Comments on: IPL: Why did the Deccan Chargers fail?

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:01:29 +0000

AV… you are right… there was a significant exodus of their local talent into the ICL… ironically, those local players didn’t do all that well in the ICL too as expected.

RP singh and great performances in the IPL… that’s a good one… what a laugh… it should specifically have been how many matches did the DC lose due to his bad bowling at the top.

Yup… their attitude was cool so was the management.

By: Avnish

Avnish — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:50:01 +0000

Good Point Dude

But I have always maintained that the Chargers always had 4 foreigners,RP Singh, Rohit Sharma and Laxman as the players in the side. Rest were making up the numbers.

This side also suffered coz all the decent players in the Ranji side were taken by the ICL. Like in the game against RCB they were always a batsman and a bowler short. In this format that can be expensive.

As for RP Singh, he recently said that he wud have been more happy had his great performance in the IPL brought more wins for his side.Does he really think he has been great. Five of the top 40 most expensive figures in the tournament.And how many early breakthroughs? They probabaly expected him to be the leader and inspire the others as well. And this never happened.

Some decent ranji levels guys will do man. I loved their attitiude though, inlike RCB or KKR. All the best to them

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:35:11 +0000

NC… specifically their leadership just wasn’t right… wrong moves at the wrong time all misfired back at them.

By: Naked Cricket

Naked Cricket — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:17:43 +0000

afridi n gibbs didn’t even fire in the nets.
too many similar all go for the jugular batsmen; but dracula they were not - how can you open with gibbs n gilli (it’s tough on the com box too). leadership sucked, but followers sucked too.
afridi should’ve captained.

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:51:26 +0000

True som… on any other given time, they might well be the team on top in terms of their batting… but I must say I have been disappointed with styris esp with his bowling.

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:49:37 +0000

Wasim… fair point I agree with you… there should be at least 2 years for the trade offs… though I must say they ought to do something about the choice of local talent picked.

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:48:31 +0000

Soulberry.. also the captaincy from Laxman was really flat which cost them especially in terms of the choice of bowlers towards the death overs… they lost a couple of games due to that.

By: scorpicity

scorpicity — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:46:49 +0000

SP.. you reckon the guys there were for the money only?

By: Som

Som — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:43:48 +0000

Deccan bowling lacked teeth and sting. I think nobody expected such a power-packed batting line-up to misfire and that too in unison! Afridi can be a two-edged sword and chances are you would end up bleeding yourself. I think Styris did a decent job and it was often his cameos which would swell the Deccan tally. Overall, the team did not look that bad but eventually they went down under-achievers.

By: Wasim

Wasim — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:31:27 +0000

All I Know the trades can be done at the end of this years IPL tournament, which I think is wrong,teams should be allowed to trade after Q2 within a trading deadline.