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Atul Sharma

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TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
He traveled to America, waited tables, paid for coaching and was trained for three years for what exactly?
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
He hasn't played a cricket in seven years, so I highly doubt he will get anywhere near a game this season. You can't go from no games of cricket at all to playing at this level. For his career's sake, after the IPL he needs to go back to India and try out for a good club side, or a FC side if he thinks he is up to it.
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Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
I thought Kamran Khan was from Pakistan till this evening. Turns out he is from Uttar Pradesh, India. Bowls 140+ with ease and has a simple bowling action from what I have seen and he is only 18 years old. Reminds me of RP Singh for some reason.
He too is a very promising bowler though. That yorker to Ontong was superb and he really looks like he can generate real heat. The impression given by the commentators was that he has an action which is difficult to pick up too.
This is why IPL is so great for Indian cricket. It gives talent the platform to perform and stake claims out of obscurity if you have got what it takes.
 

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
This is why IPL is so great for Indian cricket. It gives talent the platform to perform and stake claims out of obscurity if you have got what it takes.
Indeed. The benefits are twofold and both displayed by Rajasthan. You have someone like Amit Singh who has a good FC record, but never got the chance at zonal level, to show that he is a most canny operator with the slower balls and then you have a tape ball bowler like Kamran Khan, taken out of obscurity and given a chance to go from 0 to 60 in no seconds flat.
 

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Amazing really when the story is "Man who has played no cricket continues to play no cricket"
:laugh:
On the other hand, Kamran Khan does seem to be able to bowl 140kph despite being really small, I'd say no more than 5'8 from looking at him bowling (just for one over mind you). Goughy, did you see him bowl that over,and if so, what do you think?
 

King Pietersen

International Captain
Kamran Khan's been blessed with hyperextension. If he bulked up abit he'd be seriously rapid.



Khan's hyperextension for 'that' yorker.
 

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
Kamran Khan's been blessed with hyperextension. If he bulked up abit he'd be seriously rapid.



Khan's hyperextension for 'that' yorker.
From that still picture, it looks like a huge chuck - I mean literally baseball chuck - not hyperextension. I'd like to see more slow-mo.
 

King Pietersen

International Captain
Murali looks like he chucks in slow-mo though and he doesn't. Muralis very much an optical illusion, Kamran could be the same. ICC'll have to officially test his action to tell though!
 

oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
Murali looks like he chucks in slow-mo though and he doesn't. Muralis very much an optical illusion, Kamran could be the same. ICC'll have to officially test his action to tell though!
They both have hyperextension, but this kid's arm extends forwards too (i.e. a throw). Seriously doubt that we'll ever see him in Internationals anyway.
 

oitoitoi

State Vice-Captain
This is why IPL is so great for Indian cricket. It gives talent the platform to perform and stake claims out of obscurity if you have got what it takes.
It also creates a lot of false hope and can create a huge overestimation of a players ability. It shows you how a player can perform in a very specific role, in specific condtions against a less than international standard opposition over a very small time period. A prime example was Manpreet Gony, did ok in the IPL and was given an international spot where he was clearly shown up to be a million miles off international standard (wicketless vs Hong Kong, slapped around by Bangladesh). Shaun Marsh despite top scoring went on to have a relatively poor season in Australia (though he hit some steady 50's for the national side) and still doesn't look anything like a test quality player (unusual considering his role as an innings builder at the top of the order). In fact the only players who have had success at international level thereafter were already pressing for places through their first class performances anyway (e.g. Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Raina).
 
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silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
This is why IPL is so great for Indian cricket. It gives talent the platform to perform and stake claims out of obscurity if you have got what it takes.
If the selectors weren't ****-for-brains, they'd use the FC system for that and reform it as necessary if it isn't providing that to their liking.
 

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It also creates a lot of false hope and can create a huge overestimation of a players ability. It shows you how a player can perform in a very specific role, in specific condtions against a less than international standard opposition over a very small time period. A prime example was Manpreet Gony, did ok in the IPL and was given an international spot where he clearly shown up to be a million miles off international standard (wicketless vs Hong Kong, slapped around by Bangladesh). Shaun Marsh despite top scoring went on to have a relatively poor season in Australia (though he hit some steady 50's for the national side) and still doesn't look anything like a test quality player (unusual considering his role as an innings builder at the top of the order). In fact the only players who have had success at international level thereafter were already pressing for places through their first class performances anyway (e.g. Gambhir, Yusuf Pathan, Raina).
Manpreet Gony wasn't actually that good in the IPL, he just somehow gave the impression that he was. A bit like Pragyan Ojha and Yo Mahesh did. Commentators see young, half-decent Indians and cream themselves when they take a wicket caught at long-on or hit a full toss from a spinner for six and somehow the myth is perpetrated that they're international-standard players.

Most of the players that were actually good in the IPL went on to have success of some form or another subsequently. The big exception is, of course, Sohail Tanvir. The small sample sizes do mean anyone can have a good tournament and become overrated. But a good player is a hell of a lot more likely to play well than a bad one.
 

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