Bitcointalk IPL Prediction Pool & Discussion

[Vishnu.Reang]

They did mess up indeed. The big blow was Bhuvi's injury recently who is their primary pace bowler. He probably could have brought the target down by 20-30 runs.

Krunal Pandya destroyed Kaul at the end. I was surprised to see Kaul in the squad since I hate his bowling. In the CSK vs KXIP match, I bet on CSK and loved the outcome. Punjab is back to its losing ways.

Bowling is the weakest department for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, none of their bowlers have been consistent. Thangarasu Natarajan bowled well in the last match, but he is inexperienced. All their other bowlers, including Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma and Abdul Samad were terribly expensive. And to make matters worse, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is injured.

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[JSRAW]

They did mess up indeed. The big blow was Bhuvi's injury recently who is their primary pace bowler. He probably could have brought the target down by 20-30 runs.

Krunal Pandya destroyed Kaul at the end. I was surprised to see Kaul in the squad since I hate his bowling. In the CSK vs KXIP match, I bet on CSK and loved the outcome. Punjab is back to its losing ways.

Bowling is the weakest department for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, none of their bowlers have been consistent. Thangarasu Natarajan bowled well in the last match, but he is inexperienced. All their other bowlers, including Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma and Abdul Samad were terribly expensive. And to make matters worse, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is injured.

I feel that in last game their batting performance let them down, not bowling. They almost restricted the MI at 188 runs if you don't count blinder from the Kunal Pandaya in last 4 balls of the inning. He end up hitting 20 runs in the final 20th over.

[glowing10]

They did mess up indeed. The big blow was Bhuvi's injury recently who is their primary pace bowler. He probably could have brought the target down by 20-30 runs.

Krunal Pandya destroyed Kaul at the end. I was surprised to see Kaul in the squad since I hate his bowling. In the CSK vs KXIP match, I bet on CSK and loved the outcome. Punjab is back to its losing ways.

Bowling is the weakest department for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, none of their bowlers have been consistent. Thangarasu Natarajan bowled well in the last match, but he is inexperienced. All their other bowlers, including Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma and Abdul Samad were terribly expensive. And to make matters worse, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is injured.

It was felt yesterday way Chennai openers played and a unbeaten stand to win match by 10 wickets makes it say all. What a comeback by Chennai which were in the bottom of table made a comeback by winning match by 10 wickets. Luckily picked Chennai and got 1 point.

For today's match a lot of them picking RCB and bad news for Delhi - Amit Mishra is ruled out of IPL due to finger injury.

[teosanru]

They did mess up indeed. The big blow was Bhuvi's injury recently who is their primary pace bowler. He probably could have brought the target down by 20-30 runs.

Krunal Pandya destroyed Kaul at the end. I was surprised to see Kaul in the squad since I hate his bowling. In the CSK vs KXIP match, I bet on CSK and loved the outcome. Punjab is back to its losing ways.

Bowling is the weakest department for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Apart from Rashid Khan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, none of their bowlers have been consistent. Thangarasu Natarajan bowled well in the last match, but he is inexperienced. All their other bowlers, including Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma and Abdul Samad were terribly expensive. And to make matters worse, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is injured.

It was felt yesterday way Chennai openers played and a unbeaten stand to win match by 10 wickets makes it say all. What a comeback by Chennai which were in the bottom of table made a comeback by winning match by 10 wickets. Luckily picked Chennai and got 1 point.

For today's match a lot of them picking RCB and bad news for Delhi - Amit Mishra is ruled out of IPL due to finger injury.

Who would have expected before the IPL that this RCB team would top the table this time. Haha. Jokes apart even though news of Amit Mishra's injury is sad but I don't really think DC would be much affected by this. They already have Ravi Ashwin in their side and now replacement Axar patel can bowl some good spin deliveries too. Delhi capitals have a decent bowling line up. But RCB the way they are playing so far in this IPL except the department of death bowling everything has been so good for them. So chances are that they would clinch another victory here especially if they are bowling first.

[Vishnu.Reang]

It was felt yesterday way Chennai openers played and a unbeaten stand to win match by 10 wickets makes it say all. What a comeback by Chennai which were in the bottom of table made a comeback by winning match by 10 wickets. Luckily picked Chennai and got 1 point.

For today's match a lot of them picking RCB and bad news for Delhi - Amit Mishra is ruled out of IPL due to finger injury.

The credit for yesterday's victory solely belongs to Watson and du Plessis. Their bowling was weak, and if the openers had failed, then they would have probably lost the game. The issue here is that CSK can't expect their opening pair to rescue them every time. The bowlers, as well as the middle and lower order batsmen needs to contribute. And they need to seriously consider requesting Suresh Raina to rejoin the squad.

