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***Official*** Indian Premier League 2018

Niall

International Coach
Manish needs to step it up for Sunrisers, been utter poison. Credit to Kane, he has done well so far, just needs other people bar him and Dhawan to score some runs.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
Confusing as to why Samson hasn't kicked on after quite a few years in domestic.

Watching him bat is beautiful.
 

Daemon

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Loving how so many non international Indian batsmen are stepping up big time. Kishan, Samson, S. Yadav, Pant, Iyer etc.
 

Borges

International Regular
All the big names have been analysed to death; only the really good ones like Williamson and Bhuvi are coming through that unscathed.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
All the big names have been analysed to death; only the really good ones like Williamson and Bhuvi are coming through that unscathed.
TBF Williamson is one of the few cricketers in the game today who seems to have that Tendulkar-esque ability to identify an issue with his batting and then go and eliminate it. It'll be interesting to see if he continues to gun it in the IPL. He's always been a bit of an anchor in IPL, if he can diversify his game even more than it's pretty exciting.
 

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
Loving how so many non international Indian batsmen are stepping up big time. Kishan, Samson, S. Yadav, Pant, Iyer etc.
We badly need a solid lower order hitter to support Hardik. Will be happy if even one of the above can scale up.
 

Borges

International Regular
It was just once in a blue moon innings from Williamson against an average bowling attack so I wont get carried away by it
He has scored as many runs as Virat Kohli, at about the same average and the same strike rate. So far, one of the very best batsmen in this IPL
 

Firebreaker

Banned
Rashid mystery has been solved now. Even Mujeeb looks nothing special against good batsmen. They are at the level of Dhananjaya at best.
 

TheJediBrah

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Rashid mystery has been solved now. Even Mujeeb looks nothing special against good batsmen. They are at the level of Dhananjaya at best.
Starting to look like Rashid was so effective in the BBL just because Australians are useless against any semi-decent spin
 

Borges

International Regular
Starting to look like Rashid was so effective in the BBL just because Australians are useless against any semi-decent spin
The IPL is pretty unforgiving to players who can't evolve, adapt their game, as their weaknesses are being discovered. This applies to both batsmen and bowlers.

It's too early to say that Rashid has been 'found out' and is a spent force now. He is probably good enough to start adopting more variations than the handful of stock tricks that he has used so for.
 

cnerd123

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Mujeeb's been fine. Rashid's had two bad games. Bit early to draw conclusions.
I genuinely believe Rashid Khan suffers from that depth-of-skill issue that I talked about earlier - all of his success so far seem to have stemmed by how freakish his bowling is. The pace and revs and the dipping googly. Once batsmen adjust to that, his mental game begins to get tested. We'll be finding out in the near future -especially with Afghanistan playing Tests- how far that aspect of his bowling had come along.
 

Zinzan

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Bhuvi only got 3 overs. ****ing moronic captaincy from Williamson.
He apparently had a stiff back, chill.


Meanwhile, how bad were the 3 home top-order bats for the Sunrisers, Bhui, Pandey & Hooda. 1 off 14 balls between them. They need to hang their heads in shame.
 

Zinzan

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Is it time to ask if Mustafizur has officially lost his mojo? 6 wickets @ 30 ER 8.97 so far.

I won't ask the same about Rashid just yet, but man he's traveled in the last two games.
 

Zinzan

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Starting to look like Rashid was so effective in the BBL just because Australians are useless against any semi-decent spin
You may have something there, Ish Sodhi took 6-11 in one of the few BBL games he played.

That said, Rashid did have a brilliant IPL last year, going just over 6.5 an over.
 

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