T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

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The cricket betting industry is very organized now and millions are being waged on relatively minor leagues such as the TNPL and the Pokhara Premier League. A few months back, I was really surprised to see a viewer count in excess of 10,000 for a match between Zimbabwe and the Netherlands. Then I realized that the vast majority of the viewers were from the Indian sub-continent, and they are watching these matches because they had wagered bets.

How did you analyse the view count, i did not understand that part, the betting industry is huge in sports and there are organised betting and the betters can manipulate smaller games because of the high rewards they can give to those players, it is nothing new, if international players can be lured to dance to their tune then why not small players.

[erikalui]

Bumrah is back but they made Rohit and Shami rest for this upcoming T20 and brought in Sanju Samson. When Rohit is such an important player, why they made him rest in an important game against SL especially when SL defeated Pak in Pak? I hope they don't skip him for the ODIs against Aus as well.

[JSRAW]

Bumrah is back but they made Rohit and Shami rest for this upcoming T20 and brought in Sanju Samson. When Rohit is such an important player, why they made him rest in an important game against SL especially when SL defeated Pak in Pak? I hope they don't skip him for the ODIs against Aus as well.

Bhai, Rohit deserve the rest. he's playing non-stop cricket for quite some time now, almost 45 + games this year. Australia tour starting from mid January so my understanding is that he should be back by then.

[sureshnsnet]

What your thoughts about CSK bought Piyush Chawla for 6.75 cores (INR) and what strategies behind Dhoni go with Piyush Chawla because there are so many young players are in list with good form.

players bought in auction: 4 (Piyush Chawla, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran and R Sai Kishore)

[Haunebu]

I guess another of his fellow team mates Cottrel was also a wastage of above 8 crore rupee. He don't deserve such huge amount of money. He won't get a good time in IPL, I can bet for that. Maxwell as well have been over-priced. These guys are making money with the fame from the name.

Seriously? Cottrell and Maxwell are 2 of the best buys in my opinion.

- Cottrell is easily my favorite bowler in the current West Indian lineup due to his pace and celebrations. He will be a treat to watch.

- Maxwell is recovering from mental illness and recently performed really well(Don't remember the tournament) which goes to show how popular he still is. Easily one of my favorite T-20 batsmen.

[Vishnu.Reang]

What your thoughts about CSK bought Piyush Chawla for 6.75 cores (INR) and what strategies behind Dhoni go with Piyush Chawla because there are so many young players are in list with good form.

players bought in auction: 4 (Piyush Chawla, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran and R Sai Kishore)

If I was the franchise owner, then I wouldn't give anything more than the base price for Piyush Chawla (20 Lakh or around $30,000). I heard that it was Dinesh Karthik who went all guns blazing for Chawla in the auctions and there may be something behind the curtains that people may not understand. I don't want to go in detail, but "DK" is very close to N Srinivasan and his name was heard a lot of times when CSK was banned in 2015 for match fixing.

[JSRAW]

What your thoughts about CSK bought Piyush Chawla for 6.75 cores (INR) and what strategies behind Dhoni go with Piyush Chawla because there are so many young players are in list with good form.

players bought in auction: 4 (Piyush Chawla, Josh Hazlewood, Sam Curran and R Sai Kishore)

I too feel that he was bit expensive but his selection make sense, CSK and Dhoni like to keep tab on any spinner or leg spinner because their home ground is spin friendly and historically every team had nightmare when playing against CSK in their back yard.

Spinner in CSk : Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Harbhajan Singh and now Piyush chawla and Sai Kishore. then they have one or two part timer spinner too.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Spinner in CSk : Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Harbhajan Singh and now Piyush chawla and Sai Kishore. then they have one or two part timer spinner too.

Out of this, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja seems to be confirmed slots and others may get a chance only if someone out of these two gets injured. And the 3rd choice is going to be Mitchell Santner, and not Chawla (since his batting skills are better). I don't understand the point in splurging almost $1 million on a player, who may not get a single game during the whole tournament.

[sureshnsnet]

Spinner in CSk : Imran Tahir, Karn Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Harbhajan Singh and now Piyush chawla and Sai Kishore. then they have one or two part timer spinner too.