[Little Mouse]

Prithvi Shaw is on fire! Back to back boundaries and seems to be very confident tonight. So far DC is showing some good performance overall. If they can score 180+ which is very possible, I doubt RCB would chase it DC bowling is one of the best in this season.
Sad to see that Amit Mishra is out of the IPL.

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After RCB opening bowlers getting knock out of the boundary line i was thinking of putting lunch money on RCB due to better odds but then i realized that their most lethal bowler Mh. Siraj is about to come and take the ball....  

Waiting for him to come haha ....

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Bhuvi is out from the IPL due to injury.

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Holy cow Siraj...... took a wicket

[Vishnu.Reang]

Very disappointed with the lack of sportsman spirit shown during today's match. Navdeep Saini bowled a 143 kmph beamer at Marcus Stoinis, which hit Stoinis's arm. Stoinis required medical attention, but narrowly escaped any major injury. But despite all this, Saini refused to apologize. I have seen bowlers apologizing to the batsmen for beamers, even if the ball avoids contact with the body. Here, Stoinis was hurt and yet Saini behaved as if he did nothing wrong. Incidents such as this one may be ignored by most of the fans. But for me, this is not something that can be hidden under the carpet.

[eaLiTy]

After RCB opening bowlers getting knock out of the boundary line i was thinking of putting lunch money on RCB due to better odds but then i realized that their most lethal bowler Mh. Siraj is about to come and take the ball....  

RCB has Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, the players any team would dream and can win any match but they have a weak bowling line up and their fielding is sub par dropping catches. As a captain Virat Kohli never took any major decision for their team in the IPL as they were not able to dominate even when Chris Gayle was with them during his prime days.

Bhuvi is out from the IPL due to injury.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is always injured and i wish we could see him playing an entire tournament.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Got 1 point from today's match. I thought about going for DC thrashing win, but then settled on DC Easy. If I had gone with my instincts, then I could have got 2 points. Anyway, no regrets. Tomorrow's match is also going to be a tough one. We have two in-form teams (MI and RR). Middle order is a worry for the Rajasthan Royals, as some of their players such as Robin Uthappa and Riyan Parag seems to be out of form. Rahul Tewatia and Mahipal Lomror had one good innings each, but they are very inconsistent.

[Indymoney]

Got 1 point from today's match. I thought about going for DC thrashing win, but then settled on DC Easy. If I had gone with my instincts, then I could have got 2 points. Anyway, no regrets. Tomorrow's match is also going to be a tough one. We have two in-form teams (MI and RR). Middle order is a worry for the Rajasthan Royals, as some of their players such as Robin Uthappa and Riyan Parag seems to be out of form. Rahul Tewatia and Mahipal Lomror had one good innings each, but they are very inconsistent.

I am not able to watch any match but can check score card so its look like today RCB was completely outclassed by DC as they have no reply of very good bowling of Rabada which completely destroyed them and give really thrashing win to his team for tomorrow match I am feeling MI can win this match as they are doing better then RR so easy win could be ok for them.

[teosanru]

After RCB opening bowlers getting knock out of the boundary line i was thinking of putting lunch money on RCB due to better odds but then i realized that their most lethal bowler Mh. Siraj is about to come and take the ball....  

Waiting for him to come haha ....

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Bhuvi is out from the IPL due to injury.

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Holy cow Siraj...... took a wicket

Hahah you are underestimating Siraj Man. He has bowled pretty nice in domestic bowling and even had some good matches while in SRH. But yes after coming into RCB his performance has been nightmare.

Got 1 point from today's match. I thought about going for DC thrashing win, but then settled on DC Easy. If I had gone with my instincts, then I could have got 2 points. Anyway, no regrets. Tomorrow's match is also going to be a tough one. We have two in-form teams (MI and RR). Middle order is a worry for the Rajasthan Royals, as some of their players such as Robin Uthappa and Riyan Parag seems to be out of form. Rahul Tewatia and Mahipal Lomror had one good innings each, but they are very inconsistent.

Man this ipl is turning out to be too unpredictable. I thought another astonishing thing would happen as RCB beats DC today but once again RCB proved me wrong. There are 2 matches RCB lost and i placed my bet on RCB in both of them while there are 3 matches they won I placed bet on them in none of those matches. Seems like RCB is a panauti for me.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Man this ipl is turning out to be too unpredictable. I thought another astonishing thing would happen as RCB beats DC today but once again RCB proved me wrong. There are 2 matches RCB lost and i placed my bet on RCB in both of them while there are 3 matches they won I placed bet on them in none of those matches. Seems like RCB is a panauti for me.

