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General:
Like we did for IPL last year (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5114470.0), here is the pool for PSL 2020. Open for everyone however feel free to donate any amount of BTC for the winners of the pool. You can find my pool here: https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/pool.php?p=12224836
or by downloading the Superbru app and searching for the pool with code: ashywaxy

Donation details:
If you can afford to donate then please send the BTC (any amount) to this address: bc1qtnex6lwkqhnrm5vhercvqxzl0equ9qsk92lrufle4e0n274y2vxqpx96hm
QR code:
https://i.imgur.com/7PrmaIo.png

Teams:

https://i.imgur.com/5MJicKW.png

More details in their official website: https://www.psl-t20.com/

How to play:
There are nothing very much complected. You just need to pick a winner of the matches anytime before the match starts. There are margins and for different margins there are different points. Highest point scorers after the final match will be the winners.
Details about how to play will be here: https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/how_to_play.php#tab=picks
Details about scoring points will be here: https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/how_to_play.php#tab=scoring

Prize:
Whatever donations we will receive, the prize distribution will follow below structure:

	1st prize	40%
	2nd prize	25%
	3rd prize	15%
	4th prize	10%
	5th prize	5%
	Tx fees and any other expense	5%

Highest point scorer will receive the first prize.
 
How to join:
1. Join the pool from superbru using the link or code provided above
2. Post your superbru username and btc address below

Have fun and join the discussions! Make sure to do your picks before the match starts for every match.

Donators:

	Name	Amount(BTC)
	Royse777	0.002
	Your name here	Your donation amount
	Total	0.002

Participants List:

Royse777 - roysesuper - BTC address
UmerIdrees - umaridrees -
deadley - deadley -
Pffrt - Pffrt -
JSRAW - Timon - bc1qp4q4lup0ry4qqqk7qspj8ntgrm7e7pwk9g05mqq402k0j76xlcvshrkq5p  
Harkorede - Harkorede -
BitSat19 - BitSat - bc1qywnrxlqpugcmu2575p7qn79jd2hcxun7mjnm8u

superbru username :  umaridrees
BTC Address: Will update later if i end up in Top 5  :)

Joined any pool first time, let's see what it will bring to me lol.

User ID deadley

I approved you two Umar and deadley. Not even a week left. We need more players and if possible then some more donations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225153.msg53821202#msg53821202) for the winners. Come on guys!

Last year we had Cloudbet with us but it seems he (Ronnie) is not around from long time.

Username: Pffrt
Will update with btc address and my contribution later. I will send small amount though.
I was the winner of World Cup pool. May be this time once again I will hit. I have to check the team and players. Really have no idea.
Good luck to everyone.

Where have you been all those days. I really can not remember that it was you the winner of last year's IPL pool. My bad memory I guess. But glad to see you in here and hope this time you make good progress too.

Honestly speaking it's not much easy to predict the winners and keeping up with earning points. If I am not wrong then I guess I was also close last year ?

It was not IPL pool. I didn't participate in the IPL pool. It was 2019 world cup. And yes, you were close too inclduinh Harkrede? and someone else I can't remember. That was really a great one. Since I know very few players from and it will be very hard to predict.
May be Umeridrees can help us by sharing some information.

Here is the certificate of the last pool-
https://i.ibb.co/3BnG6jC/Screenshot-20200215-235640.png

It will be still hard to predict the winner of PSL but i will try to share some information.

https://i.imgur.com/p3Vfkxt.png

If you can see the Winners and runner up for the last 4 seasons of this PSL, Only three teams managed to make it to the final.

Islamabad United -  2 times in the final
Peshawar Zalmi -     3 times in the final
Quetta Gladiators -  3 times in the final

So if you bet on these three teams, your chances of win will be high.

Lahore Qalandars  and Karachi kings teams matches are the most watched ones as these two are the biggest cities (Lahore & Karachi). I will be supporting Lahore Qalandars because of my home city. Both of these teams are unable to make it to the finals yet.

I thought to come up with each team lineup too but it is not interesting because not many international players will be coming in PSL because it is fully played in Pakistan and not in Dubai like previous editions of this league.

I am also in for this pool and update all late I will send you some amount for prize as well my username on superbru is Mz2004 as I already in some other soccer pools first time trying my luck in cricket hopefully this will work good luck to all.

Bump!
Come on guys! We are only 5 including BitSat (can you confirm your bitcointalk username). We need more people and there are not many days left for the opening match.

I must say I totally forgot few things about the pools lol

Joined; Username : Timon
BTC ADD : bc1qp4q4lup0ry4qqqk7qspj8ntgrm7e7pwk9g05mqq402k0j76xlcvshrkq5p   (@Royse : same address which i use for Mutual Pool)

Don't know much about PSL in details so i might not actively post here but i am hoping that i learn thing or two by participating in pool or sometime lurking here.

Added you but I do not see your request in superbru yet. You need to request to join the pool from this link: https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/pool.php?p=12224836 or use this code if you are on phone or app: ashywaxy

Same here but last year I loved the matches of Quetta Gladiators.

I have zero knowledge about the PSL, but I feel I can have a good competition, this will be my second time in a cricket competition, I participated in the Cricket World Cup (hosted by Royse as well), It was very competitive to be honest and I came out on 2nd position.

Username: Harkorede
Btc Address: I'll add it later on.

Thanks Royse for hosting this again!

Appreciate it bud.

Seriously I can not recall much from the last IPL and WC events. LOL
By the way, about this PSL - I think after watching few matches we will have some idea about the teams. PSL seems not much popular.

Most of peoples are not familiar with PSL because this year first time its coming home but we can expect some good and interesting matches hopefully this will increase popularity with in next few years this could be on good and popular leagues list.

Edit: As I post I will also participate and sending my application for approval in superbru in next few hours and in next few days I will also send some donation as well thanks.

Sorry for late reply as I check about this on @UmerIdrees post so I apply now I am confirming as I am in for this my username already added here is my bitcoin address.
bc1qywnrxlqpugcmu2575p7qn79jd2hcxun7mjnm8u

We are 7 now and the list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225153.msg53821202#msg53821202) has been updated.

Is it necessary that we join the pool before the start of the tournament ? Let me know the deadline to join the pool or if we can join later after the tournament started ?  Actually I was busy a bit but will decide to join once i know the last day to join.

The first match starts on 20th February @1400 GMT.
I do not think you have to join before that but if you join before the match starts then you can make your pick for the first match too.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

You can join anytime but the more late you join after the tournament starts, the lesser the chances of you being finish in top 5.  The more matches you will bet on, the chances are for more points you will gain by correct / close predictions.
So try to predict on all the matches and do not miss any single match.

I already apply on superbru now confirming here I am playing this pool here is my address thanks

1Le7uccfLLufmBxRNNwyu9rUkcPYgcuQaP

Superbru username     Mz2004

You don't require to spend a lot of times in this. Just join and pick results as your own. You can pick all the matches of 1st round now. So, no problem should be there I think.

Which planet's time you are referring  :o  ;D

Bad news for Quetta Gladiators. Umar Akmal facing suspension may be because his inappropriate behavior during the fitness test where he said " Where is the fat? "  and misbehaved with the officials. PCB didn't mentioned exact reason but dude is real troublemaker ...


PCB suspends Umar Akmal under anti-corruption code (https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/112344/pcb-suspends-umar-akmal-under-anti-corruption-code)

You can watch PSL Opening ceremony Live here now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x1B7Wb_z3Q

Do not miss this great event !!!

https://i.imgur.com/NnMZ9ru.png

Is this for all even or just for today Opening Ceremony because I want to watch this all event on here not able to watch this all on Television because some big issues with me right now for watching this all on tv.

This link is only for the Opening ceremony but it will be avaible on youtube live as well on TV channels. If you need to watch any match on youtube live, just let me know and i will provide you the link.

Best of luck to all those who joined the Pool  :)

I will not be playing this one. But I joined the pool just to see who leads the leaderboard from time to time  :D

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Edit: Wtf. I just registered and didn't make any bets, then how did I end up at 4th spot in the leaderboard ???

https://i.imgur.com/QJXbK1G.png (https://i.imgur.com/QJXbK1G.png)

Edit 2: Understood. Default Picks (https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/how_to_play.php#tab=defaults).

New Senior Member arrives... Congrates @akhjob... Well deserve!!

What is Default picks? only 2 matches till now and so much up and down.

Default picks comes in play when participants don't opt for any options- or sometimes forgets about it. One thing to remember in default picks is that there is no margin points but only win points.

How does it work? - Depends on the community picks- higher % of win for any team in one game considered as "Default pick" automatically.

Thanks for explanation, I forgot to add yesterday pick and it added in my picks, that is why I was confused.

@akjhob congrates for achieving this Sr Member rank in PSL until now my luck is not working as I am with 0 points in 3 matches now time for checking and doing some serious business in next matches until now all going good just last match was one sided as Qalanders batting fail to give some good target.

I'm still yet to score a single point for the two matches so far, while someone have got 2 points just for forgetting to make their picks, hopefully I'll get some from the next few games.

We both are on same number with same points I am feeling very frustrated because I was expecting good fight from Qalanders but they down badly and other two matches was good and interesting mean any body game still we have plenty of matches in coming day this table will change many times.

Hey bud, aren't you the runner up of World Cup 2019? Why not a hard try here too?
So far, deadley got some good call, 3 win point out of 3 matches and 1 margin point as well.

@akhjob
congrats bud, you deserve the rank. You are too faster than me.

@JSRAW Special thanks for the level-up merit bro :) @Indymoney @Pffrt Thanks both of you and all our cricket community members :)

@deadley Apart from what JSRAW said, you are eligible for only 5 default picks in this tournament. (https://www.superbru.com/pakistansuperleaguet20/how_to_play.php#tab=defaults) I won 2 out of 3 default bets and I'm left with only 2 more defaults, so you @Harkorede don't have to worry that I'll stay on top for much longer ;p

Congrats akhjob on your raking up. I feel like left behind. These days I am really too busy to explore the forum the usual I do. I would like you to post 3-5 good posts of yours those you think received less merit than it deserved. I will award you some to help you to accelerate your next rank. You are one of those users who are doing great job for the community.

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It seems I am no doing that bad with my picks. In the Karachi - Peshawar math I think Sammy paid the price of getting slow on the last 5 delivery of the 2nd last over after getting 9 runs from the first two delivery(1st delivery was solid hit and 2nd delivery was somehow lucky to get five runs from a wide ball.) But after that it was luck Sammy was like let's see some balls and hit carefully that cost them and lost the match. He should have keep doing the slog hitting without caring for quality of balls.

Anyway, let's see what we see end of the day today. I would love to have couple points today too :-D

I am also not getting the predictions right and the result are opposite of which i am predicting.  >:(

_______________________________________________________________________________ _________________

You might be thinking why players are wearing golden ribbon on their shoulders. Well it is for the Childhood cancer Awareness Day to be observed in today's  PSL matches. This is a contribution in the fight against childhood cancer which is alarming in the country.  :(

PSL next match prediction
The next match of the Pakistan Super League 2020 will be played between Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators on Sunday on Karachi National Stadium. Point that Karachi National Stadium This is the home ground of the Karachi Kings & In previous they won against Peshawar Zalmi on this field. So obviously Karachi Kings has a great advantage to win this match.

No place like home I am also feeling now this season Karachi Kings can do much better as they have good team and good support Quetta is also good but they need some more effort this match is going to be very excited as both captains belong to Karachi so this could be good rivalry as both have good local support.

Today's Matches will make the Sunday more enjoyment  :)

https://i.imgur.com/WWJhD5M.png


I am going with Karachi and Islamabad in today's matches and Lahore team look the weakest of all.

Can we lock or choose our picks after the toss is done ?
What is the last time to chose our picks ?

It look like i would be better able to pick a winner after the toss.  :(

No, if I am correct you can't. If you don't pick your team before the toss, there will be an automatic selection. superbru will select the most selected pick for you. I am not sure here although. It's good if you choose after the toss but that will be a hassle to pick a team because you have to be active on that particular time.

As of now, it looks like your money is safe for the first match. The Quetta Gladiators need another 84 runs from 57 balls and they have already lost three of the most important batsmen. Jason Roy failed yet again, while Shane Watson got a good start but couldn't built upon it. Karachi Kings are going to top the table, with 4 points from 2 matches.

The second match may be closer than what it looks at this point. The Lahore Qalandars do have good players such as Haris Rauf (who performed really well during the BBL), Ben Dunk and Fakhar Zaman. On top of that, Seekkuge Prasanna and David Wiese can be very handy in T20 format.

You can make a pick after the toss. The event gets automatic lock once the match starts not after the toss.

By the way I have no idea which team I picked today. Besides yesterday I was totally pointless lol.

Edit:
It was 24 hours time formatting and was in Greenwich mean time :-D

Seems my memory is very short. Last year someone else had asked the question on world cup pool too lol. Thanks.

I was lucky that I had margin point in one or two matches. It's hard to predict here to be honest. Deadley is having good points too.

Edit-
I have lost point on the last match, I don't know how I have choosen Karachi over Quetta  ???

Out of 6 matches I had 3 right pick and all of them with margin points LOL and so far I was able to watch only one match which was Karachi vs  Peshawar and that match was entertaining. I hope all other matches are having good competition too.


This happens. I am confuse who to pick for the next round.

I know mostly teams and players and PSL is like unpredicatable league and matches can be win easily from almost loosing, so it's always hard to predict in PSL

No, it is not safe, Since i voted for Karachi, the Karachi lost.  Now look at the current match. Lahore team was not so strong so i picked Islamabad, but as soon as i picked Islamabad, the Lahore team is playing well and may score 175+.  :D

And i am at the last  ::)

https://i.imgur.com/s3mPtxV.png

Lahore made 182 (7 runs higher than your own prediction/projection). I had pointed out in my previous post that Lahore have some of the best batsmen in the PSL. Fakhar Zaman and Chris Lynn are world class hitters. I didn't specifically mentioned Mohammad Hafeez, but he was the one who destroyed Islamabad United with his 98 (n.o) today.

Actually every team has some good batsmen and bowlers , it just a matter of time which teams plays better on a particular day. The teams are tough and therefore it is difficult to predict the winner. If Lahore Qalandars  wins today then every team would have won a single match and lost a single match and the tournament is very even for all.

