Friday French Fries ...

Champions trophy has already started this week. Lot of live cricket and action pack weeks coming ahead. As top 8 teams of the world compete for their spot to hold on to the Champions trophy, we too have top 8 teams in both Elite and Royal battling to reach the top and grab TCA Open 2009 trophy.

This week its going to be do or die for each team. I am not going to talk about any team here, lets talk about top players in both Round 1 and Round 2 whose contribution brought their teams to Play Off.

There are many talented players who have given their Best this season but I have chosen only those players whose teams are in Play off. So no offense to others.

Bijoy (Rangers) Rd1(4-135-13-3) (Matches-Runs-4s-6s)

He one of the dangerous attacking batsman, who already have played some big innings. Power hitter, once he keeps going difficult to stop him. From last couple of matches, its very clear get him out early in his innings within 5 runs or wait for him to score huge 35+ runs with couple of huge 6s and smashing 4s.

Keep bowling on the stumps as he has been bowled out couple of times and do not give him room to free his arms. Deep Mid wicket player and Deep square leg will be Important fielders.

Ganesh (Warriors) Rd1(5-102-6-0)

He one of the unorthodox batsman I have seen in TCA. He has great talent and creates his own shoots. Very quick in running between the wickets can easily converts ones into twos. Is in good nick these days and delivered whenever warriors require it the most. Not to forget he can bat at any positions. One of the best fielder on warriors side.

Bowl him outside the off stumps and try to get runout people on the other end running with him ;). Backward short leg or deep fine leg can be handy fielders to stop his runs.

Chiranjibi (Catalysters) (9-164-6-1)

He is top contender for All rounder award in Open 2009. He is in such a good nick, runs are just flowing from his bat. Good in off and keeps the score board moving with one and twos. Straight bat shots are his patent shots. Do not under estimate him once he builds up his innings can make the ball travel behind the boundary lines. Very discipline bowler with off stump line and hits the ball right on the deck. Be happy to get him off the with some 15-20 runs of 4 overs or else be ready to give away your wickets to him.

Get him out as fast has possible before he sets up the platform for Cats. Seems to be slow in running between the wickets as got out couple of times run out during last matches. Long on or short midd off will be key players to get his wicket.

Ananth (Packers) (9-17~2.75) (Matches-Wickets-Ecoroughly)

Perfect package as opening bowler. He is leading Packers right now with his dam accuracy and unplayable deliveries. He is in such a form that every ball delivered is almost a wicket. He can taken most of wickets in edges and clean bowled. Most of the wickets are top order batsman.

Just get rid of him guys and save your wickets ;) to attack other bowlers. Every wicket counts :D

Ambarish (Bhoal XI) (9-17~2.75)

Match winner for Bhola XI. 13 MOM already in his bag out of which 7 in 2009 leading the MOM table. On a given day he is dangerous batsman, who can score all around the ground. As a bowler, unexpectedly quick and bouncy. You can get in trap of his slower-ones or full tosses too. Sticks to his line and length. Could be frustration for the batsman when is bowling in his rhythm. Bowls in middle of the innings.

Best way to get rid of his bowling, attack him initially when he not yet settle down :)

If I do not restrict myself here, I will go on and on ... :)

So here are the Key Players in each team on which match result could be very important. All the data in the blog are as per my assumption I can be wrong. ;) just like last week. These days working on my numbers and figures to get it right :D

As per entered detail scorecards from our wonderful site :

Royal

Sloggers - Key players - Sumant, Charan, Kedar Secret Weapon - Samrat

99ers - KP(Sankalp, Rushil) SW(Tejas)

Nexus - KP(Gagan, Divesh) SW(Sachin)

Discers - KP(Abhishek, Srinivas) SW(Vijay C)

Panters - KP(Sreenu, Yalla S,Tarun) SW(Raghav)

Chargers - KP(Vishnu, Promod) SW(Praveen)

Sharks - KP(Satish, Srinivas) SW(Rana)

Thunderbolt - Key players - Vishy, Kiran, Sagar Secret Weapon - Sidharth

Elite

Packer - KP(Anath, Sujan, Praveen) SW(Jayanath)

Warriors - KP(Ganesh,Vijay,Srini) SW(Srikanth)

Spanglers - KP(Amrish,Imran,Ravi) SW(Avthar)

Catalysters - KP(Chiranjibi,Rohan,Kartik) SW(Ganpathi)

Bhola XI - KP(Amrish,Chirag,Chintan) SW(Sachin)

Strikers - KP(Ankur,Praveen) SW(Viral)

Cheenai 94086 - KP(Srikanth,Sridharan) SW(Harish)

Rangers - KP(Bijoy,Prajwal,Kalyan) SW(Hemanth)

Today's Bet count :

Packers - Rangers : 16:4 --- My bet on Rangers

Cheenai 94086 - Warriors : 16:8 ---- My bet on Warriors

Chargers - Nexus : 10:12 ---- My bet on Nexus

99ers - Sharks : 12:6 --- My bet on Sharks

Spanglers - Strikers : 16:12 --- My bet on Spanglers

Bhola - Catalysters : 15:16 --- My bet on Cats

Sloggers - Thunderbolt : 12:6 --- My bet on Sloggers

Discers - Panthers : 6:12 --- My bet on Panthers

What are your bets on ... Time to make some money :)

Keep Smiling Always

All the Best for the games

Dharme