T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[libert19]

Rajasthan turned out to be a joke in the last leg of the IPL.

They were supposed to be on top but here they are at number 3 licking their wounds after losing 4 matches on the trot and 1 washed out with lame NRR. Pretty disappointing but they richly deserve it IMO.

Rajasthan, w,w,w,w,L,w,w,w,w,L,L,L,L,D
Rajasthan topped the points table with consecutive wins in the first four matches and in the fifth match Rajasthan Royals lost but they were still at the top of the points table. After the fifth spot, Rajasthan Royals went on to win four more matches in a row and then we assumed that Rajasthan Royals would go from unbeaten champions to the top of the points table. But in the last five matches, Rajasthan Royals performed very poorly and their position in the points table gradually changed and eventually Rajasthan Royals secured the playoffs from the third position. However, if Rajasthan Royals can perform well in the previous series, then this franchise team has enough merit to become the champion if there is a chance to reach the final.

Butler gone, Hetmyer injured, Jaiswal not in form, Sanju and Parag are somewhat consistent but honestly RR looks like a mediocre team, and they thoroughly deserved to play qualifier against RCB instead of possibly getting mauled by SRH.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see KKR vs SRH in finals as well.

[Haunebu]

I wouldn't be surprised if we see KKR vs SRH in finals as well.

This is exactly what I am expecting too. My predictions are:

- KKR vs SRH : KKR wins
- RR vs RCB : RR wins
- SRH vs RR : SRH wins
- KKR vs SRH : SRH wins the cup

My playoffs predictions are usually pretty bad which is why I hope that I am right this time around. Hyderabad vs Kolkata could turn out to be a crazy runfest which is what I am primarily excited for.

[LDL]

Rajasthan turned out to be a joke in the last leg of the IPL.

They were supposed to be on top but here they are at number 3 licking their wounds after losing 4 matches on the trot and 1 washed out with lame NRR. Pretty disappointing but they richly deserve it IMO.

Rajasthan, w,w,w,w,L,w,w,w,w,L,L,L,L,D
Rajasthan topped the points table with consecutive wins in the first four matches and in the fifth match Rajasthan Royals lost but they were still at the top of the points table. After the fifth spot, Rajasthan Royals went on to win four more matches in a row and then we assumed that Rajasthan Royals would go from unbeaten champions to the top of the points table. But in the last five matches, Rajasthan Royals performed very poorly and their position in the points table gradually changed and eventually Rajasthan Royals secured the playoffs from the third position. However, if Rajasthan Royals can perform well in the previous series, then this franchise team has enough merit to become the champion if there is a chance to reach the final.

Butler gone, Hetmyer injured, Jaiswal not in form, Sanju and Parag are somewhat consistent but honestly RR looks like a mediocre team, and they thoroughly deserved to play qualifier against RCB instead of possibly getting mauled by SRH.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see KKR vs SRH in finals as well.

KKR Vs SRH,,, qualified 1 , KKR or SRH
RCB Vs RR , Eliminated 1, if RCB won ,
Then RCB Vs SRH/KKR ,Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad are most likely to meet in the final. The overall performance of Kolkata Knight Riders is excellent, so Sunil Narine has many qualifications to be the champion in the final of this year's IPL. Again, every player of Sunrisers Hyderabad is playing an aggressive innings in this IPL, which is why the highest run score in IPL is usually held by Sunrisers Hyderabad. Sunrisers Hyderabad have many qualifications to be champions in the finals of this year's IPL.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan women vs England women. 3rd T20I

Another match and another loss. Pakistan women team have lost another T20 series and this time its a whitewash. England gave target of 176 only because of Danni Wyatt brilliant knock of 87 runs on just 48 balls. In reply just see the strike rate of Pakistani batters, both openers played with strike rate of run a ball. Pakistani team played full 20 overs and lost just 4 wickets, seems like Pakistani batters were interested in improving personal stats only not in winning the match.

England women outstanding performance in this match winning by 34 runs and winning back-to-back three consecutive matches in this series. in the third match the Player of the Match is Danni Wyatt for his amazing batting performance scored 87 runs in a loss of just 48 balls, unfortunately missed his well-deserved century by a few runs short but helped his team to easily win this match easily.

This time Pakistan women team tried something different to give chance to Muneeba Ali to bat on three down and on that, there is nothing different because as Muneeba Ali played poorly. Once again she played the same shot and was out making three runs and also waste a full over, in which other player could have made runs.
I think Nida Dar has to avoid her giving to take her in playing 11 because as always failed. Her contribution inside the team is nothing and without her, the team is more good, Nida Dar has to notice this because it helps her as captain to manage the team. If Nida Dar have come up early before Muneeba Ali it would have been much better.