Lol I posted this today and Islamabad won after almost loosing the match, that's why PSL is unpredictable. Anything is possible in PSL

Just check first round ends and its completely belong to @deadley as he done very good job on top hopefully I will improve in next round as first was completely unpredictable and leader deadley is doing very good with this unpredictable league look like he understand this all very quickly congrats guys good luck for next round from 26 February.

deadley is outstanding. I see him to have 8 points so far and another point is to be added from the match that ended (7th match). Well done!

JSRAW (Timon) and me did not do that bad. Timon and me will have 7 points once they will update the score of last match. piffrt is also doing good and rest of you, hopefully will have a good round in the next one.

I still have not decided my picks for the next round. It looks hard now.

I am joining the superbru pool today and i hope i am not late.  :)

superbru username: JohnBitCo
BTC:     1Q3J6ugvYJUqEeGkZpgkhAGhZVPPiHw6Ur

I was almost certain that I will get points on the second match yesterday when Lahore got 2 early wickets after having a total of 182 but Islamabad ruined that lol. What was the wrong with Lahore Captain Sohail Akhtar? Hafeez did very good bowling at the beginning. 2 overs, 11 runs and picked 1 wicket. Hafeez didn't get a call later despite others bowlers were called and at the end, there was no option but to call Usman Shinwari.

Approved you. No one is never late :-D

By the way, this is where we stand after the first round.

https://i.imgur.com/4pB4wmQ.png

deadley is at the top.

You guys must received an email from superbru about your performance in the first round. Check it and you will see some interesting statement about you. For them I am
LOL

https://i.imgur.com/xWeokL0.png

Actually it was really painful to watch Lahore losing the match, despite making such a big total. By the time Islamabad United lost their 9th wicket, they still needed 20 runs to win. The no.10 and no.11 batsmen were at the crease (Ahmed Safi Abdullah and Muhammad Musa). And it was the no.11 batsmen who propelled Islamabad to victory. But still, I don't think that the captain made a wrong decision. Hafeez is a part-time bowler, while Usman Shinwari is someone who have the variety which can be useful against the tailenders.

This is what i got. True, i should do better after all PSL is happening in my country.

https://i.imgur.com/03TAHzr.png

I always find this comments from them funny and interesting to read. I used to enjoy them in the last time when we had WC and IPL but in this one I thought to highlight it so that we can see how others are receiving in the email box.

By the way, I have no idea about the next matches LOL. Very confuse to make my picks.

That's strange, Mine said..........

Dear Wanker,

How you managed to fuck this up?

We are failed to understand that how in the fricking world you only picked 5/7 outcomes correctly in Round 1? Are you that retarded?

Shitty Luck

Fuck Regards
The General

LOL
You must have some sexual relationship with superbru admin or something :-P

Idea was creative. Have you done your picks yet? I made some picks but the first one is very confusing to me, I mean Multan Sultans vs Peshawar Zalmi.

For this match I am going for Zalmi because they are much better team then Multan Sultans and they are capable of beating them any where Kamran Akmal is also on fire so this is going to be very exciting match in next round.

Only sexting as i am follower of Satan  ;D


Same, I still don't know who playing with who and where so hard to pick. As of now i am favoring only previous winners in pool so I might pick Peshawar Zalmi as they are defending champion.

Peshawar Zalmi looks strong on paper with Darren Sammy as a captain, makes it favorite for me. Check the teams to make the choice.

https://i.imgur.com/8bOx13x.png

https://i.imgur.com/LVnBZqL.png

In Round 1, you picked 6 / 7 outcomes correctly, which was better than the 2,251-strong community's average of 3.13 / 7. You are Spartacus.

This is what I got,

I also think Zalmi has better chance than Multan Sultan.

I had a random pick and it was for Multan Sultans and after reading you guys, I have changed my mind and gone for Peshawar Zalmi :-P

That was out standing. I had only 4 out of 7 but 3 out of 4 had margin points that had enough to get some decent points.

If I am not wrong the Quetta Gladiators are defending champion?

Yes, Quetta Gladiators were the champions in last year PSL while Peshawar Zalmi were the runner's up. That final was one sided one and Quetta Gladiators easily won by 8 wickets. They were given the target of 138 runs which they scored in the 17th over.

My man! Yes I was right then :-D

Anyway, just noticed you were only 8 merit short to become full member and thought to send you out the desired one. If anyone has any doubt then this 8 merit is not only for this post but the entire contributions those came from UmerIdrees in the forum. I am just too lazy to look for his post history and award in one by one post. UmerIdrees is a regular member in this community and he deserves ranking up.

Don't have the right words to thank you for the kind words of yours.   :)
I was very happy indeed to finally become Full Member by virtue of this.  God bless you.

You have done pretty good job and it will be very hard to catch you for us. I am still 3 points away from you. 6 correct outcomes out of 7 is significant of course.

Congrats UmeerIdrees, you deserve it my bro.

Thanks for approving.
Although i joined late, only yesterday but i saw i got 3 points for nothing. This is called Good Luck.  I am at no 9 position out of 10 without even playing.  ;)

That's not Good Luck 😂
I was also confused at first, but later found it to be default picks. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225153.msg53881724#msg53881724) Everyone gets 5 default picks. Of the 5 picks, we got 3 default picks right.
@UmerIdress PSL might not be going as you thought, but congrats on your rank up. This thread has already ranked up two of us  :)

Who else we have? :-P

Congratulations to both of you.

I know how exciting to rank up but when you get used to it then you feel nothing special. I did not even notice mine to change to Legendary until some random member was congratulating me on the other day LOL and it took me a long time too. :-P

Earlier, I became Sr.Member as JSRAW merited this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225153.msg53881724#msg53881724)  and now it's Umer

Lol okay. got confused about the winners.

Only one person is able to raise some doubt here is.. the man himself UmerIdrees, After all he's is the only conspiracy theorist we got here in this part of forum ;D Mubarak ho @Umer.... Oh Royse you are Legendary now :D Congrats

It's good to see that we built up a little community here with very few of us and without political agenda unlike some other part (had bitter experience few weeks ago but that's because I lost my control which I should not) of the forum. I am glad that JSRAW exclusively helped you. He is a Hero now and a lot of the responsibility in his shoulder :-D

If I am not wrong then you are a self made Sr. now or started with 10 merits?

Yeah I am and I think I got it few weeks ago. Thank you.

Yeah reputation board has lots of Politics and drama. I read some of them when I'm too bored, but I always keep myself away from it. Read your cases too last week  ;D
Yeah started from 0. Into bounties and stuff when I registered and then left for another forum for more bounties  :P Stopped doing bountues, took a break and returned back in July last year and everything has been smooth since then :)

I always thought you became Legendary long before I knew you. Maybe because you had over 1000 merits didn't check for activity  :) Anyways belated congrats.

Becoming full member is more exciting because you get the avatar option enabled on your account and a better looking signature space.  :)




Khair Mubarak (Thank You)  JSRAW and Congrats Royse on achieving the highest rank on the forum.

There is always conspiracy theory (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168384.msg53910048#msg53910048), if you think out of the box.  ;)

Darren Sammy is one of the T20 stars and there is no doubt regarding it. But his recent form hasn't been that good. Multan does have some very good players, such as Moeen Ali, Fabian Allen and Imran Tahir. On top of that, they have experienced guys such as Shahid Afridi and Sohail Tanvir. They are not over-dependent on one or two players.

3 points is not too much for PSL, you can easily catch me, I was good in 1st round doesn't means I will be good in next rounds too.

Yes 3 points cannot do any thing as I am already in soccer pool where @LFC was leading by very good margin and now he is at no 8 forutne can changes very quickly for any one just keep going patience and consisteancy is main thing for success.
@Umer @Royse777 congrats for promotion in next rank  ;)

I will stick to Peshawar Zalmi since I already changed my mind once. Truth is that we really do not know who will win until the match takes a significant move to decide a winner. Feeling free for today but for tomorrow I have Quetta Gladiators in mind.

I will need to confess guys that I am not watching the matches but making my picks based on the results and some study I do online LOL

Thank you. I hope you too find yours very soon.

Its still anyone game because Multan also did not start well and are 2 down with only 10 on the board. They are chasing a low target of 124 and only one partnership of 50 might make things favorable for Multan. Peshawar Zalmi needs wickets because they did not bat well on this wicket.

It's a big day for the Multan.
Just for everyone information, this match is happening in Multan after a very very long time. The last match which happened here was in 2008 ODI between Pakistan and Bangladesh.  Multan public is enjoying the match in their ground after 12 years and therefore you can see the enthusiasm in the full house crowd there.


Edit:

Multan Wins  ::)

LOL some of you :-P

I lost potential points just because I doubted myself. I had conformable win for Multan Sultans and if I would not get influenced by listen to you guys then I would end up getting another two points.

Aaarrgggg!
 

Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators and I am going to believe my instincts LOL. I already had a bad start in this round where I could easily booked 2 points from yesterday's match if I would not hear the mob :-P

I have gone with Quetta Gladiators and I believe they will win. Good luck everyone.

I am watching the game live on DSPORT, and it seems that Quetta Gladiators are having the advantage now. Three of the top IU batsmen are back in the pavilion (Ronchi, Munro and Malan), and 14 overs remain in this innings. Both Naseem Shah and Mohammad Hasnain seems to be on fire. I don't think that QG are going to make a total above 140 runs.

I have not watched the first innings but watching the 2nd innings. In response to 188 runs Gladiators are doing well. Roy got out at 50 and it was a catch just in the boundary.

Sarfaraz is the key now for Gladiators.

Edit : Really! He is out. Clean bold lol. In less than 10 seconds after making this post lol.

Can go either way. 44 needed from 24 balls (4 overs), with just 5 wickets in hand for Quetta. On paper, Islamabad has the advantage, but Quetta has performed well in similar situations in the past. Mohammad Nawaz and Ben Cutting are batting now, and after these two the tail starts with Naseem Shah and Mohammad Hasnain. Quetta can't lose any wickets at this point.

Well it looks easy for Gladiators now 12 from 7 balls when I am posting this .

Edit: 11 from 6 balls. This left handed batsman for the gladiators is costing them. He is not getting the balls in his bat and now he will strike again .
Really! He missed the first ball lol

11 from 6. 10 needed for a super over.

It can't get anymore exciting than this. Quetta was on the backfoot, but then Ben Cutting and Mohammad Nawaz managed to build a very handy partnership. Islamabad would be very disappointed with the 19th over, in which Cutting holed out to Colin Ingram (the bowler Rumman Raees had over-stepped). Now Amad Butt is going to bowl the 20th over... and the first ball is a dot.

Edit: 4 runs from 3 balls.

Edit2: Quetta won with 2 balls to spare. Ben Cutting 42 n.o from 17 balls.

Obviously Cutting was the man for the Gladiators. That other batsman (left handy) nearly sinking the boat of the Gladiators. He was finding it hard to hit the balls and wasted a lot of ball. If he would face one more ball then it could be a different result.

Cutting made the win very easy for Gladiators.

Anyway, it was a great match to watch. I will be watching tomorrows match too.

These matches are really getting interesting ones. Luckily i won both the bets in the round 2 and yesterday bet was won with a margin Point too,  ;)
Ben cutting changed the game in the last over with 2 sixes, otherwise Islamabad would have won the match. It was never easy to make 10 runs in 4 balls without the sixes.

Multan Sultans are placed at the top of the Pakistan Super League 2020 points table with two wins and one loss from 3 games.

They will take on Karachi Kings who are placed at the 4th spot with one win and one loss from two games as well.

I hope Multan sultans will win the match.

Multan sultans are on the roll. They winning all their matches on their home ground.

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Whom you are going with for this next match. Lahore Qalandars are yet to win in this tournament.

They LQ really have no good team to be honest. Their bowling site is not that good at all. I think they will not win a few matches even.
It's raining there, if nothing unexpected happen, Peswar will win the match.

You are right Peshawar is much better team and they have good players those can turn things very quickly so they done in this match as well I really feeling sad for Lahore because they are one of most expensive sides like Bangalore in IPL but results also just like them very poor.

I didn't knew that. Which player in Lahore team is the most expensive one ? The performance of their team is very poor and I doubt if they can win any matches in the tournament. As per mine experience the franchises which pay big to the players or get big names in their team by paying more, often does not perform well in the IPL and now PSL.

I hope guys you understand now understand how unpredictable is PSL, 1st week I was on roll and this week predicting like noob.

What a wonderful performance by Rilee Rossouw! :o   Rilee Rossouw already has been proved that he is the trump card of the Multan Sultans. If we compare with BPL then Rilee Rossouw's performance is far above now. I hope that Multan Sultans can hold this position during the whole match, what do you think guys?

Sultans are really dark horse for me because I was not expecting performance like this from them they are doing extra ordinary job now this is tough for Quetta and Peshawar as these boths were hot favourite for this years title but Sultans performance stun all so lets watch what happen in next few matches as now this is completely different for all.

In fact, it's all about luck. Behind of their such kind of performance Rossouw's credit is much higher. You may know that he was a top scorer in the BPL last season.
Sorry for the Quetta Gladiators, their team is actually a very high-profile team. Hope, they will be back well in the next match.

I would say what a wonderful performance from Roysesuper aka Royse777. He is getting amazing performance on the pool in round 2 while deadley got 2 point so far from Round 2.
PSL is much unpredictable than I thought. So far, I have missed points on matches which I was confirmed to get.

Superbru seems too lazy to update match results. The result for three match was pending even yesterday but now I see the information is up to date. So  far so good for me but not many margin points like the last round.

Islamabad United vs Karachi Kings, who is your pick?

Edit:
I only watched two match so far LOL
One was Karachi Kings vs Peshawar Zalmi, the 2nd match. I think I watched last few overs and the other one is Peshawar Zalmi vs Lahore Qalandars, 11th match - I only watched the 2nd innings.
All my picks are from gut feeling and I am too amazed by that. I was even picking correct winner with right margin for the match of Multan Sultans vs Peshawar Zalmi but I was confused for a moment and thought to follow the analysis of everyone in the forum and ended up picking Multan Sultans or I would have more 2 points LOL

Islamabad United vs Karachi Kings to start in around 90 minutes from now, and I will be going with IU. Islamabad have some good power hitters such as Luke Ronchi, Colin Munro, Dawid Malan and Colin Ingram. If they are on form, then they can destroy the KK bowling attack. Ingram, in particular have been in very good form. The bowling is a concern for IU, with their pace bowlers proving too expensive at times.

