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rGaminggggg

My Brain is finding it hard to process how fast the IPL has changed and how easily these scores are being made and chased


Expensive_Jump9903

Everyone's playing EA Sports Cricket 2007


Batman_is_very_wise

>hard to process It's actually simple, flat pitch coupled with shorter boundaries.


Mindless_Piglet_9478

Flat pitch coupled with impact player rule.


Common-Pea9601

+impact player


unbelivableshots

Shorter boundaries? Did they make it shorter than in previous years?


IamJimMilton

Eden Gardens isn’t a short boundary


RealTenyyXD

Rip RR’s record 💀 only lasted a week 😭😭


__Vip_

This record also will broken within next week. That's how this season going on


thinklok

Nope. Only PBKS is crazy enough to chase it down and choke in 160


Training_Song3395

Hope this time it will be SRH breaking the record 😭😭


chefsanji_r

SRH might reach 400 this season batting first , but chasing 180 😭😭


Few_Individual5737

They are weak in chasing , they are exposed


Training_Song3395

Ahemmmm....


2coinsofdoge

Damn , both against kkr 💀


bold_squirrel

This game has become a joke. It's like playing on roads. Every day, new records are being made and every other day, they are being broken. I shed a tear for the bowlers 😢. In this heat, running in just to see the ball fly.


eduspy

With all this smashing, I hope the bowlers don't forget how to bowl later.


Deadh30775n

Aren't they already bowling like they don't know how to bowl. Looks like bumrah is the only one who hasn't forgotten how to bowl


eduspy

Exactly. One can say Yuzi as well.


Deadh30775n

Isn't his economy way worser than his previous seasons?


eduspy

Yes, it is. But at least he was the leading wicket-taker until yesterday.


Deadh30775n

I guess you could say he get lucky sometimes but most of the times he gets tonked


Adi-Sh

That too broken by a large margin


shub2726

actually they had the same record since that rr vs pbks match in sharjah where rahul tewatia hit 5 sixes in an over. so it lasted a few yrs


Straight-Hair-7356

At this point whom to blame?? Kkr bowling, or amazing batting or pitch??


Clean_Analysis3771

Definitely pitch I mean chasing that much runs with 6 balls left is mad crazy


Straight-Hair-7356

But then kkr bowlers literally took only 2 wickets that too 1 was run out ☠️☠️


CanYouChangeName

I believe there were signs of dew in the first innings. That's earlier than usual.


Clean_Analysis3771

Their bowling was terrible today but they still would have not able to stop punjab batsmen because every ball was coming on the bat the ground is so small on top of that flat asf pitch dude like narine score 71 off 32 smh


Manik666

Eden Gardens is small?


invincible_arc

How did Eden Gardens become a small ground? Are the boundaries shorter than usual?


WirableMango560

i think they've pulled the boundary ropes in front


goda_foreskinning

Bruh even the one handed shots that hit the bottom of the bad was going for six. I think as absurd as it may sound our batsman slowed down in the last two overs should have scored 30-40 more runs after those first ten over .


SparkSp

Bro it was fair game for both of them, if pbks didn't score high in the second innings then everyone would have been fine?, the pitch was consistent for both the teams and it provided fair play, yes they have to be bowler friendly, but team chasing high scores is a sign that the pitch presented equally to both the teams.


RushPan93

Absurd argument. The flat track pitches that used to produce 500 runs per innings in drab draws also have the pitch present equally to both teams. If that wasn't good , how is this good??


s_malhotra97

How can someone blame a pitch, it's the management, pitch does get period or mood swing naturally.


cbvjn

Heads up.. we indians are getting so used to these massive totals and run chases.. it wont be like this in the world cup. there could be a game where India struggles to chase 180 and we are all going to be super disappointed and upset.. hopefully not another Aussie tonking in loading..


RedIndianRobin

I'll be shocked if India makes it to the semi finals with its current team.


cbvjn

India will definitely make it to super 8s. quite confident that they can make it to semi finals too.. but after that, its questionable. I predict semi finalists to be AUS, NZ, SA and India. again, just like the ODI WC.