Anyhow, England played too well and here are some key moments in the match.

[virasog]

This time Pakistan women team tried something different to give chance to Muneeba Ali to bat on three down and on that, there is nothing different because as Muneeba Ali played poorly. Once again she played the same shot and was out making three runs and also waste a full over, in which other player could have made runs.
I think Nida Dar has to avoid her giving to take her in playing 11 because as always failed. Her contribution inside the team is nothing and without her, the team is more good, Nida Dar has to notice this because it helps her as captain to manage the team. If Nida Dar have come up early before Muneeba Ali it would have been much better.

Anyhow, England played too well and here are some key moments in the match.

Yes, she has to take action on it because without her (Muneeba Ali) the team can go in a better way and one player's place can come who can be a new player as today Gull Feroza gets the chance to play as an opener. She played in a very good way in this match, scored 30 runs and had a 60-run opening partnership with Sidra Ameen.

I hope that Nida Dar will give her chance in the ODI series and she will be a part of the next series for the Pakistan women's team because she is such a good player and also better than Muneeba Ali. She had maintained the game in the start for the Pakistan team but later batsmen failed to take advantage of it. I guess the Pakistan team has found a good opener in the form of Gull Feroza.

[MusaPk]

Now let's not forget the fact that Ireland is a full member, while both Scotland and Netherlands are associate members. If Ireland is struggling against the other two teams (with a full strength XI, where only Josh Little is missing), then it is bad news for them. Irish bowling looks out of sorts. I don't know how much change Josh Little is going to make, but the experienced bowlers such as Mark Adair and Barry McCarthy were wayward and expensive against the weak Dutch batting lineup.

In cricket the real strength of any team can be checked through test format only. T20 is fast cricket where we see upsets very often. Few days back we saw Ireland beating Pakistan in T20I and same Ireland team was able to beat Netherlands by just 1 run. All three teams in this tri nation series will also play T20 world cup and it's there last series before the T20 world cup. The team winning this series will enter the world cup with high moral.   

[Farhan99]

Netherlands vs Ireland in the second match of the Netherlands T20 tri-series. The 2nd match of the tri-series was a very exciting match. Both the teams fought hard in this match. In this match, the Netherlands team was defeated by 1 run against Ireland. In the first match of this tri-series we saw the Netherlands team perform brilliantly. But in the game of the second match, the players of the Netherlands team surrendered to the players of the Ireland team. But in this match both teams fought with their full strength. Congratulations to both teams for putting up such a tough match.

Ireland posted a low total only 150/8 in batting first excellent innings again played by captain L. Tucker. But Netherlands team failed chased down this small target by just one run. Tim Pringle made 35 runs innings and remain unbeaten but all his efforts gone wan after the wicket of Meekran and Ireland team to won this game by a narrow margin. Fionn Hand bowls brilliantly spell takes 18/3 wickets and Ireland won this game by one runs.

[ZAINmalik75]

Pakistan women vs England women. 3rd T20I

Another match and another loss. Pakistan women team have lost another T20 series and this time its a whitewash. England gave target of 176 only because of Danni Wyatt brilliant knock of 87 runs on just 48 balls. In reply just see the strike rate of Pakistani batters, both openers played with strike rate of run a ball. Pakistani team played full 20 overs and lost just 4 wickets, seems like Pakistani batters were interested in improving personal stats only not in winning the match.

It's thier second consecutive series defeat for them against West Indies and now against England, so I think expecting from them any positive results will be like stupid Think as they by chance won a single match against West Indies by departing thier captain which was currently the only in form performer player for them and that's why they get victory otherwise it was also a white wash series and against England I was already assure that it will be Thier defeat but not sure about White wash but thier thier performance has practically shown thier white wash which is quite disappointed and I am sure management will think about replacing new talent and some awesome techniques Australia female coachs.

[Fuso.hp]

I don't think the part of this World Cup tournament that will be held in America will be very interesting because I have read some news about the different venues of T20 World Cup. America's football stadiums are modern and look much more attractive, on the other hand, their baseball stadiums are also attractive enough, but their cricket stadiums are under construction and there are not many modern features in those cricket stadiums. I think ICC would have benefited a lot if Cricket World Cup was organized in those countries which are more cricket lovers and T20 World Cup would have been more crowded. West Indies have been involved in cricket for a long time as they have their own studio and definitely have cricket lovers in their country so it is expected that the West Indies matches will be more interesting than the American phase. And for those cricket lovers who spend money to watch the game at the stadium, it will be difficult to travel to America because the US visa processing is very difficult.