Guys, I made my first prediction in Superbru on today's match  :P Currently I'm placed at the bottom of the table, picked Karachi Kings as the winner of today's match. Let's see how it plays out :p
@Royse congrats on surpassing deadley and Pffrt

There will be a fight tonight between Peshawar vs Karachi. Both teams are almost equally strong. But considering the batting line up in T20 format, Peshawar is far stronger than Karachi. :o   On the other hand, Karachi has a better bowling power. I am in favor of Karachi tonight, awaiting their victory.... 8)

I have no clue how I am ending up getting all these correct scores and most of the times I am hitting margin points too LOL

Round one, 3 out of 4 correct picks:

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Round two, 2 already out of 5 correct picks,

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Surprisingly in some matches I am the only one who made a correct pick. It seems the god of luck had some blessing on me :-P

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Peshawar Zalmi vs Karachi Kings, anyone wants any tip :-P

Peshawar Zalmi seems to be in trouble against the Karachi Kings. After 10 overs, they are 61/4. Apart from Shoaib Malik, none of their batsmen could perform. At one point, they were struggling at 10/3, due to some raw pace from Mohammad Amir and Aamer Yamin. The partnership between Malik and Liam Livingstone added valuable runs, but Umer Khan got Livingstone out.

Don't tell me that you are not betting nowadays and wasting all your predictions only in Pool?

My last 4 games out of 4 went down the drain... so i am glad i am not betting in PSL ;D

I don't mind if you share your pick for next 2 groups. i might copy all of them :P

The moment I speak about my bets in public I start losing, this could be some kind of superstition but I have felt it strongly in hundreds occasions lol

I will share my picks but please do your own research too coz as I said I am really not doing much research in my picks and I feel like this are just working and I may go massively wrong if the luck do not favour. I the last round accotding to superbru my result was above the community average lol

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In round 2, both of us had same point earned (you haf 1 point more) although we had different picked. I have too win 5 out of 8 with one margin point (you have 2 margin point?), have lost 3 matches like you. Same here that I am not researching much on PSL matches. To be honest, that would not help me more if I research even because I don't know a lot of players too.

Lahore Qalandars vs Quetta Gladiators today, and QG has won the toss. Lahore will be batting first against a bowling attack that consists of Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Fawad Ahmed and Tymal Mills. They have one of the most explosive batsmen in T20 franchise cricket (Chris Lynn), with in form batsmen such as Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Hafeez to support him.

Looks like we are all going to lose today match if Quetta Gladiators doesn't chase well. Lahore surprised everyone by setting a target of 210 runs. Look like the Quetta Bowlers were thrashed by Ben Dunk and Samit Patel  :( Let's hope Quetta wins, so that we could get some points  :P

I was just exploring espn website and was seeing the scoreboard then I saw 4 sixs in a raw and in the next over 1 four and another six. I then realized the confidence of Quetta teams are not there. Finally when the score was 200+ then it was nearly confirmed that I was not going to get any points.

But when I logged in now in superbru and saw everyone was picking the same then I had nothing left but to laugh. So the point table is the same :-P

For tomorrow's match I have Lahore Qalandars.

Yes bro the Lahore qalandars was 53 runs for 3 wickets in
7.3 overs,  I thought they can give targets under 150 but Ben dunk and Smith partnership it was a game changer for Lahore Qalandars but I lost all my under runs bets.

In this kind of innings where your team is not scoring much runs but one batsman who finds runs and change the run rate then under runs are surly are the losers. In face in cricket over under runs are kind of boring too. You don't get much higher odds. I prefer to go with falls of wickets and score boundary in over X

The match between Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars was going on nicely and it got interrupted due to rain. Islamabad put up a huge total (198/3) and it is going to be an uphill task for LQ. One thing that I have noticed so far in this edition of the PSL is that the foreign players are having a disproportionate impact (especially on batting). For example, 83% of the Islamabad runs were scored by the overseas players (Ronchi, Munro and Ingram). During the past matches also, I noticed the same pattern.
 

Unexpected rain hurts again and we have abandon game one point each for both teams look like tomorrow game between Lahore and Quetta is also going to have same result because weather is still not good and rain will ruined this all so its really bad for Lahore as now they have very slim chance of recovery and Quetta is in good position but still strugging for qualifying next round.

I was watching few overs and was waiting for the rain to stop.

I guess I was picking up the wrong team coz MS were not batting well however Afridi was looking like the old Afridi. Anyway, the pitch was spin friendly so the result could go for anyone's favour.

Now we have two games on Saturday one in Lahore and second in Rawalpindi but right now things are not going good for both cities as we have rain time by time which can create problems weather reports also not good for both cities but still we have few hours lets see is there any positive thing happened or not.

I am not having a great round but I guess I am lucky once again. Peshawar Zalmi won by 7 runs (D/S). If they had to play the full over then chasing 95 runs might not be that easy.

Now I am not sure how superbru will score in this match since the result came from D/S?

Up next, Lohore Qalandars and Quetta Gladiators. I am going with Quetta although they have lost last three matches.

I am not participant on this pool but today was an un-expected win by Lahore Qalandars. I was surprised to see the spin in the match. Maybe it was due to damp weather.

By this win they are still in the chase for top 10 and there is no way to be sure who will be the top 4 teams. 

Now PSL is going in very interesting stage as still all teams up for qualifying in next round for me Multan is sure for next stage and other 3 teams will fight hard for other spots with this year Quetta and Lahore are very poor but still alive and other teams doing good crowd is also very good even now Corona Viurs is still threat for few matches.

I never heard that  Corona Viurs is a issue in these matches. There are no cases of corona in that country where PSL is being held and if there was any concern, the international and local players would have already left the tournament. Do you have any official wording of this or any source ?

This is very surprising, because till now there have been just 6 cases of COVID 19 in Pakistan. But then, the crowd attendance may take a hit because of the panic that was created. Even here in India, a lot of people are avoiding commercial establishments, such as movie theaters, sports events, shopping malls and even parks. Some of the schools have declared holidays for the students.

I was not aware that Multan Sultans vs Islamabad United was over. Just checked the score and figured that it was a 9 over match and Multan Sultans won by 9 wickets which means another 1 point for me :-D

But we all have to admit that Harkorede is having a great round. So far he was able to manage 5 points. And it seems BitSat will also have 5 points once the system will update the result of Multan Sultans match.

For me, it was not a good round  :-\ Roysesuper has picked Lahore tonight ::) I think Karachi Kings has the most chance to win. Look at their bowling action too. 160 run would be a very good score for them to defend. Well it's good that roysesuper has picked Lahore. It's time for me to reduce the distance  :D

And what if Lahore Qalandars chase down whatever target Karachi Kings gives them and LQ wins if by having 3 - 5 wickets in hand? :-P

I will get more two points :-D

Honestly speaking, I have gone with some random picks as I do not have much time these days to watch the matches. I wish you good luck by the way.

Why there are so many one-sided matches occurring in this tournament? Yesterday Samit Patel destroyed Quetta Gladiators and Lahore Qalandars chased down the target with more than 8 overs (and 8 wickets) to spare. And today in another one-sided match Multan Sultans won by 9 wickets. Yesterday it was Samit Patel and today it was James Vince.

Yeah right, I'm having an incredible round and that's all thanks to going against everything I initially pickef, after the last round in which I performed woefully, missing every single game despite doing some research, I decided for this round that after doing my research I'll go against whichever team I feel has the better chance of winning, and it's very weird that it has paid off so far  :D

This tournament is very unpredictable this could be because of the teams has equal strength I guess. It always feels good when you are earning points.

I'm watching the current match. It seems a difficult job for Lahore but they are making it more difficult by scoring slow. Come on the target is 188!

LOL... Ben Dunk destroyed the opposition once more. He was a relatively unknown player before the start of this tournament, but now everyone is talking about him. I won't be surprised if he gets a good deal in the upcoming IPL tournament (currently he is affiliated with the Mumbai Indians, but he is not a regular in the playing XI). In 5 PSL matches so far, this guy has scored 250 runs, in 124 balls (strike rate of 202).

I have not bothered to have a Google search yet to know which country he belongs lol.
I can't remember hearing his name before this PSL. The guy has power in his grip. Very quick getting behind the ball. Surly he is in good form and things are working well for him.

The third round starts from today. Get ready with your picks.

Ben Dunk is an Australian player- https://m.cricbuzz.com/profiles/8142/ben-dunk

He has played 5 international t20 matches till now. So, you may not heard about him. I think I have heard his name from IPL before. He was very destructive that night and ruined the party of Karachi Kings.

Well turns out I was able to manage another point from this match whole others were favouring KK :-)
I am not sure how the hell I got so lucky with my picks lately lol

Good luck to you all for tomorrow.

PS: Dunk was flop today but others were okay to manage the win for team Lahore.

LOL... This time I never compared Ben Dunk with any of the legends. I never said that he was Bradman-sque. I didn't even said that he was of the same league as Steve Smith or Virat Kohli. This is the T20 format, and we may witness a relatively unknown player setting the stadium on fire all of a sudden. And within a few months, he may slip into oblivion, never to be heard again.

We've Multan Sultans vs Quetta Gladiators today, in a contest between the top ranked and the bottom ranked teams. Anyone courageous enough to make a bet in favor of the Quetta Gladiators?  ;D

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Its better if i don't talk about point table much . Just happy that i am not in bottom 3  ;D ;D

Yesterday tried my first bet on PSL, considering my stellar record in superbru pool its good that match got cancelled lol

https://i.ibb.co/kgbjSst/IMG-20200312-090206.jpg (https://ibb.co/wNGVzFf)
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It seems you had a 4 fold? The combined odd must be very high. Congratulations on the winning. Just do not make it habit LOL

In PSL I think I got very lucky in the entire series so far. I am just making blind picking and they are working. The only one I picked knowing that the team have a good chance was the last Lahore match against Peshawar Zalmi :-) I knew that any run is chaseable for them since they have Dunk in good form and when I saw Chris Lynn was playing too then I was very much confided about their win.

Lahore seems the champion team in this season although I have not noticed other's team strength yet.

5 folds..

At start odds were around 12 ish but went down to 8.22 after PSL match got cancelled. thanks yeah it was good win, made significant amount of money in btc. Well you win some, you lose some, Its part of the package.

I will try not to make it habit lol but its hard you know that already  ;D

Same strategy but its not working for me.
 

Still a very good odd and I hope your stake was big enough to make good money.

Yeah I know the game, it's addictive especially when you win :-P

I have Lahore in my list today :-D

After 2 decent chase from Lahore, it's another bad day for them. Karachi Kings looking good so far with a score of 40 after 4.4 overs with no loss, for a chase of 150. If I can manage to get the Margin point, then I would expect to fight with Royse, otherwise, no chance I think. Unofficially he is the winner of the pool.

Karachi was on fire at home and its very good win by them Qalanders was completely out of way in bowling and batting but good thing they are still in for qualifiers hopefully they will fight back and this year could be good for them.

I had Lahore yesterday but when they lost Dunk and Lyne then I know I gone with the wrong team.

The most unfortunate was for me to change it from KK to Lahore. Originally I had KK when I was picking them last week but after seeing good performance from Lahor in their last three matches I thought they will have another good day but it seems when I put thought on my picks I keep losing :-p

Bad news: Foreign players to withdraw from PSL V amid Coronavirus worries

Many foreign players in Pakistan Super League (PSL) are preparing to leave Pakistan amid Coronavirus worries.

According to sources, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has given option to foreign players to withdraw from the game.

England players are ready to leave the league and go back, sources said.

PCB said in a statement that the board asked players to withdraw from the league; any player has the option to do so.

source: https://www.bolnews.com/sports/2020/03/foreign-players-to-withdraw-from-psl-amid-coronavirus-worries/

Lahore played extremely well in their last two matches and one of the chase was rewally unexpected. I had not picked Lahore in anu match if I am correct. That's where you got the 4 points different. However, if Lahore get won last match, the pool would not be that interested to be honest. Now, the difference has been decreased. BitSat suddenly got good pump and it's good to see he is now a close competitor of me.
It will be more hard if foreign player go away to pick a team because most of the players from Pakistan are very unknown to us.

Looks like I've got it right today again with the Multan Sultans win, after getting two points yesterday, but I'm only joint 1st place for the round and 7th place in the overall pool.

I surely hope the PSL will continue despite that almost every other sports I'm interested in have been suspended, I also discovered that there no spectators for today's game.

PSL will go ahead because now its just few matches left in this tournament PCB already announced this will complete with no spectators in ground just players will allowed.

Good thing is that Cricket fans has at-least something for their entertainment. The way all major leagues in other sports are postponing it feel like we are going to attack by zombies soon. Imagine those horror movies where they are leaving their City waiting for the ship to get on board but there are millions of people ahead them and when they get closer to the ship, the ship is full and there are no space for them including many thousands.

As currently Media and we are doing many kids feeling really like this so now I am trying to avoid this all as its not going good for them Schools closed cannot go in Parks just in home and have some stuff on this computer which is never happen in last one decade now its really pissed.

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I got this msg from Superbru related to impact of coronavirus on Superbru. Is there anything to be concerned about ?

No I don't think any thing to be concerned about.

I think we all received the same message from them. I just checked the schedule and it seems everything is in order for PSL. So as long as we will have the matches in the ground I think we are fine.

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Not fine with the matches in the stadium without the crowd. These matches feel so boring to watch with no crowd. I wonder how much full house crowd can make an average match look interesting. Just get a sad feeling when you watch such matches.
Anyone knows if we would be having IPL this year ?  I think it may be postponed because of current global conditions.

I have no problems to watch a match without crowd :-p
Honestly speaking I do not mind as long as I can see them in the Tele. I watched yesterday's match and enjoyed it very much. I enjoyed the silence and the match of course.

I will be tuning my Tele in few minutes for today's match. Picked the home team and let's see if I can have a point for this match too.

We all need some fun even its silenced because right now its very frustrating time going on locked down with no activity Karachi is in good position as they restricted Islamabad United on good score now they have good chance for qualifying in Semi Final with Multan two teams still need to confirm.

Karachi just lost their hard hitting batsman Sharjeel. This man destroyed the bowling of IU so far. KK are going to win this match without any doubt but the question is how many wickets they will lose. Hope they do lose at least 5 wickets :-P

/ Nah not going to happen :-D

Karachi kings have lost two quick wickets and suddenly the match has become interesting. Karachi may still win this match provided they do not lose any more tickets. The run rate required in about 7 per over, which is very achievable. With the loss of IU, they will be out of final race.

Edit:  Another wicket loss of Karachi. 5 down now  :o

I. Watching last five balls .

Edit: Kk won lol
It meant to be a trashing win for KK but lately IU responded well and match was tight. The result could go in anyone's favour but the batsmen held the nerve and got the winning runs for KK.

