T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[libert19]

People were thinking CSK against LSG, should be a easy 2 points but oh well...

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... while KKR might still got the mathematical chance for their playoff race so it will also be an interesting game.

KKR is out. Little chance isn't even worth considering.

...From what I understand Lucknow is now on fire. If the conditions are in their favor they will have to continue to be the favorite in the next few matches

Two Aussies carrying their batting (Marsh, Inglis), get 'em out and they are still nowhere. Pooran seems like he's getting into groove but not completely sure.

[JSRAW]

For some bizarre reason, LSG are at their strongest when they get eliminated in every season. They have matches with Punjab and RR soon implying that they could spoil their qualification chances unless those 2 teams play really well obviously.

Hope the playoffs will be much more entertaining than the regular league games since I viewed just a couple of games from start to finish thanks to how boring(mostly) this season has been so far.

This season, yet to finish full 40 overs quota in a match lol, last leg before playoffs setting up nicely tho.

6 teams are fighting for top 4 and if RCB and GT manages to fumble their last 2 matches then more drama with NRR.

[CryptoYar]

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Once the qualification pressure is lifted, players generally play in more unrestricted manner and that is what makes LSG huge danger to both Punjab and RR at the moment. That is how underdog tales or spoiler alerts occur in final weeks of the tournament and they do not have to be afraid to play.

This season has been little bit repetitive for me, with same pitches and the same play. The fun goes out of games when they get predictable. But knockout rounds are entirely different with much on line and no margin for error. I feel like when playoffs start it will get serious and teams will play up to situation, and we will get close and pressure type games that we have not had much of this regular season.

[Emitdama]

For some bizarre reason, LSG are at their strongest when they get eliminated in every season. They have matches with Punjab and RR soon implying that they could spoil their qualification chances unless those 2 teams play really well obviously.

Hope the playoffs will be much more entertaining than the regular league games since I viewed just a couple of games from start to finish thanks to how boring(mostly) this season has been so far.

This season, yet to finish full 40 overs quota in a match lol, last leg before playoffs setting up nicely tho.

6 teams are fighting for top 4 and if RCB and GT manages to fumble their last 2 matches then more drama with NRR.

Today KKR is doing their best for more drama in the last few games. At the end of 15 overs, they have 179 runs for the loss of wickets. Finn Allen's inning gives a big boost to KKR for having a big total in this match. 93 runs on 35 balls with the help of 10 sixes is one of the best innings in today's game so far. GT bowlers are giving their best but fail to keep things restricted.

Rashid Khan and Arshad Khan both leak enough runs. I am expecting 50 to 60 runs in the last 5 overs. This could be good for the home team, while the chase is also going to be more interesting because this win can bring GT to the top, while their spot for playoffs could also be set, but they have to give their best in the chase.

[libert19]

Kolkata crowd is meh af. Sixes gallore and dead crowd. Anukul Roy from KKR should have been out looking at his performance in last game and Arshad Khan from GT should be out, mediocre bowler and bad fielder . Rahane's wicket was pathetic, wtf was guy doing.

I liked, 'Allen is key' — shown on ground screen.

[HelliumZ]

Kolkata crowd is meh af. Sixes gallore and dead crowd. Anukul Roy from KKR should have been out looking at his performance in last game and Arshad Khan from GT should be out, mediocre bowler and bad fielder . Rahane's wicket was pathetic, wtf was guy doing.

I liked, 'Allen is key' — shown on ground screen.

Finn Allen, Ragubangshi, Both of them have shone for Kolkata today and Kolkata Knight Riders have been able to collect 247 runs in today's match due to the contribution of these two. However, even if they win today's match, there is no option for Kolkata to win the next matches. If Kolkata Knight Riders win today's match, then maybe if they win the next two matches, Kolkata can move to the fourth position, but in that case, Punjab will have to lose all the next matches. This is a hypothetical thought.

[wiss19]

Gujarat Titans had a perfect start in the chase of 248 runs, but their opener Sai Sudharsan retired hurt, starting their problems. After this, Nishant Sindhu was gone on the first ball of Sunil Narine, who is now replaced by Jos Buttler. At the end of 5 overs, they are having 51 for 1. The required rate is already above 13. This needed to be checked before going into more trouble coming over.

Matheesha Pathirana is also doing good bowling. This is going to be an interesting phase of the game because the Gujarat Titans are looking for a win and the top spot in the league table, and KKR are looking to keep their hopes alive for the top four with this win.

