Costlier teams are not performing in DLF IPL

Hi friends, Good afternoon and I have just recovered from viral fever which hunted me for a week. How are u all doing? Sorry for being irregular.

It is strange that costlier teams which are participating in DLF IPL T20 tournament are not performing well. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries had bought the Mumbai Indians paying 111.9 million dollars and Vijay Mallya of the UB group bought the Bangalore Royal Challengers for 111.6 million dollars. The Deccan Chronicle group bought the Hyderabad Deccan Chargers for 107 million dollars.

Coming to performance of the Mumbai Indians, this team is yet to play as a unit and Sachin Tendulkar is also not yet played in this tournament due to groin injury. Harbhajan Singh made mess of his career by slapping Sreesant in front of public but thank god the Mumbai Indians started winning all the matches after the exit of the head strong sardar. Shaun Pollock is leading the team very well and Robin Uttappa, Bravo, Nayar, Nehar are showing consistency in their performance. I hope Sachin makes some difference to this team.

Bangalore Royal Challengers team is sitting at the bottom of the table and Rahul Dravid is struggling to make the team play like a unit. Vijay Mallya recently removed the CEO of the team and appointed new one and even planning to remove the coach of the team. But the real problem is that this team has too many test playing players. They are J Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, S Chanderpaul & the list goes on. The above said players are not known for big hitting. I hope this team plays remaining matches with some competitive spirit.

The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers is another team which is struggling to win the game under pressure. Deccan Chargers have too many big hitters in the team but nobody is in the form and the bench strength of this team is underused by the team management. The team management is expecting too much from Adam Gilchrist, H Gibbs, S Afridi & Scott Styris and ignoring players like Charma Silva. Andrew Symonds left the team because he needs to represent for his national squad and Laxman had a hairline fracture on his wrist made the team even weaker. Rohit Sharma, Laxman, Symonds & Adam Gilchrist are showing some consistency in batting but remain players are yet to show their skills. I hope Deccan Chargers show some consistency and win the remaining matches.

So finally, the costlier teams are not playing up to their potentiality and for how many days franchises will keep the liability players in the team are a big question mark. In my next post, I will write about the other teams in IPL until then take care and bye.

By Madhu Vamsi........

Shaun Marsh is the star of IPL

Hi friends, Good evening and have nice cool day!! I am not posting much these days because I was having Viral fever and not feeling well. Today I got some strength to post and yesterday match between Mohali Kings XI Punjab and Bangalore Royal Challengers became a one sided match because of brilliant knock by Shaun Marsh.

I was surprised to see that Rahul Dravid is not sticking with a team and he is keeps on changing the team in regular bases. When Wasim Jaffer came into good form he was removed and new opener Arun Kumar was brought as opener. Bangalore Royal Challengers management is daily experimenting with opening spot and not coming up with good strategy.

The Bangalore team had set a modest target of 144 but Kings XI team started the chase in a brilliant manner. Dale Steyn banged in short pitch stuff thinking that Shaun Marsh and James Hopes are indian players and forgot that they are from Australia and good players of short pitch stuff. Zaheer Khan was also not able to show any jalwa or magic.

Earlier all the Royal Challengers batsmen struggled against the good bowling attack of Kings XI. VRV Singh was more effective and he was well supported by Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla and Sreesant. Misabal-ul-Haq was about to show his touch for Bangalore Royal Challengers but got out in very disappointed way in the form of Hit wicket. He score 21 in just 8 balls (3 fours and 1 six) and Rahul Dravid(29 in just 27 balls) and M Boucher (39 in just 31 balls) were other batsmen who played good knocks for Royal Challengers.

Mohali Kings XI Punjab reach the target of 144 in just 15.4 overs and Shaun Marsh was awarded the Man of Match for his brilliant knock of 71 in just 51 balls (9 fours and 2 sixes) and James Hopes was awarded the DLF maximum sixes for hitting maximum sixes in this match.

Finally, In my opinion Bangalore Royal Challengers are not coming up with right strategies and playing defensive cricket which is not suited for T20 cricket format. Royal Challengers are not playing as unit and from here it is hard for the team to reach Semi finals...

By Madhu Vamsi

Mumbai Indians registered first win in DLF IPL

Hi friends, Good morning and have a nice cool day!!!!

The match 16^th of DLF IPL T20 was a close one and it was between the Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians. Ganguly (Prince of Kolkata) won the toss and preferred to bat first. The Knight Riders soon lost 5 wickets in quick succession due to tight bowling by Mumbai Indians. Thanks to Shaun Pollock, Bravo, Sanath Jayasuriya and D Kulkarni for bowling very tight line and length.

Laxmi Ratan Shukla blasted a superb 40 runs in 20 balls (4 fours and 2 sixes) and helped the Knight Riders to reach a respectable target of 137 in 20 overs. He was awarded the DLF maximum sixes but the organizers did a small mistake by announcing S Jayasuriya as winner before announcing Shukla. Ponting, Ganguly, Mc Cullum and David Hussey were not able to score quickly in the top of the batting order. Debabrata Das played a promising knock 29 runs in 20 balls (5 fours and 1 six) but he was not able to make this knock a big one.

