T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[JSRAW]

I watched the first three matches of CSK and i am not surprised why they are in the bottom, Dhoni alone cannot win matches for them, i feel that they are not having a good team this season, they need to replace Murali Vijay and pick someone else and they need to find a good opening pair to give them a good start. Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla are not bowling well in this edition and they need to find a replacement until they find form.

The absence of Suresh Raina is being felt in middle order batting, especially since Dhoni's strike rate has gone down. But they got such a good start in the first match, before going down in the next two. They need to move Sam Curran and Ravindra Jadeja up the order. Also, they need to drop Kedar Jadhav and need to include Imran Tahir in the place of Piyush Chawla. I don't understand why Tahir is not being selected. He's one of the best T20 bowlers.

Its not that CSK is bad team, the reason is almost every one in CSK is getting old and out of touch (Dhoni, Watson). Raydu's injury didn't help their cause either, it kinda messed up with their combination. He might play today and Murli Vijay should be kicked out without any doubt.

Piyush Chawala didn't bowl too bad and so far he's the only bowler who got the breakthrough for his team, at least at one game. That's a reason Tahir is not playing as CSK already have 2 full time Indian spinner (Chawala -Jadeja) and 1 part timer (Jadav) he didn't bowl yet tho. You could see even all rounder Bravo sitting out as Sam Curran performing well. So it would be hard to make space for Tahir and i think they are going to stick with the same foriegn players combination for now, 2 batsmen (Watson, Faf) 1 all rounder (Bravo/Sam) and 1 fast bowler.

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And most important factor is venue, there is no home advantage for any team, one of the reason we had fair amount of unexpected results so far. It might change soon.
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This was first and everyone was saying this is brilliant!



Then this happened and everyone lost their speech.



Everyone was talking shit against Tewatia then he got 5 sixes in one over.

A match where the target is 224 in 20 overs, the chasing team reached the target with 3 balls in hand.

It was a cricket match to watch. IPL is a beauty.

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[pakhitheboss]

I watched the first three matches of CSK and i am not surprised why they are in the bottom, Dhoni alone cannot win matches for them, i feel that they are not having a good team this season, they need to replace Murali Vijay and pick someone else and they need to find a good opening pair to give them a good start. Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla are not bowling well in this edition and they need to find a replacement until they find form.

The absence of Suresh Raina is being felt in middle order batting, especially since Dhoni's strike rate has gone down. But they got such a good start in the first match, before going down in the next two. They need to move Sam Curran and Ravindra Jadeja up the order. Also, they need to drop Kedar Jadhav and need to include Imran Tahir in the place of Piyush Chawla. I don't understand why Tahir is not being selected. He's one of the best T20 bowlers.

Only four overseas players are allowed in the playing XI that is why Imran Tahir is not selected in the playing XI.I think there will be a shuffle on the playing XI for today match and hope DJ bravo and Rayudu is fit for playing today or else they can't make a move from the bottom of the list.

Still in today's match the probability of CSK wining is more than SRH. I do not think CSK needs to do any changes for today's match. Suresh Raina no doubt would have been an asset for CSK in the middle order, it would have been great if he was playing in this IPL season. Still the team is well balanced few hickups wont affect the CSK.

[bryant.coleman]

Still in today's match the probability of CSK wining is more than SRH. I do not think CSK needs to do any changes for today's match. Suresh Raina no doubt would have been an asset for CSK in the middle order, it would have been great if he was playing in this IPL season. Still the team is well balanced few hickups wont affect the CSK.

It is very unpredictable. And the result can depend a lot on who wins the toss. SRH is having one of the best top-order batting lineup in this edition. Their top 4 looks really solid (Warner/Bairstow/Pandey/Williamson). On the other hand, CSK is facing issues in top-order, as well as in the middle order. But as far as bowling is concerned, I would rate CSK higher than SRH. Hazlewood/Curran/Chahar have performed better than Rashid/Bhuvneshwar/Khaleel.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Still in today's match the probability of CSK wining is more than SRH. I do not think CSK needs to do any changes for today's match. Suresh Raina no doubt would have been an asset for CSK in the middle order, it would have been great if he was playing in this IPL season. Still the team is well balanced few hickups wont affect the CSK.