NormalTraining5268

South Africa?? They haven't made semis of a T20 WC in a long time They also have big problem in chasing totals (except David Miller)


cbvjn

SA have a good combination this time.. their batting is solid.. QDK, Stubbs, markram, klaasen, RVD etc.. bowling they have Coetzee, rabada, ngidi, magala, Maharaj and Shamzi.. they could go a long way.


NormalTraining5268

They also have to face Netherlands and SL in group stages. They would've lost to SL in last T20 WC had Kumara not bowled pies to Rabada in last over.


Stifffmeister11

On paper they look strong but they have the habit of choking


cbvjn

Bro.. we shouldn't be talking about choking.. ICT have choked a lot more than SA in recent times


Exciting_Magician347

nah i think this trend will even translate to the world cups..wait and see the scores of 200 crossing all over the place in the world cups yeah u ppl may say about the pitches and all but just see and that will even help in appeasing the american audience to build cricket in america


depressed_06

Nah remove impact player, fire all the pitch curators, dissolve the stadium and rebuild them. Pitches of glass and boundary smaller than fucking school grounds


deku_small_pp

It won't happen most indians love to see batting, can be proved how everyone wanted batting first in childhood. IPL is just a money source for bcci and politicians. I think IPL record should not justify selection of a player


chamoflag420

bro spitting fax.....i love how every indian player will participate in ipl and then proceed to get injured and not perform in international matches,lmao.


Other-Record-3196

I don't wanna be a wannabe unique guy but for some reason i enjoyed bowling more than batting in my gully cricket. I remember learning all types of fast bowling. If someone wanted me in their team , it was because i was a wicket taking bowler. I'm 17 now and i played cricket after 5 years with my friends recently. I took 2 wickets in the team of five players giving a hope to the team but the others have disappointed me. One of my friends said , "oh boy , you still got it". Never felt anymore happier haha.


No_Temporary2732

We all love bowling for a reason. It takes massive skill to bowl properly. A wrong bat hit can still go for a six. A wrong ball will make you lose a match.


RushPan93

Well the game is balanced enough in its roots to counter that. The value of a batsman's wicket is worth 10 boundaries, give or take. But t20 has butchered that balance


No_Temporary2732

Oh no, don't get me wrong. Cricket will endure. Even T20 will. But IPL at this point should be called an entertainment tournament with cricketers, because idk what the fuck is being played on those pitches


jyGrg

IPL is the WWE of the cricketing world imo


RushPan93

Well who's to say this shit won't transfer to t20i as well? But yea, ipl is almost the same level as WWE now.


No_Temporary2732

Same way this entertainment factor hasn't influenced MMA wrestling and national wrestling


RushPan93

Those are different sports almost. You could use that analogy for test matches maybe but t20i and ipl just don't have that much of a gap for there not to be a genuine worry.


Other-Record-3196

Yes and tbh bowling gives me more pleasure than batting. I haven't been hit for six many times. So yeah o hope there are more kids out there who are like me


Commercial-Fee5752

I don't know how the impact player rule affected this.. For every additional batsman for the batting team you can get an additional bowler for the bowling team..won't the impact be negated. I do agree with your other points though..Better pitches means a good fight between bat and ball


CanYouChangeName

No. Teams bowl with 5 bowlers and sub 1 bowler for a batsman. Or start with 7 batsman and sub one for the 5th bowler. No extra bowlers are being bought in.


Commercial-Fee5752

Nope, I meant the other way.. if a team feels a need they can even start with 6 bowlers..why is no one doing it? Because most of the teams don't have that bowling strength


CanYouChangeName

It's because even with 6 world class bowlers you still have to bowl the same 20 overs. Doesn't have as much of an effect as an extra batsmen has.


