Ungga progress engga kaila .... :twisted: :poke:
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sonnomla...Quote:
Originally Posted by SoftSword
world champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:victory: RCB played two big innings in the flat track but choked today! MI knew the conditions as they played yesterday in the same ground. Nevertheless good win.
Whats there to translate :twisted: ... cricinfo :hammer:Quote:
Nitin Sundar does a rough Tamil-to-English conversion: "Crowd chant: "Mumbai na weight-u, Pollard na height-u". Can't really translate, but loosely means Mumbai is heavy-weight, and Pollard has height."
Oh crap..... :banghead: Sachin illaatha MI jeyichu enna prayojanam :sad:
Sachin thaan irundhaare...
athellaam chumma lololaayiQuote:
Originally Posted by 19thmay
Bhajji: Lathis Malinga :rotfl:
Oru doubt- Trophy jeyicha team victory pose kodukkum pOdhu edhukku Nita and her gundu payyan are standing in the middle? Sofa-la ukkandhu ukkandhu heat pannadha vida vErE enna ivanga team cup- jeyikka help senjaanga? :roll:
In three years of Tendulkar's captaincy, Mumbai Indians have never managed to win a single trophy. In Harbhajan's first stint as captain, he has managed to get some silverware to the team. What an effort. - From CricBuzz
CricBuzz-kku vanmayaana kaNdanam for their stupid commentary :evil: :hammer:
Well played MIians. :clap: Defending 139 against a side which has Gayle and Dilshan as openers calls for lot of heart. Bhajji, take a bow. :notworthy:
Below the radar
Suryakumar Yadav: The 21-year-old had a breakout season for Mumbai in the Ranji trophy, scoring 754 runs at an average of 68.54 and a strike rate of 85.00. His tour de force was the 200 he made against Orissa, which came from just 232 balls and included 28 fours and a six. Given a chance, he has the potential to inflict serious damage on an opposing bowling attack.
Thambi nee yaaru? :think:
AF, Domestic la he scored lots of quick runs, last year CL appo they dropped him from the MI squad and he went and got 180 odd against some club side..
Great potential but can be a careless stroke maker.. Sample this, his favorite shot is the sweep.
Thanks satissh. If given a chance hope he makes some name for himself.
Watched him during the Ranji game vs TN, looked alright.. Reminded me of Afridi in someway, lets hope he is more mature than that :)
Mumbai Indians Roster
Batsmen
10 India Sachin Tendulkar (Captain)
02 India Tirumalasetti Suman
06 Australia Aiden Blizzard
09 India Ambati Rayudu
45 India Rohit Sharma
88 India Sarul Kanwar
91 India Suryakumar Yadav
-- South Africa Herschelle Gibbs
-- India Sushant Marathe
All Rounders
55 Trinidad and Tobago Kieron Pollard
63 Australia Andrew Symonds
70 New Zealand James Franklin
-- Sri Lanka Thisara Perera
Wicket Keepers
07 India Aditya Tare
82 South Africa Davy Jacobs
-- India Dinesh Karthik
Bowlers
03 India Harbhajan Singh
13 India Munaf Patel
14 India Abu Nechim
30 India Dhawal Kulkarni
33 India Ali Murtaza
75 Australia Clint McKay
99 Sri Lanka Lasith Malinga
-- India Pragyan Ojha
-- India R. P. Singh
-- South Africa Robin Peterson
-- Australia Mitchell Johnson
Captain - India Sachin Tendulkar
Vice Captain - India Harbhajan Singh
Coach - India Robin Singh
Assistant Coach - India Paras Mhambrey
Bowling Coach/Mentor - South Africa Shaun Pollock
Fielding Coach/Adviser - South Africa Jonty Rhodes
Batting Consultant - South Africa Lance Klusener
Physio - Australia Patrick Farhart
Physio - Australia Robert Gibson
Fitness Trainer - India Ramji Srinivasan
Video Analyst - India CKM Dhananjai
Masseur - Donald Shugg
Got this from ICF.
Aggressive Ambati Rayudu va thookitaangala :huh:
- Edited-
I am sorry avana wicket keeper list la tholavitaen.
Sachin
Davy Jacobs/Aiden Blizzard/Gibbs
Rayudu
Rohit Sharma
Dinesh Karthik/T Suman
Keiron Pollard
James Franklin/Symonds
Harbhajan Singh
Malinga
Munaf
Ojha
I think our team would revolve around these players. Symonds/Gibbs ellam total form out-nu ninaikkiren. Also, I don't think Thalaivar would be among the top run getters this time :oops:
Symonds is gone, LM. I think he has quit from all forms of cric.
Master Symonds retire aagitaan. Levi is the replacement for Symonds.
