Friday, March 4, 2011

Pune Warriors

IPL council when declared that two more teams are coming up the bidding race began and one of the two teams to go through was Pune Warriors,owned by Sahara group of Industries.They played their cards very carefully and looked assured of their squad ,lets have a close look at their squad for their chances to get hands on the trophy.




Key Players: C Ferguson,A Mathews,Yuvi ,Uthappa,G Smith.




Sahara Pune Warriors,when you hear the names like Smith,Ryder,Yuvraj, Robin, Mathews,the opposition mite just get goose bumps reading the list.Pune has been witty and got out the best bids for them making a very dynamic team here.




The opening slot mite go in hands of G Smith along with H Kadiwale , the 22 year old opening batsmen.J Ryder too can be very handful in opening slot.The batting order  with Jhunjhunwala,Calum Ferguson,Yuvraj and Robin can pile up a huge score on their day.The lower order packs a punch here with an very useful allrounder Mathews. Angelo presents a variety to the batting as well as to bowling department.His contribution to the team is very vital here.The wicketkeeper is Tim Paine which makes the selectors think of getting a domestic keeper,else they mite persist with Robin as keeper.




The lone spinner in the team will be Murali Kartik , one of the most economical bowler in IPL.N McCullum can also be played here but then they have to shed Ferguson for it.The presence of Mitchel Marsh ,A Thomas,J Taylor there is going to be a very healthy contest for the 4 spots.Nehra along with Kamran Khan might share the new ball backed up by either Taylor or Wayne Parnell.




 The list of foriegn players they posses is very strong in  Pune which means they have plenty of options available to change their team combination.The team management has a very good burden of selecting the team since they do possess lots of talented game changers.Overall Pune team looks very strong but how they gel well as a team needs to be seen here as well, my prediction is if they do well they have sure shot chance to reach the top pinnacle.


MY 11 : Kadiwale, Smith, Jhunjhunwala, Yuvraj, C Ferguson, R Uthappa ,A Mathews , M Kartik,A Nehra, Kamran Khan,J Taylor/Wayne Parnell.


SQUAD:Callum Ferguson, Ganesh Gaikwad,Dheeraj Jadhav   ,Abhishek Jhunjhunwala,Kamran Khan,Murali Kartik,Harshad Khadiwale,Nathan McCullum,Mitchell Marsh, Angelo Mathews
,Shrikant Mundhe, Ashish Nehra,Tim Paine (wk),Wayne Parnell
Jesse Ryder,Graeme Smith,Jerome Taylor,Alfonso Thomas,
Robin Uthappa  ,Yuvraj Singh

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

RCB :)


ROYAL BANGALORE CHALLENGERS

With the mention of RCB, the first thought that comes in our mind is of the beautiful stadium in Bangalore,built in the home team colors of yellow and red. The Mallyas group has done lot of hard work every time around to make sure their brand is maintained. Lets get too the squad available for them this year.

KEY PLAYERS: T Dilshan, Zaheer Khan, V Kohli, S Tiwary.

                                     For RCB, the first shock given to management was by A Kumble, the leading test wicket taker for INDIA, when he announced that he won’t be a part of the auction.The role of mentor suits him too with his stature and experience. Here there is a wonderful opportunity which is presented to the youngsters to blossom under 
Jumbo.The batting order now is completely shuffled with Manish P and R Dravid missing from the line up.T Dilshan provides an attacking option for them along with any of their domestic purchases like even C Pujara. Kohli,the only retention by the franchise is likely to be promoted up the order at no. 3 where he has had great success playing for INDIA. The middle order then has one of the finest grafters of the game AB de Villiers ,the former MI explosive talent S Tiwary , L Pomersbach presents them a with an batting foreign player but as its clear the batting is bit depleted as of now, the team is going to miss the services of R Taylor Kallis,C White.
The spearhead of the attack is best left arm seamer in INDIA. Zaheer is the deadliest bowler they could have got and they have him with the pace of D Nannes, which when you combine with the accuracy n consistency of C Langeveldt gives the captain breathing space.Bowling department is backed up by medium pacer A Mithun .The wily spinner Vettori will be the main spinner in the team, making the quota of oversees players full with Dilshan , ABd Villiers, D Nannes, Vettori. The bowling looks far more convincing than the batting which increases the work of Kumble and co. so as to make sure that they get enough domestic batting.The team management has to be on its toes with the brand at stake !!!!