Out of this, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja seems to be confirmed slots and others may get a chance only if someone out of these two gets injured. And the 3rd choice is going to be Mitchell Santner, and not Chawla (since his batting skills are better). I don't understand the point in splurging almost $1 million on a player, who may not get a single game during the whole tournament.

I think Dhoni have different game plans for this season because CSK bought only bowlers in the bidding action it seems to Dhoni understand the other teams strength and what CSK need exactly.

[onrise]

Bumrah is back but they made Rohit and Shami rest for this upcoming T20 and brought in Sanju Samson. When Rohit is such an important player, why they made him rest in an important game against SL especially when SL defeated Pak in Pak? I hope they don't skip him for the ODIs against Aus as well.

Bhai, Rohit deserve the rest. he's playing non-stop cricket for quite some time now, almost 45 + games this year. Australia tour starting from mid January so my understanding is that he should be back by then.

I think India is planning to go with a combination of few experienced players and couple of new players or try some others out which will give them also a exposure and also India may have a backup player ready so that they can make them play at times too.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

I think Dhoni have different game plans for this season because CSK bought only bowlers in the bidding action it seems to Dhoni understand the other teams strength and what CSK need exactly.

The team has specialist batsman who are the permanent fixtures like Suresh Raina, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo and Dhoni is more than enough to stabilize the team and they still have Murali Vijay, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav and Faf du Plessis and the superstar Ravindra Jadeja and this batting can take on any bowlers in the world and now they have more options to select when it comes to bowling. So i think they have a complete team and with Dhoni as the captain he can pose a challenge to any team.

[ene1980]

I think India is planning to go with a combination of few experienced players and couple of new players or try some others out which will give them also a exposure and also India may have a backup player ready so that they can make them play at times too.

I think they have the bench strength to rest the senior players and still have a competitive match and more over the series is in India and they usually dominate the visiting players even though they usually one match every series but they come back strongly and win the series and that is what i am seeing in the past few series and they are playing Sri Lanka next but the Australian series will be tough as they are in great form.

[Sithara007]

The team has specialist batsman who are the permanent fixtures like Suresh Raina, Shane Watson, Dwayne Bravo and Dhoni is more than enough to stabilize the team and they still have Murali Vijay, Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav and Faf du Plessis and the superstar Ravindra Jadeja and this batting can take on any bowlers in the world and now they have more options to select when it comes to bowling. So i think they have a complete team and with Dhoni as the captain he can pose a challenge to any team.

It is surprising that they are not very concerned about the future. Dhoni and Watson are 38 years old (will be almost 39 at the time of the next IPL). Murali Vijay is 35 years old and Dwayne Bravo is 36. Ambati Rayudu and Kedar Jadhav are also not young either. If I am not wrong, CSK will be having the oldest lineup during the next IPL. And it may have an impact on their hard hitting abilities. We have seen how Dhoni's strike rate has plummeted during the recent years. They could have bid for Chris Lynn or Shimron Hetmyer.

[Vishnu.Reang]

I think Dhoni have different game plans for this season because CSK bought only bowlers in the bidding action it seems to Dhoni understand the other teams strength and what CSK need exactly.

I am still not convinced, because I don't think that Piyush Chawla will get to play too many matches during the 2020 edition. The entire thing looked very suspicious for me, with Dinesh Karthik from the SRH and MS Dhoni of CSK going all out for him. Chawla's record during the previous editions of the league are very ordinary looking and splurging so much money on him was surprising.

[7788bitcoin]

I am still not convinced, because I don't think that Piyush Chawla will get to play too many matches during the 2020 edition. The entire thing looked very suspicious for me, with Dinesh Karthik from the SRH and MS Dhoni of CSK going all out for him. Chawla's record during the previous editions of the league are very ordinary looking and splurging so much money on him was surprising.

If Chawla is able to earn a healthy earning so be it, even if he is rested hope he will be getting that kind of money at the end of the season, i think the reason is that they were looking for a leg spin bowler and he is a good choice as there are not many leg spinners around and they might have a plan or two to invest that kind of money in him, not sure how he is performing in domestic tournaments and may be that can be the case too.

[Juggy777]

I am still not convinced, because I don't think that Piyush Chawla will get to play too many matches during the 2020 edition. The entire thing looked very suspicious for me, with Dinesh Karthik from the SRH and MS Dhoni of CSK going all out for him. Chawla's record during the previous editions of the league are very ordinary looking and splurging so much money on him was surprising.

