Bowling gambles in IPL 2013

Ipl Bowling gambles taken by the captains.

So as we all know IPL is in it's midway stage right now. But during all these days there have been many unusual strategies applied by the captains of teams to try something different to either break partnership or stop the flow of runs. While some gambles have worked in favor of the captains, there are also some which proved to be disastrous and unimaginable. IPL has always been a league where you find astonishing things like a tail ender hitting Slinga Malinga for a six or a debutant taking the wicket of renowned players.

But as we all know 

"Yeh IPL hai boss. Yaha kuch bhi ho sakta hai"

Now coming to the topic, leaving apart the successful gambles, here i'll write down the top 5 disastrous bowling gambles in Pepsi IPL 2013 up till now.

5.Bad day Mr.Finch

 This incident had to be on our list. Because on this day many records were broken. One this day it was raining sixes and fours in the M. Chinnaswamy stadium and the bowlers were found running here and there to find shelter. The epic knock of 175* by Christopher Henry Gayle will always be remembered by every person who watched it. Even if we forget it there is a team which will never forget it "The Pune Warriors India" and especially their Captain "Aaron Finch" who will always remember this day as a nightmare. 

The match started with a quiet first over by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and in the second over Rain stopped play. But when play resumed it started to rain again but this time it was raining Sixes from the bat of the "Bowler murderer" Gayle. All the bowlers except Luke wright and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar gave plenty of runs to Gayle as a gift.
Then came the time when the PWI captain Aaron Finch took the gamble and decided to bowl. But this just added salt to the injury of the team because Gayle didn't even spare the opposition captain. This over went for 29 and is the highest runs in an over in this season. The reason why i call it a gamble is because he should have given the ball to the more experienced Yuvraj or Mortaza. At least it could have saved 8-10 runs. Well Pune didn't have to loose anything so this gamble can be called legitimate.

4.Wright's Wrong Line & Length

The high tension match just went down to the last over. PWI after a superb innings by Aaron Finch and a blazing cameo by Luke Wright posted a mammoth looking 185 on board. 

Wright who scored 34 runs of just 10 balls didn't show the same miracle in bowling but still was given the responsibility of last over by the captain Aaron Finch.

On the crease were the two set batsmen who had a century partnership between them.

The match went down to the last over and Punjab required 16 of the last over. Luke wright conceded 4 runs of the first 3 balls and then a six by Miller and Punjab was back in the game.
Now 6 runs require on 2 balls. All wright had to do was bowl a yorker or outside the line of off stump. But poor Wright gave a juicy little fulltoss and Miller creamed it for a massive six. All Wright could do was to go to the dressing room and  forget this day where he was the hero with the bat and zero with the ball. And all Finch could do was to go back to the dressing room and think about "The WRONG decision of sending WRIGHT"

3.Bhajji's Nightmare

Starting a T20 match with a spinner is always a gamble and it works 3 odd times out of 10. But surely it did not work that day. The match between Mumbai and Kolkata. Both the teams lost their previous two matches and were in need of a desperate win. 

This time Mumbai had a new captain Rohit Sharma captaining his side for the first time. Kolkata came in to bat and Yusuf was out with Gambhir. 

Sharma gave the first over to Harbhajjan and the rest that happened was as follows.On Strike : Yusuf Pathan

1st Ball     : Edge past slip for 4 runs

2nd Ball    :Slog sweep for 4 runs

3rd Ball    :Conventional sweep for 4 runs

4th ball     :Six over sight screen

5th ball     :NO ball + 1 run
6th ball     :Six over long on by Gambhir (Free Hit)

7th ball     :No run

At least the seventh ball would have pleased  Harbhajjan who was never manhandled so bad before. To sum it up, this time opening with a spinner failed big time.

2.Not sensible Mr. Sensible

Among the Hussey brothers Mike Hussey is known as Mr. Consistent and David Hussey as Mr. Sensible. Our story revolves around Mr. Sensible A.K.A David Hussey.

The match between KXIP and MI was evenly poised till the 19th over in the first innings. After the end of 19th over the score read 147 runs. Since Gillchrist was not playing this match so Hussey was the captain. All the pacers had completed their 4 overs quota. So hussey was left with the choice of Chawla or himself. Chawla though bowled 2 overs at an economy of 12 runs an over would have been the better choice but Hussey took the responsibility on his own. 

He bowled the last over and on crease were Pollard and Rohit Sharma.
The first ball disappeared for six, and so did two other balls of that over and to end his misery Mumbai ended with 174 runs with Rohit Sharma grossing 27 runs of the last over. 

Hussey who went for 5 runs in his first over thought it would be better for him to bowl the last but he was proved wrong so the big gamble ended up on a disastrous note.

And thus we can say that this decision was no Sensible from Mr. Sensible. 

1.Black day for Cameron White

Ashish Reddy.

With the valiant efforts of Shikhar Dhawan and Ashish Reddy the Sunrisers Hyderabad reached a respectable score of 159. The Sunriser's bowling was a mixed bag. The spinners bowled excellently and gave their captain 3 wickets conceding just  34  runs oh 8 overs. Karan Sharma bowled brilliantly and bowled the most economic over of IPL 2013 conceding just 8 runs of his 4 overs and with one maiden.
The last two overs required 28 runs with Sir Jadeja and MS Dhoni on crease. The second last over bowled by Dale Steyn conceded 13 runs but got the wicket of Jadeja.
Now White had one over left with Darren Samy but instead he gave the ball to Ashish Reddy which proved to be a failure.

The last over required 15 runs. Poor Reddy who wasn't given the ball in between 19 overs stood in front of the best finisher defending 15 runs.
Bowls the first ball. Called wide. That was the pressure on the bowler.

Second ball or say first legal delivery  slower one from back of the hand, Dhoni swings and misses. Still as cool as cucumber is the CSK captain.

Third ball similar to the previous one but this time Dhoni didn'i miss. He connects and smashes a huge six.

Fourth ball Bowls it way down leg side. Dhoni gets some bat on it and it goes for four. Poor Reddy now feels the shear pressure.

Fifth ball Dhoni hits it hard straight down the ground and it's a four. Captain cool did it again. What an innings.

So this time not sending the more experienced Sammy and instead sending the young Reddy failed and SRH will feel they could have won it.