Oh yeah!! Avan peru list-laiye illa :ashamed:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Good buy :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by VinodKumar's
Replaced Symonds with Perera. Perera bowling-ai oru match-la thalaivar pinni edutthadha gnabagam :think:Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemaster1982
I remember CSK lost a match because of 5 full tosses from him in an over. Ivana summa vanthalum team la eduka koodathu.
Naangalae oruthana venamnu anupirukomna paathukonga :lol2:
Welcome back, Sathya :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEmMO...71FUAAAAAAABAA
Sachin's Million Dollar Six vs CSK IPL 2012 HD **Must Watch**
http://www.thehindu.com/template/1-0-1/gfx/logo.jpg
MUMBAI, April 6, 2012
Levi's batting gets MI fans excited
G. VISWANATH
Richard Levi has done his bit to bring curious Mumbai Indian supporters to the Wankhede Stadium on Friday.
By providing a booming start to the DLF-IPL V and a resounding win for Mumbai Indians in the one-sided skirmish against two-time champion Chennai Super Kings at the MAC Stadium on Wednesday, Levi has given confidence to his team of seeing brighter days ahead in the competition and also luring spectators for MI's eight home matches at the Wankhede Stadium.
MI, last year's finalist, did not waste time in showing off its prized possession and Levi promptly delivered. Levi will get another opportunity when MI takes on Pune Warriors India (PWI) at home on Friday.
Remarkable
Levi's IPL story is remarkable. When he put a reserve price of $50,000 on himself, not even the likes of Shaun Pollock and Jonty Rhodes could nudge their wealthy employer to bid for the anonymous cricketer at the auction in Bangalore.
However, no sooner had the South African 24-year-old clouted 13 sixes and five fours to make a 51-ball undefeated 117 against New Zealand at Hamilton in a Twenty20 international, MI — with Australian Andrew Symonds announcing retirement — snapped him up for $4,00,000.
The fastest century maker in Twenty20 is the odd man out of the three headline making South Africans — the others being seam bowlers Vernon Philander and Marshal de Lange. The 35-ball 50 and man of the match start in the IPL should keep attention riveted on him what with the ICC Twenty20 World Cup about six months away.
Right from the explosive opening pair in Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, MI has shown a definite tendency to pick and choose batsmen who like to be bold and brave.
But results have been disappointing barring a few big hitting undertakings from the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Adrian Blizzard and Davy Jacobs. It appears Levi could turn out to be far more consistent.
While in the inaugural season MI lost its opening match (to Royal Challengers Bangalore), it has made winning starts against CSK (Cape Town, 2009), Rajasthan Royals (Brabourne, 2010) and Delhi Daredevils (2011, Delhi).
Only concern
The facile win against CSK with the likes of Levi, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Pragyan Ojha, Ambati Rayudu and James Franklin playing their part augurs well for the team. The only concern though is the injury suffered by Sachin Tendulkar who left the scene taking a blow from left-arm seamer Doug Bollinger.
After a lot of disputes with the BCCI on a variety of matters there have been plenty of positive developments for PWI with the team owners Sahara India buying Australian captain Michael Clarke for the last six matches.
PWI will be missing Yuvraj Singh (recovering from a germ cell cancer treatment), Graeme Smith (ankle injury) for the entire season and Angelo Mathews for a couple of matches.
There's hope that former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who did not have great time with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), will bring his wealth of experience and knowledge to turnaround the fortunes for PWI in its second season.
Aggressive players
He has some aggressive players like Jesse Ryder, Luke Wright, Marlon Samuels and Alfonso Thomas among the overseas players and Indians in Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey, Rahul Sharma and Murli Karthik to bank upon.
Last year PWI lost seven matches in a row after two wins against Kings XI Punjab and Kochi Tuskers and more importantly it lost both the home and away matches to MI.
Its owners have planned an elaborate opening ceremony when it plays its first home match against Kings XI Punjab on Sunday at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium. A win against MI would make the celebrations at Pune more memorable.
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricke...cle3284373.ece
Good avatar lm./
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Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Tendulkar: genius captured in 19 seconds
It was 2007. We were at Trent Bridge. The veteran cricket photographer Patrick Eagar was covering his 300th Test. He was kind enough to spare a few minutes for a chat, a wide-ranging discussion on cricket photography. At the end of the interview I asked him to name a cricketer who was tough to shoot. He considered the question for a few seconds. Here’s his response:
“I find Tendulkar quite difficult to photograph. That’s probably because I’ve seen more of Lara in the one-day situation than Tendulkar. You have to admire some of the inventiveness in some of Lara’s shots. I’ve seen Tendulkar in a slightly more passive mould. I find it very difficult to take a picture of Tendulkar that has people saying, ‘What a good batsman!’ I don’t know why; need to work it out.’
