It’s Tough Scene for CSK on IPL 2009

It’s Tough Scene for CSK on IPL 2009

In its second season, Indian Premier League seems to prove all predictions wrong. With a week got past, last year’s champs are at the bottom of the point table sharing the slot with a team that finished off last but one last season. Starting off as one of the best, Chennai team is struggling to float along. Deccan Chargers are going on top gear while for Mohali team, it has been a spate of bad luck. In the third week, it will be a make or break situation for almost all the teams. So who is going to make into the top four this season? Here is an assessment.

Last year, they missed it by whisker; this year they were all set to go that extra mile to finish off the best. With Dhoni making it big one after another in the international cricket circuit, the CSK fans were almost certain that Dhoni magic will click off in the Indian Premier League too and the captain cool will give them the taste of what they missed last year by chance. But as the tournament rolled into its second week, things were not looking that bright.

From the very beginning, the games were not nearly as interesting as last year’s. Barring a century from De Villiers, audiences in South Africa were not getting the flashing cricket that was so characteristic of twenty-20 format. The brilliant, high paced cricket that kept on setting the Indian pitches on fire throughout last year’s tournament was grossly absent from South African fields. And the trend was clear: down with two/three wickets before the tenth over and teams will find it difficult to make a reasonable score unless there is a batsman waiting down the line who can hit it real big.