T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Sithara007]

As far as PSL is concerned, I don't think the same window idea would play any major part in viewership because the majority of viewers are locals and only 10-15% of viewers come from India, with hardly any eyeballs from SENA.

IMO only concern would be players' availability but again the majority of Cream international players hardly feature in the PSL but some surely do and the schedule clash won't favor big foreign players. There might be an opportunity for unsold foreign players in the IPL though. They can opt for PSL if there are no takers in the IPL.

The issue is with overseas players. Salaries are 5x-10x higher in the IPL, when compared to the PSL. So why would anyone prefer the PSL? Take a look at the star overseas players who participated in 2024. Almost all of them have a contract with an IPL franchise as well. But then there are a few who are not interested in the IPL anymore, such as Kieron Pollard, Rassie van der Dussen, David Wiese and Carlos Brathwaite. These guys may opt for the PSL, if the salary package is decent.

[JSRAW]

As far as PSL is concerned, I don't think the same window idea would play any major part in viewership because the majority of viewers are locals and only 10-15% of viewers come from India, with hardly any eyeballs from SENA.

IMO only concern would be players' availability but again the majority of Cream international players hardly feature in the PSL but some surely do and the schedule clash won't favor big foreign players. There might be an opportunity for unsold foreign players in the IPL though. They can opt for PSL if there are no takers in the IPL.

The issue is with overseas players. Salaries are 5x-10x higher in the IPL, when compared to the PSL. So why would anyone prefer the PSL? Take a look at the star overseas players who participated in 2024. Almost all of them have a contract with an IPL franchise as well. But then there are a few who are not interested in the IPL anymore, such as Kieron Pollard, Rassie van der Dussen, David Wiese and Carlos Brathwaite. These guys may opt for the PSL, if the salary package is decent.

Lol, you mentioned Kieron Pollard so i am going to narrate a recent funny story.

Do you remember Ambani's son pre wedding ceremony early this year? Pollard was part of some PSL franchise and the season was on but he left the team just to attend the celebration, tells you more about the priorities of Pollard and atm he's one of the support staff of MI so it's not rocket science. I like Rassie, in the IPL unfortunately no one is interested in him anymore. Protea also sidelined him and IMO his t-20 retirement is around the corner.

Like I said PSL running parallel to IPL, is an opportunity for every foreign unsold player in the IPL.

[3kpk3]

It's RCB vs CSK vs Rain time! Am betting on rain to win in this mega-clash thanks to extremely high chances of rain throughout the day today. Bangalore fans are probably cursing the rain already.

They wouldn't have been in this position had they performed better in the first half of the season and won that match against KKR. Truly tough to be a RCB fan.

[Sithara007]

Lol, you mentioned Kieron Pollard so i am going to narrate a recent funny story.

Do you remember Ambani's son pre wedding ceremony early this year? Pollard was part of some PSL franchise and the season was on but he left the team just to attend the celebration, tells you more about the priorities of Pollard and atm he's one of the support staff of MI so it's not rocket science. I like Rassie, in the IPL unfortunately no one is interested in him anymore. Protea also sidelined him and IMO his t-20 retirement is around the corner.

Like I said PSL running parallel to IPL, is an opportunity for every foreign unsold player in the IPL.

Well... there are 10 IPL franchises, and therefore a total of 80 foreign players can participate in the IPL. But even among them, the salaries are quite divergent. For example, if you take a look at the Chennai Super Kings, the salary range of foreign players varies from $25,000 for Matheesha Pathirana, to $1.8 million for Daryl Mitchell. PSL franchises can easily pick someone like Pathirana by offering 2x or 4x the current salary. Same is the case with Delhi Capitals. David Warner can't find a place in the starting XI, and salary for Jake Fraser-McGurk is just $63,000.

[Cheema02]

The way the batsmen of Lucknow Super Giants are batting, it seems that Mumbai Indians will not be able to give a big target to Mumbai Indians. Lucknow Super Giants current score is 70 runs for 3 wickets. Looking at their current state of play, it seems that if they bat well, they can give Mumbai Indians a target of 170 runs. Can Lucknow Super Giants.  If the bowlers of Mumbai Indians can restrict Lucknow Super Giants to 170 runs then Mumbai Indians will not have much problem to win the match. Although it doesn't matter whether Mumbai Indians win or lose in today's match, Mumbai Indians are at the bottom of the points table, so maybe the captain of Mumbai Indians wants to end the last match with a win. Let's see if Mumbai Indians win today's match?

