T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Patrol69]

A few words about Liton Das today. 

Liton Das has been given only one match chance in IPL so far. Kolkata Management fielded Litton in the playing XI for Delhi against Delhi Capitals. But in that match, Liton Das got out for just four runs. First of all this IPL is Liton Das' first IPL. The first IPL and the first match all together he was feeling a bit nervous.  After a poor first match, Liton Das deserved another chance. But as he did not perform well in the first match, he was not given a place in the eleven until now. 

After Liton Das did badly in the first match, David Wiese was brought in as his replacement in the next match but he failed completely in the first match. David Wiese would not have been fielded against RCB if the Kolkata management played the same role for Liton Das as it did for David Wiese. But the Calcutta management did not play Litton's role in David Wiese's case.

There may be some cricketing reasons behind it which I am going to highlight now. First of all, maybe Liton Das's performance against Md Siraj is not very good, that's why Liton Das was not included in the XI against RCB.

LITTON RECORD AGAINST SIRAJ

FORMAT      RUNS      BALLS    OUTS     DOTS   
TEST                30              39         2              27
ODI                   17              22         2              14


David Wiese's performance at BANGALORE Stadium is relatively good.

DAVID WIESE BOWLING RECORD
IN M. CHINNASWAMY STADIUM, BANGALORE

YEAR  INNINGS  OVERS  RUNS  ECON  WKT
2015        5               15         142     9.46      6
২০১৬       1                  4           49     12.25    0
TOTAL     6                16         191    11.93    6

Considering all this, Liton Das is not getting a chance in the XI. 

However, even if the management does not give importance to Liton Das on the field, the importance of Liton Das on social media is immense.  Most of the posts on social media focused on Lytton. And on that post, many Bangladeshi fans are commenting that Liton Das may have been recruited by Calcutta only to increase the social media reach. 
What is your opinion on this matter?

[Sithara007]

A few words about Liton Das today. 
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In the end the choice was made between David Wiese and Litton Das, and the former got selected because he is a T20 specialist and experience in playing around the world in different T20 leagues. And yesterday Wiese added some valuable runs towards the end. He made 12 runs from just 3 balls. However, he didn't got a chance to bowl, as Suyash Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy were terrific in their respective spells. Kolkata Knight Riders have 6 matches remaining in the group stage. I hope that Litton will get his chances.

[Haunebu]

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.

KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

[n0ne]

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.

KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

If one of the player in the downline performs RCB could easily win matches. Among the four matches lost out of eight matches played three matches were close encounters. Against Chennai the match was almost over with the top order performance. Fortunately wickets fell and the rest wasn't able to win the game. Same is what happened with yesterday's match against KKR. Against LSG the match ended in the last ball chasing 212 runs. As said combined performance is required for now, if not this season to gonna be same as other season for RCB.

[Sithara007]

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.

KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

KKR is inconsistent because some of their main players are either injured or out of form. But they should be happy with the performance yesterday. Reaching a total of 200, and that too against a bowling attack that includes internationals such as Mohammed Siraj, David Willey, Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga is not very easy. But they were able to do that thanks to contributions from Jason Roy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and David Wiese. Rinku Singh didn't scored too many runs yesterday, but he has been their find for this season. 

[JSRAW]

Mistakenly came across the Deaf IPL league on FANCODE.

Unpopular opinion but have to say, to the popular belief that Deaf folks are a nice bunch is not true at all  . Kasam se just saw the bowler and company cursing (with sign language) the fielder when he misfielded. 

[BALIK]

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.
KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

KKR is inconsistent because some of their main players are either injured or out of form. But they should be happy with the performance yesterday. Reaching a total of 200, and that too against a bowling attack that includes internationals such as Mohammed Siraj, David Willey, Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga is not very easy. But they were able to do that thanks to contributions from Jason Roy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and David Wiese. Rinku Singh didn't scored too many runs yesterday, but he has been their find for this season. 

Rinku Sing gave a brilliant performance in one match to give Kolkata victory. But he is not able to play well consistently. Also I am very annoyed with Narayan Jagadeesan's performance. He was able to collect 27 runs in yesterday's match. Although it looked like a good enough collection, he scored 27 runs off 29 balls. His strike rate was less than 100. The Kolkata bowlers were able to bowl some controlled bowling in this match. That's why they won this match. If the bowlers did not perform well, Kolkata would have conceded their fifth defeat in a row.

