T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[AgriTrack]

I also feel the same and there is no doubt about it because the Royal challengers batsmen have strengthened this target by playing with a lot of hard work and strength and made it possible to victory. Their batsmen have scored runs with a lot of hard work in 20 overs and given a strong target of 250 and at the same time they are strengthening and tightening their bowling which makes their victory even easier. That is why even today their batsmen have not worked hard and have achieved such a big target carelessly. That is why if they do not try, it will be a big defeat for them which will cost them a lot in this league. Chennai king batsmen should score runs together so that there is no shortage in their victory but they will not be successful in this because they have lost 2 wickets in the first 2 overs and have done a big loss. At this time they will have to bat well which will only help them victory.

RR team batted first and set a target of 210 runs in 20 overs, in which Dhruv Jurel and Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi from their team kept their batting strong, due to which they all managed to score 75, 55, and 31 runs. The rest of the players also scored a few runs and increased their team's target. The bowlers from their team also showed good performance, out of which Riyan Parag gave 11 runs and with this he took one wicket. In comparison, their opponent team GT scored 204 runs while chasing this target. Sai Sudharsan from their team scored 73 runs and apart from this, Jos Buttler also scored 26 runs. All their players also scored some score but they failed to win this match and the RR team took advantage of this opportunity.  Among the bowlers in the GT team, Mohammed Siraj scored the highest score of all the bowlers, which is 48 runs. He should have stopped their score to win this match

[fuguebtc]

CSK's start in the second innings was not at all what it needed to be to overcome this run and win. They have already lost 3 wickets in five overs, including the important wicket of Sanju Samson. The current pair is very important to get the team into a good position. If they can bat for 15 overs with the strike rate right, then the result of the game may be different, let's see what happens in the end.

Chennai is batting at a target of 251 runs. They are trying to win. But it will not be possible for them. Winning such a big target is very difficult.

Chennai has managed to collect 157 runs in 14 overs. Their run rate is quite good. The team is able to collect at an average of about 11.3 runs per over. But they still need 94 runs from 36 balls to win. Chennai has already lost 6 wickets. Jamie Overton and Prashant Veer are at the crease. Both are very talented batsmen. But even then it will not be possible for them to collect 94 runs in 6 overs. They will have to collect 15+ runs per over.

[Cheema02]

CSK's start in the second innings was not at all what it needed to be to overcome this run and win. They have already lost 3 wickets in five overs, including the important wicket of Sanju Samson. The current pair is very important to get the team into a good position. If they can bat for 15 overs with the strike rate right, then the result of the game may be different, let's see what happens in the end.

Chennai is batting at a target of 251 runs. They are trying to win. But it will not be possible for them. Winning such a big target is very difficult.

Chennai has managed to collect 157 runs in 14 overs. Their run rate is quite good. The team is able to collect at an average of about 11.3 runs per over. But they still need 94 runs from 36 balls to win. Chennai has already lost 6 wickets. Jamie Overton and Prashant Veer are at the crease. Both are very talented batsmen. But even then it will not be possible for them to collect 94 runs in 6 overs. They will have to collect 15+ runs per over.

Its very difficult for Chennai Super Kings to win this match from this position because they have lost 7 wickets and required run rate almost cross to 18 runs per over. Chennai Super Kings current score is 166 runs in a loss of 7 wickets in 16th over of the match and they needs 85 more runs from 28 balls with only 3 wickets in hands. In last 5 overs Chennai Super Kings playing with runs rate of 11 plus runs but they lost wickets that increase chances of Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked the most crucial wicket of Prashant Veer. Prashant Veer playing aggressively scoring 43 runs from 29 balls but after his wickets winning hope of Chennai Super Kings is almost gone. I think now Royal Challengers Bengaluru will easily win this match because they needs just one important wicket of Jamie Overton then they will win the match easily

[noormcs5]

When Pindiz has Abdullah Fazal as a great opener and recently in the domestic event of Pakistan known as National cup, he did his best there so why is he playing at number 6 and Muhammad Rizwan as opener 

Even now it is for sure that Muhammad Rizwan game is over now, he could never make a come back inT20 and at all he is not an T20 player any more, and he is taking wrong advantage of being captain, came as the opener otherwise but he should give chance to Abdullah Fazal as opener because to play at number 6 it is not Abdullah Fazal's game.