It is very unpredictable. And the result can depend a lot on who wins the toss. SRH is having one of the best top-order batting lineup in this edition. Their top 4 looks really solid (Warner/Bairstow/Pandey/Williamson). On the other hand, CSK is facing issues in top-order, as well as in the middle order. But as far as bowling is concerned, I would rate CSK higher than SRH. Hazlewood/Curran/Chahar have performed better than Rashid/Bhuvneshwar/Khaleel.

SRH and CSK played 3 matches. And both are wins only one. So, both teams will want to wins tonight's match. You told about SRH's batting lineup. But CSK's batting lineup is not bad. Du Plessis, Watson and Bravo are good batsman for T20 game. I don't want to bet on this game. Because today's match is unpredictable for me.

[onecall123]

SRH won the toss and decided to bat first, good decision at my end but the quick wickets of Bairstow make me unhappy for some point. Hoping that they will recover and manage to a decent total on the board. I have made a bet on SRH, I was confused to settle on a choice but later on concluding on summarizing their last match.

[pakhitheboss]

SRH won the toss and decided to bat first, good decision at my end but the quick wickets of Bairstow make me unhappy for some point. Hoping that they will recover and manage to a decent total on the board. I have made a bet on SRH, I was confused to settle on a choice but later on concluding on summarizing their last match.

I hope Manish Pandey plays well today. Bairstows wicket in the initial overs have slowed down SRH. If Warmer and Pandey can stay in the wicket till 15th over then SRH can put a good score on the board. A good score in this scenario would be hard for CSK to chase.

[JSRAW]

I hope Manish Pandey plays well today. Bairstows wicket in the initial overs have slowed down SRH. If Warmer and Pandey can stay in the wicket till 15th over then SRH can put a good score on the board. A good score in this scenario would be hard for CSK to chase.

And i hope you are not jinxing their rhythm 

On the another hand CSK has fair amount of all-rounders playing for them today so who knows if one of them might click at the right time.

[MFahad]

I hope Manish Pandey plays well today. Bairstows wicket in the initial overs have slowed down SRH. If Warmer and Pandey can stay in the wicket till 15th over then SRH can put a good score on the board. A good score in this scenario would be hard for CSK to chase.

And i hope you are not jinxing their rhythm 

On the another hand CSK has fair amount of all-rounders playing for them today so who knows if one of them might click at the right time.

Chennai Super Kings must win today's match because they are last in the points table and another loss could make it more difficult for them to qualify. The good thing for them is that Sunrisers Hyderabad are not playing good cricket today and made only 70 runs with four wickets down. CSK will want to restrict them to under 150.

[mersal]

I hope Manish Pandey plays well today. Bairstows wicket in the initial overs have slowed down SRH. If Warmer and Pandey can stay in the wicket till 15th over then SRH can put a good score on the board. A good score in this scenario would be hard for CSK to chase.

And i hope you are not jinxing their rhythm 

On the another hand CSK has fair amount of all-rounders playing for them today so who knows if one of them might click at the right time.

Chennai Super Kings must win today's match because they are last in the points table and another loss could make it more difficult for them to qualify. The good thing for them is that Sunrisers Hyderabad are not playing good cricket today and made only 70 runs with four wickets down. CSK will want to restrict them to under 150.

TBH, CSK bowled really well compared to their previous matche7and the important thing is they have 6th bowler option so Dhoni will be shuffling the bowlers and actually doing it at the moment.Surely it is going to be a day for CSK as far as we have seen today's performance hope it will be continued.

[7788bitcoin]

Chennai Super Kings must win today's match because they are last in the points table and another loss could make it more difficult for them to qualify. The good thing for them is that Sunrisers Hyderabad are not playing good cricket today and made only 70 runs with four wickets down. CSK will want to restrict
them to under 150.

Sunrisers Hyderabad was able to put 164 runs on the board and if SRH can hold on to their catches then they can win the match, the ball was swinging and Bhuvneshwar Kumar could bowl some good in swingers and break the stumps if the ball is still swinging in the second half and Rashid Khan is always a dangerous bowler, i expect the match to be close but i am going with SRH to win the match considering the ball is holding on to the pitch and not flowing on to the bat easily.

If CSK need to win they need to have a good opening partnership and they need to send Sam Curran up the order and let him swing the bat and score some quick runs so that Dhoni and Bravo could take the match closer to victory.

[Indymoney]

Chennai Super Kings must win today's match because they are last in the points table and another loss could make it more difficult for them to qualify. The good thing for them is that Sunrisers Hyderabad are not playing good cricket today and made only 70 runs with four wickets down. CSK will want to restrict
them to under 150.