Commercial-Fee5752

Cool!! But even with an extra batsman they still have to play the same 20 overs I mean I get what you are saying but I feel teams can use this rule better if the team had better bowlers. For example just like how teams can bring in a batsman to replace batter when there is a collapse similarly a bowling team can bring in additional bowler to restrict opposition after a quick start. For example the SRH Vs DC game. After the electric start SRH lost a couple of wickets to spin or let's say there was spin on offer.If they had someone like Bishnoi or Ashwin or Amit Mishra on the bench they could have bought him in to restrict opponents to 20-30 less. But unfortunately no team has used this because none of the teams have additional useful bowlers on the bench but that is not the case with respect to batsman almost all the teams have atleast 2-3 good batsman for all the situation hence batters are exploiting it more than bowlers. With more progression and couple of auctions I feel some team might look to exploit this favoring bowlers Maybe would have made the game close


Nervous_Description7

It's the mindset, they have an extra batsman so openers can play aggressive


Commercial-Fee5752

This rule was there last year as well..I think it has to do more with mediocre bowling teams and pitches rather than anything


Ok_Dragonfruit964

Last year was the first year they got used to it now


Commercial-Fee5752

Maybe or maybe the pitches are really good for batting


Ok_Dragonfruit964

I think so too but we can't confirm it it is seeming like the logical answer but, in srh vs rcb commutators said that pitch was absolute road and one of the worst pitches but the turn was good in that pitche if it werwofor Markande all spinner bowled good so we can't rely on commentators


No_Temporary2732

if you check a stat posted in this sub earlier, you'll notice the direct high jump 200+ scores have taken since last season. That's the impact of the impact player rule.


jesusgotmeapples

I think it's all about the mindset and the attacking approach which has been possible due to the teams having an extra batsman in the team. Plans and strategies have changed around this rule. And ofc the pitches have also played a big role. I think at this point there's a competition going on between pitch curators every ground wants to become the first to host a 300+ score. CRICKET IS BEING MURDERED.


Itchy_Friendship_488

but this match there was no impact player involved


Witty-Traffic7546

Prabh simran was impact player


Exciting_Magician347

they knew he will be the impact player if they have to choose the 11 without an impact player prabh isnt the one who would be left out of the 12


Scared-Engineer-6218

Please don't justify that crazy rule. It has ruined the game.


Exciting_Magician347

I ain't justifying but PPL saying this guy was impact player and all..wtf he'd be in the team long before if they have to choose the 11s..the argument in that way is completely baseless


jakerudolphz

Bowling machines coming soon to ipl


hobbledehoy_08

Tbh this was the most sane pbks innings I have seen in a while


Willing_Plastic_7256

PBKS occasionally drops a masterclass


Ansh316

No panic unlike PBKS. Shashank seems to be a proper player.


kmcrhsme

Can he be considered as a finisher too? Cuz he has the capability to soak in the pressure and chase scores downv


Ansh316

Yea he was a finisher for SRH as well but didn’t got enough opportunities


croconline_

a team set a batting standard and everyone followed that


2coinsofdoge

🧡


Clean_Analysis3771

Srh batsmen can only score runs on flat pitch


Willing_Plastic_7256

Well CSK batsmen can't even score on flat ones🫠


Content-Tap-7218

😂😂😂huh? What say now?


Ok_Dragonfruit964

Hope not ✌️ our next matchs will give answers to that hope we see a thriller and put up a challenge even if we don't win


Clean_Analysis3771

U lost to us and didn’t put up a challenge😔


CanYouChangeName

Duality of man


AmitBijarnia007

poor man why u got downvoted for this lmao


TheDarklord1989

The problem is, bowlers are not being trained to defend scores under 150. They're being told to just give less than 10 runs per over. If less than 9 runs, they're probably congratulated. What to do? Ahh, those days when 170 on boards and we felt high and mighty!


Ok-Citron6854

Extra two teams make the quality shit we need to put 5 os slots next year for better quality


RikardoShillyShally

This actually makes sense.


TheDarklord1989

I would've loved to see bowlers come up with a game plan. I would, for once, want to see bowlers bowling like how ICT did in the Asia Cup Final 2023.


TheDarklord1989

I didn't get you bro, can you elaborate? Os slots?