PS: It seems I am gonna have 2 more points lol

Latest Points Table:

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I was not expecting fight like this from Islamabad United they done good job but sadly now they are out of PSL as they finished fifth until now.

Yeah it was a do or die match for them but their batting unit flopped today. They needed some run in the scoreboard to defend. 136 runs in 20 over match is nothing especially in the modern cricket but still they were able to give a good fight even after the destroying start by KK. At one stage it was looking like KK will win in 10 overs but after the fall of two top orders, the run rate got really slow. I heard the commentators were talking about some record breaking dot balls in this KK innings. Good thing is that they did not lose it at the end.

Okay, Anyone got any idea? why points are not updating in pool. I am pissed at superbru lol, after long waiting period i finally got my 3rd match points and they are not updating point table...... why?  ;D
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In soccer they are updating very quickly but in PSL mostly they take some good time I was also checking again and again but its not working.

Nothing to worry about, the Suberbru take some times to update the results. Today is the last Super Sunday of PSL with two matches in the day. Both the matches are extremely important for the teams to quality and you can say they are like quarterfinals for Lahore and Quetta.

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I wish Lahore to win this one to secure their place in the playoffs. :)

I gone with both home teams but I have a feeling that one home team will lose but not sure which one. And I did not have any idea about the intensity of these matches. I was thinking Lahore is a very strong team. Especially when they had two super performers, Dunk and Lyne.

They took their sweet time but did it eventually.

So Lahore and Karachi are playing at home.. Karachi kings seems like winning horse as Quetta playing shitty cricket for quite some time. Confused on 2nd game if we are considering home condition as winning factor but opted for Multan anyway :-\

If I can recsl correctly then Quetta was a better team last year and the tournament winner too but this year they did below average so far. They must have a different team then last year?

Afridi in MS? It will be interesting to see his bowling against Dunk and Lyne if they face him of course.

Multan is a stronger team of this tournament and that's why they are at number one spot on the points table but remember this is a do or die match for the Lahore and what's more it is being played at Lahore. I hope they will not disappoint the local crowds today. Also if Multan sultan loses this match, their position will remain same so I will suggest Multan to experiment a little and play causally.  ;D

I was going with Quetta for so long only for this reason, got burned badly lol

No idea about who playing where.. you are talking about Shahid Afridi? lol he's still playing..  :o


So no Empty stadiums? or audience in front of telly

I see this explains your performance on the pool :-p
I guess after first two match, I changed my mind and went with the opposite team, not sure. Most of my picks in this season are indeed random. Whenever I tried to put a thought in a pick I lost. Hopefully today the same does not happen :-p

Yes I was talking about Shahid Afridi. Dude is 40 years and still performing better than some of the youngsters lol
I like his legspins. In shorter format those balls are very lethal.

Quetta team is playing with more or less same team members but they performed better in last and all the previous PSL series. One of the reason is that previous tournament was held in Dubai and their players were more suited to those pitch conditions. Similarity we see first time Islamabad United also out of the tournament, else they were a strong team when played in UAE.



I thought that crowd less matches will be limited to Karachi only as there are more suspects of virus in Karachi but to my disappointment  Lahore to also host crowd-less PSL-5 matches (https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/628762-lahore-to-also-host-crowd-less-psl-5-matches)

Am I the only one who is making blind bets based on previous win stats and yet getting all the results in Round 4 right  :P At this pace, I think I'll win the Pool  ;D

What happened to you @Umeridress, not betting for the past 8 games. @Johnbitco is also not betting nowadays.

I have been busy for last few weeks due to the coronavirus spread all over Europe  :(   & other stuff and could not follow the matches as much as I would have liked.
However, I just checked and saw our caption Royse is topping the list. Also only Royse have funded this pool.

I will give credit to my random picking skills lol
Honestly speaking in most of my picks I really did not do much research, not even watched too many matches too. But I also get amazed by the points I managed to get.

In response of 186 runs from MS, LQ is responding very well. May be today as well I will be able to manage few points lol

Lahore qalandar is playing really well here in the match. They gave few extra runs but their opening partnership is flourishing. They can easily win this match and looking strong with Lynn and Ben Duck still in their team while many international players have left from other teams.

I just heard Rameez Raja saying that selfies are prohibited because of coronavirus, how come selfie be a threat. It was only the hand shaking which should be avoided.

We have the last group phase match today, between Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators. Multan Sultans and Karachi Kings have already qualified to the semi-finals, being the top 2 teams. But we still have no confirmation regarding the 3rd and 4th placed team (that will depend on the outcome of today's KK vs QG match). In all probability, Lahore Qalandars will finish at no.3 and will take on the Karachi Kings.

No other cricket matches going on anywhere in the world. So I would be watching today's match on DSPORT.  >:(

Once the PSL is over, you will miss the cricket because there will be no cricket matches for a while.
Also the defending champion is out of PSL and we have a biggest Semifinal lined up,  LAHORE VS KARACHI

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The way Watson and Manzoor batted it took away the game from Karachi Kings as match started to become one sided after each over. In the end they registered the very easy win by 5 wickets and 22 balls to spare. Nice to see that Watson is still capable of playing a match winning innings and has some cricketing skills still left in him.

Another perfect outing for me, I got both predictions right today too by going with Lahore and Quetta Gladiators and it looks I'll end up with the Yellow cap for this round. However, I doubt that I'm still competing for any of the prizes, since there are just 3 games Left.

I just met Tony Stark and he said I am the Iron Man LOL

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Check your emails and see what you find yourself from suporbru :-D

You and Pffrt managed to get 7 points each where I got only 5.

I am leading with 24 points and you have 17. From the leftover 3 matches the highest you can get is 6 more points which will make a total of 23 points. Hmm, first place is not the place you are looking at but possibly any of the prize from the top five of course?

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May be it's time to collect the money.
Anyone is contributing to the pool? If yes then please send the fund to the address in the OP.

Edit: I just cleared my debit to the pool : 3e122eb51afd7532d893645f3de0c20ba1ddd100fa842004a1a1c4e17d786e4b

Feeling sas as we fail to collect some more money for this pool even I was going to send some but sadly my badget going out of control due to these long holidays and Corona but hopefully we will able to have some good in next year good luck to all members those was in and doing good for this all.

It's impressive how you've done really, the Iron Man title is not by any means an overstatement, to be honest, I started somewhat fine too but it all went down way from the 2nd round, where I got almost all my picks wrongly.
I wish the there where a few more round and we hadn't had a couple of games cancelled, maybe I would have stood a real chance  ;D

Admin flirting again in codes...

Oye Dickhead,

Its me again, I heard you got cucked again.. it sucks to be you. Always knew that you were a legendary loser ;D. That's what happens when you don't contribute to the Royse's pool.

#uck you
Best Regards.

Did you really get this message from Superbru or it is just your own creation ?  ::)
You should file a case on Suberbru on sending you such a message.  8)

Tommorrow is Semi final day for the PSL. I have a feeling that one of the final will go into super over.  ;)

By the way whom you are supporting for tomorrow matches. I am support Lahore and the other team i think is Multan which looks stronger.

It would be blasphemy if i have to explain joke  ;D

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Bookies favoring Multan and Karachi for finals. I am considering bet on semifinals with 2 folds, Any tip is welcome fellas.

Edit ; Anyway, Going with easy options according to sportbook (Multan and karachi)

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Sad to see this postpone news however it's a good decision considering the number of effected people in Pakistan. Early prevention is always better. Close door always does not mean that there will not be gathering of people. In the presentation ceremony they were expecting gathering of people.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28914779/psl-called-semi-final-day

That's sad, we were 3 matches away from the end of the tournament but this. Although good for everyone. It was supposed to be earlier since Corona has become a pandemic. Any probable date to be started again?

^^ They did good by postponing the Semis and Final and now it makes sense if PCB wait for at-least 20-30 days, if everything gets normal in next 1 month or so, then they can organize games with the spectators.

Just for heads up don't fell for any fake news such as "Regarding Alex hales" He's just showing symptoms and taking precautions (Self-Isolation).

I think this tournament will not resume because all the International players will leave and can't wait for month or so, to get the chance to play the semi finals. I think Multan Sultans will be declared the winners as they top the table.


https://i.imgur.com/lADEpSs.png

What will happen to the leaderboard positions with respect to the postponed of the tournament. Will you select the winners based upon the current standings or will you wait for the tournament to resume ?

Yeah right, the competition was almost over and that's why I'm more sad about it, moreover that's the only sporting event that I'm interested in which hasn't been suspended yet, I really was hoping they would see out the tournament since it's just a few days left, and but public safety should always be priority, I agree.


I think they will figure out a way to conclude the competition soon, so imo we should just wait and see what the PSL organizer would decide but if per adventure the decide to cancel the tournament, selecting the winners could be a good option, but it wouldn't be fair to users who still stand a chance of getting at prize.

https://i.imgur.com/amAiDmX.png

Lahore Qalandars fans feelings after hearing the postponed news  :D

Who saying they should stay.. They can always return after 1 month if situation gets under control + If they don't have any national duties aka any billateral series, no brainier here. Deciding winners like that is PR disaster IMO, Its competitive cricket and 4 teams are fighting for trophy.

We will wait for the tournament to resume and I am pretty sure that they will resume once all these pains gone. But by any chance if something like this do not happen then the current point table will be the final table.

I think this is logical ?

Eventhough it's a good thing that the Semis and the finals are postponed because of COVID-19 outbreak, it really sucks from a cricketing fan perspective that we have to wait nearly a month to watch the semis and the final.

Ofcourse, it is.

But playing after 1 month will also be not fair because all the current momentum of the teams and players will be lost. At that moment anyone can win the match and the present form of the teams and players will not matter.

Also the number of corona cases are increasing in Pakistan every day, so i don't think anything is going to change in one month.

Just for record "One Month" is not coming from any official source or any sort of source. It was me, just speculating the timeline, so plz don't take my words for granted. If that's the case.  ;D

Its part of the package and its for all 4 teams.

About giving trophy to top team; There might be some logic on your argument but unfortunately that's not how works in competitive tournaments. They can't hand over the trophy to top ranking team when more than 3 teams are in the final stage.

Yeah, I completely understand  ;D Since IPL has been postponed until April 15 earlier, I was also of the opinion that 1 month period sounds reaonable for PSL too, if the COVID-19 spread is successfully curtailed. Anyways IPL is going to start somewhere between April 16 to May 1, so it's going to be a boring month without any matches.

Currently nothing is sure as its going to start on April 16 to May 1 because right now its still not clear whats going to happen in next few weeks we only can prayer for good as right now all around lock down and another danger of increasing population very quickly is coming in next few months. ;)

One positive news coming out from the PCB. Recently they conducted COVID-19 test on everyone who stayed back in Pakistan(including local players) for PSL, it includes players, staff, match official etc. total 128 individuals and every one came out clean (Negative result).

https://twitter.com/TheRealPCBMedia/status/1240528692083855361
https://i.imgur.com/bNXUIsD.jpg

That's a very positive sign, and I guess that should have an effect on when the competition will be resumed right ? but still these are the playoffs, and I agree that it will be very hard to keep people off the field.

Of course it's a good thing for Pakistan cricket.

I have seen many footballer got this and they are having self isolation for safety. There are celebrities who are isolating themselves for safety. There are cricketers who are also keeping them isolated. All of us really needs to be careful and do our job. We need to make sure that no one get this because of us and we don't get it from others too. So self isolation is the best thing to do. Lately I am realising that PSL and others spots really needs few weeks beark until everything goes back to very normal. It's very necessary for humankind.

Its positive sign in sense of PCB taking this thing seriously. just imagine the outburst or consequences if they don't take necessary steps and some players turns out to be a positive later. Worst if its any foreign player or Babar Azam?

But sad thing now we have more then 250 victims of Corona virus and 2 deaths already happen and in coming days these numbers can rise as now its spreading very quickly which is not signnal specially in Karachi.

It is surprising that users here are still hopeful of the PSL resuming anytime soon. The number of cases in Pakistan is exploding right now, and no one in their right mind would permit such a big tournament there. You can check the situation here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Today, Pakistan had almost the same number of new cases as that of South Korea. Moving the tournament to UAE or Oman is also out of question, as there is a big spike in infections in GCC nations as well.

BTW, the death toll in Italy has surpassed that of China.

Dont know about the exact figures but in Pakistan 510 cases reported so far with 4 Recovered and 3 deaths.  :(

You can find exact info on numbers for Pakistan here https://www.covid-19.pk/ and anyone think PSL matches can resume anytime soon, then this is not going to happen. PSL matches will only resume when all other sports will be resumed world wide once this deadly virus is killed by the mankind.

Erin Holland, The commentator of PSL, is forced to spend her birthday in isolation and it is due to here presence in PSL.  :(

https://i.imgur.com/mWFsN72.png

She is not alone many others also facing same thing in their own countries as its must for safety or others.

Everyone is in a lock down situation and is in an isolation of some sort. People are avoiding to be social and so are the players. This is not something they choose themselves, they are rather forced to remain in isolation if they want to survive these times when this virus is everywhere in the air and on the surfaces.

They just had 3 matches remaining. The tournament was going really well. After a long gap, quality cricket was being played in front of Pakistani fans and they were really enjoying it. The matches were of the topmost quality and we saw the emergence of many future stars in the due course. And just when we thought that we had a great tournament, mishap comes in the form of COVID 19. All that comes to my mind now is the phrase "Man proposes, but God disposes".

In case the matches did happen, the Lahore would have made 65 -6 and would have shown disappointed performance in the semi finals.

https://i.imgur.com/dCjYfv1.png

Check the exact scores and who would have won the PSL 2020 How the PSL 2020 final would have played out, had coronavirus not happened
 (https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/4511-how-the-psl-2020-final-would-have-played-out-had-coronavirus-not-happenedl)

It seems they made the equation very simple LOL
If it was possible to finish everything using pan and paper then the most beneficial people would be the gamblers. Always bet for the team who is strong in pen and paper and win the money. :-P

It sad that they did not think Lahore could be one of the finalist. How why do they think Lahore would made 65 runs? LOL

By the way, you guys must miss JSRAW? Me and him was banned :-P

Yea I was missing you both guys so ban end or what happened because I was expecting this is going to be for 7 days but you back after just four days so they reduced this which is good  :)

I don't really care about these "hypothetical results". Let's stick with the real game, rather than transgressing to the virtual world. Already the popularity of physical sports is going down, because today's youth don't want any physical activity and they are hooked to their mobile phones. The last thing I want is real cricket to get replaced with virtual cricket. I understand that all the tournaments and bilateral tours have been either cancelled or suspended due to the COVID 19 outbreak. But I would rather wait for a month or two, rather than choosing these virtual and hypothetical games.

