T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[redsun114]

First of all Lucknow Super Giants batting wasn't good. They didn't make enough runs to win this match but when you look on the performance of Sunrisers Hyderabad players that will show that how should be the batting line of a team. They didn't lose any wicket and easily chased the target. Both players Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head played really well. LSG bowlers did not able to break the first partnership. Travis Head made 89 runs. And Abhishek Sharma made 75 runs. And Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match without any loss of any wicket. Here one more thing interested. Means SRH chased the target with in 10 overs which was amazing. Congratulations to SRH winning.

What a great performance by Sunrisers Hyderabad. I was not expecting that they will chase the target with first partnership and with in 10 overs. Travis Head played really well. And Abhishek Sharma was also good. They both were playing outstanding and helping each other and also helping the team to win. First Lucknow Super Giants made 165 runs which was not a good target according to the match situation. And bowling of LSG was also not good. They gave a chance to Travis to make 89 runs on 30 balls. By the way match was really exciting. Congratulations to SRH for winning the match.

After the final of the ODI World Cup 2023, Travis Head is doing amazing stuff for the Australia with his current form in IPL is giving him amazing success with this most chances he is going to be important in coming years as well which is going to be good for him in yesterday game we have good control from the SRH from the start as their bowlers were at the target and never allow them to settle in their inning specially Bhuvneshwar Kumar was at the top of game with his impressive bowling.

In reply, we have Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma in full control as both hit 14 sixes and complete their chase in just 58 balls which is huge booster for them and their chances for going into playoffs with this performance now they are having good increase of their NRR which is also important for the having spot into last four in case of having points on level with other teams.

[JSRAW]

Both these teams have 8 points + a low RR and are left with only 3 matches, at best one of em could get 6 points if one manages to win its remaining matches. It's an eliminator for both participants.

Not to mention, run rate is also a critical ingredient for the playoff so I'd say less than a 5% chance. Cricket is a weird and funny game so anything could happen but  I'd term it as a dead rubber.

In this season of the IPL, a good match can mean a huge boost in terms of the net run rate. During yesterday's match, Sunrisers Hyderabad originally had a negative run rate to start with (-0.076 or something near). After they managed to demolish the Lucknow Super Giants, they ended up with a NRR of +0.406 and moved to the 3rd spot in the points table. So I would say that things are quite unpredictable at the moment. But honestly I don't expect RCB, PBKS, MI and GT to qualify for the playoffs.

Sure why not if the RCB bowler restricts Punjab under 49 (RCB's lowest score xD) and chase down the target within 3-4 overs then there is some possibility lol.

Same for Punjab and these folks need to repeat their performance in the remaining matches as well. TBH it's a fool's errand if you ask me. MI knocked out already.

[Sithara007]

Sure why not if the RCB bowler restricts Punjab under 49 (RCB's lowest score xD) and chase down the target within 3-4 overs then there is some possibility lol.

Same for Punjab and these folks need to repeat their performance in the remaining matches as well. TBH it's a fool's errand if you ask me. MI knocked out already.

Not very surprised with the developments. Mumbai Indians used to be one of the strongest sides in the history of Indian Premier League. Just one stupid move and the entire team disintegrated. What was the point in replacing Rohit Sharma with Harddick Pandya? Rohit was performing amazingly well and all of a sudden they disrupt the equilibrium by importing Pandya from the Gujarat Titans. Pandya do have powerful backers though, both in the IPL and in the Indian national team.

[synchronym]

Both these teams have 8 points + a low RR and are left with only 3 matches, at best one of em could get 6 points if one manages to win its remaining matches. It's an eliminator for both participants.

Not to mention, run rate is also a critical ingredient for the playoff so I'd say less than a 5% chance. Cricket is a weird and funny game so anything could happen but  I'd term it as a dead rubber.

In this season of the IPL, a good match can mean a huge boost in terms of the net run rate. During yesterday's match, Sunrisers Hyderabad originally had a negative run rate to start with (-0.076 or something near). After they managed to demolish the Lucknow Super Giants, they ended up with a NRR of +0.406 and moved to the 3rd spot in the points table. So I would say that things are quite unpredictable at the moment. But honestly I don't expect RCB, PBKS, MI and GT to qualify for the playoffs.

