Indian Premier League (IPL) Thread - (or general cricket thread)

[GirlySports]

Since Sportsnet ONE has picked up 34 of the 72 IPL matches this season, this is a thread to discuss the tournament which starts on April 8 and for those who have never seen cricket to ask any questions in case you happen to channel surf by it and have no clue what's going on. Matches will either be played at 4:30AM MT or 8:30AM MT plus probably some tape delayed replays.

This is a very fast-paced game that I believe is tailor-made for the 21st century with the very best players in the world. Matches take less than 3 hours and involve hitting the ball as far as possible.

Here is informations for 2011 IPL Season

http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-p...es/466304.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_...#Fourth_season


There are 10 teams in the league. Listed here with captain

Mumbai Indians - Sachin Tendulkar
Royal Challengers Bangalore - Daniel Vetorri
Deccan Chargers - Kumar Sangakkara
Chennai Super Kings - MS Dhoni
Kolkata Knight Riders - Gautam Gambhir
Kings XI Punjab - Adam Gilchrist
Rajasthan Royals - Shane Warne
Dehli Daredevils - Virender Sehwag
Pune Warriors - Yuvraj Singh
Kochi Tuskers Kerala - Mahela Jayawardene

Pune and Kochi are expansion teams.

The ten teams are divided into two groups of five. In the group stage, each team plays 14 games: facing the other four teams in their group two times each (one home and one away game), four teams in the other group once, and the remaining team two times.





Four games will be played in the playoffs (curling page system!)

• Game A, between the teams ranked first and second in the group stage.
• Game B, between the teams ranked third and fourth in the group stage.
• Game C, between the loser of Game A and winner of Game B.
• Final, between the winners of Games A and C.

[Da_Chief]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

This is a very fast-paced game that I believe is tailor-made for the 21st century with the very best players in the world. Matches take less than 3 hours and involve hitting the ball as far as possible.

I'll have to disagree with that. With few English players missing and no Pakistanis involved, the tournament has some high profile players but all teams have few Indians that probably couldn't crack Canadian world cup team.

Overall it'll be interesting for people who think cricket is only a 5 day game. Try t20, you'll come back for more.

[You Need a Thneed]

I'm looking forward to watching a couple matches.

[GilmourforLeeman]

I must admit, in order to enjoy Test Cricket and 50 Overs (somewhat), you truly have to be a fan of cricket.
But with T20, even if you watch it rarely, it's still exciting to watch.
Can't wait till the games start especially with the buzz after the India world cup win.

[Nuje]

Cool that it's on, I'll try to tune in. Downloaded a cricket demo for Xbox a while back mainly for hilarity reasons, but I got to sort of slightly understand it. See how I do with just watching a game.

[GirlySports]

2010 Final Highlights

Chennai vs.Mumbai

[Oliwa]

Go dehli daredevils!

[4X4]

I've decided to start following Indian Cricket. My team will be the Pune Warriors. I hope that's a deliberately clever name, but they'll be my team regardless.

[GirlySports]

starts tomorrow!

Here are some goofy commercials.

[You Need a Thneed]

I need to pick a team to cheer for as well. Hmmmmm...

Go...

Royal Challengers Bangalore!

(Had to pick a team with red jerseys)

[GirlySports]

I'll take Kings XI Punjab... I like the name

and they sort of wear red too.

[fundmark19]

I'm in I am taking Chennai Super Kings because only thing higher then a king would obviously be a super king!


***Oh snap just clicked wiki links and we are the defending champions. You guys are all screwed!****

[You Need a Thneed]

Hmmmmm, Jerseys for about 33 bucks. Wonder what the shipping cost would be?

LOL.

[fundmark19]

I need help! My team is playing right now and the score board is really confusing! How do I know if I am dominating? and how many end of overs? are there

[You Need a Thneed]

You can watch games live on sportsnet.ca Chennai vs Kolkuta on right now.

[fundmark19]

seeek best morning at work ever

my cheerleaders and fans are stoked am I winning?


just learnt how it kind of is scored this game is going to come down to the wire!

[Joborule]

It's like you guys are participating in a fantasy sport/simulation game or something.

[fundmark19]

New sports are fun jump in and choose a team before they are all gone!

[fundmark19]

what an ending chennai won by 2 runs!

[You Need a Thneed]

A party at the Fundmark house tonight!