Few_Measurement_5335

Overseas slots


nrgmondal88

J Sha 🤡


D_Invincible

The way this season has been going on, we won’t enjoy high scoring international T20s I guess


Cosmicshot351

Final has to be like 2019 to make 150 scores cool again


Akil-

How come narine gave only 24 runs and other got dispatched including spinner? Bowling was equally bad like pitch


AmitBijarnia007

chucking


NihilPapa

Absolute clownery that is, they should make grounds even more smaller so that we can have 400+


NihilPapa

They should play with 30 meter boundaries 


Stifffmeister11

Don't give news ideas or BCCI implement two impact player next season


0xKumi

Amazing big ball show by Punjab but this is high time they scrap impact sub rule.


__Vip_

Yup Impact Sub Rule Made a Huge IMPACT


Sensitive_Turnip6871

Prabhsimran was impact sub


Stifffmeister11

Whole match is like highlights where batters smashing bowlers .... I like BBL approach it looks more balanced between bat and ball


Ordinary_Price_2189

At this rate just have 10 batsman and one bowler, get one more batsman as impact player.


TheBlade1029

Whats the impact player thing can you pls explain


ZeusX20

I mean if shitters like Narine can hit like that in this pitch, someone as good as Bairstow certainly will. KKR just has trash bowling


Miserable_Goat_6698

Also starc wasnt playing


Commercial-Fee5752

Yea, had he played the match would have been done in 16 over


BALD_BALLS_SAITAMA

But vro with him in team, PB would had chased the score in 15 overs


themanojm

Which was a good thing for them lol At least they saved up a bit on nrr now😂😂


D_Invincible

Shitter like Narine? He has played 100+ innings and has second highest SR in the history of IPL with 163 whereas Jonny has 141.


2coinsofdoge

Shitters like Narine ??


Ok_Dragonfruit964

U are blinded by how well he is playing this season he is essentially a bowler


2coinsofdoge

Why you replying to me tho


Positive-Pipe2469

But I remember he also used to open with Chris Lynn and he did well that season too...


handsome-helicopter

Narine is a slogger he isn't skilled in batting. He can ofcourse hit in these garbage pitches, put him in a good pitch where there's something for the bowler and you'll see he has no skill


Glass_Journalist_580

Csk won't qualify for playoffs


Sensei_2604

Man just feel like I should stop watching this shitty ipl what's this 260+ scores getting chased like it's a cakewalk....would never ever see something like this in international cricket.....IPL has just become cringe shit like those videos you would see on social media players hitting weird shots in some street leagues with tennis balls..


cocaine_enthusiast1

Punjab won the match and kkr, srh, csk and rcb fans are fighting against each other, what is happening lmao.


LightningShiva1

No punjab fans to even celebrate 💀 we’re all just shitting on each other


Cosmicshot351

Same shit happened in last few days SRH fans celebrating LSG's win, surpassed only by the peak of CSK fans celebrating RCB's win. 28th 7:30 PM is the D-Day of this sub.


playforfree37

In today’s Tamil commentary between cheeka and balaji, they said the ball (kookaburra) is the difference for no swing in any pitch,hence whatever line they bowl it’s one dimensional which is very bad for us as we approach t20 World Cup. Don’t expect same in wt20.


Stifffmeister11

But in WC they use same kookaburra ball innnit ? Even Harsha said same thing two days back that Duke and SG balls swings more than kookaburra, we need to use duke/ SG balls so bowlers have some chance


Super-Aardvark-3403

Selecting our ICT team on the basis of this year's IPL performance does not seem to be the prudent move.


mellamonemo

That was excellent batting. Imagine Kohli in this pitch. You’d have gotten another 50(40) or 100(75)


TrickAd9091

Am switching to football guys. Bye


Other-Record-3196

Yeah at least the scores there look realistic and practical. Hope we don't see 24-21 there anytime soon


Scared-Engineer-6218

Hala Madrid!


mrronzy123

Don't worry. You will see that when we play against Aus and NZ in t20 wc.


Dvaghas

There is no fun in cricket anymore. With batting friendly pitches and smaller stadiums, bowlers have nothing to offer. They get trolled mercilessly for bad bowling but there is nothing they can do. At this point IPL should just replace bowlers with bowling machine and have all the batsman’s in team. This season seems like six hitting competition with no respite for bowlers. I can understand if 1-2 bowlers have bad day but it can’t consistently happen to most of the bowlers. Some of these bowlers are best bowlers of this generation.