Abdullah Fazal is natural opening expert who had led recent National T20 Cup with a high strike rate but putting him as middle order finisher would be putting his ability of scoring quick in powerplay to waste. Meanwhile, Rizwan already has low strike rate and was also left out of the national T20 team due to his slow steady style of play not being good in modern game, although he still opens as the captain of his team. I think management of team is making wrong decision by choosing to use experience of Rizwan instead of current talent of Fazal. By swapping their positions, Fazal will be able to hit more balls when he is at his best and Rizwan be placed in area where steadiness is more helpful. Finally, by keeping this lineup, there is chance of losing matches and wasting best young opening talent that Pakistan has to protect spot of senior player.

Also, Back-to-back great performance by Sameer Minhas, last time he scored 82 runs in 48 balls, and this time he made 70 in 32 balls, this is every great achievement for a new player to play like this in this big platform of PSL. I think even in the further games too, Islamabad United should back him even more and provide the environment which indirectly helps him to boost his game, because he is the key player of Islamabad United.

[Bluedrem]

Chennai is batting at a target of 251 runs. They are trying to win. But it will not be possible for them. Winning such a big target is very difficult.

Chennai has managed to collect 157 runs in 14 overs. Their run rate is quite good. The team is able to collect at an average of about 11.3 runs per over. But they still need 94 runs from 36 balls to win. Chennai has already lost 6 wickets. Jamie Overton and Prashant Veer are at the crease. Both are very talented batsmen. But even then it will not be possible for them to collect 94 runs in 6 overs. They will have to collect 15+ runs per over.

Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match by 43 runs but Chennai Super Kings showed enough competition to score so many runs. If Chennai had not lost wickets early and could have increased the run rate a little in the middle, the game would have been more competitive. Still, 207 in 19.4 overs after losing three wickets early is not a small total. Sarfaraz Khan's 50 off 25 balls, Prashant Veer's 43 off 29 balls and Jamie Overton's 37 off 16 balls helped Chennai to collect more than 200 runs. Congratulations Royal Challengers Bangalore for another great match win.

[Ab de villiers]

Miserable CSK is going to have a third chase after falling short into their first two attempts. RCB starts proceedings with a bang in the second game of Sunday at Bengaluru.

Virat Kohli is having a good start but is gone after scoring 28 runs on 18 balls. RCB is looking to have the top spot in the league table, while CSK wants to jump from the bottom, but it's looking not easy for them due to their worst display of batting in previous games. Today it's also not going to be easy for them, but they have a good start after taking an early breakthrough. Khaleel Ahmed had a good start, but Matt Henry was punished by Virat Kohli in the first 2 overs he conceded 22 runs without having anything good. RCB at the end of the powerplay have 51 runs for the loss of 1 wicket.

The match between two very competitive team is underway. The decision of batted first of Royal Challenger seems extremely fine. Their Five batsman appeared in this innings and all were contributed with handsome score in the total. They set 250 runs target for super Kings. In reply super Kings looks not highly prepared. Royal challengers made the field difficult for them with their high class fielding. Response of King's opener with the bat looked desperate. However Sarfaraz Khan with his fifty give little hope. After his dismissal, Prashanth Veer was a second high scorer player contributed with 43 runs. But as kings wasted too balls without runs, lead them towards defeat. Target is too much with few balls already clear the idea that the match is now not in the hand of King's. While Royal Challengers are now confidently playing the match as they are near to their desired results.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Proud of Sarfaraz's resilience shown, and at place of Kartik Sharma as impact sub, Urvil Patel should have been there. I loved when Dube smashed first ball for six, and Kunal Pandya started bowling bouncers after — I found it hilarious. May be CSK will be able to muster few wins after Brevis joins in.

Edit: woa! That was brilliant catch from Jitesh albeit it was blinder.

Edit: Kya, khel rhe ye Overton-Prashant tuk-tuk, try to get 13 rpo at least, and see where it leads you. This annoys me immense.