Lucknow Super Giants batting performance is amazing in this match winning by 18 runs against Mumbai Indians. The Player of the Match Nicholas Pooran from Lucknow Super Giants for his outstanding batting performance scored 75 runs from just 30 balls, unfortunately missed his well deserved century by few runs short but reached the team total to 200 plus runs. Lucknow Super Giants moved to 6th position on point table after winning this match.

[JSRAW]

It's RCB vs CSK vs Rain time! Am betting on rain to win in this mega-clash thanks to extremely high chances of rain throughout the day today. Bangalore fans are probably cursing the rain already.

They wouldn't have been in this position had they performed better in the first half of the season and won that match against KKR. Truly tough to be a RCB fan.

Arey aisa na bolo yaar. This encounter is poised up nicely and it's a knock out match between big dogs, even neutral will get pissed if there is another washout on the card.

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Like I said PSL running parallel to IPL, is an opportunity for every foreign unsold player in the IPL.

Well... there are 10 IPL franchises, and therefore a total of 80 foreign players can participate in the IPL. But even among them, the salaries are quite divergent. For example, if you take a look at the Chennai Super Kings, the salary range of foreign players varies from $25,000 for Matheesha Pathirana, to $1.8 million for Daryl Mitchell. PSL franchises can easily pick someone like Pathirana by offering 2x or 4x the current salary. Same is the case with Delhi Capitals. David Warner can't find a place in the starting XI, and salary for Jake Fraser-McGurk is just $63,000.

More power to them and they should if they are offered good money. I am in for players, doesn't matter which league they prefer as long as they are making big bucks and securing their future. In short, they should look at their long term benefits and interests. Also, let the market decide the outcome and should drive the price up for every deserving candidate.

The question would be if Pathirana is comfortable enough to take such a big step. He was an uncapped Lankan when CSK got him and nurtured him. Finally, his stocks are up in CSK's camp so a big paycheck is coming sooner than later. The same goes for Jake, he's uncapped too.

[Sithara007]

More power to them and they should if they are offered good money. I am in for players, doesn't matter which league they prefer as long as they are making big bucks and securing their future. In short, they should look at their long term benefits and interests. Also, let the market decide the outcome and should drive the price up for every deserving candidate.

The question would be if Pathirana is comfortable enough to take such a big step. He was an uncapped Lankan when CSK got him and nurtured him. Finally, his stocks are up in CSK's camp so a big paycheck is coming sooner than later. The same goes for Jake, he's uncapped too.

Well.. I just gave 2 random examples. Even with current IPL salaries, I don't think that there is any chance that either Pathirana or JFM preferring any other T20 franchise league over the IPL. At this point, IPL is the most popular T20 league in the world, and that too by a distance. And for younger players, salary check is not the only concern. On the other hand, players closer to retirement (such as Pollard and Wiese) maybe tempted to try their luck with the PSL (similar to Cristiano Ronaldo getting a fat pay check from Al Nassr).

[ZAINmalik75]

It's RCB vs CSK vs Rain time! Am betting on rain to win in this mega-clash thanks to extremely high chances of rain throughout the day today. Bangalore fans are probably cursing the rain already.

They wouldn't have been in this position had they performed better in the first half of the season and won that match against KKR. Truly tough to be a RCB fan.

I think I will not go in favour of rain because at that situation RCB will officially out of the tournament which isn't fair because they way they make a comeback after long defeat run and delivered extra ordinary performance should not be allowed to runied so easily, I believe CSK get handsome amount of trophies now it's time for RCB to won at least a single trophy in 18 year journey of ipl also king kohli phenomenal performances indicate thier preparation for next critical stages so I am fully backing RCB to get the victory with full filling all requirements of qualifying for playsoff. Now let see who won the toss because from here the decision of semifinalist will decide if RCB failed to bat first and because in second scenario while ball first isn't much possible for them at current situation

[cryptoWODL]

The way the batsmen of Lucknow Super Giants are batting, it seems that Mumbai Indians will not be able to give a big target to Mumbai Indians. Lucknow Super Giants current score is 70 runs for 3 wickets. Looking at their current state of play, it seems that if they bat well, they can give Mumbai Indians a target of 170 runs. Can Lucknow Super Giants.  If the bowlers of Mumbai Indians can restrict Lucknow Super Giants to 170 runs then Mumbai Indians will not have much problem to win the match. Although it doesn't matter whether Mumbai Indians win or lose in today's match, Mumbai Indians are at the bottom of the points table, so maybe the captain of Mumbai Indians wants to end the last match with a win. Let's see if Mumbai Indians win today's match?

