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41  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 24, 2024, 07:12:28 PM
Rajasthan Royals were unable to reach any closer to the target that was posted by Sunrisers Hyderabad. The target of 175 has not been a very big one in this edition of IPL. It is actually pretty average in my opinion. And they were unable to reach that. Not only that they were unable to even get close to that target. It was an easy win for SRH.

Now the final is going to be played between SRH and KKR. I think KKR is going to have the upper hand. They have played really well throughout this IPL. All the players that they are also in good form right now. I have a feeling that KKR might actually take the trophy.

Kolkata Knight Riders have the upper hand, but it is quite unpredictable. Match will take place at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, so we can expect some advantage for the SRH. One concern for SRH is the recent downturn in form for both Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma. But at the same time, other players such as Rahul Tripathi and Heinrich Klaasen have stepped up their play. That said, they need to have a rethink on sending in Shahbaz Ahmed ahead of Pat Cummins. He wasted a lot of balls today.
42  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 24, 2024, 06:51:09 PM
The opening pair of Netherlands made a great start to the target of 162 runs given by Ireland. Max O'Dowd and Michael Levitt these batsmen of the Netherlands batted very well after they got out, no batsman could bat responsibly for the team due to which the Netherlands lost dramatically by three runs to Ireland. But against Ireland, Netherlands batsmen tried to bat responsibly and tried their best to win the match. I would say that the Netherlands' luck was not on their side which led to a three-run defeat against Ireland.

The Dutch are being unlucky here. First they lost to Ireland by 1 run (on 19th May). Now they lost to same opponents by 3 runs. Most be horribly disappointing for the second string Dutch side (their main players are not available due to county championship). And today they had Ireland at 56/4, and then again at 121/6. But in the end George Dockrell and Mark Adair managed to add valuable runs and that made the difference. And in return, it was all over for them once Max O'Dowd got out.
43  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: May 24, 2024, 06:39:00 PM
Positive news but Big-3 needs to do more. I don't remember when was the last time India or Australia hosted or toured Zimbabwe for any test series.

Forget about Zimbabwe, in the last 2 decades, Australia refused to host Bangladesh similarly England are also doing the same to Bongs and on top of that, they hardly tour Bangladesh.

Well.. for sure the news is somewhat positive. But then why Zimbabwe? I agree that they are a full member nation. But then, at present associate nations such as Scotland and Netherlands are playing better than them (with around 10% of the funding that Zimbabwe is receiving). IMO, weaker full member nations such as Sri Lanka and West Indies need to play against teams like Zimbabwe more often. I will not selectively target Australia. Any match between Australia and Zimbabwe will be horribly lop-sided.
44  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL Cricket on: May 24, 2024, 06:28:05 PM
Final match of this season's Indian Premier League will be played at Chennai on 26th May. Kolkata Knight Riders will be the overwhelming favorites to lift the trophy this time. But then, if the opening duo of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head comes back to form, then Sunrisers Hyderabad has a chance. Thangarasu Natarajan has been in great form recently with the ball for SRH, and with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Pat Cummins to support, they no longer look very weak as far as bowling is concerned.
45  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 24, 2024, 06:18:29 PM
RR played mediocre even against their game against RCB, Sanju said during toss that they learned from their mistakes from their match against RCB but the way Sanju/Jaiswal/Parag threw away their wickets despite having no need to play big shots says they actually didn't learn from their mistakes.

Cadmore was experimented due to forced absence of Buttler, what could be done?

Honestly, I'm glad that SRH won, they should give better competition to KKR in finale.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore is a promising young batsman. But he was directly inducted into this high-voltage game, with hardly any prior experience with the group phase matches. And quite predictably he failed. He participated in just 2 group matches, and ended up with a total of 18 runs. Then he made 20 against the RCB. But then, Rajasthan didn't had too many options. But why blame him, when the heavyweights themselves failed? Sanju Samson made 10 from 11 balls, while Riyan Parag made just 6 from 10.
46  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 24, 2024, 06:05:12 PM
LOL.. end of IPL for Rajasthan Royals and Sanju Samson. They started so well, but faltered when it mattered the most. When they defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru during the playoff match, I thought that they had regained form. But today's batting display from RR was just shocking. Apart from Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel, no one made any significant contributions. And the experiment with Tom Kohler-Cadmore for the opener failed miserably. Samson and Parag were also out of touch today. 
47  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL Cricket on: May 23, 2024, 06:03:16 PM
I would say Bengaluru lost this match due to erratic performance of their batsmen and poor fielding. The Bengaluru fielders missed several fieldings and catches in the first 10 overs. Moreover, the performance of Bengaluru's bowlers was not very good. The bowlers could not put the Rajasthan batsmen under any pressure.

