Paddle Sweep Wrong ‘un # 8
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you for participating so enthusiastically. It has been an honor to get your opinion. There have been more than a thousand comments for some posts.
Coming to the question for today, Kolkata have been eliminated from this year’s IPL. But there are a few positives which they can take to next year. It must not be forgotten that this was KKR’s best performance in all the three editions of the IPL.
The question is – “What are the best positives which the coach and captain can take from this season of the IPL?”
Let SRK and Dada know, you are the coach now.
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One must accept the fact that it has been a decent season for KKR. looking at the points table you can say that 4 teams ended up with 14pts including CSK and RCB who have qualified for the semis. The biggest positive is that dada was in form and i thought he did an excellent job except in a couple of matches. It was obvious that the local guys didn’t fire except tiwary and murali karthik. I think they have enough foreign players and dada along with srk should start pondering about the local talent. home matches against Delhi n Deccan deserve special mention. I understand that we haven’t qualified but don’t forget that this has been the best season for us. I think Sourav deserves an another crack in the next IPL. It is essential that Sourav retains his captaincy..I hope srk doesn’t change his captain.We all know about Sourav, i feel he ll definitely do it for KKr next season..good show guys.. better luck next time.
Dear all,
This is the right time to focus on domestic players who can deliver at the crunch time. we had excellent batting line up including Dada and other overseas players. but except Bond and Kartik we didn’t have any consistent bowlers. even for the batsmen, except Dada everyone was found clumsy in playing good quality spinners. So let us look some important points as follows:
1. we need good overseas batsmen who are hard hitters and can play spin well. We may retain Gayle and Mccullum. But we must include a good batting all-rounder like Kallis and Pollard.
2. we need domestic players with good fielding and bowling ability. Considering the Eden’s trough we may like to include some good spinners like Harbhajan Singh /Anil Kumble,Murali Martik, P.Ojha/ Amit Mishra,Ashwin/Pijus Chawla.
3.we made a serious mistake by taking Ishant Sharma Instead of Zaheer Khan. we must rectify it this time.
4. domestic players should subjected to good physical training to improve their fielding (ground as well as Catching) ability.
5. we need domestic players with good batting ability as well. They should be able to score off runs quickly.
Suggested players for Next year Auction:
*Dada(captain ;No doubt about it)
*Gayle
*Sangakara/McCullum
Pollard
*S.Marsh/Kallis/Mathews
*Suresh Raina
*Ambati Rayadu/Robin Uthappa
Shikhar Dhawan
Sourabh Tiwary/Abhishek Jhunjhunwala/Manoj Tiwary
*Harbhajan Singh/Anil Kumble
P.Ojha/Amit Mishra/Murali Kartik/Pijush Chawla
Jjoydev Unadkat
*Dinda
*Zaheer Khan
*Praveen Kumar/Ashis Nehra
*Bond/Stayen
W.Saha/S.Goswamy
Pujara/Murali Vijay
This list especially with *marked players are the match winners and pivotal for a balanced team combination. we must spend money more for domestic players than on foreign players. sounds odd but crucial because of the restriction of 4 foreign players could be played in a match.
Best of luck for next year!!
Cheers!!!
Hi mates,
Actually i meant Shane Watson instead of S.Marsh! We can take S.Marsh/M.Marsh replacing Brad Hodge.In case we don’t get either Bond or Stayen we may go for L.Malinga!
Cheers!