[AgriTrack]

Today's match is very important for Chennai Super Kings but it seems very likely that Chennai Super Kings will be eliminated from qualifying for the playoffs because Chennai Super Kings must win today's match but looking at the current batting performance, it seems that Chennai Super Kings will not be able to win today's match.
Sanju Samson is an important batsman in Chennai's batting but two important wickets of today's match Raturaj Gaikwad and Sanju Samson were out by Abhishek bowling Akash Maharaj Singh and when the team's run was 36, these two batsmen were out for Chennai Super Kings.

But chances of CSK win are very low and chances of LSG team winning are almost 100%. And yes, this was very important game for CSK to stay in top 4. This is 59 th IPL game between CSK and LSG team and this game is still playing. In start of game, LSG team won toss and they elected field first and gave batting line to CSK team. CSK team batsman made 187 runs target in 20 overs by losing 5 wickets. Kartik batsmen helped a lot team and he scored 71 runs in 42 balls and hitted six 4s and five 6s. LSG batsmen are still at the crease and opener batsmen are holding their wicket well and playing brilliantly. Both openers are Mitchell and Josh. Mitchell is very close to century and other Josh is nearing his half century. LSG now need 58 runs from 53 balls to win this game.

In this match, both the teams were evenly matched and both showed their good effort. CSK got the opportunity to bat and scored a good score while batting well.  They have set a target of 187 in which Kartik Sharma batting strongly. He could not complete his century but still worked hard for his team. On the contrary, LSG team had a slightly stronger batting than them, out of which Mitchell Marsh made a very good score. They have won this match with a very low score. If we look at their bowling, Mayank Yadav has allowed his opponent to score only 26 runs and has also stopped their score, due to which their chances of winning have increased and they have achieved this target before the end of the overs and have won the match and they have lost only 3 wickets, which proves how good their batting has been in today's match.

[Nanga Parbat]

Today's Gujarat Titan will easily victory this match because they have become a very strong team and they will score runs with a lot of effort in today's match. If they had shown a little more toughness in bowling, then the victory could have been even easier for them. Knight rider batsmen have made a wonderful target in which they have a lot of effort and strength, so they are effort hard to victory this match. Their batsmen did not careless, because they lost only 2 wickets and then a strong target of 247 runs was made. But Gujarat Titan batsmen are playing in IPL, so they will meet this target. Their batsmen have scored 42 runs in 3 overs and will meet this target to a large extent in a few overs.  If Gujarat Titan's batsmen keep control of the wickets, they will easily achieve this target and become even stronger than Royals Challengers.

[Bluedrem]

Today's Gujarat Titan will easily victory this match because they have become a very strong team and they will score runs with a lot of effort in today's match. If they had shown a little more toughness in bowling, then the victory could have been even easier for them. Knight rider batsmen have made a wonderful target in which they have a lot of effort and strength, so they are effort hard to victory this match. Their batsmen did not careless, because they lost only 2 wickets and then a strong target of 247 runs was made. But Gujarat Titan batsmen are playing in IPL, so they will meet this target. Their batsmen have scored 42 runs in 3 overs and will meet this target to a large extent in a few overs.  If Gujarat Titan's batsmen keep control of the wickets, they will easily achieve this target and become even stronger than Royals Challengers.

Kolkata batsmen played great today especially Finn Allen who scored 93 runs off 35 balls and the other two batsmen were also excellent. But I think Kolkata is too late because they are already at the bottom of the points table. On the other hand, Gujarat Titans are at the second place in the points table.
I think Gujarat Titans will have to pick up the pace to win today's match because the target is huge, they have to score 248 runs to win. I will not say that they are not capable of winning this match because already two of their batsmen are scoring runs at the set pace with the aim of winning. Although Sai Sudharsan retired hurt and left the field, Gujarat Titans team has hard hitter batsmen like Shubman Gill, Butler, Holder who I think can score these runs and win. But I will still keep Kolkata Knight Riders ahead.

[noormcs5]

The Kolkata vs Bengaluru match is being played now. Kolkata has been able to continue its winning streak  in the last four matches. Kolkata has played with the aim of winning in today's match as well. The batsmen have been able to bat quite well. Kolkata has been able to collect 192 runs by losing 4 wickets. If KKR's bowlers  can do their job properly, they will win this match. Bengaluru's batting order  is quite strong. If kolkata's bowlers cannot do well in the power play, it will be very difficult to win.
Royal challengers bangalore have not  lost any wickets in 2 overs yet. And  have been able to collect 20 runs.