CSK is already having deep trouble with their NRR, so they just wanted to get as close as they can and to be honest in the first few overs itself that became evident that the game is over. Another failure from Sanju and Rutu who are the experienced ones in the team but are now showing little responsibility?

Their batting is still good even with failure they somehow managed to get 200 but their actual problem is their bowling, except Khaleel no one looking like a good one even Noor. They really made a blunder with Prashant and Karthik purchase while both of them don't have the place in the current combination in my opinion.

[virasog]

Also, Back-to-back great performance by Sameer Minhas, last time he scored 82 runs in 48 balls, and this time he made 70 in 32 balls, this is every great achievement for a new player to play like this in this big platform of PSL. I think even in the further games too, Islamabad United should back him even more and provide the environment which indirectly helps him to boost his game, because he is the key player of Islamabad United.

Well, it was an one sided and over hyped match because we expected that previously we knew that Islamabad United used to take Rawalpindi stadium as their home ground because in Islamabad, there is no cricket stadium, there are other sports team but not of cricket, so of course it was like an rivalry but the results is in front of us. The way United chase target was significant and cannot underestimate the performance of Sameer Minhas in this game as the player of the match.

[Farhan99]

In a few minutes, Delhi Capitals will host the Mumbai Indians. Both have had good starts to their season, but Mumbai is looking like the much better side due to their better depth in the squad, moreover their last game gave them a big boost.

Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton in good touch chasing 224 always gives good confidence. Delhi also managed a win in first game, but this was hard-fought despite having a small target to chase. As per the last few games between both sides, the Mumbai Indians holds the edge. Jasprit Bumrah was wicketless, and Hardik Pandya conceded more runs that both needed to have their best game today. This will support them for having an early chance of keeping things under control for the entire season.

Yep, in Indian Primer League Delhi Capitals defeated Mumbai Indians by 6 wickets. Mumbai Indians opens inning first with Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton and among the openers Sharks was so amazimg and gives good start to the team  by scoring 35 runs but   
Rickelton lost his wicket early on 9 runs and in middle order Suryakumar Yadav played very useful knock and stable the innings by scoring 52 runs and also Naman Dhir scores 28 runs and at the end of the innings Mumbai set a good target of 163 runs. Delhi Capitals opens inning with KL Rahul and Pathum Nissanka and among the openers Nissanka was in good batting position and gives a good start to the team by scoring 44 runs but Kl Rahul lost his wicket early on 1 run and in middle order Sameer Rizvi was in incredible form and played a aggressive and winning knock of 90 runs while chasing the target and also with the help of Miller's 21 runs Delhi Capitals easily chase the target and won the game

[libert19]

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Another failure from Sanju and Rutu who are the experienced ones in the team but are now showing little responsibility?

I mean, I am pretty sure, they don't play bad deliberately. If they are burdened by something which is affecting their performance (as in case of Ruturaj may be with being a captain) then only they know.

Their batting is still good even with failure they somehow managed to get 200 but their actual problem is their bowling, except Khaleel no one looking like a good one even Noor.

I stopped watching after Overton arrived and both Prashant-Overton started playing tuk-tuk game, checked scorecard later on and to see they crossed 200 runs was indeed surprising.

They really made a blunder with Prashant and Karthik purchase while both of them don't have the place in the current combination in my opinion.

Agreed.

[Doll2233]

In today's match, Rezwan's RAP could not show a very good batting performance and at the same time, Rezwan, Sam Billings, Daryl Mitchell, on whom the team's batting lineup depends, could not contribute much to the team, so RAP was able to score only 156 runs. Kamran Ghulam could score a maximum of 50 runs in 39 balls for the team. Also, Dian Forrester remained unbeaten on 44 runs in just 19 balls.
In the second innings, Islamabad United started batting with a simple target of 157 runs. After the fall of the first wicket for 51 runs and the fall of the second wicket for 92 runs, they needed to lose only one more wicket to reach the target of victory.
With the last 5.4 overs remaining, Islamabad United won the match by 7 wickets.

