Tuesday, February 15, 2011

DELHI DAREDEVILS SQUAD

IPL4 LOOK AT THE SQUADS   
With the new teams coming up, the spice and auction was much awaited by the entire cricketing fraternity. The adjustment that BCCI was going to do without Modi was to be seen .The council went for transparency, clarity in the process, which clearly showed in the auctions being aired. Now the issue of retainment was considered and as it was guessed by all Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians were the teams who wasted no time retaining their star players. With the IPL4 just around the corner after WC2011, let’s analyze the team squads as of now.
DELHI DAREDEVILS

KEY PLAYERS: V Sehwag, A Dinda, C Ingram, M Morkel, I Pathan.
With Virender Sehwag now being declared the captain of the team, this team gets a fresh look. With the departure of Gambhir to KKR,the opening partner for Sehwag is in all probabilities David Warner. With the middle order begin the foreign all-rounder list of DD. James Hopes, A McDonald, Irfan Pathan which form the backbone of the team. The young Colin Ingram along with A Finch gives the team extra explosive batsmen which makes the batting line up more dangerous. In Morne Morkel they have speed and bounce and with Ashok Dinda they possess the Indian variety as well with the domestic talent like Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar and experience with Ajit Agarkar they strike the perfect balance. Venugopal Rao too joins the team as a batsman with Naman Ojha likely to be the wicket keeper of the team. 


The spin department here will be handled by the domestic players like Rajesh Pawar, Sriram, Vikas Mishra though RVD Merwe does present a overseas spinning all rounder. The four overseas spots are most likely to be occupied by Warner, Morne Morkel, James Hopes, and Mc Donald/RVD Merwe.  Delhi has the line up but again they are in need of very good contributions from the Indian players.The batting department is not top heavy as it was before but this team if gelled well can surprise everyone on their day  !!


MY 11: Sehwag, Warner, J Hopes, Mc Donald/RVD Merwe, N Ojha, Y Nagar, Umesh Yadav, A Agarkar, I  Pathan, A Dinda, Morkel.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

INDIAN SQUAD FOR WC2011

The World Cup 2011 is here finally , with just 14 days to go for the final frontier to start ,lets analyse the squad declared for the world cup. The opening slot was always with no3 as obvious as it could get with Viru,Sachin,Gambhir. Viru is likely to be the partner of God to open the innings .

At 1 down the obvious player becomes Gauti,Kohli too has been in good form so have an option there.The Middle order then comprises of Yuvi,Raina,Dhoni  , followed by the Mr.Sixer Yusuf Pathan !! The department of Spin is lead by Harbhajan Singh and the shocking inclusion of Chawla makes it interesting to see if Coach decides to play Chawla or Ashwin.

The pace battery welcomes ZAK after an injury so which makes the two spots booked by Zak and the other can be varied between PK/Nehra.The squad has variety and will be good to see how does the management cope up with the presence of Munaf too as a back up bowler.The squad does look strong and we kick off our campaign in revenge against Bangladesh on Feb 19.So hope that we win this WC, n say ALL IZZ WELL !!!!