RCB's  net run rate is 0.049 and Punjab Kings' run rate is 0.187. So they have no chance of qualify. If the RCB team could have performed a little better in the beginning, the way they are performing at the end of the IPL, if they could have played well in the beginning with this confidence, if they could have won two matches, then surely RCB had a chance to qualify. But the current IPL matches are very exciting as every team is baiting each other with their great performances so it is expected that Punjab Kings and RCB will not make the qualifiers. However, yesterday's match was won by Sunrise Hyderabad with excellent bowling and excellent batting, due to which they are at 3rd position in the points table.

[cryptoWODL]

Not very surprised with the developments. Mumbai Indians used to be one of the strongest sides in the history of Indian Premier League. Just one stupid move and the entire team disintegrated. What was the point in replacing Rohit Sharma with Harddick Pandya? Rohit was performing amazingly well and all of a sudden they disrupt the equilibrium by importing Pandya from the Gujarat Titans. Pandya do have powerful backers though, both in the IPL and in the Indian national team.

As the first team of the 2024 Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians has left this year's IPL. Mumbai Indians have been one of the strongest teams in IPL history but we have seen their sudden decline this year. Basically, one of the reasons for their decline in rhythm is Rohit Sharma's sudden departure from the captaincy and Hardik Pandia's captaincy. When Rohit Sharma was the captain of the Mumbai Indians team, he managed the team quite well but when Hardik pandia was given the responsibility of the team, he did not manage the team well. Due to which Mumbai Indians have faced failure in one match after another and as a result they have damaged their reputation by leaving the tournament first.

Maybe next year Mumbai Indians will pick the right team and play right, we can only hope for them now. If the leader is right then the disciples are also rightly guided. Mumbai Indians currently needs a proper leader or captain to lead his team properly.

[Haunebu]

Battle of the losers(RCB vs Punjab) underway. Both teams are already out of the playoffs race realistically in my honest opinion, but miracles cannot be ruled out since this is the IPL after all.

Am expecting Punjab to win this one since they have been bouncing back randomly and I feel that they will bounce back in this one.

[libert19]

Imagine the scenario, RCB wins this match, and makes it to play-offs somehow and then goes on to win the trophy too. This is very filmy scenario but it would be history making for sure.

Sure why not if the RCB bowler restricts Punjab under 49 (RCB's lowest score xD) and chase down the target within 3-4 overs then there is some possibility lol.

Same for Punjab and these folks need to repeat their performance in the remaining matches as well. TBH it's a fool's errand if you ask me. MI knocked out already.

Not very surprised with the developments. Mumbai Indians used to be one of the strongest sides in the history of Indian Premier League. Just one stupid move and the entire team disintegrated. What was the point in replacing Rohit Sharma with Harddick Pandya? Rohit was performing amazingly well and all of a sudden they disrupt the equilibrium by importing Pandya from the Gujarat Titans. Pandya do have powerful backers though, both in the IPL and in the Indian national team.

MI management likely did it looking at Rohit's age, he's now 37, how many more years you expect him to play? While Hardik is 30 years of age, he can stay in MI for close to a decade.

Although, MI failed miserably this season, I feel they will be just fine in long term.

[noormcs5]

Today we have RCB vs PBKS, I thought it's a dead rubber game but apparently from what commentator said yesterday it's only MI that is out from play-offs race, so are these two still having chance?

Today's match will be a highly contested match between Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Punjab Kings, but whichever team wins this match basically has no place to enter the qualifiers. Because they have won four matches so far, even if they win all the matches they will participate in now, they will not be able to participate in the qualifiers.  But if this match is held today, Royal Challengers Bangalore will definitely win, as they have experienced batsmen and bowlers who always perform aggressively.  Virat Kohli and Mohammad Siraj and there are other batsmen, if they perform well I think Royal Challengers team will win.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru made good runs in the first over 11 in 6 balls. It is a perfect start and have to do this type of play in every single over , especially in the mid-overs of the game because the team batsmen coming slow in the mid overs and by taking advantage of this, the Punjab Kings team started to give the ball to spinners and the game mood getting even slower.

In this situation, if a wicket is down then understand that how back to back wickets would be lost in this innings, and also just now the big loss for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the main player of Royal Challengers Bengaluru Faf du Plessis lost the wicket who is the captain of the team.

