T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[JSRAW]

Bad auction for almost every batsmen. Top scorer of BBL Alex Hales also goes unsold along with many other batsmen. Marnus is not big name in T-20 but he's entertaining personality when on the field. He deserve some bidding for his ranting, needy, innocent nature (he's kind of "Taare Zameen Par" Type of guy), I like him.

The auction looked like some sort of favoring the players they like the most, reject good players while paying huge amount of money to players who never performed well in the IPL like Steven Smith and Glen Maxwell and Piyush Chawla and Harbhajan Singh getting big amounts as well and they are not playing international cricket for along time while neglecting some youngsters and the most controversy will be the inclusion of Arjun Tendulkar and there are talks of nepotism popping up again  .

I wouldn't say that anyone doing any favor to anyone. I look at recent auction as only demand and supply. All rounders and fast bowlers were in demand, batsmen not so much.

Arjun has been part of Mumbai Indian family for very long and from last 2-3 years they are consistently using him as net bowler so it was pretty obvious.

[Maheshkumar_Hrangkhawl]

I wouldn't say that anyone doing any favor to anyone. I look at recent auction as only demand and supply. All rounders and fast bowlers were in demand, batsmen not so much.

Arjun has been part of Mumbai Indian family for very long and from last 2-3 years they are consistently using him as net bowler so it was pretty obvious.

Accusations against Arjun are ridiculous. He has been a part of the Mumbai state squad and have performed well in the domestic tournaments. If you want to remove nepotism, then first get rid of all the businessmen who are ruining cricket, such as the current ICC chairman Greg Barclay. What qualification people like N Srinivasan, Sharad Pawar and Jay Shah have, to run cricket administration?

[UmerIdrees]

Get ready for the Grand opening ceremony of PSL 2021 to be started in 3 hours from now followed by the opening match between Karachi kings and Quetta Gladiators.

[UmerIdrees]

For international viewers, you may watch the opening ceremony live now at the below link.

https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/7974-psl-2021-watch-opening-ceremony-live-from-national-stadium-karachi

[mersal]

The auction looked like some sort of favoring the players they like the most, reject good players while paying huge amount of money to players who never performed well in the IPL like Steven Smith and Glen Maxwell and Piyush Chawla and Harbhajan Singh getting big amounts as well and they are not playing international cricket for along time while neglecting some youngsters and the most controversy will be the inclusion of Arjun Tendulkar and there are talks of nepotism popping up again  .

I agree with all the other names, but not with Steve Smith. That guy is a legend, and he just got ₹2.2 crore. Useless players such as Shivam Dube received double that amount. And the bids for players such as Piyush Chawla surprises me. He has been a failure in recent editions, and age is not on his side. There are promising spinners around, such as Khrievitso Kense who are never considered by these franchises. Instead they are going for these good for nothing oldies.

Steve Smith has been exceptional in the test format but he failed in the IPL to meet such expectation what he holds in the international standards, hopefully, this year may give chance for him to deliver. All set now and picking players is every franchise choice and decision because they invest their money so its up to their decision for sure and IPL is more for the profits than any other reason.

[JSRAW]

India announced their T-20 Squad against England. Sanju Samson out, guess his luck ran out on short Australia tour, he can blame himself. Ishan Kishan and SK Yadav got the chance. Bumrah is rested for right reasons.
https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1363143754807316487

Indian Squad : Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Y Chahal, Varun Chakravarthy, Axar Patel, W Sundar, R Tewatia, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep, Shardul Thakur.

Full England T20I squad for India series

England Squad: Eoin Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonathan Bairstow, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Chris Jordan, Liam Livingstone, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid , Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, Mark Wood.

Reserves:
Jake Bal, Matt Parkinson.

[onrise]

For international viewers, you may watch the opening ceremony live now at the below link.

https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/7974-psl-2021-watch-opening-ceremony-live-from-national-stadium-karachi

Good to see Chris Gayale in some form and hitting the ball well but was out at 39. Gladiators are struggling a bit as lost 6 wickets already on 101 after 14.2 overs. If Ben cutting remain on pitch till last over then can expect some 150+ runs else if Kings manage to pick up couple of wickets here then might not even reach 140 and would be difficult to save the match for Gladiators. Waiting for Babar Azam to give a solid start to Kings team.

[onecall123]

India announced their T-20 Squad against England. Sanju Samson out, guess his luck ran out on short Australia tour, he can blame himself. Ishan Kishan and SK Yadav got the chance. Bumrah is rested for right reasons.

Sanju Samson again dropped, he hasn't got much good chances. But, Deserving call for both Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. Bumrah is rested, as he is not fit to play. I guess the present bowling department making an impact in England batting lineup. In general a strong side in all the department. Exciting Series to watch.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

As Rayudu performed so well when he opened in 2018, proper use of his potential is also been jeopardize because of the uncertainty of his batting position.

I hope they will include Imran Tahir in the team as he is the best bowler in the shorter format and Mooen Ali if given the opening slot and if he performs would be a crucial position and it will allow them the freedom to add bowlers. The problem with Raina is that we have no idea about his fitness as he is not playing international cricket.

Couple of things of this IPL auction - Would Arjun Tendulkar be picked by any other team if Mumbai had not picked him? Or was Mumbai had to picked since Sachin is associated with Mumbai?

I doubt whether any other team will pick Arjun Tendulkar and i doubt whether he will get an opportunity to play. The selection must be a gift to Tendulkar by the Ambani family .

Last Year Vivo was not chosen due to Chinese company, so how come the board has made an approval for the same company this time, when as far as know India has banned even the Chinese app but the board is allowing the Vivo as the main sponsor, is'nt that a big debateable discussion with BCCI.

