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Pune Warriors coach is Alan Donald....
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funny the thing that fascinates me is the 50 in 17 balls.... I think that is a harder record than the 100 off 30...
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mi watch di highlights and was impressed by him. but a long time mi nuh watch cricket and mi never did know nutten bout good form from morning. but what shocked me was the pepsi ads pon di wicket and di (underage looking) cheerleaders! wah dem fah?Comment
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You should see the Indian women in their saris doing the western shindig like the cheerleaders were doing.Originally posted by FrenchTickla View Post
17 sixes and about 14 Fours made up most of the 175 runs by Gayle to which it was said that the spectators became the fielders, whilst the fielders looked on in flabbergasted bemusement.Comment
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He not only Gayled 11 men, he wrecked the signboards on the perimeter/ boundaries of the field at Bangalore.Originally posted by Wahalla View PostComment
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Since there is no like button I have to reply to thread to simply say .... that's my bwoy...
yep all on him bad days ...
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I am a cricket fan... and love fast bowling... I like Mcgrath and Alan Donald... After Gayle flayed the Pune Warriors I wondered how Donald reacted... As a bowler he had to have had a strategy....IMHO T20 bowling is about the batsman making mistakes.. Gayle simply did not misque mistime a shot... (He did misque and it went for 6)...He was simply seeing the "ball big" as the sayigns go..
One thing the comentry in India has improved since the IPL....
I came to admire t20 late...2009...u cant support a team IMHO u have to be nuetral and enjoy the extraordinary that goes against the cricket orthodoxy...
Here is Donalds reaction...
Gayle's innings left bowlers 'scared', says Donald
Nagraj Gollapudi
April 24, 2013
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Allan Donald, the Pune Warriors coach, has said that his players were "scared" after the thunderous assault from Chris Gayle, which set up an enormous130-run victory for Royal Challengers Bangalore. A day after the demoralising defeat, Donald admitted that he feared the "mental damage" the innings might have caused his players and said his biggest challenge was to keep them positive for the remaining eight matches.
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Players/Officials: Allan Donald | Chris Gayle
Matches: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Warriors at Bangalore
Series/Tournaments: Indian Premier League
Teams: Pune Warriors | Royal Challengers Bangalore
"We came across a bloke yesterday who was just devastating," Donald told ESPNcricinfo in Bangalore. "I have never seen hitting like that in all my life. To see our guys getting pummeled like that was unbelievable. When I walked out for the first strategy break, I just saw people scared, really scared. I just mentioned to the players that if we don't pull this back here, he is going to take us down big time, which he did."
Donald realised that the bowlers were clueless and if he did not deliver a stern message, Gayle could play havoc, which he eventually did with ease. "When I looked at their faces and no one said a word, the only way for me was to be very firm in my message; we had to find a way," he said. "We also discussed in the meeting on the morning of the match that we had to bowl out batsmen who were not going to give up their wicket. We needed someone to stand up and do something special and stop the flow of runs."
As a response Donald observed blank faces. By the second timeout, in the 16th over, Gayle had doubled the team score, taking it past 200 and Donald was frustrated. "To me that plan was about how we were going to limit the damage in the next four overs. The plan was to go full into his pads and also vary the pace," Donald said.
The mental scarring Gayle has inflicted on his players has left the coach worried. "How much damage has this done to us mentally? My job becomes even harder now and I have to make sure these guys are ready against another team that is struggling (Delhi Daredevils) on a ground we have never played (Raipur)," he said. "This group now needs to rally together."
Barring the pair of Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4-0-23-0) and Luke Wright (4-0-26-1), at the start and end of the Royal Challengers' innings, Gayle attacked the rest mercilessly. Donald was not shy to take the blame. He said the bowlers lacked consistency and the team was one experienced strike bowler short.
"We haven't been brilliant," he said. "We have been okay in certain games and really off the boil in the others. And that is one area where we have let ourselves down. We do not have an attack that is express pace; we don't have a Dale Styen or a Shuan Tait, though, we have fair bit of class in Kumar and Ashok Dinda."
