Louis Expounds Upon Twenty20

#goingtobed

you just keep me hanging on

let's do this in here actually

eternal lolz @ India for this

Anyone else watching Trinidad steamroller the rest of the Caribbean in the CPL recently?

Pravin Tambe just sprinted to take a diving catch like he was thirty years younger.

Bloody hell, 49 in a month! Hope for us all...

Semi-final win over Jamaica wrapped up with five overs to spare. Narine, Hosein and Bravo all with an economy rate of four or under. Eleven wins out of eleven.

Of course, they’ll lose the final now but TKR have been superb.

Rakheem Cornwall with a diving catch to finish off Guyana for 55 all out.

TKR vs Zouks is going to be great.

Cornwall went early but Fletcher and Deyal are murdering the TKR bowlers ;_;

74-1 off eight overs.

Zouks are the team I'm supporting (partly for Cornwall but also as I think they were the bunch that hired Jarrod Kimber as a selector) so not displeased by this

Zouks all out for 154, which could be worse for TKR, i guess. Given how they breezed through Guyana, i'd still fancy St Lucia.

What are these insane bowling choices for the Zouks mind you? Spin is not travelling at all so let's bowl loads of pace?

Bringing Williams back on was the sort of insanely stupid bowling change not even a child would consider

Until Zahir’s over I still thought the Zouks would do it. Kuggeleijn going for 16 in his last over was unexpected.

It was a terrific performance by TKR, after the first ten Zouks overs. Simmons and Bravo running through the Zouks’ dances as they hit six after six was rubbing it in a bit.

Jofra Archer has just hit four consecutive sixes off Ngidi in the IPL and there are still four balls in the over.

Could have easily been a 40-run over. Which has happened to me before. I know.

Smith and Samson are chasing 224 in Sharjah so drivers on the Al Wasit Highway watch out.

Pooran with possibly the best piece of fielding I’ve ever seen. Dived over the rope to catch the ball and threw it back underarm to save a six before he landed.

unbelievable !!

Pooran 🔥😆 pic.twitter.com/LURbC5TIIb

— Şakēth #Dream11IPL 🏏🇮🇳 (@SakethC7) September 27, 2020

UNBELIEVABLE fielding from Nicholas Pooran! 😳👏

That is absolutely sensational. The best save in IPL history? 🔥#Dream11IPL

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With video.

KKR needed 92 from 30 balls. They now need 42 off 16. Incredible match.

Very even IPL so far

Note to self: do not support the pink franchise next time, they are extremely pathetic

They've been awful today. Archer and Tewatia might be able to drag the score closer to respectability.

Ah well, nevertheless...

I was watching some old clips yesterday and saw Andrew Tye getting smacked around. Thought to myself 'ah now wasn't he a flash in the pan'. Next day he's playing for the Royals. And getting smacked around. A lot.

Amazing end to KKR vs KXIP. Maxwell needed a six to take it to a super over and hit a four that must have been two cm from the boundary marker.

Yet another Narine-induced choke though. KKR are the Dhoni of bowling

Someone's decided to put a stop to this whole Narine thing. Very shady

Hmm. I didn’t notice him chucking, or bowling any differently to how he has all tournament (other than more accurately).

Feels corrupt tbh

Holy shit at today's result. I'd given up and tuned out. These Royals don't half pull you back in, goddammit

God these fucking choking poltroons

That was a lot closer than it should have been but good to see the Boss back.

Lol, what a disaster for the Royals.

nice to see they don't just choke with the bat

Ferguson effectively 5-17. Phenomenal bowling.

Two super overs in the same day!

Bizarre running from Jordan though.

Make that three super overs.

Fantastic win for KXIP. Delighted for them.

Cmon. This time. Please

These bastards make it look so easy and then they make it look impossible. The weirdest franchise by far

The whole season has turned weird.

Hyderabad were 110-5, chasing 15 off 13, and were bowled out for 114 yesterday. I’m really enjoying the KXIP resurgence.

yeah that was freakish and went well beyond any notion of Sunrisers having a dodgy lower order

KXIP lost some really close ones early on and were certainly in a 'false position'

I forgot the matches start an hour earlier now the clocks have gone back. Excellent strangulation of KKR by KXIP.

This is ruthless

Mandeep has been excellent since Gayle came in.

Maybe too early to say they've become tournament favourites, but they've become something

Terrific start for Hyderabad - Warner's just taken 22 off Rabada. 77 from the first six overs.

I can not believe this game.

LSG out of it, then strolling to victory, then throwing it away, then a failed mankad, then chaos.

Missing a Mankad from here with one wicket to take and one run to defend is among the most embarrassing things that can happen to a cricketer pic.twitter.com/aEE5Paaany

— Sreshth Shah (@sreshthx) April 10, 2023

lolllll I was only following it on Cricinfo but omg

RCB are the clown princes of cricket

honestly I think RCB might be one of the most cursed modern franchises in all of sport

it ended the way it had to, with a Kohli ton and an abysmal bowling display

couldn't help but getting a bit teary eyed at the hug between Kohli and Gill mind. a torch being passed

Gill and Jaiswal are going to own the next decade

that was fuckin epic

Tears in my eyes, maiden T20 century for Sunil Narine #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/QTrRyl4BJy

— Santokie (@Santokie89) April 16, 2024

So happy for him.

the bowler gets repeatedly smashed for boundaries and literally can't do anything about it. the crowd listlessly cheer, knowing the currency of a six, once a momentous event, is about the equivalent of a quick-run two circa 2009

Narine once again having an absolute superman game and losing because he's somehow the only person who can bowl effectively any more

Whatever this form of the game truly is, Narine has perfected it

I see the Americans are envious of cricket's big scoring numbers and are preparing pitches that get the runs down into baseball territory, or something

steven taylor making ALL AMERICA PROUD there

!!

Pakistan. Car wrecks, not looking away, etc

Not to deny Pakistan's ability to snatch defeat etc but some of these pitches man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cgkg6zyr0v2o

Beat the previous record for the youngest IPL century by five years and 221 days, and did it in 35 balls.

Watched it! Was a phenomenal innings. He is however almost certainly 2.5 years older than is claimed, which would make him 16, and which still puts this in the category of 'holy shit'

(There's a video of him letting his 'real' birth date slip if you search)

Interesting!