To win IPL4, We need good local players, invest more on them, because they will play each and every match, and take retired players, all rounders from overseas, but dont invest more on them, take 2 good batsman, 3 excellent all rounders & 1 or 2 fast bowlers, here are some suggetions
Overseas players:
ONLY ANY TWO FROM Warner (at low cost), Hayden, Glichrst, Duminy, Sangakara, R Taylor, Mcculam
ANY THREE OR FOUR FROM Watson, SYMONDS, POLLARD, Gayle, Flintoff, Peterson, Vettori, Dilshan
ANY ONE FROM (invest on good indian bowlers dear) Malinga, Bollinger, Styn
INDIAN Players:
Ganguly ( He vl b thr for Kolkata)
Zaheer Khan
MINIMUM 3 FROM Uthappa, Y pathan, Raina, Yuvraj, Rohit Sharma, Gambhir, Sehwag, Dravid, M VIjay
ANY ONE FROM Harbhajan(1st priority), P Ojha, Amit MIshra, R Ashwin
as 4 indian and 3 foreign players are fixed take dada,dinda,karthik,saha,gayle,macallum,mathews. take two bowlers from pak b/se of conditins let them be gul or tanvir and razaq search for best icl and local players in spin because as the tournament progresses it helps spinners rather than pacers all the best kkr for 2011 .razaq is also useful as alrounder
dont forget about to take from lastyears championstropy in foreign quota like spinner ganga and few fast boelers
Dear SRK please try to play this team for the next season
Dada
Brad Haddin/Loots Bosmon/shaun marsh/ tamim iqbal
T suman
M Kaif /Manoj Tiwari
Robin uthappa
Luke wright/Eoin morgon/ M ashraful/ grant elliot
Irfan pathan
abdul razzaq/ shane watson/ Shakib Al hasan
praveen kumar
M AAmir/Shane Bond/ steyn
Murali Kartiik/ van der merwe
this wud be the ultimate team having batting till the end
if possible please buy Rahul Dravid bcoz hes done outstandingly under Dada
dear,
sir(srk) plese invest maximum money on indian player.
i suggested you team list for ipl4
Dada(captain ;No doubt about it)
Gayle
McCullum
Pollard/Kallis
Mathews
Suresh Raina/Robin Uthappa
Sourabh Tiwary
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
Manoj Tiwary
Harbhajan Singh/Anil Kumble
Murali Kartik
Jjoydev Unadkat
Dinda
Praveen Kumar
Ashis Nehra
Bond
Pujara
Murali Vijay
abdula
m.murlidharan
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frm SRK
sir, i would like to be in touch with KKR MAIN BHI COACH.kindly,send me updates on my mobile as well as on my e-mail also.
abhi tak main ne apna prize nahi paya hai….
DEAR,
FOR THE NEXT SEASON KOLKATA WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE BEST T20 PLAYERS LIKE FOR MY CHOICE
DADA GANGULY(CAPTAIN)
SURESH RAINA
ROBIN UTHAPPA/YUSUF PATHAN
MANOJ TIWARY
MAHELA JAWERDNE
DILSHAN
DE VILLERS
GAYLE REMAINS
DINESH KARTHIK
SHAUN MARSH
ASHOK DINDA
SHUKLA
R.P SINGH
STEYN
MATHEWS REMAINS
AS OFF SPINNER I M ALSO GOOD PARTH PARAS MANI
Sach, Shaitaan, surpeb stuff!But, friends fuckers and jrod, what if , just what if, the bcci now takes control of the ipl in its usual pissy fashion and it collapses – wont that be just dandy for real cricket. we can but hope.And while the kangaroo court (no aussies, this isn’t about aussie rules basketball) is in session, can’t we nail a few more ministers like that dickhead praful.
I DID NOT GET MY WINNING PRIZES ITS UNFAIR
I SPEND TIME TO BE COACH
yes parth i’ve also not recieved my goodie bag frm kkr
how aboubt
IT WAS NOT A BAD SEASON FOR KKR.DADA’S CAPTANCY WAS THE MAIN FACTOR.HERE IS A SET OF PIAYERS KKR NEED IN NEXT SEASON. GANGULY,WATSON,SEHWAG,ZAHEER,POLLARD.SWANN,PETERSEN, JAYAWARDENA,DE VILLIERS,RAYUDU,RAINA,ANDERSON,JOHNSON, MALINGA,MISHRA,MIDHUN MANHAS,DILSHAN,S MARSH,LANGEVELDT
We must need good enough bowlers & batsmen. I recommend,
GANGULY (captain),
Raina,
Zaheer,
Uthapa,
Yusuf,
M Tiwary,
Rayudu,
Harbhajan,
P Ojha,
Gilchrist,
Pollard,
K Petersen,
Gayle,
Malinga,