Bitcointalk IPL Prediction Pool & Discussion

[JSRAW]

Feeling sad for Ishan he worked hard and batted so well to reach those superb innings and, in the end, just felt short of his century in this IPL. It really would have been so good if he could have reached century and probably this would have helped them to win the match as well. But in the end, it was RCB's day to win it and they did well in the end

In any format, individual performance will be noticed only if the team wins. That's why there is so much discussion regarding Rahul Tewatia, while Ishan Kishan's performance received far less attention. In a way, it is justified as well. If a player is not capable of guiding his team to victory, what is the point in achieving personal milestones such as a fifty or a hundred?

Agreed! making runs is one thing, finishing game is another. So far majority of young players failed in this department except Gill, Samson, Tewatia.

- Keeping Umesh and Siraj out of the team-

Haha the members of Dinda club are increasing each day. LoL. I think atleast for UAE we need to change the membership criteria of Dinda Club because even Bumrah went for 42 runs today. Siraj was actually a bowler from whom there were a lot of expectations but I think t20 cricket has made him look like a pretty bad bowler. He has good seam position and line length but no special deliveries in the armory which are required in t20 cricket if you have to bowl at death. He hasn't got a good captain who has used him effectively. Talking about Umesh Yadav. Lol he is sort of a permanent member of Dinda Club.

Not very big fan of Siraj, the way i look at he's kinda lucky for some reasons Virat like him and that's why he even pops in national team here n there. I like Umesh in the Test but man he really suck in t-20 haha

[Little Mouse]

In any format, individual performance will be noticed only if the team wins. That's why there is so much discussion regarding Rahul Tewatia, while Ishan Kishan's performance received far less attention. In a way, it is justified as well. If a player is not capable of guiding his team to victory, what is the point in achieving personal milestones such as a fifty or a hundred?

Yeah true. Ishan Kishan match was a superb one, if he could ended well, he could achieve both and the chase would be remarkable for both him personally and for MI. Individual performance has no much appreciation unless team can't get the win. Sakib Al Hasan could be the Player of the Tournament if Bangladesh could at least reach Semi Final, but Williamson with less performance won the Player of the tournament prize.

[teosanru]

Feeling sad for Ishan he worked hard and batted so well to reach those superb innings and, in the end, just felt short of his century in this IPL. It really would have been so good if he could have reached century and probably this would have helped them to win the match as well. But in the end, it was RCB's day to win it and they did well in the end

In any format, individual performance will be noticed only if the team wins. That's why there is so much discussion regarding Rahul Tewatia, while Ishan Kishan's performance received far less attention. In a way, it is justified as well. If a player is not capable of guiding his team to victory, what is the point in achieving personal milestones such as a fifty or a hundred?

I actually disagree with you a bit in case of Ishan Kishan, reason is he came at number 4 which is sort of a middle order spot. But Technically due to openers getting out early he came too early in the match. Every batsmen has a role to play. Like you can't expect from an opener to stay until the end of match and take the team to win. Expecting this from 5-6th batsmen do makes sense. Rahul Tewatia is applauded more because of two reasons. One was that initially he was struggling a lot and recovered after that and secondly he was a mere experiment done by Smith. Ishan gave his full try. Achieving personal milestones is something different it's unfortunately something that Dhoni was doing in their second match against RR he came into that aggressive mode after the team had already lost.

That actually is pretty much the bitter truth. This was the reason why Sachin was criticised by a few people who thought he scored runs in a losing Match even though no one could justify this by facts and figures. Truth on the contrary was that it was merely the fact that Sachin could score good even in difficult conditions that made him look the sole performer in team while the team had lost.

[Vishnu.Reang]

In any format, individual performance will be noticed only if the team wins. That's why there is so much discussion regarding Rahul Tewatia, while Ishan Kishan's performance received far less attention. In a way, it is justified as well. If a player is not capable of guiding his team to victory, what is the point in achieving personal milestones such as a fifty or a hundred?

Yeah true. Ishan Kishan match was a superb one, if he could ended well, he could achieve both and the chase would be remarkable for both him personally and for MI. Individual performance has no much appreciation unless team can't get the win. Sakib Al Hasan could be the Player of the Tournament if Bangladesh could at least reach Semi Final, but Williamson with less performance won the Player of the tournament prize.

