Comments on The Cricket Nation: Who’s going all the way ?

Like i said, there goes Punjab & here comes Ra...

2010-03-24T23:38:42.699-07:00

Like i said, there goes Punjab & here comes Rajastan with their once in a way magic. Shaun Marsh and Brett Lee can give them a fillip but again ; too much left to do. On the other hand if Rajasthan do get Watson and Jadeja for the back half of the tournament they could scare a few teams....

KKR are very important to this tournament. Its jus...

2010-03-24T01:12:52.312-07:00

KKR are very important to this tournament. Its just so much fun when they play - 155/3?? how do you get there? As entertaining as they are, they will not be in the semis.

On my Punjab pick. I chose them on a punt, the classic 'left field' call. To lend some strength though it now seems Lee & Marsh are back or coming soon (i hadnt factored that in). Marsh is Jaya's replacement (i hope) and they need Lee anyways.

Delhi is a bizarre one. But you now have an injured Gambhir (who will come back no doubt) and Dilshan is benched. I think the favorites tag is not serving them well and teams now believe they can be beaten (last year there was a bit of awe around the Sehwag-Gambhir-Dilshan-AB foursome)

It’s a close contest for sure – Chennai and Deccan...

2010-03-22T19:46:19.974-07:00

It’s a close contest for sure – Chennai and Deccan are obviously close but I think they will give.
I think Punjab got a ‘life’ today but if they had lost (as they should have) it would have been curtains. I think they need to win 3 on the trot for them to have any hope. Delhi will come back – I mean Dilshan and AB have to fire at some stage ???
Since Mumbai dropped Jayasuriya today , I am happy 
I also noticed that you didn’t deign to dignify my KKR prediction with any response 

Finally you are seeing the light on Mumbai, bro! ...

2010-03-22T19:37:43.404-07:00

Finally you are seeing the light on Mumbai, bro!

On the rest, the easy one (for now and i could be proved horribly wrong) are Bangalore, who seem to have hit upon some sort of formula (to the extent one can in this game).

I would also pick Deccan,who i think have enough of the x factor u talk about...even though old...a combination of Gilchrist, Symonds, Gibbs, Vaas (who has the ugly purple cap currently) will be tough to beat. Their weakness is bowling...dont really have anyone of note beyond Vaas and Symonds. Kemar Roach will come but they will need to drop someone to play him. Rohit Sharma as alaways will be important

So that gets me to the hotly contested final slot...i have 2 candidates for this...(a) Chennai. The Midas man i think is not to be written off yet, injured though he is (b) this is a left field choice ...Kings XI. They need 2 things to happen...Yuvraj getting into the zone and finding someone to replace Jaywardene...both sanga and he are so woefully out of it..

i am going to stick my neck out on this one and say Kings make it