IPL 2018 | April 15 | Day 9 | Discussion Thread

[AssassinatedDevil]

2 games!

11th Match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru (day/night) Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajhastan Royals

Match schedueled to begin at 16:00 local (10:30 GMT | 20:30 AEST | 20:00 ACST | 18:30 AWST)


Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Brendon McCullum, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Sarfaraz Khan, 6 Mandeep Singh, 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Kulwant Khejroliya, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal


Rajasthan Royals: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 D'Arcy Short, 3 Sanju Samson, 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Rahul Tripathi, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 K Gowtham, 8 Shreyas Gopal, 9 Dhawal Kulkarni, 10 Jaydev Unadkat, 11 Ben Laughlin/Jofra Archer

12th Match at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh (Night) Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings

Match scheduled to begin at 20:00 local (14:30 GMT | 00:30 AEST 1d | 00:00 ACST 1d | 22:30 AWST)


Kings XI Punjab 1 KL Rahul (wk), 2 Mayank Agarwal, 3 Aaron Finch/David Miller, 4 Yuvraj Singh/Manoj Tiwary, 5 Karun Nair, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Axar Patel, 8 R Ashwin (capt), 9 Andrew Tye, 10 Mohit Sharma, 11 Mujeeb Zadran


Chennai Super Kings 1 Shane Watson, 2 Ambati Rayudu, 3 M Vijay/Dhruv Shorey, 4 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 5 Sam Billings, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Dwayne Bravo 8 Deepak Chahar, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Shardul Thakur, 11 Imran Tahir

 

[IndianFan2018]

Kohli is due .... Hope today is the start of his GOD like performance #Cheers 2

 

[UN talkz]

D'Arcy Short has been a waste of money so far; just looks like a typical Aussie batsman; who can be Bradman in home conditions and turtle overseas, hope he proves me wrong; he looked like a beast this summer in T20s

 

[JattMaula]

D'Arcy Short has been a waste of money so far; just looks like a typical Aussie batsman; who can be Bradman in home conditions and turtle overseas, hope he proves me wrong; he looked like a beast this summer in T20s

Wasn't he runout twice?

 

[jagatk]

D'Arcy Short has been a waste of money so far; just looks like a typical Aussie batsman; who can be Bradman in home conditions and turtle overseas, hope he proves me wrong; he looked like a beast this summer in T20s

Has been very unlucky. let's see how he does when he himself or his team don't give away his wicket.

 

[UN talkz]

Wasn't he runout twice?

He has batted like a tailender; short on confidence

 

[IndianFan2018]

RCB won the Toss, choose to bowl first

 

[introvert]

No archer again looks like he is still not fully match fit

 

[IndianFan2018]

No archer again looks like he is still not fully match fit

Good thing about IPL Franchises they never fast track injured half fit players to play, will give enough time to recover

 

[Hasan123]

Rahane needs to step up.

 

[Hasan123]

Amazing atmosphere.

 

[Hasan123]

Nice shot by Rahane. He looks more comfortable versus pace compared to spin at the start of his innings.

 

[Hasan123]

Short isn't replicating his BBL form.

 

[Hasan123]

Tight start for RCB.

 

[Hasan123]

Nice sweep.

 

[Hasan123]

Good over for RR

 

[Smbhayi]

good over by RR

 

[Hasan123]

Yadav into the attack. Been in good form. Bowling at good pace and also bowling good lengths.

 

[Hasan123]

Short seems to be taking time to adapt to Indian conditions.

 

[Hasan123]

Rahane finding form is vital for RR. If he can bat through the innings, it will allow Butler , Stokes, and Tripatti to play their natural game.

 

[Smbhayi]

gone

 

[IndianFan2018]

Rahane :

 

[AMSS]

No problem with the concept of dugout on StarSports Select but sometimes these 'analysts' freeze when the camera pans on them. Nasser looked a bit taken aback when the camera focused on him, he wasn't prepared to speak just then! They will get better.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Short gone, not easy peasy for him as it was back home in BBL

:

 

[AMSS]

Short's been ordinary

 

[IndianFan2018]

Shot Samson

 

[Savage]

No problem with the concept of dugout on StarSports Select but sometimes these 'analysts' freeze when the camera pans on them. Nasser looked a bit taken aback when the camera focused on him, he wasn't prepared to speak just then! They will get better.

Which is generally better dugout or World feed commentary?

 

[Hasan123]

160 could be a competitive score. RR may have missed a trick by not playing Sohdi on this pitch.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Which is generally better dugout or World feed commentary?

Depends on the taste of viewers... World feed is more lively with lot of crowd noise. Dugout is kind of standard feed with lot of analysis from real experts

 

[AMSS]

Which is generally better dugout or World feed commentary?

Depends on your taste. Dugout is more intimate, more informed, less bombast. There's banter too but not filler nonsense. There's no ball to ball commentary like "oh he's hit that right out of the screws!" etc. There's actual analysis. Really like it so far.

 

[Savage]

Depends on the taste of viewers... World feed is more lively with lot of crowd noise. Dugout is kind of standard feed with lot of analysis from real experts

Yep.I think Dugout is better most of the times.Dugout doesn't allow irritating commentators like siva,Manjarekar etc.