BTW, I was missing both Royse777 and JSRAW. Nice to see you guys back!!!

What will be the fate of 2020 edition of PSL's last 3 matches? They were lucky to conduct all the round robin league matches before the outbreak of corona in south Asian countries compared to IPL matches.  I guess they may plan  up for all three remaining matches to happen after corona scare will be settle down but cancelling an entire tournament will be different than postponing only the qualifying matches. I mean availability and form of players will differ from the beginning of this edition to ending. It may become similar to having league matches in one year and qualifying matches in another year.

When availability and form of players changes it will seem like another edition. Not sure managements of PSL will decide what and when.

It was about joining an on forum altcoin giveaway. We all mess up and this is a part of life. But I think the situation was confusing too and this is whey theymos decided to lift the ban from all of us who were affected by this. Read here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5234779.msg54089385#msg54089385

I was not aware about it but user efialtis was the one who sent me a message in my telegram  and I was like MY MAN! :-D

Super happy to be freed in here :-)


Thanks bud. I missed you lot too. Last few days were boring AF.

Since Lahore was unpredictable team and unpredictable teams normally perform bad on the big day, so might be they took that equation when calculating the results. Anyways we would never know who will win unless the match actually takes place.



Good to see them free from ban in 4 days only. Lets hope the whole world lock-down also end up more quickly too.  :(

My whole point is the same as you said - in any sports you can not put an end until the match finish. Lahor is unpredictable but I think they have the strength to win the league too. So underestimate them will not be wise.

We need theymos to run for election :-p

Also find the estimate of loss faced by the PCB by not having the tournament playoffs.

https://i.imgur.com/TXfiJ3V.png
https://i.imgur.com/300KR2T.png

This is not much big considering the number of life's were saved. From a social gathering millions can get infected and die. From this PSL the big achievement for PCB is that the cricket is back in Pakistan.

I think they need to start looking at the positives from it.

If anyone taking this financial lose seriously then they are free to do so but IMO this PSL edition was not about money but statement for cricketing world " Pakistan is safe for cricket"  

This was my thought too. Before starting the event they were emphasizing on bringing cricket back in Pakistan now on a sudden talking about financial loss is a bit weird.

However I know Wasim is a very respectful personal in their and he is one of the legand for the world cricket.

Exactly, they shouldn't focus on short term gains much but work on Brand just like IPL, BBL.
 
Small Correction : He's not bowling legend Wasim Akram but Chief executive (i guess) of PCB - Wasim Khan.

Well those who are in authorities, their mission is to earn money for the cricket board and themselves. If you see his full statement (below), there is no sentence of cricket safe for Pakistan. They have forgotten that a few months before no teams wanted to visit Pakistan.  >:( 

Okay, it's a shame for me. I forgot that was Akram :-D I have not clue about this Khan guy by the way.

This PSL is a success for Pakistan cricket. I do not think there will be many teams now will complain to visit there. So Pakistan board needs to embrace it.

Same guy (Wasim Khan) still backing Misbah for coach despite his recent PSL failure, if i am not wrong? And last i read about him he made some changes in domestic cricket, so he can't be that bad for PCB, right?


I don't know much about him either.

For both of you, here is a brief introduction of this Khan Guy.  :)

https://i.imgur.com/qJis7Gp.png

When i said i don't know about him. I meant his brief history and character etc :P

By posting this introduction You must be picturing us to be a retarded person. hahaha damn you Umer  ;D

They should look at the positives. Only 3 matches were cancelled. The remainder saw huge crowd response and the revenues were much higher than what they were anticipating. On top of that, the tournament went nicely, without any safety issues. Dozens of foreign players, including some of the T20 stars took part in the matches. Given these facts, I would say that the PSL 2020 was a grand success.

Ah... Nice to see you both getting unbanned early. Since the ban lift, I see both of you are on a posting spree maybe because of the lockdown :P

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Tbh, this PSL and the two series prior with BAN and SL went on smoothly, so I believe they did a good job at bringing the game back to the country. But money is also a necessary evil.

I do not know JSRAW's case but I was boring AF and now enjoying every bit of my freedom lol. Fact is I have nothing much to do these days until things getsl normal again.

I think the impact of the PSL is leather than Bangladesh and the other series. Although if I am not wrong then in one of the series they had presidential security.

I pretty much occupied myself. Started a new hobby of reading. Just started reading Witcher series yesterday.


True and yeah the presidential security was for the Bangladesh T20 series.

Believe or not but this month i got shitload amount of work and i am working on deadlines. Every office around the globe shutting down and everyone passing a projects to freelancers. I shouldn't say this in current World wide crisis but for me its like X-MAS. I am already workaholic so all good, the only thing i am missing out is my GYM.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be in a good financial situation only of the BCCI agrees to a bilateral tour. That tour is going to be huge and both the boards may get richer by a few hundred million USD. But the problem here is that BCCI doesn't have any interest in doing this, as they are already in a comfortable financial position. Another issue is that the Pakistani players are not permitted in IPL, which is the richest T20 league in the world.

Right now this is not PCB agenda because BCCI is not in good situation to talk about any series as BJP is already in India and they will never allow this series now players also in some better financial position as most of them have some good leagues in CPL BBL BPL and Natwest hopefully in coming years this PSL will give some more financial help because now in coming years they will have some more money from TV rights.

Just like Pakistani not allowed to play in IPL, Indian players are also not allowed to play in PSL. Both nation bilateral political issues are increasing every day and we may not expect anything to get normal anytime soon.

This means that freelancers are getting more income in these days when rest of the people are waiting for their business and offices to resume.
For the rest of us, would we be becoming bored by lockdown in home without any cricket to watch on TV ? I sometimes watch the old matches highlights of previous PSL and IPL but that's not that much entertaining.

I can't speak for other professionals but in gaming industry yeah fair amount of artists in my circle doing exceptionally well in this lock down.

Few suggestions from Haunebu and me....

PSL hasn't matured yet and the revenues are nowhere near that of the IPL. No other franchise T20 league in the world have such gigantic salaries, as the IPL has. I don't know much about the state of economy in Pakistan. But in Bangladesh, they are struggling with their BPL (due to low revenues and lack of interest from big names in international cricket). The BCB is not profiting much from the BPL. If the same happens with PSL, then it won't be good news for the PCB.

Good thing is that at least someone is not financially affected by this pandemic. Actually you are but in a positive way. If you are a freelance then it's good for you.

I think the closest will be BBL although I have no data to back it up.

Yup. If you look at the TV broadcast rights, then the revenues for BBL is more than any other league (apart form the IPL). But at the same time, the player salaries for the BBL are lower when compared to leagues such as the Natwest T20 Blast and the Caribbean Premier League. The Australian population is not as large as what they have in England or some of the South Asian countries.

Ofcourse we cannot compare IPL with PSL or BPL but both of these leagues will mature with time and become much better, atleast i am hopeful about the PSL. Secondly we do not have that much money which IPL franchise posses but still we are doing  good job with limited budget.

Currently best league is IPL and then we have BBL NatWest and CPL after these four we have PSL but one thing is sure this year was really great for PSL and in next two or three years this could be very big not like IPL but can go much better then current situation as peoples reaction was also very good and tv rights will also give some big boost in coming years.

The reason for IPL to get huge success is the people in India. This is a county which has 2nd largest in population (https://www.infoplease.com/world/population-statistics/worlds-50-most-populous-countries) and cricket is a sport that they worship of so getting success in any cricket related event is not much surprising. Besides Indian Cricket Board is one of the richest board among all and they have very good power in ICC panel so it's obvious that it's very easy for them to spend money how they want and call anyone from anywhere.

In other leagues first there are not audience those love cricket and 2nd I think the board can not afford to spend money like India do.

Indian community is living around the world which is also best part of their revenue and they have really good funds for selling media rights which is not possible for any other cricket board in Pakistan we have no structrue for this its first year we have this at home but still its very good and they handle all things very good we can hope this will bring some good money and in future this will also have more attraction from many other countries.

Well Indian media is one of the biggest in the world. Let's not forget it. There are English media and American media but Indian media goes parallel with them too.

Just because of this in recent years India is taking good advantage of this in sports even they can take much more but they need to improve structure for this all like American and English which is not easy as they have many problems which are going to take some long time.

Exactly, India media has influence over the world media and they cannot be taken any smaller than USA media.

I do not understand what Indymoney means by selling the media rights ?  The host country always have the rights to sell their media rights to different channels worldwide  ???

In my opinion, the top 5 franchise T20 leagues are (in decreasing order):

1. IPL
2. BBL
3. Natwest T20 Blast
4. CPL
5. PSL

I can see PSL overtaking the CPL in the near future, but one advantage for the CPL is that it is quite popular in some of the foreign markets (such as India and United States). PSL had a wonderful year in 2020, but it has miles to go before it can offer meaningful competition for IPL or BBL.

IPL has seen 12 seasons, BBL has seen Nine seasons and there are only 5 seasons of PSL. So we should not compare these leagues with PSL. PSL have only half the seasons of the other mentioned leagues. Once we have 10 seasons of PSL, it will be in the TOP 2 for sure.

@UmerIdrees you right about seasons but main thing is media and tv rights and in this field Pakistan is much behind as they have not good and strong structer like India Australia and England this is big below for them if they able to have some good work in this field then surely they can overtake few and could be third or fourth in above list right now its going to take some long time.

PSL is a mature tournament now, with 5 completed seasons. I think that is enough to make a future prediction about the league. If you ask me, I would say that PSL will remain among the top-5 leagues. But I am quite skeptical, if you tell me that it will overtake the franchise leagues in any of the Big three nations. Having watched both the BBL and the PSL, I would say that the former is better organized and favored by the sponsors. And that too by a wide margin.

Slightly agree with @UmerIdrees but for different reasons; IMO one major reason is majority of PSL seasons took place in UAE, which is not the case for other leagues. So not a ideal situation.

But Yeah, Top 2 league still seems tough nut to track for PSL. We have to keep watch on next 2-3 seasons and see how its goes in Pakistan's.

^^^^ I was talking about the revenues. With regards to crowd attendance and viewership, PSL may be one of the biggest leagues out there. But when you compare the broadcast revenues, sponsorship amounts, and involvement of major brands, then PSL lags behind BBL or the Natwest T20 Blast. And even in the near future, I can't foresee a scenario where the situation gets much better for PSL.

You are right in this case PSL could be much behind from BBL and Natwest because they have no strong brands and sponsorship as economical we are not strong like them but if PCB able to have some good and quality cricket in near future then surely we will be able to have some good in this field but need some very long time.

We can't talk about revenue much, when they were not even able to host PSL in Pakistan. It doesn't seem fair comparison IMO as everything is connected and its clearly dictate the success of any tournament.

This all seems like soccer in Europe as EPL leaders for all time and its very hard for others to touch them same happening for IPL in cricket and other leagues are also good but have tough competition like Serie A Bungesliga and La Liga we will watch BBL Natwest and PSL in this line and CPL is also good but will drop to fifth for surely in next few seasons.

Hmm.. I am still not agreeing with you 100%, but I have to admit that hosting the tournament in Pakistan can give a good boost to the PCB's coffers. After all, Pakistan is having a population of close to 200 million (compared to 25 million), and this gives them a strong revenue base. Also, cricket is the no.1 sport by quite some distance in Pakistan. I am not sure about Australia, but I don't think that cricket is the most popular sport there.

It's boring without cricket, gambling and usual things I used to to in life. Someone come up with something so that we find some entertainment :-D
Nothing around?

First of all, there are no cricket matches ongoing in any part of the globe. Not even street cricket. Lockdowns are being imposed in every nook and corner of this planet and only one or two sports leagues are ongoing now (the ones that come to my mind are the Belarussian Premier League football competition and the Super Basketball League of Taiwan). So if you want live cricket, then unfortunately I can't help.

Secondly, if you want to do something related to cricket really badly, then you can try computer games such as Cricket 19 (PS 4) or World Cricket Championship (Android). I am not a big fan of virtual games, so I haven't tried them.

A third choice is to watch the highlights of past matches. Once again, I hate these telecasts. There is no fun in watching a cricket match, if you already know about the outcome.

These are the limited choices we have right now. Make yourself comfortable and feel free to make a selection.  ;D

None is going cool with me.
Not a fan of virtual sports. I never played any cricket game in phone or computer. It is boring LOL
Highlights are boring instead I am watching movies :-D

I was thinking to do something entertaining so that we all can hang up together in here and make the forum experience interesting. Any idea from anyone?

Okay, How about we come up with our own best XI team?

-All Time Test XI  ------ Or------- Best Test XI of the last decade (2010-2020)

-All Time ODI XI   ------Or-------Best ODI XI of the last decade (2010-2020)

-For T-20 we can use only last decade players ( 2010-2020)


** We can start with the Test or T-20 format first but in their dedicated thread only, so that we can avoid confusion.
** ODI is not relevant much atm so we can look into it after Test/T-20.

Same here... I watched the Belorussian Premier league for about 30 minutes, but didn't found it that exciting. It's getting really boring here (can't step out of the house because of the lockdown). I have been watching movies and web series during the past 2 weeks or so. There are a few good ones in Hotstar and Amazon Prime Videos.


What do you have in your mind? Everyone's getting bored and suggestions are welcome.

Oh you are suggesting that we hang up together and forget about the social distancing which everyone is talking about. It is not allowed to gather around or else the virus would spread more.

As the lockdown days are getting longer , the ideas of keeping ourself entertained are getting less & less.

He was probably asking us to set up an online gathering, where we could discuss cricket and gambling related matters (as per my understanding). He was referring to an online (or virtual) meeting rather than a physical meeting. If anyone is interested, then we could even gather together and engage ourselves in online games. There are a few multi-player computer games such as Cricket 19, in which we can all participate.

But personally, I prefer to avoid the online stuff as much as possible. For me, nothing comes close to the real game.

There are already many threads including this one on which we are online discussing cricket and gambling. What else do we need for discussion ? There is nothing more to discuss without a live cricket event.



That idea will fail here because we are not on a gaming platform and not everyone is online at the same time to play any game. If you want to play games, it better play with your family and kids, in this way they will be kept busy too and wont complain in these times when they can't go outside to play.

