T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Rajbir1994]

I think India has a great chance of winning the T-20 world cup. Will wait for the see actual result.

[JohnBitCo]

I think India has a great chance of winning the T-20 world cup. Will wait for the see actual result.

Next T20 world cup is very far away and will be played in Australia in 2020. There is still one year left in that series. It is very early to predict who will be the winner of that world cup as it is not easy for the Asian teams to perform well on Australian pitches.

[Indymoney]

I think India has a great chance of winning the T-20 world cup. Will wait for the see actual result.

Next T20 world cup is very far away and will be played in Australia in 2020. There is still one year left in that series. It is very early to predict who will be the winner of that world cup as it is not easy for the Asian teams to perform well on Australian pitches.

You are right many changes can happen in one year and Australia is not easy place for Asian teams and right now England New Zealand and Australia all are emerging teams for next world cup so its going to be very tough for any team and any tipster to predict who is going to win next world cup in Australia.

[akhjob]

“I know it’s a chasing ground, that’s what teams do here in the IPL (Indian Premier League) too, but heading into the World Cup we want to strengthen areas and put ourselves under pressure”

India 92/5. Looks like the pressure is winning 
Now it's all in the hands of the Pandhyas and the tail enders.
Anyone bet on South Africa?

[AB de Royse777]

India lost their 5th wicket and quite in pressure now. I expect around 150 runs after the 20 overs.

Edit: And another gone. Caught behind. South Africa is cruising now.

Anyone bet on South Africa?

It's a good chance to cash out the bet :-P

[JSRAW]

Series is about to draw folks?

SA : 80%  - India : 20%

[akhjob]

India lost their 5th wicket and quite in pressure now. I expect around 150 runs after the 20 overs.

Edit: And another gone. Caught behind. South Africa is cruising now.

Anyone bet on South Africa?

It's a good chance to cash out the bet :-P

Nah I don't bet on T20s games because it's nearly unpredictable 1 over can make a big difference in the game. I only do ODIs and Tests were the chances of winning the bet is better 

BTW, now I don't think they would reach 150 in the remaining 5 overs if Pandhya or Jadega lose their wicket. Is Washington sunder an all-rounder? I completely missed previous year so really don't know about him.

[AB de Royse777]

Series is about to draw folks?

SA : 80%  - India : 20%

106 runs and still 22 balls to play. Let's finish the innings first.

BTW, now I don't think they would reach 150 in the remaining 5 overs if Pandhya or Jadega lose their wicket. Is Washington sunder an all-rounder? I completely missed previous year so really don't know about him.

140ish is my new predicted score. I guess he (sundar) is.

Edit:
Outstanding performance by South Africa. They restricted India by only 134 runs. Now they can wish for a win. Good luck.

[JSRAW]

Now they can wish for a win. Good luck.

Draw coming  .. but SA has a potential to ruin everything for themselves.

SA : 90%  -  India : 10%

[Sithara007]

South Africa restricted India to just 134, which is 4 runs less than Afghanistan scored yesterday against Bangladesh. It was surprising to see the overhyped Indian batsmen struggling against inexperienced bowlers such as Bjorn Fortuin and Beuran Hendricks. It should be easy for the South African batsmen, as India don't have their first choice bowlers such as Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami in the playing XI.

[JSRAW]

It was surprising to see the overhyped Indian batsmen struggling against inexperienced bowlers such as Bjorn Fortuin and Beuran Hendricks. 

That's a beauty of T-20 format. anything can happen in the shorter format. little bit help from pitch and pretty much game over for Batsmen, its true for all Indian, Australian, England etc.

[FIFA worldcup]

It was surprising to see the overhyped Indian batsmen struggling against inexperienced bowlers such as Bjorn Fortuin and Beuran Hendricks. 

That's a beauty of T-20 format. anything can happen in the shorter format. little bit help from pitch and pretty much game over for Batsmen, its true for all Indian, Australian, England etc.

I just tuned in and surprised to see the score. What happened to Indian batsmen today ?  Except Dhawan who scored 36, none of the batsmen clicked. Was there some movement in the pitch ?
If India loses today, this will be a big upset.

[sujonali1819]

South Africa restricted India to just 134, which is 4 runs less than Afghanistan scored yesterday against Bangladesh. It was surprising to see the overhyped Indian batsmen struggling against inexperienced bowlers such as Bjorn Fortuin and Beuran Hendricks. It should be easy for the South African batsmen, as India don't have their first choice bowlers such as Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami in the playing XI.

