BlueBee Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Atleast a Desi batsman who does well this season. IT is all maxwell' date=' baz, smith. Warner, [b']abdv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket_Hacker Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Skindia report to the Indian team dressing room for the England tour :orderorder: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Horse Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Well done SK Robbie. :two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvvslaxman Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Once he can work on his technique against outswingers, he can even get better. But on bouncier tracks he is a better bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda-esque Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 SK has the last laugh,Humble now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainfade Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 In great form, high on confidence, hitting good cricketing shots. Patta wickets of course, but this is the time to get him in the Indian T20/ODI team, let him open with Dhawan in B'desh and see how he handles it. If the team mgt. hem and haw, put him in the 15, but don't give him a chance to play, he'll fade away. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda-esque Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 In great form' date=' high on confidence, hitting good cricketing shots. Patta wickets of course, but this is the time to get him in the Indian T20/ODI team, let him open with Dhawan in B'desh and see how he handles it. If the team mgt. hem and haw, put him in the 15, but don't give him a chance to play, he'll fade away. Again.[/quote'] No Dhawan plz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Drive Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Robin now has the Orange cap. Awesome prediction by the OP :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBee Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Awesome ! :hatsoff: x1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineleg Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Is skindia going to Bangles tour in June 2014? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchblade Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switchblade Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Is skindia going to Bangles tour in June 2014? I thought you hated IPL then also you are following it :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleed-Blue Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Uthappa meets Amre challenge On Wednesday afternoon, Pravin Amre, the former India batsman, set Robin Uthappa a challenge. Amre asked Uthappa to bat a minimum of 18 overs in Kolkata Knight Riders' home match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Uthappa went one step further by playing out the entire 20 overs and finishing with his highest score in the IPL - an unbeaten 83, which proved to be the match-winning innings. "I asked him to play till the end of the 18th over. He gave me the bonus by staying till the end of the innings," Amre, Uthappa's personal coach, told ESPNcricinfo. "My motive for asking him that was because I was sure he would go past Glenn Maxwell as the highest run-maker in the tournament. That would give him more satisfaction." This was Uthappa's fifth half-century this season and helped him snatch the orange cap from Maxwell. Uthappa now has 572 runs from 13 innings at an average of 47.66 and a strike-rate of 137.50. An ecstatic Uthappa went on to initially apologise to his coach and his team for not being able to convert his starts in earlier matches before dedicating the orange cap to Amre. "A student like him is a coach's delight. You feel great when your work is recognised by your student. That satisfaction is different," Amre said. Amre, who was recently brought back for his second stint as Mumbai coach, followed the match on TV at his home in the city and the pride and emotion of the moment was evident in his comments. Amre said this knock was his favourite. "He was getting the starts but the major challenge was to play all the 20 overs. To stay and play the 120th delivery is the biggest challenge in that format because you have to maintain a particular run-rate. Every pitch is different, every attack is different and to still perform in so many back-to-back matches was really nice to see." The icing on the cake for Amre was delivered by Uthappa when he punched an immaculate, lofted straight drive against Mitchell Starc for a four. "The way he hit that last ball with a pure cricketing shot. He anticipated that last ball really well and did not go for a big six. He has been consistently hitting boundaries without going for the big strokes. The whole purpose of us coming along was to make sure he would play the right strokes." Amre said he had emphasised on playing with the full face of the bat. In the past, Uthappa's bat-face would close as he went for his strokes, thereby mistiming or making costly errors. "Today the other stroke I enjoyed watching was when he hit the spinner (Yuzvendra Chahal) for a six with a straight elbow and the full face of the bat. Earlier, he used to hit over midwicket effortlessly. But he has become better at timing and playing technically correct shots." Uthappa appointed Amre as his personal coach in 2012. The pair worked diligently in this two-year period, with Uthappa travelling constantly to Mumbai where Amre conducted extensive drills. The success of the partnership became evident when Uthappa played a crucial role in Karnataka finishing with a historic treble in the domestic season. The most important point Amre has hammered constantly into Uthappa's mind has been to keep it simple, even in T20. "I firmly believe your basics have to be correct for any format but more for T20. You can then survive and also be a match-winner. Normally in T20 players try to play extraordinary cricket. But for talented players like Robin if they stick to play normal cricketing strokes they will end up with an extraordinary performance." Amre had watched Uthappa fail as a middle-order batsman in four of his first five innings this season during the initial phase in the UAE. But once Uthappa asked the team management and got back to his favourite opening position, he became highly consistent. In eight successive innings at the top of the order, Uthappa's lowest score has been 40. "He has created opportunities as an opener and made use of the opportunity of being an opener," Amre said. Uthappa's performances have led Knight Riders into the playoffs after their early wobbles in the UAE. According to Amre, Uthappa has crossed the first barrier. His next hurdle would be to take forward the momentum into the playoffs. "The knockout (stage) is a different tournament and that is why he has to keep calm. His contributions will again become important for his team so it is time for him to forget about the league stage and start from scratch." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLICKR392 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 "A student like him is a coach's delight. You feel great when your work is recognised by your student. That satisfaction is different," A teacher like him is any student's delight. Amre. Rahane in Tests, and now Robin. :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 A teacher like him is any student's delight. Amre. Rahane in Tests' date=' and now Robin. :hatsoff:[/quote'] Bangar is doing well with youngsters of :kxip: too still BCCI goes with foreign fatsos like Fletcher and Dawes :wall: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 we finally found decent opener for t20 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roshanrocks Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Send Rohi t/ Raina to Amre :hitler: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FischerTal Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Send Rohi t/ Raina to Amre :hitler: both suck at playing short ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidhoni Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Make Amre the coach of our team :hitler: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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