Sunrisers Hyderabad was able to put 164 runs on the board and if SRH can hold on to their catches then they can win the match, the ball was swinging and Bhuvneshwar Kumar could bowl some good in swingers and break the stumps if the ball is still swinging in the second half and Rashid Khan is always a dangerous bowler, i expect the match to be close but i am going with SRH to win the match considering the ball is holding on to the pitch and not flowing on to the bat easily.

If CSK need to win they need to have a good opening partnership and they need to send Sam Curran up the order and let him swing the bat and score some quick runs so that Dhoni and Bravo could take the match closer to victory.

Right now situation is not good for CSK as they are chasing very good target of 165 runs to win against SRH trailing very badly on just 42/4 with now Dhoni Jadha and Bravo left in batting line up for me its good win for SRH from here because Dhoni is also in not good form and Jadeja and Bravo are not capable of going good for this target.

[mersal]

Chennai Super Kings must win today's match because they are last in the points table and another loss could make it more difficult for them to qualify. The good thing for them is that Sunrisers Hyderabad are not playing good cricket today and made only 70 runs with four wickets down. CSK will want to restrict
them to under 150.

Sunrisers Hyderabad was able to put 164 runs on the board and if SRH can hold on to their catches then they can win the match, the ball was swinging and Bhuvneshwar Kumar could bowl some good in swingers and break the stumps if the ball is still swinging in the second half and Rashid Khan is always a dangerous bowler, i expect the match to be close but i am going with SRH to win the match considering the ball is holding on to the pitch and not flowing on to the bat easily.

If CSK need to win they need to have a good opening partnership and they need to send Sam Curran up the order and let him swing the bat and score some quick runs so that Dhoni and Bravo could take the match closer to victory.

Right now situation is not good for CSK as they are chasing very good target of 165 runs to win against SRH trailing very badly on just 42/4 with now Dhoni Jadha and Bravo left in batting line up for me its good win for SRH from here because Dhoni is also in not good form and Jadeja and Bravo are not capable of going good for this target.

Again CSK lost their momentum in the middle of the first innings, and I feel it started with the poor fielding and too many dropped catches.Two youngsters played good innings for SRH, can CSK's experienced batsmen can make it and bounce back in their points table spot.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

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Another loss by CSK. Dhoni exposed himself in the match with his poor fitness. He tried his best but age is something you can not hide. He was struggling to breath, struggling to take shots and all sorts of problem. If this was the Dhoni we used to see then CSK was going to win this match. But this was good to see that old Dhoni is still a threat to any bowler.

I think CSK is not going too far in this season. And Hyderabad captain proved that a team can win too after winning the toss 😜

[JSRAW]

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Another loss by CSK. Dhoni exposed himself in the match with his poor fitness. He tried his best but age is something you can not hide. He was struggling to breath, struggling to take shots and all sorts of problem. If this was the Dhoni we used to see then CSK was going to win this match. But this was good to see that old Dhoni is still a threat to any bowler.

I think CSK is not going too far in this season. And Hyderabad captain proved that a team can win too after winning the toss 😜

Dhoni bhudda ho gya hai bhai  . Now he's too old for this shit, at this age wicket keeping and batting too long in such hot, humidity is not an easy task anyway.

If they are not reaching the playoff then it would be too bad for csk and their fans but I think they might reach there, after all it's long tournament.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

If they are not reaching the playoff then it would be too bad for csk and their fans but I think they might reach there, after all it's long tournament.

I am a Dhoni fan and as his fan I always loved CSK but I doubt in this season they have any chance for the playoffs. All the players are experienced but most of them are over aged. They are not fit to take too much physical stress like Dhoni had to today. CSK needs a good combination of young and older experience players.

Next match against KXIP and then they will need to face KKR. Both are strong competitor and may be it will not be easy for them to win against CSK but I think both team will win their matches at the end.

[mersal]

If they are not reaching the playoff then it would be too bad for csk and their fans but I think they might reach there, after all it's long tournament.

I am a Dhoni fan and as his fan I always loved CSK but I doubt in this season they have any chance for the playoffs. All the players are experienced but most of them are over aged. They are not fit to take too much physical stress like Dhoni had to today. CSK needs a good combination of young and older experience players.

Next match against KXIP and then they will need to face KKR. Both are strong competitor and may be it will not be easy for them to win against CSK but I think both team will win their matches at the end.

