IPL 2016

[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=103680.msg688749#msg688749 date=1460218716]
i think we can keep this thread as the official 2016 Ipl news.
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Obviously Chin didn't get the memo ........ and has littered the forum with IPL threads plus the usual T&T links ::yawn::

Royal Challengers Bangalore having Gayle, Kohli and ABdV in the same team is unfair. Kohli is a T20 robot programmed to destroy any and all bowlers. He is simply amazing.

[quote author=Calypso link=topic=103680.msg689094#msg689094 date=1460472583]
Obviously Chin didn't get the memo ... and has littered the forum with IPL threads plus the usual T&T links ::yawn::
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Chin gets up in the morning and runs for her DUMP here.

caused overnight by auto feeds to her backsite

Most times Loo is occupied and she sh!t her pyjamas  ::LOL::

Mumbai Indians opener Lendl Simmons has been ruled out of the remainder of the IPL 2016 due to an injury to his lower back. New Zealand batsman Martin Guptill has been named as Simmons' replacement.

Simmons' injury is similar to the one that forced him to withdraw from the first stage of the World T20 last month. He later joined the West Indies team for the tournament, in place of the injured Andre Fletcher, and scored a crucial 51-ball 82 not out in the semi-final against India in Mumbai.

Not a bad replacement. Guptill will be able to get some reps in ahead of the CPL.

Disappointing for Simmons, but at least he will still get paid. According to what I could find out, the moment a player is bought at the IPL auction and reports to the team camp, he is guaranteed 50 percent of his contracted amount even if he is injured and unable to take part in the tournament. However, if a player is injured during the IPL, he is entitled to receive full payment from his franchise. As Simmons appeared in one match for the Mumbai Indians, I believe he will indeed get his full salary.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell produced a whirlwind knock but then conceded 17 runs in the penultimate over as Mumbai Indians pulled off a six-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders with five balls to spare in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.


Sent in, KKR piled up an imposing 187 for five at Eden Gardens with captain Gautam Gambhir top-scoring with 64, Manish Pandey, 52, and Russell a 17-ball 36.

In reply, captain Rohit Sharma stroked a glittering unbeaten 84 and Englishman Jos Buttler, a sensational 41, as Mumbai romped home in the final over.

With the result, both KKR and Mumbai have now won one of two.

The hosts lost Robin Uthappa cheaply for eight at 21 in the fourth over but Gambhir and Pandey put on exactly 100 to fire the innings.

Opener Gambhir struck four fours and a six off 52 deliveries while Pandey faced 29 balls and crashed three fours and three sixes.

At Pandey’s dismissal in the 14th over, Russell arrived to play a blinder, smashing a four and four sixes as he added a frenetic 43 off 22 deliveries for the third wicket with Gambhir.

Two of his sixes came through hefty leg-side blows in the 15th over from seamer Tim Southee which cost 16 runs.

Mumbai then started steadily, with Rohit putting on 53 for the first wicket with Parthiv Patel (22) and a further 34 for the second wicket with Hardik Pandya (9).

At the half-way stage, the visitors faced a required run rate of nearly 10 runs per over in order to get the remaining 87 runs and Buttler provided the impetus in a scintillating 22-ball innings containing three fours and three sixes.

He single-handedly took 18 runs from Russell’s third over over – the 16th of the innings – before falling to the Jamaican in his next over, the penultimate one of the game.

Mumbai needed 18 at the start of that over and even though Russell claimed Buttler to a skied catch at mid-off, Rohit smashed the last three balls of the over for boundaries to add to the straight four off the first delivery, as KKR squandered their hopes of winning.

Pacer Russell finished with one for 52 from his four overs.

Such is the lifestyle of a mercenary 

He wanted to know how Stokes felt !

Shame!

Although he failed in his first game, he has been in good form.

The MIs will miss him but Patel now has a chance at the top of the order.

Never been a Simmons fan but hope he gets better anon.

[quote author=dillinger10 link=topic=103755.msg689324#msg689324 date=1460613786]
As Simmons appeared in one match for the Mumbai Indians, I believe he will indeed get his full salary.
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Indians will find some clause in contract : Guptill will eat his Dinner  :-[

I suspect Therese Ho put a curse on he via Chin obeah man !

Life has a way of biting back  ...

I don't see the villain here. Cricket is a game of ebbs and flows. The bowler is hoping to restrict the batsman, the batsman is hoping to hit the bowler out of the park. The result can go either way. Russell had restricted batsmen at a crucial time of the game before. However, time it wasn't his day, the batsman prevailed.