Hmm, India started well today. But after the second wicket goes down at 63 runs they lost their 4 wickets so quickly for the next 35 runs. So losing this 4 wickets very quickly is the main fact of their very low total score. Firstly It is very lower score and secondly South Africa is playing well till now. the score is now 25 runs in 4.2 overs without losing any wicket. So I think this match can go to South Africa"s hand in the end.

[7788bitcoin]

Glad that i did not make a bet today on India v SA and i am lucky enough not to loose my money  . SA bowled really well and restricted India to a sub par score and now they are cruising to victory and they are yet to loose a wicket and with India resting their top bowlers we should expect these results too .
Edit: South Africa won the match easily and i would not have believed this result if someone said this before the match.

[UmerIdrees]

Glad that i did not make a bet today on India v SA and i am lucky enough not to loose my money  . SA bowled really well and restricted India to a sub par score and now they are cruising to victory and they are yet to loose a wicket and with India resting their top bowlers we should expect these results too .

Whats the logic behind resting the top bowlers for India in the final T20 match ? Is Kholi too confident that his team will win even if they do not play their best bowlers. This is called over confidence and over confidence always give you a loss.

[erikalui]

Missed watching the match today and right enough India lost. I'm glad now I did not follow it as it looks like the score is nearing 140s all the time. Rohit again lost his wicket and I feel this guy needs to rest and they should bring in Rahul. Mostly all the big batsmen lost with Rohit and even Virat failed. Not being superstitious but looking at the score, the number 9 and 4 is scary. The scores are all 9, 19, 4, 14. Dhawan got the highest with 36. SA was lucky that we don't have Bumrah or Shami to take wickets. They managed just 1 wicket which is really horrible. Bad batting and miserable bowling.

[Little Mouse]

Great knock from De Cock, couldn't watch the match, I was late from office.
India scored pretty low, for a batting line up like India must have scored 160.

Glad that i did not make a bet today on India v SA and i am lucky enough not to loose my money  . SA bowled really well and restricted India to a sub par score and now they are cruising to victory and they are yet to loose a wicket and with India resting their top bowlers we should expect these results too .

Whats the logic behind resting the top bowlers for India in the final T20 match ? Is Kholi too confident that his team will win even if they do not play their best bowlers. This is called over confidence and over confidence always give you a loss.

Hey UmerIdrees, I noticed you are writing Kholi instead of Kohli, you did it yesterday as well 

[7788bitcoin]

Whats the logic behind resting the top bowlers for India in the final T20 match ? Is Kholi too confident that his team will win even if they do not play their best bowlers. This is called over confidence and over confidence always give you a loss.

I am not sure who took the decision to rest their top bowlers as Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami nor Bhuvneshwar Kumar were playing for them and if they were in the team they could have defended any total as i consider them as the best bowling unit in world cricket at this time, may be they are rested as they are playing in Indian pitches and wanted to try new players and if the Indian batsmen does not put enough score on the board then the current second hand bowling unit cannot defend that and we saw that in this match.

[vella85]

Glad that i did not make a bet today on India v SA and i am lucky enough not to loose my money  . SA bowled really well and restricted India to a sub par score and now they are cruising to victory and they are yet to loose a wicket and with India resting their top bowlers we should expect these results too .

Whats the logic behind resting the top bowlers for India in the final T20 match ? Is Kholi too confident that his team will win even if they do not play their best bowlers. This is called over confidence and over confidence always give you a loss.

I sometimes think teams get over confident and rest their good players thinking that the opposition don't have a chance to win with their recent form. This time it turned out to be a bad decision by the Indian selectors as SA played well to restrict India to a moderate total and were able to chase down the runs easily with only losing 1 wicket. T20 cricket is too hard to predict as any team can win even if they have been in poor form and that is why I never bet on T20 matches.

[bryant.coleman]

I sometimes think teams get over confident and rest their good players thinking that the opposition don't have a chance to win with their recent form. This time it turned out to be a bad decision by the Indian selectors as SA played well to restrict India to a moderate total and were able to chase down the runs easily with only losing 1 wicket. T20 cricket is too hard to predict as any team can win even if they have been in poor form and that is why I never bet on T20 matches.

The excuse given by them was that they wanted to experiment as many players as possible before the T20 world cup. But it sounds ridiculous for me. If they want to experiment, then they have these A team tours. International T20 matches are not meant for experimenting. Anyway, yesterday India lost because of poor batting and not as a result of poor bowling.

And they had superstars such as Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma in the squad (and apart from Dhawan, all of them failed). And I wouldn't make the mistake of calling Pant and Iyer as inexperienced. The batting lineup was not very inexperienced and it was the bowling that lacked experience. Playing a match at home against weak opponents, and still they can't build a total in excess of 150.