I think the KKR bowling attack was so poor, except for two players, Kartik Tyagi and Sunil Narine. They were also not so good but still better than others, at least they got wickets. No doubt they afforded a lot of the runs. If we look at every single bowler's performance, then it will look like this.

- Vaibhav Arora did four overs and had 48 runs almost 50, with no wicket in result.
- Saurabh Dubey did 2.1 overs and had 22 runs, another poor spell.
- Cameron Green is similar to Saurabh Dubey; he also did twice overs and had 22 runs, the same as Saurabh Dubey .
- Anukul Roy with three overs and had 36 runs.

[Bitcoin Smith]

247 by KKR, that's interesting and this is out of reach by the standards of GT but they are in the race as I am writing this post, they just lost one wicket and both Gill and Butler is set to make the big finish but the Required runs is like 21 off 24 balls that is possible with two settled batters, can they seal their top 2 position with a glourious win?

Edit: Mystery still continues. Narine took Gill.

[libert19]

I liked Gill's post match interview ~ 'I don't think we deserved to win this game" — and this tells me they are gonna remove the poor performers (like, Arshad) in next game. Could be Washy too, but he's been bit too good as a batter, even if he dropped a sitter today.

It's funny how GT despite having literal 3 batters in the whole team, they manage to put scores they do.

Edit:

As per the reports KKR is still in the contention for playoff qualification but their fate is also based on the results of other matches, but they did everything to keep alive in the season.

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[Haunebu]

Siraj? What is with this guy? Dude is an amazing fielder sometimes and a horrendous fielder some other times. He dropped Allen when he was in his 30s or something and that pretty much sealed the game in Kolkata's favor. Arshad dropped another dolly too.

Top 3 did the heavy lifting as usual for GT while Tewatia scored 2/4 balls. This dude is one of the luckiest plebs out there. Anyway, 2 huge matches coming up : Punjab vs RCB and DC vs RR. Going with Punjab and RR.

[Bitcoin Smith]

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It's funny how GT despite having literal 3 batters in the whole team, they manage to put scores they do.

200 is the ideal score for GT to chase it down and their bowlers make sure that on most occasions, but today the missed catches along with Allen and Angrish Raguvanshi made sure GT is not qualifying today.

As per the reports KKR is still in the contention for playoff qualification but their fate is also based on the results of other matches, but they did everything to keep alive in the season.

[JSRAW]

Siraj? What is with this guy? Dude is an amazing fielder sometimes and a horrendous fielder some other times. He dropped Allen when he was in his 30s or something and that pretty much sealed the game in Kolkata's favor. Arshad dropped another dolly too.

Top 3 did the heavy lifting as usual for GT while Tewatia scored 2/4 balls. This dude is one of the luckiest plebs out there. Anyway, 2 huge matches coming up : Punjab vs RCB and DC vs RR. Going with Punjab and RR.

In current seam bowler group from all test playing nations, he's one of the most improved fielder and won't be exaggeration if you put him in Top 5. Miyan seriously did a hard yard on his fielding be it ground fielding or catching but sometimes even great ones drop a dolly so we should cut some slack to miyan ji.

Rooting for lower rank teams, only they could spice things up by beating toppers.

[eaLiTy]

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I think the KKR bowling attack was so poor, except for two players, Kartik Tyagi and Sunil Narine. They were also not so good but still better than others, at least they got wickets. No doubt they afforded a lot of the runs. If we look at every single bowler's performance, then it will look like this

When a team score 247 runs, then they have the leverage even if one bowler is taken apart, Kartik Tyagi was dismantled by the GT batsmen giving away 14.75 runs per over in his allocated 4 overs.

Looks like KKR has finally found their momentum but the tournament is almost over. Sunil Narine was easily the pick of the bowlers in the entire match and the battle for the final spot is getting interesting with every match.

[Zaka1221]

Today's Gujarat Titan will easily victory this match because they have become a very strong team and they will score runs with a lot of effort in today's match. If they had shown a little more toughness in bowling, then the victory could have been even easier for them. Knight rider batsmen have made a wonderful target in which they have a lot of effort and strength, so they are effort hard to victory this match. Their batsmen did not careless, because they lost only 2 wickets and then a strong target of 247 runs was made. But Gujarat Titan batsmen are playing in IPL, so they will meet this target. Their batsmen have scored 42 runs in 3 overs and will meet this target to a large extent in a few overs.  If Gujarat Titan's batsmen keep control of the wickets, they will easily achieve this target and become even stronger than Royals Challengers.