Mumbai Indians started the innings with Jayasuriya and Ajinkya Rahane but Rahane was out after scoring just 4 runs. Jayasuriya played a brisk knock of 18 in just 10 balls (3 fours & 1 six). But he was soon dismissed by tall and fast bowler Ishant Sharma and Manish Pandey got out for duck in the next over under the bowling of Ashok Dinda, who bowled a superb line to Pandey in his first over. Mumbai Indians were in danger of batting collapse but Robin Uttappa and Dwayne Bravo steadied the innings with a match winning partnership.

Bravo blasted 64 in just 53 balls (8 fours and 1 six) and Uttappa came up with 37 runs in just 37 balls. The spinners of Knight Riders were disappointing in this match and Kartik & Hafeez bowled very badly in this match. I felt that Knight Riders were playing only with 3 specialist bowlers and they were Ishant Sharma, Ajit Agarkar and Ashok Dinda. The other 4 bowlers were Ganguly, Shukla, Kartik and Hafeez who were not at all impressive in this match. Mumbai Indians chased the target very comfortably in 18.4 overs and Jayasuriya was declared the Man of the Match for his spell of 4-1-14-3(overs-maidens-runs given-wickets) and quick 18 runs while batting.

Finally, I am happy that Mumbai Indians’ pull of a victory and in the next match Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will be playing. This is perfect boost for the Mumbai Indians and Knight Riders team need to look into their batting and come up with good strategy in the next match. Tomorrow match 17 will be between the Delhi Dare Devils vs Bangalore Royal Challengers in Delhi. Both the teams lost their last matches. That’s all for now

With lots of Love,

Madhu Vamsi…..

This is how GVMC works

Hi friends, How is life ??? I want to show you the condition of road in Visakhapatnam and this road is just behind the Municipal Corporation. In Visakhapatnam the Municipality is called as Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). The road was dug in the middle and it was like that for months. Many people are having problem to go out of the apartments and no one care including the GVMC.

What I don't like is that no proper plan or schedule to repair the road. The road was dug for the underground drainage. But for how many days road will be like that and imagine if rain falls what will be the state of road & it is horrible to imagine for me. Simple thing is proper planning needed of the hour and even if planning is there the corporation is lazy to work is what I feel. Anyhow people are used & no fighting attitude.

GVMC is the body where all panchayati's around Visakhapatnam were merged in to the GVMC. Panchayathi's were doing atleast some decent work to the locals atleast but GVMC is not at all taking the issues seriuosly & the city roads have become horrible. GVMC is more interested in collecting taxes than doing basic services to the people. Many people in the city have a compromise attitude. Recently, our area was merged into GVMC and to my surprise our house tax payment notice was showing the name of some new person instead of my father who is the owner of my house. The name has wrongly printed was the answer given by authorities when I contacted GVMC & after several months my father's name was correctly appeared on the payment receipt. I thanked god and this is the state of working procedure of GVMC. Mistake is done by GVMC & I have to write a big letter that the name was wrongly printed on the receipt & had to submit several copies to different person's to get correction of the bill. Then I understood why the people have compromise attitude. I don't know when will the working standards improve in Government organizations.

Please give your valuable comments friends.

With lots of love

KVM.......

No proper strategy by Team India

The second test of the Future cup is won by South Africa by inning and 90 runs. Indians were never in the game for all 3 days, South Africa dominated and never allowed Indian batsman to settle down.

Media and Ex-cricketers criticized the pitch in Chennai. But look if a sporting wicket is given Indian batsman danced to the tunes of Ntini & Steyn. Indian batsman even struggled against the bowling of P Harris & Morkel. J Kallis, N McKenzie & A.B De Villiers played a match winning knocks in the first innings. De Villiers won the Man of the Match award for his double hundred in the first innings.

India as ever had no consistency in the test cricket format. One day India plays outstanding game which we don’t expect and on another day u will see them playing like minnows of the cricket.

Players who I think missed out in Ahmedabad test match are Gautham Gambhir, Yuvaraj Singh, Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma and Sachin Tendulkar. Wasim Jaffer is struggling for form and in Indian conditions team management should have tried with Gautham Gambhir from the first test or any other opener who is heavily scoring runs and in good form. Yuvaraj Singh can take the place of Tendulkar if Pathan or Ganguly opens the innings. Yuvaraj can play well on this bounce track of Ahmedabad, Yuvi is bit weak against the spinners but South African team has only one spinner to deal with is not big problem. But taking Yuvi into the team is optional to team management.

Indian pace duo of R.P.Singh & Sreeshant is not taking wickets early. Singh is fully out of form and not able swing the ball, so, Ishant Sharma should have come in place of any 2 fast bowlers or in place of Harbhajan Singh.

Finally, Indian team is missing the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, he is the correct person who guides his partner at other end and he plays coolly on tough bouncy pitches. But he is injured so Indian cannot expect his services.

I hope Indian team management comes up with good strategy in the coming test in near future.