If Chawla is able to earn a healthy earning so be it, even if he is rested hope he will be getting that kind of money at the end of the season, i think the reason is that they were looking for a leg spin bowler and he is a good choice as there are not many leg spinners around and they might have a plan or two to invest that kind of money in him, not sure how he is performing in domestic tournaments and may be that can be the case too.

Ms Dhoni purchased Piyush Chawla because of his overall experience, but I feel this is a wrong purchase as Piyush Chawla hasn’t played any international cricket match since ages. I’m sure many will think that he might have a strong IPL record which would further justify his purchase by CSK, but in my opinion his record is weak but form your own opinion after seeing his stats.

Piyush Chawla IPL record: https://www.mykhel.com/cricket/players/piyush-chawla-ipl-p3351/

Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/ipl-2020/story/chennai-super-kings-ipl-2020-auction-piyush-chawla-ms-dhoni-l-balaji-1629848-2019-12-19

[ene1980]

Ms Dhoni purchased Piyush Chawla because of his overall experience, but I feel this is a wrong purchase as Piyush Chawla hasn’t played any international cricket match since ages. I’m sure many will think that he might have a strong IPL record which would further justify his purchase by CSK, but in my opinion his record is weak but form your own opinion after seeing his stats.

From looking at the IPL records your provided, he is not performing that well from 2017 where his economy rate is 8.95  which is not a great one and by far the 2019 IPL was his worst performance till date and i am not sure why Dhoni wanted him in the team even with the performance like this in his past IPL, may be he is helping him earn the money as IPL will be the major source of money for Chawla as he is not playing international cricket for a long period of time and hence his inclusion to help him earn some money .

[Ayiranorea]

I think Dhoni have different game plans for this season because CSK bought only bowlers in the bidding action it seems to Dhoni understand the other teams strength and what CSK need exactly.

I am still not convinced, because I don't think that Piyush Chawla will get to play too many matches during the 2020 edition. The entire thing looked very suspicious for me, with Dinesh Karthik from the SRH and MS Dhoni of CSK going all out for him. Chawla's record during the previous editions of the league are very ordinary looking and splurging so much money on him was surprising.

We don't know what Dhoni have planned, because every time rest of the team thinks in one way and his thinking will be different. Finally on execution his strategy wins the match. This time for the IPL he might have made some plans that needs Piyush Chawla. As said his performances over the past IPL's weren't that big.

[sureshnsnet]

I think Dhoni have different game plans for this season because CSK bought only bowlers in the bidding action it seems to Dhoni understand the other teams strength and what CSK need exactly.

I am still not convinced, because I don't think that Piyush Chawla will get to play too many matches during the 2020 edition. The entire thing looked very suspicious for me, with Dinesh Karthik from the SRH and MS Dhoni of CSK going all out for him. Chawla's record during the previous editions of the league are very ordinary looking and splurging so much money on him was surprising.

We don't know what Dhoni have planned, because every time rest of the team thinks in one way and his thinking will be different. Finally on execution his strategy wins the match. This time for the IPL he might have made some plans that needs Piyush Chawla. As said his performances over the past IPL's weren't that big.

Yes you are right Dhoni will have a different game plan this season IPL and we can note that from the bidding action because bought only bowlers but some cricket exporters do not understand why dhoni bought Chawla with 6.75 cores because there're yang talents waiting for good opportunity, maybe dhoni has been noted that Chawla resent domestic performance.

[Sithara007]

Yes you are right Dhoni will have a different game plan this season IPL and we can note that from the bidding action because bought only bowlers but some cricket exporters do not understand why dhoni bought Chawla with 6.75 cores because there're yang talents waiting for good opportunity, maybe dhoni has been noted that Chawla resent domestic performance.

I checked his record in the domestic tournaments this season, and I couldn't find anything extra-ordinary. He represents Gujarat, and most of his better performances so far in this season came against weak teams such as Sikkim and Nagaland. He was smashed all around the park during the recent T20 matches against strong teams such as Saurashtra and Jharkhand (going for more than 10 runs per over in both the matches, without taking a single wicket). My personal opinion is that CSK should have given opportunities to the younger players instead of this oldie.