[kro55]

Netherlands vs Ireland in the second match of the Netherlands T20 tri-series. The 2nd match of the tri-series was a very exciting match. Both the teams fought hard in this match. In this match, the Netherlands team was defeated by 1 run against Ireland. In the first match of this tri-series we saw the Netherlands team perform brilliantly. But in the game of the second match, the players of the Netherlands team surrendered to the players of the Ireland team. But in this match both teams fought with their full strength. Congratulations to both teams for putting up such a tough match.

Ireland posted a low total only 150/8 in batting first excellent innings again played by captain L. Tucker. But Netherlands team failed chased down this small target by just one run. Tim Pringle made 35 runs innings and remain unbeaten but all his efforts gone wan after the wicket of Meekran and Ireland team to won this game by a narrow margin. Fionn Hand bowls brilliantly spell takes 18/3 wickets and Ireland won this game by one runs.

The Netherlands team had a great win against Scotland. Both batsmen and bowlers of Netherlands played very well in this match. As a result, Netherlands won by a huge margin of 41 runs. But the Netherlands team was unfortunately defeated against Ireland.

Ireland cannot provide big targets. A target of 151 runs was given by the players of Ireland. Netherlands' batting was very slow in this match. This is why the Netherlands was defeated. At the end of 18 overs, the collection of Netherlands was only 113 runs. Needed 38 runs to win from last 2 overs. Collecting 19 runs in the over was no easy task.

[Publictalk792]

It's thier second consecutive series defeat for them against West Indies and now against England, so I think expecting from them any positive results will be like stupid Think as they by chance won a single match against West Indies by departing thier captain which was currently the only in form performer player for them and that's why they get victory otherwise it was also a white wash series and against England I was already assure that it will be Thier defeat but not sure about White wash but thier thier performance has practically shown thier white wash which is quite disappointed and I am sure management will think about replacing new talent and some awesome techniques Australia female coachs.

Yes this is really a disappointing moment. Pakistan Women team has lost two series one from West Indies Women team and now second from England Women team. I was expecting that Pakistan women team will win the last match to avoid white wash insult but they didn't do anything regarding this. And now they have the ODI series ahead and I am not expecting such a good performance from Pakistan Women team. England Women team is much stronger as compare to Pakistan women team so I don't think so Pakistan will win any match from ODI format too. The ODI series will start from 23rd May so let's wait what will happen.? 

[Bd officer]

United States vs Bangladesh 1st T20

Today will be the 1st match of T20 series between Bangladesh vs USA. Bangladesh is a stronger team than USA. Bangladesh batting and bowling line is stronger than USA. But currently the batting line of Bangladesh is not very strong, they could not show a good batting line against Zimbabwe at home. Bangladesh bowling line is very strong, Taskin, Mustafiz, Shariful, they bowl very well. There will be 3 matches in this series and the team that can win in 2 matches will win the series. The matches will be on the home ground of the USA, so the USA will have a slight advantage. I think Bangladesh will win today and hope Bangladesh can whitewash USA. But let's see how well USA can perform at home.

[JSRAW]

I wouldn't be surprised if we see KKR vs SRH in finals as well.

This is exactly what I am expecting too. My predictions are:

- KKR vs SRH : KKR wins
- RR vs RCB : RR wins
- SRH vs RR : SRH wins
- KKR vs SRH : SRH wins the cup

My playoffs predictions are usually pretty bad which is why I hope that I am right this time around. Hyderabad vs Kolkata could turn out to be a crazy runfest which is what I am primarily excited for.

IPL's script is off the chart this time so won't hold my breath for any scenario.

3 teams barring Rajasthan are showing an incredible uptrend in their performances so it should be tight and who knows if RCB manages to sneak into the finals lol.

[AirtelBuzz]

United States vs Bangladesh 1st T20

Today will be the 1st match of T20 series between Bangladesh vs USA. Bangladesh is a stronger team than USA. Bangladesh batting and bowling line is stronger than USA. But currently the batting line of Bangladesh is not very strong, they could not show a good batting line against Zimbabwe at home. Bangladesh bowling line is very strong, Taskin, Mustafiz, Shariful, they bowl very well. There will be 3 matches in this series and the team that can win in 2 matches will win the series. The matches will be on the home ground of the USA, so the USA will have a slight advantage. I think Bangladesh will win today and hope Bangladesh can whitewash USA. But let's see how well USA can perform at home.

