T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Haunebu]

DC vs KKR coming up which is a do or die game for both teams raising the stakes significantly. My bet is on DC in this one since they have bounced back from losses pretty quickly throughout this season and I am expecting them to do the same here.

IMO they did exceptionally well even if Kohli got out for duck.

They did well for sure, but exceptionally well is a stretch considering the fact that LSG has only one good bowler(Prince) currently. Someone like Shabhaz screwing them proves my point.

[libert19]

To me it feels like DC finally cracked up a pretty good playing XI (I rate it good 8/10), I have bit reservations about Mukesh Kumar though, would have liked Shaw/Porel instead of Pathum as an opener and Chameera in at place of Mukesh.

I watched Axar Patel's PC after RCB game that they are gonna back Sahil Parakh but we never saw him again after that match.

Edit: I don't see any camaradrie in this KKR group.

Edit 2: TIL Sunil Narine is named after Sunny Gavaskar.

[MinMan]

KKR chose to bowl first currently they are on a 3-match winning streak after having 6 matches without any win. Today they have a good start; an early wicket of KL Rahul gives them a good boost. At the end of 6 overs they are having 55 for 1. DC was good but is now struggling.

This is going to be a tense game for winning and keeping hopes alive for staying in the middle of the league table. Spinning-friendly conditions are going to have good competition. DC playing with fast bowlers is also interesting now their batting lineup needs to have a decent total on board.

[JunaidAzizi]

KKR chose to bowl first currently they are on a 3-match winning streak after having 6 matches without any win. Today they have a good start; an early wicket of KL Rahul gives them a good boost. At the end of 6 overs they are having 55 for 1. DC was good but is now struggling.

This is going to be a tense game for winning and keeping hopes alive for staying in the middle of the league table. Spinning-friendly conditions are going to have good competition. DC playing with fast bowlers is also interesting now their batting lineup needs to have a decent total on board.

Yes, that was a good decision to bowl first. Their main aim was to hold them to a low target, and they succeeded in it. The first wicket drop gave them a real boost to KKR, and now DC is under high pressure. At the 11th over, they only scored 89 runs, and their top order is already in the pavilion. The middle order has collapsed and is under pressure. This match is very crucial for DC, as both teams are struggling, and to reach the playoffs, they need to win all their matches. From the current situation, DC seems to be out, and they will lose the match.

[HelliumZ]

KKR chose to bowl first currently they are on a 3-match winning streak after having 6 matches without any win. Today they have a good start; an early wicket of KL Rahul gives them a good boost. At the end of 6 overs they are having 55 for 1. DC was good but is now struggling.

This is going to be a tense game for winning and keeping hopes alive for staying in the middle of the league table. Spinning-friendly conditions are going to have good competition. DC playing with fast bowlers is also interesting now their batting lineup needs to have a decent total on board.

Delhi Capitals started well enough but after losing their first wicket for 49 runs, the second wicket for 74 runs and then the wickets fell continuously and they fell for 5 wickets for 89 runs. The way wickets are falling, it doesn't seem like Delhi Capitals will be able to score 150 runs today. Kolkata Knight Riders have a chance of winning their fourth consecutive match in front of them.
After Pathum Nissanka's 29-ball fifty, KL Rahul scored the second highest score of 23 runs off 14 balls. After the fall of these two wickets, Delhi were reduced to three wickets for just ten runs. That is, this is where Delhi Capitals changed the pace of the game. But in today's match, I am 100% sure that Kolkata Knight Riders will win.

[Webetcoins]

Delhi Capitals were not comfortable from the start. KKR bowlers did good bowling which led no batsmen were able to play freely. Nissanka was the topper with 50 runs and then at the end impact player Ashutosh Sharma had 39, showing good skills of hitting. This allowed DC to have 142 runs on board.

KKR's chase has already started, if they win, give them points and a chance of having good NRR because now this is also going to be important at the end of league round, KKR extending their winning streak from 3 to 4.

[BTC FutureKing]

KKR chose to bowl first currently they are on a 3-match winning streak after having 6 matches without any win. Today they have a good start; an early wicket of KL Rahul gives them a good boost. At the end of 6 overs they are having 55 for 1. DC was good but is now struggling.

This is going to be a tense game for winning and keeping hopes alive for staying in the middle of the league table. Spinning-friendly conditions are going to have good competition. DC playing with fast bowlers is also interesting now their batting lineup needs to have a decent total on board.