In the end, it all depends on whether the team gets two points for the win or not. Ishan Kishan played an exceptional innings. I would even say that with this single innings, he would have definitely caught attention of the Indian selectors. All I am saying is that after putting so much effort, he could have just scored another boundary and took his team to victory. When he got out, 5 runs was needed from 2 balls. One good shot would have given 2 points to his team.

[Pffrt]

SRH had a slow start although it was predicted to be helpful for batsman. Bairstaw could have gone for bigger. Despite losing a few wickets, SRH couldn't have achieved a good total on the board. However, it doesn't seems DC is having good either. 2 wickets gone for 48. Picked SRH to have comfortable win but it seems it will be a narrow one for them.

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Ishan Kishan got featured in pffrt's phone screen.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Two consecutive losses for me. Hopefully now no one would accuse me of fixing matches. 

Today the SRH bowlers performed well. Rashid Khan was outstanding, but he got enough support from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Thangarasu Natarajan. Even Abhishek Sharma did a decent job. The only weak point was Khaleel Ahmed, who leaked plenty of runs. The young DC batting lineup once again got decent start, but the batsmen failed to convert these starts to good scores.

[teosanru]

Two consecutive losses for me. Hopefully now no one would accuse me of fixing matches.  

That's what fixers do Man.   Once they are on the Radar of some authority they begin to lose a couple of matches to ensure that they are no more targetted. Once the attention from them is over they begin their activities again. 

Today the SRH bowlers performed well. Rashid Khan was outstanding, but he got enough support from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Thangarasu Natarajan. Even Abhishek Sharma did a decent job. The only weak point was Khaleel Ahmed, who leaked plenty of runs. The young DC batting lineup once again got decent start, but the batsmen failed to convert these starts to good scores.

I loved the yorkers at the death. SRH was officially the first team who have bowled so much yorkers in their death overs. Even Bumrah couldn't bowl these many yorkers yesterday. This sort of performance was expected from Bhuvaneshwar but yorkers from Natarajan were really a surprise and indeed proved to be pretty good for SRH. If there is any chance of SRH going ahead in this tournament that would be solely due to the likes of their bowlers. They don't have those power hitters who could fetch extra runs in their death overs. Now you just need to wait for the match in which Warner and Williamson get their forms back and then SRH would be back on track.

[RapTarX]

Is superbru pool broken? Anyone facing that or I'm the only one? When I tried to check out the leaderboard, it redirects me into a wrong link.
Finally, SRH got their win. Even with scoring such a low total, they managed to win the match with their bowling performance. Well, SRH needs some game changing batsman to score faster as they were lack of such one tonight.

[Indymoney]

Is superbru pool broken? Anyone facing that or I'm the only one? When I tried to check out the leaderboard, it redirects me into a wrong link.
Finally, SRH got their win. Even with scoring such a low total, they managed to win the match with their bowling performance. Well, SRH needs some game changing batsman to score faster as they were lack of such one tonight.

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[Haunebu]

Is superbru pool broken? Anyone facing that or I'm the only one? When I tried to check out the leaderboard, it redirects me into a wrong link.

I don't the link is broken or anything. As Indymoney mentioned, servers take time to load the leaderboards sometimes due to which you won't be able to access them. Superbru needs to improve in this aspect.

Finally, SRH got their win. Even with scoring such a low total, they managed to win the match with their bowling performance. Well, SRH needs some game changing batsman to score faster as they were lack of such one tonight.

I don't they will be able to find any extra game changing batsmen, but the plus point here is that their top bowlers were back in form which is great news for SRH.

[eaLiTy]

In any format, individual performance will be noticed only if the team wins. That's why there is so much discussion regarding Rahul Tewatia, while Ishan Kishan's performance received far less attention. In a way, it is justified as well. If a player is not capable of guiding his team to victory, what is the point in achieving personal milestones such as a fifty or a hundred?

Ishan Kishan played an incredible innings, if not for his innings we would not see a super over and the only blunder MI did was that they should have sent  Ishan Kishan for the super over rather sending others because he was hitting the ball really well and he lost the wicket because the bat rotated in his hand while playing the shot because of the sweat.

The innings Rahul Tewatia played was special, everyone was cursing him when he was wasting the balls and the twitter feed was filled with people calling him names and cursing him to get out rather than wasting balls and when he started hitting and take the team close to the total everyone started to praise him.
I picked Sunrisers Hyderabad for today's match simply because they added Williamson and if they strengthen their middle order they can win matches if the ground is big.