[BobK71]

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.
KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

KKR is inconsistent because some of their main players are either injured or out of form. But they should be happy with the performance yesterday. Reaching a total of 200, and that too against a bowling attack that includes internationals such as Mohammed Siraj, David Willey, Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga is not very easy. But they were able to do that thanks to contributions from Jason Roy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and David Wiese. Rinku Singh didn't scored too many runs yesterday, but he has been their find for this season. 

Rinku Sing gave a brilliant performance in one match to give Kolkata victory. But he is not able to play well consistently. Also I am very annoyed with Narayan Jagadeesan's performance. He was able to collect 27 runs in yesterday's match. Although it looked like a good enough collection, he scored 27 runs off 29 balls. His strike rate was less than 100. The Kolkata bowlers were able to bowl some controlled bowling in this match. That's why they won this match. If the bowlers did not perform well, Kolkata would have conceded their fifth defeat in a row.

Rinku Singh's performance in the first match was not good as he managed to score 4 runs off just 4 balls against Punjab Kings. In the second match of KKR, he scored 46 runs off 33 balls and won that match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. In KKR's third match, he scored an unbeaten 58 off 31 balls in which KKR won the match. On the other hand, the matches where Rinku Singh has done poorly most of the matches KKR lost. Judging from that perspective, Rinku Singh certainly deserves praise. But I will agree with you that N Jagadeesan is not doing comparatively well.

[Sithara007]

Mistakenly came across the Deaf IPL league on FANCODE.

Unpopular opinion but have to say, to the popular belief that Deaf folks are a nice bunch is not true at all  . Kasam se just saw the bowler and company cursing (with sign language) the fielder when he misfielded. 

Fancode always have 10-12 live matches ongoing in their platform. And this is one of the reasons why I decided to renew my subscription. However the video/audio quality is not top-notch. The quality is comparable to what you get in YouTube live streams. And the annual subscription fee comes to ₹699 per year (around $8), and it doesn't put a hole in your pocket. Today I enjoyed watching the Mizoram T20 League match between Gorkha Cricket Club and Ramhlun Venglai Cricket Club. A majority of Indians don't know where Mizoram is located, but I was satisfied with the quality of play. Quality of video was OK, and the commentatory was quite good.

[keyscore44]

Mistakenly came across the Deaf IPL league on FANCODE.

Unpopular opinion but have to say, to the popular belief that Deaf folks are a nice bunch is not true at all  . Kasam se just saw the bowler and company cursing (with sign language) the fielder when he misfielded. 

Fancode always have 10-12 live matches ongoing in their platform. And this is one of the reasons why I decided to renew my subscription. However the video/audio quality is not top-notch. The quality is comparable to what you get in YouTube live streams. And the annual subscription fee comes to ₹699 per year (around $8), and it doesn't put a hole in your pocket. Today I enjoyed watching the Mizoram T20 League match between Gorkha Cricket Club and Ramhlun Venglai Cricket Club. A majority of Indians don't know where Mizoram is located, but I was satisfied with the quality of play. Quality of video was OK, and the commentatory was quite good.

Actually I want to talk a little differently, basically T20 format is dominated by fast bowling and hard hitting batsmen. Because T20 format requires great batting to score runs quickly and these batsmen need fast bowling to keep wickets falling. Then the t20 matches will accumulate.

[MusaPk]

Rinku Sing gave a brilliant performance in one match to give Kolkata victory. But he is not able to play well consistently. Also I am very annoyed with Narayan Jagadeesan's performance. He was able to collect 27 runs in yesterday's match. Although it looked like a good enough collection, he scored 27 runs off 29 balls. His strike rate was less than 100. The Kolkata bowlers were able to bowl some controlled bowling in this match. That's why they won this match. If the bowlers did not perform well, Kolkata would have conceded their fifth defeat in a row.

The credit for yesterday victory goes to Jason Roy and the captain Nitish Rana, without there contribution KKR wont be able to give a target of 200 runs. Royal Challengers Bangalore are too much dependent on Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Maxwell. Yesterday Kohli was able to score a fifty buy Faf du Plessis and Maxwell didn't clicked. Still nothing much to worry about for RCB as they are very much up in points table.

[justdimin]

Virat Kohli is making the best contribution to the Royal Challenger Bangalore team in today's match. As an opening batsman he is often on the way to half-centuries, but the rest of the batsmen have not performed very well. After performing well in the previous matches, Maxwell could not stand his ground in this match and considering other aspects, his team including Virat Kohli is often under wicket pressure. Currently, if this pair can survive, there is definitely a possibility of Kolkata Knight Riders winning. Kolkata Knight Riders must now attack with the spinner ball if they want to win from the bowling side.