By the way, it is Vidwath Kaverappa who had taken two wickets for Royal Challengers Bengaluru and he is looking a hero man for them in this innings.

[UmerIdrees]

Pakistan tour of Ireland 2024


After two days the good series is loading between Pakistan and Ireland and it would be a good series but only for Pakistan because in these matches they can test their some of the players who are good but didn’t play well against New Zealand like Azam Khan, and Usman Khan. They need to perform against a relatively weak side of Ireland.

The three T20Is matches series is coming. Also, once again Hasan Ali comes in the squad and this is also a good series where we can check Hasan Ali form and whether he is good for the World Cup squad or not. These are some things that make this series a wonderful, interesting and special series for Team Pakistan.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/ireland-vs-pakistan-2024-1426828

Ireland is not at all a tough opponent for Pakistan in T20 cricket yet Pakistan is playing this T20 series against Ireland only to test some of their players. There is still enough time left to announce the final squad so every team is trying to find good players during this period and include those good players in the main squad for the World Cup. The spotlight may not be on the few players that the Pakistan Cricket Board has definitely considered for the World Cup, but the selection committee, along with the chief selector, will focus on the performance of those who the Cricket Board has doubts about so that they can include three to four good players in the squad. The Ireland series can definitely be a good opportunity for Pakistan players to pick good players.

Tomorrow is the first match between Pakistan and Ireland and sadly we have to see the missing of Muhammad Amir in the first T20 match or maybe he won't be available to play the full series because he didn't get a visa from Ireland till now and tomorrow is the match.

If this happens then this could be a big loss for Pakistan because, in this series, Pakistan have to check their combinations for the World Cup otherwise it is sure that Pakistan will win the match with Ireland because there is no chance for Ireland team to win the match with Pakistan.
However the PCB may try out different combinations of players, it may be a golden opportunity for the Ireland team to put pressure on them and win an odd match or two.

[libert19]

RCB is having good score on cards but it's all thanks to PBKS dropping catches, they dropped 3 catches (weren't hard ones either), out of three two were of Kohli who is still on crease on way to make fifty while Patidar went on to make blazing fifty.

[libert19]

Lol, both Patidar and Kohli's dropped catches costed Punjab good 150 runs, the way Virat didn't slow down after getting into 90s tells he probaby reads criticism going around him on the Internet.

I used to dislike Harshal Patel, but he seems improved, though I somehow can't digest the fact that he is doing better than Bumrah in orange cap race.

[doomloop]

RCB is having good score on cards but it's all thanks to PBKS dropping catches, they dropped 3 catches (weren't hard ones either), out of three two were of Kohli who is still on crease on way to make fifty while Patidar went on to make blazing fifty.

Today in this pressure game which playing between Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings we have all things favourable for the Bengaluru which use good these conditions after having batting first and done huge target which is surely going to help them for having good win in this game and having alive their dream for the top four because Punjab Kings are already out of the competition, and they are playing remaining all games for the formality, but Bengaluru are trying their best for achieving something which is not easy.

After having two drop catches we are having impressive batting from the Virat Kohli, and he is still leading the top scorer table which is amazing stuff from legendary batsman Punjab Kings are down-and-out now what could be their response it's going to be entertaining for the fans.

[synchronym]

After losing the toss, the batsmen of RCB scored 247 runs in the scheduled 20 overs. This is the highest score of RCB in this IPL. RCB batsmen were under a lot of pressure after losing 2 wickets in the beginning, King Virat Kohli batting responsibly, King Virat Kohli could not score a century for only 8 runs after batting very well in today's match.  King Virat Kohli played a great innings and got out with 92 runs off 47 balls. But RCB has batted very well in today's match. If RCB batsmen can bowl controlled in today's match then RCB will definitely have a chance to win today's match. However, Punjab Kings batted very well, especially against Kolkata Knight Riders in that match, with a target of 261 runs. Punjab Kings won against Kolkata Knight Riders with great batting so considering that match RCB must play responsible bowling then maybe RCB can win against Punjab Kings. Let's finally see how aggressive the RCB boller can bowl against Punjab Kings.