[Little Mouse]

I picked Sunrisers Hyderabad for today's match simply because they added Williamson and if they strengthen their middle order they can win matches if the ground is big.

Sunrisers Hyderabad is lacking of batting line up, they don't have much good batsman like previous. But this year, it seems their batting line up is more bad. Warner and Bairstaw has not still given their best. They performed poorly while they are the best in the team.
I thought Williamson to be flopped as well but he played nicely yesterday. I barely see him to play such faster. And the guy Samad seems to be good, I don't know how well he played before.
Anyway, KKR vs RR tonight. According to the performance, RR is favorite and should win the match. But I may pick KKR today, whom will you?

[akhjob]

Is superbru pool broken? Anyone facing that or I'm the only one? When I tried to check out the leaderboard, it redirects me into a wrong link.

Superbru has a lot of bugs lately. I too have faced issues as yours yesterday night. Today morning when I checked, everyone was sporting a cap and a spoon.

Considering that I got a spoon in Round 1, I'm happy with the current leaderboard of Round 2 Sahyadri jumped up 10 spots, me and webtricks jumped 8  

Anyway, KKR vs RR tonight. According to the performance, RR is favorite and should win the match. But I may pick KKR today, whom will you?

I probably wont disclose it here because Vishnu is fixing matches against my picks

@Vishnu

[Little Mouse]

Superbru has a lot of bugs lately. I too have faced issues as yours yesterday night. Today morning when I checked, everyone was sporting a cap and a spoon.

I have seen that too and was confused what the hell was going on. I thought it was some special cap for other purpose, didn't realize that was a bug.

Anyway, KKR vs RR tonight. According to the performance, RR is favorite and should win the match. But I may pick KKR today, whom will you?

I probably wont disclose it here because Vishnu is fixing matches against my picks

Lol, that's why I think how come vishnu is getting a lot of margin points and akhjob even can't make the top 5   Vishnu is still too ahead to catch, but I believe I will soon make it. May be by fixing matches  

[JSRAW]

After 11 games if you are still sitting duck at the bottom then i want to say this, don't lose hope. Learn thing or 2 from the Lord Tewatia, stick to your guns and keep fighting like every other loser. 

What worse could happen? You are already $ucked 

[Vishnu.Reang]

After 11 games if you are still sitting duck at the bottom then i want to say this, don't lose hope. Learn thing or 2 from the Lord Tewatia, stick to your guns and keep fighting like every other loser. 

What worse could happen? You are already $ucked 

It is T20 cricket. Your fortunes can change in just 2 minutes. All it takes is an Ishan Kishan or a Rahul Tewatia to play the innings of his lifetime. A single misfield or a dropped catch can cost you the match. It can be even a single wide ball or a leg-bye. So don't think too much about the points. As you said, Lord Tewatia proved that nothing is impossible as far as T20 cricket is concerned. 

[AB de Royse777]

After 11 games if you are still sitting duck at the bottom then i want to say this, don't lose hope.

You sure you are not telling it to me too? Thanks for some general knowledge :-P



Have fun until I figure out a way to restore my reputation :-D
Damn it! I never sucked that much.


Edit: Blowing!!! You are in the same boat LOL

[Pffrt]

After 11 games if you are still sitting duck at the bottom then i want to say this, don't lose hope.

You sure you are not telling it to me too? Thanks for some general knowledge :-P

Lol, I even didn't notice you are at the bottom of the point table. I was lucky to get 5 points so far as SRH managed to win last night which I didn't expect at all. After last few chases and high scoring matches, I have forgotten that 162 can be a win score sometimes, thanks to Delhi for ensuring me the margin points too.

[JSRAW]

@Royse777 hehe don't be so hard on yourself. 

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Dubai is not Sharjah so no mishit would turn into sixes, only genuine hits would cross boundary line. Similarly to last game taking 2s and rotating the strike is crucial. DC failed to do so this last night.

[Vishnu.Reang]

As expected, a majority of the users have gone for Rajasthan today. Me and JSRAW are among the few who went in favor of KKR. One factor that made me go in KKR favor was the excellent record that Sunil Narine is having against Samson/Smith. In the previous editions, Samson struggled against the spin of Narine. Also, Pat Cummins seems to have regained his form. BTW, the RR bowling is a joke (apart from Archer).