Wow….the ‘Karmyudh’ of Cricket is about to begin today.Being a diehard fan of this game I am very much excited about the bonanza for cricket lovers!!!
The prospect of a Sachin and Jayasurya opening together,then Brett Lee and Sreesanth bowling in tandem,Ganguly and Ponting batting together… will be mouthwatering.
Similarly when Symonds and Hayden play against Harbhajan the contest would get more fired up because of the recent controversies.Dhoni kepping for Murali would be a spectacle too.Yuvraj playing against Ishant Sharma would be interesting.
Looking at the teams …Hyderabad Deccan Chargers have got the fire in their batting with Gilchrist,Symonds, Afridi,Gibbs and Rohit Sharma in their ranks!!! This looks really Explosive.
Delhi Daredevils have got a lot of spin options in Daniel Vettori,Dilshan,Shoaib Malik and Sehwag.Also, there wont be too many runs on offering at the top by them with Mcgrath and Asif opening the bowling.
The Kolkata Knight Riders have got a huge hype built about it with SRK doing a lot of advertisement himself.The think tank is great with the trio of Ganguly-Ponting-John Buchanan.The rest of the team doesn’t look great on paper with Shoaib Akhtar ruled out.
The Banglore Royal Challengers have some experience to fall back on with Dravid,Kumble and Kallis in their ranks.Virat Kohli would be the player to watch out for.But they may struggle with their fielding.
The Mumbai Indians have some very good match winners in Sachin,Jayasuriya,Harbhajan Singh,Robin Utthapa and Lasith Malinga.They are looking very strong.I think they have got the right mix and are the favourites.
The Rajasthan Royals don’t have much star power apart from their coach cum captain Shane Warne…I must say they look the weakest on paper.
The Chennai Super Kings have got a strong team with Dhoni,Murali,Hayden,Hussey,Oram,Suresh Raina and Balaji in their ranks.They can trouble the other teams a lot.
My team Kings XI Punjab has got some very talented players like Yuvraj Singh,Brett Lee,Sangakkara,Jayawerdene,Piyush Chawla,Pathan and James Hopes.I am sure we are going to give tough competition to every team.
Finally I think its going to be a great event…I am hoping to see close games and very good cricket.I believe Test cricket wont be affected by IPL as playing for the country is the biggest honour and we have seen in the past that ODIs did not impact the Test cricket as well…Though I do think that IPL would increase the following of this game by many folds.Let the play begin…………..
2 comments:
yep..can not wait! All the teams have more than a chance but for Rajasthan Royals I guess..
I would want Royal Challengers to do well but they might not with the team that they have.
My team of course is KingsXIPunjab..I expect them to be arrogant and aggressive :)
Live Punjabi , Play Punjabi..Go Kings!
I have tickets for first match in MOHALI ..very excited to see brett lee bowling to hayden..good job samir for mentioning many combo packs in IPL in your post.
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