[JSRAW]

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Not very surprised with the developments. Mumbai Indians used to be one of the strongest sides in the history of Indian Premier League. Just one stupid move and the entire team disintegrated. What was the point in replacing Rohit Sharma with Harddick Pandya? Rohit was performing amazingly well and all of a sudden they disrupt the equilibrium by importing Pandya from the Gujarat Titans. Pandya do have powerful backers though, both in the IPL and in the Indian national team.

Few already mentioned his age factor so I won't go into it.

Just check his last 5 IPL season numbers and it suggests that as an opener he wasn't making any noise with the bat while batting in powerplay. He was in the team only because of his captaincy.

[perfect999]

After having 241 runs on board we have good start for the Royal Challenge Bengaluru while they started their bowing through slow left arm bowler Swapnil Singh who give them early break through even competition is still on, but we have all things favourable for the Royal Challenge Bengaluru with this early break through Mohammad Siraj is also having good start of his bowling spell with giving only 7 runs is good deal even things are still interesting with Bengaluru is favourite to win with big target but can PBKS give good resistance and having some entertainment it's going to be good to watch game.

[Swordsoffreedom]

After having 241 runs on board we have good start for the Royal Challenge Bengaluru while they started their bowing through slow left arm bowler Swapnil Singh who give them early break through even competition is still on, but we have all things favourable for the Royal Challenge Bengaluru with this early break through Mohammad Siraj is also having good start of his bowling spell with giving only 7 runs is good deal even things are still interesting with Bengaluru is favourite to win with big target but can PBKS give good resistance and having some entertainment it's going to be good to watch game.

Bengaluru team has given a huge target of 242 runs. Bengaluru batsmen also batted very well. Kohli, Green and Rajat Patidar's responsible batting made the team score 241 runs. But even then it cannot be said for sure that Bengaluru will win. Because the pitch is completely batting friendly. At the same time, there are several experienced batsmen in the Punjab squad.

A few days ago we saw that the Punjab team won by batting against the target of 262 runs given by Kolkata. So if you bat well in today's match, Punjab has a chance to win. If Bengaluru's bowlers don't do well, Punjab will win.

Punjab lost the crucial wicket of Prabhsimran Singh in the first over. But Bairstwo and Rossouw are batting very well. Punjab collected 61 runs in 5 overs. Rossouw scored 36 runs off 14 balls.

[rojan]

In today's match of Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru team, Royal Challengers Bengaluru team came to bat and set a target of 241 runs in 20 overs losing 7 wickets. It will be difficult for Punjab Kings team to win the match by crossing the target of runs given by Royal Challengers Bengaluru team. However, Royal Challengers  If Bengaluru team's bowling line is weak then Punjab Kings team will win this match very easily.

[Haunebu]

I did not expect Bangalore to score 240+ even though Punjab helped them a lot by dropping catches everywhere. Kohli and Patidar being dropped on zero and going on to score big says everything about Punjab's fielding.

However, Punjab chased down 262 recently which is why anything can happen. It's truly embarassing though seeing the burden fall on Shashank's shoulders every single time thanks to other batsmen playing like newbies.

[Crypto Library]

I did not expect Bangalore to score 240+ even though Punjab helped them a lot by dropping catches everywhere. Kohli and Patidar being dropped on zero and going on to score big says everything about Punjab's fielding.

However, Punjab chased down 262 recently which is why anything can happen. It's truly embarassing though seeing the burden fall on Shashank's shoulders every single time thanks to other batsmen playing like newbies.

But I did not surprise after seeing that they cross the 240+ score because recently in previous three matches their performance was going good in between two of they they scored prettily 200+ there was also a chance crossing on those match 240 run but they couldn't because they win.
Actually there is a problem that dependency on only one players we have also seen in case of Pakistan they depend only on Babar Azam and that is why their performance goes to as like the Royal Challengers Bangalore did the start.

[libert19]

Punjab done and dusted. They got good start but once Rossouw got out it was downhill from there; Jitesh failed to make an impact, Livingstone failed, Shashank's run out was so unfortunate, I was gutted seeing him get out like this.

Sam Curran should have come up in the order, he's not that of a big hitter but can rotate strike easily and can hit a good boundary on good balls, he being with someone big-hitter on other side is good combo, on his own he seems to come under pressure and break.