The matches are too unpredictable and my situation is really worse, i am not able to watch the matches and i am just picking the teams blindly looking at the reviews and predictions and sometimes i am getting lucky but most times i end up picking the loosing side .

 Congrats all the winners especially Vishnu.Reang winning two rounds and leading the table.

[Pffrt]

RCB has Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, the players any team would dream

Lol, why would anyone dream such a batting line up combination who have never win an IPL  Kidding. However, RCB with a huge batting line up, could never have a successful tournament. Also, their batsman are not consistent at all. If a player hit one century every 10 matches and hit duck on all the other matches, I doubt he could be called somewhat good batsman. RCB needs player who can play consistently and some changes in their bowling.
I'm going with MI tonight, aalthough it will be a big challenge to win for both teams.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Lol, why would anyone dream such a batting line up combination who have never win an IPL  Kidding. However, RCB with a huge batting line up, could never have a successful tournament. Also, their batsman are not consistent at all. If a player hit one century every 10 matches and hit duck on all the other matches, I doubt he could be called somewhat good batsman. RCB needs player who can play consistently and some changes in their bowling.
I'm going with MI tonight, aalthough it will be a big challenge to win for both teams.

RCB has a lot of heavyweight players such as Kohli, de Villiers, Finch and Chahal. But they have hardly any team bonding. On top of that, the arrogance they show on the field (the lack of apology from Navdeep Saini after the beamer being the perfect example) makes it extremely hard to support them. In the first match I supported them, because I am a big fan of Virat. But their arrogance and inconsistent performances make me think otherwise.

[JSRAW]

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Holy cow Siraj...... took a wicket

Hahah you are underestimating Siraj Man. He has bowled pretty nice in domestic bowling and even had some good matches while in SRH. But yes after coming into RCB his performance has been nightmare.

He surprised me with his bowling yesterday, he did pretty good job. Giving breakthrough to his team and taking Pant's wicket after getting hit for six was very good comeback but but one isolated performance is not going to change anything lol

On top of that, the arrogance they show on the field (the lack of apology from Navdeep Saini after the beamer being the perfect example) makes it extremely hard to support them. In the first match I supported them, because I am a big fan of Virat. But their arrogance and inconsistent performances make me think otherwise.

Kohli encourage his bowlers to hit batsmen on the head with the bouncers, saw many times in the Test cricket and heard stump mic/ saw hand gestures in the IPL "Maar sar par maar", even against the young players Pant, Nitish Rana, Pritvi Shaw.

Not sure if it was intentional beamer but this is the second time Saini hit the batsman, first victim was Tewatia (he went straight to him and said sorry) but not this time..

[glowing10]

RCB has Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, the players any team would dream

Lol, why would anyone dream such a batting line up combination who have never win an IPL  Kidding. However, RCB with a huge batting line up, could never have a successful tournament. Also, their batsman are not consistent at all. If a player hit one century every 10 matches and hit duck on all the other matches, I doubt he could be called somewhat good batsman. RCB needs player who can play consistently and some changes in their bowling.
I'm going with MI tonight, aalthough it will be a big challenge to win for both teams.

Absolutely right you're because team contribution is more needed to win a match. Rcb has good lineup on Batting side but they aren't contributing so much. If they effort on it, hopefully they can able to come back again.

Delhi is absolutely in a good form and its batsman that is helping them to win the matches. RCB on other hand played so well a match before this and looks so much promising that they are back in winning more but again their opponent were too good for them.
Bad run for me continues and lost again ystd as well.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Who is going to win Round 3?

We have two with 7 points each (Little Mouse and hector), while MoSala has 6 points. With just 3 matches remaining in this round, I don't expect anyone else to be the round winner. For me, this round turned out to be a disaster, as I received 0 points from the first two matches (made a big mistake with the SRH vs CSK match). Hope that I will be able to make a comeback for the next round (4th).

[AB de Royse777]

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@Vishnu.Reang, after a disaster first round, somehow I am managing good in this round and the last round too. I am happy.

[glowing10]

Who is going to win Round 3?

We have two with 7 points each (Little Mouse and hector), while MoSala has 6 points. With just 3 matches remaining in this round, I don't expect anyone else to be the round winner. For me, this round turned out to be a disaster, as I received 0 points from the first two matches (made a big mistake with the SRH vs CSK match). Hope that I will be able to make a comeback for the next round (4th).

This round is disaster for me as well. For now only 2 wins and 2nd from bottom and previous round ended up being 2nd from top  . So, anything is possible, and I would not rule out Rajavu, roysesuper, RapTarX and deadley who are at 5 points. One match where they take 2 points and any of the top 3 miss that so it will be equal and will depend upon other matches. Since we have 3 matches, so we have good chance for them as well to make it to top.