Lucknow Super Giants batting performance is amazing in this match winning by 18 runs against Mumbai Indians. The Player of the Match Nicholas Pooran from Lucknow Super Giants for his outstanding batting performance scored 75 runs from just 30 balls, unfortunately missed his well deserved century by few runs short but reached the team total to 200 plus runs. Lucknow Super Giants moved to 6th position on point table after winning this match.

Despite winning yesterday's match and moving up to number 6 in the points table, Lucknow Super Giants could not make gains as they were already eliminated. If they could have performed like Lucknow's incredible performance against Mumbai Indians in the previous three matches of this match, they might have been able to play in the qualifier round. But they failed to sustain their good performance even when they didn't need to perform well, they performed well in their last match.  I see this as the main reason why Lucknow Super Giants could not play in the Qualifier round due to three consecutive defeats. However West Indian Nicholas Poran's performance was the most surprising in the match as he scored 75 runs off just 29 balls while batting at a strike rate of 258.62

[MusaPk]

We are witnessing one match full of failures from Pakistan women's team, they also lost badly against West Indies women's team few days back. Now the England women's team series is going on with them. England women team batted first and got a strong score of 163 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. England women's top order batsmen did not play well but their lower order batsmen performed very well bye they scored so many runs. On the other hand, all the batsmen of Pakistan team failed to give their best performance due to which they could not cross the target given by England women team. Apart from Sadaf Shamas, the batting performance of any other batsman of Pakistan women's team is not worth seeing.

It is Pak-W 6th defeat in last seven T20I they have played. Recently they lost 4-1 to WI in Pakistan and now things are not looking good in England as Pakistan has lost the series and only thing they can do at the moment is to avoid the whitewash. Terrible batting by Pakistan team in second T20I, eight players were not able to make it to double figures while chasing a target of 145.

[synchronym]

We are witnessing one match full of failures from Pakistan women's team, they also lost badly against West Indies women's team few days back. Now the England women's team series is going on with them. England women team batted first and got a strong score of 163 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. England women's top order batsmen did not play well but their lower order batsmen performed very well bye they scored so many runs. On the other hand, all the batsmen of Pakistan team failed to give their best performance due to which they could not cross the target given by England women team. Apart from Sadaf Shamas, the batting performance of any other batsman of Pakistan women's team is not worth seeing.

It is Pak-W 6th defeat in last seven T20I they have played. Recently they lost 4-1 to WI in Pakistan and now things are not looking good in England as Pakistan has lost the series and only thing they can do at the moment is to avoid the whitewash. Terrible batting by Pakistan team in second T20I, eight players were not able to make it to double figures while chasing a target of 145.

The T20 matches being played between Pakistan Women's team vs England Women's team shows how bad the batting performance of Pakistan Women's team is. Of course batsmen of Pakistan women team have weakness in batting so if Pakistan women team want to win against England women team they must focus on batting if England women team can't bat responsibly then they can never win the match. England women team is performing very well against Pakistan women team due to which England women team won two T20 matches. If the Pakistan women's team fails to bat responsibly in the third T20 match, it will be a whitewash. Especially the Pakistan Women's team batted very badly against England in the second T20 match, due to their poor batting, the Pakistan Women's team was bowled out for just 79 runs.

[JSRAW]

More power to them and they should if they are offered good money. I am in for players, doesn't matter which league they prefer as long as they are making big bucks and securing their future. In short, they should look at their long term benefits and interests. Also, let the market decide the outcome and should drive the price up for every deserving candidate.

The question would be if Pathirana is comfortable enough to take such a big step. He was an uncapped Lankan when CSK got him and nurtured him. Finally, his stocks are up in CSK's camp so a big paycheck is coming sooner than later. The same goes for Jake, he's uncapped too.

Well.. I just gave 2 random examples. Even with current IPL salaries, I don't think that there is any chance that either Pathirana or JFM preferring any other T20 franchise league over the IPL. At this point, IPL is the most popular T20 league in the world, and that too by a distance. And for younger players, salary check is not the only concern. On the other hand, players closer to retirement (such as Pollard and Wiese) maybe tempted to try their luck with the PSL (similar to Cristiano Ronaldo getting a fat pay check from Al Nassr).

As I mentioned in my previous posts. The same scheduling is good as far as unsold players (in IPL auctions) are concerned, it also applies to senior citizens of cricket.

