Desi Cartman Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Styen isnt playing today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_South Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 nothin can save B'lore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zubinpepsi Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 nothin can save B'lore.... :)) thts true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vignesh Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Ma be a match against Mumbai Indians would doa world of good to the confidence level of the royal challengers....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravid Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 joshi-kumble in 20-20 :hahaha: they will get killed.. and steyn not playing so nothing can save em :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 If you convert IPL into a :hahaha: Test match series, maybe the Banglore Royals of Dravid, Jaffer, Kallis, Chanderpaul will save the match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hiten. Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Difference!! Difference!! Delhi gave us Agent Nehra. We gave Bengaluru Master Blaster Jaffer. This shows that how committed we are to see our fellow country mate's franchises fare :finger: Take back your agent, you fckin scaredevils :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravid Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 yea, blame it on nehra and not the whole shitty MI team :haha: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umpire Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 harakiri of highest order. Game was in the bag and experience players like Kallis, Taylor, Boucher do the choke job. Well done BRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umpire Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Include Jaffer, after working hard for a start, you need to go on and seal the game and remain not out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Include Jaffer, after working hard for a start, you need to go on and seal the game and remain not out. Dude, thats damn disrespectful. Jaffer was shocked that he was getting all those chances and strike rate above 100... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludhianvi Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Agent Nehra had a clean last game. I thought the plan of CSK was to keep Jaffer on strike and keep dropping his catches. But he outsmarted them with a quick 50.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4te Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Dude' date=' thats damn disrespectful. Jaffer was shocked that he was given all those chances and strike rate above 100... fixed! :giggle::giggle: but it back fired :((:(( but WE WON!!!!!!!! :yay::yay::yay: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 fixed! :giggle::giggle: and it fired on all cylinders to make a dud of a match very exciting :((:(( but WE WON!!!!!!!! :yay::yay::yay: FIXED!! :yay: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakhmi Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Delhi gave us Agent Nehra. We gave Bengaluru Master Blaster Jaffer. This shows that how committed we are to see our fellow country mate's franchises fare :finger: Take back your agent, you fckin scaredevils :cantstop: I believe this is the first of his all innings in ODIs and T20 that he played with the need and style. Too late for BRC, but WJ's innings was a surprise as I believed he can never fit in ODI and T20 format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 RD has chosen a Test Team in Twenty20 clothes About three overs into the Bangalore innings there was a grim suspicion - one which would come back to haunt them later in the evening - that Rahul Dravid had actually chosen a Test team looking as much like a Twenty20 franchise as the bearded women resemble men in The Life of Brian's stoning scene. Bharat Chipli, seemingly the umpteenth opener tried by the Royal Challengers in their four matches, was being jeered by the Chinnaswamy faithful for failing to break Jacob Oram's shackles, while at the other end Wasim Jaffer was batting like a latterday Ken Barrington, apparently booking in for bed and breakfast. Poor Bangalore. Jaffer, Dravid, Jacques Kallis, even the hastily discarded Shivnarine Chanderpaul (two in nine balls against the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday) - it was hardly a line-up to strike fear into Twenty20 opening bowlers. Moments later, Chipli was bowled by Manpreet Gony and local eyebrows were raised with knowing resignation. And then the Royal Challengers got a stroke of luck. Gony dropped Jaffer at long-on. It was a sitter as boundary catches go. Gony wrung his wrist in pain but the bowler, Palani Amarnath, looked like he wanted to do a Sreesanth (burst into tears, that is, rather than collect a slap in the chops). The mood, already faintly surreal with the looming clouds and the swirling wind, changed. Taking his cue from Ross Taylor - who, remember, was not even snapped up until the second, much cheaper, round of auctioning - Jaffer decided to play shots no one knew he ever had. He went inside-out to drive Amarnath over extra cover for four, and even managed to make the stroke look elegant. He pulled Albie Morkel for six and then played an imperious pick-up off his pads to deposit Joginder Sharma for six more. His half-century, from just 32 balls, came courtesy of a cheeky shuffle across his stumps and a flick to fine-leg for four. Amarnath could barely believe it. But old habits die hard, and that is Bangalore's fundamental problem. The ball after reaching 50, Jaffer - man who has played two one-day internationals and only two Twenty20 innings of any kind before tonight - drove Amarnath to long-off and the wheels began to loosen on their axels. Nine overs and nine wickets later, they had come off completely. Jacques Kallis nicked one from Sharma and did his best to con Russell Tiffin by walking full circle with his back to the umpire; Taylor, a star in the making, slapped Amarnath to cover; Mark Boucher skewed Gony to third man, where Mike Hussey made a tricky catch look easy; Dravid failed to get the benefit of the doubt - Gony's shout looked high - and departed first ball; and Virat Kohli lost his leg-stump to the deserving Albie Morkel. The rest seemed determined to run themselves out. "It was one of those days," said Dravid. The locals might be forgiven for thinking it was actually one of the Groundhog Days. In all, nine wickets fell for 63 in 52 balls. When one of the advertising boards collapsed just before the post-match ceremony, knocking over a trophy in the process, it seemed strangely symbolic. This is a side that might still be scarred from the pummelling it received from Brendon McCullum here nine days ago. But the problem goes deeper than that. Well though Jaffer played, there is only one genuine Twenty20 batsman in the side and that's Taylor, who is about to join up with New Zealand's tour of England. Pugnacious he may be, but Boucher can't be expected to win matches on a regular basis by himself. The sight of Dravid coming in at No. 7 after he had opened in the previous three games suggests the kind of muddled thinking that does not befit a side with Dravid and Martin Crowe at the helm. The Super Kings, by contrast, were able to slot in Mike Hussey and Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Matthew Hayden, and have Stephen Fleming still to come - batsmen who hit the ball in different places and hit it very hard indeed. If just one of them had been playing for the home side tonight, Bangalore might have won. Instead, they have now lost three games out of four and Dravid, who - as an icon player - had a say in the selection of his squad - is scratching his head. Bangalore are not yet in crisis territory. But if they lose in Delhi on Wednesday, they just might be. © Cricinfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Stating the obvious. But good article, nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I believe this is the first of his all innings in ODIs and T20 that he played with the need and style. Too late for BRC' date=' but WJ's innings was a surprise as I believed he can never fit in ODI and T20 format.[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical: You are awesome with your sarcasm :two_thumbs_up::two_thumbs_up: :icflove: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HariSampath Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Excellent article.. Mods...does this belong in the "Rahul Dravid , the worst captain" thread ? That thread has a great OP, and maybe the first 15 posts in that thread plus this can be merged. Remaining posts on that thread belongs to a Dhoni/CSK strengths thread as both Dravid/BRC and Dhoni/CSK merit a separate thread for being the worst and the best respectively. Both are great topics to discuss, plenty of potential ( and needless to say, I would be partying on both :giggle: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prince40 Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 dravid is one of india's greatest batsman ever, but its really sad hows he batted not just in the IPL but even in tests over the last year, hope he and dada fire big time in the IPl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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