Rawalpindiz have lost three consecutive matches. In this match, the batsmen could not give a good enough target and the bowlers could not bowl aggressively. In this match, the batsmen of Rawalpindiz could not do well but in the previous two matches, the batsmen's performance was not bad. In the previous two matches, Rawalpindiz scored 214 and 197 runs but the bowlers failed.

If Rawalpindiz performs so badly, then it will not be possible for them to qualify because they have only 7 matches left. So, the players of rawalpindiz should improve their performance, otherwise they will lose to other teams as well.

Rawalpindiz team in this match could not perform well. They showed weak performance in this match. They could not start well inning. Just kamram ghulam well inning other players gave wickets early. They could not secure the wickets. Also Dian Forrester played well inning. He made 44 runs in 19 ball. But they could not succeed to giving a good total. On the other hand Islamabad United performed very well. 1st in bowling line then in batting side. In bowling line they dismissed dangerous wickets of openers here they take advantage and boost up their performance. In batting side they chased this small total runs in 14.2 over and lost 3 wicket. Sameer Minhas batting performance was very well, he made 70 runs in36 balls. Some other players showed brilliant performance. They showed outstanding performance in both sides and won the match with a great victory.

[Zaka1221]

IPL is providing some of the best cricket entertainment to fans today. The game at Hyderabad between SRH and LSG has many ups and downs. Firstly, LSG takes early wickets, which gives them a good advantage in having control of this match. The partnership between Reddy and Klassen changed the momentum of this game. Both scored fifties and have a big partnership of 116 runs. The last 3 overs produce 22 runs with the loss of 5 wickets.

This brings LSG back into the game. Now, at the end of powerplay, LSG scored 53 runs for the loss of Marsh wicket. I have placed my bet on SRH but now seems that I am going to lose my bet. SRH's batting power house failure is the biggest upset which I was not expecting while speculating for my bet.

This match was going to be quite interesting because the team of Lucknow Super Giants completed the target given by the opposing team the team of Sunrisers Hyderabad with one ball remaining.If Abhishek Sharma, who was also out for zero had performed a little and played with his team members it could have been a better target.But the target that the rest of the players made together was 159 run and the other team completed their target by scoring 160 runs.In this match, they achieved a great victory. Rishabh Pant and Aiden Markram played an important role in completing the target in the excellent foundation of both of them. But in this series, the team of Lucknow Super Giants won this match. Both the team are among the good team but one of them has to win the match.

[Crypto Library]

Royal Challengers Bangalore gave an incredible performance once again. To be honest, I didn't imagine that they would be able to score 250 runs for just three wickets at the beginning, but Timothy Hays David played a huge strong innings of 70 runs in just 25 balls, due to which Royal Challengers Bangalore got a good boost towards the last. Even I would say that Rajat Patidar and Devdutt Padikkal also contributed here.

I wouldn't say they did well in terms of bowling because it was a batting friendly pitch, so I would say their bowling performance is good, but their batsmen contributed more to winning this match.

[Sithara007]

Proud of Sarfaraz's resilience shown, and at place of Kartik Sharma as impact sub, Urvil Patel should have been there. I loved when Dube smashed first ball for six, and Kunal Pandya started bowling bouncers after — I found it hilarious. May be CSK will be able to muster few wins after Brevis joins in.

Edit: woa! That was brilliant catch from Jitesh albeit it was blinder.

Edit: Kya, khel rhe ye Overton-Prashant tuk-tuk, try to get 13 rpo at least, and see where it leads you. This annoys me immense.

I knew this would be the fate of Chennai Super Kings, the moment Samson joined them. CSK exchanged several of their good players, so that they get Samson. And now Samson has made a grand total of 22 runs from 3 matches. But towards the end of the season, he will make one score of 100 or so, and suddenly his fans will talk about him as if he is even better than Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar. Now talking about Jamie Overton, it is not his duty to score at 13 per over. When the top and middle failed to do that, why expect the lower order to score at such rate?

[libert19]

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knew this would be the fate of Chennai Super Kings, the moment Samson joined them.

As if they were any better before Samson joined 'em?

CSK exchanged several of their good players, so that they get Samson. And now Samson has made a grand total of 22 runs from 3 matches.

Samson was brought in to lead the team, and I like to think, in the long run this decision will turn out alright as it did for Hardik in Mumbai Indians.

