Kothili Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 On 4/1/2024 at 2:31 PM, Lord said: Some bad purchases. Tim David is nowhere near Pollard, Brevis and others are also poor. And Chawla is lead spinner Tristan Stubbs shoved it right up Bambis by showing up for DD. MumInd and Lord 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real McCoy Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 MI is a shitty team all along. It didn't change at all. They only won all these trophies with the umps in their back pocket. 13 vs 11 is never a fair game. CommonMan, Chaos, MumInd and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) 7 hours ago, Real McCoy said: MI is a shitty team all along. It didn't change at all. They only won all these trophies with the umps in their back pocket. 13 vs 11 is never a fair game. Also someone had to carry gaaaandu the karate kid. So its 14 v 10. Add ARS (Ambhanis Review System), so its 15 v 10. yet they sitting pretty right by another great team RCB. Edited May 2 by Chaos MumInd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 They may become the first team in IPL history to finish 10th twice. They have to win everything to avoid that bowl_out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalebi_bhai Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Mumbai's rise coincided with Pollard and Malinga's peak. It's not a coincidence that they've been irrelevant since Pollard retired.Pollard was a generational talent in t20s, a proper cheat code. They've replaced him with Tim David Unlike Dhoni, who has has successfully rebuilt CSK multiple times post mega-auctions, MI have not been able to do so post Pollard. bowl_out, cricspirit and Ultimate_Game 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowl_out Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 16 hours ago, vvvslaxman said: They may become the first team in IPL history to finish 10th twice. They have to win everything to avoid that How? Many teams have done it twice and thrice. cricspirit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowl_out Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 16 hours ago, vvvslaxman said: They may become the first team in IPL history to finish 10th twice. They have to win everything to avoid that Got it. You mean 10th. Not wooden spoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New guy Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 5 hours ago, jalebi_bhai said: Mumbai's rise coincided with Pollard and Malinga's peak. It's not a coincidence that they've been irrelevant since Pollard retired.Pollard was a generational talent in t20s, a proper cheat code. They've replaced him with Tim David Unlike Dhoni, who has has successfully rebuilt CSK multiple times post mega-auctions, MI have not been able to do so post Pollard. Meh, they still were top 3 in 2022. They never were as bad usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowl_out Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 hour ago, New guy said: Meh, they still were top 3 in 2022. They never were as bad usually. After topping the league in 2019 and 2020, they have finished at 5th, 10th, 4th, 10th in the last 4 years. So, it's not just this year. There is no shame in accepting that they are missing clutch players like Pollard and Malinga.. Tim David and Thushara haven't brought the same impact Ultimate_Game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) 1 hour ago, bowl_out said: Got it. You mean 10th. Not wooden spoon In this case both. Wooden spoon and 10th place. That is quiet an achievement given that 10 teams is a lot of teamss. lol Edited May 5 by vvvslaxman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 2 minutes ago, bowl_out said: After topping the league in 2019 and 2020, they have finished at 5th, 10th, 4th, 10th in the last 4 years. So, it's not just this year. There is no shame in accepting that they are missing clutch players like Pollard and Malinga.. Tim David and Thushara haven't brought the same impact That man Pollard. What an MVP he was for MI. Ofcourse Malinga too. bowl_out and Ultimate_Game 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vijy Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 10 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said: That man Pollard. What an MVP he was for MI. Ofcourse Malinga too. even Pandu was pretty good for MI at his peak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New guy Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 44 minutes ago, bowl_out said: After topping the league in 2019 and 2020, they have finished at 5th, 10th, 4th, 10th in the last 4 years. So, it's not just this year. There is no shame in accepting that they are missing clutch players like Pollard and Malinga.. Tim David and Thushara haven't brought the same impact They were not 4th in 2022, they won the eliminator so were 3rd overall. And that too with most of their players including bumrah injured. They would have done way better this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowl_out Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 32 minutes ago, New guy said: They were not 4th in 2022, they won the eliminator so were 3rd overall. And that too with most of their players including bumrah injured. They would have done way better this year. I meant finished 4th after league stage in 2023. In 2022, they finished 10th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MumInd Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 It seems like we were always an over-rated team.... who got lucky through combination of umpires and few standout performances.... 2 lucky 1 run wins in finals with some dodgy decisions aiding them..... Never won an IPL when it was 10 team competition whihc is always tougher than 8 team..... Finsihed wooden spoon once and looks to be twice.... on top of that they have no loyalty.... so much for calling themsleves one family.... happily ditched their 5 time winning captain.... and used underhand tactics by paying Pandu 100 crore to make the move.... they thought they can buy their way to another title by acquiring Pandu... but sometimes you get what you deserve.... also fielded 5 overseas players in a game once when max allowed is 4..... Chaos, Real McCoy, Ultimate_Game and 1 other 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate_Game Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 30 minutes ago, MumInd said: also fielded 5 overseas players in a game once when max allowed is 4..... Remember that! The excuse that time was that they had too many injuries and weren't able to find enough Indian players If they had to play fair and square, I doubt they would have more than 2-3 titles. Umpiring bias shows up clearly every season, and the under-handed dealings to get marquee players(e.g., Pandya this year) is also an open secret. MumInd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 2 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Remember that! The excuse that time was that they had too many injuries and weren't able to find enough Indian players If they had to play fair and square, I doubt they would have more than 2-3 titles. Umpiring bias shows up clearly every season, and the under-handed dealings to get marquee players(e.g., Pandya this year) is also an open secret. DK explained how much money they spend in getting their players prepared. Top class practices facilities were offered to them to iimprove their game. Probably the best in the IPl set up. THen army of coaches to go with. We got fooled into thinking Rohit is some sort of wziard as a captain. Real aukat was seend at the international level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate_Game Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said: DK explained how much money they spend in getting their players prepared. Top class practices facilities were offered to them to iimprove their game. Probably the best in the IPl set up. THen army of coaches to go with. We got fooled into thinking Rohit is some sort of wziard as a captain. Real aukat was seend at the international level. TBF Rohit is/was still a better captain than Kohli. The mistake our selectors made was giving Kohli the captaincy after Dhoni. Rohit should've gotten it as he was a better captain between the two but as always our selectors went with "best player for captain". It was apparent after the CT 2017 debacle that Kohli wasn't suited to captaincy but our selectors didn't care. In fact Rahane out-captained Kohli in the few games he had to lead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laaloo Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Back on track baby. Lucky for the rest of the team, is peaking a tad late this year. If they peaked early, they would have been beaten black and blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate_Game Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 23 minutes ago, Laaloo said: Back on track baby. Lucky for the rest of the team, is peaking a tad late this year. If they peaked early, they would have been beaten black and blue. But they're still getting beaten black and blue bar an odd game here and there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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