Am I the only one enjoying the lockdown period doing nothing :-X

I think the Movie Marathon idea was bad. Instead, you should have restricted it to 3-4 hrs per day and find some other interesting things in the meantime like reading novels etc. That's how I'm doing it. 10-12 hrs sleep, 1 hr daily mass (acquired habit because of parent compulsion :P), 3-4 hrs Movie or web series, 2-3 hrs reading Witcher Series, 1 hr yoga/meditation/exercise, 1-2 hr BTT, 1-2 hrs trading lessons, 1-2 hr Chess game with parents (started today). If I have some more time, I might sleep or play online card games.  
I,myself was intrigued by poker tournament idea of yahoo and efialtis(I not sure with the spelling), but when I checked its played on weekends at 10:30 PM (in India) and my parents hate it when I stay awake after 11 and they'll go mad if they saw me gambling online  ;D I saw you post in the thread that you would join but don't know how to play, maybe you should start learning card games, you would be amazed by the way it kills time.

Ok, then what  ::) This looks like an idea to kill the next hour will not help with a day or two :P

And to be honest, all of these threads are generating a lot of spams. We barely have anything to discuss as this board is for gambling ddiscussion: we have made this as cricket discussion, football discussion; in a word, it's sport discussion. There's no more match these days, no more discussion. I would prefer to lockdown these cricket threads for a while.

I understand that sometimes it creates spam but this does not mean to lock these sports threads.
Why would you lockdown these thread when https://www.espncricinfo.com/ does not lock down their operation and in times of no live matches, they are showing the old matches to be live one through RetroLive.

I wouldn't call it spam, you can say that sometimes we are a bit offtopic here as there is nothing much to discuss cricket. Maybe that's because most of the members are in lockdown and are too bored atm. And I certainly wouldn't prefer locking this thread while we ourselves are in a lockdown at our homes. There is nothing interesting on TV or at home or anywhere else, so the only thing we can do is hang around with our friends online. I don't know about you, but I consider few of the members posting in these threads as friends IRL.

Its never been good idea because talking about cricket gambling or related to these topics is never been spam you can check all other threads related to soccer tennis and olympic games peoples enjoying to talk about this all as they need to spend more time and have good information about this all.

Bhai, This discussion can go for months and even years tbh   ;D

For example ; we just have to point out thing or two about Virat ,Sachin or Smith, Ponting or Akram, Macgrath and say X, Y, Z shouldn't be in the Test XI   ;D

I thought Royse was looking for something like  this (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5217547.0) to kill time. But if he is looking for discussion/debating ideas, then your topic is good.

This topic is related to Bitcointalk PSL T20 Pool & discussions, so lets stick to this discussion and talk about the PSL. Maybe some one has some news about the upcoming PSL and for the current few matches left for PSL.  Will they be held someday ?

Well... its tragic. After a long time, there was a major tournament in Pak soil and it was going extremely well. And that was until the COVID 19 outbreak played spoilsport. Till now, we don't know whether the remaining three matches will be played at a later date, or cancelled altogether. We can keep this thread alive until the decision is made. If they are going to cancel it, then we can lock this thread until the start of the next edition (PSL 2021).

Only Royse can clarify what's in his mind. Guess his main focus is to engage cricket community into cricket related discussion as " Distraction". Because for quite some time we all are discussing only COVID-19 as its affecting our daily life. That's why i posted "All time Test XI etc etc " idea. 

The final word on this is given by Royse already, that he not going to cancel it and wait for the tournament to resume. But no one is sure when the tournament will resume.

That will not be a fair idea to do. If the tournament resume, it's okay to continue the pool. But if it doesn't, it will be good to keep the BTC by Royse. If current table becomes the final, that would be unfair to other people. I recommend dismissing the pool in case the tournament get stopped.

Bro, i feel that you quoted me by mistake, guess you were replying to vishnu?

akhjob and me are discussing something else, about new activity for fun in this Lockdown.

This...

My apology to JSRAW, Vishnu.Reang, UmerIdrees, akhjob and others who responded to this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5225153.msg54152079#msg54152079) but I was really unaware about it. There are no cricket so in the last few weeks I am not hanging in this topics too. It's not that I left them but just too bored not to find anything to talk about in here.

akhjob was right the poker thing but I have no idea how they play it. I tried but did not get any interest at all LOL

OK guys... we have some encouraging news. PCB is still looking to reschedule the remaining three matches in the near future. Please check this statement by Wasim Khan (CEO of the Pakistan Cricket Board):

https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/04/04/two-small-windows-reschedule-psl-2020-knockouts-wasim-khan/


In the same article, he mentions that PSL 2020 was attended by more than 600,000 fans, with an average attendance of around 23,000 per match (for comparison, the average attendance for BBL 2020 was 18,353 per match).

This is subjected to corona virus situation at the end of the year. There can be a situation by the year end that lock down comes to an End (which surely will) but as a precautionary measures the gatherings and crowded events remain suspended.

Also its very well known that crowd comes more in quantity in subcontinent (Pak and India), than any other cricketing venue.

My bad, JSRAW. You are correct, I was replying to vishnu but mistakenly quoted you.

It will be hard to have a reschedule for PSL because of the International matches I think or have to continue with the local players which will not be much of interest.

Yes... the calendar is very packed for that time, but I guess the PCB may be able to squeeze out 5-6 days. Just three matches remain and they can schedule it for three consecutive days. Give two days for team building and preparation and everything will be over in five days. It's not that hard. I am optimistic about it, but a lot will depend on the response from the overseas players (who played a large part in making this edition a grand success).

True and it shouldn't be much problem for PCB and foreign players too as majority of big stars don't play for their country anymore or don't features in team much. Watson, Gayle , Moeen Ali, Ravi Bopara etc comes to my mind.

We are nearing a month since the PSL stopped and to some extent, the interest in the tournament is deteriorating. I don't know how many of us would be interested to watch the Playoffs of a tournament after 6-8 months. If conditions improve, I am sure that we'll be busy watching/discussing another important series played at that time. Too much gap between the play kills the excitement, it's better to hand over the trophy to Multan IMO.  

4 teams remain for the playoffs: Multan Sultans-Peshawar Zalmi and Karachi Kings-Lahore Qalanders.

Checking by team-to-team basis, for the Lahore Qalandars there is a higher risk since some of their players such as Ben Dunk and Seekkuge Prasanna may be included in the squads for the T20 world cup. The same can be said about Peshawar Zalmi, regarding Tom Banton/Lewis Gregory/Carlos Brathwaite. The other two teams should be OK.

BTW, are you sure about Moeen Ali? I saw him playing for England in T20 just one month ago.


It's true. It will have an impact on the crowd response.

Never seen their gameplay or even never heard of Ben Dunk, Tom Banton, Lewis gregory so can't comment on these players. Prasanna is familiar name and Carlos Brathwaite is quality cricketer.
Yeah i am wrong on Moee Ali, but he's not playing test for quite some time ( no test that's means more time) so he should be okay too?

^^^ Ben Dunk was in superb form for the Qalandars (before the virus outbreak caused the postponement of the playoff phase) and I am sure that he has caught the attention of the Australian selectors. And I would be looking forward to the selectors dropping some of the players in the middle-order. Australia is having an excellent top order (Warner, Finch, Smith.etc), but they are not winning matches because of their weak middle order. Dunk may strengthen this department if he is selected.

Regarding Tom Banton, he has already played a few ODIs and T20s for England. But I am not sure whether he'll make the cut for the T20 world cup or not. Lewis Gregory was somewhat ordinary during PSL 2020. So I wouldn't fancy many chances for him.

No matter after how many months the tournament resumes, if there is no restrictions by the coronavirus, be ready to see the full house stadiums in the last four matches. Maybe you do not know but we as a nation are cricket lovers.  :)

I quickly went over their profile, unfortunately didn't find anything interesting and this Ben Dunk dude is around 33, hopefully he gets few match in T-20 WC otherwise his career is almost finish in context of "Call from Aussie team".


akhjob talking about A, You reading B, then thinking about C and finally replying with D. Why Umer why  ???  ;D ;D

Maybe the stadium will be fully packed, but I highly doubt they'll attract the outside audience.

@JSRAW I think Umer is a bit on context here but should have quoted Vishnu though  ;D So, I hereby pardon him for quoting me which resulted in me getting a notification alert while I was busy having dinner :P Jk

There is no doubt that there will be full capacity crowd for the playoff matches. But to build the momentum, it takes time. The popularity of PSL soared after the initial 4-5 matches. The interest came in from across the globe once it was known that the matches were of very high quality. This can be seen, if you check the TRP for the league matches. For the first few matches, the TRP was low. The momentum is lost now and it will take a lot of effort to bring it back to the previous levels. The Pakistani fans may still give their 100%, but I am not that sure about the global audience (I am someone who watched the majority of the matches LIVE on DSPORT).

This happens when you remain in a lock down for 3 weeks almost and the fresh air does not passes by.  :D 
Its like living in a Jail.


Haha, sorry for interfering in your dinner.  :P

Finally there is some good news for the PSL fans.

PCB to reschedule remainder of PSL 2020 matches in Nov, Dec: Ehsan Mani (https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/4827-pcb-looking-to-reschedule-remainder-of-psl-2020-matches-in-nov-dec)

Just 3 matches and they can do this all any time in these months without any problem but happy we have some good news about this all in this lock down.

I don't think it would be that easy to schedule these 3 matches anytime. They need to align with the foreign players who are part of these three matches if they are free at that time and also they have to see which other tournaments are planned by the ICC at the particular time so that there is no conflict of interest for the players.

I don't know how viable December will be. The Big Bash League (BBL) will start by then, and players such as Haris Rauf and Ben Dunk may prefer that league rather than the PSL. Also, the MSL of South Africa will be played during November-December. But still, they need just one week and my gut feeling is that PCB will be able to pull it off.

I would say the PCB are the most realistic sport organizers around these days, looking at window of November - December to hosts just 3 cricket fixtures, meanwhile their football counter with much more cases of the pandemic keep thinking of a month or two window. It's not that bad to be optimistic, but ignoring the glaring reality is just terrible.

If these were some domestic club cricket with local player then it was not a big deal but when it involves international players then yes it's not very easy. By the way, although no one knows which way we are moving (pandemic crisis) but November and December seems very reasonable time frame. I hope by then we will have normal lifestyle.

I doubt we can ever come back to normal life style again. The virus will be gone by that time but precautions will become a mandatory part of our life. Some of the major changes will be that people will never shake hands and social distancing will be practiced and will be considered a good habit. Another major thought will be that people can work form home (as it would have been tested successful for 2- 3 months) and hence a lot of costs could be save for office rents and travel to office costs etc. The world will be different before and after covid-19.  

This is just frustration which is coming because of lock down because surely we will be again normal and live as we was living for centuries in human history many things happen and then again this all become normal so please just be calm about this all and about PSL now its easy for PCB because if forieng players not available then its not a issue as we can do this all without them because completing this even is priority not bringing foriegn players for authorties.

It wouldn't be interesting to play the playoffs without the foreign players.
They should be the part of the teams.

At the moment till a cure is out we do need to maintain social distancing and stay indoors. After the lockdown is over and incase there is no cure we can only keep ourself safe by following the same set of rules.

I think it is just a matter of time that a vaccine comes out in the market against his virus. Various countries are working on it and by the end of this year we should be hearing good news against this virus.

Too early to say that. Even now, the number of cases and deaths are increasing with every passing day. I am getting more and more skeptical as time passes by. Some of the experts were claiming that the pandemic would slow down when the summer season starts. In the Northern hemisphere, the summer season has started, but the infection continues to spread.

Not much thought about shaking hands and social distance practicing but working from home will be a good options for some startups. They can reduce the expenses but still there are needs of office, team meeting and a lot of other things that can not be done from home. Co-ordination gets hard.

Summer will slow down the virus spread and stuffs has no scientific reference. There are too many rumors surrounding this pandemic and in the social media every single person thinks that they have something to say and they are always right. Let's just hope that we invent the vaccine ASAP.

Well.. I think I had already posted about this. Dozens of different pharmaceutical companies are working on the Coronavirus vaccine. Even here in India, 6 different pharma companies are trying to invent one. But the problem is that all of them are in development and the testing phase hasn't started yet. Testing and approval can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months.

My advice is this - don't even think that a vaccine will be available anytime soon. Think about other methods to stop this pandemic.

Even in the movie Contagion where they hyped everything too much, they needed 6+ months to find the vaccine LOL

Anyway, what I learned is that, this process of finding vaccine and making them available in the market is a long run process and it can take 10 to 12 months.

Any, cricket update around?

I was thinking about the same that in the last few posts we are discussing about the coronavirus in the PSL discussion thread.
Nothing new found in PSL. 

Just wondering how can this spoil the momentum of PSL 2021 ?

The same argument came up in the IPL discussion thread as well.

Here is my logic - if the PCB conduct the remaining 3-4 matches during the end of this year, then it can have a negative impact on next year's edition. The viewers need a break of at least 10-12 months. Else the tournament may look repetitive for them. It will be better for the PCB to call off these matches, to avoid this repetitiveness.

Today I was watching one sports channel and PCB representative was very serious about this they want to complete this in next few months even they can still do some things but he was not going with any option other then completion of this event in next few months  most chances before Twenty/20 world cup.

Why do we need a break of 10 - 12 months after playing just 3 matches ?  This logic is just illogical  8)



No, nothing will happen with this seriousness or eagerness to conduct the remaining matches.  Until the virus is completely locked down, only then the matches can be held.

In Australia and Germany we have some good news as they are doing hard work for preparing few events because they feel in next few weeks they will able to handle this all first event in Bundesliga which is going to start in May and in Australia they are also preparing for cricket matches as board feel its ok without crowd.

The question can be modified, to something like this: "Would you like to have another edition of the PSL, 3-4 months after the finals and semi-finals of the previous edition?"

It's not about the number of matches. A lot of hype will be generated, as these are the most important matches in the tournament. And after so much hype it will be very difficult to redo all that in just a few months.

You are absolutely right these things need some good time for more interest because its just for fun and entertainment if we have no long break then surely we will lost some good charm and interest from crowd even its very important in developed countries where they have very strong system.

My point was that, the PSL 2020 was a monumental success. A lot of hype was generated, as the matches were being played in Pakistan. There was a lot of coverage from media around the world. But now it will be difficult to repeat that all over again, just for three matches. And worse still, if they do so then it can have a negative impact on the next year's edition.

My request to the PCB is that they should rather concentrate on PSL 2021.

