Deccan gets charged up to rout RCB- Game 8

Respected Brother

Sadar Pranam
As per my expectations the IPL 2’s eighth game did prove to be as wondrous as I expected it to be.. Had the RCB done their home work well and included Mar Boucher it could have been little more fierce competition..

Again Gilchrist proved what does experience brings to any form of the game of cricket.. and Dravid is a quick learner of the requirements of this format of game.. he did have a good tournament even last season.. but this team does not have fair amount of good or rather useful players from the local support.. and somehow the failure of the highest paid Kevin Pietersen suggests that money alone can not provide commitment into the foreign players to perform to their best.. the bonding is still absent in the team and as i suggested earlier they may fail to qualify as Pietersen is to leave in the middle.. also somewhere I get a feeling that Deccan Chargers could give the run to Delhi and Mumbai for all their money..

So far it has been the best game.. I watched it in toto.. and rain gods too held back to good cause..

Rohit Sharma and RP Singh the two players who might have not had much chance of making a comeback to the XI of team India for this format may suddenly find themselves in the reckoning.. Ojha has done well enough to pose challenge to all the others for the second spot of a quality spinner in the days to come.. Oh Boy.. that would amke three of them from Deccan Chargers to make it possible to play for India together..

What remains to be seen is how the first game shapes up tomorrow between my team and the Chennai Super Kings.. it would be as good if not better than what was on display today.. yes if rain gods allow it to be that way..

The battle of supremacy between Dhoni and Sehwag between Raina and Gambhir of Vettori and Muralitharan and even small timers like Joginder and Bhatia and not to forget the battle between Matthew Hayden and De Villiers.. It is going to be a big game.. the team winning the first battle may finally emerge to supersede the other in the final stages of the tournament..

I know Sehwag is the X factor for Delhi.. if he could get to bat for four or five overs Chennai could really be sweating in their pants.. yet what i personally feel is that Dhoni’s CSK has better batting depth than Delhi possesses.. Raina has been an electric wire in the field and there is no such counterpart for Delhi unless they decide to play Tiwari.. who was actually quite brilliant in the field in the last season..
Oh let us see how does the first game shapes up.. it is quite strange that sponsors were not talking about it in their ads instead focusing more on RR and KKR.. it is all right.. yet I know the big game for 23rd April begins at Durban at 4:00 PM IST.. if you are free should not miss the opportunity to enjoy the battle royal between two giant teams of the tournament.. I would wish Delhi to win but then wishes are not horses.. the team that applies well to the task can only win this livewire game..

Love to you from India

Abhaya Crickriter April 22/23 12:38 AM IST
Post Script : What is the news from your end.. are you able to get to see some of the football games.. How were the further meetings with Sir ben Kingsley and David Frost.. I still have to learn of his trade.. I assume he is a director..