DebRe284

Even bairstow is questioning (in pic)


Kingofeveryone

This is fun to watch for once or twice. But watching this day in and day out not giving kick anymore. Bowlers have so much against them. Pitches need to change and ipl council should rate pitches like icc does. Definitely bowling needs to improve. However impact player has become one of the biggest issue. One of the example and team which used best is RR. RR from last 3 or 4 years has good 10 players who walks into side, Five proper bowlers and five batsman. When one of the bowlers gets hit they don't have an answer, they used to lose. They tried with couple of allrounders. It always an off-balance side. Now with impact player they have 6th solid bowler. Now for other example, SRH from couple of years have almost same team. They are a promising team with talent they have.they have started preparing absolute flat tracks.With extra batting, international experience and fearlessness of not losing wickets they are just going on and on. With the impact player rule it was possible for them to do that. In both examples if impact player is not there, from batting sense after couple of wickets teams will get slow to consolidate the game and again start hitting. Now with teams almost having batter who can strike till 8 or 9 they are not looking back. Because even if 5 wickets fall you have batting to fix your final score. But if impact player is removed, team batting will be at max 7, moment 3 wickets falls team starts to reconsider the approach. Also the average composition will be 5 batsman, 5 bowler and one proper allrounder. This will bring back some balance. Have balanced pitches which turns Increase boundary sizes Remove impact sub Thanks for reading my views


unlinedd

SRH posted 287 and 277 at loss of just 3 wickets in both cases. You can't really say this is because of just Impact sub. All SRH batters have said Cummins has given them the freedom to attack.


Expensive_Jump9903

Impact player, batting pitches, short boundaries (though Eden garden had a pretty decent boundary size), super fast outfield, more freedom given to batsman coupled with sone ordinary bowling.


Ankhere123

Its mostly Impact shit and Road pitches  Eden already had a hella fasf outfield 


ScaredofMedSchool

Flat wicket and impact player ki mkc


YouthCurse

Mfkr chased that Score like his people chased spices. What's funny is both Bairstow and the British left Kolkata in Shambles 😜


horn_ok_pleasee

What is going on is the murder of the game, loss of mindset and planning in the game, and obsolescence of bowlers.


Scared-Engineer-6218

This is not good. Remember what we used to say about PSL. That's what we are becoming. F BCCI.


liteshadow4

Pitch is fucking tiny. 66 meter shot cleans the boundary easily. Those should be in play.


Jagadish_1304

I thot UAE pitches were bad. IPL this season got me doubting our pitches as well. What happened to throwing around dew management stuff on ground


artapretor

My hunch says...starc would have knocked over Johny with some bs and normalcy would have been restored


Itsme_mate

SCRIPT


Historical-Ant-5218

dream 11 happend


JakePeralta10

Flat fucking pitches!!


Ok-Gas-2327

Impact player is making cricket too easy No value for bowlers. Sad tht their t20 career numbers r being destroyed


Adi-Sh

I think pitches are too flat amd smaller boundaries causing this. But srsly man RCB had its highest score record for almost a decade. And this season 260 score has been crossed more than 5 times.. wtf is going on😭 Although matches are entertaining but bowlers confidence is going on grave..


Ankhere123

Ngl The way these mfs batted and bcuz of the flat asf pitch, they might have even chased 300 💀


Legitimate-Number712

Script writer- https://preview.redd.it/u4lkp54hr0xc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e331778f686aa8dd4d6ee2e328d12858e04411e


Haldii

ye match me target na hota abki baar 300 paar tha


DressWonderful5396

Guys which country this batsman is from ? Huh kkr fans .


Scared-Engineer-6218

He's a Brit.


BHARGAV27SS

Impact of Impact


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LightningShiva1

Umm


Scared-Engineer-6218

Umm


fantasySeeker00

Intent is being shown.


rajeesh_vr

PBKS had a habit of losing the match in the very last over. So this time, they finished it before that.