Kolkata batsmen played great today especially Finn Allen who scored 93 runs off 35 balls and the other two batsmen were also excellent. But I think Kolkata is too late because they are already at the bottom of the points table. On the other hand, Gujarat Titans are at the second place in the points table.
I think Gujarat Titans will have to pick up the pace to win today's match because the target is huge, they have to score 248 runs to win. I will not say that they are not capable of winning this match because already two of their batsmen are scoring runs at the set pace with the aim of winning. Although Sai Sudharsan retired hurt and left the field, Gujarat Titans team has hard hitter batsmen like Shubman Gill, Butler, Holder who I think can score these runs and win. But I will still keep Kolkata Knight Riders ahead.

In this match the Kolkata team set a target of 247 run while they were competing with the Gujarat team. They also tried to set the target given by them but could only score 218 run.But if we talk about the player of both the teams in this match the players of the Kolkata team looked very active in this match. They were so active that only two players were out while setting this target. Finn Allen scored 93 runs and apart from that, one scored 82 and one scored 52 runs, which was very good. But the other team tried their best to achieve it, but during this time, four players were out and if you look at it, their performance was also not less, in which the high score of their team was 85, but still they faced failure in this match. Kolkata Knight Riders won this match by 29 runs.

[BTC FutureKing]

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It's funny how GT despite having literal 3 batters in the whole team, they manage to put scores they do.

200 is the ideal score for GT to chase it down and their bowlers make sure that on most occasions, but today the missed catches along with Allen and Angrish Raguvanshi made sure GT is not qualifying today.

As per the reports KKR is still in the contention for playoff qualification but their fate is also based on the results of other matches, but they did everything to keep alive in the season.

Such big aims are seen in IPL matches and the great thing is that the team in front achieves the big aim with its hard work and effort.It is not that Gujrat Titans cannot achieve the aim of 247 but Gujarat Titan is in second place due to continuous wins while Kolkata Knight Riders is in 7th place with today win.This means that Kolkata Knight Riders need to work even harder to come forward but there are very few matches left in the IPL league so every team needs to play alertly.Every point is important for every team and there is no room for shortcomings.It is not that Gujrat Titans showed poor batting but rather the bowlers of Gujrat Titans did not bowl brilliantly due to which the score of Kolkata Knight Riders increased.Gujrat Titans played the entire league well due to which today defeat did not harm them at all.

[Farhan99]

Today's Gujarat Titan will easily victory this match because they have become a very strong team and they will score runs with a lot of effort in today's match. If they had shown a little more toughness in bowling, then the victory could have been even easier for them. Knight rider batsmen have made a wonderful target in which they have a lot of effort and strength, so they are effort hard to victory this match. Their batsmen did not careless, because they lost only 2 wickets and then a strong target of 247 runs was made. But Gujarat Titan batsmen are playing in IPL, so they will meet this target. Their batsmen have scored 42 runs in 3 overs and will meet this target to a large extent in a few overs.  If Gujarat Titan's batsmen keep control of the wickets, they will easily achieve this target and become even stronger than Royals Challengers.

Kolkata batsmen played great today especially Finn Allen who scored 93 runs off 35 balls and the other two batsmen were also excellent. But I think Kolkata is too late because they are already at the bottom of the points table. On the other hand, Gujarat Titans are at the second place in the points table.
I think Gujarat Titans will have to pick up the pace to win today's match because the target is huge, they have to score 248 runs to win. I will not say that they are not capable of winning this match because already two of their batsmen are scoring runs at the set pace with the aim of winning. Although Sai Sudharsan retired hurt and left the field, Gujarat Titans team has hard hitter batsmen like Shubman Gill, Butler, Holder who I think can score these runs and win. But I will still keep Kolkata Knight Riders ahead.

Yeah, in Indian Premier League Kolkata Knight Riders was in amazing form and what a strong come back they have tonight after winning this game from Gujarat Titans which is best team of this season. KKR opens innings first and in this game Finn Allen was in extreme aggressive form and played a very impactful knock but unfortunately miss his century and in middle order Angkrish and Cameron Green both batters completely destroyed the Gujarat's strong bowling lineup and KKR ends the innings with remarkable high total of this season. No doubt the target is very high but Gujarat Batters don't give away easily and openers was incredible in this game and both puts remarkable half centuries and gives a very authentic start and after that Butler was so impressive but the efforts of Gujart batters are useless in front of strong target given by KKR and by defending this target KKR promoted some steps up in points table.