To be honest, I am very disappointed with the performance of Bengaluru's batsmen in this match. Rajat Patidar scored the highest 34 runs for Bengaluru. As the pitch was batting friendly, 172 was not a good enough score on such a pitch.

Royal Challenger Bangalore has quite a few positives to take away from this season. They were at the bottom of the points table for so long, but in the end managed to enter the playoffs. And then they had a close match against the powerful Rajasthan Royals. If some of their top players such as Cam Green, du Plessis and Maxwell can support Kohli during next season, then they can give a try for the trophy. But rather than batting, it was bowling that was their major weakness. They need to get rid of the out of form Siraj.
48  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 23, 2024, 05:50:40 PM
Even today, Bangladeshi batsmen are facing a lot of problems in batting against USA bowlers. We are not seeing good batting from Bangladeshi batsmen. Bangladeshi batsmen continued to bat badly in today's match as in previous matches.

Bangladesh team is batting today with a target of 145 runs. It is not a big target in T20 format.   Bangladeshi batsmen have to collect about 7.2 runs per over. Bangladeshi batsmen batting is very slow in today's match as well.   Bangladesh lost two wickets and collected 55 runs in 8 overs.   The team is collecting an average of 7 runs per over. Maybe the Bangladesh team will win today. But we expected to see a little better performance from this team.

Bangladeshi players become tigers when they play at the dustbowls of Mirpur. But when they play under SENA conditions, they struggle to win against weak associate nations. And this is repeating again today. They allowed the United Stats to get to a decent total of 144/6. In return, they are at 85/3, with Towhid Hridoy and Shakib Al Hasan at the crease. Najmul Hossain Shanto, Soumya Sarkar and Tanzid Hasan are back in pavilion. The good news is that Bangladesh has depth in batting, and today they should win the match.
49  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: League and Domestic Cricket discussion on: May 22, 2024, 01:33:30 PM
Yes, you are right. Ireland played very well in the match against Netherland but Ireland won the match due to good luck . If luck favors the Netherlands International T20 cricket team, Netherland could win the match but at the end they lose the match by only 1 ball .Pringle played very well at the end and entertained very well and made 35 runs in just 13 balls. No other batsman played fast and that's why they lose the match . De leede played not  well but he made 32 runs 29 balls .From Ireland batting side, Tucker made 40 runs in just 30 balls and he provide backbone to his team.

One thing that everyone tend to ignore is the unavailability of the regular Dutch players. Netherlands is an associate nation, and therefore most of their players take part in the English county championship. This means that many of their key players, such as Brandon Glover, Roloef van der Merwe, Colin Ackermann, Timm van der Gugten and Ben Cooper are unavailable for the world cup. Ireland, being a test nation doesn't face this issue anymore. That said, I was quite impressed by the Dutch performance so far.
50  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers👉Group Stage on: May 22, 2024, 01:23:11 PM
Just three more weeks to go for the start of the tournament. This one is crucial for Germany, as they will be hoping to win a major tournament after a long gap. Lots of experience there in the German squad, with players such as Manuel Neuer (117 international caps), Toni Kroos (108), İlkay Gündoğan (75) and Thomas Müller (128) in the squad. But even then, from what I can see, England and France are the favorites as of now, and Germany is at the 3rd place followed by Spain and Portugal.


51  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Bets! on: May 22, 2024, 01:13:46 PM
So? Are we supposed to ignore Joe Biden managed to push unemployment to the lowest numbers in the lastest decades in the United States and also how the stock market is reacting lately, showing record high numbers with in all industrial indexes?
It is true that at the beginning of the Biden administration there was quite a high inflation, but that had much to do with the fact Trump has to send around 2000$ dollars of stimulus money to the American people, so they could continue to live their lives during the pandemic, he was creating money out of nowhere so the country would not collapse. Once the pandemic was over and people could go back to their work and buy stuff as usual, they found a market with inflated prices because all those stimulus checked which were spent during the pandemic and shortly after it.
Since Biden got into the presidency, he has managed to reduce the inflation rather he inherited.
He is not perfect, that is true, but he is more reasonable as a politician than Trump is, Trump talks about the southern border and still he does not have presented a plan to solve the issue, he talks about Obama care, and yet he does not put some replacement for it on the table.