Pollard already got a coaching gig with Mumbai Indian and he's also representing MI Cape Town as captain. I think no IPL franchise is interested in Wiese anymore so he can surely benefit from the PSL. Similarly, PSL should target Smith as well.

[Rustam Meraj]

The T20 matches being played between Pakistan Women's team vs England Women's team shows how bad the batting performance of Pakistan Women's team is. Of course batsmen of Pakistan women team have weakness in batting so if Pakistan women team want to win against England women team they must focus on batting if England women team can't bat responsibly then they can never win the match. England women team is performing very well against Pakistan women team due to which England women team won two T20 matches. If the Pakistan women's team fails to bat responsibly in the third T20 match, it will be a whitewash. Especially the Pakistan Women's team batted very badly against England in the second T20 match, due to their poor batting, the Pakistan Women's team was bowled out for just 79 runs.

Yes you are right I also think Pakistan Women team has done a poor job batting in the T20 matches against England Women team. They need to get better at batting if they want to win in future. England has played very well and won first two matches because of their strong batting. Pakistan needs to do better in third match or they will lose all three matches of this series. Second match was especially bad with Pakistan getting only 79 runs in total which shows they really need to improve their batting and need more practice.

[synchronym]

The T20 matches being played between Pakistan Women's team vs England Women's team shows how bad the batting performance of Pakistan Women's team is. Of course batsmen of Pakistan women team have weakness in batting so if Pakistan women team want to win against England women team they must focus on batting if England women team can't bat responsibly then they can never win the match. England women team is performing very well against Pakistan women team due to which England women team won two T20 matches. If the Pakistan women's team fails to bat responsibly in the third T20 match, it will be a whitewash. Especially the Pakistan Women's team batted very badly against England in the second T20 match, due to their poor batting, the Pakistan Women's team was bowled out for just 79 runs.

Yes you are right I also think Pakistan Women team has done a poor job batting in the T20 matches against England Women team. They need to get better at batting if they want to win in future. England has played very well and won first two matches because of their strong batting. Pakistan needs to do better in third match or they will lose all three matches of this series. Second match was especially bad with Pakistan getting only 79 runs in total which shows they really need to improve their batting and need more practice.

If you observe the performance of Pakistan women team first T20 match against England women team definitely Pakistan women team bowlers bowled aggressively from the beginning and in every match Pakistan women bowlers are bowling very well if their batsmen can perform well then definitely Pakistan women team  would have won  Pakistan women batsmen should focus on their batting in the third T20I. Pakistan Women's bowlers need to bat as well as Pakistan Women's batsman to win against England in the third T20I. On the other hand, England women's team must be commended as they performed very well in both the matches and won both the matches due to their excellent performance. If Pakistan women's team wants to avoid whitewash against England then they must win the third T20I or else they will face whitewash in T20I series against England. Let's see how responsible Pakistan women's batting is in the end.

[noormcs5]

It's RCB vs CSK vs Rain time! Am betting on rain to win in this mega-clash thanks to extremely high chances of rain throughout the day today. Bangalore fans are probably cursing the rain already.

They wouldn't have been in this position had they performed better in the first half of the season and won that match against KKR. Truly tough to be a RCB fan.

I think I will not go in favour of rain because at that situation RCB will officially out of the tournament which isn't fair because they way they make a comeback after long defeat run and delivered extra ordinary performance should not be allowed to runied so easily, I believe CSK get handsome amount of trophies now it's time for RCB to won at least a single trophy in 18 year journey of ipl also king kohli phenomenal performances indicate thier preparation for next critical stages so I am fully backing RCB to get the victory with full filling all requirements of qualifying for playsoff. Now let see who won the toss because from here the decision of semifinalist will decide if RCB failed to bat first and because in second scenario while ball first isn't much possible for them at current situation

The first three overs were played and just after these three overs, the rain came onto the ground that can destroyed the enjoyment of the match. However, in these three overs, the team of Royal Challengers Bengaluru had done very good score but hoped that when Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis came after the rain then they would play the same as they played before the rain.

Also, those three overs were played during the rain but at that time, the rain was very hard and I don’t think that it could be stopped but current information, but I don’t have. The rain was severe at that time.

 

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It's RCB vs CSK vs Rain time! Am betting on rain to win in this mega-clash thanks to extremely high chances of rain throughout the day today. Bangalore fans are probably cursing the rain already.

They wouldn't have been in this position had they performed better in the first half of the season and won that match against KKR. Truly tough to be a RCB fan.

