IPL 2023
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Yep. Patel has been very poor thru this edition. I still back MI to go thru.King Kohli
Don't trust the RCB bowlers here though
Yes 2 of RCB's best performers from last year have been piss this time - Harshal and Karthik
Good in the comm box, improvement over Arun Lal, Manjrekar & Shastri. He's done in IPL.
Harshal is also not getting back into the national team.
Yeah agreed on both
Is a 100 off 60 balls a good innings in a T20? Feels about 5-6 balls too slow tbh
Gill betters him. Superb.
100 off 52 - that's more like it.
GILL!
Take a bow lad. Currently my favourite player of the IPL.
Take a bow lad. Currently my favourite player of the IPL.
He's an amazing talent. India's top order is stacked with players who can play Limited Overs cricket in the right way - yet they're way too afraid to move on from the likes of Rohit and Rahul
You can say so but he couldn't really break free thanks to losing support at the other end and some good bowling.
Indeed, brilliant. RCB lost it at the toss, they were never going to defend a total here i think
Not sure how everyone fits in. Would like to see india experiment with Jaiswal, Gaikwad, Gill, Surya as a top 4.
As a thought experiment, I went on cricinfo and looked at the highest Indian run getters but then also took strike rate into account. While Kohli has a lot of runs, he noticeably has a SR under 140, whereas all the young Indian batsmen who have scored a lot of runs in this edition are higher than 140 and mostly higher than 150 too. Think that highlights where India need to go moving forward.
Kohli is extremely slow by T20 standards for the first 30 runs, puts the team in trouble in the first 8 overs, gets 4 fours to up his strike rate and exits. He's a stat padder in T20 and no one wants to say it. It's not just your final strike rate that matters but your strike rate through the innings.
Yesterday's innings was an exception where he was exceptional.
RCB should let him go now.
10th final in 14 editions of IPL for Chennai. Dhoni's last probably.
Hasn't that been said many time over past 3 years already?
I hope he doesn't. He's a talisman. We can let the rest the rest of team carry him (like we do now) and we'll still win.
Would be nice for him to win it in his last season.
Been an interesting 2 last matches, definitely unscripted.
Think GT shakes off that performance and meet CSK in the final, but with the way this season has gone, can easily see it being a clash of the 2 most successful IPL teams.
If its MI vs CSK, I'd probably fancy CSK over MI for the fairytale story for Dhoni last. MI's players I enjoy watching more though.
Think GT shakes off that performance and meet CSK in the final, but with the way this season has gone, can easily see it being a clash of the 2 most successful IPL teams.
If its MI vs CSK, I'd probably fancy CSK over MI for the fairytale story for Dhoni last. MI's players I enjoy watching more though.
Gonna be a good final either way.
Supporting CSK & GT to meet in the final.
Would be quite something for Titans to lead all the way through, then beat RCB so that MI go through, only for MI to knock them out after Titans lost the qualifier
Come on GT! Gill in the zone….aaaaand dropped.
Gill is so good
Gill is different gravy
This is something else from him. What a player
Gill
This is mental
That's how you punish a dropped catch. Getting 99 after the catch
Then being caught
Then being caught
That's a nasty, nasty hit on Green. He should be wearing an armguard
Wonder if Mumbai regret retaining Rohit 
This is gonna be fun now with sky and Tilak. This could be some chase
This is a massive powerplay
Wonder if Titans will regret getting him outWonder if Mumbai regret retaining Rohit
Damn this is a collapse
Gonna be a hammering now
Gonna be a hammering now
This has been just lovely from GT, what a performance after the previous game.
Will be a cracking final I hope. I'm team GT, but wouldn't be too sad if Dhoni got his fairytale send off.
Will be a cracking final I hope. I'm team GT, but wouldn't be too sad if Dhoni got his fairytale send off.
Shubman Gill, what a player. Just love the guy!
Wadda playa.. Jaiswal opening with Gill in a couple of years.. will be a sight.
Better be sooner than that. Gill 1, Jaiswal 2, would put Kohli at 3, Surya at 4, Kishan at 5, Hardik 6, Tilak 7, Jadeja 8, Shami 9, Bumrah 10, Siraj/Chahal 11. Best XI for me that India could put out for T20s based on current form/future potential. Would be hard for any country to beat that I reckon.
I have very little faith in the system to get that team together. Ffs we were till few months ago still playing KL Rahul ahead of Gill...