Now talking about Jamie Overton, it is not his duty to score at 13 per over. When the top and middle failed to do that, why expect the lower order to score at such rate?

Lol, it's everybody duty upto very last batter to score according to rpo required.

[ThemePen]

Royal Challengers Bangalore gave an incredible performance once again. To be honest, I didn't imagine that they would be able to score 250 runs for just three wickets at the beginning, but Timothy Hays David played a huge strong innings of 70 runs in just 25 balls, due to which Royal Challengers Bangalore got a good boost towards the last. Even I would say that Rajat Patidar and Devdutt Padikkal also contributed here.

I wouldn't say they did well in terms of bowling because it was a batting friendly pitch, so I would say their bowling performance is good, but their batsmen contributed more to winning this match.

Win of RCB was masterpiece in hard hitting, and this shows that their new way to score fast and not bat slowly is finally working. Tim David was real star, he scored stunning 70 out of 25 balls to take total to amazing 250/3. Although ground was extremely easy for batters, bowlers of RCB were very controlled and used tricks such as wide yorkers so as to force other team to make mistake when score was piled on them. However, in my opinion, RCB has finally answered riddle of the Chinnaswamy problem by building team that can just score more than any fielding errors made by their bowlers. If this all out attack is kept up, they can do more than just reach next round, but they can even win whole contest with their smooth shift of top to middle order.

[Haunebu]

SRH tried a whole lot better against LSG considering their horrendous start when compared to CSK fighting against RCB's mammoth score. Chennai's top order excluding Ayush is pathetic while their middle and bottom orders are far better in comparison.

Great start by RCB and horrendous start by CSK.

Samson was brought in to lead the team, and I like to think, in the long run this decision will turn out alright as it did for Hardik in Mumbai Indians.

Doubt it. Samson is one heck of an inconsistent batter and is a shit keeper. His captaincy skill is mediocre too which is why RR shifted to Parag. Also, Hardik is another shit captain.

[libert19]

SRH tried a whole lot better against LSG considering their horrendous start when compared to CSK fighting against RCB's mammoth score.

I mean despite CSK's top order fail, they still somehow managed to cross 200, so even they did well.

Great start by RCB and horrendous start by CSK.

This is not the RCB that I know.

Samson was brought in to lead the team, and I like to think, in the long run this decision will turn out alright as it did for Hardik in Mumbai Indians.

Doubt it. Samson is one heck of an inconsistent batter and is a shit keeper. His captaincy skill is mediocre too which is why RR shifted to Parag. Also, Hardik is another shit captain.

I don't consider Hardik a bad captain, and let's see how it goes for Sanju (as a batter in this season and if he's given captaincy — I like to think he'll be given sooner or later).

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That felt like a roast. Thank you for shedding light on his character.

[JSRAW]

Samson was brought in to lead the team, and I like to think, in the long run this decision will turn out alright as it did for Hardik in Mumbai Indians.

Doubt it. Samson is one heck of an inconsistent batter and is a shit keeper. His captaincy skill is mediocre too which is why RR shifted to Parag. Also, Hardik is another shit captain.

I don't consider Hardik a bad captain, and let's see how it goes for Sanju (as a batter in this season and if he's given captaincy — I like to think he'll be given sooner or later).

Last time he captained GT and India, he gave himself new ball, promoted himself up in the batting order. In every post match interview he took responsibility if they lose the match but at the same time shit on players casually.

He has main character syndrome, although he toned down his antics in MI's captaincy gig possibly because too many heavyweights in Mumbai 's line up or he was told to toned down.

[CryptoYar]

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Whenever captain takes new ball or bats higher up  list, he or she may think that they are being good example, but in big games it just looks like pride problem and not good plan. Change seen in Mumbai team is perfect example of company pushing, in which room full of global stars with huge money deals in name forces a Main Character to become a sharing leader to stop a team fight.
I think this is a dangerous game to play; it is glory when the team wins, but the moment they lose, same way of acting is called bad and selfish.
Is this change real or safety mask because of other big names, most successful captains are those who let their experts do their job instead of trying to do it themselves.