Update on Akmal's case... here goes his T-20 World Cup dream.

I think After Shakib al hasan. Umer Akmal becomes 2nd international player to get ban "For not reporting about details of corrupt approach".

PCB hands Umar Akmal three-year ban from all cricket (https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29103103/pcb-hands-umar-akmal-three-year-ban-all-cricket)

That sucks for Akmal and it's for saying this?

It seems the less they talk the better for them :-P

Three years ban is a long period of time for an inform cricketer. I think Shakib Al Hasan is banned for 2 years.

This is not the good news for Pakistan players and the country as he was looked upon and a role model for many of the upcoming future cricketing stars. This hurts not only to them personally but also to the cricket. Such things just keep the cricket away from the good players as now for next 3 years we would not see him. Also we do not know how things hold for him and for the team after 3 years.

Akmal was lost cause anyway, as far as i read about him... Talented but unprofessional cricketer.

I think Shakib got lucky here, there is no Cricket happening anyway so it doesn't matter if he's ban lol. yeah 2 years and his ban ending timeline is Oct 2020.

This is perfect for Umar becasue his behavior is relly unprofessional sometime this happen if a person have some good respect and money he lost his own control so this happen to Umar many local incedents related with him.

OMG!!! This is really shocking. Umar Akmal is just 29 years old and he is at his prime now. A three year ban would possibly mean the end of his career. Only a very few cricketers have made it back to the national team, after receiving such lengthy ban. And the article says that the ban covers all forms of cricket, and not just international matches. So that's even more destructive for Akmal.

This is really sad news but Umar Akmal was never been interested in his career and its really shocking for me because I was feeling he is one of best batsman in current Pakistan squad but his attitude was really disgusting with many other players and officials hopefully now he will learn from this and try to change this all.

He's not alone though, Many Pakistani cricketers has a tremendous talent of #ucking everything up with their stupidity.


Its not a life ban, he might get chance in PSL after 3 years. It happened before with the other player in national team so yeah there is some possibility, unless PCB pass a new law (They are working on it, i suppose)... Good/bad Performance after ban is another discussion though.   

From what I have heard, he can't even play club cricket during these 3 years. He can't take up any coaching assignments as well. Under such circumstances I don't expect him to remain focused in cricket. My opinion is that the PCB could have banned him from PSL and the national team, but could have allowed him to represent the domestic team (he plays for Central Punjab?).

That's how ban works in the cricket, players can't do anything except practicing on their own. he's from Lahore, Punjab so chances are he represent his local team in domestic level.

No chance as he ban for all domestic and international cricket so after three years may be he join any local club but right now he need to stay at home for safety and think about this all what he done with his bright future feeling sad for this and many other talented players those lost this all just because of very silly mistakes.

This is not the first time that PCB is banning someone for corruption charges. But the difference is that in earlier occasions, the players were banned only from the national team. They were allowed to take part in domestic cricket, as well as in English county cricket (please correct me in case I am wrong). Even in the case of Steve Smith/David Warner, they were allowed to take part in the T20 leagues.

Yup..


Ban in fixing scandals simply means ban from all form of the cricket.

Same thingy happened with Amir, Shakib, Sreesanth(His career got rekt due to this) etc. Steve/Warner case was different but they still they didn't get any chance to play in IPL.

Yeah.. I remember what happened with Mohammad Amir. He was banned in 2010 for five years. He was not allowed to play any domestic cricket from 2010 to 2015. He returned to the domestic circuit in 2015, and then played his first match for Pakistan (after the ban) in 2016. So hope remains for Umar Akmal. Perhaps he can also resume his career, similar to Amir.

I was listening Ramiz raja, he was saying that Pakistan need parliamentary law regarding match fixing and last i heard PCB already trying to do something similar. If it happens then Akmal got %ucked, otherwise he has some chances.

In Pakistan we have many issues and personal egos which are creating problems in every field Rameez Raja is no authority just a commentator so I am not sure we will have any law like this in near future.

It was mere suggestion from his side anyway. Even if such law doesn't comes in reality, PCB still need some fixing to do. for ex : boycott any players  who gets caught in match-spot fixing, no matter how talented they are. 

I understand this all but sadly we are very lazy in these things because most of politicians and related boards have links and relationship so they are eating all they never like any strong action and law for this all.

Well its not just Pakistan problem. its same everywhere but prevalent in Indian subcontinent when it comes to cricket.

Politicians comes from the society so we can't pin blame on politicians only. Sometimes society need some soul searching too.

In India they have some better system and accountability about many things just because of this now they are one of most powerful cricket board in world but in our country we have nothing just personal like and dislike which hurting many talented youngsters and blaming politicians is really never been good but its need to settle things as they came in power just for this all.

It is still there but, you have to prove your talent. There have been many instances when a player got selected because he is related to someone but if they are not able to perform they are quickly removed and the next person in the line gets the chance. Corruption and favoritism is everywhere.

@ pakhitheboss already mentioned about Political interference and favoritism and its true, favoritism can get you chance but if you failed to capitalize then no one can save you at any cost.

In other sports situation is worse but in cricket India got lucky because BCCI always had strong management and mature leadership over the long period of time and top of that BCCI can't compromise on quality due to their marketing strategy.

If you noticed there is politics in every field of life where there is money involved. Where it be a cricket or a major political seat in the country, you will find such things. If the upper management is strong and fair, only then these politics can be controlled to some extent. Also this is true for all the countries and not just few places of the world.

The management of BCCI has improved a lot over the years. Things are getting more transparent, especially after people such as N Srinivasan and Sharad Pawar were kicked out. Now Ganguly seems to be having the power, and its a good thing. BCCI needs to be controlled by the players, and not by some businessmen and politicians who in reality have no interest in the sport.

Same is the issue with Pakistan cricket board. I think all the cricket boards are influenced by the governments in some way. When new government came in Pakistan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan appointed  Ehsan Mani as a  PCB Chairman. So this means that there is a political interference in cricket board and we cannot deny it.

Apart from the ECB and the CA (may be the NZC as well), all the other cricket boards have an accountability issue. The ICC has suspended Zimbabwe recently for political interference. But I don't think that they will have the courage to suspend any of the richer boards, if the same happens to them. Even the ICC is miles behind, when we compare it with other sports bodies such as the FIFA and the FIBA.

One thing is sure ICC is not doing as they need to do this because they now they have no power and courage to do this as just very few countries and if they ban any richer country then its can create troubles for them so you are right they are miles behind from FIFA FIBA and some other strong authorities like this.

There are multiple factors behind this weakness. First of all, cricket is not as widespread as the other sports. You have football as a major sport in hundreds of nations. On the other hand, cricket is a major sport only in a few dozen nations. And the lion's share of revenue comes from India. Football and the other sports doesn't have this problem. No single country is dominating these sports.

Just because of this ICC trying to spread this they want some more countries and revenue generators but its not easy but one thing is sure if we have experiments like this then surely this will be good and we will able to have some good countries and more revenue as this will be fast game like many other popular games.

No one can compare ICC with FIFA because FIFA has 211 national associations while ICC only have to manage 12 countries which are full members (This includes India, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, , Zimbabwe, England, Ireland ,West Indies, , Afghanistan, , Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.) Rest 105 counties also are the member of International Cricket Council (ICC) but as we all know they never play any serious cricket.

But One thing is sure if we will able to bring new rules with some fast results then surely list of cricket loving countries going to increase very quickly and its mean more revenue and more crowd in stadiums lets see what happen in this new experiment as I am very hopeful for success of this.

Yes but for all these things to start and resume, the coronavirus vaccine is to be developed. I see no progress in this regard. There is another developing story that Coronavirus researcher killed in Pennsylvania murder-suicide (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/06/bing-liu-university-of-pittsburgh-coronavirus-researcher-murder-suicide/) which is a big set back.

Apart from the test playing nations, I don't think cricket is in good shape anywhere else. You can check national teams of UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong.etc. These teams don't have a single citizen playing for them, and the playing XI is entirely composed of Indian and Pakistani players. Actually this is also one of the factors that hinder the popularity of cricket in these countries. How can you attract the Arabs and the Singaporeans, when their cricket team doesn't have any local player? At least FIFA has made it mandatory for the players to have citizenship of the country which they are representing.

Bit harsh but kick every team if they are using mercenary/expats :P. If they become citizen of that particular country then i don't have any problem with this move.

I would support this move. But the ICC may not be comfortable with it, because it can have a huge negative impact on two of their crucial markets - USA and UAE. The ICC consider the US as one of the potential markets. And UAE is very important because of the support the Emirates board gives to the ICC. If the ICC makes it mandatory to have citizens, then the US may be able to field a playing XI, albeit below strength. But I am not sure whether the UAE can manage a playing XI or not. In recorded history, Kuwait is the only GCC nation which has ever fielded a team entirely comprised of citizens (during 2014 Asian Games, the team was captained by 58-year old Mahmoud Bastaki).

And one argument the Emirates Cricket board puts forward is that it is easier for South Africans and some of the other expats to get the citizenship of European nations. For example, former South African player Roelof van der Merwe managed to get a Dutch passport (because his grand-father was born in Netherlands). He now represents Netherlands. The same is not possible with UAE and the other GCC nations, because they don't give citizenship for immigrants.

^^ If it seems tough task then ICC should take a balance measures such as put a cap on foreign players, identify 18-20 batch of players/squad. Give only 4-6 spots to foreign players, rest of the players should be from their own country and hope for the best that this move might encourage local population.

I think south Africa cricket team has such rules and it is mandatory that there team should have certain number of black players. But those black or white players in SA team is on the basis of the races / culture and not like foreign players to be included in national team.

Realisticly this is very good and positive move but then few countries should be disappear from ICC mape because they are not able to do this like UAE Oman Kuwait Canada and USA as they are completely depending on sub-continent and Sri Lankan players.

This may give them opportunity to search for the local players within their country. This may take time as local players would be available at the moment but in the long run it will be good for these small countries. A local player is more parotic and play for his country rather than the offshore player to play for money only.

You are right but this is very long term process and not easy because we have South African example in last 28 years they fail to bring some good and talented players from black community and still too many issues as they are coming with just political influence and personal like and dislike.

This is a good suggestion. Around 50% of the playing XI can be comprised of expats, and the remaining 50% can be natives. At least this would make sure that the locals may get interested in the sports. Right now this loophole is being misused very frequently. For example, UAE is fielding retired international players from India and Pakistan (on top of the domestic players), while USA is including retired international players such as Rusty Theron and Hayden Walsh Jr. in their squad.

I salute you all for keeping this discussion thread active in times when there is no PSL/IPL or any other international cricket tournament due to coronavirus pandemic.

For many peoples in Sub-Continent cricket is life and cricket is every thing so we all need to keep this spirit up hopefully in near future we will able to talk about live games again as now Korean soccer starts and Germany is ready for soccer from next week.

Cricket will also resume soon and we will see again the crowd filled thrilling matches in the stadiums. Slowly the games will be resumed with more precaution environment so that players and the spectators are safe from covid-19 while playing & watching the match.

Yes, cricket will resume but with empty stadium. I do not think they will allow gathering of spectators. The Korean football league has also started but with empty stadium. This is possibly the only option left now. Nobody knows when will the vaccine will be out. In the meantime they can resume all sports activities like this.

Lol it's India, and we are getting many 1000's of cases daily, you are dreaming about cricket, as early as possible may be in July or August we will have any Cricket.

Even Empty stadium matches will require 100's of logistics team to run any matches, and In India more than 50 person gathering not allow. 2nd thing, No outside Flight running now, so how International player will come?

In order to promote the cricket, i think there should be matches in local leagues in which only local country people play. There will no be international travel and therefore international cricket tournaments may not be possible for a long time.

The discussion is alive here, but for die-hard cricket fans like me, life has become unbearable. I used to watch multiple live cricket matches every day. However, the last time I watched a live match was more than two months back. You may find it unbelievable, but I am getting depressed as a result of this. Other cricket fans are finding refuge in watching highlights of the past matches and playing virtual cricket online. But I am not a big fan of these options.

Update on Umar Akmal..

He's trying his luck and challenging the PCB's decision. Its his right and its seems that he rejected all the charges, guess more paperwork for PCB and Anti corruption department.

Umar Akmal lodges formal appeal against three-year suspension (https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/113070/pakistan-cricket-news-umar-akmal)

It's kind of unfair decision to be honest for both Akmal and Shakib Al Hasan. They didn't have any deal, refuse to deal but just because they didn't let know the board about that should not punish them. Imagine how player like Shakib Al Hasan will perform after getting back, I doubt I will see the previous Shakib once again at all.

PSL is in Pakistan right, what is the situation there, if the authorities can isolate themselves from the contaminated zones and move the matches to places where they are not having major spread then they can continue with the match. The reason i am saying this is because not every place will be heavily infected.

There are no international flights but then can arrange private flights for the sporting events if they can, but it might not be possible to open up in a couple of month but eventually it will open up, you cannot shut down everything for a long period of time, adapt and move on is the only solution.

I would say Shakib get away with it, technically he missed how many series? As far as i remember only 2 (Correct me if i am wrong)  Indian tour and Zimbabwe visit that's it and after that cricket already came to halt pretty much due to covid-19, so not much loss for him.

You are right. But then, Shakib was probably among the best players Bangladesh ever produced. His reputation getting tarnished because of the association with match fixing may haunt him for the rest of his life. I am still not convinced by the arguments put forward by the BCB. There is still a chance that he is innocent and he got trapped by someone else.

This can happen as we have many cases like personal like dislike and professional jealousy like this Shakib is really role modle for Bangla cricket and he was on peak for last few months but suddenly this case done all end which is wired for me as well..

It is true that he did not miss much cricket because of the pandemic.

As far as i know Shakib Al Hasan is not involved in match fixing, the reason he was suspended was because he did not abide by the rules to inform the authorities if any bookies approaches a player and Shakib Al Hasan did not do that and that is the mistake he did. He is always having trouble with the cricket board in the past and that did not help him either.

Shakib tops the list.

Not sure if his reputation got any serious dent, yet to meet any Bangladeshi or any regular cricket fan online who thinks otherwise. Yeah, BCB case was weak but they took the actions anyway. Arguably it can be said about Umar Akmal - PCB too but he's unprofessional cricketer so no one really cares about him much.

Yes, PSL is in Pakistan but the situation of Covid 19 is not good at all. There are only 1 cricket stadium in each big city and big cities are most effected with coronavirus. So it is not possible for the matches to be shifted to other areas. Overall the matches can't be resumed anytime soon.

