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[PICTURES/VIDEOS] Kolkata Knight Riders crowned champions of IPL 2024 after defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets

Which side will win the IPL trophy this season?

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KL Rahul deserves this humiliation. You do not bat like an ODI in a T20.

Head and Abhishek are beats in PP. They don't care who the bowler is or what the target is. They only bat one way.

The likes of KL Rahul, Rohit, Kohli should not bat in Powerplay. Their style of play is outdated by more than a decade. It was cool back then. Not now.
 
Travis Head (89*) and Abhishek Sharma (75*) chased down 166 inside 9.4 overs to brush aside the Lucknow Super Giants by 10 wickets and give themselves a massive net run rate boost at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

Ayush Badoni starred with a feisty half century as he, with the help of Nicholas Pooran guided LSG to 165/4 against SRH. Bhuvneshwar Kumar rattled Lucknow Super Giants early when he sent back both Quinton de Kock and Marcus Stoinis cheaply. Skipper KL Rahul would follow with 29 when he was snapped up by Pat Cummins. the australian would strike again soon when he ran out a well-set Krunal Pandya as well.

Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul won the toss and opted to bat first against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Wednesday. Both teams made 2 changes each with Sanvir Singh coming in for Mayank Agarwal and Vijayakanth Viyaskanth making his debut in place of Marco Jansen for SRH. Meanwhile, Quinton de Kock came back in while Mohsin Khan missed out for Lucknow.

Source: The Indian Express
 
The number of volleys served in this match was commendable.

It was a bat vs bat contest yet again. And better hitters prevailed.
 
IPL is way too long to follow. BCCI should try to reduce the duration of the tournament to 6 weeks and think about double headers on Friday, Saturday as well. 2 months is too long and even the viewer eventually becomes fatigued.
 
Savak said:
IPL is way too long to follow. BCCI should try to reduce the duration of the tournament to 6 weeks and think about double headers on Friday, Saturday as well. 2 months is too long and even the viewer eventually becomes fatigued.
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yea.. there should be more double headers.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
They consciously decide "this pitch is slow" play like this. Unless you attempt to play shots you won't know how good or bad a pitch is.
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Mathew Hayden called it right halfway through. He said Badoni+Pooran’s partnership was evidence that this isn’t a 160 track. They were well short because of KL’s pathetic batting
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Too bad they are not bowling to Babar and Rizwan lol
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Lol babar and rizwan can never even dream of playing like these guys but they did destroy Indian trundlers. I guess you have to be reminded of that 152-0. LOL.
 
Cricket Warrior said:
It seems like the LSG owner has lost control after such a crushing defeat by SRH.


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Has any PSL owner ever really stuck it to his team after a defeat?

Personally i believe the Franchise owners should not be allowed in the team dressing room and dug out. They have coaches and support staff for a reason, let them deal with the players. Owners coming into the team dug out and dressing room and lashes out at the players, coaches will only create a scary bad environment inside the team.
 
followed said:
Lol babar and rizwan can never even dream of playing like these guys but they did destroy Indian trundlers. I guess you have to be reminded of that 152-0. LOL.
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152 in 18 or 19 overs iis not destroying. But you ignored the whole bunch of matches after that.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
BCCI never questions our players like this. This is why they never win anythiing.
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These owners were really letting their frustrations known openly. They were taunting the drop catch by Yash. They’ve literally had it with this team
 
Rahul went in to shell once again that costed them the match. T20 has changed a lot now. Maybe SRH is an outliner.
 
Rana said:
These owners were really letting their frustrations known openly. They were taunting the drop catch by Yash. They’ve literally had it with this team
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When you don't have proper performance appraisal from time to time you will win nothing. There will be no motivation to improve. This is what RCB/Punjab XI/Delhi management should do. Setting high expectation from the team.
 
This match absoultely decimated the myth of anchors in T20. Even an anchor should have massive acceleration skills.
 
Rana said:
I wish Mohsin Naqvi did this to Babar
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Believe me it will very well happen. Babar's paindu nature as captain and his incompetence will sadly cost Pakistan in due course and Mohsin Naqvi being the no nonsense administrator will let Babar have it. Babar will regret accepting the captaincy and will resign to avoid any further scarring.
 
Scoring 167 on this Hyderabad pitch, which is obviously on steroids in like scoring 90 in a normal T20 game. Although I wonder if even 250 would have been enough for this SRH batting line-up on this wicket.
 
This was probably worst T20 bowling I have ever seen. At this rate, SRH would've made 350+ in a T20 match. I dont understand what is so special about Naveen ul Haq?
 
BDfanforever said:
This was probably worst T20 bowling I have ever seen. At this rate, SRH would've made 350+ in a T20 match. I dont understand what is so special about Naveen ul Haq?
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He is decent and performed well. He is definitely better than BD bowlers.

The issue is not who was bowling. It is who is batting. You cannot stop batsmen like Head when he is in full flow. It takes some luck to stop him. In this case the other batsman Abhisek is also a tremendous hitter. That makes the bowlers job even more difficult.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
I can understand the frustration. LSG were on course for the play-offs but dropped the ball big time in the pressure games. And Rahul's sleepy innings today was painful to watch.
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Don’t forget Krunal Pandya’s inning too. What was the point of KP’s batting today? What was he trying to do?
 