KKR won by 21 runs by defeating RCB and the chances of KKR winning the tournament were alive. The Player of the Match is Varun Chakaravarthy by outstanding performance in which he took 3 key wickets while conceding only 27 runs. Jason Roy for his amazing fifty and Nitish Rana provided the foundation for KKR nnings with their crucial 57 and 48 run performance respectively. Although Virat Kohli 57 ball innings kept the RCB team  hopes alive the KKR bowlers were able to hold them to a score of 179 which ultimately proved to be insufficient. After 4 straight losses this victory will definitely increase KKR confidence and give them the much needed momentum they need to progress to the tournament next round

A thumbing good win for KKR after having 4 matches losing streak even now they have no good chances for jumping from here for the top four spots with their current performance, but this lost give RCB also big shock because now things looking not good for them as well I was not expecting target like this but RCB bowlers surely have bad day and concede enough runs which were give them pressure from the start and their all star players fail to give their best in this match as well which was key for their defeat.

Kohli done good job and have good inning at important time, but this inning was also not enough to give them better result after 12 overs KKR bowlers change the match momentum and not allowed RCB batsmen to play freely which was big surprise because I had never been having thoughts about KKR bowlers can do performance like this but from here they are impressive.

[wiss19]

The Afghanistan team was underestimated by Pakistan. Perhaps this was a series Pakistan management thought they would easily win. But Pakistan's performance against Afghanistan was terrible. And they were badly defeated. The team also failed to play well against New Zealand.
The only weakness of the Pakistan team in the last few years was their batting line-up. The performance of the batsmen was completely erratic. But now Pakistan's bowlers are also not performing well. This is why Pakistan could not win the series against New Zealand. Pakistan's performance is deteriorating day by day. On the other hand, teams like Bangladesh and Afghanistan are becoming stronger.

I am not agreed with this Pakistan underestimate Afghanistan because if you are able to go through streets then surely you will have idea common Pakistani have enough knowledge of cricket, and they rated Afghanistan as dangerous team for these two formats ODI and T20i but here blunder done by Pakistani management and I have feeling they give series to them for having some soft gesture but fail because they never learn from their mistakes which they have done in 1999 World Cup as they give Bangladesh match for having test cap, but things were surely gone in wrong side form Bangladesh side same happened here.

As they have enough players pool and sending mostly player which were completely new in International cricket this was the biggest blunder, and they face the consequences now we have good win from New Zealand side in last T20i which is surely impressive thanks to new Chapman which is now having spot into ODI side as well after giving heroics performance in T20i series.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

The Afghanistan team was underestimated by Pakistan. Perhaps this was a series Pakistan management thought they would easily win. But Pakistan's performance against Afghanistan was terrible. And they were badly defeated. The team also failed to play well against New Zealand.
The only weakness of the Pakistan team in the last few years was their batting line-up. The performance of the batsmen was completely erratic. But now Pakistan's bowlers are also not performing well. This is why Pakistan could not win the series against New Zealand. Pakistan's performance is deteriorating day by day. On the other hand, teams like Bangladesh and Afghanistan are becoming stronger.

I am not agreed with this Pakistan underestimate Afghanistan because if you are able to go through streets then surely you will have idea common Pakistani have enough knowledge of cricket, and they rated Afghanistan as dangerous team for these two formats ODI and T20i but here blunder done by Pakistani management and I have feeling they give series to them for having some soft gesture but fail because they never learn from their mistakes which they have done in 1999 World Cup as they give Bangladesh match for having test cap, but things were surely gone in wrong side form Bangladesh side same happened here.

As they have enough players pool and sending mostly player which were completely new in International cricket this was the biggest blunder, and they face the consequences now we have good win from New Zealand side in last T20i which is surely impressive thanks to new Chapman which is now having spot into ODI side as well after giving heroics performance in T20i series.

Afghanistan is one of the strongest teams in t20 format and they have some top class players in their team , Pakistan never underestimated Afghanistan.  The mistake PCB did was to send all new inexperienced team for series without any senior players  that was the reason of their defeat.

Newzealand is a very sensible and good team and they have proven themselves that they can play good with new players too. Their recent performance with Pakistan is worth appreciating.

