Indian Sawaal-My India, My Views

Grand opening ceremony followed by highly unpredictable match saw opening of ipl season 3.

Deccan chargers , the defending champions won the toss and did send Kolkatta knight riders to bat.

KKR began like only KKR can. Losing two quick wickets in very first over is worst start that one can get. Tiwari is having tough times other than ranjis and dada didnt show any dadagiri in hitting runs. He went for zero . KKR zero runs for 2 wickets!!!!!!.

Hoge and pujara were looking to consolidate but they too went out when score was mere 31. KKR’s score read 31/4. It seemed like karbo ladbo jeetvo might end scoring lowest score in ipl.

Then what we all saw was epic partnership in 20-20. Unbeaten partnership of 130 runs shared between mathews and owais shah led kkr to respectable total of 160 runs.

In came deccans and they began in fashion they are known for. Gilchrist is exceptional batsman. The way he was batting , it didnt look like he has retired from the game. He still has ability to take game away from opponent.

Gilli was supported by elegant laxman. Deccans were cruising and it looked like another gilli v/s opponent team show , but laxman got out at 22 and deccan’s score read 61/1.

Gilli still went strong and made another half century. Gilchrist is just 18 odd runs short to become first batsman to score thousands runs in IPL. Once gilchrist went , the turn around began. The run rate was slowly rising and short selections of deccans was poor ones. Symonds and rohit’s dismissal was directly from book called how not to bat!!!!!!!.

Deccan soon lost their way and were required to score 18 runs from final over. They could manage only six runs and lost by 11 runs.

Ganguly didn’t do good job as batsman but his captaincy was right on spot. Bowling changes , field placings were really good.

Yesterday’s thriller was perfect as per theme of kkr , karbo,ladbo,jeetvo. Largely yesterday’s match can be divided in 4 sessions. When kkr was batting first session of ten overs clearly belonged to deccans , while second session of 10 overs mathews , supported by shah stole the show. Similarly when deccans batted , first session of ten overs belonged to gilli while last session kkr fought back and won.

IPL-3 could not have asked for better start. Deccans are defending champions and kkr were underdogs , but expect the unexpected in IPL Season 3.