good players. Thats where we were unlucky, we don't mind players dropping tough catches like how Morkel dropped Marsh and how Tyagi dropped another one yesterday.
1.All pacers should be foreigners, do not select an Indian pace bowler 2.All Indians should be spinners and batsmen 3.Do not chase against DC 4.Chase against MI
So ideal team would be:
1. *Hayden (or Hussey) - only Batting 2. Murli Vijay - only Batting 3. Raina - Spin bowling and Batting 4. *Morkel - Pace bowling and Batting 5. Dhoni - Batting and Wicket keeping 6. Badrinath - only Batting 7. Badani - Spin bowling and Batting 8. *Thushara - Pace bowling and Batting 9. Ashwin - Spin bowling 10.*Bollinger - Pace Bowling 11.Jakati - Spin bowling
- Total batsmen in the above team = 8 - Total pacers in the above team = 3 - Total spin bowlers in the above team = 4
If Dhoni agains picks players like Tyagi, Balaji, Muralidharan, Goni and Joginder Sharma, then we can forget about winning IPL3, we just jave to be happy with atleast a 3rd time semifinalist
Re: Simple rule for Chennai to win IPL3:
by rediffuser on Apr 19, 2010 01:49 PM
Seeing the outform of Hayden & Hussey, i would suggest to have kemp in place of them and nitni inplace of thushara.
Re: Re: Simple rule for Chennai to win IPL3:
by C W on Apr 19, 2010 01:55 PM
I could agree with you on Kemp but not on Ntini.
Ntini is a good bowler no doubt, but is it worth taking a chance to test his form after such a long gap and that too in the Semis/Finals? Moreover he can hardly hold the bat, where is the flexibility to hit a few runs when needed?
Whereas Thushara has been tried in IPL3, he bowls really tight overs when needed and can also bat. Thushara should no doubt be in the team, Ntini could have been tried and tested in the league matches but not in the Semi/Finals.
Hussey and Hayden are just in a bad form but if they click, CSK is unstoppable. I think its worth taking a chance with these highly experienced players.
Re: Simple rule for Chennai to win IPL3:
by bharatpremi on Apr 19, 2010 02:29 PM
CSK shall be out in the semis.IPL3 winner CSK??? Never...god forbid...but gd seems to be overpowered by devils these day!!Hope their will be trumoh of Ram over Ravana
Re: Re: Simple rule for Chennai to win IPL3:
by arvi unite on Apr 19, 2010 03:52 PM
Abe tere andar saram hai ki nahi..mujhe to laga ki tu dhoni ki batting dekhkar saram se kahi apna moonh kala kar raha hoga...par tu to bada besarm hai re...