The series against the United States team I think will be a good preparation for the World Cup in Bangladesh as the T20 World Cup is going to be held in this country. Through this match, the Bangladesh team will try to adapt themselves to the pitch of the field and the environment there. The first of three T20 matches between Bangladesh and the United States will be played in Houston today.

As usual, Bangladesh team will be favorite against this team Bangladesh is much stronger than them. Even Bangladesh team recently won the series against Zimbabwe team by performing well in the T20 series at home which will give them extra motivation or courage. Moreover, the Bangladesh team may enter the field with a full strength team to fight against the US team. One of the familiar faces of the US team is CJ Anderson, whose game we have probably all seen, who was previously a regular top batsman for the New Zealand team. Maybe that CJ Anderson can be one of the reasons for the headache of the bowlers of the Bangladesh team today.

[Rustam Meraj]

United States vs Bangladesh 1st T20

Today will be the 1st match of T20 series between Bangladesh vs USA. Bangladesh is a stronger team than USA. Bangladesh batting and bowling line is stronger than USA. But currently the batting line of Bangladesh is not very strong, they could not show a good batting line against Zimbabwe at home. Bangladesh bowling line is very strong, Taskin, Mustafiz, Shariful, they bowl very well. There will be 3 matches in this series and the team that can win in 2 matches will win the series. The matches will be on the home ground of the USA, so the USA will have a slight advantage. I think Bangladesh will win today and hope Bangladesh can whitewash USA. But let's see how well USA can perform at home.

Of course Bangladesh is much stronger than United States of America team. In these three matches series USA has the to prove if they will perform well so I hope they will be recognised as good team. At this time we don't count USA team as in top teams. Still I am looking that they will be white washed by Bangladeshi team but we can't underestimate the USA team. They also can perform well and can give a tough time to Bangladesh. By the way we can't say anything at this time. We will see the performance in ground and this will show the reality of a team. And will show that how much a team prominent as compare to opposit one.

[Out of mind]

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, Qualifier 1 This match is likely to be very exciting, and we know both the teams are very strong. And if KKR can win this match then they will enter the final, so KKR will have a much stronger attack against Sunrise Hyderabad. In today's match both teams will try enough to win the match but Kolkata Knight Riders are very strong in IPL this season. And I believe Kolkata Knight Riders have the best chance to win the trophy this season in IPL. But if Kolkata Knight Rider doesn't perform very well against sunrise Hyderabad, then Hyderabad will not let KKR reach the winning stage by any means. So in today's match Sunrise Hyderabad must perform well to beat Kolkata Knight Riders and their batting performance is very good if they can perform well then they can put pressure on Kolkata. And in today's match we will definitely see a surprise because if Kolkata Knight Rider can win then they will directly confirm the final match.

[libert19]

Today I feel SRH has bit of an advantage because KKR doesn't have Phil Salt on their side, Salt who has been match winner for KKR on several occassions, Gurbaz is good but I wouldn't put him on same shoes as Salt.

Also, it's battle of two expensive players, Starc vs Cummins, already played in league stage but play-offs has different feel to it. Aussies are known to rise of special occasions, may be it's time Starc will shine?

[onecall123]

Today I feel SRH has bit of an advantage because KKR doesn't have Phil Salt on their side, Salt who has been match winner for KKR on several occassions, Gurbaz is good but I wouldn't put him on same shoes as Salt.

Also, it's battle of two expensive players, Starc vs Cummins, already played in league stage but play-offs has different feel to it. Aussies are known to rise of special occasions, may be it's time Starc will shine?

I'm excited to see some explosive batting tonight. Only these two teams deserve to play in the final. They've played like champions throughout the IPL. But I feel SRH has an advantage, and I think SRH will win today's Qualifier 1.
Starc vs. Cummins is going to be a great watch. Kolkata fans just want to see Cummins beaten in Ahmedabad under Starc's captaincy. KKR has given us plenty of reasons to be happy this season. Unfortunately, we'll see KKR without Phil Salt at a crucial time. Even if they fail, they will get a second chance to make it to the final.

[Haunebu]

Here we freaking go. SRH vs KKR time! Battle of the monsters. Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bat first which I feel is the right call since batting first has usually worked wonders for them throughout the season.

Kolkata is missing Salt, but they still have plenty of monsters in their lineup which is why I am expecting them to win this one. Excited!

[JSRAW]

2 back to back failures for Head!

Telling you that this guy is saving his best for the knockouts or most probably t-20 WC encounter against India.  In the last 2 finals (WTC and WC) he was the main reason we got f*cked lol.