I thought of Eagar’s statement yesterday when Mahesh (@cornerd) pointed me to a Tendulkar six off Albie Morkel in the opening match of the IPL. It was the third over of the run-chase. He had struck Morkel for a four through extra-cover. Then he was beaten by a snorter that took off from a good length. Then he took strike for the fourth ball. And did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4OoK_rNo0A
In my farewell post to Rahul Dravid I had complained about how future generations would find it hard to understand his essence. They could watch his clips on YouTube, I had said, but would never understand his waiting game, his immaculate construction of an innings that underscored his greatness.
Here is an instance when I can’t thank YouTube enough. An outstanding cameraman has zoomed into Tendulkar’s technical genius. What stands out in this video is the replay. I watched from the seventh second, freezing every second to see the progression of the shot.
:07 – Tendulkar takes a few steps forward. Feet in line. High back lift.
:08 – Front leg half in the air, facing extra cover. Back leg turning parallel to the ground. Bat wound up.
In backyard parlance this shot – at least at this point – would be termed a slog. Tendulkar needs to reach for the ball. He’s too far away. He’s gone against the famous coaching maxim: get as close to the ball as possible. Now he needs to manufacture the shot rather than flow with it.
:09 – Front leg almost back on the ground, faces extra cover. Back leg rooted parallel to the ground. Bat reaching for the ball.
:09 – His body then lunges further to the right. The weight of the back leg is shifting to his toes. The head continues to be still.
:10 – The bat is way away from the body. The back foot weight is now on his toes. The front leg is rooted. The head continues to remain still.
At this particular freeze-frame, Tendulkar’s stroke is bordering on the ungainly. He has committed to a shot and has decided to finish it through. The effort in reaching for the ball is apparent.
:11 – The back leg is flat on the ground. The front foot has remained rooted. And the bat has got much closer to his body. His balance is back. By the end of the second, he looks as if he’s played a cover-drive.
In less than one second, Tendulkar has converted a potentially ugly shot into a luminous one. He has actually reversed the natural flow of the stroke – striking a six with a monstrous bat before commanding his whole system to change direction in less than a second.
The rest is an orgasm. As the weight transfers from his back foot to the front foot, you feel an electricity shoot through you. The bodily movement is so natural, so innately graceful. I realized that the final few seconds of the video had more of an effect on me than the six itself. It’s the follow-through that helps the intoxication set in.
One of my coaches once saw me play an ugly hoick and said: “I don’t care where the shot starts as long as it ends in a correct way”. Tendulkar started by charging down the track to a ball that was away from his body. He then struck the ball away from his body. He finished as if he had creamed a text-book perfect cover-drive. All in less than five seconds.
Gideon Haigh recently spoke about Tendulkar’s technique. He said Tendulkar was a batsman who seems to have not been taught how to bat but rather intuited his technique from first principles. I agree. No batsman can be taught to bat this way. No batsman can be made to look so beautiful even when he is actually doing something that’s against the textbook.
These are the kind of shots that make Tendulkar such a good batsman across all formats. He can be inventive and audacious, yet he eventually works around the basics. He is not a batsman flouting the fundamentals. His genius lies in the fact that he’s found a way to use the basics even when he’s going against the rules.
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A blogpost for a solitary six :notworthy:
Excellent article there LM.....thala injured aanathu oru vidathulla nallathunnu thonuthu....Dont want him to play a tourney with an injury and forsake an international assignment....just imagine sachin carrying this form into odis and tests like in the 90s....that would be a sight to behold....
Yummy :slurp:
http://s1-01.twitpicproxy.com/photos...jpg?key=640425
Had a great time @ the IPL ceremony in INDIA. Met Sachin Tendulkar, one of the BEST cricket players in the world!
I'm not complaining but he could have completed that shot with a full follow through and finished with the typical Sachin-Nod(Watch 2000 Nairobi knock against Aus esp the down the track 4 off Mcgrath) of the head that he used to do in 90's would have been Awesome. But Still this is EPIC.
The shot brought me goosebumps.....hopefully he plays in this mold in the future...
Good that we lost early to PWI. Hope we pick up steam at the right places. Rohit :banghead:
This is the 2nd Match which was won from a last ball six by MI. The previous one was against KKR when Rayudu smashed a 6 off Balaji.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTU...500/144521.jpg
And at both the Innings James Franklin played a crucial role.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTU...500/144528.jpg
MI - Most entertaining side in IPL :yes: :exactly: :thumbsup:
Looks like Sachin might miss the next match as well.It is preventing me from watching any any match this ipl. Seekiram vantha konjamaavathu intha tourneya paapaen...Hopefully he compensates by playing most of the international matches this season.....