I think I will not go in favour of rain because at that situation RCB will officially out of the tournament which isn't fair because they way they make a comeback after long defeat run and delivered extra ordinary performance should not be allowed to runied so easily, I believe CSK get handsome amount of trophies now it's time for RCB to won at least a single trophy in 18 year journey of ipl also king kohli phenomenal performances indicate thier preparation for next critical stages so I am fully backing RCB to get the victory with full filling all requirements of qualifying for playsoff. Now let see who won the toss because from here the decision of semifinalist will decide if RCB failed to bat first and because in second scenario while ball first isn't much possible for them at current situation

The first three overs were played and just after these three overs, the rain came onto the ground that can destroyed the enjoyment of the match. However, in these three overs, the team of Royal Challengers Bengaluru had done very good score but hoped that when Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis came after the rain then they would play the same as they played before the rain.

Also, those three overs were played during the rain but at that time, the rain was very hard and I don’t think that it could be stopped but current information, but I don’t have. The rain was severe at that time.

 

RCB are batting well after losing the toss. Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis are both responsible batting but need to increase their run rate. Current CRR of RCB: 7.43 If RCB want to give Chennai Super Kings a big target then they must increase their run rate. Batting responsibly, let's see how many runs the Chennai Super Kings can target in the end.  During the three overs, the field was rained due to which the play was stopped. Today's match is important for both the teams. Let's see how many runs the batsmen of Royal Challengers Bangalore can give to Chennai Super Kings today.

[Insanity]

The first match of T20 series between Netherlands and Scotland has already started. The Netherlands team is batting at the beginning of today's match. The batting start of the Netherlands team is very good. The Netherlands team has collected 66 runs for no wicket in 8 overs so far. The two opening batsmen of the Netherlands team are batting comfortably without any pressure.  Now it is impossible to say how long the two opening batsmen of the Netherlands team can sustain their performance. However, if the Netherlands team can maintain their run rate like this throughout the innings, then the Netherlands team can score big. Now let's see how many runs the Netherlands team ends the innings with as a target against the Scotland team in today's match.

[tsaroz]

RCB are batting well after losing the toss. Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis are both responsible batting but need to increase their run rate. Current CRR of RCB: 7.43 If RCB want to give Chennai Super Kings a big target then they must increase their run rate. Batting responsibly, let's see how many runs the Chennai Super Kings can target in the end.  During the three overs, the field was rained due to which the play was stopped. Today's match is important for both the teams. Let's see how many runs the batsmen of Royal Challengers Bangalore can give to Chennai Super Kings today.

I'm hoping for a RCB win. They had been a good team fighting to win on every match failing by small margins and with the continuation of performance and a bit luck, went into having winning streak placing them in position to be qualified into top 4.
CSK asked RCB to bat first and they are doing an impressive job, I'm expecting a target around 250 with current trend. Virat Kohli is still in the ground and they have only one wicket lost. But the weather may play against RCB. If weather keeps on restricting the game play, the overs might be shortened or points divided both of which would eliminate RCB.

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The first match of T20 series between Netherlands and Scotland has already started. The Netherlands team is batting at the beginning of today's match. The batting start of the Netherlands team is very good. The Netherlands team has collected 66 runs for no wicket in 8 overs so far. The two opening batsmen of the Netherlands team are batting comfortably without any pressure.  Now it is impossible to say how long the two opening batsmen of the Netherlands team can sustain their performance. However, if the Netherlands team can maintain their run rate like this throughout the innings, then the Netherlands team can score big. Now let's see how many runs the Netherlands team ends the innings with as a target against the Scotland team in today's match.

The Scotland captain won the toss and elected to bowl first but their bowlers failed to capitalize on the opportunity. Netherlands opener Max O'Dowd and Michael Levitt batted very well but the partnership of the two did not progress much. Michael Levitt batted very well and got out with 43 runs off 31 balls. If Michael Levitt was not out, the team score of the Netherlands would have been higher. The way Netherlands are batting, they look like they can give Scotland a target of 180 runs. And if Scotland can do controlled bowling with a target of 180 runs, Netherlands will definitely have a chance to join. The current score of Netherlands is 80 runs for one wicket in 11 overs.

[Haunebu]

RCB is in control at the moment thanks to CSK fast bowlers bowling like crap while their spinners(Santner and Theekshana) are the only ones bowling well. They could have used someone like Ali in this match.

Rain threat is still looming around. Chennai need to try and restrict Bangalore under 210 in order to push the momentum in their favor. Exhilarating match!