There are many hypocrisies and banning of the Chinese app is one thing and someone sponsoring huge amount is another, the mobile companies are not banned to avoid them.

[UmerIdrees]

Glimpse of Pakistan Super League opening ceremony 

[ene1980]

Waiting for Babar Azam to give a solid start to Kings team.

They won the match easily, need to learn about the team strengths to place a bet. Karachi Kings looks like a strong team with Babar Azam,  Daniel Christian, Joe Clarke and Mohammad Amir.

Sanju Samson again dropped, he hasn't got much good chances. But, Deserving call for both Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. Bumrah is rested, as he is not fit to play. I guess the present bowling department making an impact in England batting lineup. In general a strong side in all the department. Exciting Series to watch.

India have abundance of talents and Sanju Samson is yet to make an impact in the international matches, England have the strongest team in T20 and it will be a close series and my bet is on England.

[UmerIdrees]

Waiting for Babar Azam to give a solid start to Kings team.

They won the match easily, need to learn about the team strengths to place a bet. Karachi Kings looks like a strong team with Babar Azam,  Daniel Christian, Joe Clarke and Mohammad Amir.

Karachi kings looks strong throughout the match and won this first encounter easily. They chased 126 n only 13.5 overs. Arshad Iqbal was the man of the match. Another innings to watch was from Chris Gayle who scored 39 runs from 24 balls from the Quetta gladiators side.

[Sithara007]

Sanju Samson again dropped, he hasn't got much good chances. But, Deserving call for both Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. Bumrah is rested, as he is not fit to play. I guess the present bowling department making an impact in England batting lineup. In general a strong side in all the department. Exciting Series to watch.

India have abundance of talents and Sanju Samson is yet to make an impact in the international matches, England have the strongest team in T20 and it will be a close series and my bet is on England.

I believe that Samson was given enough chances. It is not the fault of the team management that he failed to convert his performance at the IPL to international level. On top of that, given the enormous talent pool, the selectors need to give opportunities for the other players as well. I believe that the inclusion of Ishan Kishan is a step in the right direction. I always thought that he was someone capable of becoming the full-time wicket keeper for team India. For Rishabh Pant, the toughest competition comes from Kishan, and not from Samson.

[pakhitheboss]

India announced their T-20 Squad against England. Sanju Samson out, guess his luck ran out on short Australia tour, he can blame himself. Ishan Kishan and SK Yadav got the chance. Bumrah is rested for right reasons.

Sanju Samson again dropped, he hasn't got much good chances. But, Deserving call for both Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. Bumrah is rested, as he is not fit to play. I guess the present bowling department making an impact in England batting lineup. In general a strong side in all the department. Exciting Series to watch.

Sanju samson got a chance but was not able to utilise the opportunity therefore he himself has to be blamed for the downfall. I think Yadav is more deserving than Kishan. They both have got the opportunity now they need to perform well.

[UmerIdrees]

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[JSRAW]

India announced their T-20 Squad against England. Sanju Samson out, guess his luck ran out on short Australia tour, he can blame himself. Ishan Kishan and SK Yadav got the chance. Bumrah is rested for right reasons.

Sanju Samson again dropped, he hasn't got much good chances. But, Deserving call for both Ishan Kishan and Surya Kumar Yadav. Bumrah is rested, as he is not fit to play. I guess the present bowling department making an impact in England batting lineup. In general a strong side in all the department. Exciting Series to watch.

Sanju attracted many eyeballs but he's yet to perform in International level, even in IPL his inconsistency is big concern for many. Bumrah is not injured but rested, his schedule is pack and main focus is Test and WC. Jadeja and Manish Pandey are not fit so their names are also missing from the T-20 squad.

[RamBahadur.Gurung]

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This time they don't have a lot of West Indian players. Only a few retired players such as Chris Gayle and second tier players such as Carlos Brathwaite and Sherfane Rutherford are there. If they had managed to sign players such as Pollard or Russell, then it could have given them a much wider audience in the foreign nations (including the big 3 nations). There are a few good names, BTW such as Babar Azam, Imad Wasim and Shoaib Malik among the local players, and Tom Banton, Dale Steyn, Faf du Plessis, David Miller, Chris Lynn, Adam Lyth, David Wiese, Ben Dunk, Rashid Khan, Paul Stirling and Alex Hales among the overseas players.

[UmerIdrees]

Today's Matches in PSL
The timings are according to PST

This time they don't have a lot of West Indian players. Only a few retired players such as Chris Gayle and second tier players such as Carlos Brathwaite and Sherfane Rutherford are there. If they had managed to sign players such as Pollard or Russell, then it could have given them a much wider audience in the foreign nations (including the big 3 nations). There are a few good names, BTW such as Babar Azam, Imad Wasim and Shoaib Malik among the local players, and Tom Banton, Dale Steyn, Faf du Plessis, David Miller, Chris Lynn, Adam Lyth, David Wiese, Ben Dunk, Rashid Khan, Paul Stirling and Alex Hales among the overseas players.

Chris galye is a new addition in the PSL and pakistani nation are fan of him. The rest of the foreign players are more or less the same and we are happy with them as together they are able to make the series entertaining and successful. If the players from Big 3 nation don't want to visit Pakistan and miss out the action/adventure, then who cares.  

[UmerIdrees]

PSL can be watched outside Pakistan on the following channels. I am sharing the complete list so that no one misses out to watch this tournament.

[JohnBitCo]

PSL can be watched outside Pakistan on the following channels. I am sharing the complete list so that no one misses out to watch this tournament.

These are all the tv channels mentioned but is there any official channel where the Psl matches are broadcasted live online or on any youtube channel ?
By the way good to see psl can be seen in India also throgh sony network.