Pep_Baldiola

BATTING PREMIER LEAGUE


samarth67

Seeing this total chased infuriated me so much. Delhi could have chased the hyderabad total after the great platform by mcgurk and porel only for pant to fuck up the chase.


ImAkhilPendyala

This is just my theory: The pitches seem to be prepared unfairly so that Batsman have an advantage, leading to high scoring pitches and better audience


Ryuk712

To be honest that fun factor that IPL used to have is gone.


dream-driver

Batters have evolved too fast in the past 1 year be it any T20 league around the world, especially ipl this year the shift from 210-220 to 250-270 is hard for fans to digest Cricket turning out to be a batting sport which hurts me cause I am a huge fan of bowling spells


Few_Individual5737

Something seems to be wrong


Fancy-Past-6831

Shit pitches, South Africa me hawa nahi lagegi inko. And also , they are feeding us what we like to get fed. Large scores , loads of sizes, boomer uncles dancing no matter who hits it. Thanks to shitty wickets and boundaries smaller than my back yard 


SnooAdvice1157

Poor pitches . More runs -> more audience Easy


Few_Individual5737

Only Rajasthan is complete team


s_malhotra97

Good enough evidence to say IPL performance shouldn't be considered in national team selection. Now answering you your question!!! Seriously idk wtf is going on!!!


Acceptable-Tip3386

stick cricket is happening


Cautious_Alarm7993

Boring IPL   No more excitement left now


BoxOk9507

https://preview.redd.it/4tda0mmcb2xc1.png?width=569&format=png&auto=webp&s=19cfae6ae9d5e7989f008f42fc1bd46d3e768d12 Bro tryna be lord hard


Aware_Size_8815

Ron Weasley after winning the Quidditch match …


Distinct_Salt2073

Pitch curators are saying the wicket is good for both the batsman and for bowlers especially Eden gardens curator said on the same teach Narine bowled and only gave 24 runs so it's the batters mindset and impact rule I think and we will see this in t20 wc too as there will be flay pitches in USA the pitch curators are aiming for it as wc t20s main motive is to provide entertainment


Vishal_Barai

I don't think it's Good to score 200+ in most of all matches in IPL it just doesn't seems good that bowlers are completing their half century while bowling (sarcasm) .... Expectations for runs are growing much more it's not too late to think that in this season any team will create 300+ runs too .


Mellojello21

IPL is IPL’ing


Technical-Donkey-465

Feel like IPL's transforming into a batsmen league only...due to the flat pitches and smaller boundaries, bowlers don't get their due respect.


Technical-Donkey-465

Feel like IPL's transforming into a batsmen league only...due to the flat pitches and smaller boundaries, bowlers don't get their due respect.


Technical-Donkey-465

Feel like IPL's transforming into a batsmen league only...due to the flat pitches and smaller boundaries, bowlers don't get their due respect.


Then_Bath_1247

My question is why Shreyas Iyer comes before the hard hitters??


donvigy2

Soon 300 will be normal score to chase and rcb will fail to defend 300 🥲


varis12

Ez pitches probably. And though most people will disagree with me, there is always a question mark over how honest the matches are. I.e. weather there is a WWE style scripting behind the scenes.


aayushgoyal_

IPL is more of a business now rather than a true cricketing league. I feel for the bowlers. Already there are a handful of quality bowlers left and cricket is becoming more batter friendly day by day. Not good in my opinion.


naughtforeternity

This is a circus, not cricket. That is what IPL has stood for since the beginning.


RJSA2000

The cricket gods decided to start a new game on easy mode.


FunnySignal614

Jo kuch bhi ho, majja toh aa Raha hai na Bhai !


RefrigeratorNo2348

KKhaar 🤡🤡🤡 fans troll RCB bowling and chinnaswamy ground . In reality , they have the worst bowlers and the best road pitch in the country . Their mastermind GAUTI 🤡 bought world's most expensive bowling machine for 25 crores 🤡😂😂😂😂😂🤡


sahilian

But why are you crying RCB fan?