Both Biden and Trump have their own positives and negatives. For different demographic and political groups, different factors will matter more. Inflation is still quite high, and one of the main reasons is the rising crude oil price. And I would blame Biden for this. Low unemployment is good news for the American public. But at the same time, it was Trump who discouraged manufacturers from shifting their factories to low cost destinations such as Mexico. Also, let's not forget the fact that Trump lost the elections in 2020 only due to the pandemic. He was leading in all the opinion polls before that.
52  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 22, 2024, 01:03:23 PM
The biggest reason for Bangladesh's loss against the USA team is the batting lineup of the Bangladesh team. How the Bangladesh team lost to the United States team has created a curiosity among the cricket savvy as they were miserably defeated by a much weaker team than them. As a preparation for the World Cup between Bangladesh and the United States, many people expected Bangladesh to win easily against the United States before this match It didn't happen. If the Bangladesh team has a bad performance in every match of the World Cup, maybe they will be the worst team in this World Cup.

Everyone was very optimistic about Mustafizur Rahman as he performed very well in IPL in India but he was not good at all against USA. At least I don't see any hope for this Bangladesh team, they may leave the World Cup in the first round. Do you think so too?

The USACA is one of the richest cricket boards in the world and they have imported players from all around the world. Some of these players have participated in international cricket before, such as Corey Anderson. Most of the others have first class experience. So IMO, there is nothing to get demotivated for Bangladesh. They lost against a India B team. In any other sport, such a team (solely comprised of foreigners) will not be allowed to compete at international level. The ICC is making a mockery of eligibility rules.
53  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL Cricket on: May 22, 2024, 12:53:54 PM
And this is what happen this time too.  In this match too they faced pressure and could only set a target of 159.  And KKR batsmen will easily achieve this target and win the match.  KKR bowling proved to be very good.  Their bowler got an easy target.  And their batsmen reach the target very quickly in 13 overs.  His performance was very good.  If they had a target of 200 they could have achieve it.  Yes his performance was impressing everyone.  His team showed great interest in the match and won the match with a good performance.  Congratulations on their win.It could not have been such a difficult target for the KKR batsmen.  Because their batsmen kept their batting at the beginning of the match.  The result was good for him and his target was completed in 13 overs.

One thing that I like about the Kolkata Knight Riders is that they have a very well balanced team. For pace bowling, they have one of the best in the world (Mitchell Starc), supported by youngsters Vaibhav Arora and Harshit Rana. And then for spin bowling they have the wizard in Sunil Narine and the experienced Varun Chakravarthy. And then for pace bowling allrounder they have the amazing Andre Russell. Narine doubles up as the opener, to be supported in middle order by the two Iyers. It's a dream team.
54  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL Cricket on: May 22, 2024, 11:26:18 AM
While at night we will be having temperatures of 30-35°C at the Narendra Modi Stadium Ahmedabad we are going to watch this high voltage match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals with both teams will be give their best for having spot into Qualifier No 2 where Sunrises Hyderabad is waiting for them.

Here all things clearly favouring Bengaluru for having win with their last six matches winning streak and Rajasthan is having terrible performance after having amazing start of this season Yashasvi Jaiswal need to be had his best for this game as this is high voltage game, and they need to be keep things at the top if they want to have spot into next game even Joe Buttler is gone back to home which is huge lost for them.

You are right. Recent form can't get anymore different than this. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have 6 consecutive wins to their name, while Rajasthan Royals have no wins from their last 5 matches. They started so well, but as a result of overconfidence and immaturity from their players the momentum was lost. Even if any of these two teams proceed to the playoff against Sunrisers Hyderabad, winning against the latter is going to be a near-impossible task. KKR managed to do that, but I honestly don't think that RR or RCB are capable of beating them.
55  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 22, 2024, 11:16:18 AM
Tumhare muh mein ghee shakkar  Grin

Having said that, RCB do have a history of crumbling in pressure knock out matches but it's also true that they were under tremendous pressure throughout the tournament and managed to perform well. Make no mistake, they were at the bottom of the ocean but here we are watching em playing a quarter final. 