Yes, that was a good decision to bowl first. Their main aim was to hold them to a low target, and they succeeded in it. The first wicket drop gave them a real boost to KKR, and now DC is under high pressure. At the 11th over, they only scored 89 runs, and their top order is already in the pavilion. The middle order has collapsed and is under pressure. This match is very crucial for DC, as both teams are struggling, and to reach the playoffs, they need to win all their matches. From the current situation, DC seems to be out, and they will lose the match.

Delhi Capital is playing very slowly in today match and as IPL matches are going on the target of 142 means sure defeat.The opening batsmen still worked hard but the middle order batsmen did not support at all.1 batsman from Delhi Capital managed to complete a half century.Let say that Delhi Capital performance was very poor.If they bowl well and take more wickets they can win this match.Otherwise the points of both teams are almost equal so this win is important for both.Right now Kolkata Knight Riders is playing the second innings. 98 runs are required from 82 balls so far and two wickets have fallen which is not much difference.Kolkata Knight Riders can win if they play comfortably.Cameron Green and Finn Allen are on the pitch.Let see how many runs these two score to achieve the target.

[eaLiTy]

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Cameron Green and Finn Allen are on the pitch.Let see how many runs these two score to achieve the target.

It is about how fast they are going to finish and match and that is exactly what they did, Finn Allen scored the winning runs and reached his century with 34 balls remaining and not sure whether they could possible get into the play offs as every team is tailing with a point lead and some sharing the same points.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans share the same points and net run rate will become crucial in the end .

[Triffin]

Finn Allen smashed a 47-ball century with the help of 10 sixes to hand a big win to his team KKR which is now on a 4-match winning streak, even if it's too late for them, but now their season is back on track with these wins.

Delhi Capitals looked uncomfortable from the start their batsmen were not able to play freely and made mistakes, which helped KKR bowlers, and they restricted them to 142. This was looking not challenging total KKR lost 2 early wickets but then had a 116-run partnership between Finn Allen and Cameron Green.

Tomorrow Royal Rajasthan is going to host Gujarat Titans at Jaipur.

[Haunebu]

Welp! My prediction about DC winning went down the drain thanks to some village cricket by their batsmen(Especially Axar who played an amazing test knock). Delhi is out of the playoffs race especially with that horrendous net run rate.

KKR are hanging in there for now, but it's still quite tough for them considering their bad NRR and the fact that they are still in 7th position. GT vs RR...Big one incoming.

[Farhan99]

I will support you in this because the way RCB has established itself by playing every game with efficiency and intelligence, LSG is not. This is what completely limits RCB power and success, so it will not be necessary to know RCB powerful in depth because LSG is already not able to bring them down in this game and even if they bring them down, there is no problem but it is not going to happen. There are many things to trust in RCB but LSG does not have that trusted core, so it will be super to complete this prediction here. Talking further than this will not be a question for LSG fans that can exist and answer and they can defend them.

The game between LSG and RCB was really enjoyable because a lot of entertainment can be seen in the form of sixes and fours and LSG won this game. LSG opens innings first and among the openers Mitchell Marsh was in aggressive form and played a remarkable knock by putting a great century in this game and in middle order Nicholas Pooran and Rishab Pant was so amazing and both played impactful innings and LSG ends the innings with two hundred plus runs in given nineteen overs. RCB looks confident because they have such talented batters who have the ability to chase this huge target but the openers don't put great start for the team and in middle order Rajat Patidar was showing his class in aggressive way and put the impactful half century and also Tim David was incredible form and playing his power hitting role in a well way and the other batters also put there efforts but RCB lost this game with a very low margin of runs and even by winning this game LSG

[libert19]

I got some suggestions for DC just for whining purposes. 1) Sack Badani 2) Sack Axar from captainship — strong people should be the leaders, not these.

Solid team on paper but absolute shitshow of performance.

KKR are hanging in there for now, but it's still quite tough for them considering their bad NRR and the fact that they are still in 7th position. GT vs RR...Big one incoming.

I haven't done any calculations, but I consider KKR to be already dusted; other teams simply are stronger and have better contention chances.

GT vs RR...Big one incoming.

Excited too, been waiting for this since a while.