 

[Savage]

Depends on your taste. Dugout is more intimate, more informed, less bombast. There's banter too but not filler nonsense. There's no ball to ball commentary like "oh he's hit that right out of the screws!" etc. There's actual analysis. Really like it so far.

Agreed.Dugout has been good so far.

 

[Hasan123]

Samson looks like an improved player. A big IPL will have the Indian selectors interested .

 

[Hasan123]

Good shot by Stokes . The longer he bats the more dangerous he will become.

 

[Hasan123]

Nice fielding by Woakes.

 

[Hasan123]

RR batting is good. The problem is there bowling. No wicket takers at all. Instead of Archer they should have gone for a more proven seamer and should have gone for another Indian spinner.

 

[Hasan123]

Big wicket of Stokes.

 

[Hasan123]

Butler arrives.

 

[Hasan123]

Nice shot by Samson.

 

[Hasan123]

RR lack of experienced spin bowlers may cost them on this pitch.

 

[Hasan123]

Chahal should flight the ball more. He's bowled well today. RCB need him in form as he is a wicket taker in the middle overs.

 

[Rishta Aunty]

Samson absolutely oozes class. If he doesn't make it, would be an absolute tragedy for Indian cricket.

 

[Rishta Aunty]

Chahal should flight the ball more. He's bowled well today. RCB need him in form as he is a wicket taker in the middle overs.

Bowls that wide slow looper very often. At some point batsman have to start expecting that. He's a top limited overs spinner though.

 

[Hasan123]

Samson needs to bat till the end of the innings. It won't be easy to get going from ball 1 without pace on the ball.

 

[AMSS]

Samson absolutely oozes class. If he doesn't make it, would be an absolute tragedy for Indian cricket.

He's a little combustible like his other state mate, Sreesanth. Always in trouble with opposition and authorities. He'll need serious attitude adjustment before he makes it.

 

[Hasan123]

Take pace of the bowl.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Yadav

8 runs off "1" ball.

 

[AMSS]

Also don't like the fact that Samson hits so much in the air. 4 sixes and 0 boundaries so far.

 

[Hasan123]

Woakes is a very good death bowler.

 

[Hasan123]

Buttler vs Woakes. The battle of the Englishmen.

 

[Rishta Aunty]

He's a little combustible like his other state mate, Sreesanth. Always in trouble with opposition and authorities. He'll need serious attitude adjustment before he makes it.

Hmm interesting. Sreesanth was a big case of wasted talent for India; was a wonderful outswing bowler at serious pace when he was on song. One of the few Indian pacers that I really rated from the other side of the border.

This Samson seems like he'd benefit being under the wing of someone like Dravid. I think this will be his breakout season though. His temperament has improved for sure.

 

[Hasan123]

Very good yorkers in this over by Woakes.

 

[Hasan123]

Woakes misses his length twice and is put away for 6 on both occasions. These runs could be costly for RCB.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Khejroliya looks impressive

 

[Hasan123]

Good over so far.

 

[Hasan123]

Can't believe these RCB quicks haven't tried any slower balls!

 

[IndianFan2018]

Samson on fire

 

[Protea Fan]

wow samson's batting is so effortless

Not a big guy but hitting out of the fence quiet easily..... some serious timing i would say

 

[Hasan123]

Buttler gone.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Samson would have been regular International player by now if he played for any other country... ?

 

[CricFan2012]

So this is what King Kohli would look like if he played for Pakistan in green

 

[CricFan2012]

Tripathi is a good player, loved watching him last year

 

[Hasan123]

Effortless from Samson.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Huge Six by Samson vs Soaked



Followed by

 

[Protea Fan]

Samson would have been regular International player by now if he played for any other country... ?

Not late yet the guy is still young and by merits can easily replace dhoni who can't even see the ball let alone score something

 

[Hasan123]

Another good shot by Samson. Much improved. Needs to more consistent if he wants to break into the India team.

 

[IndianFan2018]

So this is what King Kohli would look like if he played for Pakistan in green

Lol... Good one bro

 

[Hasan123]

This is going to be a difficult chase for RCB.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Well set Sanju Samson is more dangerous than Pants, Ishans and Karthiks.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Dhoni should be kicked out, for Samson.

 

[CricFan2012]

Sanju Sampson looks amazing, great cricketing name as well

 

[IndianFan2018]

Not late yet the guy is still young and by merits can easily replace dhoni who can't even see the ball let alone score something

Hmm... Lot of potential replacements for but they all need to wait till WC'19 !

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Indian Wahab, going for Runs.

 

[Hasan123]

Sohdi for Laughlin and Klassen for Short and this RR team looks very strong.

 

[Hasan123]

No attempt to take pace off the ball. Pathetic from Yadav.

 

[IndianFan2018]

Umesh is totally out of sort today

more by Samson.

 

[Hasan123]

What a knock from Samson.

 

[IndianFan2018]

 

[Tyler Durden]

Massacre by Samson.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

218 is a tough chase. Kohli is due though.