Indian Premier League 2025

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Australian public has to put some respect to Hazlewoods name in this format. I mean there was a while, where he was considered a specialist test bowler and only a test bowler. Dare I say, he is probably the closest Australia has had to Glenn McGrath- since Pigeon retired.

He has picked up 2 wickets on a very good batting wicket in his first over in Chennai tonight.

 

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The Haze gets his 3rd!

 

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I saw a video on Facebook of a CSK fan speaking in Tamil (thankfully the video had subtitles) expressing his view that the infatuation with Dhoni has gone on too long and needs to stop. He's absolutely spot on.

 

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Game 9 of the IPL:

Gujarat Titans Impact Subs: Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Phillips, Ishant Sharma, Anuj Rawat, Washington Sundar

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Robin Minz, Ashwani Kumar, Raj Bawa, Corbin Bosch, Will Jacks

Teams:

Gujarat Titans (Playing XI): Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya(c), Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Satyanarayana Raju



Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Clarke reckons Mumbai bowl Santner in the last over.

 

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Gujarat post 196 and one felt, they were a little slow in those middle overs. Mumbai chase about to start.

 

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Rickelton departs for 6 off 9 and he has struggled to adjust from South African wickets to the Indian wickets.

 

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Rashid Khan bowling in a powerplay, wasnt something I was expecting this IPL.

 

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Minz was pretty useless as an Impact Sub for Mumbai there.

 

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Hardik had a shocker, 11 off 17 balls when your team needs double digits as your RRR

 

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Watching that innings from Hardik last night, im not sure exactly how old he is ( as I cant be bothered googling), that innings has eerily parallels to the recent one where he played for England in a T20I and failed to hit out from the get go- instead choosing to take about 8 to 10 balls to have a look in. He looked way too casual for me.

 

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Game 10 of the IPL:

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad Impact Subs: Sachin Baby, Eshan Malinga, Simarjeet Singh, Adam Zampa, Wiaan Mulder

Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay

Teams:

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen(w), Aniket Verma, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins(c), Zeeshan Ansari, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), KL Rahul, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar



Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and have opted to bat

 

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Sunrisers are in a world of bother losing 4 inside the powerplay.

 

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SRH 114/5 against Delhi and whilst they are going at a good click, they still have 9.1 overs left.

 

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Aniket 50 up in 34 balls and he has batted really well.

 

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Sunrisers activated Mulder as a sub for all round ability and he is batting at 9 as SRH search for more runs.

 

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Sunrisers post 163 bowled out and that was a genuinely horrible effort with the bat. Kuldeep and Starc bowled well.

 

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What a difference 18 months make. Jake Fraser-McGurk is a shadow of his former self.

 

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What a difference 18 months make. Jake Fraser-McGurk is a shadow of his former self.

There's zero nuance to his game.

Doesn't have the skill/soft hands/intelligence to work singles and rotate the strike, just swings at everything and hopes for the best.

 

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What a difference 18 months make. Jake Fraser-McGurk is a shadow of his former self.

Bang on, this is painful watching

 

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There's zero nuance to his game.

Doesn't have the skill/soft hands/intelligence to work singles and rotate the strike, just swings at everything and hopes for the best.

Im getting the feeling he has got complacent after reaching the top. He has looked a frustrated man at times lost.

 

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And this applies to cricket as a batter or bowler, if you don't look at improving your game- slowly opponents will figure you out.

Watching JFM, I sense he is trying to hit the ball too hard. He is putting pressure on himself.

 

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Game 11 of the double:

Rajasthan Royals mpact Subs: Kunal Singh Rathore, Shubham Dubey, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Yudhvir Singh

Chennai Super Kings Impact Subs: Shivam Dube, Mukesh Choudhary, Devon Conway, Shaik Rasheed, Sam Curran

Teams:

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(c), Dhruv Jurel(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande

Chennai Super Kings (Playing XI): Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Jamie Overton, Ravichandran Ashwin, Noor Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Khaleel Ahmed





Chennai Super Kings have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Pommy says the wicket will be tacky here tonight in Barsapara Cricket Stadium.

 

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If I can draw a similar parallel to what JFM is going through at the moment, I reckon he is going through a period that D'Arcy Short went through. Had a couple of stand out seasons domestically, got his Australian national call-up, both played IPL......and now both are a shadow of their peaks. The good thing for JFM? He is still young- 22 years old to be exact. There is the real possibility this might be JFM last gig in the IPL, at best- he might not get a gig for a period of time. D'Arcy Short from memory got 1 season and never returned and got an opportunity again.

McGurk doesn't know what to do. By that I mean, he doesn't know whether to go out all attack or to have a bit of defence to his game. Do feel a bit for him. His home state , South Australia won the Shield on Saturday. He won't get that ability to go back and rectify that. I feel like his career right now is at a bit of a cross-road.

Faf Du Plessis I think was giving him some advice with his batting whilst batting. Comms reckon he was saying 'the boundaries are 60 metres, you don't have to hit it 120 metres'.