[Ab de villiers]

Delhi Capital is playing very slowly in today match and as IPL matches are going on the target of 142 means sure defeat.The opening batsmen still worked hard but the middle order batsmen did not support at all.1 batsman from Delhi Capital managed to complete a half century.Let say that Delhi Capital performance was very poor.If they bowl well and take more wickets they can win this match.Otherwise the points of both teams are almost equal so this win is important for both.Right now Kolkata Knight Riders is playing the second innings. 98 runs are required from 82 balls so far and two wickets have fallen which is not much difference.Kolkata Knight Riders can win if they play comfortably.Cameron Green and Finn Allen are on the pitch.Let see how many runs these two score to achieve the target.

Knight Riders won the toss and put the Dehli Capital to add the scores on scoreboard. Nissanka was the only batsman who fought hard for the team and contributed with half century. After his disimal team struggling.  Their lineup was crumbled under the pressure, In middle overs they faced loss of 5 wickets in 5 overs. That was massive loss of Capital team. Then Ashutosh Sharma stepped up and played knock of 39 runs. Capital's players lackluster in the score and hardly manage to posted modest target of 142 runs.
Knight Riders were too good to handle the pressure. Allen stepped up to the crease with brilliant fighting knock of 100 runs on 47 balls. His explosive innings , hit 10 sixes just electrified the energy of the match. However Riders completed this chased with their clinical performances in just 14th overs on the loss of two wickets. Capital looked weak in performance especially their bowling attack was not impressive that lead them to defeat.

[Nanga Parbat]

KKR chose to bowl first currently they are on a 3-match winning streak after having 6 matches without any win. Today they have a good start; an early wicket of KL Rahul gives them a good boost. At the end of 6 overs they are having 55 for 1. DC was good but is now struggling.

This is going to be a tense game for winning and keeping hopes alive for staying in the middle of the league table. Spinning-friendly conditions are going to have good competition. DC playing with fast bowlers is also interesting now their batting lineup needs to have a decent total on board.

Delhi Capitals started well enough but after losing their first wicket for 49 runs, the second wicket for 74 runs and then the wickets fell continuously and they fell for 5 wickets for 89 runs. The way wickets are falling, it doesn't seem like Delhi Capitals will be able to score 150 runs today. Kolkata Knight Riders have a chance of winning their fourth consecutive match in front of them.
After Pathum Nissanka's 29-ball fifty, KL Rahul scored the second highest score of 23 runs off 14 balls. After the fall of these two wickets, Delhi were reduced to three wickets for just ten runs. That is, this is where Delhi Capitals changed the pace of the game. But in today's match, I am 100% sure that Kolkata Knight Riders will win.

The biggest negligence for them was that they kept losing wickets and could not focus on the runs and in this failure their target became short and they lost. They could score 142 runs which is also a difference of 8 runs although they played with effort and excitement as we all know that the target of IPL has always been strong and successful due to which they have been successful. It was an easy victory for the knight rider batsmen in which they achieved it by playing hard and well and made this victory successful in 14 overs. In this weak target the bowlers of Delhi Capital could not work hard and they have lost. If Delhi Capital had victory this match, their chances of going up could have increased. Victory was certain for them but I think one should not rush in IPL because every player proves to be good for the team only by doing his hard work and efforts.

[Nalain420]

LGS and RCB both teams are very competitive and they played quite fine game. Mitchell Marsh gave impressive beginning to the game. He played an master class innings of 111 runs. But after his full century Jacob Bethell caught out this crucial wicket. While with the help of rest of the players LGS posted the target of 209 runs. It's truly high and  difficult to achieve target. But on the other side RCB also a strong team. All players of RCB's have the ability to perform under the pressure and build resistance. Although very competitive player of Virat Kohli astonished all , because he was out on zero score. It's Virat Kohli's life worst innings. Despite losing the importance openers early, team shows resistance and put all energy for the chase. Rajat Patidar was the high scorer player with 61 runs. Hence, with all effort RCB loss the match when they were very close to win . Rain interrupted the match and DLS declared the win in the favour of LGS by  9 runs.

In this match we can see how unpredictable DLS method is. Middle order stability of RCB after Kohli's surprise duck was key while Mitchell Marsh 111 was undoubtedly game changer for LGS. 61 runs in such pressure is indicative of Patidar being vital member of the squad.
But no more than to come up nine runs short in rain is bitter pill to swallow. It is pity that RCB did not expect any weather interference, or else they would have played different game in powerplay. But DLS can come at cost for teams that lose early wickets and unfortunately for Virat, that was even more expensive price to pay than scoreboard pressure. RCB fightback showed they do not need to be pushed around and LGS were deserving of victory with massive 200+ score.