Literally Dhoni is on the ground for the 40 overs and this such humid condition will test any other fit player as well so this is not really a wonder.I think CSK need to remove Kedhar Jadhav and need to include one young player in their squad to get the combination as you mentioned earlier.

[eaLiTy]

Literally Dhoni is on the ground for the 40 overs and this such humid condition will test any other fit player as well so this is not really a wonder.I think CSK need to remove Kedhar Jadhav and need to include one young player in their squad to get the combination as you mentioned earlier.

I too accept that Dhoni was in the ground for the longest time and the weather conditions are not favorable either as it is really hot and humid, the problem with CSK is that they need to change the batting order completely, Shane Watson is struggling and he is not bowling either, they need to add Imran Tahir in the team and promote Sam Curran to open the batting as he is a clean striker of the ball and then need to promote Ravindra Jadeja according to the match situation, their fielding and catching are not up to par and they need to fix those to be competitive.

[akram143]

Literally Dhoni is on the ground for the 40 overs and this such humid condition will test any other fit player as well so this is not really a wonder.I think CSK need to remove Kedhar Jadhav and need to include one young player in their squad to get the combination as you mentioned earlier.

I too accept that Dhoni was in the ground for the longest time and the weather conditions are not favorable either as it is really hot and humid, the problem with CSK is that they need to change the batting order completely, Shane Watson is struggling and he is not bowling either, they need to add Imran Tahir in the team and promote Sam Curran to open the batting as he is a clean striker of the ball and then need to promote Ravindra Jadeja according to the match situation, their fielding and catching are not up to par and they need to fix those to be competitive.

Watto is struggling in this season but he is a world class player and can win matches from no where so he should not be eliminated in my opinion.Adding Imran Tahir won't bring any changes because this is not Chepauk where spinners can play vital role in CSK's innings but here they found the right 6 men bowling squad to be honest.Rayudu failed as well again but he is clearly a hope for CSK.Better go with the current squad for the future matches as well because today they get too closer to the total but can't able to chase it by a thin line.

Players need to take responsibility while playing, just play like a champion because you are always been a champion side.

[n0ne]

Literally Dhoni is on the ground for the 40 overs and this such humid condition will test any other fit player as well so this is not really a wonder.I think CSK need to remove Kedhar Jadhav and need to include one young player in their squad to get the combination as you mentioned earlier.

I too accept that Dhoni was in the ground for the longest time and the weather conditions are not favorable either as it is really hot and humid, the problem with CSK is that they need to change the batting order completely, Shane Watson is struggling and he is not bowling either, they need to add Imran Tahir in the team and promote Sam Curran to open the batting as he is a clean striker of the ball and then need to promote Ravindra Jadeja according to the match situation, their fielding and catching are not up to par and they need to fix those to be competitive.

Nothing to exaggerate, everything went good. Only thing missing with the team is the aggressive game. They've got strong players, in this match lacked with the scoring in the first ten overs. The first ten over score helps big in match winning, In the first ten over CSK hasn't got a score of 6rpo.

[Indymoney]

Literally Dhoni is on the ground for the 40 overs and this such humid condition will test any other fit player as well so this is not really a wonder.I think CSK need to remove Kedhar Jadhav and need to include one young player in their squad to get the combination as you mentioned earlier.

I too accept that Dhoni was in the ground for the longest time and the weather conditions are not favorable either as it is really hot and humid, the problem with CSK is that they need to change the batting order completely, Shane Watson is struggling and he is not bowling either, they need to add Imran Tahir in the team and promote Sam Curran to open the batting as he is a clean striker of the ball and then need to promote Ravindra Jadeja according to the match situation, their fielding and catching are not up to par and they need to fix those to be competitive.

Watto is struggling in this season but he is a world class player and can win matches from no where so he should not be eliminated in my opinion.Adding Imran Tahir won't bring any changes because this is not Chepauk where spinners can play vital role in CSK's innings but here they found the right 6 men bowling squad to be honest.Rayudu failed as well again but he is clearly a hope for CSK.Better go with the current squad for the future matches as well because today they get too closer to the total but can't able to chase it by a thin line.

Players need to take responsibility while playing, just play like a champion because you are always been a champion side.

Next match against KXIP on Sunday is going to be very cruicial for CSK because this will decide they can stand in for this year's play off's or no if they win then surely its going to be very exciting otherwise its going to be big damage for them and hopefully now they will learn from their mistakes and will try to improve against KXIP in next match.