Most of the big names flopped in IPL 2

Adam Gilchrist captained the winning team - a team that was awful last year. He must be judged as a great success. Unfortunately, many Indian players have trouble when not playing in Asia. If they culd improve their performances on seaming pitches rather than the more spin orientated conditions that they favour, India would quickly overtake Australia as the best team in the world. There is certainly no shortage of talent.

Petersen flintof ganguly mucullum dhoni yousuf pathan I.sharma zaheer khan harbajan agarkar and the list goes on................. only money has been wasted in buying them, but they didn't full fill others desire especially fpr the team owners

yes the big players did fall to rise to the occasion although some like matthew hayden did play a big role.in the bowling our very own anil kumble played brilliantly leading with the ball as well as with his captaincy skills. the biggest failures i agree were flintoff though he played very few matches and kevin pietersen who were hyped a lot.i do not agree though that sachin tendulkar was a flop.just the youngsters could not carry on the momentum that he provided at the start a few times that he ended up on the losing side especially against deccan chargers.