Indian Premier League 2025

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Sam Curran dropped for this game, J Overton replaced him.

 

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Great powerplay from Rajasthan and I thought Curran bowled alright last game. Its a lot better than this dosh being dished up be Jamie Overton right now. Royals 79/1 off their powerplay.

 

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That Ashwin appeal delivery looked plum for me on initial inspection. Been reviewed by N Rana.

 

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Bad start from Pathirana, he does have a habit of getting a very good ball, with a mix of extras eg wides

 

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In this format now, I think teams are prepared to give away a run or an extra, in order to get a wicket. Case in point, Ashwin bowling a wider delivery, and Dhoni stumping the batsman.

 

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Speaking of Pathirana, I reckon Ellis was hard done by to get dropped from this first XI. He hasn't done much wrong when he has had his opportunity.

 

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Vijay Shankar with an absolute humdinger of a catch. Take a bow sir. Hasaranga is a poor mans number 6 batter.

 

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In this format now, I think teams are prepared to give away a run or an extra, in order to get a wicket. Case in point, Ashwin bowling a wider delivery, and Dhoni stumping the batsman.

Only batting roads, more teams should look to employ this tactic, bowling wide of the blue line to entice the batters to dance down the wicket/shuffle down the wicket . Im actually surprised why its not employed more. Your happy to concede 2-3 runs in wides, in order to get a batsman to do something a bit out of their comfort zone especially when you having a batsman striking at 180+ strike rate.

 

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This wicket tonight at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium has been spicy at times.

 

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Shivam Dube goes 'wham bham thank you mam' off Hasaranga.

 

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Sentiment may have got over the Chennai management and coaching staff batting Dhoni ahead of J Overton last night. Overton was striking them well but ran out of deliveries, with Chennai ending up losing by 6 runs.

Surely with the game on the line, you have the better current player over a past champion?

 

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JFM team won last night, but you left after watching that game last night, he was the only downer on an otherwise fairly comprehensive team performance. JFMs boundaries were alot of mistimed shots, and the odd one just coming off the bat on a very small boundary.

 

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Game 12 of the IPL:

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anrich Nortje, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Luvnith Sisodia

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Rohit Sharma, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Satyanarayana Raju

Teams:

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ryan Rickelton, Will Jacks(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Ashwani Kumar, Vignesh Puthur

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Hardik Pandya innings the other night was deplorable. I sense he too maybe lost a bit of form in white ball from what I have seen of him in the past 12 months.

 

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Great start from Mumbai, 2 wickets inside the first 7 deliveries of the game.

 

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The way that KKR have batted early , they may be tempted to use their Impact Sub on a batter here.

 

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Raghuvanshi has looked solid in this PP for KKR.

Narine, Rahane and De Kock maybe past their prime in this format for me.

The way that KKR have batted early , they may be tempted to use their Impact Sub on a batter here.

And KKR have activated their Impact Sub , in Manish Pandey at 5/45.

 

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Manish Pandey has been brought in as the impact sub in place of Angkrish Raghuvanshi for KKR. Thats the confirmed replacement.

 

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Call me a traditionalist but the shots by Rinku getting out tonight , was a poor $hot for an experienced player.

 

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KKR battling to bat their full 20 overs here. 52 balls left and 3 wickets in hand.

 

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Ashwani Kumar has been the pick of the bowlers tonight with figures of 4/24

 

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Harshit Rana bowling pies in the Powerplay for KKR

 

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This is a much needed 50 for Rickelton , especially for a player coming to India playing franchise cricket for the 1st time.

 

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Standing after Mumbais comprehensive win tonight:




KKR were awful with the bat.

 

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And that loss is a NRR wrecker for KKR.