BDfanforever said:
This was probably worst T20 bowling I have ever seen. At this rate, SRH would've made 350+ in a T20 match. I dont understand what is so special about Naveen ul Haq?
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I don't think you would not have seen that score if they were bowling to Kohli and Faf.
 
I hope West indies rolls out absolute belters. These self-appointed anchors will be exposed big time.
 
THe way SRH dismantled LSG was a joke. WHat type of cricket is this?

It made the game only for the batters to enjoy and there was nothing left for bowlers to do. I will prefer last balls thrillers and low-scoring ones rather than this 1-sided traffic.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
yea.. there should be more double headers.
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With 10 teams now, it is easier to organize double headers. Sometimes a team has to wait like 5-6 days for their next game. At least on Saturday there should be 2 games, also on selected additional government holidays (state in which the game is held) there can be double headers...
 
BouncerGuy said:
THe way SRH dismantled LSG was a joke. WHat type of cricket is this?

It made the game only for the batters to enjoy and there was nothing left for bowlers to do. I will prefer last balls thrillers and low-scoring ones rather than this 1-sided traffic.
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Modern day cricket. No concept of single after boundary. Keep going as long as you could. You need skill and attitude to play like this. This is why not many teams play like this. Only KKR and SRH play like this. Phil Salt did that in internationals as well. Opposition just has to get up to speed. Sure there are some pitches where tuk tukers will have their value. But these tuk tukers think every pitch is challenging.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Modern day cricket. No concept of single after boundary. Keep going as long as you could. You need skill and attitude to play like this. This is why not many teams play like this. Only KKR and SRH play like this. Phil Salt did that in internationals as well. Opposition just has to get up to speed. Sure there are some pitches where tuk tukers will have their value. But these tuk tukers think every pitch is challenging.
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People might like the idea of more sixes and fours and scored of 300 in t20s but it will not be a cricket anymore. It will be a one way traffic for batters and the bowlers will seem irrelevant. Might as well use bowling machines instead of putting that much burden on bowlers.
 
BouncerGuy said:
People might like the idea of more sixes and fours and scored of 300 in t20s but it will not be a cricket anymore. It will be a one way traffic for batters and the bowlers will seem irrelevant. Might as well use bowling machines instead of putting that much burden on bowlers.
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You cannot control. In the mid 80s Richards and Greenidge added 226 runs in 26 overs in a ODI. Bowlers were destroyed :) People enjoyed it. 40 years later you have more people with same attitude. Besides Test matches are there for balance.
ODIs are there for balance. T20 is always going to be a heavily batsmen oriented game. Nobody wants to see taking singles, twos for 20 overs. We are trying to make it look like ODI which is not possible. You need players like KL Rahul, Babar, Bavuma to create balance between bat and ball.

Travis head bats like this even in Test match. Australia rolled out an unplayable fast Gabba pitch for South Afirca. Every single batsman was struggling. Head made 92 in 96 balls. We have to give credit to batsmen.
 

Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, 58th Match​


Toss Update: Punjab Kings opt to bowl

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Mahipal Lomror, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Swapnil Singh, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Jonny Bairstow(w), Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Sam Curran(c), Ashutosh Sharma, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Vidhwath Kaverappa
 
Kohli 10(10) in power play so far.

Then people blame the pitches and bowlers for 200+ scores.
 
One of the better innings from Kohli. He needs to continue this form to WC.

Looking at RCB bowling, it could be par score.
 
Faf playing dirty tricks. He saw that Shashank was not looking at him when he was running.

Faf should've moved. But he just stood there and bumped him. Pathetic.
 
Punjab looks like a dumb franchise with no planning on their squad.
 
followed said:
Lol hahaha here comes another patriotic soldier to the rescue.

Before posting fake facts check the stats who bowled most 140ks plus deliveries in world cup 2023 and before that 2022 world cup and before that 2021 world T20 and so many countless tournaments.

Don't disrespect your elders LOL.

I love watching Jake bashing Indian trundlers like no tomorrow.

Jake is the most exciting young talent right now.
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Please continue to watch IPL because Jake will never play in the PSL lol, good to see you spend time watching our league.

Pakistani bowlers were beyond rubbish in the last wc, a fat Rohit sharma treated you like club level trundlers.

You bowled at 140k and got deposited into the stands at 200k

But pace is pace yaar
 
Virat Kohli starred as Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Punjab Kings by 60 runs at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala on Thursday. Kohli anchored the innings as RCB posted a huge total of 241 for 7 in 20 overs. Kohli, who scored 92 runs off 47 balls in the game, crossed the mark of 1000 IPL runs against PBKS and thus became the first-ever batter in the history of the tournament to do it against three opponents. He already did it against DC and CSK.

Rajat Patidar (55 off 23) and Cameron Green (46 off 27) also played crucial knocks after Punjab Kings' stand-in captain Sam Curran won the toss and opted to bowl first. Chasing the mammoth target, PBKS were bowled out for 181 in 17 overs.
 
CSK should be eliminated in the league stage itself. This should be the ploy for other teams... They (like Australia - the yellow power) are dangerous in knockouts!
 
Poor captaincy by Ruthuraj.. he didn't try Mo & Rachin when everyone is travelling..
 
I think the innings slowed down a bit, as they both approached centuries... They could have easily got 280, and even reached 300 somehow...
 
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