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[varungupta]

Well if u have to choose one reason for Jaipur's supremacy over othewr teams, what will it be????? Is it a single player or something else????

[cool.aquarian]

A single player will not be able to win any team matches on a consistent basis. See what we saw yesterday- Punjab lost when Marsh had a very RARE FAILURE. It is the law of averages that a single player cannot contribution in a department(batting, bowling or even fielding) all the time and win them everytime.

I will say that the reason for Jaipur's consistency as a team is that lots of players in their team have been match-winners in one match or the other.
It was never that Jaipur was only depending on one or two players to win them all their matches.
Look at their list of match-winners who have won them game at one point or the other in the tournament:
Watson, Yusuf Pathan, Smith, Warne, Asnodkar, Tanveer, Jadeja-NeerajPatel..
Besides these, others also have given some share of contribution like: Munaf Patel, Kaif, Akmal, Trivedi..

I cannot pick even a single person in this team who I can say has not proved his worth in every match in one way or the other.

And the best thing is that nearly all of them were unknown to do anything spectacular(without any big reputation) before this tournament, but they have turned into match-winners in this tournament itself. That is the really greatest part.

I just hope that team INDIA take a leaf out of how the Rajasthan Royals have performed and thus stop depending entirely on individual players(esp batsman) like Sehwag, Dhoni or Yuvraj to win every match and play as a team with everyone chipping-in in every department and doing his bit.

Sorry for this long read and thanks for bearing with it.