IPL | Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils | Kolkata | 13/05/2008

[Shayan]

Toss: Sourav Ganguly has won the toss and Kolkata will bat first. And here's the big news - Shoaib Akhtar is playing.

 

[SameerM]

yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee@shoaib - i feel the need for speed!!!

20 mins to kickoff! brb

 

[Gunner786]

IPL | Kolkata vs Delhi | Kolkata | 13/05/08

Cannot wait to see him bowl.
just another 1 and half hour to go

Toss: Sourav Ganguly has won the toss and Kolkata will bat first. And here's the big news - Shoaib Akhtar is playing. Robin Jackman conducts the toss and introduces the captains like one would do before a WWE fight. You didn't miss anything.

 

[SameerM]

AKHTAR will bowl........... a few overs

all good.. Akhtar DEBUTS finally! shud be a 'fast' game

 

[Gunner786]

what an attack

akhtar
ishant
gul
dinda

 

[NeVerMind]

what an attack

akhtar
ishant
gul
dinda

Gul ain't playing...

 

[dinakar]

Kolkotta have a SAD attack Sharma, Akthar, Dinda

 

[Saj]

what an attack

akhtar
ishant
gul
dinda

Gul is not playing

Kolkata Knight Riders team

Salman Butt, A Chopra, SC Ganguly, DJ Hussey, LR Shukla, T Taibu, WP Saha, Iqbal Abdulla, I Sharma, AB Dinda, Shoaib Akhtar


Delhi Daredevils team

V Sehwag, G Gambhir, S Dhawan, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MK Tiwary, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, GD McGrath, P Sangwan, A Mishra

 

[jusarrived]

Akthar for gul ? haha

 

[jusarrived]

hopefully we will see manoj thiwary little higher up the batting order !

 

[Easa]

Gul was the wrong guy to be dropped one feels, and I see that Asif not being given a game either.

Sad.

 

[Sparhawk]

Gul is not playing

Kolkata Knight Riders team

Salman Butt, A Chopra, SC Ganguly, DJ Hussey, LR Shukla, T Taibu, WP Saha, Iqbal Abdulla, I Sharma, AB Dinda, Shoaib Akhtar


Delhi Daredevils team

V Sehwag, G Gambhir, S Dhawan, AB de Villiers, TM Dilshan, MK Tiwary, MF Maharoof, VY Mahesh, GD McGrath, P Sangwan, A Mishra

Again a very bad selection move. They could easily put in some unknown indian batsman in place of taibu or even salman butt, surely gul offers too much with the ball to be left out.

 

[dinakar]

Gul was the wrong guy to be dropped one feels, and I see that Asif not being given a game either.

Sad.

After Maharoof's performance with bat and ball the other day, he cannot be dropped at least for a couple of games.

 

[dinakar]

Again a very bad selection move. They could easily put in some unknown indian batsman in place of taibu or even salman butt, surely gul offers too much with the ball to be left out.

do you want him to open the innings

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/player/27014.html

 

[161]

4 foreigner rule strikes in it's ugliest fashion yet !

 

[Sparhawk]

After Maharoof's performance with bat and ball the other day, he cannot be dropped at least for a couple of games.

I remember asif, maharoof and mcgrath all playing together in the first few matches. So basically theyve replaced asif with dilshan, still not a good move IMO but at least asif has been struggling, its more understandable than leaving out gul.

 

[161]

playing butt over hafeez ain't a brilliant move either..

 

[Sparhawk]

do you want him to open the innings

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/player/27014.html

) there's no way he's more than 12 yrs old.

 

[dinakar]

) there's no way he's more than 12 yrs old.

wait, that photo is 8 year old i didn't notice it.. yes, the first thought came in to mind was he faked his date of birth

 

[Ghoshtbuster]

S Malik is miked up....

 

[WasimG]

Butt & Chopra vs Sehwag & Gambhir

 

[feather]

Rameez n Malik having fun with Shiva's name...srk.

 

[Cryin Out Loud]

Yo!Mahesh comes in to bowl.

 

[Ghoshtbuster]

Butt doing ok, hit a few boundaries........that other guy is straight up crap. Has a strike rate of under 100 in 20/20

 

[sayed.jaffar]

I guess these guys need to score fast. They are not playing a test match here.

 

[12thMan]

Butt on fire 12 off 14

 

[dinakar]

Delhi will be quite happy keeping these two at the crease whole time.....

 

[Sheikh]

Real solid platform here. Setting it up nicely for the last 15 overs...

 

[sayed.jaffar]

Real solid platform here. Setting it up nicely for the last 15 overs...

Which solid platform?? They should be scoring runs like 10+ per over at this time.

 

[Sheikh]

Which solid platform?? They should be scoring runs like 10+ per over at this time.

Yeah, it was sarcasm mate.

 

[Dhonifan]

hooray chopra outt

now to get Gangu and gang quickly. come on boyz lets do it today!!

 

[jackal786]

Butt & Chopra vs Sehwag & Gambhir

For Delhi Chopra and Gambhir are the regular openers. Sometimes they atlernate. Delhi has 4 regular openers. Chopra, Gambhir, Dhawan and Sehwag. But Chopra is the regular opener. But he is not a natural one day player even though he played some telling knocks recently in domestic one dayers.

 

[Dhonifan]

lets hear you cheer now Eden...

 

[SameerM]

bowled ganguly !!

 

[SameerM]

my name is hussey... david hussey is in

 

[TruSachFan]

dada will win the match with his mcgrathesque bowling this time

 

[SameerM]

KKR better get some more runs, or Akhtar will finish this game in his 4 overs - edges all the way!