At the same time, Donald pointed out, Gayle was unstoppable and intimidated the bowlers. "There were times during that knock where he just went ballistic, and then he took a little timeout and then he went again," Donald said with a chuckle.
After the match, he asked Gayle, "Why us?" Gayle said he was in the mood. "He has just said that is the best he has ever hit the ball in his life," Donald said.
After their confident victory against Chennai Super Kings, Warriors let the following two matches slip out of their hands against Sunrisers Hyderabad at home and then in Mohali against Kings XI Punjab. The erratic form has left even Donald confused.I can't find a solution as to why we are not responding. I cannot fault the squad that we have got this year. Is it the failures of the last two years that is playing on everyone's minds or the losing streak that we are on at the moment? Is it affecting everybody?Allan Donald
"I can't find a solution as to why we are not responding," he said. "I cannot fault the squad that we have got this year. Is it the failures of the last two years that is playing on everyone's minds or the losing streak that we are on at the moment? Is it affecting everybody?"
The failure of marquee players has made matters worse for Donald. Yuvraj Singh, Ross Taylor, Angelo Matthews and Robin Uthappa have not played any innings of impact. Acting captain Aaron Finch has been the only batsman to score a half-century, striking up three fifties in six games.
"The whole team has been hot and cold," Donald said, expressing his frustration. "If you look at Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, they win the RCB games. The same goes for teams like Super Kings."
The absence of a stable captain at Warriors has been a point of fierce debate. The first-choice captains - Mathews and Ross Taylor - have been battling for form, forcing the team management to appoint Finch, who has led in the Big Bash, as a stand-in leader. "We never had a captain in three years leading us solidly," Donald said.
In their debut season in 2011, Warriors finished eighth out of nine teams in the season. Last year, they slid to the last position. This season they are ahead of last-placed Daredevils. According to Donald, there is no place to hide for Warriors. "We can't fault our preparations or our planning and strategies, we have been on the money," he said. "We just haven't been unable to put it together on the field. There are no excuses, there are no explanations and we have got to turn it around."
Nagraj Gollapudi is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo
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I should add that I am always reminded of how far in development that India has come...
Halliburton have research labs in Pune...This is not something for show but it is connected to its research center in Houston and Stavanger....Comment
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I also just noted that Sunil Narine is top of the bowlers and Dywane Bravo is third in the bowling...Comment
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Originally posted by Xavier View PostVideo: Chris Gayle Fastest century in cricket history - April 23, 2013
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Yesterday RCB lost.. thats Gayles team lost to the Mumbai Indians.... Tandulkar team... But who was the hero.. Kiroen Pollard...and Dwayne Smith....
I was watching just now the program before the start of play.... the IPL is amazing... the international nature of it...I was amazed how it is developing... to me it is striking how much advertisments there is and how much is local... How well dressed the crowds are compared to the 80's when u watch test cricket and it felt like the crowd was monochrome....
interesting the concept of Brics countries...
Brazil... has the next olympics and the World cup..
Russia has the World Athletics world cup and the Winter Olympics
India has the IPL and the last common wealth games
China has had the olympics and world cup atheletics
And which country provides the most visible marketable product in most of these human dramas ????
Jamaica... We are country with a high level brand with little products to sell.....
We prevent the domination of the Hegemonds....
I can imagine the Indians thinking we dont want the Britz and ozzies to have the star... The Chinese Presidnet must have thanked his ancestors when Bolt dominated the Yankis as that prevented the Yankis to have bragging rights.....over them
The Russians and Brazils must be hoping Jamaicans circus is still running...
We need more products to market internationally.... We have have high visibility in the growth areas, oppertunties to grow our products...Comment
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Alas, I know nothing about cricket. I guess you have to grow up with it to appreciate it. So, this is for you Wahalla and all the other cricket fans. I just got it in a notice from Emirates.
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