Today there were two matches played involving two IPL teams Mumbai Indians(MI) and Chennai Super Kings(CSK). But It was a bad bad day for both teams as they both lost their respective matches against Lions and Sydney Sixers respectively. All the Indian fans must be sad today and Sunday may not be that relaxing for them.
I was wishing the other way around on this super sunday. Though the only good thing today was too listen that Yuvraj Singh has scored a scintillating ton in Duleep Trophy semifinal today.
Nonetheless CSK match was pretty exciting even they lost. But Mumbai Indians almost surrendered in both the innings. They batted poorly and bowled poorly as well. I reckon the main problem with IPL teams is that they rely highly on the foreign players. Our teams want to win matches riding on the performance of foreign players, specially when it comes to bowling. The sad thing is that IPL has been up and running for more than 5 years now but still there is no bowlers I can see who has become star because of IPL. Indian team still have the same bowling options as they had before IPL barring Ravichandran Ashwin. That is nothing but a shame because I expected IPL to produce stars.
I was deeply disappointed by the our Indian pace bowlers Yo Mahesh and Dhawal Kulkarni. They seems no where close to their overseas counterparts. Let alone the experience they don't even seem to be on the right path. I am still not sure what is the reason that we are not able to produce good pace bowlers.
Some years back when Kumble and Harbhajan were playing together for India, at least we used to win matches because of spin. But today Mumbai Indians played 2 spin bowlers but they failed miserably. On the other hand Phangiso was brilliant. These days we are rarely winning matches because of bowling. I think its because of foreign players IPL teams seem to have good bowling.
BCCI definitely need to plan something to nurture Indian bowlers. I am myself not sure what is missing.
Nevertheless please see below some images from today's double encounters. Thanks to Cricinfo for the images.
Henriques was the star for Sydney Sixers from the bat as well as the ball.
Raina was the only hope CSK had on the day. Nobody else could provide any hope to CSK. Not to forget Faf Du Plesis played well too at the start.
Sachin too looked out of touch today. May be because he hasn't played for sometime. Hope he can come back for form soon.
I hope they can come back before its too late. Its a wake up call for all IPL teams in this tournament.
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