True indeed. But still, he had to take a lot of stress because of the decision which I'm sure has affected him mentally. Anyway, I just hope he come back with his regular form.

Mental stress due to ban argument is valid in sports as it does effect players performance but champion player like him can handle the pressure. Similar to recent example of Smith and Warner so i am not worried about him. 

As long as the dressing room is not an hostile environment and if Shakib Al Hasan is getting the support from his team mates then he will perform like he used to, the situation with Smith and Warner was that the entire team was supporting them whole heartedly and it will help them to play their natural game when Bangladesh resumes cricket he will be eligible to play this year if i am not wrong.

When he is still playing, the fans will continue to support him. But the mood will change 10-15 years after the retirement. I still remember the match fixing scandal involving Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja. Back then, in 2000 the mood was overwhelmingly in their favor. A lot of people either believed that they were innocent, or the punishment was excessive. But now Azharuddin is widely being regarded as a match fixer. He no longer associates himself with cricket, and there is little support from the fans.

If the PCB can get the permission from the UAE cricket board and their government when the air space are opened and if they can check every player then they can even move to UAE to continue with the tournament and it will not make a huge difference as they usually conduct the tournament in UAE because of security reasons in Pakistan. Since the minister of Pakistan is a former cricket captain he might find a solution if they really wanted to restart the matches.

True but i remember reading current Bangladeshi skipper (don't know name) statement on this matter, he basically said that team is waiting for him. About Smith and Warner thingy, OZ Bowling(Seamer) department was angry but it got resolved when they made a comeback.

Not sure if its valid comparison, they fixed the game and it was big scandal but Shakib did nothing like that.

There are a lot of rumors going on.. and we may never know what happened out there. The official version is that he "failed to inform" the officials that he was approached by the bookies (during the IPL). That triggers several questions, and it is possible that he was made a scapegoat. Anyway, at this point I can only sympathize with him. I wish he'll be back in top form, as soon as the ban is over.

If the air space open up and the covid-19 threat is over, then matches can be held in Pakistan and there is no need to shift them to UAE. Also the conditions of Covid 19 in UAE is also similar to Pakistan, hence there is no point shifting the tournament to UAE or any other country.

If Shakib al Hasan was made a scapegoat he would have fought against the issue and we never saw him fighting against it, i do believe the information provided by the ICC that he failed to inform the authorities about approach from bookies and if he had taken money he would have been banned for life, so i accept the failure to inform part because he just got an years suspension.

If that is the situation, then it is well and good. I just want to see sports starting again. I am tired of watching movies and series all the time ;D.

@JSRAW @Vishnu.Reang @ene1980

Regarding the Shakib Al Hasan situation, how the situation came to light is he disclosed these approaches to the anti corruption unit when questioned and for anyone who have no idea about the situation, the players will be attending anti corruption classes on how to deal with things when someone approaches you and the seriousness of the situation and the ACU members will be questioning players randomly and in one of those questioning sessions Shakib Al Hasan accepted that he did not inform about three approach from a person named Aggarwal who was looking for inside information.

The communication took place in whatsapp and Shakib Al Hasan did not respond to those messages but he failed to report the situation to the authorities and since he is an experienced player who has undergone all the anti corruption classes he was punished for his negligence.

This is the part screenshot of the ICC report and the reason for posting this is because the bookie was talking about BTCitcoin in part 11.13 :D.

https://i.imgur.com/gXCFFg6.jpg

I wonder how many cricket players invested in BTCitcoin  :D.

Hopefully we have very long list of cricketers invested in bitcoin as its good for them and their activities :D ;)

Of course he was scapegoat and we shouldn't forget that before this ban fiasco all Bangladeshi players were in strike against the BCB, they accepted all the demands and then these charges came into light.

Yeah familiar with the series of event and process. missed the bitcoin thingy though.

I am not sure whether this incident puts Bitcoin in positive light or not. Already in India, a lot of people believe that Bitcoin is a currency that is primarily used by criminals, for illegal activities such as ransom and blackmail. Incidents such as this one are not doing any good. And that said, I can't recall any international cricketer ever hinting his interest in cryptocurrency.

Or is it how many cricket players got bitcoin gifts like that from fans for inside information :P.

A country with a billion population and you will see dumb people who have no idea what they are talking about and you cannot change that. The way in which things are portrayed it looks like fiat currency is only used in churches and temples in India :P. Have you heard about any cricket players talking about their investment and how much money they have  ::).

I remember Michael clarke was shilling some ICO once  ;D

Quick google: https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/cricket-michael-clarke-cryptocurrency-investment-folds/0bfd536b-123b-4fe5-a748-1fc2259e2a5f

If they started doing this then it might sound like a bragging for majority.

Wow... this is new information for me. Never read about this before. But still, I am sad that the project failed. Now before promoting any other cryptocurrency project, Clarke may think twice. The project failed for no fault of his, but I am sure that he would have received his share of the blame. It is always easy to make someone scapegoat, especially if he is a well known figure.

As far as i remember he took a fair amount of beating from the cricket fans due to this ICO promotion thingy, majority of fans were bitcoiners. Guess after that he deleted the tweet and clarified his position.

What i meant was whether some players in these private tournaments get funding from bitcoin for inside information ;) ;D. Their bank accounts are clean and it is possible they could hide a bitcoin transaction from the authorities.

What ever Shakib al Hasan did in the screenshot posted, he wanted to meet the bookie sending those messages.


Easy to say that the project failed after raising over $5 million dollars, it cannot be taken as a simple failure, what about the investors who lost. If you promote and take 4% of the total amount raised which Clarke did you are responsible what you do.

He was the brand ambassador for Global Tech. During that period all these dubious projects were looking for celebrity promoters.

Mmm, sounds good. I had no idea that BTC is so known to such agent. I guess they are not so familiar with BTC; or at least wasn't before. But this made a good promotion for BTC among cricketers, didn't it?
Although Shakib didn't accept any proposal, his way of handling the issue was dishonest. He could have handled this far better with sharing everything to the authority. Hence, the punishment & it's perfect; I guess no one wouldn't do the same in future.

I don't know investment is bitcoin is good for the cricketers or not. For sure, the match fixing takes place in bitcoins and other crypto currencies so there are no traces of transactions found for illegal money transfers.
I am sure every cricketers and politicians have their hidden crypto accounts.

Why would they invest when they can easily get Bitcoin as a gift from their fans and those who are trying to fix matches. I am sure many of them have already been payed using Bitcoin. There is always a a dark side to something good.

Fair enough.. you might be correct, we should never rule out the possibility of corruption when big money is on the line. IMO every T-20 league in the world do their fair amount of shady activities as far as financing is concern, so yeah its possible.

So it means nothing is fair in the sports. Even the sports promote fairness and sports like Fifa has awards for the Fair Play games. I always think what players get by collecting the illegal black money, when they earn legal money in form of handsome salaries and contracts.

Like i said we can't avoid any possibility even if its less than 1%. Nothing is perfect anyway,

And we shouldn't be so naive to think that fixing or corruption doesn't happen , if that was the case then no sport body in the world would have their own version of "Anti corruption unit" at the first place, I would say its all about scale and high-low profile.

If anyone is doing anything wrong he is doing for himself and shall pay for it in some way.
We should be positive with our thinking and if nothing is proved against any player, we should consider them 100% Honest and fair.  :)

How can you say this? Match fixing was at its peak during the 1990s, when the Sharjah Cup was being held and Mohammed Azharuddin was the Indian captain. Back then there were no Bitcoins. Bitcoin was invented at least a decade later. And nowadays, match fixing is extremely rare. Player salaries have increased by a great deal, and for them it is not worth the risk to get involved in fixing the matches.

I believe that umer didn't mean to say that match fixing and corruption never happened prior the usage of Bitcoin instead with Bitcoin it's easier and less risky to transfer the funds.

The payment in IPL is pretty lucrative and yet there are many match fixing allegations against many players and if i remember correctly teams were dissolved because the team owners were involved in match fixing, match fixing has nothing to do with bitcoin but match fixing is nothing new and not that extremely rare and i wont be surprised if these dubious activities are carried out through bitcoin or other similar cryptocurrencies.
Inside information leaks and other activities will continue and spot fixing will continue and the world will know only if there is a big bust.

@akhjob and 7788bitcoin

I understand what you are saying. Still I don't agree. It's just like online drug trade. The authorities claim that Bitcoin is mostly used for illegal activities. But detailed research has shown that less than 1% of all the Bitcoin volumes are any way connected to illegal transactions. Similarly, I would say that even now fiat cash is being used in 99% of the instances of match fixing.

BTW, I am not going to counter the involvement of IPL team owners in match fixing, as posted by 7788bitcoin. It's a well known fact.

Well corrupt people only care about illegitimate earnings, they don't care if its in form of Bitcoin, Fiat or Real Estate (even goats ;D)as long as their needs are fulfill. so everything is possible.

For the subcontinental players, payments in Bitcoin are not that convenient. Bitcoin is not completely legalized in any of the countries. Even if some player receives bribes in the form of Bitcoin, he would face a lot of difficulty in converting it back to fiat cash or some other mainstream asset in an anonymous manner. My guess is that most of them would opt for cash payments.

I am not under the idea that bitcoin is solely used for illegal activities, if you look at the percentage fiat currency is more secure to carry on illegal activities as it does not have a tail to follow unless you have marked bills and that is not the case with bitcoin, every transaction is marked and if anyone carries out a transaction and if your wallets are known you are busted.

I was talking about the match fixing and it is carrying on as usual but we never know or hear about them until and unless there is a breaking news, this is the situation in every sport.

Foreign banks accounts and properties might be the choice  ;D.

^^^ Fiat currency do leave behind tail, but then whether the authorities will be able to go after the tail or not depends on the jurisdiction where the match fixing takes place. The GCC nations, with UAE in particular are known to be hotspots for cricket gambling. Fiat transactions done through the GCC banks, or even in hard cash (using the United Arab Emirates Dirham) is outside the purview of the authorities in India and Pakistan.

New update on PSL fellas... PCB planning to host remaining games of PSL (3-4 games i think?). Not sure how fans are going to take this news considering next edition of PSL is already schedule around February.

PCB plans to host remainder of PSL by year-end (https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/113308/pakistan-cricket-board-plans-to-host-remainder-of-psl-by-year-end-ehsan-mani)

^ It's 3 games, 2 semis and a final. I completely forgot about the PSL and its finals until you posted this update. It's been too long, now that Pak is going to tour the Netherlands and other events like the WorldCup are going to take place by the year-end, I think the interest among the fans will automatically shift towards other tournaments.  

I guess it will not be a good idea to start PSL again provided that there are numerous cases of virus positive in Pakistan Cricket team which lies a big threat for the participants. May be this year, governing body can come with different methods to end such s tournament.

Right now PCB is doing this all just like a joke so I am not feeling this can happen now they need to focus on next season and forget about this all because this is not going to happen and if they want then its still not easy for them as situation is not good and they have not good resources like England and Australia to do this all.

Don't know about this PSL but there was some pressure on the PCB to cancel the 2021 PSL to conduct the Asia cup at that time. PCB rejects BCCI's suggestion to postpone PSL 6 for Asia Cup 2020 (https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/5593-pcb-reject-bcci-officials-suggestion-to-postpone-psl-6-for-asia-cup-2020). They made the right decision and refused what BCCI had offered them.

This is really big blunder by BCCI if they send any suggestion like this because now PCB will never do this on any cost PSL is gateway for PCB and Pakistan for good investment and reputation If this is really from them then I am feeling they are not happy with the first addition of PSL in Pakistan and feeling jealousy even IPL is much bigger and good event.

Yeah you are right BCCI is getting jealous of PSL..

That is one the most hilarious comment I have ever read. PSL is still in its initial stages and the revenue it generates is very less to what BCCI earns only from IPL. Why will BCCI become jealous of a tournament that does not even have A team international players?

Pakistan will never agree on any cost for not only that this will dent the PSL tournament but also the political condition does not allow to obey any order from Indian board. Also note that the ASIA CUP is conflicting with IPL so they want PSL to be cancelled and IPL does not get disturbed.

IPL is really big brand but still talking about PSL by Indian Board is professional jealousy because Indians never been happy with any good and successful Pakistani event so they are saying please cancel this and concentrate on Asia Cup its not professional comments from Indian Board they must think about before going in media.

Yeah, lost cause but it shouldn't take much time anyway. They need only 4-5 days for 3 games including rest if players need any otherwise they can play 3 game back to back.

Maximum 4 days and this all will be cleared but still they need some better situation and right now its completely disaster as Government is also have no idea how to handle this all better they try to convey all and do this all on toss ;) :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdDuJxLIsY
 ;D ;D ;D

The momentum is completely lost, and it will take a lot of effort to organize the entire tournament again, and that too for just 2-3 matches. I would suggest the PCB to shelve the remaining matches and to concentrate on the 2021 edition. With several of their international players testing positive for COVID 19 during the past few days, the occasion is not right to discuss about rescheduling the remaining matches.

If you ask me, they should have declared Multans as the winners once it was clear that they cant play the game anytime soon because of the Pandemic. I remember reading somewhere that as per the PSL game rules if the finals get cancelled by some means, the leading team in the table will be declared as the winner. So they should have gone with the rules instead of dragging it:-\

Ideally they should and that's a rule for all tournaments, may be they were under impression that pandemic is temporary thing or something. Damage is already done so doesn't matter much now.

Here in sub-continent mostly we take every thing very lightly so just because of this we have to pay price for this as well same happened in Corona case and now millions already infected and millions facing problems just because of this now as current situation is going I am feeling this is not going to end in near future may be we will able to settle things in first quarter of 2021.

They probably got carried away with the success of the tournament. Pakistan was hosting such a major tournament after a very long time, and the response from the crowd and sponsors was exceptional. They just wanted to finish the tournament on a high note. Anyway.. I guess now there is no other option available other than cancelling the remaining matches.

Guys help me to refresh my mind. I see the thread is back on action. I just checked the pool address and it seems I have moved the fund. Pretty sure we did not have a result yet which means I mistakenly moved the fund.

This is fact now time for some quick action from PCB as Corona is not going any where in next many weeks so better they need to think about future and cancel this or call all owners and do descion on toss or any acceptable method for all parties because now wasting time on these few matches is never been good idea for any one.

One of the many reasons, i suppose.

Thread is not active as much it used to be, just some lurkers when new updates pops up. Yeah no results in PSL so doesn't matter if you moved fund or not. No one going to hold any grudges against you i promise ;D