Well.. I can agree with you on the fact that Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the eternal chokers. But then don't underestimate Rajasthan Royals. They are not far behind in this characteristic. They have Sanju Samson as the captain, who is even more immature than Virat Kohli. Against any other team, I would have said that RCB doesn't have a chance today. But since they have RR as the opponents for today's match at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, I would actually go with RCB.
56  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread on: May 22, 2024, 11:06:09 AM
The New York Times has published an excellent article on sale of world cup tickets by secondary outlets:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5280346/2024/02/18/world-cup-2026-ticket-price-sale-date/

In Europe, purchasing tickets from unauthorized resellers can put you at risk, as the national football associations take a tough stance against them. But in US, such activity is normalized. For example, Super Bowl tickets that usually cost $2,000 were resold by resellers for as much as $10,000 each. I am not sure whether FIFA will allow such activity. If they doesn't allow, then the tickets will be annulled and those who purchase them will lose their money.
57  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 22, 2024, 10:56:08 AM
Agreed with you. Rameez Raha deserved that seat. But unfortunately he replaced. He really work hard for domestic cricket and particularly for the Women team. And now at this time we can see I am not looking a prominent player in batting line in Pakistan Men Cricket team. Players like Misbah we had Inzmam. I miss Abdul Razzaq he was a great player when he was in the team. But at this time I didn't think Pakistani team has a player at this level. Fakhar Zaman has some skills but he don't have consistency. Cricket teams need more focus. But chairman has not much skills like Rameez has. Because he is commentator and he mostly know how players perform. And which players are the best for National team.

Abdul Razzaq was someone special. He was a genuine pace-bowling allrounder. Now Pakistan doesn't have anyone like him. Razzaq was at the same level of Jacques Kallis or Lance Klusener. Australia and England on the other hand, have such players in the form of Cameron Green and Ben Stokes. Even India has Harddick Pandya. Now coming to Rameez Raja, he did a lot of great work while he was in power. He was the guy who rescued the PSL with an amazing media rights deal. Too unfortunate that he had to resign.
58  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 22, 2024, 10:46:46 AM
I am not that excited with the United States winning over Bangladesh. First of all, why has Bangladesh agreed for a series against the US? There are far better associate sides out there, such as Scotland, Namibia and Netherlands. And Nepal has been doing good recently and they are one of the neighbors of Bangladesh. But for BCB, they want to please their ICC overlords by playing a series against the blue eyed boys of the cricket administration. And in the playing XI, there was not a single player who was an US citizen. All of them were former international or domestic players from various full member nations, such as Corey Anderson (New Zealand) and Saurabh Netravalkar (Mumbai).
59  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 21, 2024, 07:55:45 PM
You are right Kolkata Knight Riders is a top class team after winning from Sunrises Hyderabad they qualify for the final of Indian Premier league and hot favourite team to win this year final. Kolkata Knight Riders won this match by huge 8 wickets victory over sunrises Hyderabad. The Player of the Match is Mitchell Starc for his outstanding bowling performance picked 3 important wickets for his team by just giving only 34 runs in his bowling spell and win match to Kolkata Knight Riders single handaly. the most important second play off match will be played tomorrow between the two strong team Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Mitchell Starc got the most important batsmen from Sunrisers Hyderabad out (Travis Head). That was the turning point of the match, and it started a chain reaction and SRH ended up at 39/4. Starc picked up the important wickets of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Shahbaz Ahmed in addition to that of Head. And then Abhishek Sharma was nabbed by Vaibhav Arora. Once Starc and Arora was replaced by Harshit Rana/Sunil Narine, SRH got some respite. But even that didn't lasted long.
60  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 21, 2024, 07:46:18 PM
Pakistani Women International cricket team performance is very bad in the last few years . I think Pakistani culture should be change and they should give freedom to women . If family will support to the women to play,then Pakistani domestic teams performance will be good and we will get good players from the Pakistan nation. But that is impossible for Pakistan because 90 percent of the Pakistani Women are house wife and they  only manage the house and man work and women are on the load of her husband but in Europe countries ,that is different and that's why Australia and England Women cricket teams are more stronger than other teams of the World.

It has nothing to do with women's rights or gender based discrimination. If it was so, then Pakistan wouldn't be having a women's team (similar to Afghanistan). The real issue here is that the PCB doesn't give much importance to women's cricket. When Rameez Raja was the PCB chairman, he did a lot of hardwork for the domestic teams and women. But once Najam Sethi replaced him, things went back to what they were previously. Lack of importance is the issue here, and not women's freedom or liberty.
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