When there is DLS method in a game the other team always faces difficulties and the other team is mostly in faceses of defeat as happened with Rcb. Lsg played the first innings facing no difficulties but it was not easy for Rcb to play the second innings.5 players batted from Lsg and each one scored brilliant runs but still lsg aim in IPL was weak.I think the bowlers deserve the winning of this match.If they did not great bowl more they could have lost the win but their excellent bowling made Lsg win the game.If Rcb opening player played well they would have scored 9 runs and win the game.

[ThemePen]

Yesterday match was easy chase as Kolkata Knight Riders completely dominated this encounter. They will be in significantly better position when it comes to net run rate, finishing game with nearly six overs to spare will be huge advantage, which may be name of game closer to playoffs. Delhi batting order could not find swing and they were unable to get scoreboard moving at all to put any pressure on buoyant KKR team. At this time KKR is at 7th number in points table. If this performance will be continued so they will easily qualify for the next round.

[Sithara007]

Yesterday match was easy chase as Kolkata Knight Riders completely dominated this encounter. They will be in significantly better position when it comes to net run rate, finishing game with nearly six overs to spare will be huge advantage, which may be name of game closer to playoffs. Delhi batting order could not find swing and they were unable to get scoreboard moving at all to put any pressure on buoyant KKR team. At this time KKR is at 7th number in points table. If this performance will be continued so they will easily qualify for the next round.

So you are saying that a team at the 7th position would "easily qualify" for the knockout phase?

If this is just an attempt to increase the post count, then it is OK. On the other hand, if you are serious about it, then I need to tell that your post is miles away from reality. KKR needs to win all of their remaining matches in order to qualify. And in addition to this, they need their opponents (who are currently in #4 to #6 positions) to lose most of their matches. It is a very unlikely scenario. And I don't really think that KKR is back to form. They managed to win four consecutive matches, but maintaining that momentum would be difficult. Next match for KKR is against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

[Haunebu]

Some people asked popular AI tools like Chatgpt, Gemini, Grok, Claude etc about which teams would qualify for the playoffs and they all universally stated that Punjab, SRH, RR and RCB would qualify which is just hilarious to say the least.

Bad AI issues! Personally, I think GT could steal one of the top 4 spots while CSK might end up in 5th position. Just a couple more matches remaining before the playoffs.

[libert19]

Some people asked popular AI tools like Chatgpt, Gemini, Grok, Claude etc about which teams would qualify for the playoffs and they all universally stated that Punjab, SRH, RR and RCB would qualify which is just hilarious to say the least.

Don't think it's hilarious. One can come to the same conclusions by one's own observations.

Bad AI issues! Personally, I think GT could steal one of the top 4 spots while CSK might end up in 5th position. Just a couple more matches remaining before the playoffs.

I don't have that much faith in GT as with how things are, if they get proper middle order batters then we are talking.

Punjab needs to get their fielding sorted.

[fuguebtc]

Yesterday match was easy chase as Kolkata Knight Riders completely dominated this encounter. They will be in significantly better position when it comes to net run rate, finishing game with nearly six overs to spare will be huge advantage, which may be name of game closer to playoffs. Delhi batting order could not find swing and they were unable to get scoreboard moving at all to put any pressure on buoyant KKR team. At this time KKR is at 7th number in points table. If this performance will be continued so they will easily qualify for the next round.

Kolkata's performance in this IPL is very  strange. They could not win in the first 6  matches. They lost 5 of these 6 matches and one  was abandoned. But they won the last four matches in a row. No other team except Kolkata has been able to continue such a winning streak.

Kolkata also played well in  the match against Delhi. Kolkata could not give a big  target due to the controlled bowling of the bowlers. Delhi gave a target of only 143 runs. Kolkata won easily against such a small target. The target was small, but Finn allen played an incredible innings. Finn Allen was unbeaten after scoring  100 runs off 47 balls.

Kolkata still has a chance to  qualify for the playoffs. Kolkata is  3 points behind Rajasthan. If kolkata can win the last three matches, then their chances of going to the top 3/4 of the table will be  created.