 

[jackal786]

dada will win the match with his mcgrathesque bowling this time

I wish Gambhir bat at that time and thrash him to all parts of the park

 

[SameerM]

Butt - solid as a rock !!!

 

[TruSachFan]

I wish Gambhir bat at that time and thrash him to all parts of the park

how dare u disrespect the prince of calcutta

 

[SameerM]

Butts found THE way an opener SHOULD play!!

IPL has made Butt into an opener no slashes or big shots so far

 

[jackal786]

how dare u disrespect the prince of calcutta

I am scared he might use these knocks to come back into the settled Indian ODI side.

 

[TruSachFan]

I am scared he might use these knocks to come back into the settled Indian ODI side.

lol

same here

thank god for his jonty-esque fielding though

 

[W63L35]

Butt is going to run his partner out or bat so slow that Kolkata will not reach a decent total!

 

[NeVerMind]

Butt with consecutive boundaries..both in style...Butt on 33 - the highest score by a Pakistani batsman in the tournament which is not saying much...

 

[Cryin Out Loud]

Butt on fyah!

Well, a little.

 

[161]

Butt on fyah!

Well, a little.

yeah .. he just remembered that most the opposition bowlers are asian.

 

[Dhonifan]

great bit of fielding by Dilshaan

Hussey is still not in his groove yet. hopefully we can restric KKR to 160 or less

 

[Dhonifan]

salman butt is going to be out to a spinner soon, I feel it

 

[SameerM]

72/2 off 10.x overs... half way and its very calm !!

Is Butt going to unlease the fiery of the dragon?

 

[Dhonifan]

oh man, I just saw AB Viliers is the wickie...and he just dropped Hussy! ^$^#%

 

[jackal786]

Mishra bowls really sharp.. i think he is better than Chawla..

 

[RumiNYC]

highest scored for a pakistani in IPL ? i dont remember...anybody

 

[SameerM]

another 4 for butt.. 42 !! just shows even a SNAILS pace is better than a rampant slog!

 

[gibster82]

i think there is 2 pakistani player limit per game lol...

 

[Showman]

Butt is out caught

 

[NeVerMind]

Butt out...damn was hoping for a fifty...well played nonetheless...a lot of pressure put by Hussey who ahs not been able to score...

 

[SwEeT CaNdY]

no 50 for salman?

 

[azfar wali]

Salman butt caught out

 

[SwEeT CaNdY]

sab ne yahan nazar lagadi salman pe!!!

 

[Sparhawk]

Finally a pakistani batsman comes through. 48 is a pretty good score in 20-20.

 

[SameerM]

48 !! andddd he's an opener!!! thats the best opener score even in recent TESTS !!!

 

[SameerM]

111/4 off 17.2 overs

Hussey still there! on 16 so far

 

[SameerM]

McGrath fields off his own bowling and sees Shukla scamper back to his crease, he decides not to run him out and then sees Hussey out of his crease as well, he decides against running him out as well and they share a laugh after that


:S i sense a bit of laziness here from McGrath!!!

 

[gibster82]

great loser captain malik is talking - his english skills are so shitty - would rather have akthar or afridi as captain just for that reason...

 

[Ghoshtbuster]

great loser captain malik is talking - his english skills are so shitty - would rather have akthar or afridi as captain just for that reason...

you are an idiot.

 

[Dhonifan]

does anyone know why asif isnt playing for delhi?

 

[gibster82]

you are an idiot.

lol - i said that for kicks man - but seriously I feel everytime malik speaks english he does a disservice to Pakistan - he should respond to them in urdu.

 

[jusarrived]

great loser captain malik is talking - his english skills are so shitty - would rather have akthar or afridi as captain just for that reason...

how does it matter wethar he can speak english or not ?

 

[jusarrived]

does anyone know why asif isnt playing for delhi?

been leaking lot of runs , he shud have been droped earlier !

 

[gibster82]

how does it matter wethar he can speak english or not ?

because then he makes stupid remarks such as thanks to all the muslims around the world for supporting us and that makes pakistanis look like idiots.

 

[asifp]

McGrath gives only 22 runs yet is mad, whats wrong with him

 

[gibster82]

McGrath gives only 22 runs yet is mad, whats wrong with him

no wickets thats why

 

[Dhonifan]

great loser captain malik is talking - his english skills are so shitty - would rather have akthar or afridi as captain just for that reason...

his english is just fine. i like this dude, even though he's not doing well at the mo

 

[gibster82]

his english is just fine. i like this dude, even though he's not doing well at the mo

beyond his english his captaincy is too timid to lead a team of pakistani cricketers

 

[jackal786]

malik talks often as if he is on dope.

 

[gibster82]

McGrath gives only 22 runs yet is mad, whats wrong with him

actually he was mad because he let the batsman switch ends

 

[NeVerMind]

does anyone know why asif isnt playing for delhi?

Because of Mahroof...last match he smashed Warne all over the park to give his side a defendable total and today 4 overs for 25 runs and two wickets. It is unlikley that we will will see Asif anytime soon...

 

[Cryin Out Loud]

yeah .. he just remembered that most the opposition bowlers are asian.

 

[Dhonifan]

been leaking lot of runs , he shud have been droped earlier !

hmm, havent seen Asif's bowling figures but he was doing well at the start, or perhaps the batting was doing better and it didnt seem to matter if a few extra runs were leaked.

for the sake of the PP'ers shoaib should have been picked. at least one PaKistani in the team would have made some of them cheer for Delhi..