[pakhitheboss]

Yesterday while watching the match between KKR & RCB I found another Indian spin talent. I am talking about Suyash Sharma, a 19 year old guy with a bright future. I went ahead and check his stats and found out of the total 6 IPL matches that he has played he took 9 wickets. He has an economy of 8.12 which is acceptable in T20 format with an average of 21.67. The only drawback with this guy is that he cannot bat still the next time India's T20 team is announced you can expect his name on that list.

Another day to watch MSD play. I hope he comes before Sir Jadeja and display a few power shots against RR. I fill the match would be interesting as both these teams are playing very well. Another match that can be big scoring and batters friendly.

[JSRAW]

Mistakenly came across the Deaf IPL league on FANCODE.

Unpopular opinion but have to say, to the popular belief that Deaf folks are a nice bunch is not true at all  . Kasam se just saw the bowler and company cursing (with sign language) the fielder when he misfielded.  

Fancode always have 10-12 live matches ongoing in their platform. And this is one of the reasons why I decided to renew my subscription. However the video/audio quality is not top-notch. The quality is comparable to what you get in YouTube live streams. And the annual subscription fee comes to ₹699 per year (around $8), and it doesn't put a hole in your pocket. Today I enjoyed watching the Mizoram T20 League match between Gorkha Cricket Club and Ramhlun Venglai Cricket Club. A majority of Indians don't know where Mizoram is located, but I was satisfied with the quality of play. Quality of video was OK, and the commentatory was quite good.

I hardly watch matches there, maybe some Women's cricket here n there, that's it. Tbh I find their quality quite good as far as streaming is concerned with virtually zero lag, maybe they also use 60 fps similar to Amazon/JIO.

Video/audio quality depends on the main broadcasters/providers of events. These folks direct their feed towards FANCODE so can't blame the FANCODE.

Another day to watch MSD play. I hope he comes before Sir Jadeja and display a few power shots against RR.

Same! As far as Thala is hitting some maximum and playing 10-15 balls, it's all blockbuster. I won't mind even if they lose the match.  

[pakhitheboss]

Same! As far as Thala is hitting some maximum and playing 10-15 balls, it's all blockbuster. I won't mind even if they lose the match.  

I am the biggest fan of two Indian cricketers, the first one is Sachin Tendulkar and the next is MSD. These two guys have changed the face of Indian cricket. I am praying every time whenever CSK plays that MSD comes up in the batting order till now it has not happened. I hope he does it today and we can again see him delivering what he was known for in his international career. 

[Haunebu]

What the heck are the CSK management thinking sending Ali and Jadeja ahead of Dhoni who is in great form? Also, how the heck is Rayudu an impact player again and again? Poor planning overall!

Jaiswal, Jurel and Padikkal played really well. RR outplayed CSK in all departments to rise to the top of the table despite their recent losses.

[ItsCrafty]

The Afghanistan team was underestimated by Pakistan. Perhaps this was a series Pakistan management thought they would easily win. But Pakistan's performance against Afghanistan was terrible. And they were badly defeated. The team also failed to play well against New Zealand.
The only weakness of the Pakistan team in the last few years was their batting line-up. The performance of the batsmen was completely erratic. But now Pakistan's bowlers are also not performing well. This is why Pakistan could not win the series against New Zealand. Pakistan's performance is deteriorating day by day. On the other hand, teams like Bangladesh and Afghanistan are becoming stronger.

Pakistan biggest issue in t20 cricket is lack of best hitter. Pakistani openers Rizwan and babar are not suitable for t20 match. They wanted to score with ball which is considered bad in t20 format. This is the reason Pakistan very rare you will see Pakistan team 200+ score. Their bowling lineup is strong but you cannot win t20 matches without hard hitters and these hitters should be consistent in scoring.

Fakhar zaman, Haris Sohail and other top hitters should be given more chances to improve. If they settled in this format I believe that This will be world best strong team.

[eaLiTy]

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Pakistan biggest issue in t20 cricket is lack of best hitter. Pakistani openers Rizwan and babar are not suitable for t20 match. They wanted to score with ball which is considered bad in t20 format. This is the reason Pakistan very rare you will see Pakistan team 200+ score. Their bowling lineup is strong but you cannot win t20 matches without hard hitters and these hitters should be consistent in scoring.

Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam are their best players even in the recently concluded PSL, they are not having the best strike rate but they are consistent players. May be they can shift their batting positions or one can be the anchor and the other can start smashing the bowlers from the start. May be a lack of team planning is the reason because they have some quality players but not able to perform during crucial moments.